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Would the Pentagon and CIA Permit Sanders to Be President? Part 2

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Last December, I asked a very simple question: Would the U.S. national-security state permit self-avowed socialist Bernie Sanders to serve as president and, if so, would they permit him to finish out his term? Now that it looks like Sanders is going to give Hillary Clinton a run for her money, the question becomes even more relevant. Let’s face it: There isn’t any difference between the socialist economic philosophy of Bernie Sanders and that of Chilean president Salvador Allende. They might have disagreed on particular programs or on the priority of projects, but they would definitely be on the same page with respect to the overall principles of socialism and socialist philosophy. Yet, Allende’s socialism was one of the principal reasons the U.S. national-security state removed him from office and replaced him with conservative dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet. U.S. officials considered Allende’s socialist policies to be a threat to U.S. national security. Moreover, the fact that Allende had been democratically elected ...

We Are All Socialists (Except for Most Libertarians)

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Socialism is in the news, especially since Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is a self-described socialist. That obviously is okay with Iowa voters because he ended up in a virtual tie with Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucuses. A Des Moines Register poll leading up to the Iowa caucuses revealed that 43 percent of Iowa Democrats describe themselves as socialists while 38 percent describe themselves as capitalists. According to Washington Post columnist Dan Balz, socialists account for 58 percent of Sander’s supporters and about a third of Clinton’s. The Post noted that a New York Times/CBS News poll showed that 56 percent of Democratic primary voters nationally said they had a positive view of socialism. In reality, the percentage of Democrats who are socialists is closer to 100 percent, which is really the same percentage for Republicans. It’s just that the word socialism has long had such bad connotations — think Cuba, the Soviet Union, Chile under Allende, and North Korea ...

Dalton Trumbo and the Hollywood Blacklist

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I wish every American would see the movie Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston, which was released last November. The movie is based on a true story. It depicts how the U.S. anti-communist crusade during the Cold War damaged or ruined the lives of many innocent people, including Hollywood screen-writer Dalton Trumbo and nine others, who became known as the Hollywood Ten. Up until the 1950s, Trumbo had been one of Hollywood’s most successful screenwriters. Films that he worked on included Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (1944) and Kitty Foyle (1940), for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Like many other leftists during the 1930s, Trumbo had become attracted to communism. One reason is the obvious one: Like many Americans today, he believed that government should play a paternalistic role in society, by taking care of people, regulating economic activity, and managing the economy. Another reason is that Trumbo viewed communism as a counterweight to fascism and Nazism, which were rising in prominence ...

Venezuela, Like Chile, Is None of the U.S. Government’s Business

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Ever since the U.S. government orchestrated the military coup in Chile in 1973 that ousted the democratically elected president of the country from office and installed the brutal military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, interventionists have maintained that (1) the coup was necessary to save Chile from socialism and communism and (2) that the murders, rapes, torture, and incarceration ...

Would the Pentagon and CIA Permit Sanders to Be President?

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Most people consider Bernie Sanders’ race for the presidency to be an exercise in futility. That’s because, they say, he doesn’t have any realistic chance of defeating Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party’s nomination. But there is another reason why Sanders’ quest for the presidency might be futile. It’s unlikely that the U.S. national-security establishment would ever permit Sanders to ...