Economic policy of corporate Dems is always a chorus of "No we can't." #CorporateDems #NoWeCant

An Open Letter from Past CEA Chairs to Senator Sanders and Professor Gerald Friedman | lettertosanders

https://lettertosanders.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/open-letter-to-senator-sanders-and-professor-gerald-friedman-from-past-cea-chairs/

Dean Baker: On hugely important issues, leading economists often get things wrong. Very wrong. @ceprdc

The Four Economists' Big Letter

http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/34946-the-four-economists-big-letter

Apparently for too many, "American exceptionalism" means exceptional stupidity

10 New Ways Other Countries Are Actually Solving Problems—and Kicking Our Ass | Alternet

http://www.alternet.org/world/10-new-ways-other-countries-are-actually-solving-problems-and-kicking-our-ass?akid=14018.219671.tkgYDv&rd=1&src=newsletter1051558&t=7

Is it too late to bring US drone kill policy into the light of day and under the rule of law?

Obama's Most Dangerous Legacy by David Cole 

The New York Review of Books

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/02/24/obama-most-dangerous-legacy-secret-drones/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYR%20Nina%20Simone%20evictions%20Scalia&utm_content=NYR%20Nina%20Simone%20evictions%20Scalia+CID_204e12728f42553ded2a14758478b5b8&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_term=Obamas%20Dangerous%20Legacy

During Obama's Presidency, Wealth Inequality Has Increased and Poverty Levels Are Higher

... but that's none of my business

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35441-during-obamas-presidency-wealth-inequality-has-increased-and-poverty-levels-are-higher

Surrendersplaining: Corporate Dems can always be counted on to do the GOP's dirty work for them.

Eugene Debs: Better to vote for what u want & not get it, than vote for what u don't want, and get that.

Fearsplaining 101

Who has the best chance of defeating the GOP Satan in the general election?

With Donald Trump Looming, Should Dems Take a Huge Electability Gamble by Nominating Hillary Clinton?

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35436-focus-with-donald-trump-looming-should-dems-take-a-huge-electability-gamble-by-nominating-hillary-clinton

Inform yourself. Vote your hopes, not the media's fears. Make all the candidates earn your vote. Peace

If a southern racist can pass civil rights & voting rights legislation, then Obama can close Gitmo

If I'm for free speech, that means I'm in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views I despise

Blowback: Is Trump the end of the GOP?

Red-baiting: A challenge from the left has forced centrist Dems to reveal themselves as capitalist tools

The Liberal Redbaiting of Bernie 

Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/25/liberal-redbaiting-bernie

"Political correctness" ensures that no one uses the bully pulpit to bully the most vulnerable among us

In Defense of Political Correctness

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35373-in-defense-of-political-correctness

To our good friends in the Palmetto State:

Why the deafening silence on cutting the military budget? We must end the permanent war economy—now.

Why the Deafening Silence on Cutting the Military Budget? 

World Beyond War

http://worldbeyondwar.org/7106-2/

What the Bernie Sanders “Unelectable” argument says about Black lives. Informed commentary from @aeconwright

What the Bernie Sanders "Unelectable" argument says about Black lives. Informed commentary from @aeconwright

http://blackandwordy.com/2016/02/01/what-the-bernie-sanders-what-the-bernie-sanders-unelectability-argument-says-about-black-lives/

Don’t endorse any candidates before you’ve asked a few uncomfortable questions.

Pot. Kettle.

How about a month of no polls, all policy?

.@DemocracyNow slays the corporate media on their own turf, asks: "How about a month of no polls, all policy?"

http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/02/21/how-about-a-month-of-no-polls-all-policy.cnn

Nobody Shouted "English Only" at Dolores Huerta

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35343-nobody-shouted-qenglish-onlyq-at-dolores-huerta

Key corporate media terms decoded, via @AdamJohnsonNYC

Translating 8 of the Media's Code Words to Reveal Their Imperial Mindset | Alternet

http://www.alternet.org/media/translating-8-most-common-code-words-reveal-us-medias-imperial-mindset?akid=13998.219671.GYKmM-&rd=1&src=newsletter1051112&t=3

Leftists: Do you feel like you’re being blackmailed? Or given a “take it or leave it” proposition?

Nevada Was a Huge Step for Sanders

Test your Political I.Q.

