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The explosive information leaked in the Panama Papers has already toppled a European government and proven the inefficacy of our government at home.

The 11.5 million documents and 2.6 terabytes of information comprise one of the largest leaks in history—for comparison, the Wikileak-released US diplomatic cables in 2010 totaled 1.7 gigabytes.

The Panama Papers were leaked by the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca to the International Consortium of Journalists in 2015, but it took around 400 journalists over a year to properly assess the scope of the leak.

Unsurprising perhaps, but massive in its scale, the Panama Papers implicate 140 world leaders from 50 countries in stashing enormous sums of untaxed money in offshore shell corporations. Of course, this is part and parcel of the 1 percent, but the ubiquitousness shown in the leaks is astonishing.

Among the heads of state implicated directly in the leak are King Salman of Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister of the Ukraine Peter Poroshenko, and the now-deposed Prime Minister of Iceland Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson.

Thousands demonstrated on Iceland’s parliament, calling for Gunnlaugsson’s resignation, not least of which because his millions in offshore tax havens contrasts directly with his promise to crack down on bank creditors after an Icelandic financial crisis.

No American leaders have been named in the leak as yet, but the editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung, the German paper that broke the story, told other journalists "Just wait for what is coming next" in regards to American empire.

Nevertheless, Senator and Democratic primary contender Bernie Sanders may very well have already come out ahead. In October 2011, Sanders criticized the Panama trade pact on the Senate floor.

“Panama’s entire annual economic output is only $26.7 billion a year, or about two-tenths of one percent of the U.S. economy. No one can legitimately make the claim that approving this free trade agreement will significantly increase American jobs.” Sanders then asks the Senate, “why would we be considering a standalone free trade agreement with Panama?”

The agreement in question, which was ultimately passed despite Sanders’ objections, is called The United States—Panama Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA).

Sanders then answerd his own question in a haunting premonition of things to come: “Well it turns out that Panama is a world leader when it comes to allowing wealthy Americans and large corporations to evade U.S. taxes by stashing their cash in offshore tax havens; and the Panama free trade agreement will make this bad situation much worse. Each and every year, the wealthiest people in our country and the largest corporations evade about $100 billion in U.S. taxes through abusive and illegal offshore tax havens in Panama and other countries...”

The D.C.-based progressive think tank Citizens for Tax Justice proclaims “that tax haven use is ubiquitous among America’s largest companies,” citing its volumes of research.

In 2014, Fortune 500 companies held more than $2.1 trillion in accumulated profits offshore in order to evade taxes.

Hillary Clinton, Sanders’ opponent in the Democratic primary, argued vehemently for the TPA in 2011.

"The Free Trade Agreements passed by Congress tonight will make it easier for American companies to sell their products to South Korea, Colombia and Panama, which will create jobs here at home,” part of Clinton’s 13 October, 2011 statement read.

Strangely enough, her full statement no longer exists on the State Department’s website.

Sanders has opposed all free trade agreements in recent memory, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Clinton has supported them and even criticized Sanders for his lack of support.

Other than obviously providing tax-haven freedom for large companies, these types of agreements pit American workers (and unions) against workers in the other countries named in the agreements. For example, with the passage of the TPP, American manufacturers stated their intention to send jobs to trade agreement partner Vietnam, where the minimum wage is 52 cents an hour.

Sanders has been consistent on opposing trade agreements, a point he stresses on the campaign trail.

“All of these trade agreements together have cost us millions of decent-paying jobs, led to the de-industrialization of America and the decline of the American middle class,” Sanders said at a rally in Michigan ahead of that state’s primary. The democratic socialist went on to win that state.

The Panama Papers are the first of more revelations to come. But one thing is clear: Bernie Sanders, contender for the Democratic primary, continues to be on the right side of the issues as his grassroots campaign catalyzes from state to state.

Wisconsin’s primaries are today and so I ask Wisconsin voters to keep something in mind when they reach the voting booth. A minute fraction of the money proven to be stashed overseas by the Panama Papers could close the state’s budget gap in seconds.

More so, in a state which has a grand union history that has been decimated by Governor Scott Walker’s union busting and neoconservatism, Bernie Sanders’ track record on opposing free trade deals has consistently put unions before profits. Hillary Clinton cannot sincerely make that claim (although that won’t stop her from trying).