Published originally at Common Dreams on March 18, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license Near the end of this month, from March 27 to 28, the European Gas Conference (EGC) organized by Energy Council takes place in Vienna. This is…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 17, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license How did we get here? 20 years after the U.S.-led invasion of the sovereign nation of Iraq, we still refuse to reckon with the…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 17, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license Protests in Paris and across France have ramped up since President Emmanuel Macron’s government on Thursday used a controversial constitutional measure to force through a pension…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 16, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license Climate defenders on Thursday applauded the Justice Department’s move to support communities suing a pair of oil companies by urging the U.S. Supreme Court…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 16, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license Three environmental groups on Thursday filed a 30-day notice of their intent to sue the Biden administration for refusing to respond to a petition to wind…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 16, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license As the U.S. Senate on Thursday teed up a vote to end the congressional authorizations for the Gulf and Iraq wars, President Joe Biden…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 15, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license As the 20th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq approaches, a leading research institute on Wednesday said that “the total costs…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 15, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license Environmental groups filed two separate lawsuits on Tuesday and Wednesday to fight the Biden administration’s decision to approve a massive fossil fuel drilling project…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 15, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license A vanishingly short period of relief in U.S. and global markets was shattered Wednesday after the scandal-plagued Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse announced that its auditor identified “material…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 15, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license U.S. federal regulators on Wednesday approved the first major railroad merger in more than two decades, a move that follows the East Palestine rail…