copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Say Bernie Sanders “collaborated with Marxist regimes in the Soviet Union, Nicaragua and Cuba.” (Bloggers, 2020-02-08)
Evidence (2023-11-16): If IPS’ sympathy for the communist world was consistent, it was also eclectic. The Soviet Union is almost never praised. Communist China has been praised on occasion. So has China’s communist enemy, Vietnam. And so has Vietnam’s communist enemy, Cambodia. Occasionally support is expressed for the communist regimes of Eastern Europe; more often for those of the Third World, notably Cuba, and for communist movements not yet installed in power. There is no strict consistency. Nor is there any evidence of discipline or a party line. 97 [...] Prominent IPS leaders, including Richard Barnet, Marcus Raskin, and Saul Landau, all were "eager to refute any suggestion that they are pro-Soviet." In the 1980s, IPS director Robert Borosage stated that he felt that the political systems of both the United States and the Soviet Union led "to dead ends," though he considered the Soviet failures to have produced interesting "social experiments" in Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland, Cuba, and Nicaragua. 159 In the introduction to his 1973 book Being and Doing, Raskin criticized the Soviet Union for maintaining "the feudal and bourgeois values of hierarchy based on privilege," yet he also characterized Marxism as a "positive social philosoph[y]." 160 [...] - Tom Kertscher. "Bernie Sanders on Target Saying 3 Richest Have as Much Wealth as Bottom Half of all Americans." Politifact. July 3, 2019. Available at: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jul/03/bernie-sanders/bernie-sanders-target-saying-3-richest-have-much-w/
Claim: Say Bernie Sanders “collaborated with Marxist regimes in the Soviet Union, Nicaragua and Cuba.” (Bloggers, 2020-02-08)
Evidence (2020-08-05): Both conservative and libertarian critics of Bernie Sanders have joyfully dug up and displayed on the Internet and social media a huge trove of video clips showing Sanders praising the social and economic achievements of the communist regimes in Soviet Russia, Cuba, and Nicaragua. [...] The leaders of those socialist countries are all honest and honorable men who left a very positive impression on Bernie Sanders’s sensitive appreciation for the betterment of his fellow man. No mention, it seems, was ever made by him about the tyranny, terror, or mass murders by his collectivist comrades in arms in the communist workers’ paradises that he visited. [...] It would be unfair and historically inaccurate not to emphasize that there were many "democratic socialists" in Western countries, both between the two World Wars and during the Cold War years, who refused to support or clandestinely collaborate with the Marxist masters in Moscow. They were sincerely devoted to the ideals of a society of civil liberties (freedom of speech and the press, freedom of religion, and individual autonomy over personal affairs) and democratic politics.
Claim: Say Bernie Sanders “collaborated with Marxist regimes in the Soviet Union, Nicaragua and Cuba.” (Bloggers, 2020-02-08)
Evidence (2019-02-24): This column is about the crazy old communist — Vermont Sen. Sanders, who just announced his candidacy for the presidency and raised $6 million. He prefers the less scary term Democratic Socialist. But his Marxist economics, Marxist cultural activism and well-documented support for communist causes — such as Fidel Castro’s revolution in Cuba — speak volumes. [...] According to Accuracy In Media, Mr. Sanders collaborated with Soviet and East German "peace committees" whose goal was "to stop President Reagan’s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe." In 1985, Mayor Sanders went to Nicaragua to celebrate the sixth anniversary of Daniel Ortega’s communist Sandinista regime and speak at an anti-American rally. He arranged for Burlington and Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, to be sister cities, and also visited communist Cuba.
Claim: Say Bernie Sanders “collaborated with Marxist regimes in the Soviet Union, Nicaragua and Cuba.” (Bloggers, 2020-02-08)
Evidence (2020-02-26): But a Fix review of more than 10 hours of Sanders appearances over the past three decades reveals how Sanders has often been quick to downplay abuses of authoritarian regimes, instead focusing on aspects and programs he admired. During his two presidential bids, Sanders has at times appeared to contradict or try to explain away his earlier views on authoritarian regimes, examples of which you can watch in the video above. In 1985, Sanders praised Cuban dictator Fidel Castro for his education and health-care programs. In 1986, he recalled being "very excited" by Castro’s revolution. And after he returned from a trip to Cuba in 1989, the Rutland Daily Herald paraphrased Sanders as calling Cuba a "model of what a society could be" for Latin America. [...] Much of Sanders’s past praise for socialist authoritarian regimes was rooted in his criticism of U.S. foreign policy, but as The Fix’s Aaron Blake noted this week, Sanders often went "further than just saying the United States should stay out" of those countries and has struck a different balance than other U.S. politicians who have praised some elements of countries such as Cuba.
