Before I jump into this, there are a few items I’d like to make clear upfront…. First, I truly believe that any candidate still standing in the Democratic field would be a dramatic improvement over Donald Trump, and I intend to support whomever it is that comes out of the convention with the nomination. My […]
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The big take-aways from Super Tuesday
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2016, 2020, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Bros, Bernie Sanders, coalition building, conspiracy theories, Dan Pfeifer, Democratic National Committee, democratic primary, dirtbag left, DNC, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, Ezra Klein, get out the vote, Hillary Clinton, Jim Clyburn, Joe Biden, Latino voters, low-propensity voters, Marianne Williamson, Michael Bloomberg, Nathan J Robinson, Pete Buttigieg, Presidential politics, primary elections, rigged elections, Shaun King, South Carolina, Super Tuesday, swing states, the black vote, voter turnout 115 Comments
Discussing what the election results reveal about the changing political landscape of Michigan with former head of the Michigan Democratic Party Mark Brewer, exploring what future holds with State Reps Yousef Rabhi and Jeff Irwin, and talking about the recent rise in racial intimidation with the ACLU’s Mark Fancher… on this weekend’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack
Like me, I suspect a lot of you are still a bit shellshocked, trying to make sense of Trump’s victory this past Tuesday night, and what it’s going to mean for us as a people going forward. If you’re like me, your somewhat paralyzed by the magnitude of it all, wondering how you’re going to […]
Chris Hedges on why Occupy Wall Street could “bring them all down”
It takes a concerted effort on my part not to post videos here every night of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges. As I just posted video of him a few days ago, I hate to do it again, but, once you see this video of the former New York Times war correspondent being interviewed […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, History, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Anthony Bologna, Berlin Wall, Charlie Rangel, Chris Hedges, corporate media, corporate takeover of politics, corporatocracy, coup d’état, East Germany, Eastern Europe, intifada, leaderless movements, Leipzig, MoveOn, New York, non-hierarchical structure, Occupy Wall Street, Prague, revolution, Slobodan Milošević, Teamsters, the fall of the Berlin wall, unions, Wall Street, we need a revolution 69 Comments