George Monbiot of the Guardian, was recently singing on the Syrian war, and yet, years ago he wrote an article about the School of America's torture manual and the cruelty inflicted on Central America, so he can't be that naive about what dirty tricks Washington's can get up to. Kevin Vincent.
One unexpected revelation, that John McCain’s death has shown us, is that we completely misjudged some notable players on the national stage. Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and even Audrey Denney in Northern California have praised the serial warmonger as some kind of national treasure. Real progressives, on the ground, expect those people to fight against John McCain’s imperial agenda of mass murder for mass profits.
So, what can we expect from the most “Progressive” Democratic Party options alive today? They have endorsed McCain without qualifying in any way the immoral criminality of his lifelong agenda of war and more war. No recollection of his Beach Boys parody, “Bomb bomb Iran.” Certainly no talk of his meeting with Al Qaeda and other Jihadist elements in both Libya and Syria! His selling Jihad as “freedom” on US television. Nothing about his supporting the ranting, raving neo-Nazis in Ukraine, nor the violent illegal coup there, which McCain was a part of.
Bernie Sanders voted to bomb Serbia in 1999 and to invade Afghanistan in 2001. It was well known that the Taliban had offered to turn over Osama bin Laden to a legitimate international court if evidence was produced to implicate him in the 9/11 attacks. Instead of pursuing this diplomatic solution, it was instead the start of an endless war that continues to this day, the longest war in America’s history. Sanders cast a vote in favor of the attack and against a peaceful diplomatic solution, against justice.
Bernie Sanders also supported:
Israeli onslaughts against the Gaza Strip, most recently the savage bombardment of July-August 2014 which killed nearly 2,000 Palestinians, including more than 500 children. At an August 2014 town hall meeting, Sanders notoriously demanded that audience members “shut up” when they questioned his support for Israel’s criminal actions.”
Further, Bernie Sanders was right on John McCain’s side in backing the 2014 fascist coup in Ukraine. “The entire world has got to stand up to Putin,” he argued, ignoring that US/EU support to a completely undemocratic seizure of power in Ukraine prompted the Russian response. So who was the real aggressor?
Are these new “Progressive” kids on the block more of the same? Did we get fooled again? With the country lurching toward a Robber Baron kakistocracy, these alternatives may seem like rays of sunshine. Perhaps they are, but the devil is in the details.
How many more wars, “Progressives?” How many?
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Less than 1% of “progressives” are actually progressive.
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Pennsylvania State University has 97,500 students across its 24 campuses. It administers $3.62 billion in endowment, and spends about $836 million a year on “research.”
What kind of “research"?
Well, one course in mathematics focuses not on math, but on Hillary Clinton’s magnificent “strength of character and force of intellect.”
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11276
Today’s students are going into severe debt for the privilege of having their minds filled with excrement.
“ the longest war in America’s history”
What’s the alternative? Kill them all, but quickly???
Konrad, I would say that less than one percent of the people even know what the word progressive means. To most it has nothing to do with economics but with gay pride, abortion, and immigration. Thanks to the media and our education system people are incredibly ignorant.
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