Black Lives Matter activists disappointed by Hillary Clinton's understanding...
Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, Walter Scott -- and many, many others -- we know their names, and, if we weren't aware before, we now know that America's problem with police brutality and violence against...
View ArticleThis video -- from Sweden in 1982 -- will convince you Bernie is right about...
In 1982, Olof Palme -- former leader of Sweden's Social Democratic Party -- spoke about what made him a socialist.(Click the gear symbol to turn on the English subtitles. H/t to Matt Bruenig.)I was...
View ArticleThey think it's a game: greedy health insurers plan to keep premiums low by...
In America, health insurers -- members of an "industry" best defined with obscenities -- apparently think it's a game.Yes, they think your health, your wellbeing, your finances, are a game -- a game of...
View ArticleUltra-wealthy Hillary donors label Bernie supporters as "naive" and...
While I respect Hillary Clinton for her accomplishments, I do not respect her millionaire donors -- pushing their special interests ahead of the public interest.Politico published an interesting window...
View ArticleBernie hasn't discussed this feature of Danish political economy yet. If he...
Last night Anderson Cooper had his fun getting a dig in at Bernie with a cute debate about capitalism, and Bernie responded as we might have predicted: listing all the nice goodies in the Danish...
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The United States has the world's poorest middle class
Yes, but is anyone here really surprised?The Washington Post is out with some important charts incorporating data from the Credit Suisse Research Institute, which releases an annual report on global...
View ArticleBernie Sanders versus Hillary Clinton on #FightFor15 in two tweets
Some things are just bizarre. First things first, Bernie has consistently argued for a nationwide $15/hour minimum wage. In contrast, Hillary has settled for $12/hour.So, today, as fast food, care...
View ArticleIn wake of Paris attacks, Italy pledges to spend a euro on culture for every...
Could you ever imagine this policy being taken seriously in the United States?Check out this pledge— in the wake of the Paris attacks — from Italy’s Social Democratic Prime Minister Matteo Renzi: They...
View ArticleHillary's fundraising bundler lobbies for the Geo Group. This is what Geo...
It’s no secret that the same folks who defend the private prison industry are also defending Hillary Clinton’s campaign.Richard Sullivan, of the lobbying firm Capitol Counsel, is a bundler for the...
View ArticleThis news from France will help you understand just what a raw deal Americans...
Sometimes — ok, most of the time — we need to look outside our borders to understand just how rough working Americans have it when we talk social welfare. Well, I hope you are sitting down. Enter some...
View ArticleHillary Clinton: Gangs of kids are "super predators" with "no conscience, no...
I’ll keep this pretty short. Honestly, just watch the video.Is Hillary Clinton really the kind of candidate who will rally progressives and the black community behind her when she refers to urban youth...
View ArticleThis 13-year old in a hoodie refused to put down a toy gun when surrounded by...
...but only because he was playing with the toy gun in a Verona, Italy park and not the United States of America. Read this:A boy wearing a hooded top and playing with a toy gun in a public garden in...
View ArticleDesperate Clinton Press Secretary Brian Fallon refers to Bernie as "Socialist...
If attacking single-payer — the health care policy Bill Clinton said would save taxpayers $1 trillion/year in 2011 — is not enough for Team Hillary and its small-minded press secretary, Brian Fallon,...
View ArticleMassive tuberculosis outbreak in Alabama highlights need for Bernie Sanders'...
Last night, Bernie Sanders attracted an overflow crowd to hear him speak in Birmingham, Alabama. For a so-called “democratic socialist,” this was an amazing sight.xSome people told me Alabama was a...
View ArticleNo, it wasn't "pragmatic" Hillary politics that got us the ACA. It was "dream...
If you ever check out the copy-paste-embed-tweets “explanatory” journalism of Voxdotcom, you’ll note Ezra Klein and Matthew Yglesias love to boost Hillary by arguing that she is just so damn realistic...
View ArticleHillary Clinton is John McCain on foreign policy. This should horrify...
The usual suspects are attacking Bernie Sanders as a lightweight on foreign policy, but let’s hit the pause button and consider the words of a scholar rather than hot-take-journalist hacks. From Dr....
View ArticleNo, John Podesta, Hillary Clinton is certainly not a #RebelGirl.
