Posts Tagged ‘progressives’

‘It should be easier to raise minimum wage than to drop bombs on Syria’: Progressives fume at Biden

The contrast between the procedural difficulty of pushing a modest pay increase for millions of workers through the Senate and the relative ease with which President Joe Biden—without congressional approval—launched a deadly bombing campaign in Syria late Thursday was the subject of much discussion and outrage as the president’s lethal operation overseas coincided almost simultaneously […]

Senate parliamentarian says minimum wage increase cannot be in relief bill, Progressives urge VP Kamala Harris to use her power to keep it in

In President Biden’s American Rescue Plan, he included a minimum wage increase to $15 per hour. The White House website states: Throughout the pandemic, millions of American workers have put their lives on the line to keep their communities and country functioning, including the 40 percent of frontline workers who are people of color. As […]

‘This is unacceptable’: Progressives reject Manchin plan to cut $15 minimum wage proposal to $11

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia on Monday said he will push an amendment to slash the $15 federal minimum wage proposal in the emerging coronavirus relief package to $11 an hour, an idea that progressives immediately rejected as an “unacceptable” attempt to weaken a popular and long-overdue pay raise for tens of millions of workers. […]

Third-party progressives can win, but they must convince the public

Once new possibilities for change that are within reach of ordinary people become evident, or at least once people think they are evident and within reach, popular aspirations also expand. — Francis Fox Piven, Challenging Authority (2006, 141–2) Crisis can open the door to opportunities previously seen as desirable but impossible. As 2021 unfolds, more […]

Ending progressives’ Palestinian exception

EXCEPT FOR PALESTINEThe Limits of Progressive PoliticsBy Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick240 pp. New Press $25.99 2020 marked another year of righteous indignation for progressives in the Democratic Party. Justly outraged by the horrific death toll and economic devastation of COVID-19, the ongoing pervasiveness of white supremacist violence, and the Trump administration’s deliberate failures […]

Bernie Sanders and progressives in our winter of discontent

Bernie Sanders is not in a good political position right now. Yes, he continues to speak vital truths to — and about — power. His ability to reach a national audience with progressive wisdom and specific proposals is unmatched. And, during the last several decades, no one has done more to move the nation’s discourse […]

Progressives Pour Millions into Electing Democrats Jon Ossoff, Raphael Warnock

Progressives leaders and groups such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and the Working Families Party have poured millions into the Georgia Senate runoffs, believing that the advancement of their leftist agenda hinges on the election of Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. Politico reported Saturday that progressives have declared a cease-fire […]

Can Progressives Save Biden From Disastrous Economic Policies?

Photograph Source: stingrayschuller – CC BY 2.0 BY RICHARD D. WOLFF Since the 1970s, U.S. real wages have largely stagnated. After a century of real wages rising every decade, that stagnation changed the lives of the U.S. working class in traumatic ways. Likewise, since the 1970s, labor productivity grew steadily, aided sequentially by computers, robots, and artificial […]

U.S. progressives and a Biden foreign policy

With Joe Biden elected, the still growing American progressive movement will once again have a president they can at least try to pressure on global issues like climate change. Working in the left’s favor, like many of those of his generation who have served at the highest levels of his country’s government, the former vice […]

Biden, Progressives, and Palestine

Talking to Josh Ruebner About Trump and Biden Josh Ruebner is the Senior Principal at Progress Up Consulting, former Policy Director at the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and author of “Shattered Hopes: Obama’s Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace” I spoke with him about the Trump years and what to expect under a Biden administration. […]

Biden: I Have ‘Very Progressive Agenda’ and ‘Significant Representation’ from Progressives in Administration

During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of “NBC Nightly News,” Joe Biden said that he isn’t taking nominating Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) off the table for Cabinet positions, but noted that there already is “significant representation among progressives in our administration,” and that his “very ambitious, very progressive agenda,” will […]

Broken truce: After Biden’s win, centrist Democrats turn on progressives

In the months leading up to the election of former Vice President Biden to the United States’ highest office, it seemed most American progressives put their legitimate concerns about his record aside and get down to the work of ensuring that the much more dangerous current Commander in Chief wouldn’t win reelection. Rather than being […]

As US officially quits Paris Accord amid election uncertainty, progressives say ‘make this disastrous decision temporary’

As ballots continued to be counted for the election in which President Donald Trump falsely declared victory over Democratic challenger Joe Biden, the Trump administration on Wednesday completed the one-year process of withdrawing the United States from the 2015 Paris climate agreement, drawing sharp criticism from scientists, environmentalists, and progressive politicians. The primary aim of the pact, which went into effect […]

Dear fellow progressives: Please vote for Biden

Tis the season for some progressives to argue that the best way to build a progressive political movement in America is to stick it to the centrist Democrats—who have rejected progressive nominees and platforms—by voting for a third party in swing states. If that helps elect what many regard as a “greater evil” Republican, some […]

How Progressives Could Still Win The 21st Century

Above photo: Francis Alÿs, When Faith Moves Mountains, 2002.  Francis Alÿs Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner. Our era will be remembered for the triumphant march of authoritarianism in whose wake the vast majority of humanity have experienced unnecessary hardship and the planet’s ecosystem has suffered avoidable climate destruction. For a brief period – a period […]

Open letter to progressives: The ADL is not an ally

We are writing to ask you to reconsider the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as a partner in social justice work. Many organizations in our communities find themselves in spaces with the ADL, using its anti-bias education materials, or counting on the ADL to support our political goals. In light of a growing understanding of the ADL’s […]

