Bernie Sanders

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The corporate media and the political establishment have always loathed Sanders, but this distaste has taken different forms. Sanders supporters would do well not only to scrutinize current opposition strategies but also to be alert to new and dangerous modes of attack. Distaste of Sanders has often […]

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Topsy-Turvy: Corporate Media Depict Bernie Sanders as “Extreme” and the Republican Party as Mainstream!

John Buell

(Informed Comment) – Is a candidate a centrist? This question matters because many voters like to think of themselves as moderates or centrists. Other voters, not heavily engaged in the political process, are responsive to labels. Therefore the candidate who captures the label in the eyes of the corporate media has a leg up. But […]

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Bernie Sanders would ‘Absolutely’ cut Military Aid to Israel to get Two-State Solution

Middle East Monitor

In an interview Sanders was asked whether he would consider using the billions of dollars in military aid from the US to change Israel’s behaviour, to which he replied “absolutely”. Our policy cannot just be pro-Israel pro-Israel pro-Israel. It has got to be pro-region working with all of the people, all of the countries in […]

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Biden vs. Bernie—a Foreign Policy Faceoff

Reese Erlich

Supporters of former Vice President Joe Biden praise him as a man with extensive foreign policy experience. He’s living proof, however, that extensive doesn’t necessarily mean good. Biden reflects the mindset of the previous generation of mainstream Democratic leaders who are out of touch with the anti-interventionist sentiments of most Americans. “We don’t like his […]

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How Bernie Sanders trounced Fox on Medicare for All, and why a Carbon Tax could help Pay for It

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bernie Sanders trounced Fox News on its own turf when he demonstrated that the town hall audience assembled for him by the pro-plutocrat White Nationalist channel was enthusiastic about medicare for all. The Young Turks: “Bernie Schools Fox News on Medicare For All” This outcome should not have surprised anyone, […]

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In Historic Rebuke to Trump, Senate invokes War Powers to Halt US aid to Saudi War on Yemen

Juan Cole

The US Senate voted 54 to 46 to invoke the 1973 War Powers Act and to end US support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen. The Yemen War has involved extensive war crimes, in which the US is complicit. Tens of thousands of people have been killed since the Saudis launched the war in spring […]

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Bernie Sanders returns Palestine to the Center of Political Debate in the US

Middle East Monitor

By Ray Hanania | – Last month, leading Israeli journalist Tal Schneider told a teleconference hosted by Americans for Peace Now that the issue of the occupation and Palestinian rights has almost vanished from the Israeli political conversation. In previous years, it loomed heavy over nearly every election campaign. The shift in Israeli politics has […]

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Democrats Need to Go Bold on Wages, Ed, or Why would their Big Win Matter?

Sam Pizzigati

(Otherwords.org) – Tony Maxwell, a retired African-American naval officer, was trying to get his Jacksonville, Florida neighbor to go vote with him. The young neighbor, a high-school-dropout, had no interest. “Voting,” the young man declared, “doesn’t change anything.” Can Democrats use their newly won House majority to reach that dispirited young man in Jacksonville? That […]

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Yemen War: Bernie Sanders et al. Try to get US Out

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday proposed a bipartisan resolution to take the US Pentagon back out of the Yemen War. The war was declared by Saudi Arabia and its allies in 2015 when Zaydi Shiites of the Helpers of God […]