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"I want to convert the Democratic Party, to break its dependency on big money and corporate interests, and make it a party of working-class people, of young people, of all people who believe in justice." White House hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday agreed with centrist group Third Way that he poses an "existential threat" to the Democratic Party and called for transforming it to serve working-class people in a wide-ranging interview with CNBC's John Harwood. After Sanders, a democratic socialist, said that " what I am trying to do, in many ways, is pick up where Franklin Delano Roosevelt left off, " Harwood asked, " Do you also embrace the part of FDR that said adversaries hate me and I welcome their hatred? " " Absolutely, " the senator responded. " You can judge a person by the friends they have. You can judge a candidate for president by the enemies they have. " Sanders caucuses with Senate Democrats—an

UK MPs have voted for a pre-Christmas general election to take place on December 12. After multiple attempts by PM Boris Johnson to force a poll, he’s finally got his way in a bid to break the Brexit impasse. Lawmakers in the House of Commons on Tuesday voted in favor of Johnson’s early parliamentary general election short-bill by 438 votes to 20. It will be the first December election since 1923. MPs had earlier rejected the Labour Party’s proposal to move the date of the general election forward to December 9. Some 315 MPs voted against moving the election forward by three days, while 295 voted in favour. If MPs had backed the opposition plan to move the election forward, parliament would have needed to be dissolved by Thursday night. The British prime minister had tried and failed to get an election on three previous occasions having seen his Fixed-term Parliaments Act motions defeated by MPs. Under the law, there must be at least 25 working days before an election can take p

globinfo freexchange Μετά το πρώτο βήμα που έκανε το Μητσοτακικό καθεστώς για τη δημιουργία Ειδικών Οικονομικών Ζωνών εντός της Ελληνικής επικράτειας, δηλαδή για τα φέουδα του 21ου αιώνα, όπως είχαμε προβλέψει, φαίνεται ότι, δυστυχώς, αρχίζει να επαληθεύεται και το σχέδιο για την ανασύσταση του δεξιού παρακράτους.   Ήδη από το Μάιο του 18, είχαμε επισημάνει ότι σε ομιλία του στη βουλή, ο Μητσοτάκης ξεκίνησε το παραλήρημα του περί βίας αναφερόμενος συγκεκριμένα στα 'Εξάρχεια', τους 'Ρουβίκωνες' και τους 'αγανακτισμένους'. Και στο σημείο αυτό, πάλι κάτι ξέχασε: τους φασίστες. Έτσι, έστειλε σήμα στους μηχανισμούς του αστικού καθεστώτος ότι θα συνεχίζει να το προστατεύει εγκαθιστώντας ένα κράτος σκληρής καταστολής, χωρίς να πειράξει το ακροδεξιό βαθύ κράτος που επιστρατεύει η εγχώρια ολιγαρχία όταν αισθάνεται κίνδυνο. Ένας κίνδυνος που μπορεί να έρθει σε περίπτωση νέων αναταραχών από τις βάναυσες πολιτικές λιτότητας που ο Μητσοτάκης θα συνεχίσει να

Μέσα σε τεταμένο κλίμα, που πυροδότησαν οι πρωτοφανείς μεθοδεύσεις από Ν.Δ. και ΚΙΝ.ΑΛΛ., οι βουλευτές των δύο κομμάτων αποφάσισαν να εξαιρέσουν τον Παύλο Πολάκη και τον Δημήτρη Τζανακόπουλο από μέλη της επιτροπής προκαταρκτικής εξέτασης για τους χειρισμούς του Δ. Παπαγγελόπουλου στο σκάνδαλο της Novartis. Η σημερινή συνεδρίαση ήταν θυελλώδης, με τον Γιάννη Ραγκούση να καταγγέλλει ότι « με τη βία της πλειοψηφίας αποφασίζετε να μετατρέψετε την Επιτροπή σε χούντα », καθώς ο πρόεδρος της επιτροπής απείλησε να φέρει τη φρουρά. « Να με αποβάλετε και να φωνάξετε και την αστυνομία. Ντροπή σας. Ξεφτιλίζετε ό,τι ήταν ιερό σε αυτή την αίθουσα », είπε ο κ. Ραγκούσης.  Από τη σημερινή ψηφοφορία απείχε ο ΣΥΡΙΖΑ, που είχε εξαρχής διαμηνύσει πως η όποια προσπάθεια εξαίρεσης των βουλευτών του συνιστά κοινοβουλευτικό πραξικόπημα και casus bell. Κατά ψήφισε το ΚΚΕ και «παρών» δήλωσε η Ελληνική Λύση. Δεν έχει υπάρξει ιστορικά, απόφαση ειδικής επιτροπής προκαταρκτικής εξέτασης να εξαιρεί μέλη τ

