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Poll: The frustrated public: Reservations about the two-party system and the fairness of the nominating process - June 1, 2016
POLL (AP-NORC full report): The frustrated public: Reservations about the two-party system and the fairness of the nominating process - AP-NORC
Voter suppression in California: 5 fast facts you need to know - Heavy.com
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Focus: The Trump-Sanders Debate - May 26, 2016
If there will be a debate between Trump and Sanders, I hope it will be conducted in a civil, respectful manner. Trump has been viciously attacked by the media, politicians and pundits calling him names such as fascist, racist, bigot, misogynist, etc. In truth Trump and Sanders are the best presidential candidates compared to their opponents which are the relics of a past of wars, economic recession, inequality, corruption. They both reflect a popular desire to clean up this mess. They both try to address the root societal problems but with different solutions. They may even find a common ground on some issues. A debate between them should highlights their differences without resorting to personal insults and disparaging remarks.
I am a Sanders supporter and I disagree with some Trump statements but I recognize the beneficial effects of his campaign. Trump defeated his opponents who were backed by powerful, moneyed interest groups and the Republican establishment and certainly this was not a small feat! He spelled out his thoughts frankly, clearly, in a non professional style. And he found an audience tired of old policies and lies by consummate politicians and looking for someone who 'tells it like it is'. Whoever become the next U.S. president, either Sanders or Trump, after the elections they will need each other’s supporters to enact their programs.
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Key issue left unraised is secret financial deals: With Clinton’s Nixonian Email Scandal Deepening, Sanders Must Demand Answers
By Dave Lindorff
When it comes to Hillary Clinton’s State Department email scandal, reporters -- and even her right-wing critics in the Republican Party -- are asking the wrong question.
Focus: Hillary Clinton - May 26, 2016
Key findings from inspector general report on Clinton emails - AP
Hillary Clinton failed to report several hacking attempts: IG - Washington Times
REPORT: Full text of the State Department report on Clinton's email practices - POLITICO
VIDEO: State Department briefing on Hillary Clinton email (Starts at 3:00 min) - C-SPAN.org
VIDEO: Why Clinton’s email woes are deemed worse than predecessors’ - PBS NewsHour
VIDEO: Judge Napolitano: State Dept audit could be ‘devastating' for Hillary - Fox News Insider
Guccifer, hacker who says he breached Clinton server, pleads guilty - NBC News
ARCHIVE: Here’s some new hacked presidential art from the Clinton White House - Gawker
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Republicans rip Clinton after IG email report - POLITICO
Trump: Email scandal might force Clinton out of race - TheHill
VIDEO: Trump: Hillary got some bad news about her emails today - YouTube
Gowdy: Benghazi probe forced exposure of Clinton email abuse - Washington Examiner
VIDEO: Senator Boxer: Clinton email audit ‘such a nothingburger’ - MSNBC
VIDEO: Pelosi: Sec. Clinton acted in ‘good conscience’ on emails - YouTube
Democrat Elijah Cummings defends Hillary’s email practices - BizPac Review
Sanders camp refuses to pounce on Clinton State IG report - POLITICO
Bernie Sanders camp: We're getting 'zero' pressure from Democrats to drop out - POLITICO
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Will You Join Me in Voting for Neither Trump Nor Clinton?
I'm committing to not vote for Clinton or Trump, and you can do the same.
The Democratic Party's undemocratic primaries are not over, and nobody has won them. It is entirely possible that Hillary Clinton will not be nominated for any office. That doesn't prevent us from going ahead and committing to never vote for either her or Donald Trump for president of the United States.
Making this commitment could send a badly needed message to the world: There are people in the United States with some minimal level of decency. It could also kickstart the movement that will be needed to resist the regime of whichever of them wins. It could also alert Californian Democrats to the need to vote for Bernie Sanders in the primary.
There's a cartoon floating around at which a Muslim U.S. voter tries to choose between "Ban my relatives from entering country" and "Bomb the s--- out of my relatives." Not much of a choice, is it? Especially when the bomber is following the model of our current president with his record deportations, and the banner is a loose cannon who's proposed to kill the families of designated enemies in the Middle East.
