Month: October 2020

A stunning new exposé by The Intercept, which includes the publication of classified documents leaked by an intelligence source, provides an unprecedented look at the U.S. military’s secretive global assassination program. Tweets from https://twitter.com/commondreams/lists/drone-papers The series of articles, titled , follows months of investigation and uses rare primary source documents and slides to reveal to…

Bernie Sanders on Wednesday evening slammed U.S. drug policy and called for the lifting of the federal prohibition on marijuana. The presidential hopeful made the remarks at a town hall meeting at George Mason University. “In the United States we have 2.2 million people in jail today, more than any other country. And we’re spending…

“It’s important to speak out against militarism, particularly on Veterans Day, because there are still many people who think opposing militarism and America’s wars means you don’t support the troops or our veterans,” Derek Matthews, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, told Common Dreams on Wednesday. Matthews is just one…

Fresh off his “political revolution” in Iowa, Bernie Sanders is riding high. The senator from Vermont raised $3 million in 24 hours since Monday’s caucus—his biggest single day yet—and, according to a new poll released Wednesday, leads Hillary Clinton by 33 points in New Hampshire, where the next presidential primary will take place on February…

Meghan McCain on Thursday blasted Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhite House accuses Biden of pushing ‘conspiracy theories’ with Trump election claim Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton qualifies to run for county commissioner in Florida MORE’s explanation for her loss in the 2016 presidential election. “I find…

In what one analyst sees as “a really bad mistake,” Hillary Clinton declined to participate in a presidential forum hosted by the 8 million-strong organization MoveOn.org. Click Here: brisbane lions guernsey 2019 Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley did take part in the virtual event in which they…

Law enforcement and a hazmat team are on the scene at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) headquarters in Washington, D.C., which has been partially evacuated on Thursday due to a suspicious piece of mail. CAIR, whose mission is to “enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims,” said on social…

Russia is warming at 2.5 times the global average and faces a dramatic rise in related threats—from floods to fires—the country’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection revealed Friday in its annual report. Click Here: NRL Telstra Premiership “Growth of average temperatures in Russia in 1976-2014 was 0.42 degrees Celsius in 10 years, which is…

Inciting preemptive pushback from advocacy groups, organized labor, and some Democratic lawmakers, President Barack Obama is expected to beat the drum for the corporate-friendly Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in his State of the Union (SOTU) address on Tuesday night. Tweets about #StopTPP #SOTU2016 His sales pitch for the 12-nation “free-trade” deal comes on the heels of…

One member of the militant group that has been carrying out an armed occupation of the Malheur wildlife refuge in Oregon was shot and killed late Tuesday as other members, including leader Amon Bundy, were arrested on federal charges following a confrontation with law enforcement. #oregonstandoff Tweets In addition to Ammon Bundy, said officials, those…