One advantage of actually watching the Nov. 20 Democratic Primary debate is I actually got to hear what the candidates said as opposed to what the mainstream media wanted me to hear or read.

[...] Among the claims made by the corporate Democratic candidates is that we can’t afford Medicare-for-all without huge tax increases. In one debate, Joe Biden claimed we would not have enough money even if we wiped out all military spending.

This is news to Lindsay Koshgarian, who in an Oct. 17 New York Times opinion piece, “We Don’t Need to Raise Taxes for Medicare-for-all,” shows that eliminating only wasteful defense spending would fund it. Then there’s the continued criticism of alleged Russian interference in our 2016 election. Four months before the 1996 Russian election, President Clinton arranged for the International Monetary Fund to give Russia a $10.2-billion infusion of cash. Clinton came to Moscow a few weeks later to celebrate with the incumbent Russian President he favored, Boris Yeltsin. Four American consultants moved to Moscow and were paid $250,000 a month to help Yeltsin get re-elected. For more details, read the Boston Globe’s Stephen Kenzer’s Aug. 19, 2018 article, “How to interfere in a foreign election.” Considering what a fuss was made over the exposure of e-mails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and ads on the internet, we can imagine what the reaction would be if Putin did for Trump what Hillary’s husband did for Yeltsin.

RICHARD WARREN
Retired transit worker