Though the political odds still favor Hillary Clinton, her stumbling candidacy and dependence on vast sums of special-interest money reflect the weaknesses of the Democratic Party, which lost its way in the 1980s and 1990s, forgetting its historic role as defender of the little guy, as Michael Brenner explains. By Michael Brenner The Clinton juggernaut…
By demanding a “revolution” to shift power away from Wall Street, Sen. Sanders is attracting millions of young Americans who want fundamental change. He’s also upsetting the Democratic establishment which favors only incremental “reforms” acceptable to corporate interests, as Norman Solomon notes. By Norman Solomon Forty-eight years ago, a serious insurrection jeopardized the power structure of the…
Hillary Clinton is turning up the attacks as the latest polling shows Bernie Sanders dominating early voting states.
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The Democratic National Committee's move will surely benefit Hillary Clinton.
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By Rob Hager | CounterPunch | December 8, 2015 Hillary Clinton was widely quoted telling a handful of Iowans on April 14: “We need to fix our dysfunctional political system and get unaccountable money out of it once and for all — even if it takes a constitutional amendment.” The Washington Post identified this statement […]
By James Petras | November 22, 2015 Over the past few decades, insurgent mass movements reflecting political discontent with the domestic economy and imperialist foreign policy have emerged to challenge the leadership and policies of the Democratic Party (DP). There are good reasons for this: The Democratic Party in power in Congress and the White […]
Nuclear’s greatest hope may be the ‘Clean Power Plan’ By Thomas Overton – POWER magazine– 11/17/2015 Another month, another premature nuclear plant retirement. About two weeks ago, Entergy finally threw in the towel on the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Scriba, N.Y., a move that came as a surprise to exactly no one […]
By SAM HUSSEINI | CounterPunch | July 13, 2007 They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom for trying to change the system from within I’m coming now — I’m coming to reward them First we take Manhattan then we take Berlin — Leonard Cohen Many think they now see through the Democrats’ complicity with […]
By Glen Ford | Black Agenda Report | June 10, 2015 The movement that is emerging under the banner Black Lives Matter is not yet one year old, but it will be dead before it reaches the age of two if the Democratic Party has anything to say about it. The movement’s greatest challenge will […]
