Advertisements Only one US senator has called for a ceasefire. You’d probably guess it would be Bernie Sanders, who has established himself as the leader in the Senate in supporting Palestinian rights, even if that is damning with faint praise. But it is not Bernie, but Dick Durbin of IllinoisContinue Reading
Advertisements ReThinking Foreign Policy is proud to join the Friends’ Committee on National Legislation, Democracy in the Arab World Now, and 70 more organizations in calling on the Senate to support Bernie Sanders’ amendment to the NDAA requiring transparency on the humanitarian impact of severe Israeli restrictions on Gaza. TheContinue Reading
These are absolute political minefields, and Bernie is challenging them. He is betting that the support he has built, and the basis on which he has built it, will mean his challenges to these powerful forces are boons, rather than hindrances, to his campaign. At the least, if he isn’t hurt by them, he will have shown conclusively that the electability argument is simply wrong. After all, the Cuba comments speak directly to his alleged affinity for left-wing authoritarians (which is nonsense).
One way or another, we will have the best evidence one could ask for in the next eight days, in the debate and then in South Carolina and Super Tuesday.Continue Reading
Foreign Policy Speech: A Renewal of American PurposeContinue Reading
