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Warmonger Sanders endorses Warmonger Clinton

by Register Peace & Freedom or Green
As the Democrats' Warmonger Sheepdog Sanders promised throughout his staged campaign for more votes for Democrats in November, Bernie Sanders has endorsed Warmonger Democrat Hillary Clinton for President, which should surprise absolutely no one. The transcript of his speech, which is instructive, is at http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/287370-transcript-bernie-sanders-formally-endorses-hillary
In his entire speech, there is not one word about the warmongering of Clinton, because of course, that would be a case of unclean hands as Sanders has the SAME warmongering positions, including supporting military contractors in Vermont and everywhere else, supporting the encirclement of Russia and the illegal US installation of an openly Nazi government in Ukraine, supporting targeted assassinations which are illegal, not to mention barbaric, supporting US troops in Syria, supporting Israel’s war machine (a section of the US war machine) including voting for weapons for Israel during the July 2014 Gaza Massacre, condemning the late Hugo Chavez of Venezuela as a communist dictator and more. In case you missed Sanders’ positions, all a matter of public record for US Senators and mandatory reading before endorsing any elected official, see:

Racist and Pro-War Bernie Sanders Is No Socialist and No Friend of the Working Class,” 8/11/15, by Steven Argue at
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/11/18776028.php

Democrats' Warmonger Sheepdog Bernie Sanders claims the US targeted assassination list is legal, a lie, and supports US troops in Syria. See Bernie Sanders Says US 'Kill List' Legal, Backs Troops in Syria, 4/26/16 at http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Bernie-Sanders-Says-US-Kill-List-Legal-Backs-Troops-in-Syria-20160426-0017.html.

Cindy Sheehan, a Peace & Freedom Party candidate in the past, has compiled the reactionary voting record of Sanders on 2/17/16, "Confessions of a Real Socialist" with lots of links at:
http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/2016/02/confessions-of-real-socialist-by-cindy.html

Barry Bush has his own listing of reactionary Sanders votes at:
http://www.facebook.com/BernieBarryBush/posts/1507933992860321

See photos & article at Bernie Sanders Loves This $1 Trillion War Machine by Tim Mak, 2/8/16 at http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/09/bernie-sanders-loves-this-1-trillion-war-machine.html.

The Myth of Bernie Sanders
by Thomas H. Naylor in Counterpunch 9/30/11 at
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/30/the-myth-of-bernie-sanders/ (read about his support of military contractors in Vermont)
and
Bernie Sanders Is a Russia-Bashing, Pro-Israel, Militarist Tool at
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/bernie-sanders-anti-russian-propaganda-and-vermont-socialism/ri8857
He also called Hugo Chavez, the late leader of Venezuela murdered by the CIA, a communist dictator, standard US capitalist war machine hatemongering. See
US Presidential Candidates Demean Muslims and Hugo Chavez by Steve Lendman, 9/19/15 at http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/19/18777841.php

His support of US imperialism is outrageous and unconscionable. See
Does Bernie Sanders’ Imperialism Matter? by Shamus Cooke, 1/5/16
http://www.globalresearch.ca/does-bernie-sanders-imperialism-matter/54979541

Instead, he mentions a few minor reforms he thought Clinton might promise so she can win votes or at least continue his legacy of causing serious damage to socialist and Green parties by having their members vote Democrat which is the only reason the Democrats, the twin of the Republicans exist, as there is no other reason for 2 parties with the same pro-war, pro-police war and fascism agenda, paid by the same capitalist corporations, to exist. The reforms he mentions do not begin to address the crime of the private profit system, the cause of all our grief, which reaps its greatest profits in munitions and oil, the reason the war machine exists. WE CANNOT HAVE GUNS AND BUTTER.

