Only Bernie and Tulsi walked the walk in 2016, says John V. Walsh. By John V. Walsh Dissident Voice The current round of presidential debates is packed with plans, programs, promises, claims and counter-claims. The question, as always, is which candidates…Read more →
RT CrossTalk host Peter Lavelle and The Duran’s Alex Christoforou discuss the second round of Democrat debates in Detroit, hosted by CNN, where the first leg featured 10 candidates, including Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
According to the Hill, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang took a shot at his Democratic rivals appearing in Tuesday night’s primary debate, likening the event to a “boring football game.”
Gore Vidal once remarked that the United States has only one political party with two right wings. At the risk of betraying my own political bias: I couldn’t agree more! Still, maybe 2020 will be different?
It is increasingly clear that the wagons have circled both in the Democratic National Committee and in the news media to shut down any possibility of a national health plan as proposed by Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) or Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
In the late 1850s, the United States experienced a political realignment when the Whig Party disbanded and many of its members including Abraham Lincoln joined the nascent Republican Party because of the betrayal of the Whig leadership over the issue of slavery and its extension.
American politics may be poised for a similar realignment today as popular disaffection with the two major parties and their domination by corporate money and interests increases. Polls show that 57 percent of Americans want a major new party, including 71 percent of millennials.
“We oppose Netanyahu, we love Jews, that’s the message”: Former The Labour Party MP #GeorgeGalloway discusses Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Sanders and anti-Semitism.
Donald J. Trump’s 2020 election strategy is to connect his potential Democratic opponents with “socialism.” Trump plans to use this attack on the Democrats even if Senator Bernie Sanders, who proudly calls himself a “democratic socialist,” doesn’t become the presidential nominee (Sanders has been decisively re-elected in Vermont).
New York Times response to Donald Trump's attack on the Times story revealing recent U.S. cyber-attacks against Russiaby Thomas NeuburgerThe New York Times has just admitted that it clears national security stories with the government before it publishes them.
Sam Husseini takes a look at some some of the candidates who will be getting national TV attention. By Sam Husseini Special to Consortium News Following the rigging of the 2016 Democratic presidential primary process in favor of Hillary Clinton…Read more →
