As time rolls on it becomes ever more clear that the stablishment is doing everything possible to sabotage Sanders. Their support for Warren elicits suspicion in Jimmy Dore’s team—and us. But of course we have never taken Warren seriously as an anti-establishmentarian, and still very much distrust Sanders, albeit we recognise he might be able to shake things a bit with a vigorous campaign.
ERIC ZUESSE—The ACLU wouldn’t be able to get the huge amounts of donations that they get from liberal billionaires and their corporations, unless it excluded the basic political issue, of the super-rich versus everyone else, and so it does this: it avoids this issue — which is what makes it be a liberal organization, instead of a progressive organization (which, by its very nature, focuses on precisely issues of economic class, such as imperialism).
BK FAUNCE—When Mueller’s report was finally released to Congress and the public, it found “no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion .” Uh-oh. What about the DNC server? What about the evidence that it had been hacked by agents of the Russian gov’t? Well, not so much. Apparently, former FBI Director James Comey and Special Prosecutor Mueller simply took the word of the folks who ran CrowdStrike .
The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has warned the US that any military aggression against Iran will drag the entire Middle East into chaos, stressing that Washington will definitely not be the one who determines the end of such a scenario.