Debbie Wasserman Schultz And The DNC Favored Hillary Clinton Over Bernie Sanders. Where’s The Outrage?

Debbie Wasserman Schultz And The DNC Favored Hillary Clinton Over Bernie Sanders. Where’s The Outrage?
By H.A. Goodman, HuffingtonPost

(Aug. 16, 2016 3:29 p.m.) — After the DNC WikiLeaks emails, The Nation’s Joshua Holland acknowledged the DNC “came to loathe Sanders’s campaign,” however “there’s no evidence that they rigged the primaries.” Nothing exemplifies the amnesia of Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s various claims of impartiality, or the relevance of such neutrality to the Democratic process, better than Holland’s sentiment.

The facts show that the Democratic Primary was rigged against Bernie Sanders from the start, despite numerous promises from the DNC to remain impartial.

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Bernie Sanders: Big Pharma a health hazard

Bernie Sanders: Big Pharma a health hazard
By Bay Area News Corp

(Aug. 15, 2016 1:38 p.m.) — The pharmaceutical industry has become a major health hazard to the American people.

Our nation pays — by far — the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. As a result, nearly one in five Americans cannot afford to fill their prescriptions. That is unacceptable. A lifesaving product does no good if patients cannot afford it.

A new report from Americans for Tax Fairness explains how a pharmaceutical company, Gilead Sciences, games the system to charge high prices and then shifts the profits offshore to avoid billions in U.S. taxes.

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Bernie Sanders buys a lake home, igniting Twitter snark

Bernie Sanders buys a lake home, igniting Twitter snark
By Dan D’Ambrosio, Free Press

(August 14, 2016 23:00 p.m. ) — BURLINGTON, Vt. — Earlier this month, real estate agent Franz Rosenberger closed a deal with Bernie and Jane Sanders for a $575,000 lakeside home in North Hero — a second home where the Sanders family could gather with children and grandchildren for weekends on the water, the Realtor said.

“It has a nice gradual pebble beach that’s protected, which was important for them, for their grandkids,” he said. “It has big views of the lake and the Green Mountains. They really wanted to be looking at Vermont.”

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$15 minimum wage movement to vote on organizing mass fast-food worker strike

$15 minimum wage movement to vote on organizing mass fast-food worker strike
by Donovan Harrell, Politico

(August 13, 2016 7:49 a.m.) — The “Fight for $15” minimum wage movement will hold its first-ever convention Saturday, where roughly 3,000 who will vote on a resolution calling for mass strikes among fast-food workers nationwide.

Thousands of members of the movement head to Richmond, Va. this weekend, and among the items on the agenda is a resolution that would call on the organization to organize the fast-food strikes and a string of accompanying homecare and childcare worker protests.

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2016 Candidate Stances On Marijuana Legalization: Clinton Would Reschedule Pot, She Says

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By Alex Garofalo, Int’l Business Times

(August 12, 2016 10:14 a.m.) — Hillary Clinton says that as president she would support decriminalizing marijuana.

The Democratic nominee released a statement Thursday saying that she would reschedule marijuana from a Schedule 1 drug to a Schedule 2 drug. The reclassification would remove major restrictions to academic research into the effects of marijuana use and reduce the criminal penalties associated with possessing the drug. The statement came the same day as an announcement from the DEA that organization was removing some restrictions to research, but keeping marijuana in the Schedule 1 category.

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Bernie Sanders Slams Decision Not To Reclassify Marijuana

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By Daniel Marans, HuffingtonPost.com

(August 11, 2016 12:16 p.m.) — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) threw some shade at the Drug Enforcement Administration on Thursday.

The DEA announced it would end the federal government’s monopoly on marijuana cultivation, but to the disappointment of many drug reform proponents, the agency declined to reclassify pot from its list of “most dangerous” narcotics.

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Bernie bucks keep pouring in for Wasserman Schultz rival Canova

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By Patricia Mazzei, MiamiHerald.com

(August 10, 2016 4:10 p.m.) — What is Bernie Sanders’ endorsement worth?

For Florida congressional candidate Tim Canova, the answer so far is more than half-a-million bucks.

Sanders’ campaign told the Miami Herald on Wednesday that it has helped raise more than $637,000 since May 22, when the Vermont senator and former Democratic presidential candidate began asking supporters to chip in for Canova.

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Green Party Candidate Jill Stein Is Sounding a Lot Like Bernie Sanders

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By Michal Addady, Fortune.com

(August 10, 2016 11:39 a.m.) — Bernie Sanders’ campaign may have ended, but his platform seems to live on in Jill Stein.

The Green Party candidate outlined what she would want to accomplish as president in an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box saying, “As the only candidate that is not poisoned by corporate money, lobbyists, or Super PACs, I can actually stand up for what it is that we need.”

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Say Anything: Sanders and the Lesser Evil Mantra

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By Stan Malinowitz, CounterPunch.org

(August 9, 2016 1:41 p.m.) — I don’t really feel betrayed by Bernie Sanders’ endorsement of Hillary Clinton. He said he would support the Democratic nominee, whoever it turned out to be, at the start of his campaign. That opened the doors to the Democratic debates and to the amount of media coverage he got.

Even if the media clearly under-covered his campaign and over-covered Clinton`s, he got more visibility and his campaign came farther than if he had run as an independent or if he had not made the pact with the party.

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Robert Reich – Foreign Cash Is Hijacking American Democracy

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By Robert Reich, Alternet.org

(August 8, 2016 4:00 p.m.) — The biggest threats to American sovereignty are invisible digital dollars wired into U.S. election campaigns from abroad.

“Without a border, we just don’t have a country,” Donald Trump says repeatedly. For him, the biggest threats to American sovereignty are three-dimensional items that cross our borders, such as unwanted imports and undocumented immigrants.

He’s wrong. The biggest threats to American sovereignty are invisible digital dollars wired into U.S. election campaigns from abroad.

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