This is the essence of the problem. Whichever of these two you were to vote for, you'd get wars, nasty policies toward immigrants, plutocratic policies toward wealth, and destructive policies toward the natural environment -- barring the arising of a powerful popular movement to bring the government under control.
Sure, one candidate is a comically ill-informed jackass who hates women, while the other is a woman whose comically jackassy policies will come with great scholarly volumns of ill information. But where does either of those really get us?
Lesser evilism predictably produces a pair of candidates each cycle who are both worse than was the more evil candidate last time. This cannot go on forever, and has already gone too far. We need a nonviolent movement to reform our election system -- something not done through elections. But there are plenty of good candidates, such as Jill Stein, to check or write in. We should vote for those good candidates and get right back to work on improving the world.
Will you click here and join me?
Here are a few reminders of who the "progressive" candidate of the "Democratic" Party is:
"For this former Republican, and perhaps for others, the only choice will be to vote for Hillary Clinton. The party cannot be saved, but the country still can be." —Robert Kagan
"I have a sense that she's one of the more competent members of the current administration and it would be interesting to speculate about how she might perform were she to be president." —Dick Cheney
"I've known her for many years now, and I respect her intellect. And she ran the State Department in the most effective way that I've ever seen." —Henry Kissinger
Nobody Beats This Record
- She says President Obama was wrong not to launch missile strikes on Syria in 2013.
- She pushed hard for the overthrow of Qadaffi in 2011.
- She supported the coup government in Honduras in 2009.
- She has backed escalation and prolongation of war in Afghanistan.
- She voted for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
- She skillfully promoted the White House justification for the war on Iraq.
- She does not hesitate to back the use of drones for targeted killing.
- She has consistently backed the military initiatives of Israel.
- She was not ashamed to laugh at the killing of Qadaffi.
- She has not hesitated to warn that she could obliterate Iran.
- She is not afraid to antagonize Russia.
- She helped facilitate a military coup in Ukraine.
- She has the financial support of the arms makers and many of their foreign customers.
- She waived restrictions at the State Department on selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Qatar, all states wise enough to donate to the Clinton Foundation.
- She supported President Bill Clinton's wars and the power of the president to make war without Congress.
- She has advocated for arming fighters in Syria.
- She supported a surge in Iraq even before President Bush did.
Focus: Hillary Clinton - May 24, 2016
Romanian hacker who says he breached Clinton server finalizing plea deal - Fox News
ARCHIVE: Graphics: Clinton Foundation donors gave $13 million to Terry McAuliffe - Washington Post
Super PAC seeks IRS audit of Clinton Foundation - WSJ
Would Bill and Hillary's Clinton Foundation withstand IRS scrutiny? You decide - Forbes
A deep dive into how the Clinton Foundation operates illegally and in Haiti - Charles Ortel
VIDEO: Interview with Charles Ortel: Charity fraud at the Clinton Foundation - YouTube
How corporate America bought Hillary Clinton for $21M - New York Post
Wealthy Saudi family emerges as Clinton Foundation, Dem donor - freebeacon.com
Clintons gave $15 mil to charity since ’07 – $14.8 mil went to the Clinton Foundation - Press24
Rep. Trey Gowdy says Benghazi report will be released before conventions - usatoday.com
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The Return of Democratic Socialism
Democratic socialism used to be a vibrant force in American life. During the first two decades of the twentieth century, the Socialist Party of America, headed by the charismatic union leader, Eugene V. Debs, grew rapidly, much like its sister parties in Europe and elsewhere: the British Labour Party, the French Socialist Party, the Swedish Social Democratic Party, the Australian Labor Party, and dozens of similar parties that voters chose to govern their countries.
A lesson here for Sanders?: 72-Year-Old Fringe Left Candidate Wins Presidency in Austrian Run-Off Election
By Dave Lindorff
A 72-year-old college professor named Alexander van der Bellen, running for president as the candidate of the leftist Austrian Green Party, a fringe party that had never been considered a serious contender in post-war Austrian politics, just won a narrow victory over Norbert Hofer, a right-wing candidate of the neo-fascist Freedom Party who had been favored to win.
