Brexit

  Jun 26, 2016 The meaning of Brexit – the bigger picture. UK voters have rejected the EU and, importantly, they have rejected the political status quo. Today, sovereignty and

21st Century Wire says…
Here it is, the complete first debate in parliament since the vote.
Watch all the action right here as David Cameron faces a myriad of questions on the UK’s future post-Brexit vote.

Perhaps Jeremy Corbyn genuinely thought he could bring all factions of the Labour Party together or perhaps he felt he just didn't have the power to cast the Blairites out, but after he was elected party leader, he formed a shadow cabinet filled with his political enemies.

John Pilger
The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking oligarchy and the media.

(ANTIMEDIA) United Kingdom — Since Thursday evening’s historic Brexit vote, things are changing as fast as mud is being slung. While victorious British ‘leavers’ feel they’ve been snatched from the jaws of the Brussels’ elite, the ‘remains’ believe they just swapped one set of faceless bureaucrats for another. The only thing certain is that the intense divisions in the U.K.

Brexit boogie, looting art and policing protests + this day in history w/Blair resigns and our song of the day by DJ Shadow on your Morning Monarchy for June 27, 2016.

St. Petersburg seems more Lenin-friendly than Moscow-- or at least not all hung up about him. I've felt more in touch with him here than I did on my two sojourns through the capital, including when I visited his bizarrely preserved corpse in Red Square, which appeared to be a plastic doll with a painted on mustache...

By Nick Griffin The people of Britain are about to become the next victims of the ‘Coloured Revolution’ tactics used by Washington and Brussels against democratically elected governments from Serbia

Besides the Brexit rejection of U.S.-style neoliberal economics, some European voices are protesting, finally, the U.S.-led, anti-Russian propaganda campaign that has justified an expensive new Cold War, notes Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria A significant crack has been unexpectedly opened in the wall…Read more →

The Brexit vote, like Donald Trump’s campaign, is less a populist uprising against the elites than a contest of one elite over another in manipulating popular sentiments, argues ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. By Paul R. Pillar Some explanations for…Read more →