Bernie Sanders and AOC’s Rallies Can Become a Mass Movement
Bernie Sanders and AOC’s Rallies Can Become a Mass Movement
The “Fighting Oligarchy Tour” rallies headlined by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can become something much bigger — if Bernie and AOC direct their rally attendees into sustained organizing efforts against Donald Trump and Elon Musk.jacobin.com
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in reply to Peter Link • • •Bloomcole
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •They are too dumbed down to know what's good for them and hate 'the left' even more than Trump.
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in reply to Bloomcole • • •surph_ninja
in reply to Peter Link • • •We’ve been through this before. Don’t fall for it. Learn from your mistakes.
They’re doing damage control for the Dems. People are leaving the party in droves, so they trotted out their token progressives to pretend the party can be reformed. They’re also floating the idea of starting a completely new party, which would presumably direct members to the Dems for elections, or else they’d be advocating joining with existing leftist parties.
Bernie & AOC also still fervently support the military industry. They’re both defending arming far right extremists and proxy wars.
milicent_bystandr
in reply to surph_ninja • • •Learn from your mistakes and do what, exactly?
Begging your pardon, but your reply sounds like, "oh no, don't try to reform your party, because that's just damage control; and don't try to make a new party, became you'll just send people to the old one." At least they can try, right? It's better than nothing?
And as to your objections to their support for the military, a) those of us who support Ukraine would still like America to have a military, and to use it well; and b) what's your alternative? Can you field another candidate/pair/group to lead America into a vision you believe in? Please do!
davel
in reply to milicent_bystandr • • •If not for the US/NATO, this war wouldn’t have happened in the first place.
NATO expansion:
... show more- George Washington Univ., 2017: NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner
- Orinoco Tribune, 2022: Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War With Russia
- Al Mayadeen, 2023:
If not for the US/NATO, this war wouldn’t have happened in the first place.
NATO expansion:
- George Washington Univ., 2017: NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner
- Orinoco Tribune, 2022: Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War With Russia
- Al Mayadeen, 2023: Zelensky admits he never intended to implement Minsk agreements
- Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace
- Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine
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NATO in general:
- The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
- CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
- Noam Chomsky, 2023:
- Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism
- Gabriel Rockhill, 2020: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
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The US-backed Maidan coup and fascist paramilitary attacks on separatist eastern & southern Ukraine:
- Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
- Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: | transcript
- Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup
- Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
- Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
- Consortium News, 2023: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent comments about getting his mediation efforts squashed in the early days of the war adds more to the growing pile of evidence that Western powers are intent on regime change in Russia.
US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup - CounterPunch.org
Jeff Mackler (CounterPunch.org)