Common Dreams

In this sour, apprehensive, and Bush-inflicted month of November, we should remember the great surge of activism set going by the vain attempt to stop the Republican juggernaut. If we are to honor its promise, though, we need to learn its lesson, and understand more deeply the nature of the enemy.

Learning from Hiroshima and Nagasaki or the Loss of Historical Memory?

Over 15,000 animal and plant species face extinction, reveals the World Conservation Union or IUCN in its '2004 Red List of Threatened Species'.

Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr Helen Caldicott fears US President George Bush's re-election will lead to Armageddon and she isn't sure if mankind would survive another four years.

The assault on Fallujah has started. It is being sold as liberation of the people of Fallujah; it is being sold as a necessary step to implementing "democracy" in Iraq. These are lies.

Ready to say screw this country and buy a one-way ticket north? Here are some reasons to stay in the belly of the beast.

It doesn't look promising. Ohio's electoral system wants to borrow a page from Afghanistan's idea of balloting by bullies. Florida's system is the same lost cause it was four years ago, thanks to a governor who knows a profitable botch when he sees one.

There are moments when you see suddenly crystallized in a particular event, a threat to democracy as ominous as the smoke rising from Mt. St. Helens.

Two years before the September 11 attacks, presidential candidate George W. Bush was already talking privately about the political benefits of attacking Iraq, according to his former ghost writer, who held many conversations with then-Texas Governor Bush in preparation for a planned autobiography.

After months of traveling from swing state to swing state, I have been astounded by the number of people who are furious with the "war president" George Bush, and have dedicated enormous energy to registering, educating, cajoling, and exhorting people to vote.

In the second presidential debate, President Bush said: "I'm a good steward of the land. The quality of the air's cleaner since I've been the president. Fewer water complaints since I've been the president."

U.S. efforts to restrict media ownership, which appeared dead a week ago, are being revived following reports of Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.'s plan to force its 62 TV stations to air a politically controversial film.

For two years prior to the war in Iraq, there were intelligence information and weapons inspectors reporting that "this doesn't add up," the claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, said award-winning journalist Amy Goodman in a talk at the North Dakota Peace Coalition meeting Saturday in B

When U.S. bombs hit my home country of Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001, I was in an Afghan restaurant in New York with other Afghan-Americans grieving over Sept. 11. We weren't surprised that the old country was being bombed. We all knew it would happen.

try to sound the alarm, but politicians ignore the threat until its too late. Indifference ultimately turns into panic.

The signs are everywhere; according to this month's National Geographic magazine and a recent Pentagon report, global warming is very real.

Despite the recent destructive series of hurricanes and tornadoes, global warming is off the radar screen of the U.S. presidential election campaign.

The war in Iraq goes from worse to catastrophic. Hundreds of Iraqis were killed last week, as were two dozen US soldiers. Planned elections in January point less to democracy than civil war.

Though military personnel lean conservative, some vocally support Kerry - or at least a strategy for swift withdrawal.

Recent upsurge in attacks against authorities and US forces has parallels, and differences, with past insurgencies.

While everyone else was all over the Monica Lewinsky imbroglio, Sherry and I took after Washington's other scandal of the time -- the unbridled and illegal fundraising by Democrats in the campaign of 1996. This time it was Democrats who wanted me arrested. By Bill Moyers

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The U.S. strategy to create a stable, democratic Iraq is in danger of failing, current and former U.S. officials say, and the anti-American insurgency is growing larger, more sophisticated and more violent.

A classified National Intelligence Estimate prepared for President Bush in late July spells out a dark assessment of prospects for Iraq, government officials said yesterday.

Citizens cannot make informed choices if they do not have the facts—for example, the facts that have been wrongly concealed about the ongoing war in Iraq: the real reasons behind it, the prospective costs in blood and treasure, and the setback it has dealt to efforts to stem terrorism.

Climate change will soon make the Arctic regions of the world nearly unrecognisable, dramatically disrupting traditional Inuit and other northern native peoples' way of life, according to a new report that has yet to be publicly released

The IISS, one of the world's leading institutions for strategic relations, paints a bleak picture for Iraq and for the United States in Iraq.

James Gordon Meek reports that both FBI investigations of leaks from the Pentagon concern in part secret US intelligence on Iranian weapons of mass destruction programs.

George W. Bush finally told the truth. It happened last week when he said of the war on terrorism, "I don't think you can win it."

A Manhattan judge on Thursday ordered the immediate release of nearly 500 anti-GOP protesters, including some who had spent almost three days in jail after their arrests at demonstrations against President Bush.