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COVID-19 makes the case against health insurance sponsored by the employer clear.

Americans are losing and have lost their jobs by the millions. All those lucky to have had employer-sponsored health insurance will lose it. Health care should not be a function of who employs you. It must be a right. MSNBC Host Katy Tur: No to health insurance sponsored by employer...

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July 16, 2020

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Chuck Todd video highlight of Trump’s COVID-19 failure in his own words

Chuck Todd decimates the president’s cognitive dissonance as he continues to claim victory as Americans continue to succumb to COVID-19. Chuck Todd inflicting “death” by a thousand cuts Watch the entire episode here. The corporate media have been getting a bit more responsible with their critiques of the president. Last week Chuck...

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May 4, 2020

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Stephanie Ruhle is right: This is socialism for corporations & capitalism for the rest.

I continue to be more impressed with Stephanie Ruhle like I am with Ali Velshi as they generally attempt to push the limits of journalistic integrity the best they can within the constraints of the corporate media. Here she almost hit a home run. Then again it’s important to note that Ruhle...

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April 19, 2020

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Help Re-Elect Progressive Champions Reps. Tlaib and Omar!

Help Re-Elect Progressive Champions Reps. Tlaib and Omar! For Peace, Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Dr. Bill, Janis, Deb, Dan, Kim, Bryan, and Donna—your PDA National Team Give To Re-Elect Rep. Rashida Tlaib Give To Re-Elect Rep. Ilhan Omar Sign Up To Make Calls From HomeTo Help Elect Strong Progressives ...

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April 7, 2020

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The Nation endorses Sanders

The Nation endorses Sanders, if only because of the coalescing of so-called moderates around Joe Biden. #BlueNoMatterWho not because Ivanka Trump has finally registered as a Republican, but if only because Sanders broke up Public Enemy. GOTV if only because some MSM (still) believe that “liberals pinned their hopes on...

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March 2, 2020

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The Nuisance of Nuance

I am a Democrat, not a moderate, a liberal, a progressive or even a Democratic Socialist, but a Democrat. The Democratic candidates must learn to communicate the art of nuance and not treat it as a nuisance. When Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders nuanced an answer—in the first debate, that...

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February 26, 2020

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We Won Nevada! Now The Hard Part Starts.

We Won Nevada! Now The Hard Part Starts. photo: PDA’s Dr. Bill Honigman With Bernie And National Nurses United Nurses In solidarity, Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Deb, Kimberly, Bryan, Dr. Bill, Dan, Donna, and Janis—your PDA national team. Our Movement Celebrated A Stunning VictoryNow, The Hardest Part...

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February 23, 2020

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Heads We Win, Tails You Lose Reviews From the Corporate Media on Democratic Debate.

Hmmmmm…Media asks leading questions of Democratic presidential candidates to get them to attack each other. In latest debate, Elizabeth Warren comes out swinging against all the other candidates. Bernie Sanders gets into it with Bloomberg and Buttigieg. Klobuchar gets into personal fight with Buttigieg. Biden even goes after Bloomberg. And...

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February 21, 2020

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Corporate Media: Bloomberg Is Our SAVIOR! Little Old White Guy Me: For ****ing Real?

Did you know that Michael Bloomberg is the ONLY Democratic presidential contender who knows how to defeat Trump? I do not have the links for now to Nicole Wallace’s Deadline Whitehouse from Friday where her panel gushed about Bloomberg’s latest ad about Trump, or the segment from Sunday’s AM Joy...

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February 9, 2020

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Biden floats the idea of picking a Republican running mate

CBS News’s Bo Erickson is reporting that Joe Biden, one of over a dozen candidates seeking our party’s nomination, is open to the idea of picking a Republican to be his vice-presidential nominee if he were to win the Democratic presidential nomination: .@JoeBiden was asked if he would consider choosing...

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December 30, 2019

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Corporate Media forced to cover the constant Bernie Sanders rise

They tried to beat Bernie Sanders by ignoring him. They found out that it was impossible to beat a real message especially one that is existential. Bernie Sanders on the rise What most in the corporate media fail to understand is that it is less about Bernie Sanders and more...

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December 27, 2019

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Biden’s Fatal Mistake? Krystal Ball dings pundit on working-class allegiance.

The Hill's Rising is a great complement to the traditional “progressive” corporate media. Krystal Ball & Saagar Enjeti do not fear, embracing all that is right with progressives. Recently Joe Biden made a Hillary-type working-class-worker slip in the last Democratic Debate that could be fatal if he made it to the general...

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December 24, 2019

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Corporate Media use MOM to dismiss Andrew Yang, Elizabeth Warren, & Bernie Sanders

Corporate Media uses the MOM method to dismiss Andrew Yang, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders. What is MOM? Marginalization, Omission, and Mischaracterization. To the casual viewer, the following This Week panel may seem like straight reporting. Unfortunately, that could not be the furthest from the truth. The following segment covered...

