Senator Bernie Sanders: Congress Needs to Get Its Priorities Straight

Dec 18, 2024

Why Americans don’t flock to the voting booths to make this man president is a real puzzle to me. Bernie Sanders would improve the lot of average Americans in a very short time. Donald Trump will only improve the lot of the superrich. He cares not a jot about average Americans. – © Mark Alexander.

Senator Bernie Sanders: We Hear All the Time about Putin's Oligarchy in Russia. News Flash: America Has an Oligarchy, Too.

Dec 16, 2024

More power to Bernie Sanders. A very decent gentleman who has the courage to stand up to the autocrat-elect and the fawning grifters that are kissing his arse. – © Mark Alexander

Senator Bernie Sanders: Oligarchy Is Not Just a Russian Phenomenon. It Exists Right Here in the USA.

Dec 13, 2024

This is the man who should be president, not Trump. – © Mark Alexander

Bernie Sanders : “Capitalism Does Not Make America the Land of Opportunity”

Bernie Sanders says that MASSIVE inequality is absolutely immoral.
Bernie Sanders is right, of course. Capitalism is a good system, but it needs regulating. American capitalism is OBSCENE! In my opinion, it is also DOOMED TO EVENTUAL FAILURE. No political system can survive forever when it treats the majority of its citizens so shabbily, yet treats the privileged few so well. How can it be right for millions of Americans to be HOMELESS when a select few can live in the lap of luxury?

Obscene American capitalism is at total variance with Americans’ insistence on invoking God all the time — “In God We Trust” — and promoting Christianity. Which version of Christianity is this, pray tell? God must be very ANGRY with Americans for throwing His children out onto the streets to sleep rough and freeze to death in winter, when the superrich can live in mansions, own superyachts, and fly around the world in their own private jets.

Americans need to take stock! — © Mark Alexander

Senator Bernie Sanders: I Will Be Voting NO on This Military Budget.

Dec 13, 2024 | I will be voting NO on this military budget. Tune in now to hear why:


I repeat what I stated earlier today, namely that Bernie Sanders should be the president of the USA. America would be a far better, fairer country than it it is now. Bernie Sanders is a thoroughly decent man, replete with common sense. – © Mark Alexander

Senator Bernie Sanders: Oligarchy Is Not Just a Russian Phenomenon. It Exists Right Here in the USA.

Dec 13, 2024

This is the man who should be the president of the USA, not Trump! Bernie Sanders is a very decent man of principle and common sense. If Bernie Sanders were president, we'd see a very different, far better, much fairer America. – © Mark Alexander

Bernie Sanders: As This Presidential Campaign Comes to an End, Let Me Say a Few Words

Nov 4, 2024

Bernie Sanders Thinks Trump Fever Has Broken

Aug 8, 2024

Sen. Bernie Sanders Shares What It Will Take to Endorse Kamala Harris

Jul 23, 2024 | Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks with CNN's Anderson Cooper about endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 Presidential campaign.

Bernie Sanders: Children Are Starving to Death in Gaza

Jan 14, 2024 | 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.


CONGRESS'S RESPONSE:

Senate votes against Sanders resolution to force human rights scrutiny over Israel aid: Senator’s bid to make US military support conditional on whether Israel is violating human rights in Gaza fails by 72 votes to 11 »

Hear What Bernie Sanders Thinks about Israel's Response to Hamas Attack

Nov 5, 2023 | CNN's Dana Bash speaks with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) about Israel's response to the Hamas attack, and what the next steps should be for Gaza

Bernie Sanders is the voice of reason and compassion. Whenever Bernie Sanders opens his mouth, he speaks eminent good sense. It is such a pity that Americans cannot see what a great president he would make! Perish the thought that Trump should ever again become president. The last thing this world needs is another Trump presidency. – © Mark Alexander

There Is a Humanitarian Disaster in Gaza. Congress Must Act.

Nov 1, 2023

Bernie Sanders always speaks sense. Always! – © Mark Alexander

We Must Not Deepen the Humanitarian Catastrophe in Gaza and Dramatically Undermine Israel’s Security

Oct 19, 2023

It’s Time to Guarantee Healthcare to All Americans as a Human Right

THE GUARDIAN: It is time to end the international embarrassment of the US being the only major country that does not guarantee healthcare

Let’s be clear. The current healthcare system in the United States is totally broken, dysfunctional and cruel. It is a system which spends twice as much per capita as any other major country, while 85 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured, one out of four Americans cannot afford the cost of the prescription drugs their doctors prescribe, and where over 60,000 die each year because they don’t get to a doctor on time.

