New and Noteworthy 2022

Current Topics

Cryptocurrency posting on a separate page:

1. How Many Wars is America Fighting? (It’s More Than You Think) (video)
2. Guide to the Supreme Court’s authoritarian shift (podcast)
3. WATCH: These Conservative Justices LIED About Roe to Get on the Supreme Court (video)
4. Obama & Biden Lied About Codifying Roe v Wade (video)
5. Law Prof Breaks Down Supreme Court’s Scary Legal Argument Against #roevwade (video)
6. What The Constitution Means to Heidi Schrek (audio)
7. Meet the Unelected Sham Body That Just Gave NYC Landlords a Raise (video)
8. Meet the many other unelected bodies (e.g. MTA) misbehaving: John Oliver Explains Special Districts As America’s ‘Ghost’ Government
9. Racist Cops Illegally Enter Home, Choke Innocent Child (video)
10. Lee Camp: I Know Who The U.S. Will Coup Next! (video)
11. Witness testimony on events of Jan 6 (video)
12. Rich New Yorkers are getting bladder surgery and Botox to avoid bathroom breaks on the drive to the Hamptons (article)
13. Woman awarded $431,000 for Occupy Wall Street police actions (article)
    • Here’s video of the battery, some of which was entered into evidence at the trial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICph6LvjynI (video)
14. Texas education board members push back on proposal to use “involuntary relocation” to describe slave trade (text)
15. Material: Seven Souls, from The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs (audio)

June 19, 2022 to June 25, 2022

1. Colombia: LatAm Leaders Celebrate Petro’s Historic Victory (text)
2. Chile finalises new draft constitution to replace Pinochet-era document (text)
3. Galveston, the birthplace of Juneteenth, has been losing Black residents for decades (text)
4. Slavery has STILL not been abolished in the U.S. The 13th Amendment didn’t do it. Maybe the 28th? (text)
5. Tuesday, June 21st hearing: Trump asks state officials to break the law (text)
6. Hochul’s Stadium Swindle Gov. Hochul ripped off Seneca tribe and NY taxpayers to enrich her husband’s cronies (text)
7. Protect and serve? In Stoughton, MA, latest police scandal adds to long history of trouble (text)
8. The Current Court is Sunk in Corruption, Just Like Fox News (text)
9. Clear Air Act Saves Lives, Will SCOTUS change that? (text)

Week of June 12 to June 18, 2022

1. Guarding Democracy from News (text)
2. Caitlin Johnstone: Official Behind Media Reports of Russian Atrocities Fired By Ukrainian Parliament (text)
3. The Secret Pentagon Photos of the First Prisoners at Guantánamo Bay (text/pictures)
4. Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need (text)
5. Russian Sanctions Are Hurting U.S. WAY MORE Than Russia (video)
6. Suspended For Calling Nazis “Nazis” On Twitter (video)
7. Do ALL Ukrainians Have Swastika Tattoos? (video)
   • Reuters presents Ukrainian with Nazi armband tattoo as heroic in this article. Couldn’t they find a non-Nazi to support their case? https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/battle-ukraines-east-rages-zelenskiy-vows-retake-territory-2022-06-07/
8. Ukrainian Boxer Holds Nazi Flag While Accepting Medal (video)
9. Ukraine Court BANS Main Opposition Party (video)
10. BBC’s Pro-War Propaganda Spreading Faster Than Cholera (video)
11. AOC Says She’s Honest But Congress Is Corrupt (video)
12. Twitter Censors Anti-War Journo Danny Haiphong Over Tiananmen Square Tweet (video)
13. Labor reporter Stephen Greenhouse on Democracy Now! (video)
14. Al Jazeera obtains exclusive photo of bullet used to kill journalist Shireen Abu Akleh (video)
15. Gravitas: Belgium refuses to apologise for colonial atrocities in Congo (video)
16. The New Hotness in Scam Culture (Crypto Currency and NFTs) (Best of the Left — curated collection of podcast clips)

Week of June 5 to June 11, 2022

1. Noam Chomsky and Jeremy Scahill on the Russia-Ukraine War, the Media, Propaganda, and Accountability (video)
2. NY Times Does It Again: All the copaganda that’s fit to print (text)
3. And again How To Spin An Election (text)
4. John Oliver: School Police we need fewer of them, not more (video)
5. Hubert Harrison: Tribune of the People (text)
6. A @pslweb activist disrupts OAS chief Luis Almagro at a Summit of the Americas event, calling out his role in the 2019 Bolivia coup
7. Tim Hortons spied on customers through app: Canadian regulator (article)

