Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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Why won’t the New York Times discuss Chevron’s case against @SDonziger?
NYT called out again for silence on @Chevron's violations of human rights in Ecuador and my wrongful 700-day house arrest. Still ignoring major conflict of interest involving Chevron lawyer Boutrous.
Excellent analysis by @_barattata at @FAIRmediawatch.
fair.org/home/action-alert-n…
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You can have respect for the US military and still have contempt for the profit-making goals of Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and Boeing. It is they who misuse and exploit the military for their own purposes, promoting and fostering a permanent war machine.
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I understand what you’re saying & I don’t need to be doing that at all. Lacked nuance. I’m very much on record talking about the women of Afghanistan & how our actions, including leaving, should be deeply influenced by their views. But those points don’t exonerate bad US policy.
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When we went in to begin with we should never have sidetracked to Iraq & left so much of the war in the hands of warlords. In addition, as in Vietnam & Iraq, modern conflict demands much more than brute force in order to prevail. Cultural arrogance undermined us at every point.
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4/ America’s grace period can’t last forever. While both political parties play whore to the defense industry, the people ourselves need to stand up to the emperor and admit he has no clothes. Our military bloat is not a path to security; it’s a purveyor of death & destruction.
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3/ The defense industry is no different than the fossil fuel industry or health insurance industry or any other corporate tyrant that allows profits to take precedence over human life. In the case of MIC, particularly heinous because of how much damage it does to other countries
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2/ Yet even this year we’re spending $763B on defense because obviously we do such a bang up job. Hey kids: what do Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan all have in common? Wasted blood, wasted money, massive failure.
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1/ So basically we’re leaving Afghanistan after 20 years and the Taliban is now on its way to Kabul. Which means we wasted $2T and 2400 American lives for….nothing. The situation is not appreciably any better than it was when we went there.
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Given that we live here, crimes against the earth should be seen as crimes against humanity. Fossil fuel company shareholder value placed before the health of the earth, or the health of people, is not good economics - it’s morally criminal. #StopCorporateTyranny
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New Yorkers, I hope you can be there💙 #FreeStevenDonziger
Academy Award winner @SusanSarandon and I speak about Chevron's recent sham "prosecution" to try to silence my advocacy.
Susan and @rogerwaters will be speaking at a rally July 6 at my apt in NY to protest the 700th day of my detention.
Background: esquire.com/news-politics/a3…
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The War on Drugs is stupid enough but a war on athletes is incomprehensible. @itskerrii
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I hear you about nuclear energy but that there’s no way to completely rid ourselves of the risk. And you’re right about the need to make sure solar panels have no toxic chemicals in them. The US hasn’t made anywhere near the investment in clean energy we need but we can get there