True/False:

Nevada was a huge step for Sanders

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35324-focus-nevada-was-a-huge-step-for-sanders

Values voting: Bernie represents the best of prophetic Jewish culture, the basis of prophetic Christian culture

Clinton vs. Sanders, Statecraft vs. Soulcraft

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35325-focus-clinton-vs-sanders-statecraft-vs-soulcraft

Sanders Wins Latino Vote in Nevada - Bernie Sanders

Test your political literacy

True/False:

Bernie won the latino vote in NV by 8 points

https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-wins-latino-vote-in-nevada/

Test your political literacy

Test your political literacy

True/False:

HRC has said that single payer healthcare "will never, ever come to pass"

https://youtu.be/BG7w3Oey3xs

Both Democratic and Republican Establishments Refuse to Acknowledge the Rebellion Occurring Against Them

Referenda on political dynasties

Part 1: Electorate has said 'No' to the House of Bush

Part 2: TBD

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35307-focus-both-the-democratic-and-republican-establishments-refuse-to-acknowledge-the-rebellion-occurring-against-them

2016 election is a referendum on Bill Clinton and Clintonism. It's like Peronism in Argentina

The bad: Bernie needs help on international policy The good: We can help him. He'll probably listen

The bad: Bernie needs help on international policy
The good: We can help him. He'll probably listen

Libya 2.0? After Sowing Chaos with 2011 Invasion, US Bombs Destabilized Nation | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/19/libya-20-after-sowing-chaos-2011-invasion-us-bombs-destabilized-nation

If a Political Revolution Is Born, It Will Have Little to Do With Bernie or Hillary, but Everything to Do With Us

Michelle Alexander offers a way through the unproductive toxicity that lefty twitter has become

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35292-focus-if-a-political-revolution-is-born-it-will-have-little-to-do-with-bernie-or-hillary-but-everything-to-do-with-us

Dear Hillary, you're plenty hawkish and pro-Bibi to win the nomination and the election. Lighten it up

Hillary Clinton With Little Notice, Vows to Embrace an Extremist Agenda on Israel

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35299-hillary-clinton-with-little-notice-vows-to-embrace-an-extremist-agenda-on-israel

Trump walks back Bush impeachment comments - The Washington Post

Pelosi: no impeachment

Obama: look forward, not backward

Result: craven opportunist almost pwns the issue

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/14/trump-walks-back-bush-impeachment-comments/

Beyoncé’s cultural signifying doesn't illuminate political conditions. "Formation" is thoroughly neoliberal.

Beyoncé Slays Black People | Orchestrated Pulse

http://www.orchestratedpulse.com/2016/02/beyonce-slays-black-people/

How will your candidate's proposals spur economic growth? Will all levels of society participate?

Why Bernie's Proposals Would Spur Economic Growth

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35280-why-bernies-proposals-would-spur-economic-growth

"Underinsured": Having insurance via ACA, but unable to afford care because of the deductibles, copays etc.

John Geyman: 'The Human Face of ObamaCare' and what comes next 

Physicians for a National Health Program

http://www.pnhp.org/news/2016/january/john-geyman-the-human-face-of-obamacare-and-what-comes-next

Tony Kushner Identifies as Socialist While Supporting Clinton | News | teleSUR English

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Tony-Kushner-Identifies-as-Socialist-While-Supporting-Clinton-20160206-0005.html

Clintonism on trial: Dems used to enforce anti-trust laws. Then, big became inevitable, even progressive

The issue is not Hillary Clinton's Wall St links but her party's core dogmas

Thomas Frank | Opinion | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/feb/16/the-issue-is-not-hillary-clintons-wall-st-links-but-her-partys-core-dogmas

Clintonism on trial: Ever since NAFTA, Dems have been promising to reverse it, but then pass WTO, TPP etc.

The issue is not Hillary Clinton's Wall St links but her party's core dogmas 

Thomas Frank | Opinion | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/feb/16/the-issue-is-not-hillary-clintons-wall-st-links-but-her-partys-core-dogmas

By almost taking on the 9/11 taboo, Trump shows more courage than all the Dems inside Permanent Washington

Trump walks back Bush impeachment comments - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/14/trump-walks-back-bush-impeachment-comments/

Seismic: By almost calling for Bush impeachment, Trump's to the left of Hillary, Bernie, Obama, Pelosi etc

Trump walks back Bush impeachment comments - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/14/trump-walks-back-bush-impeachment-comments/

Thomas Frank: Voters in NH didn't reject Hillary the Capable. Instead, they vetoed Clintonism by 20 points

The issue is not Hillary Clinton's Wall St links but her party's core dogmas

Thomas Frank | Opinion | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/feb/16/the-issue-is-not-hillary-clintons-wall-st-links-but-her-partys-core-dogmas

