The Democratic Party avoided the issue of what to do about the gross maldistribution of power between the tiny few and the rest of the people in America. (Common Dreams) A national political nominating convention, ...
“Today I am suspending my campaign. But while the campaign ends, the struggle for justice continues on.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I–Vt., officially dropped out of the 2020 Presidential Race on Wednesday. He shared the news ...
“I’m dealing with a f***ing global crisis.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I–Vt., was uncharacteristically short when CNN Reporter Manu Raju grilled him on a timeline for folding his presidential race. The Democratic candidate now faces the ...
“The establishment wing of the party didn’t fall into line behind Biden despite the fact that he’d put Bloomberg and Jamie Dimon in his cabinet. They did it because of that. This is who they ...
“I helped lead the opposition to these agreements, Joe Biden supported those agreements,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “And that is a fundamental difference about our approach toward the trade union movement and towards the needs ...
“MSNBC pundits likened the Bernie campaign to Nazi Germany on air weeks ago. Yesterday, someone brought a Nazi flag to a Bernie rally.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Cable news network MSNBC came under fire from progressives ...
Trump defended his administration’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak and spoke about the Democratic primary at his first town hall of the 2020 election. President Donald Trump held his first town hall of the 2020 ...
“Biden received the most money in the Democratic field from insurance and pharmaceutical employees, while Sanders received the least. He kicked off his campaign with a fundraiser hosted by a health insurance executive, and one of ...
While Sen. Bernie Sanders laid claim to the big-delegate prize in California, former Vice President showed with multiple wins in key states that he is now the corporate Democrat’s only hope. “May the best candidate ...
“We know that the first four years of a child’s life are the most important years of human development, so it is unconscionable that in the wealthiest country in the world, we do not properly ...
Giridharadas called out MSNBC and other establishment forces for behaving “like out-of-touch aristocrats in a dying aristocracy.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) In an appearance on MSNBC Sunday morning just hours after Sen. Bernie Sanders’ decisive victory in the Nevada ...
“We knew fossil fuel extraction – including fracking – was a major part of global methane emissions, but this impressive study suggests it is a far bigger culprit in human-induced climate change than we had ...
The Beat Bernie 2020 PAC is insisting on keeping its members’ and donors’ identities a secret, due to what they call “a credible fear of threats and backlash from ardent Bernie supporters.” (By: Alan MacLeod, ...
Though the fallout from the Iowa Caucus is still fresh, it appears that the technology-driven chaos and corruption seen in Iowa have not served as a warning to the Nevada Democratic Party. LAS VEGAS – ...
The party is using different tools to achieve the same goal as 2016—sidelining Sanders. Yogi Berra, the great Yankees catcher, had the memorable line, “It’s like deja vu all over again.” Bernie Sanders supporters might ...
“It is genuinely scandalous that the Iowa Democratic Party has only released 75% of the results to the caucus.” “This is scandalous.” “An utter trainwreck.” “The stuff of banana republics.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) ...
“This outfit is inexcusably secretive.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Amid all the finger-pointing and anger that followed the nightmarish Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses Monday night, many journalists and progressive observers honed in on the smartphone ...
He was heard in the call explaining what he would have to do to get into the race to stop “the possibility of Bernie Sanders taking down the Democratic Party — down whole.” The Democrat ...
“Leaked 2018 audio recording of president was released by legal team of Lev Parnas, close associate of Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. ‘You know, [Sanders] basically says we’re getting screwed on trade,’ said Trump. ‘And ...
A sweeping new study of proposed single-payer healthcare plans over the last 30 years suggested a high probability of both short and long-term cost savings. A new study published January 15 by the journal PLOS ...
“I will say, however, that it’s not only him, it’s the culture around him…” Hillary Clinton said that “nobody likes” Bernie Sanders and refused to commit to supporting him if he wins the Democratic nomination ...
“It is unjust and unacceptable that the CEOs of major corporations are making an average of 287 times more than their average worker.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., wants to tackle income inequality and to do ...
“We are excited to be joining the movement to make Bernie Sanders the Democratic nominee for president. We believe he can win the nomination, defeat Donald Trump in November, and usher in down-ballot victories that ...
A new report finds “the federal government has wasted up to $1 billion on charter schools that never even opened, or opened and then closed because of mismanagement and other reasons.” Earlier this year when ...
“This very much appears to be a Betsy DeVos scheme to block the next president from unilaterally forgiving federal student debt, which she is well aware a president could do without Congress. The DeVos family ...
