{"id":401073,"date":"2019-03-24T02:20:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T01:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roaming-charges-darn-that-american-dream\/"},"modified":"2019-03-24T02:20:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T01:20:19","slug":"roaming-charges-darn-that-american-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roaming-charges-darn-that-american-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Roaming Charges: Darn That (American) Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abandoned mill and power plant along the Willamette River, West Linn, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

+ If the Democratic race boils down to Biden and Sanders, you\u2019ll have two candidates in their late 70s who voted three times to overthrow Saddam, approved the murderous sanctions on Iraq, supported the illegal war on Serbia, backed the racist and punitive Clinton Crime Bill and fronted a scheme to dump radioactive waste from New England near a small Hispanic town in West Texas.<\/p>\n

+ Elizabeth\u00a0Warren was in Mississippi on Monday talking about abolishing the electoral college, reparations for slavery and Native people, and breaking up the tech behemoths. (She also told the state to get a new flag.) She\u2019s beginning to make Sanders\u2019 speeches sound like the same old nighty-night tales Gramps has been telling the kids for years.<\/p>\n

+ I\u2019m not a huge fan of Warren. I don\u2019t like her foreign policy positions or devotion to the Israeli apartheid state. She hasn\u2019t done much on the environment and while she was claiming Native heritage did nothing to stop the DAPL. However, among an uninspiring herd of Democratic candidates she\u2019s saying the most interesting things on the campaign trail and going to places you wouldn\u2019t expect. Mississippi yesterday, Alabama today. Sanders is like a hot air balloon by comparison and one you\u2019ve seen every year at the State Fair since 1965, when most of his ideas were given form.<\/p>\n

+ Sen. Mike Gravel: \u201cIt\u2019s simply not enough to go back…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Abandoned mill and power plant along the Willamette River, West Linn, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. + If the Democratic race boils down to Biden and Sanders, you\u2019ll have two candidates in their late 70s who voted three times to overthrow Saddam, approved the murderous sanctions on Iraq, supported the illegal war on Serbia, backed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}