Thomas Frank: Dems rejected New Deal & the working class in favor of a technocratic elite

The issue is not Hillary Clinton's Wall St links but her party's core dogmas

Thomas Frank | Opinion | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/feb/16/the-issue-is-not-hillary-clintons-wall-st-links-but-her-partys-core-dogmas

A funny thing happened on the way to the coronation

Hillary Clinton Brought This on Herself: How a Democratic Primary Coronation Turned Into a War | Alternet

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/hillary-clinton-brought-herself-how-democratic-primary-coronation-turned-war?akid=13985.219671.WvrX6W&rd=1&src=newsletter1050817&t=14

Textron Systems of Providence, RI: Makes the internationally-banned cluster bombs killing civilians in Yemen

Meet the American Firm Whose Internationally Banned Cluster Bombs Are Killing Civilians in Yemen

Alternet

http://www.alternet.org/world/meet-american-firm-whose-internationally-banned-cluster-bombs-are-killing-civilians-yemen?akid=13985.219671.WvrX6W&rd=1&src=newsletter1050817&t=2

Support Apple in the current encryption battle of the much larger civil liberties war

Why We Support Apple in Encryption Battle

Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/17/why-we-support-apple-encryption-battle

I’d like to see the electorate have a more oppositional, skeptical, testy relationship with *all* candidates

John Lewis never saw Bernie at civil rights events. I wonder how many times he saw the Clintons there.

Kissinger’s War Crimes Are Central to the Divide Between Hillary and Bernie

https://theintercept.com/2016/02/12/henry-kissingers-war-crimes-are-central-to-the-divide-between-hillary-clinton-and-bernie-sanders/

Americans love to mock the British for choosing--in the 21st century--to live under a monarchy. And yet...

Two Former U.S. Presidents Simultaneously Advocate for a Close Family Member as the Next U.S. President

Common Dreams

Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/16/two-former-us-presidents-simultaneously-advocate-close-family-member-next-us

When White Men Rape

When White Men Rape

Bill Cosby. David Bowie. Power. Privilege. Sexual assault. Rape culture.

http://www.forharriet.com/2016/01/when-white-men-rape.html#axzz40Cn3cyuv

Rejecting Bourgeois Feminism. Commentary by @RoqChams Roqayah Chamseddine

roqayah | Rejecting Bourgeois Feminism

https://www.roqchams.com/2016/01/16/rejecting-bourgeois-feminism/

"The greatest prosperity of all": Why the US once had a 90% top marginal income tax rate #GOPDebate

http://youtu.be/CnrEHFwZ9hk

Why America Had A 90% Income Tax | Michael Hudson

http://michael-hudson.com/2011/01/why-america-had-a-90-income-tax/

While everyone’s been distracted, the IMF is diligently kickstarting Cold War 2.0 #GOPDebate

The IMF Changes its Rules to Isolate China and Russia | Michael Hudson

http://michael-hudson.com/2015/12/the-imf-changes-its-rules-to-isolate-china-and-russia/

Bernie Sanders Promises to Free Half a Million Prisoners in First Term

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/35173-bernie-sanders-promises-to-free-half-a-million-prisoners-in-first-term

What Next in the War on Clintonism?

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/12/what-next-in-the-war-on-clintonism/

Most Inhuman Henry Kissinger Quotes 11. “What a splendid little war; too bad they both can’t lose”

The Top 10 Most Inhuman Henry Kissinger Quotes | Alternet

http://www.alternet.org/world/top-10-most-inhuman-henry-kissinger-quotes?akid=13969.219671.ANB44Y&rd=1&src=newsletter1050548&t=8

Welfare. Prison. Poverty. Inequality. Iraq. Get beyond speeches & photo ops. Hold your candidate to real issues.

Cold War Humor: US fought communism with the most socialist institution it had—the US military #BlackForumMN

Chuck Schumer (D-Wall Street) in a senate leadership position. Did irony just die?

Dems test-drive new election-year message - POLITICO

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/senate-democrats-2016-message-219157

Did irony just die? @RBReich: Bill Clinton scolds Bernie for supporting a bill which he (Clinton) signed into law

https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/?target_post=1150201144992480&ref=story_permalink

Which candidate is most likely to re-boot the Cold War?

