Legalize It All: How to Win the War on Drugs

Dan Baum Harper's Magazine
“You want to know what this was really all about?” asked Watergate conspirator Ehrlichman. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.”

The Long March of Bernie’s Army

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
If the Sanders generation can speak to America as boldly as Roosevelt did, and build their power once Bernie’s campaign is done, they may just make their revolution yet.

Why You Should Care About Nukes

Maybe the biggest nuclear weapons threat in the post-cold war world is an accidental Apocalypse, triggering a nuclear winter.

Long Ago, Far Away

Odetta brings the haunting refrain of one of Bob Dylan's most radical songs about war, inequality and oppression: Things like that don't happen / No more, nowadays.

Bernie Sanders' Message

Two grassroots supporters combined to produce this moving montage to accompany Bernie's impassioned message.

Friday Nite Videos -- April 1, 2016

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Bernie Sanders, Spike Lee & Rosario Dawson Rally in South Bronx. Bernie Sanders' Message. Odetta: Long Ago, Far Away. Cartoon Donald Trump Tells Stephen Who Started It. Why You Should Care About Nukes.

Beware the Blue State Model: How the Democrats Created a "Liberalism of the Rich"

Thomas Frank Tom Dispatch
Reading Thomas Frank's new book, Listen, Liberal, or What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?, I was reminded of the snapshot that Oxfam offered us early this year: 62 billionaires now have more wealth than the bottom 50% of the global population, while the richest 1% own more than the other 99% combined...In 2010, it took 388 of the super-rich to equal the holdings of that bottom 50%. At this rate...by 2030, just the top 10 billionaires might do the trick. [*]

Brother Obama - Message from Fidel

Fidel Castro Ruz Granma (Cuba)
We don’t need the empire to give us anything. Our efforts will be legal and peaceful, because our commitment is to peace and fraternity among all human beings who live on this planet.