Bernie is suggesting topic specific debates. This would require more than a bumper sticker level of response. The threat of this kind of exposure might well clear the fools from the race and encourage more knowledgeable candidates well versed in the issues of the position. Climate is a must have topic.

The crucial difference with BLM is that much of the violence directed toward Blacks is systematically state financed. Note that all violence is not physical.

Great show Thom. This "Progresive Panel" is soooooo much better than "The Rumble". I shared it on FB. Many good points made in the entire show - without ridiculous interruptions and bickering nonsense from the"pugs".

About Bernie’s stance toward the Dems’ establishment: TRUE or FALSE? - “ It isn’t the case that one can deny that Bernie is not among those who reject Antidisestablishmentarianism."

This is EXACTLY why it is necessary to have GMO and other labelling on all of our food. BUT, as was mentioned here, these companies have so much money, that employ strong lobbyists that are the greater voice...as does happen in other third world countries. This should be really frightening to EVERYONE!

RFL Bob et al., don't play the disingenuous victim card (Reminds of a time when the Clinton Administration tried to mediate the conflict and Israeli negotiators objected to their approach complaining, "No, no, no! We must be the victims!") . Max Blumenthal didn't call Israel an apartheid state because it was Jewish. Pleeeze, don't play that card! He called it that because apartheid is what is practiced there, especially in the West Bank to accomodate illegal settlements built in contravention to UN agreements and basic principles of human rights. In fact, Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize winning, non violent anti apartheid leader called it "worse than apartheid". (Did you know that Israel, according to a report on Democracy Now! of several years ago, during the BDS movement on South Africa in the early '90s, used to help South Africa circumvent the sanctions by importing South African goods, stamping "Made in Israel" on them and exporting them, then, to their original destination - brothers and comrades in apartheid, how touching?)

Israelis routinely murder Palestinian leaders and negotiators or violate a sacred Muslim site like Ariel Sharon at the Temple Mount or willfully do something else that can't but provoke Palestinians whenever peace negotiations seem to be approaching fruition. They even invaded Yassar Arafat's compound when he publicly accepted the two state solution after decades of he wanting to "push Israel into the sea".

The fact is, Israelis don't want peace. Not only do their actions leave no doubt about it but their motives are plain too. Bottom line is there is a finite amount of land and water in the region and Israel has to make room for any Jew in the world who wants to move there so there SURE ain't no room for any Palestinians.

Israel is a colonial settler state, the "A land without a people for a people without a land" business is an inhuman, genocidal cannard. The parallel between the Palestinians and Native Americans was made long before Max Blumenthal. The land was already very crowded but the indigenous people there were not European so they didn't matter.

Israel can't continue to play the helpless, hapless, homeless victim of the Jew in diaspora anymore. Israel is a major world power - in alliance with most other world powers - and, like other world powers, it abuses defenseless people (Palestinian homemade rockets are hardly more effectual than the rocks the youths throw and, besides, they are the resistance) whose concerns and survival are inconvenient for it.

I was part of an Eastern European exile community of WW II refugees in Chicago, growing up, and I was of the only small handful of its members who openly, publicly and strongly opposed the anti semitism within it - and took a lot of heat for it - and I will oppose anyone's ethnic cleansing and naziism, Jewish or otherwise (I am also of the opinion that much of the Eastern European mind, imported into Israel from Jewish communities in Eastern Europe, accounts for much of Israeli thinking and sentiment on the issues. There are a lot of "authoritarian personalities" there). I accept NO double standard!

By the way, the Israeli media has reported that the Israeli Army used the same methods to put down the Intifada as were used to suppress the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - and if you don't think Gaza's a ghetto I don't know what universe you are from.

Bad to the Bone

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Uff Dah!! - the dirty-trickster Stone, …

… and Duke and Kansas, bad to the bone.

Yet much of our citizenry will condone

this weirdly wicked “Twilight Zone”.

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Refering to high speed trading as,"..getting a look in.." I find very irritating. It is no different than past posting at a race track. Who couldn't be a billionaire if they are allowed to place their bet after the race is run. That is why billions(?) where spent on a faster cable across the Atlantic to save micro seconds in trade time.

P.S. Free college will be worth every penny you DON'T pay for it.

No More Dynasties!!!! But especially, no more Democrats or Republicans! Nothing will ever change unless you upset the apple cart and throw out the rotten apples!

WallStreetism Impedes Progressivism

{a pair of limericks}

The Democrats’ establishment is {siding} sidin’

with Hillary or maybe Joe Biden

over Bernie the Lefty

{whose support is heftie}.

Their Wall-Street-ism they’re hidin’.

. . .

America’s well-being rides

on whether America chides

against capitalists’ excesses

which make big messes, -

- impediments to progress’s strides.

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If the Mellenials turn up like it looks they will be according to the age of te crowds attending Bernie's rallies, they will not only be voting for Presidents, but for their congress members too correct? What would be the point of going out to vote and not bothering to vote for their reps in Congress? ... i agree thi must be made clear to them, but will we not have a damn good chance to eliminating the ppressive Republican majoriy in both Senate and House if the Mellenials turn out to vote? How many seats in Congress are up for reelection in 2016? That's what's important.