Claim: Say Bernie Sanders “collaborated with Marxist regimes in the Soviet Union, Nicaragua and Cuba.” (Bloggers, 2020-02-08)
Evidence (2020-09-27): Scott Walker stated on February 24, 2020 in a tweet: "Bernie (Sanders) is a communist." Facebook posts stated on February 20, 2020 in social media: "Bernie Sanders voted in favor of every war during his tenure." Viral image stated on February 29, 2020 in a post on Facebook: "Bernie Logic: Nobody can live on $7 an hour. We must raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Also we must raise the tax rate to 52%. $15 an hour * 52% = $7.80. $15 an hour - $7.80 = $7.20. $7.20 an hour!!!" X posts stated on February 22, 2020 in a tweet: "Not once in his entire career in Washington, D.C., which started way back in 1991, has Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders ever voted yes on sanctions against Russia." Bloggers stated on February 8, 2020 in a post on Facebook: Says Bernie Sanders "collaborated with Marxist regimes in the Soviet Union, Nicaragua and Cuba." Joe Biden stated on February 23, 2020 in an MSNBC interview: Says Bernie Sanders "opposed Obamacare, didn't like the fact we didn't push a single-payer option." [...] Bloggers stated on February 8, 2020 in a post on Facebook: Says Bernie Sanders "collaborated with Marxist regimes in the Soviet Union, Nicaragua and Cuba." [...] Facebook posts stated on February 28, 2019 in a Facebook post: Says Bernie Sanders marched with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in Cuba.
Claim: Say Bernie Sanders “collaborated with Marxist regimes in the Soviet Union, Nicaragua and Cuba.” (Bloggers, 2020-02-08)
Evidence (2019-06-26): What, then, appealed to me, a young novelist and historian, and made me bombard Sobell in 1982 with phone calls and letters asking him to meet with me? Looking back, I’d point to three personal traits, at once extravagant and enigmatic: his insouciance ("[S]o many years have passed. I’m not sure my memories of Julius and Ethel will have the clarity you need," was his mock-naïve reply to one of my letters); his spontaneous sense of humor ("Whoo! I just want to have fun!"), so different from the manner of the Communist martinets in the party I had known, dull and colorless, grimly smoking their pipes; and his familiar Bronx Jewish accent, slightly more refined than Bernie Sanders’ but with the same cadences and inflections (and the same contempt for America mixed with the same studied lack of interest in Jewish life or survival).
Claim: Say Bernie Sanders “collaborated with Marxist regimes in the Soviet Union, Nicaragua and Cuba.” (Bloggers, 2020-02-08)
Evidence (2024-08-07): Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who frequently caucuses with the Democrats, spent his honeymoon in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR). The communists killed 66 million, mostly under Stalin. [...] In 1972, Sanders said that U.S. policy in Vietnam was "almost as bad as what Hitler did." In 1985, he had a friendly sit-down with Daniel Ortega, the communist dictator of Nicaragua. In 1989, he visited Castro’s Cuba, praising the communists for their healthcare system, schools and housing, but saying nothing about the political prisoners being held. Today he refuses to condemn the oppressive Marxist regime of Maduro in Venezuela. [...] It does matter to the American people that left-wing political leaders cozy up to communist totalitarian dictators. De Blasio is out of office and Sanders is going nowhere, but for Walz, that is a different story. He needs to come clean. It is one thing to teach in Communist China, quite another to celebrate a wedding there. And why all the back and forth trips?
