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Today is the 12th anniversary of a heroic act by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi.
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Before 2020, no presidential candidate in the history of competitive primaries, Democrat or Republican, had ever won the popular vote in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada.
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Radical abolitionist John Brown was born this day in 1800.
His soul goes marching on.
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"The life of a single human being is worth more than all the property of the richest man on earth."
Che was executed 50 years ago today.
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Sad to see democratic socialists like Bernie and
@AOC
do things like buy winter coats and get haircuts.
Don’t they know that real socialists avoid purchasing goods and services?
EXCLUSIVE: Self-declared socialist AOC splurges on high-dollar hairdo
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Henry Kissinger turns 100 today. Here is Anthony Bourdain on the esteemed American statesman.
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“I’m not Bernie Sanders,” Joe Biden said at the Brookings Institution. “I don’t think 500 billionaires are the reason why we’re in trouble. The folks at the top are not bad guys... wealthy Americans are just as patriotic as poor folks.”
Well, glad we got that cleared up.
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“Look, please understand that I am far, far too rich to be materially harmed by George Bush’s policies and I am much more interested in being ‘kind’ to war criminals than I am in the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians who died as a direct result of his lies”
Yes, that was me at the Cowboys game with George W. Bush over the weekend. Here’s the whole story.
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Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, assassinated on this day in 1969, explains how the ruling class uses racism to exploit working people.
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"I acknowledge no master in human form."
Radical abolitionist John Brown was born on this day in 1800.
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Happy 93rd birthday to Noam Chomsky, one of the greatest and most principled public intellectuals the American left has ever produced.
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Ilhan Omar grilling Elliott Abrams on Iran-Contra and the US's role in the 1981 El Mozote Massacre is a thing to behold.
Omar: I fail to understand why this committee should find any testimony you give today to be truthful.
Abrams: If I could respond—
Omar: It wasn't a question.
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Radical abolitionist John Brown was born on this day in 1800.
"I acknowledge no master in human form."
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If you rearrange the letters in Pete Buttigieg it spells Petit Bourgeoisie.
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On this day in 1904, the Herero people began a revolt against the colonizers of German South West Africa. In response, the Germans ordered the killing of every Herero person within the occupied territory, marking the first genocide of the 20th century.
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"I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend."
Five years ago today,
@BernieSanders
attacked the legacy of Henry Kissinger in a presidential debate.
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Bernie Sanders is calling for a reduction in the workweek to 32 hours, at full-time pay. He’s absolutely right. Gains in productivity should serve the working class.
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We lost an irreplaceable part of the Jacobin family today. Let’s honor the life and legacy of Michael Brooks.
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The Economist backed Augusto Pinochet.
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The Internet Archive, a digital library aiming to make published materials accessible to everyone, is in danger of being shut down by four major publishers. If the publishers are successful, free access to knowledge will be in jeopardy.
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Happy 94th birthday to Noam Chomsky, one of the greatest and most principled public intellectuals the American left has ever produced.
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The coronavirus pandemic has revealed a simple fact: it’s low-wage workers that make our society run — not bankers, landlords, or CEOs.
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One obituary was never going to be enough, so we wrote a book and... waited.
Web:
Print:
@GregGrandin
@sunraysunray
@VersoBooks
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JOHN DELANEY: My colleagues don’t understand health care as a business
BERNIE: The point is, it shouldn’t be a business
#DemDebate
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"I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend."
Two years ago today
@BernieSanders
attacked the legacy of Henry Kissinger in a presidential debate.
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No one was willing to play hardball with Mitch McConnell — except Bernie Sanders.
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Bernie Sanders today on Trump's push for war with Iran:
“I know that it is rarely the children of the billionaire class who face the agony of reckless foreign policy. It is the children of working families.”
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Bernie Sanders is calling for a reduction in the workweek to 32 hours, at full-time pay. He’s absolutely right. Gains in productivity should serve the working class.
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"History is ours, and it is made by the people."
– Salvador Allende
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What a shame to live in a world without Anthony Bourdain, but with a man he loathed...
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"Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless."
Happy birthday, Noam Chomsky.
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The billionaires thought their heart-attack ray could stop him.
They were wrong.
With
@AOC
,
@RashidaTlaib
, and
@Ilhan
on his side, he is now UNSTOPPABLE
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Noam Chomsky says that Bernie Sanders is vilified by the media because he’s trying to shape US politics in the interest of working people. We shouldn’t expect anything else.
