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In his December 22 article headlined "The Progressive Honor Roll of 2010," Nation writer John Nichols named Bernie Sanders "most valuable senator," distorting his record that includes:
-- rhetorically backing universal single-payer healthcare, then voting for rationing and enriching drug companies, insurance giants and large hospital chains;
-- supporting Wall Street empowering financial reform, institutionalizing business as usual;
-- backing agribusiness-friendly food safety legislation, harming small farmers and consumers; and
-- supporting the stalled Senate cap and trade bill to empower polluters, raise energy prices, and provide a potential $10 trillion speculative carbon trading derivatives market, among his other notable "successes," while claiming peoples' senator credentials, which ones not explained.
More often than not, Nation magazine writers are on the wrong side of issues, running cover for Democrats indistinguishable from Republicans. Both parties support privilege over progressivism, imperial wars, hammering dissent, and waging war on Islam and Latino immigrants for political advantage.
In its December 22 issue, self-styled feminist columnist Katha Pollitt added her own insult, siding with Swedish prosecutors charging Julian Assange with unlawful coercion, sexual molestation and rape, no matter his persuasive denial, calling the accusations politically motivated. Pollitt, however, assailed WikiLeaks supporters who've "misrepresented the allegations, attacked the women and made light of date rape," when, if fact, charges clearly seem bogus.
In a December 29 report, investigative journalist Wayne Madsen said insider sources told him that "the CIA used Sweden to launder the transfer to WikiLeaks of carefully screened and redacted State Department cables and the subsequent release of the cables to pre-selected corporate news media entities. Sweden was chosen (for) its so-called 'press freedom and freedom of expression' traditions" to give the releases more legitimacy.
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