Bernie Sanders

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Vermont independent senator and 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders held the largest campaign rally of the primary season so far on Oct.19. It was Sanders’s first campaign rally since he suffered a heart attack earlier this month.

Paranoid Hillary Clinton may have received a lot of cover from her press cronies, but she committed a grave miscalculation when she insinuated that US House Representative Tulsi Gabbard was being groomed to be a Russian asset. TR

Hillary Clinton has smeared Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein as Russian assets, and almost no Democratic politicians are pushing back.…
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Every word a true oneby Thomas NeuburgerAlmost the very definition of corruption is trading money for favors while serving the public interest in public office. Almost, but not quite. There are other definitions, and Zephyr Teachout's "self-serving use of public power for private ends" is still the best.

BERN NOTICE: When You See The Word "Stent" -- Remember Medicare for AllHELLO somebody #MedicareForAll https://t.co/4jpLWv4S8W— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) October 2, 2019

Bagram Air Base in north-central Afghanistan. Note Kandahar, home of Kandahar Air Field, much further south.by Thomas NeuburgerThe U.S. will never leave Afghanistan. Our military is too strong to be driven out by the Taliban, just as U.S.

Tears in the eyes of many at @BernieSanders medical debt town hall in Des Mones [sic]. As attendees tell their stories about ICUs, debt collectors, and coverage denials almost all have said that Sanders is “the only one I can trust” to alleviate their financial emotional burdens pic.twitter.com/rpWWgIXYdU— Cara Korte (@CaraKorte) September 22, 2019

Not only are we not going to have wars between major powers in this era of fascist upsurge (of course, as will be discussed, we shall have other wars), but, by the same token, this fascist upsurge will not burn out through any cataclysmic war. What we are likely to see is a lingering fascism of less murderous intensity, which, when in power, does not necessarily do away with all the forms of bourgeois democracy, does not necessarily physically annihilate the opposition, and may even allow itself to get voted out of power occasionally.

Striking mill workers facing off with National Guardsmen in Greenville, S.C., in 1934. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)by Thomas Neuburger     Power concedes nothing without a demand.      —Frederick DouglassOne of the things I worry about in the coming election is not just whether a progressive will be elected, but whether enough of a progressive will be elected.