Focus: The Democratic National Convention - May 21, 2016
Sanders supporters secure rally permit near Democratic convention in Philadelphia - WSJ
Philadelphia approves four massive pro-Bernie Sanders rallies during DNC - NBC 10 Philadelphia
Bernie Sanders delegates prepare for Philadelphia convention fight - Fortune
Democratic insiders: Convention could be 'a rough ride' - POLITICO
Democrats consider new rules to avoid convention chaos - NBC News
DNC to offer Sanders a convention concession - Washington Post
Army of Sanders supporters fuming over Wasserman Schultz - TheHill
ARCHIVE: DNC chair wants to exclude independents from Dem primaries - Washington Examiner
Sanders Camp: millions have ‘growing doubts' about Clinton campaign - TPM
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POLL: Democrats say continued primary campaign isn't hurting the party - CBS News
POLL: Most Democrats say continued campaign not hurting the party - Gallup
Big challenge for Sanders to get California independents to vote - capradio.org
Nonpartisan voters face hurdles in California presidential primary - The Sacramento Bee
Hillary Clinton ducking final debate with Bernie Sanders in California - Washington Times
Clinton fury with Sanders grows - TheHill
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Focus: Hillary Clinton - May 19, 2016
Judicial Watch seeks Hillary Clinton testimony - Judicial Watch
Why a civil case over emails could hurt Hillary Clinton more than the FBI - TIME
Financial analyst alleges major holes in Clinton Foundation records - Washington Examiner
The real Clinton Foundation record is getting exposed - Charles Ortel
Hillary and Bill Clinton made $6.7 million from speeches in 2015 - ABC News
Clinton ups the ante by tapping Goldman aide as economic spokesman - The New York Sun
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Lawmaker predicts FBI will stay silent on Clinton indictment - Washington Examiner
Op-ed: Handling of Clinton probe tarnishes FBI - The Buffalo News
Taxpayer tab for investigating Hillary: over $20 million - americanthinker.com
Documents show Hillary's email technician was underqualified - The Daily Caller
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Focus: Donald Trump - May 18, 2016
POLL (NBC News): Trump closing gap with Clinton nationally - Newsmax
POLL: Trump beats Clinton by 4%, loses to Sanders by 5%, in Georgia — Atlanta Constitution Journal
POLL: Trump leading Hillary with Hispanic voters - The Daily Caller
POLL (Reuters): Top reason Americans will vote for Trump: 'To stop Clinton' - Reuters
POLL (Military Times): Troops prefer Trump to Clinton by a huge margin - Military Times
POLL: Majority supports Sanders-like health care plan - POLITICO
Unions lean Democratic, but Donald Trump gets members’ attention - The New York Times
Donald Trump borrows from Bernie Sanders’s playbook to woo Democrats - The New York Times
Roger Stone: Trump will win one-third of Bernie Sanders supporters - Breitbart
Trump keeps telling Bernie Sanders to run as an Independent - Business Insider
Trump, Clinton and Sanders face most diverse demographic electorate in history - TheHill
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POLL (NBC News): Majority of Republican voters trust Trump over Ryan to lead party - MSNBC
GOP ‘establishment' may get on Trump train - CNN
Why Rupert Murdoch decided to support Trump - NYMag
Sheldon Adelson op-ed: Why I'm endorsing Donald Trump - Chicago Tribune
How Donald Trump made a Wall Street executive kiss his... ring - Vanity Fair
Donald Trump criticizes Washington’s foreign policy elite—with cause - Cato @ Liberty
Donald Trump calls Hillary Clinton ‘trigger happy' as she courts neocons - theintercept.com
Donald Trump condemns Tony Blair for Iraq war ‘disaster' - newsweek.com
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Voting for Empire is the Sole Option for Democrats and Republicans
By Peter Phillips
The presidential primaries offer a single choice for both Democrats and Republicans to vote for empire and permanent war. This year’s entertainment spectacle, what we call democratic elections, is a particularly gross circus of meaninglessness, misinformation, sound bites, and lies. Both parties are in support in the continuation of the US/NATO global empire of permanent war and the protection of the capital of the global 1%. Even Bernie Sanders calls for drone strikes and continued war on Isis and other evil terrorists.
