Common Dreams Staff Posts

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes ruled Tuesday that the city of Detroit is eligible for bankruptcy after a long court battle between city appointed 'emergency manager' Kevyn Orr and union and labor

It's now official: Seattle voters have now elected a socialist and member of the Occupy Seattle movement to the Seattle City Council, favoring a champion of a $15 minimum wage and tax on millionaires over a long-term Democrat incumbent.

Super Typhoon Haiyan slammed the central islands of the Phillipines overnight and with sustained winds of nearly 200 mph the ferocious storm fulfilled fears that it would go down as the world's most powerful tropical storm to make landfall in all recorded history.

The number of people missing or "unaccounted for" amid what experts are calling a thousand-year flood event in Colorado, is now more than 1,200, according to state newspapers and officials. Coming on the heals of forest fires and drought in the state, the rare late summer rains have created the "perfect storm" for what scientists see as a climate change-driven disaster.

Army whistleblower apologizes for any harm done by his release of government information, and asks for opportunity to prove "through actions" that he has more positive things to offer society