US Labor Leader Says Case for Bernie Sanders 2020 Is Simple: His ‘Life and Heart and Soul’

December 03, 2018 by Common Dreams “I always say that heroes are not made, they’re cornered,” says RoseAnn DeMoro, former head of the National Nurses United. “And I’ve never seen anybody more cornered in my life than Bernie Sanders.” by Jon Queally, staff writer Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) delivered the keynote address… Continue reading

Journalism Is Never Objective: On the Ideology of News-Media Objectivity

DECEMBER 2, 2018JOHN LAURITS (johnlaurits.com) Analysis of the major news-media’s declining credibility tends to revolve around the idea that objective journalism is being drowned out by foreign propaganda and ‘fake news’ spread by an inexhaustible legion of useful idiots via social-media. Though Democrats and Republicans disagree over whether it was the… Continue reading

‘It Is Time for Progressives of the World to Unite’: Sanders-Varoufakis Issue Open Call for New Global Movement

November 30, 2018 by Common Dreams “Our Progressive International will reclaim our communities, our cities, our countries, and our planet with a bold International New Deal that we will work, together, to deliver.” by Common Dreams staff To unify the global left and defeat the rise of fascism worldwide, reads the call… Continue reading

Germany calls for France to give its UN Security Council seat to the EU

© Carlo Allegri, Reuters | Members vote during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council about the situation in Crimea at UN Headquarters in New York, USA, November 26, 2018. Video by Jessica LE MASURIER Text by FRANCE 24  Latest update : 2018-11-28 German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz on Wednesday proposed… Continue reading

PARIS FRENCH ‘GILETS JAUNES’ PROTESTS TURN VIOLENT ON THE STREETS OF PARIS

MON, 11/26/2018 – BY KIM WILLSHER THIS ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON THE GUARDIAN (occupy.com) Police have used teargas and water cannon against fuel tax protesters in Paris after violent clashes erupted on the Champs Élysées. Thousands of demonstrators from all over France massed on the famous boulevard on Saturday to express their anger… Continue reading