...Van Jones, who started an environmental nonprofit called Green for All before joining the administration in March. Now, a senior adviser for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Jones is tasked with leading the administration's crusade for a green-based economy. On the road in Indiana, Jones spoke to Newsweek's Daniel Stone.

This is an inordinately gentle Newsweek biography of the very radical Van Jones. Jones is also, according to the D.C. Examiner:

...(T)he founder of California's Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, "a non-profit agency for justice, opportunities and peace."

The Ella Baker Center was connected to STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement), a "multi-racial activist collective with Marxist influences" with which Jones was involved....

Jones told the East Bay Express in 2005:

I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th [1992], and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist. (...)

I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.

The blue dog democrats have caved, as we expected. The blue dogs have voted party line all along, and this last holdout was more kabuki and negotiating than anything else. Remember, the important part of this plan is that eventually it will be single payer, and all services will be rationed from the White House.

The good news is that if the plan is dreadful, a Republican president can undo almost all the damage in 2012.

My Ketsugo strategy - Ketsugo understands that victory is unattainable, but by heroic effort and sacrifice, we can make total victory impossible for our enemies, and force them to a negotiated settlement.


Just a note to thank you for not voting for the Obama health plan.

In any version that gets passed, there will be a computer screen in any of my physicians' offices. This is in the present bill, and will likely be in any Obama medical bill. Any medical decision made between me and them will need approval from the government, specifically from an unelected committee containing Rahm Emmanuel's brother among others, who would decide for or against any treatment I get, based on whether they perceive me as politically valuable. And, every other person, those elderly on medicare, and those now on private insurance now who will be forced on to some new program, will be subject to this review as well.

I will be reminded of this every time I visit a doctor. I will ruminate on this every time I think about medical care for my family. I will never ever, even for a moment, forget those politicians that are trying to deny me and my loved ones the services that can save their lives, solely for political power. I will make sure that before each election, I will make 5,000 phone calls to any voters I can find and tell them how to vote for those candidates who opposed or supported this health plan or any others like it.

Please do not vote for any health care reform bills from Obama.