Bernie Sanders: Justice for the Palestinians and Security for Israel

By: Bernie Sanders; The New York Times There have been five wars in the last 15 years between Israel and Hamas. How do we end the current one and prevent a sixth from happening, sooner or later? How do we balance our desire to stop the fighting with the need to address the roots of the conflict? For 75 years, diplomats, well-intentioned Israelis

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Poor people in the developing world have a right to medicine

By: Bernie Sanders; The Guardian People should not die because of their income or where they were born. We must have the courage to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry Here is a simple moral proposition. No one in America, or anywhere in the world, should die or suffer unnecessarily because they cannot afford a prescription drug which, in many

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Gaza needs a humanitarian pause. Then we need a vision of where we go from here

By: Bernie Sanders; The Guardian The situation in Gaza is a disaster. Congress must take action. The administration must take action. The world must take action. Today, three weeks after Hamas’s barbaric attack against civilians in Israel, which began this war, many hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children in Gaza are facing catastrophe. Over the past three weeks,

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Americans, stand with the UAW and me and fight out-of-control corporate greed

By: Bernie Sanders; Fox News Auto CEOs make hundreds of times more than UAW workers. That needs to change I strongly support the UAW strike against the Big Three automakers (General Motors, Ford and Stellantis). Here’s why.  The fight the UAW is waging has everything to do with the outrageous level of corporate greed and arrogance on the part of senior executives

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The United Auto Workers may soon strike. Every American should support them

By: Bernie Sanders; The Guardian Workers at the big three carmakers earn less now in real dollars than they did 15 years ago – as their CEOs make more and more. Their fight is everyone’s fight. In the United States today, at a time of unprecedented income and wealth inequality, weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower than

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