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BERNIE AND ME by Michael Parenti

People have asked me what I think of the Bernie Sanders campaign. Bernie and I used to be close political friends up in Vermont in the early 1970s. We ran together on a third party ticket (the Liberty Union Party). I ran for the U.S. House of Representatives and Bernie ran for the U.S. Senate. (I got 7% of the vote; he got 3 or 4%--but who's counting.)

Bernie stayed in Vermont. I wanted to write rather than run for office in one-sided campaigns. So I spent the years writing books, articles, teaching courses, giving interviews, doing guest lectures all over the country, and marching in demonstrations. But I remained good friends with Bernie. I gave him moral and monetary support in his successful campaigns for Mayor of Burlington, then U.S. House of Representatives.

But I eventually broke with him because of his position on the Yugoslavia war, the "humanitarian war" as Bill Clinton and his national security state people called it. As did many liberals and some Trotskyites and anarchists, Bernie stood shoulder to shoulder with NATO and the CIA and the Clinton White House in the destruction of Yugoslavia, the 78 days of bombing, drenching Serbia in depleted uranium, leaving Serbia with the highest cancer rate in Europe and breaking up Yugoslavia, one of the best social democracies in Europe, though not without its serious blemishes.

Today, I wish Bernie the best. He is a Democrat although he calls himself a socialist and an independent. But he takes very good stands on Social Security, human services, and curbing the banksters. However, he has voiced not a word about what his foreign policy might be. I suspect it has not improved. I will most likely not be voting for him. Probably I will support some third-party candidate who will run a hard hopeless campaign---of the kind we used to do in Vermont years ago. ----MICHAEL PARENTI

Thief/rogue and I'll go in hard in speech stuff if that's part of it.

Maybe ghost peppers are at the start of the jalapeños being bred to be milder thing cause they have a reputation that people wanna try so now ghost pepper is in a bunch of sauced and stuff thst aren't all that spicy but it gives it street cred. This is absolute conjecture.

Try 5?

The other lane looks pretty clear, continuing to run across the street is probably safer. I'd do the two arm waving over the head "STOP!" motion while also yelling that and looking really concerned. I'm not gonna get hit by a truck myself to save a baby. My life is worth more to me than a baby's cause it's mine. Hopefully this would cause the truck to swerve and hit the self driving car. More realistically that baby is dead, I'm scarred for life, also will be deeply disturbed that someone left an infant in the middle of a crosswalk and as a witness, help the horribly irresponsible parents sue tesla and the big truck guy/big truck manufacturer

Parenti was right about Bernie all along. As well as everything else.

Didn't know about the pedophile part. Bummer, that song slaps.

Whoever sets trends should make giving fruit baskets as a thanks a thing. I love fruit and it's nice to reward favors. It can be a lil basket, but if someone gave me some fruit cause I did something nice for them, I would be head over heels

Isn't that almost ten year old news?

Considering the ferengi are realllllly pushing the antisemitic trope line and have also never gone to war, maybe not the best bit

For like 3 years now I've spent at least one smoke break with this real cool cat down the street from my work named Ollie. Today she was extra cuddly and also got mad when someone else along by didn't also stop to pet him. Left.me, followed the guy a bit, meowed real loud and then did the syndicalist cat pose at him and came back for more cuddles.

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