Former presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders, sits in the bleachers on Capitol Hill before Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th US President at the US Capitol on January 20, in Washington [File: Brendan Smialowski/AFP]
“The US empire is crumbling before our eyes,” declared Rebecca Gordon in a short but poignant essay published by The Nation just a day after President Joe Biden took office. “With unprecedented economic inequality and massive overspending on military expansion, America now looks a lot like 476 CE Rome.”
The factors that fractured the Roman Empire and many others since – gross economic inequality; overspending on military expansion; political corruption; deep cultural and political fissures – are indeed distinctly present in the United States today, even after Biden’s inauguration. Moreover, the US is trying to sustain its imperial dominance amid a growing global environmental catastrophe. It may well remain the most powerful military in the world
A Local Bakery is Selling Bernie Sanders Meme Cookies [PHOTOS]
There were a lot of highlights from the Presidental Inauguration back on January 20th, but one of the biggest ones has to be the Bernie Sanders meme that took over the internet after the event.
In case you somehow missed it, photojournalist Brendan Smialowski managed to capture a very simple photo of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders sitting alone in a chair with his arms crossed, donning some very unique mittens. People loved the photo so much that they began photoshopping Bernie into anything and everything, including movie posters, scenes from TV and film, album covers, their own photos, paintings, and more.
Seyer-Ochi added in the op-ed that many people without privilege would not be able to dress like Sanders during the swearing-in ceremony. “I don’t know many poor, or working-class, or female, or struggling-to-be-taken-seriously folk who would show up at the inauguration of our 46th president dressed like Bernie,” she said.
The op-ed left many angry and confused on Twitter, most of whom could not understand how Sanders, who is a lawmaker known for fighting for the middle-class and the underdogs of the society, could be accused of white privilege.
Political journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote: What a stupid and appalling article: all based on how Bernie dressed. As stupid and gross as it is, it represents a large and growing sector of left-liberal thought. BBC journalist Benjamin Ramm commented, Imagine having a platform to write about anything, and choosing to dunk on Bernie s mittens.
President Bidenâs push to reverse Trump immigration policies is both symbolic and substantive
By Jazmine Ulloa Globe Staff,Updated January 31, 2021, 7:34 p.m.
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WASHINGTON â Alien. Origin: Latin. Definition: a foreigner.
When it first appeared in an English treatise, the term applied to anyone born outside the British Isles, including those in the Colonies that would become the United States. The first uses of the word were technical, but it took on a pejorative meaning in the early 1970s, when Mexican Americans became the racial targets of xenophobic politicians
and trade unions, right-wing groups, and federal immigration agencies.