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Our Policy and Political Director, Paul Kawika Martin, was asked to submit this piece to USA Today, which published it yesterday. Please like, share, forward, comment on the site, write a [...]

Published on Thursday, July 18, 2013 by Common Dreams Wouldn’t It Just Be Easier to Change Our Foreign Policy? by Kevin Martin A passenger removes their shoes before passing through the passenger [...]

Hi America. Come on in. Have a seat. Get comfy. Well, we’ll just come right out and say it, since we really care about you. You have an addiction. To violence. I know you’re hurting, [...]

So I have to admit that when I heard it last night during the presidential debate, I thought this was a clever zinger by Mitt Romney (or his speech writers more likely): “What things will I cut [...]

Here’s my quick take on the President’s acceptance speech at the Dem Convention last night, but I’d love to know what you thought of it as well. (The New York Times has the [...]

–Kevin Martin, Executive Director Norwegian philosopher and peace studies pioneer Johan Galtung has a very useful analytic framework for peace and justice activists in our current times, [...]

I feel strange putting out an alert like this in the United States, but here it is: On October 1st, Bush deployed a brigade (3-4 thousand soldiers) for domestic missions of crowd control and [...]

Their country asked them to kill. Their hearts asked them to stop. Soldiers of Conscience is a dramatic window on the dilemma of individual U.S. soldiers in the current Iraq War – when their [...]