It is a system in which our life expectancy is lower than almost all other major countries and is actually declining, a system in which working class and low-income Americans die at least ten years younger than wealthier Americans.

It is a system in which some 500,000 people go bankrupt because of medically related debt.

It is a system in which large parts of our country are medically underserved, where rural hospitals are being shut down, and where people, even with decent insurance, have to travel hours in order to find a doctor.

It is a system in which, in the midst of a major mental health crisis, Americans are unable to find the affordable mental health treatment they need.

It is a system where, despite our huge expenditures, we don’t have enough doctors, nurses, dentists, mental health professionals, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals – and where we spend less than half as much of our healthcare dollars on primary care as do most other countries. » | Bernie Sanders | Thursday, May 18, 2023

We have had an excellent 'healthcare for all' system here in the shape of the National health Service. Unfortunately, the Tories are doing all they can to deconstruct it, nay destroy it. They want to follow the failed American model and make healthcare the privilege of the élite in society. The Tories don't want the 'wiff-waff' being able to get healthcare. Good heavens, no! To modern-day, far-right Tories, that sounds far too merciful. – © Mark Alexander

Senator Bernie Sanders: Why the United States Must End Its Involvement in the Devastating Saudi-led War in Yemen.

Dec 14, 2022

Bernie Sanders: My Message to Fox News Viewers

Jun 14, 2022

Bernie Sanders for President! – © Mark

Bernie Sanders: “What the Political Establishment Won't Tell You.”

Jun 16, 2022 When people like Sen. Lindsey Graham speak, you don't hear anything about the major issues facing the country. That's what the political establishment does.

Bernie Sanders for President! – © Mark Alexander

"Tell the Oligarchs They Cannot Have It All!" - Bernie Sanders at RMT* Rally

US Senator Bernie Sanders appeared at the RMT's rally in London.

* National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers

‘People Are Tired of Being Ignored While the Rich Get Richer’: Bernie Sanders on Anger and Hope in the US and UK

‘Why, with all this new tech, are we not seeing an improved standard of living?’ … Bernie Sanders at a unionisation rally in Richmond, Virginia. Photograph: Julia Rendleman/Reuters
THE GUARDIAN: The Vermont senator rose from the political margins to become hugely influential within the American left. As he prepares to speak at a London rally, he explains why unions on both sides of the Atlantic must reassert their power

Both are unlikely political sensations who were long consigned to the fringes: Bernie Sanders, an octogenarian US senator who inspired an army of voters far younger than himself; and Mick Lynch, a former blacklisted construction worker and child of Irish immigrants who, as the leader of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union (RMT), shot to national prominence when he humbled hostile but underinformed broadcast journalists. “I think Lynch is touching a nerve,” Sanders says.

The de facto leader of the US left has swung his considerable political heft behind a new campaign – Enough Is Enough – launched to fight Britain’s mounting cost of living crisis, which was founded in part by Lynch and the RMT. It has certainly touched a nerve: at a recent rally in Clapham, south London, many of those who had queued around the block were turned away for lack of space. “‘Enough is enough’, funnily enough, is an expression we use a lot here,” Sanders says. “People are sick and tired of often working longer hours for low wages; sick and tired of their kids having a lower standard of living than them; and they’re sick and tired of billionaires getting richer and richer while they fall behind.

“Why, with all this new tech out there, are they not seeing an improved standard of living? Why not more equality, rather than less equality? Why are living standards deteriorating, not improving? Lynch is asking that, Enough Is Enough is asking that – and it’s hitting a nerve, because people are tired of being ignored while the rich get richer.” » | Owen Jones | Tuesday, August 30, 2022

More than 40% of Americans think civil war likely within a decade: More than half of ‘strong Republicans’ think such a conflict is at least somewhat likely, poll finds »

What's It Like Living in Norway 🇳🇴?

Apr 29, 2022 • The reality in 🇳🇴:

- Health care is a right
- College is tuition-free
- Guaranteed 28 days of paid vacation
- One year of fully-paid parental leave

A government that looks out for the needs of its people — not such a radical idea.