Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders: Media Are Inept and GOP Agenda Is Hidden

Evan Halper Los Angeles Times
Sanders, the Vermont senator seeking the Democratic nomination, is mixing it up with the media. In a frank give-and-take with reporters, he scolded the media for covering the election like a baseball game. Nobody cares about Gov. Bush's campaign manager, he said, while the GOP has gotten away with murder hiding their agenda. He also questioned how rival Hillary Clinton could fail to have an opinion on such a big issue as President Obama's proposed Pacific trade deal.

When We Stand Up for Fifteen

Scenes from the biggest demos yet for a living wage for those who keep this country well, clean, and eating (if not eating well). These workers are near-saints, and they are marching on.

Documentary: The Look of Silence

In Joshua Oppenheimer's riveting indie film about the massacre of a million supposed Communists in Indonesia, the families of the victims get a chance to interrogate the killers.

Sixto Rodriguez - Establishment Blues

Detroit-inspired, this song from the album Cold Fact tells a story of our times that people will recognize worldwide. "This is not a song, It's an outburst."

Friday Nite Videos -- June 12, 2015

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Sixto Rodriguez - Establishment Blues. Pros and Cons: Donald Trump Running for President. Documentary: The Look of Silence. When We Stand Up for 15. Judge: Probable Cause for Murder Charges in Tamir Rice Case.

Wising Up to the Wise Men of American Foreign Policy

Jeet Heer The New Republic
Propping up dictators, rigging elections and aligning with some of the world's more unsavory characters is an accurate description of U.S. foreign policy past and present. It's also a fair characterization of the narrow gamut of thinking for both the wise oracles who urge containment and the hawks promoting armed confrontation. The book focuses on these elite policy makers who have become not just complacent with, but complicit in, U.S. hegemonic crimes worldwide.

Tidbits - June 11, 2015 - Kalief Browder, Criminality of Prisons; Fight for $15; Edward Snowden: Hero; Ronnie Gilbert; Walmart; Suicide in Young Women; Left Strategy Needed; and more...

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Reader Comments: Kalief Browder and Criminality of Prisons; Fight for $15; Edward Snowden - Hero; Ronnie Gilbert; Walmart Anti-Labor Activity; Suicide in Young Women; The Audacity to Win - Left Strategy Needed; Recommended Books - By non-white authors; Announcements: 62nd Memorial of the Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; Brooklyn Peace Fair

BDS and the "Anti-Semitism" Charge; Penalties Will Grow Worse The Longer Israel Persists In Settling - Israeli and Jewish Perspectives

Gideon Levy; Jerry Haber
BDS is neither motivated by anti-Semitism, nor is it, in effect, anti-Semitic. The "anti-Semitism" charge against BDS is false, intellectually lazy, and morally repugnant. The Israelis are fighting for their right to persist in settling, exploiting and stealing land; to continue breaking international law that prohibits settlement. For the sins of occupation, boycotts are a Light punishment. Commentary from an Israeli, American, and Orthodox Jewish perspective.