The list of Palestinians to be potentially released by Israel has 300 names:
—270 children
—30 women
—233 have not been convicted of anything
—21 are accused of throwing stones
Great job to the 10 Democrats who voted *against* the Wyden-Daines amendment that would have prohibited FBI warrantless surveillance of web browser history. Special shout out to Bernie Sanders who didn’t show up to vote. It was defeated by *one* vote.
I have what is considered to be excellent health insurance. My family spent approximately $15,000 out of pocket in 2019. I do not love my “excellent,” employer-based health insurance. In fact, it’s awful.
I don’t get Warren’s attack on Sanders record, saying he’s been on the right side of a slew of issues for 30 years but lost many battles. He stood up to powerful establishments of both parties when it was unpopular but right and he also did it while she was a Republican.
Sorry, this is not "looting." This is people who are being starved and systematically killed off by Israel's onslaught, desperately trying to find food for themselves, their children, for pregnant women.
🔴 IDF released aerial footage showing how a Palestinian crowd in northern
#Gaza
attacked the trucks bringing humanitarian aid and as a result, dozens died from overcrowding, and trampling
The United States will pursue visa restrictions against individuals involved in or meaningfully contributing to the undermining of peace, security, or stability in the West Bank.
As the Democratic elite consolidate around Joe Biden, it is abundantly clear that Bernie Sanders' campaign-- and the justice movements that fuel it--represents one of the most serious threats to institutional political and economic power in this country in modern history.
This was a pernicious lie that was promoted by Biden and his administration to justify Israel’s attacking of hospitals. Those of us who warned that this was a lie at the time were accused of being Hamas propagandists.
A Washington Post investigation has found no proof of a Hamas command center under al-Shifa Hospital following Israel’s attack on the medical complex
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The Sanders response to coronavirus and what should be done is infinitely better than the one put out by Biden’s handlers. Not even in the same universe. Sanders lays out a plan for everyone with special focus on the most vulnerable people in our society.
Hatred for Bernie Sanders doesn’t address how atrocious Joe Biden’s public record is. It doesn’t address his constant lying about his role in civil rights and being arrested in apartheid South Africa. It doesn’t cancel out how disoriented and confused he is.
The attacks on Sanders on Cuba, Nicaragua, Latin America, etc. are meant to distract & they’re pathetic attacks. But if that’s the debate they insist on having, then let’s have a real, honest debate on the murderous US policies that Sanders was opposing.
What is also notable here is that Sanders does not counter the attack by going after Warren. He says he disagrees with her commentary on him and then proceeds to calmly describe some of his record.
One thing, among many, that’s remarkable when US politicians accuse activists of being on the payroll of some nefarious force is these politicians are completely bought & paid for by special interests themselves, including the war industry. They can’t fathom sincere principles.
It is so obvious, but it is shameful that we are not seeing every single Democrat in this country fighting like hell for Medicare for All, UBI at a *minimum* of $2,000 a month, canceling rent and mortgage payments and a ban on denying health care to anyone for financial reasons.
Bernie Sanders forcefully told the truth tonight in the Democratic presidential debate about US dirty wars in Central and South America and coups around the world when he was red-baited by Joe Biden.
Let’s be clear: The DNC allowed its debate rules to eliminate candidates of color but changed them for a white billionaire who still supports the Iraq war, presided over racist police policies, spied on Muslims, and was a lifelong Republican with the record to prove it.
CNN is investigating a secret Bernie Bro operation called "It has been public on YouTube for 5 years" in an effort to get to the bottom of this vicious Bloomberg recording that accurately reflects his exact views.
Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard shows the chains used to secure Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.
"This is not what students bring to school. This is what professionals bring to campuses and universities."
To the people who keep demanding that Bernie Sanders be vetted, do you really think there’s some smoking gun that Hillary Clinton, Mike Bloomberg and the entire DNC power structure haven’t released? Insane amounts of money have been spent trying to dig up dirt on Bernie.
The Israeli government narrative surrounding the Palestinian prisoners being released during this temporary ceasefire is both insidious and dishonest.
Israel is asking the world to believe that these people are all dangerous terrorists, yet it has built a kangaroo military court…
Donald Rumsfeld was a merciless war criminal who presided over systemic torture, massacres of civilians, illegal wars. That’s his legacy and how he should forever be remembered.
The Democratic Party's throwing of
@IlhanMN
under the bus is an (unfortunately unsurprising) disgrace. She raised entirely legitimate concerns about US support for the murderous apartheid government of Israel & the subservience of US politicians to the agenda of a foreign power.
Germany's ambassador to Israel omits that the man in this picture was an Israeli soldier who, according to the IDF, was in a tank on October 7 and was killed in a military battle with Hamas.
After months of uncertainty Shay Levinson, a son of Israel and Germany, has been confirmed dead; killed by Hamas on 7/10. Shay believed in peaceful coexistence, he was the only Jewish player in an all-Arab volleyball team. May the memory of this beautiful young soul be a blessing
The corporate media & establishment panic over Sanders created a myth that pretends tonight was some epic defeat for Sanders. In reality, he is fighting very powerful political & economic forces and insidious smears and propaganda. This is a close race. Keep all this in context.
