Bernie Buzz: Not Another War

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Forty-seven Republican senators this week sent a letter to officials in Iran that could sabotage diplomatic negotiations aimed at preventing Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon. With the United States emerging from two long, costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, “apparently some of my Republican colleagues do not believe that two wars are enough,” Bernie said. The letter surfaced at a critical juncture in negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program involving the United States, China, Russia, France, the United Kingdom and Germany. What if the talks collapse? “I think these guys will be hot to trot for a war, and that frightens me very much,” Bernie told the Rev. Al Sharpton.

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Not Another NAFTA As a result of misguided trade deals, thousands of American factories have been shuttered and good-paying manufacturing jobs in the United States were eliminated as companies moved to low-wage nations overseas. Now, corporations are at it again trying to put The Trans-Pacific Partnership on a fast track through Congress. Watch ‘Not another NAFTA’

Selma President Obama, 100 members of Congress and civil rights pioneers last weekend marked the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. That’s when peaceful marchers protesting Jim Crow laws barring blacks from polling places were beaten by baton-wielding police. That same year, Congress finally passed and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. But a recent Supreme Court ruling gutted the landmark law. Republican-run states were quick to enact a new wave of voter suppression laws. Bernie hoped the anniversary of the march will be a catalyst for Congress to undo the 2013 court ruling. Read more in the Montgomery Advertiser Take the poll

National Press Club Speaking to a packed room at the National Press Club on Monday, Bernie detailed a $1 trillion plan to rebuild the country’s crumbling infrastructure and, in the process, create 13 million good-paying jobs. “Support was evident in the applause that resounded each time he decried foreign wars or those fat cat bankers,” according to a one journalist’s dispatch. Watch highlights

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