Common Dreams

Despite sloppiness, Newsweek didn't fabricate Koran story. By Molly Ivins

Outside the window was the great arch of exploration, St Louis's national monument honoring Thomas Jefferson and his patronage of the Lewis and Clark expedition that mapped out our new continent for major change back in the early days of the 18th Century. By Danny Schechter

Closing address at the National Conference on Media Reform. By Bill Moyers

What if there really was no need for much - or even most - of the Cold War? What if, in fact, the Cold War had been kept alive for two decades based on phony WMD threats? by Thom Hartmann

More than 2,000 people are traveling to St. Louis this weekend to try to figure out how to fix what's wrong with newspapers, radio, TV and the rest of the news media. By Michael D. Sorkin

The United States has become the number-one market for India's pharmaceutical exports, with purchases reaching $250 million in 2003. By Stan Cox

Journalists typically condemn attempts to force their colleagues to disclose anonymous sources, saying that subpoenaing reporters will discourage efforts to expose government wrongdoing.

Here's what I'd like for Mother's Day: No flowers. No candy. Not even a card, however hip and humorous. by Mary Babic

History is tapping us on the shoulder and pointing. The sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz followed so closely by the popification of an ex-member of the Hitler Youth combine to force our attention back to the Nazi catastrophe. By Donna Glee Williams

After risking their lives to vote and then watching the political leaders they elected haggle fruitlessly for almost three months, many Iraqis have concluded that their new national assembly is incapable of producing a government that can unify and pacify the country. By Dogen Hannah

In his Washington speech today, President Bush is expected to offer up "new" energy ideas that are anything but new - they are old, outdated, obsolete energy policies that depend on last-century technology and polluting sources of energy. By David Hamilton

Our media environment is very noisy, abundant, even polluted. Columbia journalism professor Todd Gitlin calls it "media unlimited." while writer David Shenk calls it "data smog." By Pat Aufderheide

Environmentalism, long a movement accused of Chicken Little scare tactics and doomsday prophesying, recently reached new depths of gloominess when it announced the death of itself. By Chip Giller

As a practical matter, the task of reinventing neoconservatism for a post-Communist world -- and of spelling out an "imperial self-definition" of American purpose -- fell to a new generation. By Andrew J. Bacevich

With fresh indictments last week, the UN oil-for-food scandal took an unexpected turn into the Labyrinth -- the tangled skein of war profiteering and state terrorism that has seen the Bush Family's lust for blood money emerge in three of the darkest criminal episodes in modern American history.

In 2004, the Norwegian Nobel committee made a revolutionary decision. In awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to an environmentalist for the first time, the committee broadened the concept of peace. By Wangari Maathai

How the Bush Administration's Biological Weapons Buildup Affects You. By Heather Wokusch

At what point does great wealth held in a few hands actually harm democracy, threatening to turn a democratic republic into an oligarchy? By Thom Hartmann

Almost 20 years have passed since the world's worst nuclear accident, but Chernobyl continues to bring back traumatizing memories for many Ukrainians. By Zoltán Dujisin

There is a huge propaganda push by the nuclear industry to justify nuclear power as a panacea for the reduction of global-warming gases. By Helen Caldicott

As the World Bank and International Monetary Fund prepare to hold their spring meetings in Washington, D.C., this weekend, debt cancellation activists are poised to claim a long-awaited victory. By Salih Booker and Njoki Njoroge Njehu

Privatizing U.S. Social Security. By Abid Aslam

Freshly returned from a week of intellectual sparring at the Conference on World Affairs, the annual gabfest in Boulder (the late jazz critic Leonard Feather called it "the leisure of the theory class"), I find making connections between headlines mere child's play. By Molly Ivins

Enraged about the high price of gas? A trip to the corner store might provide a much-needed reality check to the indignation over excessive fuel costs. Have a quick look at what you can buy for a dollar a litre. By Mitchell Anderson

What Congressman Sanders did find surprising was the Orwellian nature of the testimony from Secretary Gutierrez and the shameless degree to which the Bush Administration is prepared to turn truth on its head. By Erin Campbell

Four of the Six Corporations Have Paid Nearly $1 Billion to Settle Allegations of Market Manipulation

George Bush must have been delighted to learn from a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll that 56 percent of Americans still think Iraq had weapons of mass destruction before the start of the war. By Amy Goodman and David Goodman

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences held the press conference to draw attention to a new study it was releasing: "Restoring Trust in American Business." By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on the Bush Administration, Civil Disobedience and the Eternal Fires of Hell. By Mira Ptacin

In the past two years the US media have drastically reduced their coverage of Afghanistan. By Sonali Kolhatkar