984radio Σε νέα κρίση φαίνεται να εισέρχεται η επιρροή της Ουάσιγκτον στην κεντρική και Νότια Αμερική καθώς μια μετά τη άλλη οι δεξιές κυβερνήσεις, που στηρίζουν τις ΗΠΑ και τον Ντόναλντ Τραμπ, απειλούνται, είτε από λαϊκές κινητοποιήσεις και εξεγέρσεις, είτε από εκλογικές ήττες.  Αυτά είπε μεταξύ άλλων ο δημοσιογράφος και ερευνητής διεθνών γεγονότων,  επικεφαλής του info-war.gr , Άρης Χατζηστεφάνου , μιλώντας στον 98.4 . Όπως είπε ο Άρης Χατζηστεφάνου, το πολιτικό εκκρεμές, που εδώ και χρόνια κινούνταν προ τα δεξιά (ή την φασίζουσα άκρα δεξιά) φαίνεται έτοιμο να ξεκινήσει την πορεία του προς το πολιτικό κέντρο ή ακόμη και την αριστερά. Το παράδειγμα των συνεχών λαϊκών κινητοποιήσεων στη Χιλή, παρά τις κινήσεις κατευνασμού με ανασχηματισμό της κυβέρνησης του, από τον Πρόεδρο Πινιέρα , είναι ενδεικτικό ότι κάτι βαθύτερο συμβαίνει στην ευρύτερη περιοχή. 

Fueled by fears of school shootings, the market has grown rapidly for technologies that monitor students through official school emails and chats by Lois Beckett Part 3 - How it works In Florence, South Carolina, school officials intervened after a middle school student started writing about suicide while working on an in-class English assignment. The phrases she typed in a Google document triggered an alert from Gaggle, the surveillance company working with the school district. “Within minutes”, the student was pulled out of class for a conversation with school officials, according to Dr Richard O’Malley, the district superintendent. In Cincinnati, Ohio, the school district’s chief information officer had to call the police in the middle of the night to conduct a wellness check on a student who had been flagged by Gaggle for writing about self-harm. The situation was serious enough that the student was hospitalized to receive mental health services, the chief information

The Humanist Report / globinfo freexchange Donald Trump finally counter-attacked against corporate Democrats and their persistent desire to impeach him, through the ultimate threat: a civil war. In a recent tweet he wrote: " ... If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal. ”   All these prove that capitalists are ruthless and they will not hesitate to use various sections of the US working class to win the endo-capitalist war. Even if this will eventually lead to a civil war on a national level.    https://failedevolution.blogspot.com/2019/10/trump-threatens-to-transfer-endo.html

by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Part 1 Once again, the left is rising in Latin America as people revolt against authoritarian regimes, many of whom were put in place by US-supported coups. These regimes have taken International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans and are under the thumb of international finance, which is against the interests of people. After the embattled President of Ecuador claimed that President Nicolas Maduro was the cause of the massive protests against him, Maduro made clear what was occurring in Latin America, saying: “We have two models: the IMF model which privatizes everything and takes away the people’s rights to health, education and work; and the humanist-progressive model which is emerging in Latin America and has the Bolivarian Revolution at the forefront.” Maduro’s clear understanding of the conflict is why it has been so important for the US to remove him. His success in defeating ongoing US coup attempts is a model guiding Latin America

As the candidates needed 45 percent of the vote to avoid a second round, the 47 percent obtained by the Fernandez-Fernandez ticket has been enough to give them the win. With almost 90 percent of votes counted, Argentinian opposition progressive ticket Alberto Fernandez and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner have won over right-wing incumbent President Mauricio Macri with 47,75 over 40,76 percent respectively in Sunday's general elections. As the candidates needed 45 percent of the vote or 40 percent with a 10-point lead over the runner-up to avoid a second round, the 47 percent obtained by the Fernandez-Fernandez ticket has been enough to give them the win. " If the result were to stay as it is, that would mean Fernandez would be sworn in as president, " Argentinian Political Analyst Atilio Boron told teleSUR . The ballot was effectively a referendum between Macri's austerity and the "social contract" of the left-leaning opposition, who have attracted voter

US President Donald Trump has approved an additional $4.5 million for Syria Civil Defense, known popularly as the White Helmets. With close to $100 million in funds from the US and UK governments, as well as donations from Qatar, support from Turkey, and backing from wealthy private donors, this outfit has acted as a public relations vehicle for the Syrian armed opposition. White Helmets links to extremist Salafi-jihadist groups, including ISIS and al-Qaeda, have been thoroughly documented. What’s more, the group has participated in recent Turkish onslaughts in northern Syria where Kurds and other minority groups faced ethnic cleansing. The continued US funding is a sign that Washington’s regime-change war against Syria continues, even while Trump has partially withdrawn American troops from the country. The White House announced the funding in a press release on October 22. Full report: https://thegrayzone.com/2019/10/28/trump-million-syria-jihadist-white-helmets/