The Intercept has the article Bernie Sanders, in Puerto Rico, Calls for Nullification of Whitefish Contract.

“From everything that I have seen, I think it’s an outrage,” Sanders said after a press conference in San Juan. “I think the idea that the government or the appropriate authority did not look for mutual aid and call up utility companies in the United States, which is what is normally done, surprises me.”

This is another one of those “radical” ideas from Bernie Sanders that is not even the slightest bit radical if you can listen to what he says with an open mind. The article has more quotes that seem to be so sensible that they are hard to argue against.

Medium has the Caitlin Johnstone article The Problem With The Clinton-Russia Collusion Narrative.

I am aware that Trump’s base is only trying to engage the Democrats on their Russia hypocrisy and not intentionally helping the deep state manufacture the tensions with Russia it’s been seeking in order to secure geopolitical hegemony… but I do see a very real risk of that happening.
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Can you understand why this is making me nervous? It’s impossible to use Russian collusion as an attack against your opponent without making Russia into a big scary boogieman, and we’re now looking at the possibility of both of America’s huge mainstream factions fighting one another over who hates Russia more and who’s the bigger Putin puppet. Any remaining inertia on aggressive sanctions, NATO expansionism, proxy wars and nuclear brinkmanship may be wiped out if each side becomes eager to prove that they’re toughest on Russia, a game of chicken that can only end in a mushroom cloud.

Caitlin Johnstone has put her finger on exactly what bothers me about the current hysteria over Russia that is coming from all sides of the political spectrum. Whenever, I raise this issue I get accused of being a troll for whichever side the reader disagrees with.

The Nation has the article What Killed the Democratic Party?

In essence, this is the core accusation leveled in “Autopsy”: that the Democratic Party neglected its most loyal voters. It not only forgot to ask for their votes; it ignored the general distress of working people (white, black, and brown). Furthermore, the party didn’t have much to offer those folks in the form of concrete proposals to improve their lives.

Here is the report discussed in the article AUTOPSY The Democratic Party in Crisis. (The website of the report’s authors is Democratic Autopsy.)

I keep trying to tell people that you cannot win an election by just being against your opponent. You have to present your own positive vision of the future. The Democratic Party hasn’t presented such a vision since Barack Obama pretended to have a vision in 2008.

Before that, John Kerry’s positive vision amounted to the fact that he was in the Vietnam War. At that time I tried to warn the campaign that a resume is nice, but you can’t win a campaign on that alone.