Claim: Say Bernie Sanders “collaborated with Marxist regimes in the Soviet Union, Nicaragua and Cuba.” (Bloggers, 2020-02-08)
Evidence (2024-09-29): The standard of living in the 1970s was "extremely spartan" and discontent was rife.[146] Fidel Castro admitted the failures of economic policies in a 1970 speech.[146] In 1975, the OAS lifted its sanctions against Cuba, with the approval of 16 member states, including the United States. The U.S., however, maintained its own sanctions.[129] In 1979, the U.S. objected to the presence of Soviet combat troops on the island.[54] Following the 1983 coup that resulted in the execution of Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and establishment of the military government led by Hudson Austin, U.S. forces invaded Grenada in 1983, overthrowing the Government. Most resistance came from Cuban construction workers, while the Grenadan People's Revolutionary Army and militia surrendered without putting up much of a fight. 24 Cubans were killed, with only 2 of them being professional soldiers, and the remainder were expelled from the island. U.S. casualties amounted to 19 killed, 116 wounded, and 9 helicopters destroyed. During the 1970s and 1980s, Castro supported Marxist insurgencies in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. [...] - ^ Greenberg, Jon (24 February 2020). "Fact-checking Bernie Sanders' claim on Cuba literacy under Castro". PolitiFact. Archived from the original on 20 July 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021. [...] - ^ Valenta, Jiri (February 1981). "The Soviet-Cuban Alliance in Africa and the Caribbean". The World Today. Vol. 37. Royal Institute of International Affairs. p. 45. JSTOR 40395260.
Claim: Say Bernie Sanders “collaborated with Marxist regimes in the Soviet Union, Nicaragua and Cuba.” (Bloggers, 2020-02-08)
Evidence (2020-03-14): Though public attention has focused on his remarks about Cuba, Nicaragua was the country Sanders most extensively engaged with as mayor of Burlington. In 1979, two years before Sanders took office, Nicaragua’s dictatorial, U.S.-backed President Anastasio Somoza was overthrown by a leftist revolutionary group called the Sandinista National Liberation Front. [...] Sanders was also involved in an effort to provide a shipment of goods to Nicaragua, according to documents in the archive. The papers indicate that a "sister city ship" stocked with supplies for Puerto Cabezas set sail in February 1986. Officials from Puerto Cabezas wrote letters thanking Sanders for the cargo, which they received in September 1988. A Nicaraguan report said the shipment included medical supplies, gardening tools, bicycles and clothing. [...] Sanders also engaged with Nicaragua’s critics. He monitored reports of the Sandinistas’ mistreatment of indigenous groups. And in October 1985, a man named Edward Pike wrote a letter to Sanders asking him to revoke Puerto Cabezas’ sister city designation. Pike accused Sanders of "supporting a regime with no concern for civil rights."
Claim: Say Bernie Sanders “collaborated with Marxist regimes in the Soviet Union, Nicaragua and Cuba.” (Bloggers, 2020-02-08)
Evidence (2017-03-06): Active measures were used by both sides throughout the Cold War. In the nineteen-sixties, Soviet intelligence officers spread a rumor that the U.S. government was involved in the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. In the eighties, they spread the rumor that American intelligence had "created" the AIDS virus, at Fort Detrick, Maryland. They regularly lent support to leftist parties and insurgencies. The C.I.A., for its part, worked to overthrow regimes in Iran, Cuba, Haiti, Brazil, Chile, and Panama. It used cash payments, propaganda, and sometimes violent measures to sway elections away from leftist parties in Italy, Guatemala, Indonesia, South Vietnam, and Nicaragua. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, in the early nineties, the C.I.A. asked Russia to abandon active measures to spread disinformation that could harm the U.S. Russia promised to do so. But when Sergey Tretyakov, the station chief for Russian intelligence in New York, defected, in 2000, he revealed that Moscow’s active measures had never subsided. "Nothing has changed," he wrote, in 2008. "Russia is doing everything it can today to embarrass the U.S."
Claim: Says a 2010 Rockefeller Foundation report shows the COVID-19 pandemic and the international response were “meticulously planned at least 10 years ago.” (Facebook posts, 2021-06-06)
Evidence (2021-06-06): The report, which explored "the role of technology and the future of globalization," presented four possible future scenarios of how the world might evolve, including one in which an influenza pandemic and lockdowns occurred. The scenarios were hypothetical. They weren’t predictions or plans.