“Since losing 2016, Dem elites have waged a prolonged effort to stop Bernie. Bernie is the obvious answer to the neoliberal Clinton-Obama legacy voters rejected.” A new article from Politico’s Ryan Lizza reveals a window ...
The Sanders’ campaign cites the senator’s promises to “end the endless wars” and his years of work on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee as reasons for his popularity with military employees. A new analysis from Foreign ...
The House-Senate companion bill addresses corporate America’s extreme disparities, giving firms an incentive to lift up the bottom and bring down the top of their pay scales. (By Sarah Anderson, Inequality.org) A new congressional bill ...
Apple just committed $2.5 billion to help alleviate the California housing crisis. Facebook and Google already committed $1 billion each. Is it enough? And why are they facing harsh criticism? On Monday, news broke about ...
Sanders and Warren may not intend their criticisms of Russia and China to justify record Pentagon spending, but the military-industrial complex is seizing on it for precisely that purpose. Among the frontrunners in the Democratic ...
“CoreCivic’s profit model is built around understaffing and constant lockdowns of poorly run, exceedingly dangerous prisons.” A July report from the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) and No Exceptions Prison Collective found that CoreCivic, a ...
“Without unions, there will be no institution in American politics advocating for policies that benefit the vast majority of Americans who do not own capital.” Sen. Bernie Sanders released a new plan on Wednesday that ...
There are now more black people in correctional control (prison, jail, probation, or parole) than there were enslaved in 1850. Sen. Bernie Sanders released a sweeping plan to overhaul America’s criminal justice system on Sunday, ...
Wall Street will play big in the 2020 election, whether as a financial backer or as a topic of debate. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Pete Buttigieg have emerged as Wall Street donors’ clear favorites ...
“Lloyd Blankfein said Goldman Sachs does ‘God’s work.’ Is that what he called it when Goldman Sachs made millions pumping up the cost of food for starving people across the world?” Sen. Bernie Sanders and ...
The main part of our conversation with the Around The Nation host focused on Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), his top two choices for the Democratic nomination. The Democratic party has just begun ...
“If Tiffany Cabán wins, things are going to change. Instead of criminalizing poverty, we’re going to dedicate resources towards prosecuting abusive landlords.” Tiffany Cabán, a 31-year old public defender running for Queens District Attorney, won ...
“We have emails, text messages, telephone records, and former company insiders that we believe will prove a multi-year conspiracy to fix prices and divide market share for huge numbers of generic drugs.” Sen. Bernie Sanders and ...
“More than a decade after Wall Street greed brought the American economy to its knees, big banks are still using greed as a business model and are still engaging in the reckless behavior that helped ...
Monday’s rally in D.C. gave Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and the Sunrise Movement a platform to promote the Green New Deal. “I’ll be damned,” Ocasio-Cortez said at the Green New Deal rally, “if the same politicians who ...
“There is no reason a person should pay more than 15% interest in the United States. It’s common sense – in fact, we had these Usury laws until the 70s.” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and 2020 ...
“Food is no longer valued for its ability to sustain life, but only for its ability to generate profits.” Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled a sweeping and comprehensive plan to transform American agriculture on Sunday, centered ...
“How many people in the United States understand that we overthrew a democratically elected government in Iran to put in the Shah?” 2020 Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders told a CNN town hall event on ...
“President Trump, I urge you to sign the resolution Congress passed last week ending U.S. support for this conflict. Yemen needs humanitarian aid, not more bombs,” tweeted Sen. Bernie Sanders. (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) ...
The Democratic money-donating public is in overdrive. In the 41 days since Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) declared his candidacy for President, he’s received around 900,000 donations from all 50 states, averaging around $20 per donation. ...
As a confessed Sanders supporter from 2016—and thus someone making no claims to objectivity—I bristle at a number of these concerns. Especially the ones about Bernie costing Hillary the election or doing major damage to ...
This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Former CNN anchor and ...
“It’s absurd that the first bill during the shutdown is legislation which punishes Americans who exercise their constitutional right to engage in political activity,” declared Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) (Common Dreams) After The Intercept reported over the ...
Observers will point out this is a very early poll. For the sake of an example, Jeb Bush had a comfortable lead at this point in 2014—and we all know how that eventually turned out. Nevertheless, these ...
The following are notes and analysis from the ‘Solving Our Climate Crisis’ Town Hall hosted by Bernie Sanders. Van Jones (CNN Commentator & Climate Activist), Bill McKibben (Climate Activist), and Shailene Woodley (Our Revolution Board ...
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