Dr. Roberts is an economist who had a cabinet level position under Reagan. His writing often has a rightwing slant, but he is an honest rightwinger (a paleocon?). He also has a distinct anti-Israel bias. Yet here he is begging the Left to rescue itself.

Publishing yet another politically correct, psuedo-leftwing fraud's trashing of Russian intevention in Syria and Donbass.

The title of the article (Once again, I refuse to link to this pile of propaganda.) sounds progressive enough:

Why must we sanction Russia?

The editorial choices of Counterpunch have made me very skeptical that it is a useful leftwing site anymore, as opposed to an ideologically pure, identity politics driven disinformation site in the business of discrediting the left.

Today, someone I never heard of, Rob Seimetz (who apparently has a radio podcast), offers this outright denunciation of Bernie as a racist: