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How the U.S. Created the Central American Immigration Crisis
By Rebecca Gordon It’s hard to believe that more than four years have passed since the police shot Amílcar Pérez-López a few blocks from my house in San Francisco’s Mission District. He was an immigrant, 20 years old, and his remittances were…
Fracking Boom in US and Canada Largely to Blame for ‘Massive’ Rise of Global Methane Levels: Study
While the rise of methane in the Earth’s atmosphere over the past decade has been “globally significant,” quick action to end fracking would have a rapid, positive impact on the environment by Julia Conley, staff writer for Common Dreams New research…
Anti-Nuclear Protest in Observance of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb
Photos by Ellen Davidson Interview By Jhon Sánchez Last Monday, August 5th, in front of the General Consulate of Japan in New York, a group of protesters gathered on occasion of the 74th anniversary of the atomic bomb that killed…
U.S. doesn’t want dialogue: turns to economic terror and shows plan to impose its tutelage on Venezuela
Aram Aharonian* The blockade and the new sanctions that freeze all Venezuelan assets in U.S. territory, ordered by the regime of Donald Trump, is nothing more than another act of economic terrorism that seeks, in the first place, to break…
Federal Judge Hears Kings Bay Plowshares’ Motion to Dismiss Charges Under RFRA
The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 in federal court today made oral arguments concerning the denial of the pre-trial motions to dismiss the charges against them. Appearing for the first time before Judge Lisa Godbey Wood, who will be the trial…
An Open Letter To The People Of Japan From Concerned Peace Organizations and Citizens of The United States
—In observance of the 74th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings of Japan— We, the undersigned, representing a coalition of concerned peace organizations and citizens of the United States are advocating for abolition of nuclear weapons globally. We are gathering here,…
Hiroshima Unlearned: Time to tell the truth about US relations with Russia and finally ban the bomb
August 6th and 9th mark 74 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where only one nuclear bomb dropped on each city caused the deaths of up to 146,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 people in Nagasaki. Today,…
People in Venezuela are prepared for battle to defend the Bolivarian Revolution
By Farooque Chowdhury People in Venezuela shall defend the Bolivarian Revolution. To defend the land, the people are prepared for battle. This is the promise by the people in the land the revolution is moving forward with its transforming process.…
The Myths, the Silence, and the Propaganda That Keep Nuclear Weapons in Existence
By David Swanson Remarks in Poulsbo, Washington, August 4, 2019 This week, 74 years ago, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were each hit with a single nuclear bomb that had the power of a third to a half of…
US scrapping of INF treaty heightens threat of nuclear war
By Bill Van Auken Washington formally scrapped the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty Friday, bringing the world a major step closer to nuclear war. The treaty, signed over 30 years ago by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail…
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