Common Dreams staff
Common Dreams staff
Articles by this author
 |
News Thursday, December 13, 2018 Bomb Threat Hoax Emails Spark Nationwide Evacuations at Offices, Hospitals, News Outlets, and Schools An apparent bomb threat hoax demanding a payment in Bitcoin was circulated by email on Thursday, forcing local police departments to mobilize and evacuations at businesses, hospitals, government offices, news outlets, and schools across the country—including in California, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, New York, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, and Michigan. Read more |
 |
News Tuesday, December 11, 2018 "It's Called Transparency": Donald, Chuck, and Nancy Hold Rare Public Talks as Negotiations Erupt on Live TV A press availability at the White House with President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Democratic leader in the House Nancy Pelosi broke into bizarre—as well as refreshing—public negotiation on Tuesday as the Democrats and the president sparred... Read more |
 |
News Wednesday, December 05, 2018 'Time to Walk the Walk': Ocasio-Cortez Announces 'At Least' $15 Wage for Interns While the office of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said its recent posting for unpaid internships was " made in error " and announced paid positions will be announced in January, fellow New York lawmaker in the House, Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, declared Tuesday night that it's time... Read more |
 |
News Saturday, December 01, 2018 US Housing Crisis Inexcusable, Says Bernie Sanders, When Wall Street Bailed Out After Financial Crisis BURLINGTON, VT — On the third and final day of The Sanders Institute Gathering on Saturday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) led a panel of experts and advocates to discuss the crisis of, the solutions to, he says, "that gets far too little discussion": the nation's housing crisis. In an era of... Read more |
 |
News Saturday, December 01, 2018 'May His Many Victims Across the Globe Rest in Peace': George H.W. Bush Dead at 94 As corporate media gloss over the former U.S. president's record with fawning tributes and sanitized obituaries, some observers took to social media to highlight key aspects of the record and legacy of George H.W. Bush, who died Friday at 94. Among the 41st president's acts during his political... Read more |
 |
News Friday, November 30, 2018 'It Is Time for Progressives of the World to Unite': Sanders-Varoufakis Issue Open Call for New Global Movement BURLINGTON, VT. — With fascist movements on the rise and controlling the levers of power in the United States and across the world, the U.S.-based Sanders Institute and Europe's DiEM25—the groups founded by Jane Sanders and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, respectively—announced the... Read more |
 |
News Monday, November 26, 2018 Shooting Pepper Spray at Children Okay, Former CBP Deputy Chief Tells Fox News, Because 'You Could Actually Put It on Your Nachos and Eat It' Amid widespread outrage and condemnation over the tear gassing of mothers, their children, and other asylum seekers and migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday , Ronald Colburn, president of the Border Patrol Foundation and former national deputy chief of the CBP, appeared on Fox & Friends... Read more |
 |
News Sunday, November 25, 2018 Children 'Screaming and Coughing in the Mayhem' as Trump Border Patrol Fires Tear Gas Into Mexico After Central American migrants approached the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday to call attention to awful shelter conditions and request asylum , U.S. Border Patrol agents reportedly fired tear gas into Mexico, forcing parents with toddlers to flee. "Children were screaming and coughing in the mayhem... Read more |
 |
News Sunday, November 18, 2018 'Systematic Disenfranchisement' in Georgia, Says Stacey Abrams, Should Be 'Call to Arms' for US Voting Rights Less than two days after her deliverence of a " not a speech of concession " concession speech won applause from voting rights advocates nationwide, Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams said on Sunday morning that the fight for voter access is not over by a long shot and—even though she admits the her... Read more |
 |
News Friday, November 16, 2018 In Victory for Free Press, Judge Rules Trump Must Immediately Restore Jim Acosta's Press Pass This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates... In a victory for press freedom, a federal judge on Friday granted CNN 's emergency motion to immediately restore White House correspondent Jim Acosta's press credentials, which were revoked by the Trump administration last week after a... Read more |