Tag: war

"While the vote does not represent a formal withdrawal from the Compact, it does send a signal that the wealthiest country the world intends to abdicate global leadership in working towards the Compact's objectives."

"I hope … we send a loud and powerful message by passing this resolution. That we’re going to bring peace to that country and that the United States Congress is going to reassert its constitutional authority to be the body that makes war not the president."

"Speaker Ryan is not allowing a vote on my resolution to stop the war in Yemen because many Republicans will vote with us and he will lose the vote."

Bernie Sanders discusses his efforts to pass a Green New Deal, raise the minimum wage and protect Social Security.

The Sunrise Movement, now mainly a climate movement, is a potentially an enormous Trojan horse for smuggling the climate-justice-and-peace agenda inside the halls of power.

A pathological president who can pardon convicted criminals or start a nuclear war poses a clear and present danger to the nation and the world.

Wednesday’s vote sets the stage for a possible final vote on the measure within days, and has been seen as a rebuke of President Trump’s handling of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

"The Senate will be able, for the first time, to debate and vote on a check on Trump's war-making in Yemen"

“This Senate vote should mark the beginning of the end of American complicity in the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.”

So there is more than a little poetic justice – or is it irony? – in General Abizaid’s proposed posting to Riyadh.