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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Tells Israeli Leftists: ‘Occupation Must End’
(JTA) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Jewish former presidential candidate, said “the occupation must end” in a video message to the Israeli left-wing opposition Meretz Party. The five-minute video was set to be screened at a conference on Sunday marking the end of the Six-Day War in 1967 and “50 years of Occupation.” In…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Has Just Three Words For Trump’s Healthcare Plan
Senator Bernie Sanders has just three words for President Trump’s proposed replacement for Obamacare: What a disgrace. — Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 24, 2017 The senator tweeted his statement on Wednesday just moments after the Congressional Budget Office revealed that the American Health Care Act, which would undo much of Obama’s Affordable Care Act legislation,…
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Life Clinton’s Candidacy, Assessed
How did an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced, and admired candidate — whose victory would have been as historic as Barack Obama’s — come to be seen as a tool of the establishment, a chronic liar, and a talentless politician? That’s the question Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Susan Bordo, Ph.D., asked and answered in her new book, “The…
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Fast Forward Senators Demand Probe Into Carl Icahn Benefiting From Trump Biofuels Plan
Eight Democratic Senators on Tuesday asked U.S. regulators to launch an investigation into billionaire Carl Icahn’s activities in the U.S. biofuels blending credit market, saying the activist investor may have violated securities trading laws since becoming an adviser to President Donald Trump. The letter was signed by Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Sheldon Whitehouse…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Says BDS Won’t Solve Mideast Impasse
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders came out swinging against the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel in an interview with Al Jazeera which aired on Wednesday. I asked @SenSanders about Palestine, the BDS movement targeting Israel, and whether he supports a one state solution pic.twitter.com/xOQmxMelFp — Dena Takruri (@Dena) May 3, 2017 Al Jazeera…
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Fast Forward Sanders, Pressed On Ossoff, Says It’s ‘Imperative’ That Dems Win Georgia Seat
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Bernie Sanders said it was “imperative” to elect Jon Ossoff congressman from Atlanta’s suburbs, pushing back against the perception that Sanders was unenthusiastic about what is seen as a critical election targeting the policies of President Donald Trump. “Let me be very clear,” Sen. Sanders, I-Vt., said Friday in a rare email…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Defends Ann Coulter’s Right To Speak
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter got some surprising backing over the weekend from Bernie Sanders, the ultra liberal Democratic senator whose views are almost diametrically opposed to hers. He came out to her defense after students threatened to disrupt Coulter’s planned speech at the University of California Berkley. “Obviously Ann Coulter’s outrageous ― to my mind,…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Refused To Say ‘I’m With Her’ In Hillary Campaign Ad
After the blistering Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton in the general election. But the Vermont senator apparently refused to repeat her signature catchphrase (“I’m With Her”) in ad that he cut for her effort. “It’s so phony!” Sanders was reported to have said, reacting to a script sent over by the Clinton camp….
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