The West and Russia must “do everything possible” to avoid a war in Ukraine because of the human, economic and climate cost it would bring, former Democrat presidential contender Bernie Sanders warned in an article published by the Guardian on Tuesday. Sanders is an independent US senator from Vermont who …
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“We must demand that the extremely wealthy pay their fair share. Period,” Sanders tweeted on Saturday, to which Musk replied, “I keep forgetting you’re still alive.” He followed up by floating the idea of selling Tesla stock. Musk previously sold billions in shares after putting out a poll asking if he …
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Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) put forward the National Security Powers Act on Tuesday, the latest effort to curtail presidential war powers, which have steadily accrued to the executive branch over several decades. “I believe that we have become far too comfortable with the …
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Speaking on the Ezra Klein Show podcast on Tuesday, the US senator from Vermont said he was uncomfortable with the idea of a “handful of high-tech people” having the power to censor different points of view, and called for a ‘balanced’ approach. The former Democratic presidential candidate and frequent Trump …
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A Twitter row between the self-described ‘democratic socialist’ senator and the ‘self-made billionaire’ began on Thursday, when Sanders complained that Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos own more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of Americans. “That level of greed and inequality is not only immoral,” he said, “it is unsustainable.” Notwithstanding …
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As the US Senate debated amendments to President Joe Biden’s long-anticipated Covid-19 relief bill, Sanders stuck to his progressive guns on Friday and attempted to insert an amendment to raise the federal minimum wage to $15. The amendment was already ruled out by the Senate parliamentarian – an official who …
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“As the occupying power, Israel is responsible for the health of all the people under its control. It is outrageous that Netanyahu would use spare vaccines to reward his foreign allies while so many Palestinians in the occupied territories are still waiting,” Sanders tweeted. Israel’s decision to send out surplus …
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Only three senators – Tom Carper (D-Delaware), Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Elizabeth Warren (D- Massachusetts) – voted against the move which effectively makes the relocation of the embassy from Tel Aviv permanent. Thursday night’s vote confirms the status of Jerusalem as “the eternal and indivisible capital of the Jewish State …
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During the 1980s, there was a hearing on Capitol Hill about obscenity in the music industry. One of the people to testify during that hearing was the lead singer of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister, Dee Snider. When he was asked about possible sadomasochism in his song ‘Under the …
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Trump has said that Joe Biden, a centrist democrat with nearly five decades of experience in Washington, is a “puppet of the radical left movement that seeks to destroy the American way of life.” Central to Trump’s argument is Biden’s refusal to strongly condemn the wave of violence that’s accompanied …
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