Election Results Reveal Mixed Outcome for Progressives, Confusion in California

The slew of primary elections on June 5 produced mixed results for progressives, and cases of confusion in the mega-state of California. On the winning side, the Golden State’s lieutenant governor, Gavin Newsom, led all 27 candidates in the gubernatorial field with 33 percent of the vote. Newsom, a strong supporter of unions and advocate […]

How “Progressives” in the Black Caucus Shrunk to Almost Nothing

The “Russiagate” hysteria is only the latest reason to conclude that the Democratic Party is the greatest institutional impediment to the creation of mass “resistance” to onrushing war and never-ending austerity under late-stage capitalism. Last week’s vote on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2019 showed, by the numbers, that any legislative “resistance” depends, not […]

Chomsky Among “Progressives” Calling for US Military Involvement in Syria

NEW YORK – On Monday, the New York Review of Books published an open letter and petition aimed at securing Western support for putting pressure on Turkey to end its occupation of Afrin, opposing further Turkish incursions into Syria, and backing autonomy for Rojava — the region of Northern Syria that has functioned autonomously since […]

Progressives Should Defend Gun Rights

Progressives Should Defend Gun Rights By rp_adminhttp://www.campaignforliberty.org/progressives-defend-gun-rightsLast weeks shooting at YouTubes California headquarters is certain to add momentum to the push for more gun control. Even before the shooting, YouTube was working to undermine gun rights by banning videos promoting firearms, including videos teaching safe gun usage. As is usually the case, this latest shooting […]

AIPAC admits progressives are deserting Israel

Michael F. Brown Lobby Watch 16 March 2018 Democratic Senator Charles Schumer at the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, DC, on 5 March.  Michael Brochstein SIPA USA AIPAC sought to rally progressives to its side at its annual policy conference in Washington last week. Largely, it didn’t work. The Israel lobby giant is simply on the […]

AIPAC panics over progressives abandoning Israel

The Israel lobby group AIPAC kicked off its annual policy conference in Washington on the weekend, and speaker after speaker expressed fears that progressive Democrats are abandoning Israel. The speakers urged progressives to stay in the bipartisan fold of support for the Jewish state; they insisted that Israel is a progressive cause. But many also […]

Democrats And Progressives Push US War Machine In Vermont

Democrats And Progressives Push US War Machine In Vermont By William Boardman, Readersupportednews.org February 3, 2018 Above Photo: F-35 fighter jet. (photo: U.S. Air Force) Donald Trump loves the F-35 and so does Burlington City Council – that is the real state of the union his is a story primarily about corrupt practices by the Burlington City Council, […]

Inspiring Speech, But Progressives Warn Against Folly of Oprah 2020 Calls

Progressives loved Oprah Winfrey’s speech Sunday night at the Golden Globes award ceremony, calling it “rousing,” “extraordinary,” and “inspiring.” But the idea that Oprah should run for president? “Bonkers.” “Hollow.” “A bad liberal revenge fantasy.” The notion that Oprah, a widely beloved celebrity billionaire, would be the perfect foil to President Donald Trump, a widely hated celebrity billionaire, has […]

“Progressives” Embrace the Hijab While Actual Feminists in Iran Remove it to Fight Oppression

“Progressives” Embrace the Hijab While Actual Feminists in Iran Remove it to Fight Oppression This is what a real feminist looks like Paul Joseph Watson PrisonPlanet.com January 4, 2018 The left spent the last year normalizing the hijab. When actual women’s rights activists in Iran discarded it to fight oppression, western feminists abandoned them. Please […]

Progressives Outraged Over Beyonce “So White” Wax Figure at Madame Tussauds

American liberal activists still struggling with the concept that a wax figure is not meant to be real. 21st Century Wire says… The progressive culture police are on the march again – this time to Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in New York City. The recent unveiling of the new Beyoncé wax statue sent activists into a frenzy […]

Progressives freaking out over uptick in birth rates among families earning money from the fracking industry

(Natural News) In March of this year, PJ Media published a piece about a report from the Congressional Budget Office, which found that more babies will be born as a result of the American Health Care Act, because the bill cuts Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood. Strangely, a couple of leftists objected to the idea […]

Progressives STUNNED to learn that all medicinal nutrients in herbs and plants are made out of carbon dioxide

(Natural News) Plants play a vital role in making the Earth a habitable, and healthy place. Plants provide food, clean air, clothing, and medicine. Unfortunately, left-wing “environmentalist” and pseudoscientists are on a mission to destroy it all. Plants are natural air purifiers, providing the clean air all animals, humans included, need for their survival. As […]

Weaponized snowflakes now look a lot like terrorists as the progressives lose their collective minds

(Natural News) The progressively liberal snowflakes, including their so-called celebrity icons in Devilwood, along with the baby snowflakes in colleges across America, have truly all lost their collective minds, to the point where even other self-proclaimed progressives are starting to look at the horror of the image they’re projecting to the world. (Article by Susan […]

‘Against All Odds’ Is Required Viewing For White Progressives

Above Photo: Harmony Bryant, 13, and Jayla Bryant, 10, ride their bikes in their neighborhood along Hillrod Lane on Aug. 5, 2014 in Kettering, Maryland. The Bryants were part of an expanding black middle class that was accumulating wealth in Prince George’s County but the housing crash stripped more than half the value from their home. […]

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