Tag: 2020 presidential candidates
‘CNN is truly a terrible influence on this country’: Democratic debate...
“This is an unusually vile performance by CNN,” tweeted Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi.
The big loser in the Iowa debate? CNN’s reputation
One really does get the impression that if CNN were holding a debate on the Titanic, the first question would literally be about rearranging the deck chairs.
Biden, Buttigieg and corporate media are eager for Sanders and Warren...
Keeping eyes on the prize this year will require a united front that can strengthen progressive forces, prevent any corporate Democrat from winning the party’s presidential nomination, and then go on to defeat Donald Trump.
Biden and Buttigieg are showing how corporatism and ‘the madness of...
Devastating impacts of nonstop war are all around us in the United States, from deadly federal budget priorities to traumatic effects of normalized violence.
Buttigieg and Biden are masters of evasion
It’s understandable that corporate-backed candidates don’t want to be cornered by questions that touch on realities of political and economic power.
Corporate media and ‘moderate’ democrats are defending the oligarchy against Bernie...
If Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar or Bloomberg win the Democratic presidential nomination, that would be a triumph for oligarchy in the midst of rising grassroots opposition.
Progressives need a united front for Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren
The need for a Sanders-Warren united front should be clear -- as clear as the imperative of rolling back the monstrous right-wing power that has controlled the presidency during the last three years.
“You’ll know the tree by the fruit it bears”: Bernie Sanders’...
The fruit of Bernie Sanders’ labors are not just in the realm of policy, they’re also in the people who support him.
We can breathe life back into democracy
“We make meaning together, build and deepen relationships, and take collective ownership for our country.”
Big tech platforms have had a “profound negative effect on democracy.”...
“People of all political stripes understand that there’s a problem here.”
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Make corporate complicity unprofitable: Gen Z campaign launches boycott of companies tied to ICE
As Trump intensifies immigration crackdowns, a new boycott movement targets the corporations supplying ICE with infrastructure, technology, and access to consumers.
UNICEF warns child casualties are becoming catastrophic as evidence grows in Iran school bombing
More than 1,100 children have been killed or wounded across the Middle East since the United States and Israel launched war on Iran while investigations point to outdated intelligence behind the Minab school strike.
Democrats’ last major obstacle to defeating MAGA for good
If all Americans regardless of their political beliefs, racial backgrounds, and economic standing were required to serve together and learn from each other to achieve a goal as a cohesive unit, it could be what helps future generations heal from the division that’s plaguing our political system.
Where’s the resistance to the Iran war?
A majority of Americans already oppose the war in Iran, but the bombs won’t stop until public opinion is converted into real pressure.
How accent discrimination reinforces America’s deepest divides
The American Southern accent reveals how linguistic prejudice reinforces classism, regionalism, and subconscious bias across generations.