From chaos to clarity

After winning big in Nevada and withstanding the efforts of Democratic “moderates” to throw him off track at last Tuesday’s South Carolina “debate,” Bernie Sanders is now enjoying what George H.W. Bush called “the big Mo.” He has the wind at his back.

Those moderates – Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and, worst of all, Joe Biden – are defenders of their party’s old regime, even as they pretend to be more “progressive” than that.  Their opportunism and inauthenticity, and their relentless attacks on each other, should do all of them in before long, notwithstanding the unstinting support they garner from “liberal” corporate media hellbent on spewing nonsense about Sanders’ “unelectability.”--AL

It ain't Russiagate, folks.  It's far worse, despite what the new-old cold warriors want you to believe. And if you're not feeling a "chill down your spine" by now, you never will.


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Train Crossing Ahead

Do you ever get that old sinking feeling that the Democratic National Committee, and wealthy democratic centrists in general, is meddling just a stripe too much in the 2020 primaries in order to put poor Bernie Sanders away forever, using any method short of a bullet to the head? (Not saying that won't happen.)

Sorta makes the Russians look like amateurs.

If you're there, you're not alone:

Michael Hudson is a sharp dude who has it figured out.

The good old reliable Marxist Paul Street certainly has thought about it.

Nick Levis has a curiosity about things.

BTW, James Carville is the bastard son of the Devil. (Rachel Maddow is the daughter.)

Getting the picture yet? Nyet, Da?

There's more, there is always more if you know where to look.


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Chasing Sanders

(Mr. Fish)

The Democrats have, once again, offered us their preselected corporate candidates. We can vote for a candidate who serves oligarchic power, albeit with more decorum than Trump, or we can see Trump shoved down our throats. That is the choice. It exposes the least worst option as a con, a mechanism used repeatedly to buttress corporate power. The elites know they would be safe in the hands of a Hillary Clinton, a Barack Obama or a John Kerry, but not a Bernie Sanders — which is a credit to Sanders.

The surrender to the “least worst” mantra in presidential election after presidential election has neutered the demands of labor, along with those organizations and groups fighting poverty, mass incarceration and police violence. The civil rights, women’s rights, environment justice and consumer rights movements, forced to back Democrats whose rhetoric is palatable but whose actions are inimical to their causes, get tossed overboard. Political leverage, in election after election, is surrendered without a fight. We are all made to kneel before the altar of the least worst. We get nothing in return. The least worst option has proved to be a recipe for steady decay.--CH

Chris Hedges takes flight--again.


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Dunk Contest

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The basket should be raised to 11-feet.


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Donald Corleone

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No Banners--Yet

It's only one game, but the Ducks reinforced their ascension to among the national elite and validated their status as an NCAA Championship contender.

"We're still the up-and-comer," (Coach Kelly) Graves said. "I see all the banners up there; I counted 11. We don't have any. They're still the standard by which everyone is judged, and they should be."

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Patchen

RP Thomas sent this clip of Patchen reading a selection from his Journal of Albion Moonlight.  Folks, this is why some literature lasts and achieves classic status.  Written in 1941, it is as relevant for today as it was during World War II, for Patchen is engaged in telling essential truths. 

Thanks, RP.


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