Why isn’t the Democratic Party landsliding the worst and cruelest Republican Party in the past 162 years?

Why the Democrats Keep Losing the Congress 

Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/31/why-democrats-keep-losing-congress

"Think of the Supreme Court!" they shouted, ignoring the corporatist, neoliberal nominees already there

This Will be Obama's Legacy

http://www.counterpunch.org/2010/04/16/this-will-be-obama-s-legacy/

Voting for the Iraq war used to be a disqualifier. Now, ignoring the Iraq war vote is considered progressive

The Five Lamest Excuses for Hillary Clinton's Vote to Invade Iraq

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/28/the-five-lamest-excuses-for-hillary-clintons-vote-to-invade-iraq/

#ImWithHerNoNotHer

All That Glitters is Feardom: Whatever Happens, Don't Blame Jill Stein

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/29/all-that-glitters-is-fearsome-whatever-happens-dont-blame-jill-stein/

Iran: Islamic Republic, imams pick the candidates. USA: Plutocratic Republic, .01% pick the candidates

The State of the Plutocracy: The Kabuki President on Money in Politics

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/15/the-state-of-the-plutocracy-the-kabuki-president-on-money-in-politics/

When you're to the left of someone who thinks they're on the left, it is not pretty

Hillary, Trump and Sartre: How Existentialism Disrobes the Major Presidential Candidates

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/28/hillary-trump-and-sartre-how-existentialism-disrobes-the-major-presidential-candidates/

Dangerous idiots: how the liberal corporate media elite failed working-class Americans, e.g. Bill Maher

Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans | Media | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/13/liberal-media-bias-working-class-americans

Electoral bigotry says: You get 100 brands of toothpaste, but only 2 parties are legitimate

LA Times - In the Nixon-Humphrey election, I refused to vote for the 'lesser of two evils.' That was a mistake

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-91735231/

.@Pambazuka asks, "Clinton or Trump: Who is better for the 54 nations of Africa?"

Clinton or Trump: Who is better for Africa? | Pambazuka News

http://www.pambazuka.org/global-south/clinton-or-trump-who-better-africa

Denasia Lawrence takes a knee to sing the national anthem at Miami Heat game

When I took the opportunity to sing the... - Denasia Lawrence | Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/denasia.lawrence/videos/1113601618728825/

Corporate media rarely cover opposition to billion-dollar corporate projects. #NoDAPL

Dakota pipeline showdown at Standing Rock: When a powerful corporate chief is resisted by defenders of Native American ceremonial grounds - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2016/10/23/dakota-pipeline-showdown-at-standing-rock-when-a-powerful-corporate-chief-is-resisted-by-defenders-of-native-american-ceremonial-grounds/

Stein/Baraka campaign debunks John Oliver’s deceptive attack on student debt bailout - Jill Stein 2016

Hi @LeeCamp, will you be covering/commenting on the @iamJohnOliver student debt smears against @DrJillStein? 

http://www.jill2016.com/stein_baraka_campaign_debunks_john_oliver_s_deceptive_attack_on_student_debt_bailout

Confident in a Clinton victory, DC's policy elite is readying for more war w. SYR, IRN, maybe RUS

Washington's New Lock-Step March of Folly – Consortiumnews

https://consortiumnews.com/2016/10/22/washingtons-new-lock-step-march-of-folly/

Don't ever impugn my leftist credentials. I knew Malcolm X when when he was still Malcolm W.

Malcolm X Perfectly Explains Why Hillary Voters Are Repeating History's Mistakes - YouTube

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eofJagcbyUI

The only way you get a politician's attention is by publicly threatening not to vote for them

The Brainwashing Of Hillary Voters Is Complete - YouTube

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mHQM49njiHM

Howard Dean: People are voting for Hillary Clinton because "she gets it."