Week of May 29 to June 4, 2022

1. ‘She did not even have a stick’: Witness describes seeing pregnant, unarmed woman shot by cops (text)
2. Cartoon: Republicans call for school control (text)
3. NRA exec’s big fun tainted at convention as comedian pranks him with ‘thoughts and prayers’ (text)
4. Meet a 34-year-old with $250,000 in student debt after 13 years of barely keeping up with her monthly interest payments: ‘I never felt like I could get a handle on it’ (text)
5. Good news on Corinthian student debt — thanks to the Debt Collective
   What the Corinthian Colleges case tells us about student loan relief (text)
6. Israeli Soldiers Kill A Young Palestinian Woman, a journalism student, Near Hebron (text)
7. Israeli forces kill another Palestinian teen, 4th Palestinian killed in 48 hours (text)
8. Israel’s Government Is Supporting ‘Death To Arabs’ Protest (video)
9. 5 people dead at Tulsa medical building, in the 233rd mass shooting of 2022 (text)
10. Russia’s ruble is the strongest currency in the world this year (text/audio)
11. Chelsea School Takes Shelter After Covid Vax Bus Shooting: Officials (text)
12. Rep. Paul Gosar Spreads Lie About Texas Shooter In Hateful Since-Deleted Tweet (text)
13. Uvalde shooting’s evolving narrative: Here are the details police have walked back (text)
14. Did Uvalde Cops Shoot One Of The Child Victims? (video)
15. Drought Exposes More Human Remains in Nevada’s Lake Mead (video)
16. Western Media Admits Ukraine Is Losing War (video)
17. Bogus “Appeasement” Argument Used By Warmongers On Ukraine (video)
18. Richard Wolff: Treasury Secretary Admits She Was DEAD WRONG About Inflation (video)
19. The People’s Forum in New York City attacked by the far-right, enabled by the police (text)
20. Biden To Hike Medicare Premiums & Funnel Profits To Private Insurers (video)

Week of May 22 to May 28 2022
Third Party Politics/Green Party

Dysfunction and direction in American politics

1. We the People: Never ending student debts with Scott Hutchins, Jameson Brewer, Abbas Muntaqim (video)
2. Boris Johnson to stress work as the fix for cost of living crisis (text)
3. UK Banks face up to $300bn in losses due to climate change (text)
4. Ron DeSantis EXPOSED (He’s Not What You Think) | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
5. TikToker Reveals Shocking Info Mainstream Media Tried To Hide (video)
   • “the crazy thing is, you probably haven’t heard of this and number two if you did look it up on any mainstream media they don’t even mention he was a climate activist.”
     NYTimes: Climate Activist Dies After Setting Himself on Fire at Supreme Court (text)
6. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW: Shooter Kills 21 At TX Elementary School | Breaking Points (video)
7. BREAKING: Cops Did NOTHING For AN HOUR As Texas Shooter Killed Kids (video)
   • Actually, they did SOMETHING. They handcuffed and pepper sprayed a parent.
   • Actual function of policing in America (text)
8. A hunger crisis threatens millions. Will world leaders take action?
9. ‘Public Bank’ Bill Blocked From State Senate Vote After Industry Pushback (text)
10. cars are dumb and pointless (and ruin cities) (video)
11. Impending Roe v Wade Demise Spotlights Privacy Risk for Everyone (text)
    • Reposting: Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics (text)
12. Minnesota Public Radio drops award-winning program ‘APM Reports’ (text)

Week of May 15 to May 21 2022

Discussion topic for May 22: The Racial Capitalism of Care (video/text)

Other current notes of interest:

1. Origins of Great Replacement Theory in backlash to reconstruction, connection to racist mass shooting in Buffalo (text)
2. Climate Change Is Class Struggle w/ Matt Huber (podcast) or text
3. Delhi — where most people don’t have AC — hits 120 degrees in South Asian heat wave (audio with transcript)
4. The Sports World’s Selective Moral Indignation (text)

