US in need of political revolution since 1950s: Analyst

The United States has needed a political revolution since the 1950s when the administration of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower began to conduct covert operations around the world, says a political analyst.

Rodney Martin, a former US congressional staffer, made the comments in an interview with Press TV on Monday when asked about the necessity of a political revolution in the US as was suggested by Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders earlier.

“Senator Sanders’ statement that America needs a political revolution is true, interestingly, I would say that America has needed a political revolution since 1963 when president (John F.) Kennedy was assassinated, probably even before that, going back to the Eisenhower administration when the American made a policy decision to engage in covert operations around the globe and to undermine the will of their citizens,” Martin said.

“Senator Sanders’ statements are courageous and admirable and they’re true; they are truth. The problem is the truth has never resonated in the American electorate; it’s never triumphed,” he added.  

Martin said that the US government represents “the global interests of international banking and of huge conglomerates and most importantly (of) Jewish Zionist’ interests.”

“Senator Sanders is swimming against this tremendous tide that is a center-right country, Jewish Zionist interests, tremendous banking and international corporate interests, [as well as] racist interests,” he noted.

During the fourth and last Democratic debate, held in Charleston, South Carolina late on Sunday, Sanders raised a question about various financial supports his rival Hillary Clinton receives.

The analyst advocated Sanders’ comments, saying “every point that he makes is valid regarding her cozy relationship with Goldman Sachs and banking interest.”

“Can you really reform Wall Street when they are spending millions and millions of dollars on campaign contributions and when they are providing speaker fees to individuals?” Sanders asked, pointing to $200,000 he said Clinton had received in 2013 to deliver a speech at investment giant Goldman Sachs.

“You've received over $600,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs in one year,” Sanders said, referring to Clinton.

Martin also said that “there is no difference between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, both of them are beholding to Jewish Zionist interests, both of them will fan the fires of Islamophobia, just each in their own way and both of them will continue the policies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama whose policies are identical in terms of the Middle East.”

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