Neo-fascists, racists, and misogynistic people are finding new voice with Donald Trump’s presidential bid. Neo-conservatives and fundamentalists found hope with Ted Cruz. Moderates, liberals and women see Hillary Clinton as a chance for Supreme Court balance and gender equality, and left-leaning liberals are cheering for democratic socialist Sanders to save our economy by breaking up big banks and restoring trust in government.
Focus: Clinton Foundation - May 14, 2016
Clinton Foundation rejects allegations it aided Clinton friends - CNN
Hit Job: A closer look at the WSJ’s clueless attack on the Clinton Foundation - Inside Philanthropy
VIDEO: Foundation scandal more damaging to Clinton than emails? - Yahoo Finance
More on the Clintons and the Persian Gulf Sheikhs donations - The Daily Caller
Wall Street whistleblower says money missing from the Clinton Foundation - Breitbart
VIDEO: Charity Navigator CEO Michael Thatcher talks about the Clinton Foundation's rating - CNN
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Clinton Cash: Review after the advance screening of the documentary - TIME
Clinton Cash film aims to cause likely Democratic nominee maximum damage - The Guardian
Donald Trump: ‘Clinton Cash’ Proves Hillary Is ‘Crooked As Hell’ - Breitbart
VIDEO: Trailer: 'Clinton Cash' - Washington Post
A talk with Schweizer, the man behind Clinton Cash documentary - The Daily Caller
RADIO: Schweizer discusses the new “Clinton Cash” documentary - Breitbart News Daily
AP Report: Firms that paid for Clinton speeches have US gov't interests - AP
VIDEO: Peter Schweizer speech on ’money and politics' - Government Accountability Institute
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Focus: Democratic National Convention - May 12, 2016
NY Democrats selling national convention access to big donors - New York Post
Sanders accuses DNC of tipping convention toward Clinton - POLITICO
Wall street money: Barney Frank to oversee Democratic platform while running big bank - ibtimes.com
Financial Sector Gives Hillary Clinton a Boost - WSJ
VIDEO: Wall Street donors give Clinton a boost - WSJ
Wall Street befuddled, alarmed by Donald Trump and may turn to Democratic ticket - The Boston Globe
Wealthy Cruz donor pours millions into Clinton campaign - Observer
VIDEO: Trump agrees with Sanders: Clinton 'is totally controlled by Wall Street' - Washington Post
Clinton and Goldman Sachs: Why it matters - The New York Review of Books
Offshore tax haven leak implicates seven-figure pro-Clinton donor - freebeacon.com
Whose ‘dark money’ flows from offshore accounts into Maine campaigns? - State & Capitol
Hillary Clinton's campaign taps aide tied to 2008 fundraising schemes: Report - Washington Times
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Focus: Hillary Clinton - May 6, 2016
Judge orders top Hillary Clinton aides to answer questions about secret emails - Washington Times
Federal judge opens the door to Clinton deposition in email case - TheHill
Judicial Watch: Federal court allows discovery to begin in Clinton email case - Judicial Watch
VIDEO: Judicial Watch president on the latest in the Clinton email investigation - YouTube
New documents suggest Clinton withheld emails from State Department - Washington Examiner
The linchpin of the FBI's Hillary Clinton investigation - Washington Times
Hacker Guccifer claims he got into Hillary Clinton's server - NBC News
#DropOutHillary: Twitter just unleashed on Hillary Clinton and it is savage - usuncut.com
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Trump calls Clinton Foundation ‘a scam’ - WSJ
It's time to press for an Investigation of the Clinton Foundation - Charles Ortel
Clinton Foundation: The in-depth process begins - Charles Ortel
Charity watchdog: Clinton Foundation a ‘slush fund’ - New York Post
Firms that paid for Clinton speeches have US gov't interests - AP
Why did Congo offer Bill Clinton $650,000 for two pics and a speech? - Forbes
Disgraced Clinton Foundation donor got $13M in State Dept grants under Hillary - The Daily Caller
The Clinton Foundation timeline (Part 1) - thompsontimeline.com
The Clinton Foundation timeline (Part 2) - thompsontimeline.com
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Takin’ it to the Street, and Pushing Bernie to Not Endorse Hillary and Instead Run as an Independent
By Dave Lindorff
Focus: Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Nomination - May 4, 2016
If the Democratic Party nominates Hillary Clinton as presidential candidate at the July convention, Bernie Sanders should run as an independent or third party candidate in the November presidential elections. The Democratic Party has fundamental reasons to deny the nomination to Clinton: her foreign policy blunders, misguided domestic policies, campaign finance dependent on rich donors, paid speeches of which she would not release the transcripts, Clinton Foundation shady fundraising, private email server and more. If the Democratic Party nominate her it means it is unwilling to reform itself and represent the massive progressive movement sparked by the Sanders campaign.
