PBC News & Comment: Tulsi Confronts the Clinton Cult

Many Democrats embraced and amplified Clinton’s smears of Gabbard, as Tulsi responds with attacks on warmongers and Democratic rot….--Friday night on CNN, Van Jones firmly denounced Clinton’s evidence-free attacks
PBC invites Bay Area listeners to attend an ACLU panel discussion this Thursday, October 24.  Details here
--Gabbard seizes the opening, and punches back a bit too far
--Matt Taibbi gets it right at Rolling Stone
--new Iowa poll shows Buttigieg moving into 3rd place
--“Bernie is back”, holds big Brooklyn rally with AOC endorsing
--Julian Castro says he will bail from race unless he can raise $800k in 10 days
--Robert Reich is tired of the pack of candidates, wants to thin the herd pronto, but PBC doesn’t agree
--GOP House members lead meaningless effort to censure Adam Schiff, as Pelosi and Schiff spent the weekend in Mideast and Afghanistan
--Benjamin Netanyahu gives up on forming a government in Israel, opponent Benny Gantz gets a chance now
--confusion in Syria, as US withdrawal proceeds but Pentagon says we will keep 200 troops in northeast Syria to protect oil fields
--Turkey’s Erdogan goes public with his desire to obtain nuclear weapons
--did Parliament listen to half million London protesters when it delayed Brexit to January?
--weekend protests continued in Hong Kong, as new protests erupt in Beirut and Santiago
--Trump holds his cabinet hostage as he rants to reporters, denouncing the Emoluments Clause after withdrawing plan to host G7 at his Miami hotel
--Facebook discloses new disinformation campaigns from Iran and Russia
--Trump’s investigation of the Mueller investigation is moving along, according to secret sources of the NY Times
--in court appearance, Julian Assange seems shaky and disoriented
--white collar drug dealers who profited from opioids make initial settlement in Cleveland court