Mexico Sends Shipment of Humanitarian Aid to Cuba
Hundreds of tons of food were sent from the port of Veracruz to the island as the island faces one of its most critical challenges. Mexico also promised to send…
Believing Borders Make Us Safer Is Like Believing the Sun Revolves Around Earth
Trump’s cruel and immoral anti-immigrant frenzy rests on false economic claims.
Leading Papers Call for Destroying Iran to Save It
The New York Times and Washington Post offer facile arguments for US attacks on Iran, on the assumption that the US wants to brighten Iranians’ futures.
US Military Helping Trump to Build Massive Network of ‘Concentration Camps,’ Navy Contract Reveals
The Department of Homeland Security is using a repurposed $55 billion Navy contract to convert warehouses into makeshift jails and plan sprawling tent cities in remote areas.
The US Military Aided Mass Child Rape in Afghanistan. Now Its Soldiers Are Committing This Crime At Fort Bragg
What has been happening at Fort Bragg, then, is part of the wider psychological degradation of American society, one that is controlled a by a government that has sacrificed everything…
Seth Harp Speaks on New York Times Spiking US Foreign Policy Interview With Ross Douthat
“I think the US is only the latest in a very long history of military empires,” he told Common Dreams. “This is a perspective to which New York Times readers…
Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network
Ring’s AI-powered network is likely to be used in its partnerships with law enforcement and agencies like ICE.
‘Statistics are Human Beings with the Tears Wiped Away’
The counter-top manufacturing industry doesn’t want to protect workers from harm; it wants protection from the workers it harms.
Michael Brenner: Epstein & The Banality of Evil
It’s the world of power and celebrity whose members are aware of each other, but whose connective tissue is of varying strength and extent.
Killing The ‘Child Independence’ on Its 250th Birthday
Every man’s liberty is in the hands of every petty officer.
Rupert Murdoch Heads West
The strategy of Rupert Murdoch, always arch-conservative in his politics, has been to start or take over and use media to further his political viewpoint.
Supreme Court Is Going to New Lengths to Hide Its Inner Workings From Scrutiny
The high court now requires its employees to sign nondisclosure agreements that threaten legal action for leaks.
Eight Decades Later, It Remains One World or None
The End of New START and the Enduring Nuclear Nightmare.
Chris Hedges: Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Epstein and the Politics of Betrayal
Noam, of all people, knows the predatory nature of the ruling class and the cruelty of capitalists, where the vulnerable, especially girls and women, are commodified as objects to be…
Jeffrey Sachs: Iran’s Comprehensive Peace Proposal to the United States
The Middle East stands at a crossroads between endless war and comprehensive peace. A framework for peace does exist. Will the US finally seize it?