America’s trade deficit is a measure of the profligacy of America’s corporate ruling class, more specifically the result of chronically large budget deficits resulting from tax cuts for the rich…
The time has arrived for diplomacy that brings collective security to Europe, Ukraine, and Russia.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs' Speech at European Parliament on February 19, 2025.
For more on these developments, we host a discussion between economist Jeffrey Sachs and foreign policy analyst Matt Duss.
The sheer majority of people in the Middle East, and in the world, yearn for peace. Yet a violent extremist minority commits the region to endless war.
American interference, at the behest of Netanyahu’s far-right Israel, has left the Middle East in ruins, with over a million dead and open wars raging in Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon,…
By Jeffrey D. Sachs / Common Dreams America is a country of undoubted vast strengths—technological, economic, and cultural—yet its government is profoundly failing its own citizens and the world. Trump’s…
Jeffrey Sachs briefly lays down the history of the Russia-Ukraine war and US involvement.
Ultimately, this is the story of how the Israel lobby undermined America, wrecked the Middle East, and set a series of international crimes against humanity in motion.
Simply put, the majority of the world does not want or accept U.S. hegemony, and is prepared to face it down rather than submit to its dictates.
As a result of its belligerence and intransigence, Israel is now almost completely ostracized by the international community, and also faces grave economic and military threats as the regional war…
By Glenn Greenwald / System Update
The UN-Based Structures Are Fragile and in Need of an Urgent Upgrade
"The West is bemoaning its loss of relative status—the ability to dictate to others—not any real military insecurity."
