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Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: You think you love Bernie Sanders, now....THIS is the best yet, no one is going to take this stance [View all]madfloridian
(88,117 posts)12. Read the author's post at Daily Kos, so you don't have to go to Huff Post. Link.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/03/1398945/-Bernie-Sanders-Will-End-the-IMF-s-Economic-Violence-in-Greece-and-Africa
Frankly there's a lot of good stuff at Huff Post.
The IMF is not "over there." The IMF is headquartered in Washington, physically, politically and financially. A progressive economist once reported that he was at a seminar at the IMF, where a senior IMF official was indignant that people were saying that IMF is unaccountable. The IMF official demanded to know: why do people always accuse us of being unaccountable? We never do anything without checking with the U.S. Treasury Department!
Until now, unfortunately, Congressional Democrats have been largely content to let Treasury to run the show at the IMF without the input of real Democrats.
The IMF is now doing to Greece what the IMF has been doing to Africa since the 1980s and what the IMF did to South America until the progressive governments there kicked the IMF out. The IMF is a member of the "troika" of official creditors that have been making extreme austerity demands on the Greek government and are now openly demanding "regime change" in Greece before there can be any deal that ends the crisis in Greece that the troika has imposed.
(Some people complain that we shouldn't blame the IMF for what is being done to Greece; they say that some other institution or actor is more responsible. These people want us to play "accountability whack-a-mole" with the institutions. We need to hold the institutions "jointly and severally liable"; and the IMF is the bad actor in the troika for whom Americans have the most responsibility.)
Bernie Sanders is the only presidential candidate who is speaking out about this. In Congress, it's the progressive Democrats - including Sanders - who are speaking out about this.
Frankly there's a lot of good stuff at Huff Post.
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You think you love Bernie Sanders, now....THIS is the best yet, no one is going to take this stance [View all]
mother earth
Jul 2015
OP
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mother earth
Jul 2015
#2
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Stardust
Jul 2015
#57
He lost me 6 minutes in when he said the "global warming cult" is lying about the climate
arcane1
Jul 2015
#80
Because we can't stop it. We have only an illusion of a democracy. We are allowed to vote
rhett o rick
Jul 2015
#45
We can stop it, but it's going to take this wave that's coming & it IS coming.
mother earth
Jul 2015
#48
I love yours too, rick. There's now a reason to be enthusiastic, this is our candidate, and it is
mother earth
Jul 2015
#63
Who knew that such men with integrity still existed? I sure as hell, even as one of his supporters,
mother earth
Jul 2015
#47
His positions are what we have all been waiting for. This is the time to pull out the stops.
newthinking
Jul 2015
#20
Break the rule, it is so worth it. Please, this is unprecedented, no one is going to take this
mother earth
Jul 2015
#8
Read the author's post at Daily Kos, so you don't have to go to Huff Post. Link.
madfloridian
Jul 2015
#12
TY, Madfloridian, I agree, I do ck HuffPo, but I'm glad you found this to add here.
mother earth
Jul 2015
#50
Seriously. He's a people's champion & he truly does need security. He really is our FDR. We so
mother earth
Jul 2015
#9
Those are very good points and ideas. Bernie has done much for Vets on the Hill, in Vermont
appalachiablue
Jul 2015
#33
NO kidding, you are little behind on what Sanders is all about, aren't ya?
mother earth
Jul 2015
#64
Been watching the Greek situation closely...Yannis is calling it Terrorism..people are terrified of
libdem4life
Jul 2015
#30
I asked someone from Greece for her take on the situation, she was too afraid to talk about it.
mother earth
Jul 2015
#55
IMO, Capitalism is taking down itself. Plato says the next evolution is Tyranny.
libdem4life
Jul 2015
#85
Bernie was only 20 in 1961, but I swear he's one of the only ones who heard Ike, and understood .
orpupilofnature57
Jul 2015
#56
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mother earth
Jul 2015
#65
TY for bringing Eisenhower's words into this, they are potent & always have been, esp. given the
mother earth
Jul 2015
#91
I believe RFK would have cured what has plagued us for the last 45 yrs .
orpupilofnature57
Jul 2015
#92
Yes! I am loving every word of it. May he carry it out, one way or the other. n/t
Betty Karlson
Jul 2015
#87