Howard Dean Can't Lie Fast Enough To Cover A Truth He Let Slip - YouTube

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DnrcljHUdAI

The only time you get in trouble in Washington is when you accidentally tell the truth

Howard Dean Can't Lie Fast Enough To Cover A Truth He Let Slip - YouTube

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DnrcljHUdAI

Punching down: It takes a lot of corporate courage for John Oliver to marginalize the already marginalized

John Oliver Smears Jill Stein With Anti-Vax Bullsh*t - YouTube

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XdZQ0zzPxZA

John Oliver should go back to Britain where they have more than two corporate parties

John Oliver is a corporate tool who would be nobody in the USA without that awful accent

Stein/Baraka campaign debunks John Oliver's deceptive attack on student debt bailout - Jill Stein 2016

http://www.jill2016.com/stein_baraka_campaign_debunks_john_oliver_s_deceptive_attack_on_student_debt_bailout

What if Twitter were owned by the users who love it? #WeAreTwitter

What If Twitter Were Owned by the Users Who Love It by WeAreTwitter — YES! Magazine

http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/what-if-twitter-were-owned-by-the-users-who-love-it-20161019?utm_source=YTW&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=20161021

Secretary of State Clinton spoke in favor of TPP 45 times. Candidate Clinton spoke against TPP 6 times.

Listening to The Katie Halper Show (The worst thing Obama has ever done, pipeline fever & attack dogs)

On this episode of the Katie Halper Show we present the most Orwellian thing Obama has ever done and wonder if he's trying to destroy his own legacy. We chat with Credo Political director Murshed Zaheed about the TPP, secret courts, and Naughty by Nature. And we talk to Krystal Two Bulls (Oglala Lakota) from the Red Warrior Camp about the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, and why security guards sicked attack dogs on non-violent protestors and the company has already bulldozed sacred Native American burial grounds.

https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/the-worst-thing-obama-has-ever-done-pipeline-fever-attack-dogs

Politics is a struggle for power, and it's necessarily tribalistic

The idea of journalism in the First Amendment is to be adversarial to all those who wield power in society

If Snowden had occurred during a GOP administration, Democrats would have erected a 30-foot statue of him

Freud writes of the narcissism of minor difference. Our broken electoral system needs some therapy

Battle of Algiers doesn't just influence filmmaking, it influences entire foreign policies @EricMannSpeaks

'Battle of Algiers' Still Gripping In Restored New Print | KPBS

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/oct/19/battle-algiers-gripping-new-print/

War - Edwin Starr - YouTube

Until the Age of Obama, Black America was the most reliably anti-war, anti-intervention demographic

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8C4AIFgUg

After the Election, Back to Important Things

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/18/after-the-election-back-to-important-things/

Hillary’s Hide-and-Seek

New York Times covers up Hillary Clinton's problems, even when they claim to be reporting on them

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/18/hillarys-hide-and-seek/

Stop the Next President From Waging the Next War

Foreign Military Bases Around the World
USA: 800 (that we know of)
Russia: 2 (both in Syria)

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/18/stop-the-next-president-from-waging-the-next-war/

When his opponents used scorched earth politics against him, Obama never tried to mobilize his supporters

The Limits of Eloquence: the Failures of Barack Obama

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/19/the-limits-of-eloquence-the-failures-of-barack-obama/

New Portland police contract causes such public outrage that 70 police in full riot gear are called

http://communityrightspdx.org/podcast/october-18-2016-portland-voters-get-their-mayoral-debate-free-of-corporate-interference-after-all/

Why Hillary Clinton is a Bigger Concern for China than Donald Trump

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/18/why-hillary-clinton-is-a-bigger-concern-for-china-than-donald-trump/

Questions for Obama Before Leaving Office

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/19/questions-for-obama-before-leaving-office/

When the cost of the war remains hidden from public view, there is no pressure to reexamine our military strategy

The $5 Trillion Wars | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/18/5-trillion-wars

.@TedRall: The 4 powerful moves Hillary could make to close the deal against Trump...but won't

The 4 Things Hillary Could Do To Close the Deal Against Trump

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/18/the-4-things-hillary-could-do-to-close-the-deal-against-trump/

Calling yourself the sole indispensable nation sends an unsubtle message to the rest of the world

America: the Indispensable Nation…Not!

