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About Julia Conley

Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
  • Reps. Jared Golden ( D-Maine), right, and Don Davis (D-N.C.) are seen in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

    15 Democrats join House GOP to pass ‘MAGA assault’ on nonprofits

    Originally published: Common Dreams on November 21, 2024 (more by Common Dreams)  |

    “This bill is a five-alarm fire for anyone who seeks to protect free speech, civil society, and democracy,” said one rights advocate.

  • Julian Assange gave a speech to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights at the Council of Europe on October 1, 2024 in Strasbourg, France. (Photo: WikiLeaks)

    In first speech since release, Assange says imprisonment set ‘dangerous precedent’

    Originally published: Common Dreams on October 1, 2024 (more by Common Dreams)  |

    “I am not free today because the system worked,” said Assange. “I am free today because after years of incarceration I pleaded guilty to journalism.”

  • U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is seen during an October 3, 2022 press conference in Bogota, Colombia. (Photo: Guillermo Legaria/Getty Images)

    ‘Moral insanity’: Biden admin bypasses Congress to rush tank shells to Israel

    Originally published: Common Dreams on December 9, 2023 (more by Common Dreams)  |

    “Rushing deadly weapons to the far-right and openly genocidal Israeli government without congressional review robs American voters of their voice in Congress,” said one critic.

  • Galit Distel Atbaryan, a member of the Israeli Knesset for the ruling Likud Party, is seen holding an Israeli flag. (Photo: Galit Distel Atbaryan/Facebook)

    Israeli MP says it clearly for World to hear: ‘Erase all of Gaza from the face of the Earth’

    Originally published: Common Dreams on November 1, 2023 (more by Common Dreams)  |

    “Still questioning a genocidal intent?” asked one human rights campaigner.

  • President Joe Biden

    In speech on extreme heat, Biden makes no mention of what’s driving it: Fossil fuels

    Originally published: Common Dreams on July 27, 2023 (more by Common Dreams)  |

    “Real relief won’t come until Biden confronts the culprit of deadly oil and gas,” said one campaigner.

  • Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks on "Face the Nation" on CBS on February 19, 2023. (Photo: CBS/screenshot)

    Sanders proposes ‘New Deal for journalism’ to ensure media serves public interest

    Originally published: Common Dreams on February 19, 2023 (more by Common Dreams)  |

    Nonpartisan, publicly funded media is “an idea that we should explore,” said the senator.

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Migrant Genocide: Toward a Third World Analysis of European Class Struggle
    Iker Suarez A banner at a memorial rally for victims of the 2014 massacre of migrants at Tarajal, 2021.

    Over 10,000 people died in transit to Spain in 2024 alone.[1] On June 2022, the border fence of Melilla, one of two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, was witness to a massacre that killed or disappeared over a hundred African migrants.[2]  A recent BBC investigation revealed that Greek border guards systematically repeal immigrants already on Greek […]

Lost & Found

  • Strike at the Helm: The First Ministerial Meeting of the New Cycle of the Bolivarian Revolution
    Hugo Chávez Mural of Chávez in Caracas. (Univision)

    On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced from a balcony in his hometown that a new cycle was beginning the very next day, October 8th.

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  • Figure 2 – Credit: Matt Kenard / Declassified 2023
    The urgency of abolishing Britain’s colonial bases in Cyprus
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    Pentagon split over ‘Israel’ military aid exposes foreign policy rift
  • A banner at a memorial rally for victims of the 2014 massacre of migrants at Tarajal, 2021.
    The Migrant Genocide: Toward a Third World Analysis of European Class Struggle
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    The Ancients: What can they teach us about our world and how to live in it?
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    Trump, U.S. intelligence split on Iran, Gabbard sidelined
  • Aftermath of Israeli airstrike in Tehran, June 13, 2025. Photo courtesy Tasnim News Agency/Wikimedia Commons.
    Gaslighting the way to World War III
  • Joy Metzler at the Air Force Academy graduation in 2023 (supplied/Joy Metzler)
    Meet the American military veterans fasting for Gaza
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    Despite the pain in the World, socialism is not a distant Utopia: The Twenty-Fifth Newsletter (2025)

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    Staging for a strike? U.S. quietly moves bombers as Israel prepares to hit Iran
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    Official: U.S.-Israeli deception gave Iran false security ahead of attack
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    Forging a new Pan-African path: Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, and the Land of the Upright People
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