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Fresh Demands for Labor Secretary Alex Acosta’s Resignation Mount After Jeffrey Epstein Arrested for Child Sex Trafficking Charges

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Acosta has long faced intense public criticism for helping Epstein secure a “sweetheart plea deal” while serving as Miami’s top federal prosecutor By Jessica Corbett, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 7-7-2019 The arrest of financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on federal child sex trafficking charges elicited fresh demands for the resignation of […]

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Sexual Assault Survivors Share #WhyIDidntReport in Response to Trump’s Ignorant Attack on Ford

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“Two out of three sexual assaults are never reported. Might have something to do with the fact that for every 1,000 rapes, 994 perpetrators walk free.” By Julia Conley, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 9-21-2018 Immediately following President Donald Trump’s tweet attacking Dr. Christine Blasey Ford for not reporting her alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court […]

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Nuclear Plants, Toxic Waste Sites Under Threat as Florence Readies ‘Mike Tyson Punch to Carolina Coast’

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As new pathway of storm predicted, National Hurricane Center calls looming storm “very large and incredibly dangerous” By Jon Queally, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 9-12-2018 With reports of skyscraper-likes waves out at sea, the potential for historic coastal surges and rainfall, and severe threats to vulnerable nuclear plants and other industrial waste sites—a behemoth Hurricane […]

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Irish Women Turn Out in Droves to Repeal Constitutional Ban on Abortion

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“This vote can change Ireland into a more caring, compassionate place.” By Jessica Corbett, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 5-25-2018 Ireland expected the higher-than-usual voter turnout to continue into the evening on Friday as Irish citizens headed to ballot boxes in droves and women living abroad returned to their home country to weigh in on a measure that […]

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The Last Ride of General Robert E. Lee

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  On Thursday, the final statue in New Orleans was removed that symbolized the Confederacy’s hold over the deep south. Erected 133 years ago, after the end of the Civil War, General Robert E. Lee stood atop the pedestal in the city, reminding all that passed below that the history of slavery and white supremacy […]

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What Hurricane Matthew’s path through Haiti and the US tells us about global inequality

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Greg Bankoff, University of Hull Hurricane Matthew, the Atlantic’s first Category 5 storm in almost a decade, slammed into Haiti on October 4. Strong winds left a path of death and destruction through the island, with at least 1,000 people already confirmed dead and more than 2m of the island’s 10m population affected. Now there […]

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Monsanto to go on Trial in The Hague

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“The time is long overdue for a global citizens’ tribunal to put Monsanto on trial for crimes against humanity and the environment.” On December 4, 2015, at the COP21 conferences in Paris, an announcement was made that has gone largely ignored by the US media. The transnational corporation Monsanto, considered to be the environmentalists’ and […]

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Police terror in Brazil

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How many deaths of black youth are necessary before they are considered ‘genocide’ or political assassinations? By Jaime A Alves. Published 10-10-2015 at openDemocracy. Imagine a place where eight Michael Browns are killed every day. Imagine a place where extortion, rape, torture, and killings are routine. This is Brazil. Police terror in Brazil has become […]

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From genocide to resistance: Yazidi women fight back

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Having suffered a traumatic genocide, Yazidi women on Mount Sinjar mobilize their autonomous armed and political resistance with the PKK’s philosophy. By Dilar Dirik. Published 8-23-2015 by ROAR Magazine. The old Kurdish saying “we have no friends but the mountains” became more relevant than ever when on August 3, 2014, the murderous Islamic State group […]

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When it comes to ‘Islamic State,’ the west just doesn’t get it

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There is much the west does not understand about its latest enemy, in which it faces more than ‘just’ extremists. By Abdel Bari Atwan. Published July 9, 2015 at openDemocracy. As the US ramps up airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Raqqa—the self-styled Caliphate’s capital—and the UK mulls further military involvement, it is surely time to […]

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