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Young People Are Set to Make History with Bernie Sanders, and New Hampshire’s Youth Movement Is Showing How
By Norman Solomon Fifty-two years after young people changed history with the New Hampshire primary election, a new generation is ready to do it again — this time by mobilizing behind Bernie Sanders. During early 1968, thousands of young people volunteered in New Hampshire to help the insurgent presidential campaign of Democratic Sen. Eugene McCarthy…
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The Energizer Bernie and the Power Behind Him
By Norman Solomon To corporate media, Bernie Sanders is incorrigible. He won’t stop defying the standard assumptions about what’s possible in national politics. His 2020 campaign — with feet on the ground and eyes on visionary horizons — is a danger to corporate capitalism’s “natural” order that enables wealth to dominate the political process. When…
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Not Bernie, Us. Not Warren, Us. Their Clash Underscores the Need for Grassroots Wisdom.
By Norman Solomon The dismal conflict that erupted this week between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren should never have happened. But now that it has, supporters must provide grassroots leadership to mitigate the dangerous mess. The argument that broke out between Warren and Sanders last weekend and escalated in recent days is already history that…
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Biden, Buttigieg and Corporate Media Are Eager for Sanders and Warren to Clash
By Norman Solomon Corporate Democrats got a jolt at the end of last week when the highly regarded Iowa Poll showed Bernie Sanders surging into first place among Iowans likely to vote in the state’s Feb. 3 caucuses. The other big change was a steep drop for the previous Iowa frontrunner, Pete Buttigieg, who —…
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War with Iran Is at Stake — and Democrats’ High Jumps Over Low Standards Aren’t Helping
By Norman Solomon The huge crisis with Iran is more dangerous because so many Democrats have been talking out of both sides of their congressional mouths. An example is the recent rhetoric from Sen. Chris Murphy. “The attack on our embassy in Baghdad is horrifying but predictable,” he tweeted on the last day of 2019.…