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Showing Original Post only (View all)You think you love Bernie Sanders, now....THIS is the best yet, no one is going to take this stance [View all]
and that is exactly why this Sanderstorm is only beginning!
Many people want to know more about Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' foreign policy agenda. Yes, they say, we like what Sanders is saying about reducing extreme inequality, about reducing the political power of the billionaire class. But what about U.S. foreign policy? Yes, they say, Bernie voted no on the Iraq war; yes, they acknowledge, Sanders supports the Iran deal. But we're spending more than half of our federal income tax dollars on the Pentagon's empire, money we should be spending on rebuilding our nation's domestic infrastructure. "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death," Dr. King said. What's Bernie going to do about that?
I'm all for pushing Bernie to talk more about downsizing the Pentagon to be an institution focused on actually defending the United States, as opposed to running around the world overthrowing other people's governments -- a Pentagon that "goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy," as President John Quincy Adams put it.
But we should also take advantage of the new opportunity that now presents itself; it's not only with bombs that U.S. foreign policy kills and injures innocent civilians.
We should recognize and publicize the fact that Bernie Sanders is the only presidential candidate who is talking about what the IMF is doing to Greece, the only presidential candidate who has a track record of opposing the IMF, the only presidential candidate who, if elected, is likely to do anything to end the economic violence of the IMF.
I'm all for pushing Bernie to talk more about downsizing the Pentagon to be an institution focused on actually defending the United States, as opposed to running around the world overthrowing other people's governments -- a Pentagon that "goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy," as President John Quincy Adams put it.
But we should also take advantage of the new opportunity that now presents itself; it's not only with bombs that U.S. foreign policy kills and injures innocent civilians.
We should recognize and publicize the fact that Bernie Sanders is the only presidential candidate who is talking about what the IMF is doing to Greece, the only presidential candidate who has a track record of opposing the IMF, the only presidential candidate who, if elected, is likely to do anything to end the economic violence of the IMF.
For more of this excellent article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/bernie-sanders-will-end-the-imfs-economic-violence-in-greece-and-africa_b_7723284.html
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You think you love Bernie Sanders, now....THIS is the best yet, no one is going to take this stance [View all]
mother earth
Jul 2015
OP
Did you read this article, azmom? It is beyond what he said about the banks. I have no doubt about
mother earth
Jul 2015
#2
What is the title of the video? Links don't work well as they direct my device to a
Stardust
Jul 2015
#57
He lost me 6 minutes in when he said the "global warming cult" is lying about the climate
arcane1
Jul 2015
#80
Because we can't stop it. We have only an illusion of a democracy. We are allowed to vote
rhett o rick
Jul 2015
#45
We can stop it, but it's going to take this wave that's coming & it IS coming.
mother earth
Jul 2015
#48
I love yours too, rick. There's now a reason to be enthusiastic, this is our candidate, and it is
mother earth
Jul 2015
#63
Who knew that such men with integrity still existed? I sure as hell, even as one of his supporters,
mother earth
Jul 2015
#47
His positions are what we have all been waiting for. This is the time to pull out the stops.
newthinking
Jul 2015
#20
Break the rule, it is so worth it. Please, this is unprecedented, no one is going to take this
mother earth
Jul 2015
#8
Read the author's post at Daily Kos, so you don't have to go to Huff Post. Link.
madfloridian
Jul 2015
#12
TY, Madfloridian, I agree, I do ck HuffPo, but I'm glad you found this to add here.
mother earth
Jul 2015
#50
Seriously. He's a people's champion & he truly does need security. He really is our FDR. We so
mother earth
Jul 2015
#9
Those are very good points and ideas. Bernie has done much for Vets on the Hill, in Vermont
appalachiablue
Jul 2015
#33
NO kidding, you are little behind on what Sanders is all about, aren't ya?
mother earth
Jul 2015
#64
Been watching the Greek situation closely...Yannis is calling it Terrorism..people are terrified of
libdem4life
Jul 2015
#30
I asked someone from Greece for her take on the situation, she was too afraid to talk about it.
mother earth
Jul 2015
#55
IMO, Capitalism is taking down itself. Plato says the next evolution is Tyranny.
libdem4life
Jul 2015
#85
Bernie was only 20 in 1961, but I swear he's one of the only ones who heard Ike, and understood .
orpupilofnature57
Jul 2015
#56
Which is why, even true conservative GOP'ers of Eisenhower's ilk get it, & he is drawing from that
mother earth
Jul 2015
#65
TY for bringing Eisenhower's words into this, they are potent & always have been, esp. given the
mother earth
Jul 2015
#91
I believe RFK would have cured what has plagued us for the last 45 yrs .
orpupilofnature57
Jul 2015
#92
Yes! I am loving every word of it. May he carry it out, one way or the other. n/t
Betty Karlson
Jul 2015
#87