The head of the aid organization that runs the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza, now under sustained assault by Israeli forces, wrote a letter to Pres. Biden:
"You have destroyed the international rules of the game, insulted the authority of the UN, torn apart the sense of justice,…
The richest person in the world, Jeff Bezos, had a meeting to discuss how to smear a warehouse worker who demanded a safe workplace for his colleagues. You can share your thoughts on it with former Obama WH spokesman and current Amazon PR hack
@JayCarney
:
Israel does not want any journalists they cannot control and censor to witness their mass killing campaign in Gaza, so they are systematically killing the Palestinian journalists who are the eyes and ears of the world, reporting from this Israeli-enforced killing cage.
Is it not relevant, as people call Tara Reade a liar, that Joe Biden has a very well documented record of blatantly lying in public, including recently, about various parts of his life? He had to withdraw from a race for president because of plagiarism and lying.
This is a significant move, particularly because the action is being brought by South Africa, a nation that fought for its own liberation against an apartheid regime supported for decades by the US.
South Africa institutes proceedings against the State of Israel before the International Court of Justice under the Genocide Convention and requests provisional measures
If it is Biden vs Trump in the general, the guaranteed winners include: the war industry, the health insurance and pharmaceutical lobby, Wall Street and big banks, AIPAC, the student debt industry and billionaires.
This is a code red situation. If Democrats run Biden, Trump is going to be President for 4 more years. No amount of yelling about how much you hate Bernie Sanders or celebrating primary victories is going to change that. People who want Trump gone need to change direction fast.
Let’s try to detangle this. Bernie, a Jewish man whose family members were killed in the holocaust, wins the Nevada caucus, and Bernie and his unprecedented diverse coalition are the Nazis and Chris Matthews, the DNC and MSNBC are now occupied France?
For all the talk of toxic supporters, Biden Democrats have sent a loud scornful message to the people demanding urgent action on health care, student debt, climate and many other issues that their voices don’t matter. That’s the tone. Scorn. Mock. Shame. People won’t forget it.
No one should be assaulted by the police in this way. But for the record, this 75 year old is a pacifist Catholic Worker who dedicated his life to nonviolence, serving the poor, living the Sermon on the Mount & fighting for justice in the spirit of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin.
Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment.
@OANN
I watched, he fell harder than was pushed. Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?
The brave students at Columbia and other universities have held a mirror to the face of the US empire. The state uses extreme force against its own children at home in a futile attempt to crush their dissent against the state's facilitation of a genocide abroad.
If you love your health insurance, you can keep it. Unless someone decides you can’t keep your job. Then you don’t have any health insurance. Or you have to pay even more for it with money you don’t have.
Israel’s so-called UNRWA dossier, which was laundered by the US government and the WSJ as some smoking gun, has now been seen by other media. Channel 4 says it “provides no evidence to support its explosive new claim that UNRWA staff were involved with terror attacks on Israel."
The sociopaths defending Israel’s mass killing of civilians often respond to images of children the IDF murdered by saying, “If Hamas surrenders, this will all end.” Implicit in this position is a belief that Israel killing 13,000+ children is acceptable. Deeply sick people.
What
@IlhanMN
is doing--taking on major, destructive US foreign policy with refreshing honestly and clarity--is dangerous in Washington DC. She is going to face the full force of both parties because of this. She is a rare voice and deserves our defense. It is going to be ugly.
Today, we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — a man whose fight for equality strengthened our nation.
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
Before Trump was elected, you said he was the “easiest to beat” candidate, while I warned that Trump was a fascist & that running a corporate Democrat would give us Trump. Now you are going to do it again & help Trump further consolidate his fascism. You are part of the problem.
I don’t have any inside information about al Shifa hospital, which is currently being raided by Israeli forces, but here is some context: In 1983, Israel built an underground operating room and tunnels under the hospital. This is not a secret. Israel has claimed that over the…
** “Reporters” for The New York Times and Wall Street Journal Who Authored Incendiary Stories Have Ties to Israeli Propaganda Efforts**
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have both published major stories making grave, incendiary allegations that aided and abetted…
Honestly, give Hardball to
@mehdirhasan
. I wouldn’t want to lose him as an
@theintercept
colleague, but he would be a tremendous interrogator of the powerful.
Donald Trump is criminally incompetent & willfully ignorant. Joe Biden has been missing for days & says he’s trying to figure out the internet & is asking for campaign contributions. Bernie Sanders is holding virtual townhalls & raising $millions for vulnerable communities.
A white surrogate for Buttigieg said
@ninaturner
should be “muzzeled.” A white surrogate for Strom Thurmond’s friend Joe Biden told Turner she has no standing to discuss Martin Luther King Jr. Now Biden is celebrating an endorsement from Mayor Stop and Frisk, Muslim Surveillance.
Trump called Haiti, the first Black Republic in the world, the first country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery, a country consistently targeted by violent, anti-democratic US policy ever since, a shithole.
