I saw an old friend the other day. She's for Biden; depressing for me. She bristled when I called the concentration camps concentration camps; depressing for her. Bummer all around.Wednesday night, while my friend and I were bumming each other out, a bill (H.R.
I was considering possibly to vote for Senator Elizabeth Warren in my state’s Democratic Presidential primary, until she made a blatant lie about her record.
Yesterday marked the end of the arbitrary FEC fundraising quarter and every candidate was in a frenzy to get everyone on their mailing lists to part with their money. Some tried to do it by suckering you into their own desperation. Others were more skillful. Elizabeth aWarren, for example, sent out an e-mail Sunday evening absolutely eviscerating Status Quo Joe, without even mentioning his name:
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).
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 →
Elizabeth Warren's Issues page from her campaign website. Do you see anything about Medicare for All, or even about health care?by Thomas NeuburgerDoes presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren support Medicare for All? I mean this as an actual question. I don't know the answer — or I think I know and I'm not sure — and I'd appreciate it if someone pinned her down on this.
In 2008, just as Biden was about the launch another of his 5 or 6 aborted presidential runs, the Texas Monthly asked him-- on video tape (above)-- where he stands on abortion. First words out of his mouth: "It's going to be very difficult [for him as a slimy politician]. I do not view abortion as a choice and a right... I think we should be focussing on how to limit the number of abortions." That's always been his position and that is still his position. "I'm a bit of an odd man out in my party. I do not vote for funding for abortion.
[Prefatory Note: I have had several second thoughts since posting ‘Are the Democrats in a Race to the Bottom’? I continue to worry about the disunity of anti-Trump America, and its danger of giving Americans, and indeed the world, four more years of cruel and dangerous governance almost certain to erode the quality of democracy for decades, but there are several major caveats that qualify this anti-Trump priority.
Corporate media & some politicos who opposed Assange after the 2016 election have radically changed their tune, favorably influencing public opinion after the Espionage Act indictment of the WikiLeak‘s founder, reports Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News…Read more →
Greta is able to see what other people cannot see. She can see carbon dioxide with the naked eye. She sees how it flows out of chimneys and and changes the atmosphere in a landfill.
— Malena Ernman, Scenes from the heart. Our life for the climate (mother of Greta Thunberg),May 3, 2019
If you want to be more ecologically minded, good for you. But don’t be under the bizarre American illusion that your individual action is a substitute for collective action, for systemic change.
— Umair Haque, Medium, May 2019
