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Hello, I'm Micah Eutrich, managing editor of Jacobin magazine. Back in May, the New York Times published a piece by Sydney Ember and Alexander Burns, scrutinizing

Bernie Sanders's support in the 1980s for the leftist movements in Central America that were

facing brutal right-wing US-backed forces or governments, as well as his efforts

to establish ties between Burlington, Vermont, and the Soviet Union.

Now it was a funny article because almost nothing in that article would have been a

surprise to anybody who read his first book outsider in the White House. I hate to be

a kind of eh well if you can write the book you would know but it's true. If you read the book

Bernie is very open in that book about his anti-Imperialist foreign policy as Burlington's

mayor of which his Central American solidarity was a key part.

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