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Julia Conley, staff writer
Highlighting the thousands of dollars American households are forced to pay in healthcare costs that people in other wealthy countries save thanks to universal healthcare plans, two top economists wondered aloud this weekend why Americans have accepted increasingly high costs and poor health outcomes for decades.
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
In communities nationwide, Americans "will urge restraint and that the United States avoid yet another unnecessary, costly war of choice in the Middle East."
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Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Elizabeth Warren, who spent decades as a bankruptcy law professor before becoming a U.S. senator, introduced her long-awaited plan to fix the country's bankruptcy system on Tuesday and reignited a 15-year-old fight with former Vice President Joe Biden, one of her rivals in the Democratic Party's presidential primary race.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Industry wants you to think universal healthcare is too expensive. In reality, it's our current system that's a wasteful, unsustainable disaster."
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Stephen Zunes
Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran on September 22, 2018. (Photo: STR / AFP /Getty Images)
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"I just don't think that that kind of record is going to bring forth the kind energy we need to defeat Trump."
Jon Queally, staff writer
"Mike Pompeo is doing everything to get the war he's always wanted and knows his warmongering can't withstand even basic scrutiny by the eloquent Iranian Foreign Minister."
Julia Conley, staff writer
In a move mirroring President Donald Trump's own justification for assassinating Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani, Iran's Parliament on Tuesday unanimously voted to declare all U.S. military leadership to be "terrorists."
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Ahead of a forum for local leaders from across the globe scheduled for March, Mayors Bill de Blasio of New York and Sadiq Khan of London on Tuesday called on every major city in the world to divest from the fossil fuel industries that are wrecking the planet.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Messages and bilateral exchanges are not enough," said Agnes Callamard.
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Norman Solomon
Democratic presidential hopefuls (fromL) Mayor of South Bend, Indiana Pete Buttigieg, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders arrive for the sixth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season co-hosted by PBS NewsHour & Politico at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California on December 19, 2019. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP / via Getty Images)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Chris Dickman of the University of Sydney said "without any doubt at all" the animal death toll has exceeded one billion.
Common Dreams staff
International tensions continue to build as mourning turns to tragedy in Iran where millions have marched to honor the slain military leader.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"You can speak with American people from Tehran too and we will do that," said Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif.
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"It's not that surprising if you look closely: Rep. Cuellar is bought and paid for by the military industrial complex."
Julia Conley, staff writer
After former National Security Adviser John Bolton announced Monday that he would be willing to testify in a Senate impeachment trial against President Donald Trump, Sen. Bernie Sanders demanded the president answer one question: "What are you afraid of?"
