A pesar de todos sus logros notables, el legado de Sanders en 2020 probablemente será el de 2016, que fue el perro pastor que llevó a los progresistas al Partido Demócrata y no obtuvo nada a cambio.
Destacadas personalidades liberales, incluida Noam Chomsky, emitieron una carta abierta implorando a terceros que "se eliminen a sí mismos como un factor" en las elecciones presidenciales de 2020 para "beneficiar a toda la humanidad y a una buena parte de la biosfera".
As predictable as death and taxes is the quadrennial injunction from liberals for progressive third parties to cease and desist. Equally predictable is the warning that this will be the most decisive presidential election in U.S. history. Given the prospect of four more years of Trump, do they have a valid thesis, or are they once again just
Los políticos progresistas como Bernie Sanders deberían ser acreditados por ofrecer finalmente soluciones a las violaciones israelíes de los derechos humanos por décadas, pero esas soluciones a menudo son poco más que puntos de conversación diseñados para aplacar su base y apaciguar a Israel.
My father, the late IDF general Matti Peled, called for a two-state solution in 1967, and as is stated in my book, The General’s Son, Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, he continued
Norman Solomon sobre la campaña de Bernie Sanders, el estado del Partido Demócrata y las perspectivas de una victoria progresiva.
Joan Brunwasser, Senior Editor for OpEdNews and co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform, speaks with author, activist, and co-founder of RootsAction.org, Norman Solomon on the Bernie Sanders campaign, the state of the Democratic Party and the prospects of a progressive victory. Joan Brunwasser
In contrast to the “pink-washing” of defense contractors, progressive voices that question militarism — e.g., Sanders, Omar, Gabbard — are hectored, harried and condemned.
WASHINGTON -- With March 19 marking 16 years of continuous war in Iraq, there is a distinct feeling of deja vu in Washington, as neocon figures like John Bolton and Elliot Abrams beat the drum for war in Venezuela. Liberals and progressives have traditionally been more critical of war and militarism than their conservative counterparts. But in the
The temptation of political expediency and help from powerful special-interest lobbies often prove too much for many candidates turned members of Congress.
WASHINGTON – As a result of the midterm election, four recently elected women affiliated with the democratic-socialist PAC Justice Democrats will soon be striding through Capitol Hill as full-fledged members of Congress. These four women – Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and
After they won their primaries, some young progressives curbed their pro-Palestine rhetoric. Now they are in Washington getting oriented. Next up: early test votes in the new year sponsored by the pro-Israel lobby.
People in the pro-Palestinian community worldwide will be watching to see if any of the new left-wing progressives elected in the midterms will dare speak out—and vote against—the wishes of the Israel lobby. The answer will likely come early next year, in test votes sponsored by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, after the
