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US inequality is getting worse in ways you might not expect
This acceleration in the redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the very top has an array of drivers. But they’re not inexorable forces of history. As economist Thomas Piketty put it,...
40+ California Multimillionaires Sign Open Letter Backing Billionaire Wealth Tax
The letter comes as billionaire opponents of the tax ramp up their spending against the measure. The initiative’s billionaire opponents are spending roughly $1 million per day to defeat it. By Jake...
It’s No Coincidence That Authoritarianism Rises as Journalism Dies
Real journalists are losing their jobs while money flows into pay-for-play social media. We need a publicly funded alternative. By Sonali Kolhatkar OtherWords Journalism is experiencing one of its...
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Zoom Presentation: Eyewitness West Bank
Zoom Webinar • Advance Registration Required Every day brings new headlines about settler violence against West Bank Palestinians, violence that is often ignored or actively abetted by Israeli...
Webinar: Confronting the Surveillance State with Cindy Cohn
OTHER VOICES: A Monthly Conversation for Activists A conversation with CINDY COHN Former Exec. Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation Author, "Privacy's Defender: My Thirty Year Fight Against...
‘Bigotry’ as Government Policy: Trump Orders ICE to Ramp Up Arrests of Haitians
“ICE has been ordered to round up nurses, home health aides, factory workers, teachers, students, and thousands of others who have been living and working here legally for years; who’ve done nothing...
Lying, Cheating, Stealing Trump Just Told Us Exactly What He Will Do This November If Democrats Win
The president has made it crystal clear that he’ll say or do anything to hang onto his power, because he knows if he loses that power his entire house of cards collapses. By Thom Hartmann Last...
How Section 219, the US-Israel Military Merger, Would Thwart American Democracy
The merger would connect the US and Israeli militaries in unprecedented ways and make it exceedingly difficult for any future president to unwind this partnership with a foreign government, no...
Trump Accused of ‘Mugging’ Americans as War on Clean Energy Set to Cost US Economy $55 Billion a Year
“Trump is getting Americans coming and going. He’s forcing higher power bills on them by blocking clean energy, then he’s fattening the wallets of his cronies." By Brad Reed Common Dreams President...
ICE Kills, DHS Lies: The New Normal of Trump’s America
Federal agents flood our neighborhoods; a poorly trained, gun-happy immigration agent kills someone; the administration alleges, without evidence, that the victim was responsible; no proper...
More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republicans said SNAP reforms would ensure it works for the “most vulnerable among us, including children." But nearly a year after the measure was signed into law, the number of children receiving...
Supercharged by Trump-GOP Tax Cuts, US Billionaire Wealth Surges Past $9 Trillion for First Time
“This broken political and economic system takes from the vast majority of Americans and consolidates wealth in the hands of a privileged few. It cannot stand.” By Jake Johnson Common Dreams The...
Trump’s ‘narco‑terrorism’ war in Latin America evokes Reagan – then as now, it’s more about fighting leftists than drug runners
The history of the war on drugs, however, especially during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, shows that the narco-terrorism label has always been politicized. By Michelle D. Paranzino US Naval War...
While Slashing Food Aid and Healthcare, GOP Advances TRILLION-DOLLAR Military Budget
“The money that Trump wants to burn on war should instead be spent on the needs of the American people, including restoring funding for healthcare, food, housing, and climate action,” said one...
‘Betrayal of the Working Class’: Trump War of Choice in Iran Pushes Inflation to New 3-Year High
“This isn’t just ‘bad vibes’ about the economy. Trump’s betrayal of the working class has done lasting damage to our economy.” Bu Brad Reed Common Dreams President Donald Trump during the 2024...
‘Children Are Dying’: UN Human Rights Chief Demands Trump End Economic Assault on Cuba
“Such severe sanctions packages that target entire sectors of an economy and produce broad, indiscriminate, and harsh effects on populations are incompatible with basic principles of international...
Webinar: Judge Cordell on Voting Rights
Judge LaDoris Cordell Superior Court Judge, Retired Hosted by Paul George, Director, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center Zoom Webinar - Advance Registration Required Register Today In a disastrous...
After Castro Charges, Critics Ask: When Are Indictments Coming for Trump-Hegseth ‘Extrajudicial Murders’?
"Trump bombs fishing boats at sea, at least once bombed shipwrecked survivors, and bombed an elementary school, killing more than 165 little girls. And he wants to indict Raul Castro." By Julie...
The Supreme Court Has Enabled Trump to Become Profiteer-in-Chief
There is a zone of lawlessness around the Oval Office, erected by the Supreme Court when it granted presidents immunity from prosecution if their crimes involved “official acts.” Loot the taxpayers,...
8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
When President Donald Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held — but just barely. If faced with the same tests today, those guardrails...
California ‘One Step Closer’ to Taxing Billionaires With Enough Signatures to Make Ballot
“We deserve to know our local hospital will be open and ready to treat you in an emergency. In a nation as rich as ours, that’s the least we deserve.” By Brad Reed Common Dreams The coalition behind...
‘They Don’t Seem to Give a Shit’: Trump and GOP Push Food Aid Cuts as Iran War Costs Soar
Trump has requested that lawmakers pass a $1.5 trillion military budget for the coming fiscal year—a nearly 50% increase compared to current levels—while pushing for more cuts to healthcare,...
Green Groups Sue Trump to Stop ‘Exceptionally Risky’ Deep-Water Drilling Project in Gulf of Mexico
“Offshore drilling is one of the riskiest kinds of oil extraction, but the Trump administration is ignoring the law to allow Big Oil CEOs to endanger coastal communities for the sake of corporate...
Tax Day Realities: Nuclear Weapons and Our Dangerous, Misguided Priorities
An average American family of four will spend $1,606 dollars on nuclear weapons programs this year, and as a nation we are spending $261,092 every minute on weapons that cannot and must not ever be...
Harvard Expert: Price Tag of Trump’s Illegal Iran War Will Hit $1 Trillion
“The interest costs alone will add billions of dollars to the total cost of this war,” said Linda Bilmes. “And unlike the upfront costs, these are costs we are explicitly passing on to the next...
Madman Trump Must Be Removed
A shaky two-week truce; we’ve temporarily slipped from the hangman’s noose. There’s still a madman president on the loose. By Bob Okun Common Dreams We are living in an Upside Down moment, and the...
Tax the Corporations Cashing in on War
As oil executives profit off the war in Iran, Congress must once again push for a windfall profits tax on the largest oil companies. This isn’t an outlandish idea. Other countries have already done...
‘Shameful’: $4,049 of Average US Taxpayer’s Bill Last Year Went to War and Weaponry
“Our tax dollars are doing more to bomb children in Iran and other countries than to feed and educate children here.” By Jake Johnson Common Dreams A new analysis released Thursday estimates that...