“Responding to Clinton Barb, Sanders Blasts US Imperialism in Latin America

Submitted by Martha Pearce-Smith on Fri, 03/11/2016 - 7:05am

bobswern has a great diary up - Link leads to DKOS.

“Responding to Clinton Barb, Sanders Blasts US Imperialism in Latin America”

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Submitted by jiordan on Fri, 03/11/2016 - 7:09am
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after the 15th. I'm going to hate missing out on his work if he doesn't--unless he posts elsewhere? If he does, the site info would be appreciated.

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Submitted by neoconned on Fri, 03/11/2016 - 7:26am

bobswern wrote a great post, one which should be read. The conditions in Honduras due to the coup (which Hillary aided by doing nothing to reverse it at the very least) are what will occur even in the US should Hillary get TPP and other heinous "trade bills" through the Congress. The fetid fever dream FEMA camps of conservative terror could in some form become real if the people rise up against the betrayal that the Clintons and Obama have foisted upon us.

We have but one chance to prevent this: Bernie must win. Hillary will only slightly slow down the rush to corporatist fascism over any Republican she might face. That isn't what my grandchildren deserve to have to live under, nor yours.

I endorse any invitation to bobswern to move to caucus99percent.

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Submitted by Martha Pearce-Smith on Fri, 03/11/2016 - 7:40am
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Submitted by JtC on Fri, 03/11/2016 - 8:36am

since 2-8-15, our 51st member.

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Submitted by Martha Pearce-Smith on Fri, 03/11/2016 - 9:44am
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Submitted by Big Al on Fri, 03/11/2016 - 9:54am
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regime change operations in Libya and Syria? Why isn't he speaking out against the fraudulent war OF terror and ISIS where the U.S. is actually aiding ISIS while pretending to fight it? Why is he supporting Obama's decision to remain in Afghanistan after almost 15 years? Why is he advocating for Saudi Arabia, one of the key supporters of terrorism, to actually increase it's involvement in the remaking of the Middle East? Why has he not spoken out against the regime change operation in Ukraine and the encirclement of Russia and the plans to take down Russia and China?
It's perplexing to me how he only goes part way but leaves out the big parts.

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Submitted by pfiore8 on Fri, 03/11/2016 - 10:00am
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i have the same concerns. having said that, I can vote for Sanders because I don't believe him to be the "lesser of two evils."

I believe he will evolve on these issues. one, because of the tremendously harmful environmental footprint of war, and two because he means what he says about doing good; it will get harder to commit war against people outside our borders because it is immoral. it will get harder to justify arming brutes like Saudi Arabia.

Sanders is susceptible to knowing better. That's why I'm voting for him and because we have VOICE and he will hear it and that will further push him from the dark side.

i know. don't even tell me. i'm a bit deluded. but how do we go then?

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Submitted by Big Al on Fri, 03/11/2016 - 10:11am
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But pretty much got blasted for them on here earlier.
Another time perhaps, if Bernie doesn't win. Then maybe different ideas will be more receptive.
Put it this way, I largely agree with Chris Hedges. It's not all about Sanders, it's the system and power structure in place that will prevent things from happening. Personally, when I read between the lines I see something different. I see Dodd-Frank. I see backing out of auditing the Fed Reserve. I see support for imperialist false narratives. I see a politician that has voted democratic party 96% of the time. I see the same old thing.

I was going to post this as a diary relative to Sanders statement about Wall Street being afraid of him. I'll just post it here.

"The fate of Dodd-Frank over the past two years is an object lesson in the government's inability to institute even the simplest and most obvious reforms, especially if those reforms happen to clash with powerful financial interests. From the moment it was signed into law, lobbyists and lawyers have fought regulators over every line in the rulemaking process. Congressmen and presidents may be able to get a law passed once in a while – but they can no longer make sure it stays passed. You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again. "It's like a scorched-earth policy," says Michael Greenberger, a former regulator who was heavily involved with the drafting of Dodd-Frank. "It requires constant combat. And it never, ever ends."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-wall-street-killed-financi...

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Submitted by pfiore8 on Fri, 03/11/2016 - 10:58am
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than the man himself. i've been saying it from the very first time somebody whined about the lack of mainstream media coverage. i was like: are you kidding? the very best news, bigger news than Bernie, is his campaign gaining traction WITHOUT it.

