Netanyahu’s right-wing government is starving the Palestinian people.
On top of its indiscriminate bombardment, Israel is imposing onerous restrictions to block the delivery of essential humanitarian aid.
The U.S. must use all of its leverage to end this horrific war.
Netanyahu has again rejected a two-state solution.
He said: “the prime minister needs to be able to say no, even to our best friends.”
I have a message: it’s time for the U.S. to say NO to Netanyahu. Tens of thousands of lives hang in the balance.
Read the full op-ed here: https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/27/the-us-must-act-to-end-the-gaza-disaster
During Trump’s presidency, he gave massive tax breaks to the rich, tried to throw millions of Americans off of their health care insurance, appointed union busters to his administration, and fought to take away women’s right to control their own body. He must be defeated.
Right now, the Senate is considering giving Netanyahu’s right-wing government $14B to continue its indiscriminate bombing in Gaza.
How can we, with a straight face, rightly criticize Putin’s war crimes in Ukraine, while ignoring the killing of 27,000 Palestinians?
What’s going on in Gaza right now is a humanitarian catastrophe.
Children in Gaza are starving to death.
More than 23,000 people in Gaza have been killed and more than 85% of the population displaced.
Congress must take action.
No one in Congress should vote to send $10 billion in military aid to Netanyahu’s war machine when they are responsible for an unprecedented humanitarian disaster.
This election cycle, the billionaire-backed AIPAC Super PAC is expected to spend $100 million to unseat progressive members of Congress who dare to speak out about the horrific disaster in Gaza.
Their message is clear: If you criticize Netanyahu, you will be targeted.
Through our financial support of Israel, the U.S. is complicit in the humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
I will be damned if I’m going to give another nickel to the Netanyahu government in order to continue this war against the Palestinian people.
There is a horrific humanitarian disaster in Gaza. The U.S. should not provide another nickel to the Netanyahu government unless there is a fundamental change in military policy and their response to the humanitarian crisis.
How can the U.S. condemn Russia’s bombing of civilians in Ukraine as a war crime but fund Netanyahu’s war machine, which has killed thousands?
How can we criticize the human rights of Iran & China, but ignore the human rights of the Palestinian people?
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/bernie-sanders-speech-center-for-international-policy/
Here is the simple reality: At one point or another, we’re all going to need to see a doctor. But our health care system remains unaffordable, inaccessible, and deeply dysfunctional. It is unacceptable. We need Medicare for All.
We have misplaced national priorities.
Americans see us spending — with almost no debate — nearly $1 trillion a year on the military.
We have unlimited money for bombs and tanks.
But we can’t find the money to provide health care to all people?
It is grossly unfair that young people in this country cannot afford a decent standard of living.
It is a disgrace that they can’t have a child if they choose because childcare is too expensive.
Unacceptable.
More than 16 million Americans are suffering from long COVID. Too many of them have had their symptoms dismissed and ignored by their doctors, their media, and their government. This must stop. We must address this crisis now.
Read my full piece here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2024/01/26/long-covid-paxlovid-costs-plaguing-american-healthcare/72337750007/
Over the past 25 years, drug companies have spent $8.5 billion on lobbying and given $700 million in campaign contributions to political candidates.
It’s time for Congress to regulate the pharmaceutical industry, not the other way around.
Read my op-ed here: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/big-pharma-answer-american-people
On the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade — as women all over this country are under attack — let me make one thing clear:
Abortion is health care. And health care is a human right.
The billionaire class has nightmares about workers standing up and fighting for a nation that works for all of us.
Our job is to make sure that that nightmare takes place.
