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House Analysis Confirms Corporations Use ‘Cover of Inflation to Raise Prices Excessively’
Certain corporations are using the cover of inflation to raise prices excessively, resulting in record profits and profit margins at the expense of consumers. By Jessica Corbett CommonDreams A...
Who is responsible when climate change harms the world’s poorest countries?
Many of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries have done little to cause climate change, yet they are experiencing extreme heat waves, floods and other climate-related disasters. Bethany...
Political violence in America isn’t going away anytime soon
Until Republicans actively disavow their extremist rhetoric and the misinformation contributing to it, the likelihood for political violence in America increases with each passing day. By Richard...
Tackling Inflation By Rewarding the Rich Is a Fool’s Errand
Tackling inflation by rewarding the rich is a fool’s errand. But trickle down enthusiasts are yet again promising to deliver a wolf in sheep’s clothing. By Sonali Kolhatkar British Prime Minister...
Webinar: Judge LaDoris Cordell on the new Supreme Court term
Thursday, October 13, 7:00 - 8:00 PM Zoom Webinar Registration Required - Register Today! Last term, the Supreme Court stripped women of their Constitutional right to an abortion while they expanded...
Video: Banned Books Week – A Conversation
“Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us.” A conversation with DERRICK KIKUCHI & CRAIG WIESNER Founders, Reach & Teach Books,...
Banned Books Week
“Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us.” A conversation with DERRICK KIKUCHI & CRAIG WIESNER Founders, Reach & Teach Books, Toys, and Fair Trade Gifts Hosted By PAUL GEORGE Director,...
Webinar: The Climate Legislation – An Analysis
What's In It? What Isn't In It? What's Needed Next? A conversation with CHRIS FIELD Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Host PAUL GEORGE Director of Peninsula Peace and...
Video: Pride Under Attack as Far Right Stokes the Culture Wars
https://youtu.be/4VUddQhk_Xo A conversation with CRAIG WIESNER Commissioner, San Mateo County LGBTQ Commission https://www.smcgov.org/lgbtq Co-Founder, Reach & Teach...
Can President Biden Make Lemonade out of Lemons on his Middle East Jaunt?
Depicting the trip as an “all is well” jaunt ignores persistent problems that require bold leadership and new thinking. Can he make lemonade out of lemons? Will he try? By Kevin Martin Peace Action...
AOC, Lieu to Senate Dems: Say on the Record Whether Gorsuch and Kavanaugh Lied
"We cannot allow Supreme Court nominees lying and/or misleading the Senate under oath to go unanswered," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. By Jake Johnson Common Dreams Reps. Ted Lieu...
‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’ by Frederick Douglass
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation’s ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule,...
Webinar 6/29: Pride Under Attack
Far Right Stokes the Culture Wars, Targets LGBTQ+ Community A conversation with CRAIG WIESNER Commissioner, San Mateo County LGBTQ Commission Co-Founder, Reach & Teach Hosted by PAUL GEORGE...
The Right-Wing Supreme Court Readies to Help Destroy the Planet
The SCOTUS is about to use it's ill-gotten power on behalf of the fossil fuel industry to cripple America's ability to meet the challenge of climate change. By Thom Hartmann The Hartmann Report It...
Amy Goodman: The Cure for the Next Pandemic: Medicare for All
Universal healthcare would lead to a healthier population, more capable of withstanding the impacts of the next pandemic. By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Democracy Now! More than 330,000 people in...
Keeping Workers Poor is Bad for Business
CEOs at America’s biggest low-wage employers now take home, on average, 670 times what their typical workers make. Worker pay didn’t even keep up with inflation. By Sam Pizzigati Inequality.org CEOs...
The US Supreme Court Also Has Blood on Its Hands
The court is about to take Second Amendment fundamentalism to a new and even more dangerous level. By Bill Blum BlumsLaw If you're looking for someone or something to blame for the mass shootings...
How Corporations Are Using Inflation to Take Your Money
Unless we address this growing imbalance, corporations will continue siphoning off the economy's gains into their CEOs' and shareholders' pockets—while everyday Americans get shafted. By Robert...
‘We Refuse to Go On Like This’: US Students Walk Out to Demand Gun Control
"We are walking out because we refuse to accept a country where gunfire can ring out at any moment," said student organizers in California. By Julia Conley Common Dreams Students across the...
It’s time to stop profiteering at the pump
As long as we depend on oil and gas to fuel our cars, heat our homes, and power our electric grid, we will remain vulnerable to the bottomless greed of fossil fuel executives. By Lindsay Owens...
Photo Gallery: Bans Off Our Bodies Protest, Mountain View 5/14/22
El Camino Real and Castro Street https://flic.kr/p/2nkB2Fe https://flic.kr/p/2nktcJJ
Roe doesn’t just protect abortion rights. It’s the keystone that keeps politicians out of the most intimate aspects of our lives.
Roe doesn’t just protect people seeking abortions. The rationale underpinning that ruling protects all of us from government interference in the most intimate areas of our lives: who we love, who we...
‘Time to Take to the Streets’: Mobilizations Planned as Supreme Court Targets Roe
The push by conservative justices to overturn Roe v. Wade, said one abortion rights advocate, "is giving us an opportunity to show them how ungovernable we will be if they follow through." By Jake...
Price Controls Could Tame Inflation
Price controls tend to outrage many economists and business-friendly politicians. But curbing excess profits and making essentials more affordable would be politically smart — and effective. By...
Shareholders Target Wall Street Banks With ‘Groundbreaking’ Climate Resolutions
"Investors are saying we can't conduct business in a world that is on fire, that has heatwaves and insufficient water. And I do think companies are beginning to understand that it's in their...
With Humanity on the Brink, Should We Trust Deterrence Theory or Disarmament?
Humanity should not be held hostage to uncertain, speculative considerations of what exactly will deter nuclear-armed rivals from taking steps that could escalate to Armageddon. By Kevin Martin...
Pentagon Contractors Seizing New Gold Rush to Cash in on the Ukraine Crisis
Even before the war, the Pentagon was slated to receive at least $7.3 trillion over the next decade, more than four times the cost of President Biden’s $1.7 trillion domestic Build Back Better plan,...
‘We Won’t Stop’: Climate Scientists Vow to Keep Fighting After Global Mobilization
"Governments have ignored the scientists who've warned that we're heading for catastrophe for decades. That's why so many are now engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience as a last-ditch effort."...
UN Chief: Those Expanding Fossil Fuels—Not Climate Activists—Are the ‘Truly Dangerous Radicals’
"Some government and business leaders are saying one thing—but doing another. Simply put, they are lying." By Brett Wilkins CommonDreams.org Following the publication of a key United Nations climate...
Amazon, Starbucks and the sparking of a new American union movement
Both the Starbucks and Amazon-Staten Island campaigns have been led by determined young workers. The campaigns have involved a significant degree of “self-organization”. By John Logan, San Francisco...