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with Chris Hedges and Greg Palast
RT America on Aug 8, 2020
On the show today, Chris Hedges discusses the potential for voter fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election with investigative journalist, Greg Palast.
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by Rainer Shea
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist, Mar. 7, 2020
March 8, 2020
During this last week’s Democratic presidential primary contests, all of the familiar types of oligarchic electoral manipulations appeared. Voter suppression plagued the elections, with the GOP’s actions in Texas having led to many young people being forced to wait hours in voting booth lines. Mirroring the statistically impossible vote count discrepancies that happened in Clinton’s favor throughout the 2016 primaries, in Massachusetts the discrepancies between the vote count and exit poll for Biden and Sanders was 8.2%, which is double the 4% margin of error for exit poll discrepancies. The sudden decisions by Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg to drop out, as well as Elizabeth Warren’s refusal to drop out before Super Tuesday despite having been hopelessly behind, worked to shift the voting demographic advantage away from Sanders and towards the DNC favorite Biden.
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with Greg Palast
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Greg Palast’s website
March 2, 2020
goingundergroundRT on Feb 29, 2020
We speak to Tricontinental Institute for Social Research Director Vijay Prashad. He discusses President Trump’s visit to India, what the arms deals between Trump and PM Modi mean, whether the US is trying to impose colonial domination on India, why the BJP and Modi are to blame for the Delhi riots which saw violence between Hindus and Muslims, the Citizenship Amendment Act, Assange’s extradition trial and more!
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by Rainer Shea
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist, Feb. 7, 2020
February 9, 2020
Lenin said that “Bourgeois democracy, although a great historical advance in comparison with medievalism, always remains, and under capitalism is bound to remain, restricted, truncated, false and hypocritical, a paradise for the rich and a snare and deception for the exploited, for the poor.” Never has this been more apparent than in today’s United States.
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by Jim Kavanagh
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Polemicist
January 31, 2020
The Good
I wrote six articles (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) about the Bernie Sanders campaign during the 2016 primary. As everyone keeps saying, Bernie is a paragon of consistency, so my understanding of him stands unchanged. The political situation in 2020 is, however, significantly different, and has opened up new possibilities for the Sanders campaign. On the eve of the first primary vote in Iowa, let’s consider what those possibilities are and where this campaign is taking its constituents and the Democratic Party.
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with Greg Palast
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Greg Palast’s website
November 18, 2019
goingundergroundRT on Nov 16, 2019
We speak to the author of ‘The Best Democracy Money Can Buy’ Greg Palast on the coup in Bolivia against Evo Morales, the US’ motivations for the coup, the racism in Latin American right-wing politics, the regime attempt by the US against Venezuela and Nicolas Maduro and why the 2020 US elections will not be free elections.
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with Greg Palast
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Greg Palast’s website
August 25, 2019
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by Paul Street
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Official Website of Paul Street
May 5, 2019
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
April 17, 2019
I was more surprised that your commission contacted me with a kind-of, sort-of invitation to speak than that you ultimately decided not to include me. I thank you for inviting me to submit testimony.
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with Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Originally published November 20, 2017
February 28, 2019
“Capitalism has given us neither democracy nor prosperity.” — Michael Parenti
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Feb 9, 2019
More than 6 million United States citizens are currently denied the right to vote due to state laws that disenfranchise citizens who have been convicted of a felony. More than 75 percent of these disenfranchised citizens are not in prison, and more than half have completed all terms of parole and probation.
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The Essays of The Man From the North by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
November 8, 2018
What do we do when we finally understand that the elections really are stolen? Or rigged? Or thrust out of our reach by the manipulations of rich and powerful people? Corrupted by corporations? How long does it take before we call the bluff? Another disappointing election cycle? Two? Three? How much more gerrymandering, corporate buying of elections, voter disenfranchisement, and outright fraud can we stand? When will we take seriously the necessity of change?
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by William Blum
Writer, Dandelion Salad
September 22, 2018
William Blum takes on the Washington Post again, in the person of columnist Max Boot, formerly of the Wall Street Journal
Dear Mr. Boot,
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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
July 12, 2018
When will the authoritarians and their political henchmen stop harassing American voters and let all citizens vote? No other Western country comes close to imposing so many obstructions for certain categories of people to keep them from the voting booth. In Canada, England, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, it is very easy to vote.
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by Paul Street
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Official Website of Paul Street
June 12, 2018
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Signed by the United States and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on Dec. 10, 1948, the document was a great and shining step forward in the articulation of how human beings might organize their social and political systems in accord with democratic and civilized ideals.
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