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By Sharon Zhang; Truthout “Transforming our economy away from fossil fuels isn’t radical. What’s radical is waiting another second to do it.” Five years on from the introduction of the Green New Deal, progressive lawmakers say that it’s needed now more than ever, with new, dangerous climate records being set each year and the grip of the fossil fuel industry

By Sylvan Lane; The Hill Drug company CEOs were in the hot seat Thursday, as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sought to harness the anger over high drug prices into action.   During a showy Senate Health Committee hearing, Sanders pressed the CEOs of Merck, Johnson & Johnson and Bristol Myers Squibb about why their medicines cost so much more in the U.S. compared

By Sharon Zhang; Truthout “Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children are literally starving to death” due to Israel, Sanders said Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) was the only senator in the Democratic caucus to vote against advancing a bill on Thursday that would send $14.1 billion to Israel in order to advance its genocidal military and starvation campaign in Gaza. The

By Grace Seger; The New Republic The senator spoke to TNR about how he’ll grill the CEOs of three drug manufacturers about their high prices. Since taking the helm of the committee that oversees the nation’s health care system last year, Senator Bernie Sanders has used his perch to take aim at pharmaceutical executives over the cost of prescription drugs.

By Gabriel Debenedetti; New York Magazine He’s getting louder about America’s role in Israel’s war, pushing his own party to act before it’s too late. Bernie Sanders has been thinking a lot these days about what public pressure can accomplish when it comes to the war in Gaza. We were talking less than 24 hours after Joe Biden had struggled to make

By Calvin Cutler; WCAX BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – What can the federal government do to make emergency medical services sustainable? Across Vermont, EMS providers and other agencies are stretched thin with staff shortages, low wages, burnout, and low reimbursement rates. Many of those agencies are also on the front lines of responding to the opioid crisis. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders