Ron Widelec retweeted
One of the most inspiring anti-corporatist and anti-war voices in Congress, @RoKhanna, will be co-national chair for the Bernie Sanders campaign, alongside the consistently great @NinaTurner and @CarmenYulinCruz xitter.cf/RoKhanna/status/109866…
It’s such an honor to be named a national co-chair for @BernieSanders alongside @NinaTurner and @CarmenYulinCruz.
Together we are going to build a movement to take on special interests and fight for a 21st century America where no one is left behind.
Ron Widelec retweeted
The U.S. effort to distribute tons of food and medicine to needy Venezuelans is also designed to foment regime change –– which is why many humanitarian groups want nothing to do with it.
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Ron Widelec retweeted
Is it OK to say this now?
Aipac, the pro-Israel lobby, raises more than $100 million a year, which it spends on lobbying politicians for U.S. aid and sending members of Congress to Israel on.wsj.com/2DDlMn8
Ron Widelec retweeted
In anticipation of the less-than-devastating Mueller report he wanted, @RepAdamSchiff is now starting to attack Robert Mueller's investigation as inadequate, lax and negligent. Is it now permissible to impugn the former FBI Director & Special Counsel?
House Intelligence chairman voices concern that Mueller’s scrutiny of Trump’s finances isn’t adequate, by The Post's @gregpmiller wapo.st/2MWi2kK
Ron Widelec retweeted
Lots of folks have gone through @KamalaHarris’s record to challenge whether she’s a “progressive prosecutor.” I argue that the problem was becoming a prosecutor in the first place. – at Manhattan, NY
A problem for Kamala Harris: Can a prosecutor become president in the age of Black Lives Matter? interc.pt/2FK7hRc by @briebriejoy
Ron Widelec retweeted
"I'm not opposed to ending US involvement in this war. I just don't think now is the right time to do it and don't think this is the right way to do it" - the deceitful motto of Endless War advocates for decades, from Vietnam to the War on Terror.
Ron Widelec retweeted
Would love to know how many of the 44,000 people who re-tweeted this valid principle have rejected it when it comes to the asylum Edward Snowden sought & received from Russia, and the asylum Julian Assange sought & received from Ecuador (NOTE: @ACLU defended @Snowden).
Sadly, in between the time that I wrote this and Newsday published it Trump has walked back this withdrawal statement. Pressure from media and political war hawks got him to announce a much slower withdrawal. I fear the withdrawal will not happen at all...
Ron Widelec retweeted
One of the great crises facing our democracy is power of the billionaire class over our political process. The needs of ordinary people are ignored when the very rich and their Super PACs buy elections. We need to overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.
Ron Widelec retweeted
Read this spectacularly correct @mtaibbi column on Trump's withdrawal from Syria and the utterly unhinged, virtually unanimous anger from the establishment wings of both parties, the "military & intelligence community," and the MSNBC/neocon axis: rollingstone.com/politics/po…
Ron Widelec retweeted
One big exception, Chris Matthews:
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HISTORIC VICTORY: The Senate has voted to stop U.S. military support for the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen. This is the first time ever that the Senate has voted to end an unauthorized war. xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1vOxwZDZn…
Ron Widelec retweeted
The eyes of the world are watching the Senate today. Shortly, we will vote to end U.S. support for the disastrous Saudi-led war in Yemen. Watch my speech here: facebook.com/senatorsanders/…
Ron Widelec retweeted
America isn't too broke for the #GreenNewDeal. We were in the middle of the Great Depression when FDR enacted the New Deal.
The result:
✅ Social Security
✅ Unemployment benefits
✅ Minimum wage
✅ Collective bargaining
✅ Millions of new jobs