Common Dreams

Alberto Gonzales has asserted to the Senate committee weighing his nomination to be attorney general that there's a legal rationale for harsh treatment of foreign prisoners by U.S. forces. By Frank Davies

The elections due Jan. 30 appear to have brought more chaos and division amongst Iraqis than unity and hope. And they have brought greater security fears. By Dahr Jamail

As the families of bomb-flattened Fallujah huddle in make-shift refugee camps, drinking from sewage-filled streams, Iraqi policy mastermind Paul Wolfowitz fastens the last stud into his starched collar. By Susan Lenfestey

An official document posted here says that nearly 210,000 people in Indonesia are dead or missing from the Dec. 26 tsunami, a toll that appears to be far higher than officials have reported publicly. Rescue workers think even that number may be low. By Tim Johnson

American Gulags Become Permanent. By Ted Rall

The Gonzales confirmation is not just about the torture memos. It's much bigger than that. By The Gonzales confirmation is not just about the torture memos. It's much bigger than that. By Thom Hartmann

Don't be confused or misled. Today's objection is not about an election result, it's about an election system that's broken and needs fixing. By Jesse Jackson Jr

The epic scale of suffering occasioned by the recent earthquake in the Indian Ocean should force us to re-examine our role in Iraq. By David Morse.

When the millennium opened, world leaders pledged to seek peace, the end of poverty and a cleaner environment. Since then, the world has seen countless acts of violence, terrorism, famine and environmental degradation. In 2005, we can begin to change direction. By Jeffrey D. Sachs

Tsunamis and other natural disasters are posing a bigger challenge than pesky green activists to India's secretive nuclear power and research facilities on the coast of southern Tamil Nadu state, which accounted for 5,000 of the more than 50,000 deaths from this week's quakes and killer waves in Asi

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is finally being brought to justice. This represents a victory not only for Chilean civil society but for international law. It also reopens the possibility of prosecuting Pinochet for a 1976 murder in Washington. By Saul Landau

Medicine and farming are merging as genetically engineered (GE) maize and soy crops promise cheap drugs, but they also threaten to contaminate food and the environment, warn activists and experts. By Stephen Leahy

As the number of casualties following the tsunamis that struck south-east Asia and parts of east Africa reaches the 60,000 mark, I find myself falling prey to one of the most unpleasant side-effects of 24-hour television and web news coverage: an addiction to death-toll pornography.

Susan Sontag, the author, activist and self-defined "zealot of seriousness" whose voracious mind and provocative prose made her a leading intellectual of the past half century, died Tuesday. She was 71.

For all three groups Christmas came early. For the first group it came in September. For the second group it came in mid-December and for the third group, which got the best present, it came at the end of November. All the gifts came from Merck & Co. By Christopher Brauchli

1 Aralık 2004 Çarşamba günü, Harvard Tıp Fakültesi, Sağlık ve Küresel Çevre Merkezi, Dördüncü Küresel Çevre Yurttaşı Ödülü'nü Amerikalı gazeteci Bill Moyers'a verdi. Moyers'ın ödülünü alırken yaptığı konuşma hayli ilginç.

Thanks to a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union and other human rights groups, thousands of pages of government documents released this month have confirmed some of the painful truths about the abuse of foreign detainees by the U.S.

The composition of the Iraqi resistance is not what the US administration has been calling it, and the more it is oversimplified the harder it is to explain its complexity. By Molly Bingham

The studio is in East Jerusalem, the transmitter in Ramallah, in the West Bank. Half the staff is Israeli, the others Palestinian. Some on-air programs are in Hebrew, others in Arabic. By Deepti Haleja

Who was the first high government official to authorize use of mustard gas against rebellious Kurdish tribesmen in Iraq?

The CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Department have warned President Bush that the United States and its Iraqi allies aren't winning the battle against Iraqi insurgents who are trying to derail the country's Jan. 30 elections, according to administration officials.

White House Session on Limiting Lawsuits Shows Contempt. By Ron Hutcheson

Does peace-through-preservation sound naïve in today's high-tech, sickeningly overdeveloped world? Of course. But can it help? Perhaps. By Bonnie Erbe

Excellent news from Afghanistan. A new president, chosen in the country's first democratic election, has just been sworn in. By Eric Margolis

A Nepalese Sherpa fears his mountain valley will be flooded by melting glacier runoff high in the Himalayas. A Fiji islander frets about rising sea levels, while villagers cope with the destruction of mangrove swamps in India.

Last week, addressing the U.S. Supreme Court, one of our federal lawyers argued that marijuana grown in your own yard and used in your own house -- as a medication -- is interstate commerce. I kid you not.

Last week the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School presented its fourth annual Global Environment Citizen Award to Bill Moyers.

Unless the world's wealthiest countries comply with their past pledges, some 45 million children in the worlds poor countries will die needlessly over the next decade, according a new report released Monday by British-based development group, Oxfam.

The American Civil Liberties Union is seeking information from the FBI on why bureau task forces set up to combat terrorism also looked into anti-war, animal rights and environmental groups.

It has been a month now and we still don't have a clear count of the votes for our own presidential race from the state of Ohio.