Claim: Says a 2010 Rockefeller Foundation report shows the COVID-19 pandemic and the international response were “meticulously planned at least 10 years ago.” (Facebook posts, 2021-06-06)
Evidence (2021-06-01): NEW YORK | June 1, 2021 – Despite tireless efforts by health care workers and major breakthroughs with Covid-19 vaccines, more than 10,000 people a day around the world are still dying from Covid-19. The continued spread of the virus in unvaccinated populations threatens to keep the global economy choked for the foreseeable future and poses threats to current progress in containing the pandemic. To stop the spread of this pandemic, all countries need equal access to Covid-19 vaccination. A new report by The Rockefeller Foundation and key collaborators, One for All: An Updated Action Plan for Global Covid-19 Vaccination, is the first to present financing models that could drive the global vaccination effort forward. [...] The Rockefeller Foundation’s Updated Action Plan for Global Covid-19 Vaccination offers a five-point action plan to scale equitable vaccination around the world: [...] "Anything less will not only condemn millions in the developing world to untimely deaths but will allow Covid-19 variants to flourish with a high potential to rebound on the United States and other advanced economies, creating a never-ending cycle of pandemic surges causing economic shutdowns," said Dr. Rick Bright, Senior Vice President, Pandemic Prevention and Response at The Rockefeller Foundation.
Claim: Says a 2010 Rockefeller Foundation report shows the COVID-19 pandemic and the international response were “meticulously planned at least 10 years ago.” (Facebook posts, 2021-06-06)
Evidence (2024-02-21): The Rockefeller Foundation Launches Covid-19 Action Plan to Reopen Workplaces, Protect Lives
Claim: Says a 2010 Rockefeller Foundation report shows the COVID-19 pandemic and the international response were “meticulously planned at least 10 years ago.” (Facebook posts, 2021-06-06)
Evidence (2021-11-29): Financing approaches are foundational to planning a national response to covid-19 and putting it into operation. Many countries allocated additional funds to subnational governments, health ministries, or hospitals to support the overall response (see supplementary table 1; bmj.com). Other countries focused on direct procurement of high cost medical equipment, personal protective equipment, and medication. Countries also reallocated funds from other sectors or borrowed from international financing organisations, such as the Asian Development Bank, to rapidly procure medical equipment and medication. Funds were also channelled to the private healthcare sector through contracting essential pandemic related services, such as testing and hospital level treatment. [...] A number of European countries, including Sweden and the UK, adopted a mitigation strategy at the beginning of the pandemic.171920 These countries aimed to minimise the effects of the pandemic on vulnerable populations and to avoid overwhelming health systems by permitting controlled transmission in low risk groups.20 A few countries, including Brazil and Mexico, had no clear goal or coordinated national strategic plan for response to covid-19 in 2020, resulting in uncontrolled waves of community transmission.
Claim: Says a 2010 Rockefeller Foundation report shows the COVID-19 pandemic and the international response were “meticulously planned at least 10 years ago.” (Facebook posts, 2021-06-06)
Evidence (2023-05-23): Since 2020 The Rockefeller Foundation has championed a comprehensive Covid-19 national response and recovery plan, focusing our efforts on providing evidence-based information and equitable access to life-saving tools. [...] The Rockefeller Foundation and its partners supported schools efforts to reopen safely amid the pandemic by creating peer networks,developing tools and guidance, and gathering and sharing expert advice to help schools stand up and manage Covid-19 testing programs for students, teachers, and staff. -
Claim: Says a 2010 Rockefeller Foundation report shows the COVID-19 pandemic and the international response were “meticulously planned at least 10 years ago.” (Facebook posts, 2021-06-06)
Evidence (2020-07-21): In July 2020, several social media users started posting about "Operation Lockstep," a document allegedly released by The Rockefeller Foundation that showed how global elites had planned to manufacture the COVID-19 pandemic for the last 10 years in order to implement a police state: [...] While the "Lock Step" section of the actual document does deal with a global pandemic, the similarities between The Rockefeller Foundation's envisioned scenario and the current COVID-19 crisis are few and far between. For instance, the hypothetical pandemic envisioned by foundation started in 2012, originated in wild geese, and killed 8 million people in the first 7 months. Comparatively speaking, the COVID-19 pandemic began at the end of 2019, is widely believed to have originated with bats, and, according to John Hopkins University (as of this writing in July 2020) has killed just over 600,000 people within an approximate 7 month time-span. [...] In 2010, The Rockefeller Foundation produced a report entitled "Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development" that envisioned how the world would be impacted in four different scenario narratives — one of which dealt with a global pandemic. This document gives a hypothetical look at future events in order to envision possible problems that might arise. While this document does explore how the global population could react during a pandemic, it is in no way an "operation manual" for how to manufacture a virus in order to implement a police state.