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December 24, 2019

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Corporate Media using Labour Party defeat to smear progressives.

The corporate media is attempting to make UK’s Labour Party & Jeremy Corbyn’s defeat as the future of the American Progressive movement. Don’t buy it. x x YouTube Video I knew it was coming though it came quicker with a larger ferocity than I thought it would. Is UK’s Labour...

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December 13, 2019

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Chuck Todd deconstructs the new McCarthyism perfectly in 2 minutes.

I am generally tough on the host of NBC’s Meet the Press and MSNBC’s Meet The Press Daily, Chuck Todd. His piece on the new McCarthyism, however, is very important. Most importantly it was very well done. Maybe if we remember to give positive acknowledgment when due, then corporate media, the...

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December 7, 2019

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Chopper Talk: “Here's the thing. I don't have teams; everyone's talking about teams. I'M the team.”

Another day, more idiotic chopper talk blather. Trump distancing himself from the rest of his administration, generally: "Here's the thing. I don't have teams; everyone's talking about teams. I'M the team. I did nothing wrong." — Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 25, 2019 Touting economic achievements and "a great thing in...

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October 25, 2019

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What Bernie Sanders gets right with his critique of the corporate media

For generations, the politicians consistently and publicly finding fault with the news media have largely been Republican. But as frustrations rise on the other side of the aisle this campaign season, more Democrats are speaking out, led by Sen. Bernie Sanders. His structural critique of corporate media in America is an...

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August 19, 2019

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Elizabeth Warren & Bernie Sanders not snatching defeat from victory

Both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren were very strong in defense of their Progressive policies. They made the Republican-lite candidates seem weak, unsubstantive, and rudderless. Elizabeth Warren on how to win x x YouTube Video I wrote the following post on my Facebook wall about the debate. Tim Ryan, John Delaney, Steve...

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July 31, 2019

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Senator Elizabeth Warren destroys an exasperated Chris Matthews GOTCHA question

Chris Matthew thought he could corner Senator Elizabeth Warren into providing a video clip to hang her with later. He failed miserably as the Senator completely outsmarted and outlasted the direction he attempted to steer the interview. Senator Elizabeth Warren obliterates Chris Matthews x x YouTube Video Earlier in the...

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July 31, 2019

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Illinois TV meteorologist RAILS AGAINST Sinclair Broadcast Group's weather hype ON AIR

You may be familiar with Sinclair Broadcast Group as that company that owns a lot of TV stations and forces its stations to run right-wing, pro-Trump propaganda segments like the controversial Boris Epshteyn segments. However, Sinclair is getting attention for a different reason altogether. Joe Crain, a meteorologist who is...

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June 8, 2019

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Scott Walker using Wisconsin National Guard to promote religious mythology

AUTHOR’S NOTE: The author of this story is not an attorney and is not a religious scholar. In the latest battle in the Republican Party’s War on the Constitution, Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) is using the Wisconsin National Guard and Wisconsin Emergency Management to promote the religious fiction that Santa...

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December 22, 2017

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What did you expect?

With the establishment marginalized on the right by the Cruz or Trump crisis where do you think they will turn? By the establishment I mean, the serious money, the superPacs, dark money, corporations and their propaganda arm the corporate media. We can all put corporate logos on most of congress,...

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January 20, 2016

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War in Syria and Iraq: Check CENTCOM's event logs for May and the U.S. is roughly a No Show

Summary: According to U.S. Central Command logs, we are making fewer airstrikes during a whole month today than we did every day in 2003 during the effort to remove Saddam Hussein. Compared to current capacity we're going at less than a 2% effort. The United States was a No Show...

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June 8, 2015

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Central Command (CENTCOM) before they knew Ramadi had fallen to ISIS

Ramadi fell to ISIS in a battle that ran from early May 14th through into the 15th. Americans from the Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter down to talk radio meth heads blamed the Iraqi soldiers: “I hope they develop the will to fight.” Then it came out that US Air...

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June 2, 2015

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UPDATE: CENTCOM watched 30 ISIS truck bombs roll on Ramadi and did nothing. May 14th? A bloodbath

See evil. This goes to May 14th when the U.S. military does surveillance and gets all the proper details: how many truck bombs, how many ISIS fighters came in, how many guns. How the attacks formed up. Then they did nothing about it. Same on the 15th. On the 16th...

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June 1, 2015

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Is ISIS Disintegrating ???

Word out of Iraq from yesterday is quite different the what I see in the morning war coverage out of MSM/corporate media. — Over in Iraq the coalition has set up two large-scale victories in the north. — Same time, everyone over there observes a sea change to Sunni tribal...