Week of May 8 to May 14, 2022

• French Election: Follow up on last Sunday’s discussion:
  • Emmanuel Macron Is Forming a New Right-Wing Bloc, Interview with Bruno Amable, Jacobin
  • Why Macron is invincible, Christopher Caldwell, Unherd
  • Le Pen was doomed from the start, Nathan Pinkoski, Compact 
  • Waking Up from Anesthesia: Decline and Violence in France, Alexis Moriatis, Brooklyn Rail
  • Macron, Le Pen and France’s long battle between order and dissent, Sudhir Hazareesingh, FT
  • Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s new supporters: the young, urban working class, Julie Carriat, Le Monde
  • Why the French left keeps failing, Charles Devellennes, Sp!ked

Current posts of interest

Current Posts of Interest

1. Big Business: Profiting from Inflation (text)
2. Kenya embraces green building technology (text)
3. Facebook Lies Through Their Teeth to Prevent Me from Sharing (text)
4. You, yes you, would make a better owner of Twitter than Elon Musk (text)
5. Shireen Abu Akleh, journalist killed in the West Bank, was ‘the voice of Palestinian suffering’
   • Shireen Abu Akleh and the journalists killed by Israeli forces (text)
6. Ultra-MAGA and the Democracy Game (with Brynn Tannehill) (text)
7. The #BLM10 Speak: “It’s Time For Accountability” (video)
   

May 1 to May 7: On Antitrust, Don’t Take Big Tech’s Word for It (text)

Other posts of interest

1. Kathy Boudin: A Great Life and A Great Loss (text)
2. Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and the Far Right (text)
3. French Election: Follow up on last Sunday’s discussion:
   • Emmanuel Macron Is Forming a New Right-Wing Bloc, Interview with Bruno Amable, Jacobin
   • Why Macron is invincible, Christopher Caldwell, Unherd
   • Le Pen was doomed from the start, Nathan Pinkoski, Compact 
   • Waking Up from Anesthesia: Decline and Violence in France, Alexis Moriatis, Brooklyn Rail
   • Macron, Le Pen and France’s long battle between order and dissent, Sudhir Hazareesingh, FT
   • Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s new supporters: the young, urban working class, Julie Carriat, Le Monde
4. Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics (text)
5. The media fell for ‘pro-life’ rhetoric — and helped create this mess (text / audio)
6. Media Hypocrites Recommend Women Take Horse Drugs For Abortion (video)
7. Krystal Ball: Proof Dems are FULL OF SH*T On Roe v Wade (video)
8. The Fact-Free Logic of Samuel Alito (text)
   • GOP Justices testified that Roe was “settled precedent” (video)
9. Cops Brutalize Pro-Choice Protesters, Immediately Regret It (VIDEO)
10. This Police-Pastor Alliance Is America’s Most Tyrannical (video)
11. British citizenship of six million people (mostly of color) could be jeopardised by Home Office (text)
    • UK’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda delayed because of legal challenges (text
12. Amazon’s worker union just lost in New York City. Where does it go from here? (text)
    • Christian Smalls testifying before Congress on Amazon anti-union actions (video))
13. EPA Union seeks climate emergency declaration (text)
14. Krystal Ball: How Clinton SCAMMED a Generation and SOLD Their Futures (video)
    • It’s Official: “Useless Major” Is a Term Used Only by Idiots (text)
15. US won’t rule out military action if China establishes base in Solomon Islands (text)

