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UNICEF says Israel has killed more than 300 children over past 10 days in Gaza
The United Nations agency reports that at least 322 children were killed and 609 were injured in the Gaza Strip over the past 10 days, following the resumption of Israeli bombing on March 18, 2025.
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Anti-Haitian protest in the Dominican Republic turns deadly, nationalists call for intensifying mass deportations
The far-right Antigua Orden group led a xenophobic protest calling for the expulsion of Haitian migrants, echoing Trump-style anti-immigrant rhetoric.
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With Section 230 repeal, Dems and media offer Trump new censorship tools
In a move that threatens to constrain online communication, congressional Democrats are partnering with their Republican counterparts to repeal a niche but crucial internet law.
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A cowardly attack on disabled students
The squatter in the White House is laying siege to the Education Department’s civil rights division.
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Trump wants a super bigot to be ambassador to South Africa
Trump and his daddy, Fred Trump–who was arrested while participating in a 1927 Ku Klux Klan riot in Queens, New York–refused to rent to Black families.
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Students protest continue in Indonesia
Over the last several weeks, demonstrations have erupted across Indonesia.
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The tenth demand?
The latest drama at Columbia—involving interim President Katrina Armstrong’s “resignation”—has broad implications for the academy and American democracy. Once unpacked, this episode throws into sharp relief the issue of whether universities now operate at the pleasure of the White House.
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Scholasticide at the American Historical Association
Following an overwhelming membership vote in favor of a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza the Council of the American Historical Association, in a blatantly undemocratic act, vetoed the decision. The Council’s cowardly actions are complicit in a pattern on institutional silence (and worse) within the U.S. academy in the face of the U.S. backed genocide by Israel. Daniel Johnson reports on the events and plans to challenge this decision
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“Love your neighbor” Pope-Vance controversy
You don’t have to be Christian or a religious person or even a supporter of Pope Francis to appreciate his willingness to speak truth to power, and his efforts to get U.S. Catholic Bishops to do the same.
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Advancing the boundaries of science: From Oparin, Haldane, Bernal to today
One of the arguments in favour of a divine power–or god–is that life could not have arisen naturally and needed a touch of the divine to come into being.
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‘The Encampments’
Encampments spring up at hundreds of campuses as students object to their own university’s investment in the U.S. and Israeli arms industry.
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In defense of media and democracy: The inspiring work and life of my friend Robert W. McChesney
Just like Tom Paine, and until the very end, Bob saw hope in the people who were rising up and demanding a future defined by their humanity, as opposed to corporate power.
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“The target is unmistakable”: The shooting of Gaza’s children
American doctors who volunteered in Gaza report witnessing a disturbing pattern of children being shot by Israeli snipers.
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Halt Indonesia’s slide into military dictatorship
Repeal the authoritarian TNI law before it’s too late!
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Progressive Movement mourns loss of beloved media scholar Robert McChesney
“The world of media scholarship, journalists far and wide, and anyone who cares about a free press, a functioning democracy, and a better world has suffered a tremendous loss,” said Common Dreams’ managing editor.
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Senate Intelligence Committee hearing turns ugly with McCarthy-style lies about CODEPINK: Women for Peace
On March 25, at the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on global threats with the five heads of intelligence agencies of the U.S. government, Senator Tom Cotton, accused on national TV a group I have worked with for over 20 years, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, of being funded by the Communist Party of China.
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It took an Oscar winner’s ordeal for the World to see the truth of Settler violence
Imagine a group of a dozen armed men storming your village at nightfall. They assault you and your neighbours, throw stones at your house, beat you. If you try to defend yourself, or document the violence, they attack you. When the military arrives, they detain you. Some of them join in with the violence. This harrowing scene is not a story from Tsarist Russia or Jim Crow America. Last Monday, this was exactly what occurred in the Palestinian village of Susya in the occupied West Bank.
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What is Esencia and what will happen to Puerto Rico if this is constructed?
Esencia is a massive $2 billion colonial development project aiming to seize over 2,000 acres of land, spanning three miles of beaches in Punta Melones, Cabo Rojo, by 2028.
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European militarism on steroids is not good, either
Lacking in any strategic thinking, a new bellicism has swept up the elites and gone into cataclysmic overdrive in recent weeks.
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The U.S. hypocrisy about Israel’s nuclear weapons must stop
An extraordinary three-part series on Israeli television, The Atom and Me, lays out how the country got its nuclear weapons.