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Labour Party Calls on U.K. Government to Condemn Donald Trump’s Refusal to Concede

Labour Party Calls on U.K. Government to Condemn Donald Trump’s Refusal to Concede

The United Kingdom's Labour Party leadership has called on Downing Street to condemn President Donald Trump's refusal to concede the…

3 years ago

Islamic No-Go Zones Are a Myth but “Nazi-Controlled Zones” Are a Thing

"An MP has highlighted the growth in far-right extremism in the UK, saying young neo-Nazis are becoming a bigger problem…

7 years ago

What Great Recession? Wall Street Remains Unoccupied By Ethics

Nearly seven years after the American economy foundered under the worst global recession since World War II, it seems nothing…

9 years ago

Not Only The Great War But Our Perceptions of it Have Created Our Modern World

The Great War has cast a long shadow and we are living with its effects today, as much from the…

9 years ago

Friday Fox Follies – The “F” Words

Now we now know for certain what station Bobby "The Party of Stupid" Jindal watches. Jindal's repeating of Fox's debunked…

9 years ago

Facts Are In A No-Go Zone For GOP Presidential Hopeful Bobby Jindal

Bobby Jindal repeating the European no-go zones myth, reminds us that he has never had a close relationship with the…

9 years ago

The Possibility of Obama Successfully Negotiating with Iran has GOP Freaking Out

Only Republicans would see a war slipping through their fingers as a loss, and losing this chance is almost too…

9 years ago

Friday Fox Follies – Angels With Dirty Faces

While you were sleeping Fox News and Dish Network Have Reached a Deal. This truce came after Fox News goes…

9 years ago

Welcome to the Age of Authoritarianism – Sponsored by the 1 Percent

The 21st century is seeing the spread of the authoritarian principle that far from being the origin of authority, people…

9 years ago

Giving Thanks And Keeping It Real

In our complex, contemporary America, finding reasons to give thanks, especially in wake of Ferguson, are becoming more and more…

9 years ago

The World Wakes Haggis-Free, But Gay People Walk Among Us

The threat of oil-engorged Scottish armies marching roughshod over Europe and from there across the Atlantic to force a steady…

10 years ago

While Talking About Right Wing Extremism in Europe, Let’s Not Forget Our Own

The mainstream media loves to talk about right wing extremism in Europe while ignoring our own, who are more a…

10 years ago

Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings

Craig L. Symonds' Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings, is not a blow-by-blow account of the…

10 years ago

Got Cancer? Got a Million in the Bank?

My story is about the giant life and death rip-off that is the retail costs of cancer medications. The nitty…

10 years ago

Progressive House Members Stand In Solidarity With Striking Fast Food Workers

On Thursday, thousands of fast food workers across the nation walked out on their shifts to protest the low wages…

10 years ago

British Government Approved The Sale of Chemicals That Syria Used to Make Nerve Gas

It is now reported that 10 months after civil unrest in Syria began, England allowed at least one chemical firm…

11 years ago

Obama’s Decision to Get Congressional Approval Gives Sanity a Chance

War should be a matter for sober reflection, not knee-jerk reactions, and the president should be praised for opening the…

11 years ago

Mark Sanford Sinks His Own House Campaign. Can Elizabeth Colbert-Busch Take Advantage?

More troubles for South Carolina's 1st Congressional District candidate, Mark Sanford. He'll face a judge after his special election. This…

11 years ago

America’s Capitalism Has Embraced White Slaves as Well as Black

American capitalism supported white indentured servitude before and alongside black slavery and relinquished it only reluctantly.

11 years ago

Republican Austerity Cultists Chant Their Spending Cuts Mantra As They Sink the Economy

One can say with confidence that when Republicans find an economic policy that fails, they are duty-bound to repeat it…

11 years ago

The civil war in Syria may be coming to a head as negotiations urged

The Syrian civil war drags on. Russia is sending ships and marines to Syria and both the U.S. and Russia…

11 years ago

Why America Needs a Left

In Why America Needs a Left, Eli Zaretsky makes a case for a 'hard' left, something beyond either progressivism or…

11 years ago

The New York Stock Exchange is being sold, but the game’s the same

An obscure investment player of many years experience has emerged to buy the NYSE. He's a big derivatives guy with…

11 years ago

In South Carolina the stampede is on to replace DeMint

Jim DeMint is leaving the Senate to take over the Presidency of the Heritage Foundation. Another extremist will undoubtedly take…

11 years ago

Former bin Laden Hideout Pakistan is the Only Country that Prefers Romney

In a poll of countries around the world, President Obama is preferred to Romney in 20 of the 21 countries…

11 years ago

What History Says About Romney’s Conservative Anglo-Saxon Parochialism

Romney's parochial GOP attitudes seem to give him an almost childlike understanding of a world that represents the evils of…

12 years ago

Mitt Romney’s Magical Mystery European Disaster Tour Launches by Insulting Britain

Romney insulted Britain by questioning their readiness to host the Olympic games, which enraged PM Cameron, and then gaffed and…

12 years ago

Why You Should Care About LIBOR

What the LIBOR scandal is and why you should care about it.

12 years ago

3 Disturbing Finds From Digging Deeply Into Mitt Romney’s Tax Return

Odd foreign investments, sleazy family businesses, and questionable blind trust funding sources are just three of the disturbing elements found…

12 years ago

Game On: President Obama’s Buffett Rule Versus Bush-Romney

George Bush is back to remind everyone that he “dramatically raised the deficit”. Lawrence O’Donnell observed that Bush’s appearance is…

12 years ago

As Obama Runs For a Second Term Racism Takes Center Stage

The hope for a post racial America has been crushed as racism is front and center in the recent news…

12 years ago

How the Republican War Machine Has Lied to America About Iran

The imminent threat from Iran that Republicans like to fear monger about has existed since Ronald Reagan, and the surest…

12 years ago

PM Cameron Praises Obama’s Tough, Reasonable Approach to Iran

Today during their live press conference, UK Prime Minister Cameron praised President Obama on his Iran strategy, saying Obama’s "tough,…

12 years ago

Are Britain and Argentina Headed for Falkland Islands War Redux?

Argentina is demanding the "return" of the Falkand Islands, which are British territory and inhabited by English-speaking British citizens.

12 years ago

Islam4UK and a Holy War of Words

Yes, I know it’s a surprise. Fundamentalist Christians hate Islam and well…fundamentalist Muslims hate Christianity. We have seen this dynamic…

13 years ago