CommonDreams.org: on Principles & Values
Bernie Sanders:
Progressives deserve important seats in Biden administration
After a summer and fall dominated by the imperative of defeating Donald Trump, progressive forces are entering a winter of discontent. While Sanders wants to maintain a cordial relationship with the incoming president, he doesn't like
what he's seeing. "The progressive movement deserves a number of seats--important seats--in the Biden administration," Sanders said. "Have I seen that at this point? I have not.
Source: Common Dreams blog on 2021 Biden Administration
Dec 14, 2020
Jill Stein:
Hillary supports Wall Street, war and the Walmart economy
I join millions of Americans who see Hillary Clinton's campaign as the opposite of what they and Bernie Sanders have fought for. Despite her penchant for flip flopping rhetoric, Hillary Clinton has spent decades consistently serving the causes of
Wall Street, war and the Walmart economy.The policies she fought for--along with her husband and political partner, Bill Clinton--have been foundations of the economic disaster most Americans are still struggling with: the abuses of deregulated
Wall Street, rigged corporate trade agreements, racist mass incarceration, and the destruction of the social safety net for poor women and children. The consistent efforts of the Democratic Party to minimize, sideline, and sabotage the
Sanders campaign are a wake up call that we can't have a revolutionary campaign inside a counter-revolutionary party. I call on the tens of millions inspired by Bernie Sanders' call for political revolution.
Source: CommonDreams.org column by Jill Stein
Jul 12, 2016
John Bolton:
OpEd: Wrote book instead of testimony at impeachment hearing
Excerpts from a new book by John Bolton detailing his time in President Donald Trump's inner circle as national security advisor are drawing anger for the fact the new information is coming out long after the impeachment hearings
from last fall, making the revelations more evidence that Bolton was '100% complicit' in the president's crimes.
Trump's overwhelming level of corruption and ignorance did not motivate Bolton to go to Congress when the body was investigating the president, as an anti-extremism advocate noted on
Twitter. 'Friendly reminder that John Bolton, instead of telling Congress what he knew while they were holding impeachment proceedings, wrote a f---ing book.'
Source: Common Dreams excerpts from "The Room Where It Happened"
Jun 17, 2020
Mike Pence:
Freedom, not socialism, made America great
Speaking in front of a packed house at the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Pence said that "freedom"--an apparent stand-in for capitalism--was the reason for the major global and American victories of the past two centuries. "It
was freedom, not socialism, that ended slavery, won two world wars, and stands today as the beacon of hope for all the world," Pence declared.
Source: Common Dreams e-zine on 2019 CPAC, "Freedom ended Slavery"
Mar 1, 2019
Paula Jean Swearengin:
When we unite for justice, we can accomplish our goals
On unity: "No one person or election will solve the systemic injustices that plague our society," said Swearengin. "But, together, we can stand in solidarity with the cause.""When we unite our fight for justice, we can accomplish our
goals," she added. "We can end systemic racism. We can guarantee healthcare as a human right. We can ensure every person has clean air to breathe and clean water to drink."
Source: Common Dreams on 2020 West Virginia Senate race
Jun 10, 2020
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