Tag: Bernie Sanders

Failure to take action on the biggest banks, a single-payer plan, widening inequality, and discrimination will almost certainly harm the economy.

Who does Noam Chomsky support in Election 2016? Watch as he discusses his reasons for his preference for Democratic candidates and the differences between the political parties.

“I want to see an America where when young black men walk down the street, they will not be harassed by police officers. They will not be killed. They will not be shot!”

Sanders is likely to reach the convention with more than 25 percent of the total delegates. That is enough, under convention rules, to force a “minority report” out of the platform committee.

Looking at 7 different polls, it looks like Nevada's caucus might go to Bernie Sanders.

“The question thus facing “socialists” like Sanders is this: When all your idealistic visions for a more humane, more just, more equitable, and more rational society run head-first into the stone wall of the profit motive … which of the two gives way?”

Populism can be dangerous when embraced by the right because it usually comes mixed with nativism.

Clinton may want to dismiss Sanders’ critique of our corrupted politics and rigged economy as a “single issue,” but more and more Americans are coming to understand that this is the heart of the matter.

Right-wing media have been smearing Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who identifies himself as a democratic socialist, by comparing his ideology to that of Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party. Experts have called the comparison “inaccurate,” “outrageous,” and “a trivialization of history.”

Mainstream media jumped at the opportunity to discredit Bernie Sanders when a group of alumni came forward claiming a famous picture of Sanders speaking before a civil rights protest was actually of someone else.