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Cheese Sandwich's JournalFrances Fox Piven on Bernie Sanders and Socialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=MBuZhWfrAa4
Chomsky on socialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=K4Tq4VE8eHQ
A lot of people understand socialism to mean state control of the economy like through a centrally planned economy. Other people think socialism means just anything the government does.
Notice that Noam Chomsky expresses a different view, a view that grows straight out of the socialist tradition, and this is still one of the main ideas in the socialist movement today. Although there are many different ideas floating around, these ideas of economic democracy and workers control are an important part of what socialists are talking about these days.
Wasserman Schultz calls Jewish intermarriage a "problem"
2015
Although she does not actively "oppose" it, she identified "assimilation" and intermarriage as problems.
"We have the problem of assimilation. We have the problem of intermarriage. We have the problem that too many generations of Jews don't realize the importance of our institutions strengthening our community..."
Wasserman Schultz recently told a Jewish group that interfaith marriage is a "problem." On Tuesday, in a statement issued by the Democratic National Committee, she said she does "not oppose" it.
10 highest-paid CEOs 2015 pay raises, top earner’s pay went up 881 percent
1. Dara Khosrowshahi
Expedia
2015 pay: $94.6 million
Year-over-year change: Up 881 percent
Expedias stock return last fiscal year: 47 percent
2. Leslie Moonves
CBS
2015 pay: $56.4 million
Year-over-year change: Up 4 percent
CBS stock return: -14 percent
3. Philippe Dauman
Viacom
2015 pay: $54.1 million
Year-over-year change: Up 22 percent
Viacoms stock return: -42 percent
4. Leonard Schleifer
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
2015 pay: $47.5 million
Year-over-year change: Up 13 percent
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals stock return: 32 percent
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Sanders Is Israel’s Best Friend in 2016 — Precisely by Refusing to Bow to Its Reactionary Government
Sanders Is Israels Best Friend in 2016 Election Precisely by Refusing to Bow to Its Current Reactionary Government
by Rabbi Michael Lerner
So its no surprise that when Bernie won permission to appoint 5 of the 15 members of the Platform Committee of the Democratic Party Convention, the Times made the story focus on the possibility that 2 of these appointees, James Zogby and Cornel West, would turn the convention into a debate about US policy towards Israel, and thereby weaken Hillarys capacity to fight off Trump in the general election. There was nothing in the story to confirm that these appointees had any such intention, but that didnt keep the Times from making this front page story a way to once again stir worries that Bernie pursuing the nomination vigorously (as Hillary Clinton herself had done in 2008 against Obama even after it was clear she would not win the nomination) was going to hurt Hillarys chances in the Fall electionthus creating the story should Hillary lose that it was really all the fault of that socialist Jew from Vermont!
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Pushing Israel to negotiate a sustainable peace arrangement that would grant Palestinians an economically and politically viable state is the only path toward a sustainable peace. Sanders rather temperate remarks indicate a willingness to push Israel and Palestine both in this direction. 23 years ago when Hillary Clinton invited me to the White House and told me that she agreed with Tikkun magazines stance in support of the Israeli peace movement, she too seemed to be willing to push for a stronger stance by the U.S. in opposing Israels harsh occupation of the West Bank and subjugating 2.5 million Palestinians. But as in so many other areas, when her assessment of what was in her political interests changed, so did her principles.
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So saying Bernie is Israels best friend in the 2016 election is not meant to be an endorsement. Its just meant to speak the obvious truth that Israel and the Jewish people would benefit greatly if some US political leaders were willing to push Israel to negotiate a peace that would work for both Israel and Palestine.
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Bernie appears to be one of the very few politicians in the U.S. willing to state publicly that he wants to change the one-sided policy which pretends to be pro-Israel but actually is in fact destructive to the best interests of Israel and the Jewish people. As someone who wishes Israel to be strong and secure, I have to acknowledge this fact. And his appointment to the Platform committee of Cornel West, Jim Zogby and Congressional Representative Keith Ellison should bring Sanders praise for using his moment of fame to support his ideals, not just himself as so many other politicians might have chosen to do.
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The Young Turks Offers $1 MILLION To Host A Sanders vs Trump Debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=KYKIF0G200k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=UUCu0lzoLqQ
Social media campaign asks whether you are "man enough" to vote for Hillary
Translation: Vote for war and greed or else you're not masculine enough to satisfy this socially constructed gender role.
I simply can NOT imagine Bernie Sanders running an ad like this questioning people's gender or prodding people to be more macho by voting a certain way.
BONUS: Same model is also the face of Portland's syphilis warnings.
You can't believe anything Hillary says. She lies all the time.
Have you ever paid a technician to set up your own personal email server because it seemed more convenient than using the free one at work? Probably not.
The only reason Hillary did that was to avoid government oversight laws. Probably because she was doing some very crooked things. Probably taking money from horrible people and then providing them government services.
Her crew deleted tons of emails before they could be exposed.
They knew destroying the evidence would be a scandal. But they they made a political calculation that whatever was in those files would have been a much worse scandal. Whatever it was we'll never know, but it must have been simply awful.
False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton
False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham ClintonWriter's Voice Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=Z0qCamedvNg
In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, the mantle of feminist elect has descended on Hillary Clinton, as a thousand viral memes applaud her, and most mainstream feminist leaders, thinkers, and organizations endorse her. In this atmosphere, dissent seems tantamount to political betrayal.
In False Choices, an all-star lineup of feminists contests this simplistic reading of the candidate. A detailed look at Hillary Clintons track record on welfare, Wall Street, criminal justice, education, and war reveals that she has advanced laws and policies that have done real harm to the lives of women and children across the country and the globe. This well-researched collection of essays restores to feminism its revolutionary meaning, and outlines how it could transform the United States and its relation to the world.
Includes essays from prominent feminist writers Liza Featherstone, Laura Flanders, Moe Tkacik, Medea Benjamin, Frances Fox Piven and Fred Block, Donna Murch, Kathleen Geier, Yasmin Nair, Megan Erickson, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Catherine Liu, Amber ALee Frost, Margaret Corvid, Belén Fernández, Zillah Eisenstein, and others.
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