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May 24, 2015

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The Economist: “Caliphate Strikes Back.” The Coalition corrects Iraq map, surrounds Mosul

The Economist tries to get it right. The center of Ramadi is indeed under ISIS control. That's “ISIS” as an acronym for Islamic State Is Shxt. What matters most in Iraq goes to three things: — The Sunnis in Syria and in Iraq are now terrified of the ISIS fighters....

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May 23, 2015

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The 2015 Ramadi Government Center attack. What is going on over there?

In Ramadi, Iraq, last week a force of some 200 ISIS fighters carried out a successful suicide-based attack on the Government Center building. A chain of cars drove in and blasted check points and strong-point bunkers. The main ISIS force engaged defenders in a 30 minute battle that ended with...

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May 19, 2015

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Murdoch's Dirty Tricks party UKIP grabbed 8.6% Labour, 4% Tory. Great election steal, Rupert !!

Now it should be explicit, not suspected or implicit that elections are not democratic in the presence of Murdoch, the Kochs or Adelman. What we see is that anything will be done where the most powerful are sure they will not be prosecuted. Lies count for nothing. There is no...

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May 11, 2015

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Who said: “The Arab world is a source of danger, killing, destruction over the whole world” ???

Republication. Done to correct the linked title. Please forgive…. Unless you follow the Arabs and world press you are not going to see the answers to this mystery. NY Times got in a one-sentence mention after the Charlie Hebdo attacks. Nothing you'd call substance. You will see no extended media...

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April 27, 2015

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Likudniks overpromise Knesset chairs. “Unity” possible. OC Rabbi pleads guilty to bribing their FBI

The Holy Land has its problems. One big one, if we're going to be honest about this, is is that the Jewish community in Israel is plagued with dishonesty. During the run up to the March 17th election, Likud's promises for cabinet positions and sub-positions involved the usual imprecisions. But...

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April 14, 2015

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Wall St J: The Pentagon advises Iraq to adopt a ground strategy from '07/'08. AKA: Last War Syndrome

Welcome to Iraq. America's military experts advise Iraq to push ISIS back into Syria. Here's the conversation in Wall Street Journal: Iraqi security forces and their U.S. partners are divided about where to next confront Islamic State after their victory over the extremist group in Tikrit last week. Both hope...

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April 7, 2015

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Dowd At NY Times pries open C.I.A.'s Pandora's Box. Gee, no torture. Nothing there but heroism.

MoDo celebrates Easter as always: a turn at stylish whining. “Good Riddance, Carrie Mathison” This “Carrie Mathison” is the lead character, played by Claire Danes, in the “Homeland” television series. Here's the core sentiment, dressed up as a logical argument: “The problem is that [corporate media] portray most women in...

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April 6, 2015

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Tikrit artillery barrages augmented with U.S. air strikes

The southwest section of Tikrit is a burning ruin. After a week of artillery the residences have been leveled and bombs left by the ISIS and allied Sunni fighters have been detonated. The area reportedly looks like Stalingrad during World War II. Estimates from Al Sahra/COB Speicher put the shell...

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March 26, 2015

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UPDATE ISRAEL: Zionist Union offers joint-government to Kulanu. Stability with Kalanu bullet points?

From last Wednesday: Contrary to corporate MSM: Israel's Kulanu “All Of Us” Party will decide the election Little did I know on Wednesday how close that title fit to post-election events. UPDATE: Bibi may be on his way out. Senior members of the Zionist Union party confirmed to Maariv on...

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March 22, 2015

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Day Three: Media pass on GOP47 ignorance of United Nations, nuke deals, and Non-Proliferation Treaty

Al Jazeera gets it right !! Bottom of this diary. – – – First the obvious: negotiations with Iran are a multinational process. This is not an American treaty. No way, no how. The five Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council — the United States, Russia, China, United...

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March 11, 2015

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NOT BREAKING: Media omit GOP47 ignorance of U.N. Security Council and 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty

First the obvious: Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) The NPT is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament...

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March 10, 2015

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Bad Week for the Black Flags in Syria and Iraq

All in all this looks to have been the worst week for the Islamists since May of 2011 when Osama bin Laden was killed and his files and computers were seized in the same raid. For every Saudi/GCC proxy in the area, they're in trouble. All across the board they're...

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March 8, 2015

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R.I.P. Florence Cioffi — Wall Street's Most Infamous Killing ::REPOST

This diary spun through last night. For a reminder that nothing much has changed…. January 25th was the seventh anniversary of the slaughter of a Manhattan office worker, Florence Cioffi. She was 59 years old, a few days short of turning sixty. The criminal responsible was Enterprise Engineering, Inc.'s Chairman...

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March 2, 2015