Common Dreams

Bay Area Anti-War Activists Go Nude in Surge of Creative Vigils

To listen to US politicians or to read American columnists these days is rather like eavesdropping on a Colonial Office conversation in the late 19th century. The hand sweeps across the world's map marking the natives.

As more troops are deployed, protesters gather in downtown L.A. to denounce action

Influential body says last chances must be seized

As the world waits for scientific confirmation or debunking of claims by the Raelians that they have cloned a human being, much attention has been paid to just how odd the group is.

UN weapons inspectors in Iraq fear their work - which has failed to turn up any evidence thus far of weapons of mass destruction - will still be used as an excuse to trigger a US-led invasion of Iraq.

With war brewing on the other side of the world as a new year is ushered in, Baltimoreans are likely to see more anti-war protesters in 2003 - a sign of what peace leaders say is a new age of mobilization.

Some vow to stay even if war comes

Even if Saddam were to parade naked through weapons sites, he couldn't influence events for the better, by Adrian Hamilton

For Almost a Year Caoimhe Butterly Has Been Standing in the Way of Israeli Tanks and Troops in Jenin. Last Friday She Was Shot by a Soldier - But She Still Won't Leave

You probably heard about the latest tragic suicide bombing in Israel. You probably did not hear about the equally tragic death of Iain Hook. Unlike the Israeli deaths, Hook's murder last Friday was not big news here in the U.S.

Remember Poindexter? Brilliant man, first in his class at the Naval Academy, later earned a doctorate in physics, rose to national security adviser under President Ronald Reagan.

You keep thinking of the people in that Moscow theater, how their jeopardy seemed to familiar to you. Once, an ordeal like that - masked captors, the bombs, the ticking clock - would have been unimaginable outside of novels, but no more.

Walter Cronkite, the veteran newsman who covered almost every major world event that took place during his six-decade career, on Sunday warned that if the United States takes action against Iraq without support from the United Nations it could set the stage for World War III.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank are again holding their annual meetings in Washington, D.C.

They Hope Presence Will Forestall War

The loud little handful - as usual - will shout for the war. The pulpit will - warily and cautiously - object... at first.

When I came to this country a few years ago, I honestly expected it to be a very closed, repressive society. That was my only explanation of why U.S. foreign policy could be as bad as it is.

Global Security, an international think tank, has a clock running on its website, www.globalsecurity.org. It is counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until the United States attacks Iraq. It is also broadcasting how many days we have to halt an unjustified and unjust war.

Beyond the black arts of propaganda it is just a question of picking the right time for an invasion of Iraq

The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), has announced that he plans to hold hearings on Iraq starting tomorrow.

As Senate hearings get under way, Americans are beginning to work through their doubts about the prospect of war with Iraq.

As the Bush administration considers its military options for deposing Saddam Hussein, senior administration and Pentagon officials say they are exploring a new if risky approach

Recent press reports indicate that planning for war against Iraq has advanced significantly.

Despite a tough-sounding speech, George W. Bush is suddenly vulnerable on the defining domestic issue of his presidency. The cascading corporate scandals are more than a temporary blow to investor confidence. They are a serious threat to American capitalism - and Republican doctrine.

The federal government sent a report to the United Nations admitting what every other important institution in the world has long insisted: that global warming will wreak massive damage on every corner of the planet... by Bill McKibben

Consider the realities that more than 21 million people died in Third World countries after World War II. The Third World debt is way over $1,000 billion today.

The following speech was given on February 17, 2002 in Los Angeles, California at an event sponsored by the Southern California Americans for Democratic Action.

The opening shots were fired Monday in a battle to force armies to clean up cluster bombs, rockets, mortars, and other ordnance that they have dropped on their enemies but which have not exploded.

The Bush administration's much publicized food ration airdrop in northern Afghanistan - hailed by the Pentagon as a way to feed starving residents while winning their loyalty - achieved neither goal in many targeted areas, military experts, aid workers, and a report by retired US special forces offi