6 Reasons Not to Reboot the Cold War

Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/11/6-reasons-not-reboot-cold-war

.@JacobinMag: Power elite within the Dems has launched a virtually unprecedented attack against Candidate B

The War on Bernie Sanders | Jacobin

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/02/bernie-sanders-democratic-party-primary-president-iowa-caucus-new-hampshire-primary/

True or false? The Sanders campaign is about the platform, not the candidate.

The Bernie Coalition | Jacobin

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/01/bernie-sanders-democratic-president-primary-new-hampshire-iowa-caucus/

What Obamacare Can’t Do: Single-payer is still the best way to achieve universal health care.

What Obamacare Can't Do | Jacobin

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/02/gaffney-single-payer-sanders-healthcare-obamacare-aca-clinton/

180 years before Barack Obama, Mexico had a president of African descent: Vicente Guerrero #IfIHadTrumpsMoney

Hillary’s war policies, which wound and traumatize women around the world, are not compatible with feminism

Dear Hillary, Madeleine and Gloria: Full Feminism Demands We Say No to America's Deadly Imperial Wars

Alternet

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/dear-hillary-madeline-and-gloria-full-feminism-demands-we-say-no-americas-deadly

Dear Hillary, Madeleine and Gloria: Full Feminism Demands We Say No to America's Deadly Imperial Wars | Alternet

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/dear-hillary-madeline-and-gloria-full-feminism-demands-we-say-no-americas-deadly

The old-school pundits. Those hip insider websites. Both getting it wrong. #NHPrimary #haiku

Getting Change Wrong

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35099-getting-change-wrong

Don't read the Comments sections. #GreetTheAliensIn5Words #NHPrimary

Help us liberate our students. #GreetTheAliensIn5Words #NHPrimary

Capitalism is killing us quickly. #GreetTheAliensIn5Words #NHPrimary

Our priorities are all wrong. #GreetTheAliensIn5Words #NHPrimary

Help us stop all wars. #GreetTheAliensIn5Words #NHPrimary

No aliens are "illegal" here. #GreetTheAliensIn5Words #NHPrimary

Embrace the life that is. #GreetTheAliensIn5Words

The boys are with Bernie. #GreetTheAliensIn5Words #NHPrimary

We The People rule here. #GreetTheAliensIn5Words #NHPrimary

We are the ninety-nine percent. #GreetTheAliensIn5Words #NHPrimary

Don’t be more devoted to order than you are to justice—or liberation. #NHPrimary

Mutual aid: Direct action gets the goods #NHPrimary

MLK to Andrew Young: "Capitalism is a failed system..." Who has a complete citation? Quoted by @profwolff

Would millennials find this piece, written by a millennial about millennials, ageist? Demeaning?

Should Millennials Get Over Bernie Sanders? - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/should-millennials-get-over-bernie-sanders

Single Payer Saves Money by Saying No to the Insurance Industry, Not Patients (Listen Up, Paul Krugman)

'Single Payer Saves Money by Saying No to the Insurance Industry' — FAIR

http://fair.org/home/single-payer-saves-money-by-saying-no-to-the-insurance-industry/

.@PRobert06: The power elite may be tiring of Dems' identity politics--first a black man, then a woman etc.

.@PRobert06: The power elite wants a war candidate. That candidate isn't Sanders, and it isn't Trump

.@PRobert06: Obama has delivered to the power elite far more than any GOP president could have

.@PRobert06: The Clintons are no longer serving the interests of the power elite. They are the power elite

.@SenSanders: ... We cannot continue to turn our backs on an entire generation of young people.

Obama as Wall Street’s Manchurian Candidate @probert06 @washspec

Pascal Robert: Obama as Wall Street's Manchurian Candidate | BREAKING VIEWS

http://washingtonspectator.us/jo15/index.php/BREAKING-VIEWS/pascal-robert-obama-as-wall-streets-manchurian-candidate.html#.VroZzGt5mSP

Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Danger of the Black Cultural Tour Guide | Black Agenda Report

http://blackagendareport.com/content/ta-nehisi-coates-and-danger-black-cultural-tour-guide

Water of Flint

Water you fighting for

http://wateryoufightingfor.com/

Young women not backing Hillary are neither boy-crazy nor headed for a special place in hell

Bernie's Women Supporters to Clinton Backers: Please Stop Calling Us Stupid

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/35067-bernies-women-supporters-to-clinton-backers-please-stop-calling-us-stupid

Abuse of a political dissident, one who dares to take on mighty vested interests

The Liberal Hounding of Julian Assange: From Alex Gibney to The Guardian 

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Liberal-Hounding-of-Ju-by-Jonathan-Cook-Asylum_Detention_Guardian_Julian-Assange-160208-824.html

Will the USA tire of cruelty without mercy w. respect to the refugees her policies are creating, as in AUS?