Even if the Democratic Party at the July convention adopts a progressive political platform including Sanders proposals, it should not be acceptable without rejecting Clinton nomination. Given her dismal track record and her reliance on powerful special interest groups, a Clinton administration would lack the conviction on those reform issues, let alone the capacity to implement them: a $15 an hour minimum wage, an end to past trade policies, a Medicare-for-all health care system, breaking up Wall Street institutions and financial transaction tax, making public colleges and universities tuition free, passing a carbon tax to address climate change, ending fracking, promoting a foreign policy aimed at peace not regime change by military force, establishing an open primary system, etc.
It must be stressed that the Democratic primary process of selecting a party candidate is flawed and rigged against Sanders because it denies full participation to the independents which overwhelmingly support him. If the independents were allowed to vote freely in all the primaries, with no restrictions, Sanders would be in a much better position to challenge Clinton. The latest example is today's Indiana primary which is open to the independents: Sanders beat Clinton 53% to 47%. According to NBC exit polls, in the Indiana primary Sanders won 72% of the independents while Clinton got 28%. Independents were the turning point considering that 53% of Democrats voted for Clinton and 47% for Sanders. An April Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found that Clinton’s favorability rating among independents dropped 15% nationally in the last four months. That poll found that 20% of independents viewed Mrs. Clinton positively, compared with 62% who viewed her negatively.
The Democratic primary process is furtherly rigged by the injustice of unelected superdelegates, which are prominent Democratic Party leaders, account for 15% of the overall convention votes and have mostly pledged to support Clinton nomination. While the Democratic Party establishment has endorsed by and large Clinton, Sanders fares much better than Clinton against Trump in all national polls. In the latest Rasmussen poll, Trump leads Clinton 41% to 39%.
Notwithstanding setbacks in New York and other Eastern closed primary states, Sanders looks more and more ‘presidential’, not just a ‘candidate' for Democratic nomination. There are still six months left to the presidential election. Time is on Sanders’ side. During this period he can win more popular support, grow the grassroots movement, build a group of experts in each field and refine his programs. it is necessary to know more about Sanders' top advisers who are in charge of shaping the policies and would be officials in his administration.
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The Trump Doctrine
By David Swanson, American Herald Tribune
Here's a condensed version of Donald Trump's recent speech that I'm considering offering on gold-ish plating for $19.98:
Nationalism, World War II mythology, and militarism must go unquestioned. But when they've been used in the past 25 years the results have been disastrous. We're all ready now to admit that Iraq was a horror, and we can do that more comfortably by lumping it with the horrors of Libya and Syria, and by pretending that people in our government meant well. But U.S. militarism created ISIS.
Here's how we fix this. First, pretend that the most expensive military in the history of the world has been skimping and struggling, and blame that on the economy, rather than recognizing that the economy is staggering under the weight of the military machine. I'll fix the economy using magic, and that will fix the military.
Second, while I haven't explained how more or different spending could have transformed disastrous wars into successes, let's have future wars more heavily paid for by others. But I'm not really threatening to close bases or end NATO, because I'm all talk. In fact, let's just fuel a global arms race by requiring other countries to buy more weapons. That U.S. weapons are already the top supplier to so-called friend and foe alike, including ISIS, shouldn't worry you, because at least you won't have to hear that phony humanitarian in the White House calling ISIS "ISIL" anymore, and because I'm planning to use magic.
Third, if you think Hillary can tell whoppers and demonize Iran at Israel's bidding, wait till you see how fast I can fall in line. I can get so scared of Iranians that my hair blows off. In fact, I'll start a war to out-do the last dozen disastrous wars, including the Iraq war that I pretend I opposed, and I'll do it at the slightest slight to my honor as a noble duelling jackass in deep romantic love with the holy state of Israel which I may have spoken about with a slight tinge of honesty a month ago, but that was then.