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Reminder of that time Hollywood booed Michael Moore for opposing the Iraq War. 2019 is better than 2003.
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@POTUS
: "How would it be if the United States were viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with the elections directly of other countries and everybody knew it? What would it be like if we engaged in activities that he engaged in? It diminishes the standing of a country."
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"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
Ursula Le Guin was born this day in 1929.
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Bernie Sanders is calling for a reduction in the workweek to 32 hours, at full-time pay. He’s absolutely right. Gains in productivity should serve the working class.
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Elizabeth Warren says 70,000 selfies are "the new measure of democracy."
This might be a bit better.
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Fred Hampton was assassinated 50 years ago today. Here he is explaining how elites use racism to exploit the working class.
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Renowned astronomer and anti-nuclear advocate Carl Sagan died on this day in 1996.
In 1989, he was asked if he was a socialist. Here's his response.
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He introduced Bernie to Joe Rogan. His show Secular Talk dominates YouTube. He even helped get AOC elected. So why doesn’t the media know who Kyle Kulinski is?
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We're starting to suspect that the New York Times doesn't like Bernie.
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On this day in 1920, Socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs won nearly one million votes after waging his campaign from a federal prison cell.
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Amazon workers sure would have a lot of leverage if they went on strike right now, just saying...
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Billionaires now hold so much of the world’s wealth, their apologists argue, there’s no choice but to rely on them for philanthropy. But we can’t take our eyes off the ball: We need to tax the ultrarich out of existence.
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Bernie on the difference between himself and Elizabeth Warren in a new interview with ABC News:
"Elizabeth has said that she is a capitalist through her bones.
I am not."
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A batch of quietly released documents confirms what many have long suspected: Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign worked behind the scenes to delay the release of US hostages in Iran, for the benefit of Reagan’s election campaign.
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It’s great when your two Dads get on.
Sending
@BernieSanders
my very best wishes. Hoping for a speedy recovery and a return to the campaign trail as quickly as possible.
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When Pete Buttigieg was a high school senior, he wrote a prizewinning essay praising Bernie Sanders. Here, we republish the essay in full.
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The United States is backing a right-wing coup in Bolivia.
Fully support the findings of the
@OAS_official
report recommending new elections in
#Bolivia
to ensure a truly democratic process representative of the people’s will. The credibility of the electoral system must be restored.
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Happy 95th birthday to Noam Chomsky, one of the greatest and most principled public intellectuals the American left has ever produced.
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Seventeen years ago today the Iraq War began. The conflict would kill hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, most of whom were civilians.
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On this day in 1911, Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata announced the Plan de Ayala, with the slogan "Land and Freedom!"
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Joe Biden: 44 billionaire donors
Pete Buttigieg: 39 billionaire donors
There are only about 600 billionaires in the entire United States.
#DemDebate
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Looking forward to sarcastic Bernie this campaign season:
CBS: "Howard Schultz has now said he would not run if the Dems nominate a moderate"
B: “Ohhh, isn’t that nice? Why is Howard Schultz on every television station? Why are you quoting Schultz? Because he’s a billionaire.”
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NYC mayor Eric Adams is demanding city libraries to cut their budgets by $13.6 million by the end of fiscal year 2023, and another $20.5 million over the next 3 fiscal years. This will be devastating for the services and operations of the library system.
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Michael Brooks (1983-2020)
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Noam Chomsky says that Bernie Sanders is vilified by the media because he’s trying to shape US politics in the interest of working people. We shouldn’t expect anything else.
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Happy birthday, Bernie Sanders, a leader who took socialism out of the margins and into the American mainstream for the first time in generations. His contributions to the struggle for a better world are undeniable.
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"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways — the point, however, is to change it."
Happy birthday, Karl Marx!
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Tim Pool, citizen journalist.
Yesterday Tim Pool and his podcast crew spent a whole 25-minute segment talking about the lastest Jacobin cover without a single one of them realizing it was satirical.
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On this day 50 years ago the Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland, California.
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Unsurprisingly, The Economist also said 1973 Chile was Allende's fault.
Evo Morales's resignation prompted a chorus of denunciations of a coup. But this time, at least, the critics are wrong
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"I dream of a Bolivia free of indigenous satanic rites, the city is not for 'Indians,' they better go to the highlands or El Chaco."
Introducing the new "president" of Bolivia.
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Happy birthday to the late great Ursula K. Le Guin.
"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
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"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
American author Ursula Le Guin was born this day in 1929.
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