Last week we learned about Palast's new documentary,
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The choice of Keith Ellison v. Howard Dean as DNC Chair is such a perfect test of whether Dems learned anything https://t.co/ZapYx9Q26G
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 11, 2016
Now that our wars will no longer be instigated by a Commander-in-Chief with a (D) next to his name, can we have our antiwar movement back?
This just in, ye of little faith:
Today, in an interview, Julian Assange signaled to the Australian Broadcasting System that WikiLeaks will release around One Million documents before the U.S. election.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-04/assange-signals-wikileaks-release-...
AND:
I originally published this essay on TOP in December 2015; it received 352 recs back then.
Confession time.
Back in December 2008, anticipating Hillary Clinton’s confirmation as Secretary of State, the incoming Obama administration asked that all foreign donors to the Clinton Foundation and associated entities be disclosed and state department approval be obtained for some donations. The administration signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Clinton Foundation to this effect.
This article would say I have: Bernie Out of the Closet: Sanders’ Longstanding Deal with the Democrats
There are no issues in the 2016 Presidential race.
Maybe there were issues when Bernie Sanders was running. Sanders made an issue of honesty, of whether or not any of the political rhetoric you hear coming from the mouths of the politicians had any relation to what the politicians were going to do. And then Sanders endorsed Clinton, and, lo and behold, it didn't, again. And the issue disappeared.
I’ve heard talk that a political realignment in this country may be in the offing, result of the breakdown of the alliance between social conservatives, right-populists, and the part of big business that doesn’t much pretend to care about looking human. For a long time, that part of the business elite had little trouble wrangling the other two elements into line by hiring politicians who mixed a palatable cocktail of religion, nationalism, and economic “freedom”.
