Tag: Barbara Lee
Ro Khanna and Barbara Lee could defy “the madness of militarism”...
Such destructive patterns can’t be effectively challenged while deferring to hidebound party leaders.
Sanders, Lee, and Tlaib lead effort to tax huge CEO-worker pay...
The House-Senate companion bill addresses corporate America’s extreme disparities, giving firms an incentive to lift up the bottom and bring down the top of their pay scales.
Reign in the ‘recklessness of Wall Street:’ Bernie Sanders and Barbara...
"It is long past time for Congress to rein in the recklessness of Wall Street billionaires and build an economy that works for all Americans."
Congresswoman Barbara Lee passes defense amendment that would repeal 2001 endless...
Rep. Lee has offered this amendment several times over the years and has long championed the need to repeal the outdated and overly broad authorization and force a debate and a vote on current wars.
Progressives outraged as House Democrats elect ‘big money’ centrist Hakeem Jeffries...
"Our caucus today denied Barbara Lee the honor she deserved of being Chair. But the petty politics of members of Congress will never be able to deny her her place in history. She towers above those who rejected her."
When Barbara Lee doesn’t speak for me
Lee now seems to have cast aside her beliefs expressed in her historic 2001 speech.
‘Think through the implications of our actions’: An open letter to...
We must get off a partisan bandwagon when it is heading toward military catastrophe.
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Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
UN inquiry says Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza
A new UN Commission report details more than 20,000 children killed, tens of thousands injured, attacks on hospitals and schools, and evidence that Palestinian children were treated not as collateral damage, but as targets.
Addicted to war?
War Fever, Trump-Style.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."