A funny thing happened to Bernie Sanders on the way to the 2020 Iowa presidential caucus. That state is the first real race in the nomination process, and a critical opportunity for candidates to make their mark before Democratic voters. Sanders was doing well in the polls and appeared he might even win. This sent […]
Tom Kaplan: Israel’s Anti-Iran Svengali Billionaire gold trader advocates war with Iran, which will provoke economic instability and enrich him further
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Aipac Astroturf Groups Plow $30-Million into Defeating Progressive Democrats Democratic Majority for Israel and United Democracy Project sow division in Democratic Party
America’s most powerful lobby, Aipac, had a problem. While it prided itself on being a bipartisan group, whose ardent support for Israel transcended Party, it really wasn’t that at all. Its major donors and most of its members were Republican. In fact, those donors overwhelmingly supported Republican Senate and House candidates. Forty of the GOP […]
Reddit: Front Page of the Internet, Censors Its Back Pages As Reddit readies for $15-Billion IPO, Bad PR is bad for business
NOTE: The New Arab published an abridged version of this post this week. Read it here. What will the future look like with hundreds of millions of people only thinking Reddit-approved thoughts? Can we answer the call for a decentralized platform to exchange free ideas, judged on their own merit instead of by a central […]
