How the ‘Bernie Bros’ were invented as sexist, racist, antisemitic and unAmerican as borscht

9 March 2020 — Jonathan Cook

The Democratic presidential nomination race is a fascinating case study in how power works – not least, because the Democratic party leaders are visibly contriving to impose one candidate, Joe Biden, as the party’s nominee, even as it becomes clear that he is no longer mentally equipped to run a local table tennis club let alone the world’s most powerful nation.

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Anti-Muslim bigots to address AIPAC

2 March 2020 — The Electronic Intifada

Michael F. Brown

Man with sword flanked by US and Israeli flagsMyles Holmes, an anti-Muslim and anti-gay pastor, will speak Monday at AIPAC just days after suggesting torture and death for Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. (via Facebook)

Pastor Myles Holmes, an anti-Muslim and anti-gay bigot, is scheduled to speak about evangelical support for Israel at the conference of the powerful lobby group AIPAC on Monday.

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Socialism rises like a phoenix to haunt America

24 February 2020 — Indian Punchline

The race for Democratic Nomination in the upcoming US presidential election in November has electrified with the huge victory by Bernie Sanders in the Nevada primary on Saturday. The race has crossed a critical milestone. The primaries so far gave us a sampling of the trend in two regions of America — the American heartland (Iowa) and the Northeast (New Hampshire) — that Sanders is at the top of the heap of Democratic contenders.

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Iowa disaster redux: DNC demands recanvass as more sordid details emerge about Shadow app’s backers

6 January 2020 — RT

Iowa disaster redux: DNC demands recanvass as more sordid details emerge about Shadow app’s backers

Iowa Democratic Party chair gets ready to make some excuses © Reuters / Brenna Norman

Increasingly glaring irregularities in the Iowa caucus have forced DNC chair Tom Perez to call for a recanvass, as new revelations about those who funded the fiasco suggest a campaign to steal not just the election, but the party.

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STOLEN! Bernie Campaign APP caught DNC RED HANDED

3 February 2020 — Youtube

Clipped from 2-3-20 Exclusive ROKFIN Livestream Niko House comes on with BREAKING NEWS. Bernie Sanders campaign had anticipated election rigging and developed an APP that allowed Precinct Captains to track down the votes…the votes that did come out were not matching up…Did Bernie catch the Democratic Party redhanded?

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Climate Minimizers Don’t Deny Climate Change—but Find Endless Reasons to Reject Sanders’ Plan to Stop It

6 September 2019 — FAIR

by Esha Krishnaswamy

Climate change is an existential threat to human civilization. If only corporate media acted like it.

While the majority of corporate media do not outright deny the reality of the human-caused climate crisis, they are filled with another brand of insidious ideologues that I call climate minimizers. These downplay the threat that climate change poses to all of us by ignoring scientific data, avoiding discussion on the actual impact of climate change, and hyper-focusing on trivial details.

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The Anti-Empire Report #143 By William Blum: Is Bernie Sanders a socialist?

5 February 2016 — The Anti-Empire Report

“Self-described socialist” … How many times have we all read that term in regard to Vermont senator Bernie Sanders? But is he really a socialist? Or is he a “social democrat”, which is what he’d be called in Europe? Or is he a “democratic socialist”, which is the American party he has been a member of (DSA – Democratic Socialists of America)? And does it really matter which one he is? They’re all socialists, are they not?

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