This story from Glen Ford at Black Agenda Report really frightens me because it is happening completely off the radar. While everyone is flipping out because Russia may or may not have influenced the 2016 election, AIPAC spends a fortune stocking our national legislature with right-wing extremists. They do it openly and destroy the political career of anyone who objects. Nobody talks about it because all of our politicians are afraid of them.
Lately this is becoming my biggest reason for supporting Bernie. I would really like to see a Jewish progressive with a backbone in the White House because nobody else would be in a better position to stand up to the Zionists.
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Rep.Terri Sewell, who has wallowed at the bottom of the barrel of the Congressional Black Caucus ever since she won election to her Alabama Black Belt seat in 2010, is stooping to new lows. Sewell this month introduced a bill crafted to nullify Sen. Bernie Sanders’ and Rep. Bobby Scott’s legislation to boost the national minimum wage
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Half of 13 Democrats that co-sponsored Sewell’s retrograde measure are freshmen that entered Congress in the 2018 Democratic “wave” –- meaning most of these surfers are anything but “progressive.”
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Not just corporations, but organizations like AIPAC [American Israel Political Affairs Committee]. Mostly Republican operatives and Jewish operatives that were sent by different organizations and groups and corporations.
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Artur Davis emerged as perhaps the most dangerous of the CBC right-wingers when he was “picked by Obama’s alter ego and future White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, as co-chair of the southern region of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, in 2005,” as reported by BAR. That put him in a position to find, mentor and fund clones of himself for Congress
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The arrival on Capitol Hill of a handful of leftish young Democrats, including Ilhan Omar in the Black Caucus, does not amount to a sea change in the political complexion of the Democratic Party. Rather, these leftish lawmakers are far outnumbered by the right-wingers in the Democratic classes of 2016 and 2018