Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive CommunityThis week's anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and the three-year, U.S-funded Gazan genocide it ignited marks the creation of a dark world where "the unthinkable has become banal," where many thousands of Palestinian children in a harsh new "normal" - homeless, toy-less, traumatized, unschooled...

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive CommunityIn response to allegations that U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle abused her diplomatic position to advance private gas interests in the Balkans, Oil Change International’s Allie Rosenbluth said:“Trump’s push to lock Europe into decades of U.S. gas dependence puts fossil fuel profits ahea...

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive CommunityCorporations that have benefited from the Trump administration’s cancellation of federal enforcement actions have given $210.5 million in contributions and pledges to MAGA Inc., and other Trump-aligned Super PACs, according to a new investigation by Public Citizen.The finding comes as Public Citizen’...

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive CommunityIn response to the outcome of the pre-COP summit in Fiji, Oxfam Climate Policy Lead Nafkote Dabi said: “These talks were an underwhelming precursor to the summit in Türkiye next month. The absence of leaders from the richest and most polluting countries sends a dangerous signal that the global commitmen...

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive CommunitySocial Security Works Executive Director Alex Lawson had the following response to the news that Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton discussed cuts to Social Security in private conversations in Washington, as revealed in leaked audio published by the Texas Tribune: “It's disgusting that Ken Paxton i...

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive CommunityFacing significant backlash to his recent TV ads, Trump recently declared he will no longer use taxpayer funds to pay for partisan advertisements. He has not indicated that he will reimburse the U.S. Treasury for public funds wasted so far.Public Citizen has filed multiple complaints against the Trum...