‘Mother Jones’ Senior Reporter Asks Medium To Silence Antiwar Leftists

In a corporatist system of government, where corporate power is not separated in any meaningful way from government power, corporate censorship is government censorship. 

Caitlin Johnstone
By Caitlin Johnstone
Internet Censorship

Opinion -- When news first broke that Medium, one of my primary blogging platforms, had closed the accounts of Trump-supporting pundits Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec and Laura Loomer, I tweeted the following in response: https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/966425245467869184 Hours later, right on cue, prominent Mother Jones Senior Reporter

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Democrats Rankled by the Audacity of Chelsea Manning’s Senate Campaign

Chelsea Manning is running because status quo Democratic politics is far from good enough in challenging the forces that have been bolstered by Trump.

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
Chelsea Manning addresses an audience, Sept. 17, 2017, during a forum, in Nantucket, Mass. The forum was part of The Nantucket Project's annual gathering on the island of Nantucket. Manning is a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst who spent time in prison for sharing classified documents. (AP/Steven Senne)

Chelsea Manning announced she will campaign for the Senate against Maryland Democratic Senator Ben Cardin in the upcoming primary. A segment of the Democratic establishment reacted feverishly. The former rapid response director for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Zac Petkanas, declared, “Chelsea Manning could have leaked the info

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From Maverick To Lapdog: Trump Is Already Serving The Agenda Of America’s Oligarchs

He campaigned on promises to ‘drain the swamp’ and radically alter the United States’ course in the world, but not even a week has passed and President Donald Trump has already made it clear that he’ll be following a very familiar agenda.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
President-elect Donald Trump waves to supporters during a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., Friday, Dec. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

WASHINGTON --- On the campaign trail, Donald Trump successfully wooed many Americans desperate for an end to Obama’s brand of neoliberalism. However, his nationalist “maverick” persona has quickly unraveled as his allegiance to the country’s real decision makers has become more evident with each passing day of his young presidency. Within his

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‘The Struggle Continues’: Sanders Refuses To Bend The Knee To Establishment

‘We will take our fight for social, economic, racial, and environmental justice to Philadelphia,’ senator declares

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. speaks Sunday, March 20, 2016, at a campaign rally in Seattle. (AP/Stephen Brashear)

Bernie Sanders refused to concede the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination on Tuesday night even as he congratulated his rival Hillary Clinton on her primary wins and thanked his supporters for their determined commitment to the 'political revolution' he has championed throughout the hotly contested primary season. "If this

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Did Bernie Sanders Just Go Full Establishment?

While some Bernie supporters came to the slow and painful realisation that there are no saviours, others took to Twitter and accused him of being a quasi-socialist warmonger and brutal imperialist.

Michaela Whitton | AntiMedia
By Michaela Whitton | AntiMedia
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a campaign rally in Laramie, Wyo., Tuesday, April 5, 2016. Sanders won the Democratic presidential primary in Wisconsin Tuesday. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Comments made by Bernie Sanders this week may just have blindsided and disillusioned swathes of his support base. Some of those with higher expectations of the ‘peacenik’ candidate breathed a collective sigh of disappointment after he endorsed Obama’s extrajudicial drone assassination program. At the same time, the Democratic candidate backed

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The Establishment Snarls A Warning To Bernie Sanders

Paul Krugman over the top.

Rick Sterling
By Rick Sterling
US economist Paul Krugman, shown here after his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, recently unleashed a no holds barred tirade against Bernie Sanders. (Franck Robichon/Pool Photo via AP)

When Republicans are in the White House, Paul Krugman and the New York Times sometimes sound pretty good. But when someone starts seriously and effectively challenging core assumptions and values of our political economic system, the progressive veneer quickly vanishes.  This is demonstrated in Paul Krugman’s verbal attack on the Bernie Sanders

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