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/05/america-the-indispensable-nationnot/

WikiLeaks: Who dominates the Democratic Party’s policy thinking? In 2008, the Citigroup fix was in

The Most Important WikiLeaks Revelation Isn't About Hillary Clinton | New Republic

https://newrepublic.com/article/137798/important-wikileaks-revelation-isnt-hillary-clinton

WikiLeaks: Obama gave executives of Citigroup an “outsized role in shaping and staffing his first term"

The Most Important WikiLeaks Revelation Isn't About Hillary Clinton | New Republic

https://newrepublic.com/article/137798/important-wikileaks-revelation-isnt-hillary-clinton

#Im Going To Miss Obama Because he refused to send weapons to the Kiev fascists, something Clinton will never do

What's Behind Barack Obama's Ongoing Accommodation of Vladimir Putin?

https://theintercept.com/2016/09/09/whats-behind-obamas-ongoing-accommodation-of-vladimir-putin/

The Most Important WikiLeaks Revelation Isn’t About Hillary Clinton

https://newrepublic.com/article/137798/important-wikileaks-revelation-isnt-hillary-clinton

The Most Important WikiLeaks Revelation Isn’t About Hillary Clinton

https://newrepublic.com/article/137798/important-wikileaks-revelation-isnt-hillary-clinton

The only Bush even remotely held to account for his actions is Billy

Obama Gives Bush "Absolute Immunity" For Everything

Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/08/26/obama-gives-bush-absolute-immunity-everything

Dems are seen as "immigrant-friendly," yet deportations '09 to '16 have been the most relentless in history

"Obama Built the Structures for Trump": A Terrifying Legacy of Mass Deportation

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/38007-obama-built-the-structures-for-trump-a-terrifying-legacy-of-mass-deportation

Why Wall Street Loves Hillary - POLITICO Magazine

William D. Cohan: Why Wall Street Loves Hillary

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/why-wall-street-loves-hillary-112782

Stop blaming the Russians: CIA hacks/influences other peoples' elections all the time, only in private

Stop Blaming the Russians

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/39701-focus-stop-blaming-the-russians

Junger: PTSD arises less from combat than from returning home to the emptiness of American way of life

'Tribe' | Commonweal Magazine

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/tribe?utm_source=Main+Reader+List&utm_campaign=2756ebff1b-July+18_The_Week_at_Commonweal&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_407bf353a2-2756ebff1b-91263361

Bare knuckles: NBC sucks the air out of the Wikileaks story with its 11-y-o Trump tape, saving Clinton’s candidacy.

Soft Porn Tape Trumps Wikileaks Truths: Hillary's "Private" Lies Prevail | Black Agenda Report

http://blackagendareport.com/soft_porn_trumps_wikileaks

An insider's look at HedgeFund McRegimeChange

WikiLeaks - The Podesta Emails

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927%23efmFhxFke

Saudi-led air strike kills 140 at Yemen funeral - SFGate

Using US refueling jets & just-purchased US bombs, Saudi-led air strike kills 140 at Yemen funeral

http://www.sfgate.com/world/article/Saudi-led-air-strike-kills-45-at-Yemen-funeral-9957140.php

While you were being distracted by Trump's Access Hollywood tape, your tax dollars paid for this

Saudi-led air strike kills 140 at Yemen funeral - SFGate

http://www.sfgate.com/world/article/Saudi-led-air-strike-kills-45-at-Yemen-funeral-9957140.php

Wait--didn't Samantha Power write a book about genocide? Then why is she hanging out with the socialite war criminal himself? #Debate

Human Rights Watch (@hrw) represents the creeping weaponization of the human rights industry. smh

Human Rights Watch also supported US's Somalia intervention ('92), bombing Belgrade over Kosovo ('99), Libya war ('11). smh

Colombia referendum is the first time Human Rights Watch (@hrw) has gone explicitly against a peace deal. smh

A government is seizing control of our election process, and it is not Russia. #Debate #ExpandingTheDebate

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/39595-focus-a-government-is-seizing-control-of-our-election-process-and-it-is-not-the-russians

