Bernie Sanders

Donna Brazile bombshell alleges DNC served as fundraising piggy bank for Clinton

Bannon must go, but after that, Protesters should listen to Bernie

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Steve Bannon ran, and is still likely pulling the strings at, Breitbart, the “Stormfront” in a business suit with a skinny tie. Bannon once characterized it as enabling what he called the “alt right,” by which he meant a slightly more presentable version of the skinheads, […]

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Will reaction against Trump on Health Care lead to Medicare for All?

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By Ann Jones. | (via Tomdispatch.com ) | – – You may have noticed that quite a few of the formerly united states of America have been choosing to go their own way. My own state, Massachusetts, now blooms with sanctuary cities sworn to protect residents from federal intrusion. Its attorney general, Maura Healey, was […]

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Bernie Sanders Talks Dems, Trump, Palestine, Syria (AJ+)

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Dena Takruri | (AJ+) | (Video News report) | – – “Senator Bernie Sanders unfiltered – in this AJ+ interview with Dena Takruri, he opens up about the Democratic Party, President Trump, Palestine and Syria.” AJ+: “Bernie Sanders Talks Democrats, President Trump, Palestine And Syria”

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Trumpcare is the best Advertisement for Nationalizing Insurance

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The sadism and greed of the American Republican Party was on full display Thursday, as the House GOP voted to destroy Obamacare and remove the coverage for pre-existing conditions (50 million Americans suffer from them). Oh, this sabotage is camouflaged, but the way Trumpcare would work […]

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From Bernie Sanders to Harel: Why is Acknowledging Israeli Apartheid a Shock?

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – On Monday, Bernie Sanders gave a historic speech at J Street, the liberal pro-Israel lobby that still believes in a two state solution. The lying roll of soiled toilet paper that is Breitbart (Trump’s party organ) reported with horror that Sanders had addressed an “anti-Israel” group. […]

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Is the answer to Alt-NeoNazism Bernie’s Democratic Socialism?

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TeleSur | – – Maria Svart of DSA speaks to teleSUR about how her organization is using Sanders’ vision to fight Trump and neoliberalism within the Democratic party. While the U.S. has lost its chance at having arguably its first ever progressive president, Bernie Sanders, one group wants to capitalize on his political revolution and […]

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Sanders: Trump’s Dangerous Nukes Talk Must be Challenged

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By Jon Queally, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – ‘Presidents, Republicans and Democrats, have understood that our goal must be to reduce the number of nuclear weapons, not expand them.’ Deriding President-elect Donald Trump as the ‘Twitter-in-Chief,’ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said recent comments on a nuclear arms race must be challenged by members […]

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Now is the time to remember Bernie Sanders: Can a new Political Center yet Emerge?

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Joseph Saltarelli | (Huffington Post) | – – “[Jill] to the left of me, [Hillary] to the right, Here I am, stuck in the middle with you” – Adapted from Stealers Wheel Amid all the “sound and fury” of the Clinton-Trump spectacle, what of Bernie Sanders and his “political revolution”? Given its disappointing and dispiriting […]