When war crimes are committed, we will report them. When civilians are targeted or killed, we will give voice to those who condemn it.

Friend,

Like many of you, we remain glued to our screens, watching the ongoing attack on Gaza with broken hearts—just as we woke up on October 7 horrified at the violence in southern Israel and what we knew it would unleash.

Here at Common Dreams, we are committed to reporting the facts without shading the truth to favor one side over the other.

Because in this time of war, as always, we stand on the side of peace and universal human rights.

When war crimes are committed, we will report them. When civilians are targeted or killed, we will give voice to those who condemn it. We don’t believe in selective empathy and refuse to accept trite narratives that portray one side as wholly good and the other as purely evil.

You simply will not get our kind of reporting from the corporate media. Therefore, if you believe in truly independent journalism—fact-based reporting committed to those universal and unwavering values—now is the time to support Common Dreams.

Our Fall Campaign is underway, and we simply cannot continue this work without the backing from readers like you who recognize the importance of such journalism in these terrible times.