890 articles · page 22 of 45
Bernie Sanders is the real thing. So is his 84-year-old elder brother, Larry, who lives in Cambridge, England and is an official there in the Green Party. Watch this video for the story. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/06/politics/larry-sanders-bernie-brother-uk-primary-intl/index.html…
Progressives take note: the Sanders-Warren combined delegate count now is very much alive, and potentially growing with the pending California vote tally. Sanders and Warren have a combined delegate count of 596. This is tied with Biden’s count of 596, according to the Associated Press. For some reason, the media is…
There is no doubt that Elizabeth Warren has a very strong progressive platform. Yet while her strong positions on curtailing the excesses of Wall Street and pay-to-play Washington, plans to tax wealth and regulate large corporations, remain, the big question is why is she waiting to endorse Sanders? Maybe, she wants to…
Bernie Lets Loose on ‘Corporate Media’ After Super Tuesday Stumble: ‘This Campaign Has Been Compared to the Coronavirus’
Yesterday’s Super Tuesday election was a big event for Joe Biden, but progressives should not be too disappointed. The reason: Elizabeth Warren has earned 50 delegates so far. If you add this to Bernie’s 382 delegates, we come up with 432 delegates compared to Biden’s current post-Super Tuesday tally of 453. (Delegate…
By now, everyone should know that many Millenials and their younger age groups do not have the money for a downpayment on a house. Burdened by student debt, stagnant wages, and jobs that don’t pay much, these voters are mostly living in rental properties. But a new study by Apartment List.com finds…
Joe Biden lied in the last debate when he said he did not vote to invade Iraq and oust Saddam Hussein. Bernie Sanders opposed this declaration of war against Iraq. Biden’s lies are in this video when he said in 2002 that he voted to invade Iraq. Biden voted along with neoliberals Paul…
One of the lessons people are supposed to learn from yesterday’s Joe Biden’s primary victory in South Carolina is that his legacy is intertwined with that of Barack Obama. But there is a problem: Aside from being the nation’s first black president, Obama was never a progressive. When making big decisions, he…
This is a bad time for US Jews who have to decide on supporting Israel versus supporting a candidate, Bernie Sanders, who will deliver some Jewish values to US citizens. Trump is a corrupt, venal president, but he gets huge financial support from Sheldon Adelson and the orthodox over his Israel policies,…
(A version of this article was posted on this site on June 4, 2016.) Trump’s vicious vendettas against all of his critics are part of his sociopathic pathology. Even worse, it goes back for decades. His public humiliations of the government officials who testified against him in the recent impeachment trials are…
The rise of anti-Semitism in the U.S. and the schism between the majority of American Jews are going to become broader and more polarized thanks to the announcement that 84-year-old billionaire Sheldon Adelson is planning on giving at least $100 million to the Trump campaign and the Republicans. According to an…
Many academics and pundits have tried to explain the Trump phenomena as they analyzed the intersections of economic, social, religious, tribal and political reasons, but no one explanation explains how a sociopath rose to the top of an established political party in a democratic system to wield such autocratic power. While…
Most media pundits are academics, politicians, ex-politicians, political consultants or other professional hangers-on who dominate the Washington scene. But it’s too bad almost none of these outlets include observations from average Americans, except for those wasted and politically ineffective posts on Facebook and Twitter. Still, 51% of Americans believe Trump…
The IRS has announced its 2020 inflation-adjusted, annual contribution limits on retirement-related accounts and funds for self-employed and workers participating in employer-sponsored plans. Among the most notable changes 2020 are: 401(k) contribution limits are up; traditional IRA contribution limits stay the same; almost all the other numbers are up.
For those who cared to watch, or had the stomach to do so, the Trump Administration had a very rare and illustrative display of raw political and financial power at its press conference to announce the first stage of the US-China Trade Agreement. While the Jan. 15, 2020 event was…
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million words. Here is a scene from the show “Curb Your Enthusiasm” that describes Trump’s politics and his despicable humanity better than any editorial. Watch the video with Larry David. https://youtu.be/ypoi6FaRObw…
As the Democratic presidential primary in Iowa gets closer, it should make the distinctions between the candidates even more clear. One of the main differences between the more moderate Democratic candidates and those of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren is that they have a very different view of the Obama administration. Specifically,…
Voters can tell the primary in Iowa is getting very tight based on the amount of mud-slinging. But, based on the latest smear against Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders in the upcoming Iowa caucus, we can see that the allegations make no sense and were designed to detract from his momentum. Today’s reports show that…
Being a progressive means, you are against special interests, greedy individuals and corporations, polluters and advocates of the superiority of one group over another.
NOTE: This article was originally published in December 2019, but it is more pertinent today. The reason: Biden is continuing his naive belief that the Republicans will work with him, even as the vast majority of Republican senators do not even acknowledge that he won the election. This is the same naivete…