Claim: Says a 2010 Rockefeller Foundation report shows the COVID-19 pandemic and the international response were “meticulously planned at least 10 years ago.” (Facebook posts, 2021-06-06)
Evidence (2022-10-08): The G20 should plan and implement a 10-year effort, with accompanying financing, to ensure that all WHO regions—including the world's lower-income regions—have the capacity to research, develop, produce, and distribute all of the essential tools for pandemic control, including tests, diagnostics, vaccines, therapeutics, PPE, and human resources for health, among others.494 Specifically, this initiative should include capacity building and innovations for vaccine producers in LMICs and should extend stringent regulatory authority capacity to these countries. [...] The overarching lesson of the COVID-19 pandemic is the need for national preparedness along with global cooperation and concerted action. Most countries lack meaningful pandemic preparedness plans. The countries that made such plans, such as countries of the Western Pacific region after the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, have fared best in the COVID-19 pandemic. The enormous vulnerabilities that COVID-19 has exposed in high-income and low-income countries alike shows that plans should be comprehensive, cross-sectoral, and supported by global coordination. We support other commissions, including the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response,96 in recommending that each WHO member state should adopt, by law, national pandemic preparedness plans that meet international standards laid out in the Pandemic Treaty, and in supporting the WHO IHR regulations and the review of these regulations. Essential components of national pandemic preparedness plans are listed in the panel.
Claim: Says a 2010 Rockefeller Foundation report shows the COVID-19 pandemic and the international response were “meticulously planned at least 10 years ago.” (Facebook posts, 2021-06-06)
Evidence (2024-06-25): Despite the common vision, the ambition of the SDGs has not yet been paired with action to match. Many SDG advocates had planned for 2020 to be an opportunity to remind the world of its commitments for the coming decade. The novel coronavirus upended everyone’s calendar. Most organizations and governments and organizations are now struggling to make plans on a 10-month or even 10-week horizon, let alone 10 years.
Claim: Says a 2010 Rockefeller Foundation report shows the COVID-19 pandemic and the international response were “meticulously planned at least 10 years ago.” (Facebook posts, 2021-06-06)
Evidence (2021-06-06): A 2010 Rockefeller Foundation report does not show that the COVID-19 was planned [...] A Facebook post claims that a 2010 report by the Rockefeller Foundation shows that the COVID-19 pandemic and the international response, with lockdowns and other restrictions, were "meticulously planned" at least a decade before they occurred. [...] Snopes, "Was the COVID-19 Pandemic Planned in Rockefeller’s ‘Operation Lockstep’?", July 21, 2020
Claim: Says a 2010 Rockefeller Foundation report shows the COVID-19 pandemic and the international response were “meticulously planned at least 10 years ago.” (Facebook posts, 2021-06-06)
Evidence (2020-01-17): - Governments, international organizations, and businesses should plan now for how essential corporate capabilities will be utilized during a large-scale pandemic. During a severe pandemic, public sector efforts to control the outbreak are likely to become overwhelmed. But industry assets, if swiftly and appropriately deployed, could help to save lives and reduce economic losses. For instance, companies with operations focused on logistics, social media, or distribution systems will be needed to enable governments’ emergency response, risk communications, and medical countermeasure distribution efforts during a pandemic. This includes working together to ensure that strategic commodities are available and accessible for public health response. Contingency planning for a potential operational partnership between government and business will be complex, with many legal and organizational details to be addressed. Governments should work now to identify the most critical areas of need and reach out to industry players with the goal of finalizing agreements in advance of the next large pandemic. The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board would be well positioned to help monitor and contribute to the efforts that governments, international organizations and businesses should take for pandemic preparedness and response.