Politics

In less than a week, the population of the United Kingdom will vote in a referendum to decide whether the country will REMAIN in or LEAVE the European Union.  The campaign has been bitterly fought with the governing Conservative Party,…

On Thursday, in a political act more typical of the United States than Europe, a member of the British Parliament was murdered. She was an opponent of Brexit (Britain exiting the European Union), and her murderer reportedly shouted “Britain First!”…

This post may be updated as new information becomes available… Details remain incomplete and unconfirmed, but some witness accounts suggest murder may have been politically motivated by Jon Queally, staff writer for Common Dreams British Labour Party MP Jo Cox…

If there was a lottery where the winner could choose place of birth today and if that winner had some sense they would very likely end up not as a U.S. billionaire’s child (much less a random U.S. child), but…

By George Monbiot for The Guardian The EU is a festering cesspool. But it’s a crystal spring compared with what the outers want to do – surrender Britain’s sovereignty to the United States What it’s about is not what it’s…

Hillary Clinton has won the final Democratic primary in Washington, D.C. Clinton met with rival Bernie Sanders for nearly two hours Tuesday night. In statements afterwards, the campaigns said they had agreed to work together on a “progressive agenda” for…

George Orwell, the author of “Animal Farm” and “1984”, was the first person to use the phrase “Cold War” in a 1945 newspaper article, written just after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He argued that “the surface of…

‘We reject attempts to perpetuate hatred against our LGBTQ communities as well as our Muslim communities’ by Nadia Prupis, staff writer for Common Dreams In the wake of Sunday’s horrific mass shooting in Orlando, LGBTQ Muslims are speaking out with…

Podemos could unseat the long-established Socialist party for the first time in modern Spanish history by Nadia Prupis, staff writer for Cormmon Dreams Spain’s leftist political coalition, led by the anti-austerity party Podemos, is making new gains in the polls…

The night before the California primary the media announced that the race had already been won – by Hillary Clinton, but, as Bernie Sanders’spokesman Michael Briggs declared “Hillary Clinton does not have and will not have the requisite number of pledged…