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Patrick Martin writes for the World Socialist Website (wsws.org), a forum for socialist ideas & analysis & published by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 4, 2020 With Sanders headed to victory, Iowa Democratic Party blocks release of caucus results
The Iowa Democratic Party has refused to release results of the caucuses held throughout the state on Monday night to determine the allocation of delegates for the party's presidential nomination. Officials are now saying that they hope to have results "some time Tuesday."
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, January 31, 2020 Elizabeth Warren issues call for internet censorship
In a statement issued January 29, Senator Elizabeth Warren, a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, called for a massive effort to impose internet censorship during the 2020 presidential election.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 29, 2020 Democrats embrace war hawk Bolton in Trump impeachment trial
Leaked excerpts from a forthcoming book by former national security advisor John Bolton have staggered the Trump White House and overshadowed the efforts by Trump's lawyers to mount a defense in the Senate impeachment trial,
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 23, 2020 Democratic Party establishment wages war on Sanders
In an extraordinary interview published Tuesday, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, denounced Sanders and refused to commit herself to support Sanders if he wins the Democratic presidential nomination this year.
SHARE Monday, January 13, 2020 House Democrats to forward Trump impeachment articles, setting stage for Senate trial
President Trump declared Friday that he would invoke executive privilege to block Bolton's testimony in the event the Senate decided to subpoena him. He claimed this was not because Bolton's testimony would be damaging, but to preserve confidentiality "for the sake of the office."
(11 comments) SHARE Monday, December 2, 2019 Obama spearheads campaign against Sanders' nomination as Democratic presidential candidate
The first votes for the Democratic presidential nomination will be cast in two months' time, in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. With former President Barack Obama taking the lead, the Democratic Party is moving to ensure that issues of social inequality and wealth distribution are excluded from the elections.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 21, 2019 The impeachment crisis and American imperialism
Weaker nations whose rulers get in the way of American imperialism will pay the price, and in some cases, as in Iraq, Venezuela, Syria and Libya -- all countries where oil wealth is a major consideration -- the result can be invasion, occupation, military coup or a combination of all three.
SHARE Monday, November 18, 2019 Louisiana governor wins re-election in blow to Trump
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, the only Democratic governor in the Deep South, won reelection Saturday in a runoff contest, despite campaign rallies by President Trump and a last-minute infusion of $1 million from the Republican National Committee.
SHARE Thursday, November 14, 2019 Democrats begin impeachment hearings with denunciations of Russia
The first day of public, televised hearings on the possible impeachment of President Trump was dominated by denunciations of Russia by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and the first two witnesses, current State Department officials George Kent and William Taylor.
SHARE Tuesday, October 29, 2019 Trump booed at World Series game
Most of the audience booing Trump were not living in poverty or affected by his food stamp cuts or persecution of immigrants. But the widespread hostility toward Trump, expressed in unmistakable terms, gave a glimpse of the real feelings of millions of ordinary Americans.
SHARE Monday, October 7, 2019 Impeachment campaign escalates with a second CIA stooge posing as "whistleblower"
The additional witness or witnesses were said to be intelligence officials. At least one has been interviewed by Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, who declared the initial complaint against Trump, over his efforts to get the president of Ukraine to provide derogatory material on former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, to be "credible" and "urgent."
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 1, 2019 Hunter Biden made $850,000 on board of Ukraine gas company
The Hunter Biden-Ukraine connection has become the trigger for the opening of impeachment proceedings against President Trump, but the connection itself is worth examining in its own right. The younger Biden's career sheds light on the decay of American democracy and the vast social gulf that has opened up between the ruling elite and the vast majority of the population.
SHARE Wednesday, September 11, 2019 Trump Fires Bolton As National Security Adviser
President Trump fired his national security adviser John Bolton Monday morning in an action revealing the deepening crisis of the administration and bitter conflicts within official Washington after a series of foreign policy debacles. Trump made the announcement on Twitter.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 27, 2019 Democrats join Trump in fundraising from the moneyed elite
It's August in the Hamptons, Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard in the year before a US presidential election. That means it's time for the moneyed elite of New York and Boston to throw open their palatial summer residences to fundraisers for the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, August 23, 2019 Why is the New York Times still trying to sweep the Epstein case under the rug?
Numerous prison officials, including some in authority, were aware that Epstein -- on suicide watch from July 23 to July 29 -- was alone in a cell, in violation of rules governing at-risk prisoners. (Other press accounts claim that his cellmate was granted bail on Friday, August 9, and released from custody, leaving Epstein by himself.)
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 15, 2019 Trump again "jokes" about extending his presidency
President Trump retweeted the suggestion of an ultra-right supporter, evangelical preacher and Liberty University boss Jerry Falwell Jr., that his term in office be extended by two years to compensate for the two years allegedly stolen from his presidency by the Democratic-inspired investigation into supposed connections between the Trump campaign and Russia.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, August 12, 2019 Who wanted Jeffrey Epstein dead?
Jeffrey Epstein's violent death in a Manhattan jail cell prevents a trial or a plea deal that threatened to expose business associates and political enablers who made use of the services provided by his alleged sex-trafficking activities, or who profited from this and other sordid operations of the multimillionaire money manager.