Democrats
Democrats Confirm Torturer As Director Of CIA
By Paul Craig Roberts
May 19, 2018
How did a person who should be in the criminal dock both in the US and in the International...
Divided on Strikes, Democrats and Republicans Press for Clearer Syria Strategy
By NICHOLAS FANDOS
APRIL 14, 2018
WASHINGTON — Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill offered varying degrees of support for the airstrikes on Friday night...
Sanders and the Empire
by Nick Pemberton
January 31, 2018
The au courant merch for the 2020 Presidential election begins and ends with the “Hindsight Is 2020” Bernie t-shirts. The...
Noam Chomsky: Neoliberalism Is Destroying Our Democracy
How elites on both sides of the political spectrum have undermined our social, political, and environmental commons.
By Christopher Lydon
For 50 years, Noam Chomsky, has...
Wall Street, media celebrate Trump’s address to Congress
By Patrick Martin
Original posted: 2 March 2017
Wall Street celebrated Donald Trump’s Tuesday speech to a joint session of Congress—in which he promised massive tax...
The myth of the reactionary white working class
The most significant statistic from 2016’s election is the massive drop in support for both the Democratic and Republican candidates. While uncounted votes from California may slightly alter these figures, Hillary Clinton received about ten million fewer votes than Barack Obama did eight years ago. Trump, who lost the popular vote while winning the electoral vote,
Bernie Sanders: Where the Democrats Go From Here
Millions of Americans registered a protest vote on Tuesday, expressing their fierce opposition to an economic and political system that puts wealthy and corporate interests over their own. I strongly supported Hillary Clinton, campaigned hard on her behalf, and believed she was the right choice on Election Day. But Donald J. Trump won the White House because his
Nothing revolutionary about Sanders’ “Our Revolution”
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders launched the successor organization to his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination with the rollout August 24 of “Our Revolution.” Despite the pretentious name and the slick video introduction on the group’s web site, there is nothing revolutionary about Our Revolution.
US political establishment – crisis of legitimacy
The political establishment in the U.S. is rapidly moving toward a crisis of legitimacy as capitalist democracy is exposed as a system of insider dealing where war, manufactured social misery and environmental catastrophe are ever-more-implausibly posed as solutions to their own facts. With growing evidence, as if any more were needed, Democratic
Three wins for Sanders
Caucus victories in Alaska, Hawaii, and Washington cap a week where the senator won six of seven contests.
“Don’t let anyone tell you we can’t...