Loath am I to rain on a good parade, but if you want a political revolution it might be better to march for an end to US wars–the very wars Sanders votes appropriations for. Our man has got a movement going. His followers are calling for political revolution. But against what, for what? All things bad & all things good? What about immigration rights, Black rights, Palestinian justice, war & drone bombing–all of which Sanders stinks on?

Some of his supporters criticized the march because they thought participants should have been phone banking, canvassing, registering voters. We’ve heard that one before. Those who put their hope for change primarily in a candidate/savior rarely get off their asses to protest US policies. In elitist, solely electoral politics, protesting is for plebeians or just a waste of time.

Some may think the “Feel the Bern” phenomenon should be seriously analyzed rather than ridiculed. It has been ad nauseam ever since the Democratic Party started throwing up left shills like Sanders. Pardon me if after several decades I leave that chore to others. Sanders’ politics are what interest me & dispelling popular delusions about what his politics really are.

(Photo is March for Sanders in Seattle, WA)

This barbarism is the softer, gentler side of EU refugee policy since this woman & child, most likely Syrians, were actually allowed to cross the Greek-Macedonia border & proceed north. Thousands identified as “economic migrants” are detained in abandoned Olympic stadiums to be processed for deportation or they are kept in Moria, the refugee camp on Lesbos which is more like a concentration camp.

Most reports say Afghan refugees are allowed to cross the border for asylum since they’re fleeing a war-zone but photojournalism belies that, showing especially single Afghan men in the stadiums to be processed for deportation & at Moria.

Moria was an abandoned prison or army base (media can’t get the story straight) with a capacity of 410 which now warehouses up to 4,000 refugees separated by barb wire fencing. Since there aren’t enough shelters, no sanitation, & no garbage pickup, refugees sleep in the rough, often in trash. Volunteers reported a recent scabies outbreak.

Documentation that the EU is flagrantly violating umpteen international laws governing treatment of refugees does not have UN officials jumping up & down like monkeys–like they do when they pass one of their resolutions sanctioning war. Perhaps the EU & UN serve another master than justice & human rights & need to be reconsidered.

Immigration is a human right. Open the borders.

(Photo by Boris Grdanoski/AP)