There are two versions of Bernie Sanders. There is the old Bernie Sanders, who mounted a quixotic campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination as a democratic socialist who refused corporate cash and excoriated corporate Democrats. And there is the new Bernie Sanders, who dutifully plays by the party’s rules, courts billionaires, refused to speak out in support of the lawsuit brought against the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for rigging the primaries against him and endorses Democratic candidates who espouse the economic and political positions he once denounced.Sanders’...…There are two versions of Bernie Sanders. There is the old Bernie Sanders, who mounted a quixotic campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination as a democratic socialist who refused corporate cash and excoriated corporate Democrats. And there is the new Bernie Sanders, who dutifully plays by the party’s rules, courts billionaires, refused to speak out in support of the lawsuit brought against the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for rigging the primaries against him and endorses Democratic candidates who espouse the economic and political positions he once denounced.Sanders’...WW…

[Welcome Andrew Bacevich, and Chris Hedges.  As a reminder, please take off-topic discussions to a different thread. thanks – bev]War, as Andrew Bacevich knows, is a poison.  It is a poison that nations and groups must at times ingest to ensure their survival.  But, like any poison, it can kill you just as surely as the disease it is meant to eradicate.  The poison of war, he argues in The Limits of Power, courses unchecked through the body politic of the United States.  He argues, as does his intellectual mentor the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, that just because we...…[Welcome Andrew Bacevich, and Chris Hedges.  As a reminder, please take off-topic discussions to a different thread. thanks – bev]War, as Andrew Bacevich knows, is a poison.  It is a poison that nations and groups must at times ingest to ensure their survival.  But, like any poison, it can kill you just as surely as the disease it is meant to eradicate.  The poison of war, he argues in The Limits of Power, courses unchecked through the body politic of the United States.  He argues, as does his intellectual mentor the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, that just because we...WW…