Signs at last that Australia has tired of cruelty without mercy to refugees | David Marr |... - Linkis.com

http://linkis.com/www.theguardian.com/m2phV

Hillary, Paul Krugman and the diminished politics of “we must not try.” Listen folks: When we fight, we win

Why We Must Try | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/08/why-we-must-try

Planning to bomb another majority Muslim country & calling for better treatment of Muslims at home. #Schrödinger

Former CIA asset walks it back

1971 Gloria Steinem swats 2016 Gloria Steinem for saying, you know, the boys are with Bernie…

Super Bowl Sunday mood

Wisdom from Don Miguel Ruiz

No human being is "illegal." We don't call jaywalkers "illegal pedestrians," or speeders "illegal drivers."

Pandering to some imagined “middle class” is a diminished politics: $250,000 a Year Is Not Middle Class

$250,000 a Year Is Not Middle Class - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/opinion/campaign-stops/250000-a-year-is-not-middle-class.html?_r=0

Why Do Employers Still Routinely Drug-Test Workers?

https://painkills2.wordpress.com/2016/01/07/why-do-employers-still-routinely-drug-test-workers/

This Is What $15 an Hour Looks Like | The Nation

http://www.thenation.com/article/this-is-what-15-an-hour-looks-like/

Elaine Brown: We want a world where everyone can go to a nice place, with beautiful tables & nice glassware

From Jail to Farm to Table - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/jail-farm-table

Maybe it's the politics or the policies, instead of the polish

Cable news outlets tend to give us the news we want, but not the news we need

22 Senate Dems seek deportation raid halt, break with Obama - US News

http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2016-01-22/22-senate-dems-seek-deportation-raid-halt-break-with-obama

22 Senate Dems put President Obama on notice to halt deportation raids

22 Senate Dems seek deportation raid halt, break with Obama - US News

http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2016-01-22/22-senate-dems-seek-deportation-raid-halt-break-with-obama

Bernie needs to evolve beyond his naïve idea of having Sunni states lead the fight against Sunni jihadists

Giving Peace Very Little Chance

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35040-giving-peace-very-little-chance

Whatever politicians you support, make demands of them: When we fight, we win! No more diminished politics!

Defenestration 101

Bernie must get out in front of the extrajudicial assassinations status quo. His ratings will pop

For the next 2 years: Navy using US citizens as pawns in domestic war games. Investigation by @DahrJamail

EXCLUSIVE: Navy Uses US Citizens as Pawns in Domestic War Games

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34367-exclusive-navy-uses-us-citizens-as-pawns-in-domestic-war-games?tmpl=component&print=1

Are we out of the Great Recession? Maybe. But we're not in any meaningful recovery.

Unemployment may be "down," but CBO predicts labor force participation will continue to decline

CBO's Labor Force Projections Through 2021 | Congressional Budget Office

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/22011

Ending endless war is the most important issue of Campaign '16, but is getting only cursory treatment

Giving Peace Very Little Chance

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35040-giving-peace-very-little-chance

Preventable deaths: US ranks 19th of 19 industrialized nations #GOPDebate

Fix It Healthcare At The Tipping Point

http://fixithealthcare.com/

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, David Bowie: Verbatim

Verbatim: David Bowie in his own words h/t @JoolsGloves

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06z5pts

Not in the Job Report: US economy needs to add about 180,000 jobs a month just to keep up with population growth

Job Growth Slows in January, Unemployment Falls to 4.9 Percent 

Center for Economic and Policy Research

http://cepr.net/data-bytes/jobs-bytes/jobs-2016-02

Student debt relief, paid for by the banks, is like a new GI Bill #MillennialBillOfRights

For the Student Debt Movement, Jubilee Is an Old Idea Made New

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34714-for-the-student-debt-movement-jubilee-is-an-old-idea-made-new

Nothing says “progressive” and “anti-establishment” more than praising Henry Kissinger, at-large war criminal

Dems win w. big voter turnout. Voter turnout is high when voters have real progressive candidates. Any questions?

Postcard From Austerity: Unemployment rate for African Americans rose by 0.5%, for African American teens by 1.5%

Job Growth Slows in January, Unemployment Falls to 4.9 Percent 

Center for Economic and Policy Research

http://cepr.net/data-bytes/jobs-bytes/jobs-2016-02

#INeverWantToExperience US “democracy”