John Podesta, Hillary’s Campaign Chair and the leader of a Democratic think tank that doesn’t even have a plan for true universal health care, seems to think his candidate is an awesome “rebel...
View ArticleClinton campaign uses classic Dubya attack line to hit Bernie
Remember when George W. Bush accused Al Gore of “fuzzy math” in the 2000 debates? xYouTube VideoWell, it looks like Team Hillary (and Paul Krugman!) is borrowing Dubya’s rhetoric to attack Bernie. From...
View ArticleThe 23 cities with the best quality of life in the world -- and not a single...
If you want to live in a healthy, prosperous and safe city, you should probably look outside the United States, according to the Mercer 2016 Quality of Living City Rankings. Mercer, one of the world’s...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter activists booted from Hillary dinner after calling for...
In 1996, Hillary Clinton labeled some urban youth as “super predators” with “no conscience, no empathy,” adding that before we could try to understand their choices, the children must brought “to...
View ArticleHillary: "My political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was...
Audio from a Weekend Edition NPR interview with Hillary Clinton in 1996 has been discovered. Among the highlights:“My political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with.”And:“I’m...
View ArticleYou'll want to share this powerful video of Killer Mike celebrating Bernie's...
Killer Mike’s words will go straight to your heart.Watch and listen — like Bernie Sanders would do.xYouTube VideoSo, so true. Bernie shook the protesters’ hands and gave them the stage to speak — in...
View ArticleThe corruption and cronyism of Team Hillary in seven awkward seconds of John...
Defending hypocrisy is really hard, it seems. Especially when it means defending a former highly-paid NRA lobbyist co-hosting a fundraiser for Hillary. (The other co-host has lobbied for Goldman...
View ArticleWhy Bernie beats Trump -- and Hillary doesn't -- in one New York Times...
If Democrats want to protect America from the obscenity that is Donald Trump, they had better choose Bernie Sanders as their nominee. This paragraph from a New York Times article discussing Hillary’s...
View ArticleDeRay Mckesson: "It is important that Bernie remains in the race...Let's see...
DeRay Mckesson, a candidate for Mayor of Baltimore and prominent activist who has yet to endorse a presidential nominee, is calling for Bernie Sanders to remain in the Democratic race until the end:xIt...
View ArticleVoxdotcom: Spendthrift Poor and Middle-Class Americans Should Abandon DC and...
Voxdotcom publishes a lot of stupid shit, but this recent piece is downright enraging. In short, it suggests that middle-class and low-income folks struggling to pay the rent in expensive cities like...
View ArticleItalian Supreme Court: Stealing food, if poor and hungry, is not a crime
As a New Orleans man faces life in prison for stealing a few candy bars from a dollar store, we are shown, once again, that Europe may offer a more humane vision for executing Western civilization.Yes,...
View ArticleHere's why progressives shouldn't be excited about a "Medicare buy-in"...
Lots of folks were pretty excited yesterday by the news that presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton dropped the words “public option” and “Medicare buy-in” at a campaign stop in Northern...
View ArticleSorry, but I'm a Bernie Sanders voter (or supporter), not a "fan."
I’ve noticed that some journalists have taken to referring to Bernie Sanders supporters as “fans”— evoking an unserious comedian or singer rather than a candidate for the presidency — and not,...
View ArticleNo, Donald Trump is not Berlusconi. He's worse than that. There's no EU to...
A lot of Very Serious DC pundits seem to think Trump might just be a Berlusconi — a silly curiosity, but not an existential threat to the nation.xWill Trump be an American Putin or an American...
View ArticleHealth insurers shouldn't be suing taxpayers, but our "universal" health care...
Private health insurance companies are not really in the “health care” business — they actually operate more like investment banks, who profit from investing your premiums all while trying to pay as...
View ArticleItaly's "Bernie Sanders" just passed. And his career shows why the Democrats...
Italy and the United States have a lot in common — both young countries (although Italy is almost 100 years younger), regions with strong local identities united by antipathy towards the national...
View ArticleAt this very moment, Austria is showing us how we beat a hateful, xenophobic...
Take a look at this: xThe independent green might just beat the far right in Austria!pic.twitter.com/4t0XNQZkHI— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) May 22, 2016Who, you might ask, is Hofer?He’s a...
