Even though it ultimately failed at the ballot box, the recent campaign for Scottish independence should cheer supporters of the numerous secession movements springing up around the globe.
Even though it ultimately failed at the ballot box, the recent campaign for Scottish independence should cheer supporters of the numerous secession movements springing up around the globe.
Spain has vowed to block the bid for an independence referendum by the leader of Spain's Catalonia region Artur Mas who signed a decree on Saturday authorizing the vote for November 9, supported by hundreds of protesters...
To hear the conventional wisdom here in Great Britain, you'd think that the campaign for Scottish independence had just suffered a complete and permanent defeat.
On September 18, more than 3.6 million Scots cast a ballot answering the question: "Should Scotland be an independent country?" In the weeks leading up to the vote, the leaders of the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat Parties vowed to ced
Friday evening's confrontation started quickly with flares being fired and a "co-ordinated" charge from the Unionist side, who were singing Rule Britannia.
The failed Scottish vote to pull out from the United Kingdom stirred secessionist hopes for some in the United States, where almost a quarter of people are open to their states leaving the union, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
Meanwhile, the Chief Counting Officer declares a recount is forbidden, while footage of ballot stuffing appears to show her actively subverting the integrity of the vote. She has been involved in selecting voting systems for years.
A British businessman is betting nearly $1.5 million (£900,000) that Scotland will vote "no" to independence on Thursday. He stands to collect a profit of about $316,000 (£193,333), if Scotland votes "no."
Scotland and England have not always shared the Pound, and some say a stable currency is Scotland's biggest stumbling block to independence. Historically, Scot money has been more stable anyway.
Will they go or will they stay? That's what the entire world is asking Scotland. Richard Branson himself weighed in on the important subject and had some interesting things to say.
Back when Quebec was weighing secession from Canada, I was a lowly American undergrad living in Montreal. It was an exciting time, since in America we have our railroads torn up and population starved when we secede.
Publisher's Note: Yesterday, 24 August was both my birthday and fortuitously, the day the British burned down the White House and other government edifices through the DC swamp area in 1814.
"Successor to a sinister inheritance, reared among fierce conditions and moving through ferocious times, he supplied those qualities of action and personality without which the foundations of Irish nationhood would not have been re-established."
Yesterday, 24 August was both my birthday and fortuitously, the day the British burned down the White House and other government edifices through the DC swamp area in 1814.
President Obama wants to undo the Hawaii Admissions Act of 1959, and allow Hawaii to return to a sovereign kingdom, run by native Hawaiians. The idea is nothing new. For at least the last ten years, two Democrat senators from Hawaii have tried to pas
Thomas Jefferson, the author of America's July 4, 1776 Declaration of Secession from the British empire, was a lifelong advocate of both the voluntary union of the free, independent, and sovereign states, and of the right of secession.