He does the usual Democratic Party politician routine of calling for unity against the latest bogeyman, former Democrat for many years who gave thousands of dollars to the Democratic Party and the Clinton Foundation, Republican Donald Trump, who has been abandoned by his party and now has only $1.3 million on hand while Clinton has $42.5 million on hand as of June 2016, 5 months before the election, or rather, selection, as Clinton is Wall Street’s (the capitalist class) choice. For more on the absurdity of Trump being a serious adversary and the clear case that he is the prearranged bogeyman, see:

“Freedom Rider: Republicans Reject Trump” by Margaret Kimberley, 7/5/16 at
http://www.blackagendareport.com/republicans_reject_trump

Republican Trump has no chance of winning since the presidential election is decided by the Electoral College, as required by the US Constitution. There are 538 electors, representing the 435 representatives and 100 senators plus 3 for Washington, D.C. Except for Maine and Nebraska, the electors are decided on a winner take all basis, which means the party that wins the majority of votes in a state wins all of that state’s electoral college delegates. Most of the states with the most electors are Democratic Party strongholds, such as California and New York. Democrat Obama barely won the popular vote in 2008 and 2012, but he easily won far more than the required 270 electoral votes needed to win. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_States)

As you will see on the 270-to-win map for 2016, the only heavily populated states that are contested are Florida and Pennsylvania. Having a pre-arranged adversary like Trump, who always puts his silver foot (he had the silver spoon at birth) in his mouth at every opportunity, which no serious candidate would ever do, guarantees a Clinton victory. See
http://www.270towin.com/

As to the US Supreme Court, you need only remember Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision guaranteeing women a right to a safe and legal abortion, which majority opinion was written by Justice Blackmun, a Republican Nixon appointee, with Justice White, a Democrat Kennedy appointee dissenting. Not only did the mass movements of the time, under the umbrella of opposition to the war in Vietnam, succeed in winning the right to abortion under reactionary Republican Pres Nixon, we also won the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 under the same president. The Supreme Court appointments depend upon our mass movements, which is to say we need to see hundreds of thousands of people in the streets opposing the US war machine, starting with the pending US war against Russia. See

“The “New Cold War” is No Longer Cold: NATO Expands Military Presence along Russia’s Border, Lying All the Way to Barbarossa II” by Tony Cartalucci, 7/11/16 at
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-new-cold-war-is-no-longer-cold-nato-expands-military-presence-along-russias-border-lying-all-the-way-to-barbarossa-ii/5535397


We also need to see serious general strikes, at least by city, whenever the highly militarized police kill anyone, regardless of color, as police killing are a vicious attack on the entire workingclass, occurring daily. Only when the capitalist class feels a loss of profits will they tell their armed thugs, the police, to stop killing us.

What Sanders accomplished in California was serious destruction of membership in the socialist Peace & Freedom Party and in the Green Party. They need you now to commit to voting your conscience. Please go online to register at https://covr.sos.ca.gov/?language=en-US

For more information, see
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home
http://www.glorialariva4president.com/
http://www.glorialariva4president.com/program (Gloria LaRiva for President with a serious socialist program)

and
http://www.cagreens.org/
http://www.gp.org/
http://www.jill2016.com/ (Jill Stein for President)

ALL ABOARD THE PEACE & FREEDOM PARTY-GREEN PARTY FREEDOM TRAIN!
by Mike Novack
W hat is the TIME FRAME of your consciousness? Thus you say .....

"What Sanders accomplished in California was serious destruction of membership in the socialist Peace & Freedom Party and in the Green Party. They need you now to commit to voting your conscience. "

Whatever the effect in the short term, do you think LONG TERM effect of the Sanders campaign will be to help or hurt the growth of those two parties? Do you think that there was any chance for those parties to grow BEFORE it could be demonstrated that the Democratic Party can't be shifted? Demonstrated that enough enough money could be raised outside the usual channels?

Sorry guys, at this point the ball was in YOUR court and you flubbed the shot. Or seem to be about to do that.

In any case, the Sanders campaign was NOT expected to win the nomination. Have you listened at all to what he was saying? I suggest you wait a bit to see what the movement that Sanders set into motion will do before you condemn it. A third party movement can grow ONLY when the existing parties are unable or unwilling to shift their coalitions to absorb the unrepresented interests.

Oh yes I agree that almost surely Clinton will renege on the platform concessions made to get Bernie's endorsement. But really do have to wait until that has happened. Can't play a ball not in your court yet. In conflict, you must always make plans based n the opponents capabilities, not your expectation of the opponent's intentions. It will be the CHOICE of the (Democratic Party's leadership whether to adjust their coalition to keep the more left force that Sanders has raised or risk that energy going to YOU.

What are your plans to try to capture that energy? Do you really think bad mouthing Sanders useful? What did the Socialist party do back when the Republican Party declined to put La Guardia on their ticket? Did you at least consider that?
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