by TD Daniell | June 30, 2015 | Current News
Joseph Stiglitz The Guardian The rising crescendo of bickering and acrimony within Europe might seem to outsiders to be the inevitable result of the bitter endgame playing out between Greece and its creditors. In fact, European leaders are finally beginning to reveal...
by TD Daniell | June 26, 2015 | Current News
Laith Shakir Common Dreams California is in the midst of one of the worst droughts in the state’s history, prompting Governor Jerry Brown to declare a water “state of emergency.” Ordinary Californians are bearing the brunt of this disaster. While the governor has...
by TD Daniell | June 15, 2015 | Current News
Sandy Tolan truthdig For years the “A-word” has been off-limits in polite conversation about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. The A-word, we have been told, unfairly singles out the Jewish state and its use is perhaps even anti-Semitic. Such declarations can have a...
by TD Daniell | June 11, 2015 | Current News
Phyllis Bennis Foreign Policy In Focus Almost nine months after President Obama admitted that “we don’t have a strategy yet” to challenge the Islamic State — and just days after he said he still has “no complete Iraq strategy” — the non-strategy suddenly has a name:...
by TD Daniell | June 9, 2015 | Current News
Kathy Kelly Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/09/fear-and-learning-kabul Kabul—I’ve spent a wonderfully calm morning here in Kabul, listening to bird songs and to the call and response between mothers and their children in neighboring homes as...