Fourth, the North Koreans are coming to get us! And the Chinese! Let's ignore the fact that Obama is to all appearances trying to start World War III in the South China Sea while I'm yammering on, he is in fact weak! Weak!
Lastly, we need a plan for something different from endless counterproductive war, and I have no idea what such a thing might look like, so here's what I propose: more endless counterproductive war, with possible lapses as I fail to get countries to pay for their own bombings, and combined with a major increase in hatred and persecution of immigrants and minorities within the United States. As a result of this new approach, and magic, ISIS will cease to exist. So, trust me when I lie to you that military spending has been shrinking and leaving the U.S. behind other militaries. Elect me and, exactly as if you elected Hillary Clinton, you can expect every dime possible and more to be dumped into militarism.
It comes back to this: we must be more selfish, more jingoist, more nationalist, and -- if that's even possible -- more militarist than ever. We must treat all of this shit as if it were a new idea that I just had. And yet I will hold out a tiny olive branch of hope that I might actually risk nuclear apocalypse a teensy bit less than Hillary, since I'm willing to talk about the slight possibility of peace with Russia. If Russia does what I want!
The key word is slight. I once talked about ending NATO, and now I've been so brought into line that I'm talking about inventing some new purpose for NATO to exist. Don't feel too sorry for whatever poor country becomes that purpose -- perhaps I'll just keep it as Afghanistan, a place I haven't even mentioned in this speech. Or perhaps I'll just keep it Russia.
But I'll drop all the Clintonian pretenses of humanitarian murder and respect for, while violating, the rule of law. So, at least with me, the summer peace activists and partisan sunshine war opponents will act as if they oppose wars again. How much of a difference will such a movement make in a nation with its leadership demanding fascistic hatred and greed? Probably not much. Perhaps a bit more if it were to get a head start by opposing Obama's seven existing wars now. Of course, Democrats won't do that. So, I'm not worried. Believe me.
New TCBH! poem by resident poet Gary Lindorff: 'Riding the elephant'
There is an elephant lying
flat out on the ground,
depressed, wasted.
His life is giving rides.
Focus: Trump, Clinton and Foreign Policy - Apr 30, 2016
Donald Trump's foreign policy speech earns praise in Russia - CNN
VIDEO: Donald Trump's foreign policy speech earns praise in Russia - CNN
Putin-ally gives thumbs up to Trump as his choice for President - newsweek.com
Donald Trump gives voice to the GOP's Vladimir Putin wing - MSNBC
Trump: 'I will call for NATO summit' as soon as I'm elected - Washington Examiner
VIDEO: Donald Trump foreign policy speech - Mediaite
TRANSCRIPT: Donald J. Trump foreign policy speech - Donald J Trump for President
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Hillary Clinton's foreign policy views spark anger in Russia and China - Washington Times
VIDEO: Hillary Clinton on Putin: ‘very tough, very arrogant' - YouTube
VIDEO: Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump's foreign policy “quite concerning" - YouTube
RADIO: Book: 'Alter Egos' dissects Hillary Clinton's tenure as Obama's Secretary Of State - NPR
Clinton aides once viewed Libya as “cornerstone of Hillary doctrine" (VIDEO) - freebeacon.com
Obama adviser explains why Clinton's Syria plan won't work - CNNPolitics.com
Hillary Clinton financier is lobbying for Saudi Arabia - The Daily Caller
Clinton overstates the impact of a 2011 nuclear agreement with Russia in a TV ad - factcheck.org
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The push to make Sanders the Green Party’s candidate: Bernie Sanders’ Real ‘Political Revolution’ Could Happen This Fall
By Dave Lindorff
Focus: Bernie Sanders - Apr 28, 2016
Sanders supporter says she's 'Bernie or Bust' - CNNPolitics.com
Activist Shaun King doubts his ‘conscience’ will allow him to vote for Hillary Clinton - Mediaite
Some Indiana Sanders backers unsure of voting for Clinton - Elkhart Truth
Local support for Sanders unfazed despite his trailing - herald-dispatch.com
Which state could Bernie Sanders win next? - Bustle
Bernie believers urge independent bid in the general presidential election - Observer
Trump calls for Sanders to 'run as an independent' - AOL
Donald Trump says he'll beat Hillary Clinton with the Bernie Sanders playbook - mic.com
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Why the best candidate can’t win the support of People of Color: Where the Bern is Fizzling
By Alfredo Lopez
In the recent New York primaries, Bernie Sanders experienced some very cold water thrown in his face. Not only did he lose, and soundly, but he was served a major lesson about one of the primary deficiencies in his campaign.
