The Evening Blues - 11-22-19
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 11/22/2019 - 3:31pmColombia joins the global anti-neoliberalism wave
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 11/22/2019 - 3:13pmThe uprising continues to spread.
Colombia is joining the continent-wide popular revolt against neoliberalism.
Finally! Tulsi Declares Coup
Submitted by edg on Fri, 11/22/2019 - 1:45pmIt took a while, but Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii has recognized that the recent deposing of Bolivian President Evo Morales was in fact a coup.
Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has finally provided her take on the violent unrest that toppled the sitting president Evo Morales, telling her followers that it was a coup which shouldn’t involve US interference.
Bernie now clearly back in 2nd place
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 11/22/2019 - 12:21pmIt appears that Mayor Pete's rise has come at Warren's expense.
No matter how hard the establishment works against Bernie, they can't put him down.
Some thoughts on a profound article
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Fri, 11/22/2019 - 11:51amFirst I want you to check out this awesome New Republic article by Libby Watson.
Open Thread Friday
Submitted by studentofearth on Fri, 11/22/2019 - 5:31am
Hello friends, volunteered to come back at the keyboard to write a series of Open Thread diaries which hopefully ends with Funky Fridays returning.
Catch up on a few issues from in my previous OTs and comments. The plants and animals on the farm are doing well. Expanded the vegetable garden and now have a strawberry patch. Almost all preparations for winter are in place. I keep thinking of one more project to get done. Hoping for less snow than last year. The possibility of the highway being rerouted through the property appears to be very remote according to Transportation Department personnel at the public meeting last week.
Going to try and create conversations on individual health, healthcare business in general and government roles in healthcare.
Russiagate is about to blow up on the Dems
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 11/21/2019 - 8:30pmJust as the Ukrainegate impeachment probe starts to yield something solid, the bullsh*t, three year long Russiagate "scandal" is about to blow up in the Dem's faces.
The Evening Blues - 11-21-19
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 11/21/2019 - 2:55pmWe may be Sick of the Impeachment Drama, but Those who Spoke up Bravely against Russiagate may need to do so again. Bernie’s Election Fortunes Could Well Depend on those few Brave Voices
Submitted by Sandernista2 on Thu, 11/21/2019 - 2:42pmMany of us watch with dismay the spectacle put before us, as august members of the house intelligence committee appear to wrap themselves into pretzels, parsing out who said what to whom and what could they have meant or didn’t – all in one conversation that lasted perhaps 20-25 minutes in all.