{"id":24337,"date":"2017-06-19T10:32:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T14:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24337"},"modified":"2017-06-19T10:32:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T14:32:01","slug":"why-bernie-sanders-is-an-imperialist-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/06\/19\/why-bernie-sanders-is-an-imperialist-pig\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bernie Sanders is an Imperialist Pig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Black Agenda Report<\/em> has the opinion piece <a href=\"https:\/\/blackagendareport.com\/bernie_sanders_imperial_pig\" target=\"_blank\">Why Bernie Sanders is an Imperialist Pig<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBernie Sanders is a highly valued Democrat, the party\u2019s Outreach Director and therefore, as Paul Street writes, \u201cthe imperialist and sheep-dogging fake-socialist Democratic Party company man that some of us on the \u2018hard radical\u2019 Left said he was.\u201d Sanders is a warmonger, not merely by association, but by virtue of his own positions. He favors more sanctions against Russia, in addition to the sanctions levied against Moscow in 2014 and 2016 for its measured response to the U.S-backed fascist coup against a democratically elected government in Ukraine. Rather than surrender to U.S. bullying, Russia came to the military aid of the sovereign and internationally recognized government of Syria in 2015, upsetting the U.S. game plan for an Islamic jihadist victory.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although there is a hint that Bernie Sanders may have come to his senses lately.  See my previous blog post B<a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/06\/16\/bernie-sanders-and-rand-paul-buck-party-consensus-on-russia-and-iran-sanctions\/\" target=\"_blank\">ernie Sanders and Rand Paul Buck Party Consensus on Russia and Iran Sanctions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Agenda Report has the opinion piece Why Bernie Sanders is an Imperialist Pig. Bernie Sanders is a highly valued Democrat, the party\u2019s Outreach Director and therefore, as Paul Street writes, \u201cthe imperialist and sheep-dogging fake-socialist Democratic Party company man that some of us on the \u2018hard radical\u2019 Left said he was.\u201d Sanders is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24338,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24337\/revisions\/24338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}