Focus: Bernie Sanders and the independent voters - Apr 25, 2016
New York voters sue the state, claiming mass voter roll purges - The Liberty Beacon
500,000 California independents could be shut out of the primary - usuncut.com
Who will tap R.I.'s independent streak in Tuesday's primaries? - providencejournal.com
Editorial: Restore open presidential primary in Colorado, include independents - GJSentinel.com
American democracy is rigged - Common Dreams
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Focus: Bernie Sanders and the Closed Primaries on Tuesday - Apr 23, 2016
Bernie Sanders condemns closed primaries but facing 4 of them next week - ABC News
Can you vote In Maryland's primary if you're an independent? Those voters won't be happy - Bustle
Bombshell: Arizona Secretary Of State admits election fraud took place - Nwo Report
The story of the great Brooklyn voter purge keeps getting weirder - Mother Jones
Clinton delegate Scott Stringer, the New York City comptroller, will oversee primary audit - dpreview.com
NY Board Of Elections suspends one employee for primary day debacle - Gothamist
There's a long list of voting reforms New York can pass - gothamgazette.com
The New York Primary was a Sh*tshow. Here’s Why. - 34justice
Chicago Election Board Scandal: 21 Bernie votes were erased and 49 Hillary votes added to audit tally, group declares (VIDEO) - inquisitr.com
CO lawmakers wrangle over open primary plan - 9news.com
Voter suppression charged in almost every state – 2016 Election Central
Why are our elections such a mess? - Care2 Causes
POLL (Rasmussen): Only 24% Say U.S. heading in right direction - Rasmussen Reports
VotePact.org: Whereby 'disenchanted Democrats' and 'disenchanted Republicans' pair up and both vote for the third party or independent candidates of their choice - huffingtonpost.com
Sanders still registered as independent despite claims he’s a ‘Democrat for life’ - freebeacon.com
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Bernie’s right on free tuition -- we had it once: Free College for All Worked in the US for 100 Years Until Elite Took It Away
By Robert M. Nelson
Focus: New York and the Closed Primary System - Apr 21, 2016
Sanders campaign, New York officials cry foul after New York voters report issues - CNN
Some New Yorkers feel disenfranchised by the primary. They are taking the fight to court. - Vox
N.Y. voter hotline swamped with complaints - democratandchronicle.com
I’m one of NYC’s 125,000 ‘ghosts’ who couldn’t cast their vote - New York Post
Purged registrations cost this NY primary voter 5 hours - ABC News
Failure, fraud and more in New York’s punk rock voting disaster - The Daily Beast
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New York's strict voter registration rules frustrate Sanders supporters - The Guardian
Judge denied request to immediately open up New York primary to independent voters - ThinkProgress
Five states have primaries next week. Will they face the same problems New York did? - ThinkProgress
No voice for some Pennsylvania independent voters - Times News Online
VIDEO: Sanders: New York voter rules ‘absurd and wrong’ - The Guardian
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Focus: Hillary Clinton and Campaign Finance - Apr 20, 2016
FEC Disclosure Form 3X for Hillary Victory Fund - docquery.fec.gov
VIDEO: Hillary donors use state loopholes to launder millions - Young Turks Network
K Street cash helps boost Clinton's White House bid - rollcall.com
Meet the wealthy donors who are funneling millions into the 2016 elections - Washington Post
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Capitol Hill arrests in campaign finance protest hit 1,240 - TheHill
Democracy Spring: why thousands of demonstrators protested in Washington, DC - Vox
VIDEO: Democracy Awakening protest - YouTube
VIDEO: More on Democracy Awakening protest - YouTube
VIDEO: Ben and Jerry explain why they got arrested at Democracy Awakening - YouTube
Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy - BBC News
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