Last night Senator Bernie Sanders hosted town hall meeting on how Donald Trump and his Republican Reich abandoned the international nuclear weapons deal with Iran. Here is the complete video. I’ll just let Bernie and his panel speak for themselves, without comment, but you need to know that the video is over an hour long.
Senator Bernie Sanders describes himself as “somewhat of a technology Luddite,” but that hasn’t stopped the Vermont senator from embracing the power of live-streaming. Earlier this year, Sanders reached millions of Americans by broadcasting live town-hall meetings on Medicare for All and inequality in America on Facebook, Twitter, and other outlets. “It turns out that live-streaming is revolutionary,” he recently told The Nation.
Tonight (May 14, 2018) at 7 pm EST, the senator will host another town hall on the consequences of Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. The event takes place as Iran and Israel continue to clash in Syria…
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RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!
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I may not have the stamina to make it to the ends, but I’ll do a little stream of consciousness while I can.
(Sigh) Even Bernie is saying “withdraw” instead of “violate.”
I agree Iraq was even a worse blunder than Vietnam – exactly because at the time of Iraq we already had the example of Vietnam. At the time of Vietnam we had no such example to show us where our decisions would lead. But that’s the only difference.
Of course any number of examples don’t help if our elected leadership is willfully determined to be stupid!
Depending on the meaning of blunder, I may disagree. I’m certain that Bush and his cronies knew there were no WMD, as they “fixed the intelligence around the policy”. But if you mean simply that the long term consequences are worse, I agree.
What I meant (I agree it wasn’t clear) was that, WMD or no WMD, we had no excuse this time not to be aware the long term consequences would be horrendous.
Excellent! Tell it like it is…I’m still watching….
Go Bernie!!
I only wish Bernie had been elected as our President!
i so agree!!
i have bookmarked to watch a bit later.
GO Bernie!?
As Joanne said, Iraq was more of a blunder than Vietnam, for the reasons stated, but, then, we had another dumb fooling office, and a viper at his side egging him on. Ya hear me, Dickie boy? Pulling out of the Iran treaty, is nothing short of lighting a fuse, walking away, and later, saying “Boy, did you see what those bad boys did?”
Excellent posting, TomCat. And Kudos for progressive Bernie Sanders for hosting this, and other, town hall meeting on this incredibly important subject. His panel members may all be chosen because they think violating the deal is wrong, even Lara Friedman who represents a Jewish organisation, but they are well chosen because they they are all able to take a very broad view on the situation and can discuss all possible consequences of this violation.
Of course none of the consequences are positive, but then in America only the White House and GOP would applaud another chance of war and further destabilisation in the Middle East because it will bring in so much money in terms for weapon sales and replacement of used and lost material. In the ME it’ll give Saudi Arabia and some other Sunnite countries, and Israel more power (and land?) in the region. The Big Deal-Maker has brokered the worst deals in history, but you’ve got to hand it to him: in record time.
Unfortunately, I feel asleep after about 20 minutes, but until then, things were what I expected. Kudos to Bernie for holding these town halls and streaming them, not because of an election but because the American people deserve to know what is happening and the background.
I knew about the Iranian history going back to before the US/UK skulduggery. But I doubt many Americans do, so this is important in laying down the current events in context.
Thanks and tired hugs!