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Friday, 16 June 2017 - 11:08pm
Jon Queally, staff writer
Though the country's foreign minister later said there was not "100 percent confirmation," the Russian military on Friday claimed it may have killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State (ISIS), with an airstrike in Syria last month.
Friday, 16 June 2017 - 11:07pm
Jake Johnson, staff writer
In a move signaling marked escalation of a war that has spanned nearly 16 years, a Trump administration official told the Associated Press on Thursday that an additional 4,000 troops will be sent to Afghanistan. An official announcement is expected to come next week.
Friday, 16 June 2017 - 9:02am
A once respected national newspaper, desperate for clickbait, has resorted to some rather bizarre explanations for UK universities' recent performance in international league tables. Andrew McRae kindly answered the call to take them to task.
The post ‘Blame the poor, not Brexit’ appeared first on Wonkhe.
Friday, 16 June 2017 - 9:01am
Let’s not forget those universities which were either named after bands or perhaps provided the inspiration for the naming of popular beat combos. The list is longer than you think.
The post Rock & Enrol: Universities named after bands appeared first on Wonkhe.
Friday, 16 June 2017 - 7:12am
Michael Winship
US Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions spent Tuesday afternoon up on Capitol Hill trying out his new one-man show based on Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind.
In performance before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sessions alternated between the roles of Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler, at one moment playing the testy yet coquettish belle shocked — shocked! — at having one’s integrity impugned, defending his Southern honor “against scurrilous and false allegations.”
Friday, 16 June 2017 - 6:29am
Today, Greenpeace USA launched a summer-long initiative to educate thousands of people across the country in the basics of non-violent direct action. The “Summer of Resistance” tour will visit more than a dozen sites across the country, with a focus on “distributed organizing” meant to inspire 100 peaceful creative actions across the country.
Friday, 16 June 2017 - 6:10am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
While the Trump administration remains embroiled in scandals of its own making and continues to blunder forward seemingly without direction, Republicans have their collective gaze fixed on a prize they have coveted for years: complete domination of the judiciary.
This goal, thanks to years of obstructionism, may be just on the horizon.
Friday, 16 June 2017 - 4:45am
Ken Kimmell
President Trump’s disgraceful decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement has an unintended silver lining — within days of the announcement, a large and growing group of governors, mayors, and university and business leaders have vowed to compensate for federal abdication with climate change policies of their own.
Friday, 16 June 2017 - 4:19am
John Nichols
With a clenched fist held high and the promise of a “movement of the people,” Chokwe Antar Lumumba asked the voters of Jackson, Mississippi, to elect him as their mayor in a race he pledged would lead to the transformation of a Deep South city in a deep-red state. Victory for his civil-rights-inspired, labor-backed campaign for economic and social justice would “send shock waves around the world,” said the 34-year-old human-rights lawyer as he vowed to make Jackson “the most progressive city in the country.”
Friday, 16 June 2017 - 4:06am
Steven Harper
The legal principles are straightforward. Anyone who corruptly endeavors to influence, obstruct or impede a federal investigation or judicial process commits a felony. And no person is above the law — not even the president. The simplicity of those notions has become lost.
Friday, 16 June 2017 - 3:52am
Adam Johnson
Senate Republicans have been quietly working to eliminate Obamacare while avoiding media attention—and major papers and television news are playing along.
"The moves being made now in almost total secrecy may not have the sexy visual qualities of a Warriors NBA title or protests in Russia, but they will be, for the vast majority of Americans, far more consequential."
Friday, 16 June 2017 - 3:41am
American Federation of Government Employees
In response to today’s testimony from Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt about the proposed budget for the agency in 2018, American Federation of Government Employees National President J. David Cox Sr. issued the following statement:
Friday, 16 June 2017 - 3:32am
Friday, 16 June 2017 - 3:03am
John Atcheson
"The Democratic Party must finally understand which side it is on …" —Sen. Bernie Sanders addressing The People's Summit
There’s a war on for the soul of the Democratic Party. On one side are the neoliberal elitists who make up the establishment wing of the party – many of whom pose as progressives every two to four years or so – on the other are the real progressives.
Friday, 16 June 2017 - 2:50am
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Ohio, and the employment law firm Outten & Golden LLP today filed a discrimination charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of a J.P. Morgan Chase employee who claims the company discriminated against him and other fathers by denying fathers paid parental leave on the same terms as mothers.
Friday, 16 June 2017 - 2:48am
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe won a significant victory today in its fight to protect the Tribe’s drinking water and ancestral lands from the Dakota Access pipeline.
Friday, 16 June 2017 - 1:56am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
As the death toll from the horrific and "unprecedented" fire that engulfed London's Grenfell Tower on Wednesday continues to climb, some are highlighting the institutional and economic reasons behind the devastation amid concerns that frequent safety warnings were ignored by the British government.
Friday, 16 June 2017 - 1:55am
Common Dreams staff
Just days after President Donald Trump publicly scolded Qatar for being a "high level" exporter of regional terrorism in the Middle East, its government announced Wednesday the signing of a deal to buy $12 billion worth of F-15 fighter jets from U.S. weapons makers.
Friday, 16 June 2017 - 1:16am
Karen Greenberg
“This is a war against normal life.” So said CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward, describing the situation at this moment in Syria, as well as in other parts of the Middle East. It was one of those remarks that should wake you up to the fact that the regions the United States has, since September 2001, played such a role in destabilizing are indeed in crisis, and that this process isn’t just taking place at the level of failing states and bombed-out cities, but in the most personal way imaginable.
Friday, 16 June 2017 - 12:18am
Jon Queally, staff writer
"To Trump, this is something 'they' did to him. In reality, of course, this is something Trump did to himself...so long as he sees his problems as the product of an unfair 'WITCH HUNT,' he will continue to see his reckless, enraged reactions as a reasonable response, and so will continue destabilizing his presidency."