Getting a guy or gal like Sanders into the presidency is but one step towards governing OUTSIDE the system.

personally, i've always believed that these might-as-right types and their scorched earth policy and complete utter lack of understanding consequence is an engineering failure in our evolutionary model. we didn't have the necessary shift to push the warriors and the ends-always-justify-the-means sub species of humans out of power.

it seems to me we've created systems that we simply are not equipped to manage. because of well how else to say it? but a systems flaw in us.

keep posting about it is my suggestion. just don't get angry or crazy when people don't get it. it's hard to accept all of the things coming our way. i mean, how do you tell people that health care doesn't make the list of urgent things? food, yes: water, soil, air. take all that money/energy/resource we spend in health care and make the long term investment in the systems that sustain the planet. it isn't going to go over well. until people start to see it on their own.

the waxing poetic over another little league season, chest-heaving sigh... that's the way i remember thinking of life before Sept. 1, 2001. Not because we were attacked, but how we ended up responding to it. it wasn't the men who crashed into those buildings that changed us. we let that happen.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 03/11/2016 - 2:27pm
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I agree with you on all points you made but you left out his unconditional support of Israel while they were mowing the fucking lawn that killed close to 2,500 people in Gaza.
He is on record stating that SA should be the ones that bomb the people in Syria instead of the US. Those bombs come from the US and dropped from jets we sold them. (thanks Hillary)
I don't know if Bernie can stop the MIC, PNAC and everyone else who is supporting these wars. Especially the CIA. Remember what happened to the last president that wanted to break the CIA up in to a thousand pieces.
I read this great article last night and wanted to post it on KOS but I am sure that it would get lost in the comments.

Former Economic Hit Man Returns to Take on the "Death Economy"

I'm haunted every day by what I did as an economic hit man (EHM). I'm haunted by the lies I told back then about the World Bank. I'm haunted by the ways in which that bank, its sister organizations, and I empowered US corporations to spread their cancerous tentacles across the planet. I'm haunted by the payoffs to the leaders of poor countries, the blackmail, and the threats that if they resisted, if they refused to accept loans that would enslave their countries in debt, the CIA's jackals would overthrow or assassinate them.

The treacherous cancer beneath the surface, which was revealed in the original Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, has metastasized. It has spread from the economically developing countries to the United States and the rest of the world; it attacks the very foundations of democracy and the planet's life-support systems.

Fear and debt drive this system. We are hammered with messages that terrify us into believing that we must pay any price, assume any debt, to stop the enemies who, we are told, lurk at our doorsteps. The problem comes from somewhere else. Insurgents. Terrorists. "Them." And its solution requires spending massive amounts of money on goods and services produced by what I call the corporatocracy -- vast networks of corporations, banks, colluding governments, and the rich and powerful people tied to them. We go deeply into debt; our country and its financial henchmen at the World Bank and its sister institutions coerce other countries to go deeply into debt; debt enslaves us and it enslaves those countries.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35161-john-perkins-the-former-economi...

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Submitted by lotlizard on Sat, 03/12/2016 - 2:07am
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moment, and not come out in force against him (Bernie) quite yet?

I’m sure Bernie wouldn’t relish the usual treatment people of Jewish ancestry get when they are seen as unjustly obstructing Israel’s modest long-term aspirations (to annex everything west of the Jordan and expel all Palestinians, which plan the new alliance with the Saudi clan and the dictatorial Erdogan doubtlessly serves).

http://www.pewforum.org/2016/03/08/israels-religiously-divided-society/

Nearly half of Israeli Jews say Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel, including roughly one-in-five Jewish adults who strongly agree with this position.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Sat, 03/12/2016 - 1:33pm
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I agree with you on all points you made but you left out his unconditional support of Israel while they were mowing the fucking lawn that killed close to 2,500 people in Gaza.
He is on record stating that SA should be the ones that bomb the people in Syria instead of the US. Those bombs come from the US and dropped from jets we sold them. (thanks Hillary)
I don't know if Bernie can stop the MIC, PNAC and everyone else who is supporting these wars. Especially the CIA. Remember what happened to the last president that wanted to break the CIA up in to a thousand pieces.
I read this great article last night and wanted to post it on KOS but I am sure that it would get lost in the comments.

Former Economic Hit Man Returns to Take on the "Death Economy"

I'm haunted every day by what I did as an economic hit man (EHM). I'm haunted by the lies I told back then about the World Bank. I'm haunted by the ways in which that bank, its sister organizations, and I empowered US corporations to spread their cancerous tentacles across the planet. I'm haunted by the payoffs to the leaders of poor countries, the blackmail, and the threats that if they resisted, if they refused to accept loans that would enslave their countries in debt, the CIA's jackals would overthrow or assassinate them.

The treacherous cancer beneath the surface, which was revealed in the original Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, has metastasized. It has spread from the economically developing countries to the United States and the rest of the world; it attacks the very foundations of democracy and the planet's life-support systems.

Fear and debt drive this system. We are hammered with messages that terrify us into believing that we must pay any price, assume any debt, to stop the enemies who, we are told, lurk at our doorsteps. The problem comes from somewhere else. Insurgents. Terrorists. "Them." And its solution requires spending massive amounts of money on goods and services produced by what I call the corporatocracy -- vast networks of corporations, banks, colluding governments, and the rich and powerful people tied to them. We go deeply into debt; our country and its financial henchmen at the World Bank and its sister institutions coerce other countries to go deeply into debt; debt enslaves us and it enslaves those countries.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35161-john-perkins-the-former-economi...

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Submitted by pfiore8 on Fri, 03/11/2016 - 10:02am
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that would get a lot of "eyeballs" as ek hornbeck would say. where is he anyway? ek?????????? i know you must be here somewhere.

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