Since 1988: Commission on Presidential #Debate is perpetrating a fraud on the American voter. #ExpandingTheDebate

League Refuses to "Help Perpetrate a Fraud" | League of Women Voters

http://lwv.org/press-releases/league-refuses-help-perpetrate-fraud

The bogus Commission on Presidential Debates is perpetrating a fraud on the American voter #ExpandTheDebate

League Refuses to "Help Perpetrate a Fraud" | League of Women Voters

http://lwv.org/press-releases/league-refuses-help-perpetrate-fraud

Something is seriously wrong: Clinton and Trump are running for president of the same illusion

The Politics of Fear | Common Dreams

Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/06/politics-fear

Thomas Frank: It's hard to criticize power when your own leader is the most powerful person in the land

Some of Clinton's Pledges Sound Great. Until You Remember Who's President

Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/07/some-clintons-pledges-sound-great-until-you-remember-whos-president

An organization set up by the political parties is not an appropriate sponsor of presidential debates

The Corporate Vice Grip on the Presidential Debates

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/29/the-corporate-vice-grip-on-the-presidential-debates/

Hey, Clintonoids, Stop Bullying Me About My Vote

.@TedRall makes thoughtful points as usual, #6 and #7 especially.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/04/7-reasons-i-wont-vote-for-hillary-clinton/

Hillary could end Trump tonight if only she opposed neoliberal trade deals (TPP, TTIP), fracking and DAPL

Nader Gave Us Bush? No, Hillary Could Give Us Trump

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/30/nader-gave-us-bush-hillary-could-give-us-trump/

Attack of the lesser-evilists

"Power concedes nothing without a demand—it never has, and it never will."

Lesser-evil voters fail to make any demands of the least worse candidate. It's as if they're saying to said candidate, "Here, take my vote. I ask nothing in return, except that you not be that other (more evil) candidate."

That's bad civics. It's bad citizenship, and bad politics. It's also bad history. Every single progressive right that we have today was championed first by forces outside the duopoly, and became so popular that it forced either of the major parties to adopt it outright.

Lesser-evil voting has brought us nothing but progressive degradations in our democracy, and an ever-tighter ratcheting of the corporate coil around our collective neck. No thank you.

We Only Move Forward When We Demand the Impossible: An Interview With Bill Ayers

Will this be the postmortem for #Election2016?: We only move forward when we demand the impossible

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/37837-we-only-move-forward-when-we-demand-the-impossible-an-interview-with-bill-ayers

Someone tell @KathaPollitt that we only move forward when we demand the impossible. (Fear of Trump won’t do it)

Ambivalent Hillary Voters: Don't Assume Someone Else Will Stop Trump | The Nation

https://www.thenation.com/article/ambivalent-hillary-voters-dont-assume-someone-else-will-stop-trump-2/

Someone please tell the lawyers that non-citizens cannot, by definition, be tried for treason, as with Assange.

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt. #ClimateCatastrophe

Bill McKibben: Hillary Clinton needs to take a stand on the Dakota Access Pipeline - LA Times

Fear of Trump will not motivate the Democratic Party's historic constituents—only principled stands will.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mckibben-standing-rock-sioux-clinton-20160907-snap-story.html

.@BillMcKibben: Hillary Clinton not saying a word about Dakota Access Pipeline = no way to win an election

Bill McKibben: Hillary Clinton needs to take a stand on the Dakota Access Pipeline - LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mckibben-standing-rock-sioux-clinton-20160907-snap-story.html

Ironies aplenty: AFL-CIO “leadership” supports the Dakota Access Pipeline—time for new leadership. #NoDAPL

Dakota Access Foes Call on AFL-CIO to Retract Support of Pipeline

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/20/dakota-access-foes-call-on-afl-cio-to-retract-support-of-pipeline/

Every Dem senator (Gore, Kerry) voted for Scalia in 98-0 SCOTUS confirmation surrender. "Think of the Supreme Court!" #ThisWeek

Where were the Democrats? Senate confirms Scalia 98-0 to SCOTUS.

Antonin Scalia, self-made martyr - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2004/04/02/scalia_8/