If you start pumping air into a balloon, you should expect that eventually it will burst. Each balloon has specific limits to absorb air. Our world is like a balloon. Surprisingly, we are pumping air into it but not expecting…
New paper by three IMF economists finds that policies of capital account liberalization and austerity fuel inequality, which in turn hurts growth—”the very thing that the neoliberal agenda is intent on boosting.” by Andrea Germanos, staff writer for Common Dreams…
The Zika-disease spreading mosquito is everywhere and all the usual precautions need be taken to prevent bites, from generously supplied nets to more inclusive education. That’s because we are ever invading nature’s own spaces without regard for the creatures that live there.…
Extra police and border guards by the thousand are on the streets of Dhaka and other big cities and towns of Bangladesh before a general strike takes hold to protest against the executions of two opposition politicians for war crimes.…
The war in Syria appears to be heating back up. A surprisingly widespread “cessation of hostilities” had reduced violence considerably for several weeks. But U.N. sponsored peace talks got nowhere fast, with rebel factions insisting that the Assad government must…
Anne Kass When she had just retired after being a judge in a Family Court for 18 years, the Albuquerque Rotary Club invited her to give a speech which words are still very accurate: “Thank you for inviting me today.…
Exactly 30 years ago, on 26 April 1986, reactor number 4 at Chernobyl exploded, and began to spread death over all the northern hemisphere, except over France where we were told that the radioactive plume was stopped at the border.…
The Red Nation and Hope Alvarado of the UNM Kiva Club are requesting nationwide support on this effort to abolish the University of New Mexico’s seal which features a Conquistador and a Frontiersman. It’s too much to ask Native people…
By WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE via openDemocracy. To mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death, we publish the speech Shakespeare gives the Lord Chancellor of England when called upon to quell rioters protesting against migrants on Evil May Day, 1517. Thomas MORE.…
Asylum seekers—mostly women and children—are trapped in Greece in conditions so inhumane that infants’ lives are being endangered, rights groups say by Nika Knight, staff writer for Common Dreams Conditions for refugees have deteriorated in Greece in the wake of…
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