September 2019

Unsurprisingly, it turns out that people of color (especially women), teachers, Wal-Mart employees, Amazon employees, and Starbucks employees — those suffering most under neoliberalism’s decades-long assault on our society — are Bernie Sanders’s biggest supporters… and they’ve come out to support him in record numbers! While the establishment smears and marginalizes him, regular, working-class Americans love Bernie Sanders and clamor… Read More »THE ONLY CAMPAIGN WITH MORE INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS THAN DONALD TRUMP…

(I didn’t think so.) So, why should we embrace the same process — initiated by a Bush administration holdover — when it’s led us to a new Cold War with Russia? (We shouldn’t.) In the early 2000’s, Dick “Dark Side” Cheney requested “raw” intelligence — unvetted by analysts, kept secret from the professionals — to cherry-pick the claims that supported… Read More »DID TODAY’S LIBERALS LOVE THE SECRETIVE, CORRUPT PROCESS THAT LED US TO WAR IN IRAQ?

Enact Universal Healthcare for California just NUKED ME for criticizing their group’s endorsement of Sen. Warren — which blatantly misrepresents her (ever-waffling) position on Medicare-for-All. Here’s the comment that got me censored and prevented from even “Liking” their posts: I find it hard to believe that Enact Universal Healthcare for California is defending this longtime establishment stalwart and enemy of… Read More »HOW’S THIS FOR COMMITMENT TO OPEN, CIVIL DISCOURSE? (CENSORED AGAIN…)

With the rise of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders is apparently getting desperate to raise his profile. That he would stoop to recording a music video — a cover, no less — is actually a bit sad, but here it is…

But that’s precisely the argument that was posited, recently, by a mainstream Democrat at a progressive news-hub I regularly visit. Although the commenter’s post includes the concession that Clinton is “far from a pacifist,” they nonetheless insisted that describing the former First Lady, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of State as a “war mongerer” is a left-wing delusion — the result… Read More »HILLARY CLINTON “WARMONGER” IS HARDLY A “RUSSIAN SMEAR”