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Friday, 9 June 2017 - 11:27pm
Richard Eskow
If you needed a new stove or refrigerator, you wouldn’t give the keys to your kitchen to Olive Garden, then pay them to let you eat. You’d be opening your wallet for the rest of your life. Unfortunately, that’s the kind of logic Donald Trump and his party are using to give away our shared wealth.
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 11:04pm
George Zornick
One of the biggest stars of Thursday’s blockbuster Senate Intelligence Committee hearing was a man who wasn’t there: Robert Mueller, a former FBI director who is now serving as special counsel overseeing investigations into the Trump campaign’s potential dealings with Russian officials.
"Comey made it clear, without using the words 'obstruction of justice,' that he personally believes it occurred."
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 10:51pm
Jesselyn Radack
Reality Winner, the 25-year-old Air Force veteran and NSA contractor charged with mailing classified material to a news outlet, is a classic whistleblower. She hasn’t claimed that mantle, which is understandable given America’s love-hate relationship with whistleblowers. They are alternately celebrated and denounced, depending on who has the microphone and who has the power.
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 10:27pm
Jon Queally, staff writer
Despite failing to win an outright majority of seats in Parliament in Thursday's snap-election, British Prime Minister Theresa and her Conservative party looked determined to cling to power despite results that stripped them of the strong mandate they sought ahead of upcoming Brexit negotiations.
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 10:26pm
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Responding to the results of the U.K. election, which commentators have already deemed a "political upset" for the ages and a stunning backfire for Prime Minister Theresa May, Sen.
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 5:24pm
As the results of the general election start to trickle in, Mark Leach takes a look at the high drama in many university seats.
The post The morning after – election results, university seats and what’s next appeared first on Wonkhe.
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 1:08pm
Jon Queally, staff writer
As it looked as though the U.K. election might be heading towards shocking results and a hung Parliament, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called on Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May to resign while declaring his party's campaign "has changed the face of British politics."
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 8:21am
Jon Queally, staff writer
"It's hard to imagine a bill that could do more broad-based damage to the future economic security of America’s working families."
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 7:24am
This afternoon the House took a disappointing step backward when they voted to repeal substantial portions of the Dodd-Frank Act. In response Chair of the Patriotic Millionaires Morris Pearl, former managing director at BlackRock Inc., issued the following statement:
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 7:04am
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 6:17am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 6:15am
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Friday, 9 June 2017 - 5:53am
James Comey’s testimony confirms that Donald Trump tried to obstruct justice. That is an impeachable offense. Impeachment takes time but we need to start the process now. It’s time to call for impeachment hearings.
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 5:49am
Neema Singh Guliani
President Trump thinks surveillance is just “terrible.”
“You look at the extent of surveillance,” he laments. “Me and so many other people, it’s terrible.”
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 5:43am
The Yemeni people are on the brink of famine after two years of conflict. In this time, millions of people have been displaced from their homes. And without adequate access to medical supplies or facilities, every ten minutes a child dies in Yemen due to preventable disease.
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 4:43am
Robert C. Koehler
“Tell them, I want everybody to know, I want everybody on the train to know, I love them... ”
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 4:40am
Peter Bloom
On April 18 the newly selected Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May called a general election for June 8th, declaring it "the only way to guarantee certainty for the years ahead." This was a complete reversal from her previous promise not to hold an election. For the cynics, this U-turn (the first of what would prove to be many) was based on her huge advantage in the polls.
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 4:09am
Today the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia heard arguments in the case of Jessica Colotl, a Georgia DREAMer whose protections under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) were suddenly and arbitrarily revoked by the Trump administration.
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 3:12am
Common Dreams staff
During the final half of his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee—in which he has already taken the "unbelievable, unprecedented" step of calling the President of the United States a liar under oath—former FBI Director James Comey continued to answer questions regarding his knowledge of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 3:04am
Jon Queally, staff writer
As former FBI Director James Comey offered scathing testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) went on the record to defend President Donald Trump and argued that what the director perceived as an attempt to create a "patronage relationship" should instead be viewed as the behavior of a president who just didn't know any better.
"The president's new at this," Ryan said. "He's new to government."
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 2:18am
Ben Norton
Millions of people across the United Kingdom are voting in an early general election on June 8.
For the first time in several decades, voters have the possibility of electing a staunch left-wing prime minister, Jeremy Corbyn. The popular and subversive Labour leader, a longtime anti-war activist and party outsider, has pledged to boost public spending, to nationalize utilities and railroads, and to halt imperialist military policies abroad.
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 1:44am
Nomi Prins
Donald, listen, whatever you’ve done so far, whatever you’ve messed up, there’s one thing you could do that would make up for a lot. It would be huge! Terrific! It could change our world for the better in a big-league way! It could save us all from economic disaster! And it isn’t even hard to grasp or complicated to do. It’s simple, in fact. Reinstitute the Glass-Steagall Act. Let me explain.
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 1:20am
Joan Chittister
There's a pall hanging over the country these days. And it's everywhere.
It colors every news article, of course.
But, it's not only the news that's been tainted by the non-majority election of a president and the appointment of an "alt-right" cabinet. It's on the comedy shows, too — an even more serious blow to the national psyche. Without comedy that has something more to laugh at than simply ridicule what is, where can the soul go to breathe again?
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 1:13am
Charles P. Pierce
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 1:12am
Common Dreams staff
"The #ComeyHearings are showing Americans in real time what the felony of Obstruction of Justice looks like."
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 12:52am
Robert Reich
Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) is already drafting articles of impeachment related to Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, believing there’s enough evidence of Trump’s obstruction of justice to begin an impeachment inquiry (not to mention Trump’s blatant violation of the Constitutions emoluments clause by profiting off his presidency, and much else).
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 12:36am
Liz Ryan Murray
“Wall Street wrote their wish list, and to Congress they’re flocking:
But this Christmas in June, let’s put coal in their stocking!”
Republicans in the House want make the deepest desires of Wall Street sharpies, loan sharks and big banks come true. They are poised to vote on what they call the “CHOICE Act,” which is in fact the most extreme pro-Wall Street, anti-consumer bill this country has ever seen.