View ArticleA single tunnel through the Alps now has more high-speed rail track than the...
Right now, in the Greatest Country on Earth, the so-called “high-speed” Acela service reaches its maximum operating speed of 150 mph for just 18 miles of its 452-mile journey from Boston to Washington,...
View ArticleTo understand the visceral appeal of Donald J. Trump, watch this short video...
I need you to watch this short video from start to finish. (Don’t worry, when Putin speaks in Russian, there are English subtitles.)xYouTube VideoDid you catch Putin’s first words?“You ran around like...
View ArticleWhy is a "high-priced" Cigna lobbyist raising money for Hillary Clinton's...
In 1993, Hillary Clinton was spot on when she bemoaned“high-priced lobbyists who get paid to keep everything the same” in our barbaric, grossly-expensive health care non-system.xYouTube Video It’s...
View ArticleI want to blow your mind about unemployment in the United States of America.
In the absence of a consolidated welfare state, United States politicians love to obsess about the unemployment rate — unemployment, after all, means no health care, no money for education, no money...
View ArticleElites dismissing the pain and suffering of the marginalized is how you get...
Despite horrific socio-economic inequality, execution-style killings of black people on an almost daily basis, and the fact that over 30 million Americans still cannot visit a doctor when they get...
View ArticleBaton Rouge Police: Property Rights Are Only For White People (Videos)
Property rights are fundamental to the “American Dream”— indeed, the “right to pursue happiness” actually refers to one’s right to own property. (Of course, originally, that also meant the right for...
View ArticleHillary Clinton is going to lose if she keeps using this playbook.
(I wish I didn’t need to qualify my diary, but as a former Bernie partisan in this community, and based on the first comments I’m seeing below, I suppose it’s necessary. No, this diary is not “Bernie...
View ArticleSorry, Hillary and Michelle, America still sucks for a lot of people.
Because I’m not a big fan of racist reality television stars leading a country of 320 million (mostly) decent people, this tweet from Hillary made me cringe:xâÂÂI donâÂÂt understand people who...
View ArticleStudy finds U.S. teens increasingly turning to sex work in order to combat...
Teenagers in the United States are increasingly turning to sex work in order to be able to acquire enough food to eat, according to a new study from Washington D.C.’s Urban Institute, the Guardian...
View ArticleDemocratic Party politicians need to stop calling America the "greatest...
This diary starts with the United States Tennis Association. Yes, you read that right. A few weeks ago, they accidentally played Germany’s Nazi-era anthem before a U.S.-Germany match and, as you might...
View ArticleNo, LePen isn't going to win in France. Because France already has excellent...
I’ve seen a lot of handwringing around France’s upcoming presidential election. Will LePen win and put a final nail in the coffin of the so-called “West”? I doubt it. Of course, the “centrist” pundits...
View ArticleSorry, Hillary Fans, the Lesson of Macron's Epic Success is More Bernie 2020...
Update: As expected, I’m being attacked as an idiot and told that I don’t understand anything about either U.S. or French politics. I’m also being told it’s unfair to compare French politics to U.S....
View ArticleI wrote the diary for why a "Jon Ossoff" would lose last summer. He lost. We...
Last summer, after Hillary’s campaign released one of their first adverts — kids watching Trump say mean stuff — I wrote that simply attacking Trump as “being an asshole” would lead to a big Hillary...
View ArticleActually, it's okay for the Democrats to talk about something other than...
Judging from the mainstream media and the social media accounts of most Democratic Party politicians, one would think that the only atrocity of justice currently occurring in the United States is the...
View ArticleThe future of the United States is in a strong and free North American Union
Leaders from 16 Asian countries — including Australia, China, India, Japan, and South Korea — met in Tokyo on Sunday to continue working towards the creation of the world’s largest trading bloc, one...
View ArticleAtlanta police charge woman hit by tractor-trailer truck in impoverished...
If you get hit by an 18-wheeler in Atlanta — notorious for its hostile pedestrian environment— the police will make sure you suffer — even more, that is, than the pain of being hit by a giant truck.On...
View ArticleThe business model of U.S. health care is fraud
Fraud is defined as “wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.” And the U.S. health care non-system — really a dysfunctional phenomenon of market failure more...
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