Rhapsody of a Superdelegate

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(Going to California with an aching in my heart)

Spent my days with a woman unkind

Paid my dues and renounced all that was mine

Made up my mind to make a new start

Going to California with an aching in my heart

Someone told me there’s a man out there

With massive crowds and white unruly hair

Took my chances on money and fame

Believe em when they tell you the Clintons are all the same

The shit was deep and the lies were bold

Took me till tomorrow to finally feel the cold

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Lessons for Peace from Back in the USSR

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In the early 1980s almost nobody from the United States traveled to the Soviet Union or vice versa. The Soviets wouldn’t let anybody out, and good Americans were disinclined to visit the Evil Empire. But a woman in California named Sharon Tennison took the threat of nuclear war with the seriousness it deserved and still deserves. She got a group of friends together and asked the Russian consulate for permission to visit Russia, make friends, and learn.

Russia said fine. The U.S. government, read more

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Thomas Friedman Says Hillary's Lies No Big Deal

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Most Hillary Clinton supporters, including Hillary, mostly spend their time talking about Trump, not Clinton, not Sanders, not what should be done in the U.S. government. But they don’t try to articulate a defense for this practice. A couple of obvious reasons (which they would not want to articulate) come to mind: (1) Hillary is incredibly unpopular, (2) Talking about Trump fuels the pretense that the primary is over.

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Democratic Party Ignored Its 2012 Platform

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By David Swanson, American Herald Tribune

Bernie Sanders’ accomplishment, whether he wins the most actual delegates, despite the rigged system, or not, and whether that garners him the nomination or not, has not been to persuade Hillary Clinton to pretend to support progressive policies. And it has not been to persuade the DNC to let progressive people have some say in drafting its 2016 platform. Sanders’ accomplishment has been persuading millions of people to vote for whom they choose read more

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What if Revolution Were More Than a Campaign Slogan?

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Learning From Egyptian Revolution

By David Swanson

What if people in the United States came to understand “revolution” as something more than a campaign slogan in a presidential election campaign?

Ahmed Salah’s new book, You Are Under Arrest for Master Minding the Egyptian Revolution (a Memoir), early on characterizes its own title as an exaggeration, but over the course of the book works to substantiate it. Salah was indeed as involved as anyone in building public momentum read more

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How Dateline NBC Lies About Drones

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By David Swanson

NBC’s Dateline program aired pro-drone propaganda this week and has posted the video online. Their so-called report purports to be “balanced” and “even-handed.” In fact it misleadingly promotes an extremely destructive government program that millions of people would protest if they knew the actual facts of the matter.

Dateline introduces us to drones with the claim that drones have saved lives by “hitting terrorist targets.” Unlike any read more

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