No amount of platitudes about loss of civilian life or stories about losing patience with Netanyahu can erase the fact that this is the enduring and most consequential US policy:
BREAKING: The Washington Post reports that the Biden Administration 'in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel'
The nice little painter man who passed mints to Michelle Obama at a funeral is actually a mass murderer who belongs in front of a war crimes tribunal, not being praised for releasing web videos.
George HW Bush systematically attacked the civilian infrastructure in Iraq. He turned hospitals into death rows for infants. He widely used depleted uranium, causing cancer rates to skyrocket. He made Iraq a mass graveyard. And the killing hasn’t stopped since.
Remember this vote next time one of these 10 Democrats or Sanders tells you that Trump is the most dangerous president in history. They just facilitated outrageous surveillance powers for William Barr and the FBI.
We all have an obligation to say the name of Ahmaud Arbery and use our voices, platforms and humanity to demand justice for him and for his murderers to be held accountable.
Imagine watching millions of people about to lose their healthcare and, instead of demanding it be free right now, advocating for people to be encouraged to spend money they don’t have buying insurance through a program filled with for-profit healthcare options.
Joe Biden is one of the most honest, decent, practical, & experienced individuals with whom I have ever worked. If nominated & elected, he is capable of unifying our country & restoring America’s standing around the world.
It is intellectually bankrupt for Bernie to pretend that not unifying the party today is advantageous to a democratic victory in November.
He is still taking donations from people during crisis on a campaign that has no path forward! It’s intellectually and morally bankrupt.
The people of Gaza are trapped in a fishbowl and the Israeli military, a nuclear power with the most sophisticated weaponry available, is just murdering them. This is an abomination and a crime against humanity.
If the US government actually believed its own recent rhetoric, this incident alone would justify an immediate cutting off of all US military assistance to Israel.
“They were all killed, executed at gunpoint.”
In exclusive testimonies obtained by Al Jazeera, witnesses describe the horrific sights they encountered inside a school in northern Gaza following an Israeli attack.
People attacking Sanders for endorsing Biden are either being disingenuous or didn’t study Sanders’ career. He chose to run in the Dem Primary. He played by its rules. People who supported Sanders with eyes wide open knew this was a given if he lost. He told you he would do it.
Biden is growing really really impatient with Netanyahu and Blinken is so distraught over the dead Palestinian children. Oh well, I guess their only option is to veto yet another UN ceasefire resolution and rush Israel more U.S. bombs.
The Republicans on the Judiciary are bona fide sociopaths. The courage and bravery of Dr. Ford is incredible. This entire nation owes her a tremendous debt for what she has done in the face of powerful, despicable men. Every minute they continue this gross inquisition is a crime.
Palestinian doctors “are working on a daily basis on the most horrific, explosive trauma that you’ve ever seen. They’re doing sometimes 14, 15 amputations, mostly on children, per day, and they’ve been doing it for six months now.”
The director of al Shifa hospital in Gaza told al Jazeera:
—22 ICU patients died overnight. He said the hospital “lost all those who were in the intensive care unit.”
—There are 7,000 people still in the hospital.
—Dead bodies are piling up, morgue is full and no refrigerator…
Israel is engaged in a barely concealed propaganda campaign to further starve Gaza and to distract from its own war crimes. Now they’ve gotten the WSJ to basically print a press release thinly disguised as a news article about an Israeli “intelligence dossier” on UNRWA.
Joe Biden has invented an entirely fictional story that he was arrested in apartheid South Africa with the US ambassador to the UN. That ambassador says it never happened. Biden has told the story numerous times recently. If Bernie did this, it would be all we would hear about.
You don’t get to make the rules about how oppressed people rebel after you murder an unarmed Black man in cold blood and give badges to white supremacists and call them the law.
Israeli "journalist" Edy Cohen is running a poll asking his followers to vote on whether they hope Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh should be killed. Wael's wife, two of his children and his grandchild were already killed by the IDF. As was his cameraman. Sickening.
I don’t look at Sanders losing primaries and think “my team is losing.” I look at them and say, win or lose, we have millions of people in this country who understand the realities of our world and the urgency required to fight for healthcare, against war and for justice.
Remember: during the lead up to the 2003 Iraq war, the US was obsessed with using Iraq's alleged non-cooperation with UN inspectors as a grave red line requiring war. Now, Israel is literally killing UN employees in record numbers and the US position is: yeah, let's defund UNRWA.
The DeVos & Prince families have a long record of financing the most dangerous right wing extremist individuals & causes in the country. They gave the seed money to the radical religious right, poured money into anti-choice groups & are funding the current coronavirus "protests."
The attacks against Bernie for being on the right side of history are both amusing to watch and also a powerful indicator of how brainwashed US society is about its own history.
1. I support withdrawing US troops from all these wars, overt and covert.
2. Trump is an unstable authoritarian who cannot be trusted.
3. “Mattis was an adult” is bullshit. He’s a hawkish war criminal.
4. It’s very telling that the war party in DC is furious.
The continued imprisonment of
@xychelsea
is an utter disgrace. The arrest of Julian Assange represents an extremely dangerous crossing of the rubicon. This is an assault on journalism and a free press. All journalists should stand in fierce opposition.