April 24 to April 30, 2022

Discussion topic: – May 1: Care Work in a Wageless World

1. The Facts on Bail Reform and Crime Rates in New York State (report)
2. War as a business opportunity (text)
3. Macron’s Win Is Not Populism’s Defeat (text)
4. Carol Anderson on History, Race and Democracy (audio)
5. Natalia Renta on Puerto Rico Debt Deal (audio)
6. Elon Musk Is a Problem Masquerading as a Solution (text)
   • Elon Musk is Not Your Savior and He Is Actually Awful (collection of podcast clips)
   • Musk is a “free speech absolutist” except when he’s not (text)
7. New Yorkers Chant Support For Nazis In Ukraine (video)
8. (Watch) Rant Highlights Why Working Has Become Unsustainable (video)
9. Sabrina Solvati: Nina Turner Defends Party That Shuns Her (video)
10. In Ohio, a Primary Battle for the Soul of the Democratic Party –Nina Turner v Shontel Brown (text)
11. Max Blumenthal: Pentagon-Backed “Newsguard” Threatening YouTube’s Anti-War Voices (video)
12. Max Blumenthal, Anya Parampil, Alejandro Kirk: Reporting from the ground in Donbas (video)
13. Landlord arguments suck (Debunking Arguments Landlords Use to Justify Their Existence) (video)
14. Joe Biden Pours Cold Water on Student Debt Cancelation Dreams (video)
15. POLICE STATE: The New Way Private Prisons Make BILLIONS | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
16. Family Claims “Execution By Police” As Body Camera Gets Released (video)
17. Severe Indian heatwave will bake a billion people and damage crops (mid 40s°C is over 110°F) (text)
18. Atlanta Spa Shooting Anniversary: More Police Funding Isn’t the Answer to Anti-Asian Hate (text)

April 17 to April 23, 2022

1. NY Times Goes After Indie Journalists [News + Comedy] (video)
2. Associated Press caught whitewashing a Palestinian toddler’s death (article)
3. Why the French left keeps failing, (article)
4. France struggles to contain revival of the Yellow Vests protests three years on (article)
5. The Gilets Jaunes and the New Social Contract (book)
6. France Protests Over Macron v Le Pen Election | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
7. Security, Empire and Life in the USA (article)
8. Ilhan Omar Urges Prosecuting U.S. War Criminals! (video)
9. Why are they hiding THIS about Ukraine? | Redacted with Natali and Clayton Morris (video)
10. Dozens of Murdered civilians Found in Mariupol after Ukraine retreats (Some hands bound)–Ukranian civilian says Azov attacked them (video)
11. ‼️Short Clip From a Documentary That Shows Zelensky Performing a Stand Up Comedy Skit In 2015. (video)
12. Russians Are “Different & Don’t Value Human Life” Says German Pundit (video)
13. Michael Tracey: The U.K. Is Dragging The U.S. Into WWIII In Ukraine (video)
14. Amazon Union Organizer Goes On Tucker & Sh*tlib Brains Explode! (video)
15. TikTok EXPOSES Insurance Racket Costing Us Billions (video)
16. TikToker EXPOSES What Wealthy People Are Scared Of (video)
17. Homeless New Yorkers Respond to Mayor’s Plan to Boot Them from Subway System (video)

April 10 to April 16, 2022

1. Ukraine-Russia War:
   • A proxy war in Ukraine is the worst possible outcome — except for all the others, Sam Winter-Levy, War on the Rocks
   • “Now we’re going to f*ck them all.” What’s happening in Russia’s elites after a month of war, Farida Rustamova, Faridaily
   • Zelensky’s muddled neutrality plan is not the answer for Ukraine, James Sherr, FT
   • Ukraine Would Be Even Less Safe With Nuclear Weapons (article)
   • Proof: Zelensky REJECTED Peace With Russia (video)
   • Blundering into a nuclear war in Ukraine: a hypothetical scenario (article)
   • Don’t Bank on the Bomb (report)
   • U.S. Media Admits It’s Running Fraudulent “Narratives”— The arrogance of those using economic and psychological warfare to destroy the sovereign nation of Russia! (video)
   • Oil and Vodka: “There’s been a resilience that was hard to predict”—Russia’s economy (22-minute podcast)
2. Brooklyn Subway shooting:
   • Frank James, suspect in Brooklyn subway shooting, discussed violence in YouTube clips (article and video)
   • The Grim Journey of the Accused Brooklyn Subway Shooter (article)
   • $50,000 reward for info leading to the suspected subway shooter will be split 5 ways (article)
3. Government Response to Homelessness and Grassroots Pushback:
   • Homeless rights advocates in Manhattan release roadmap to aid unhoused, counter encampment sweeps (article–Scott was part of this)
   • As killer terrorized, some unhoused New Yorkers still preferred streets over shelters (article)
   • Adams’ and Hochul’s rhetoric endangers homeless population: VOCAL-NY organizing director (article)
   • Opinion: Lessons learned from COVID-19 show there are better ways to help homeless New Yorkers (article)
   • Faith leaders decry Mayor Adams’ sweeps of homeless encampments (article)
4. Labor News:
   • Kentucky man awarded $450K after suing employer over firing after birthday party he didn’t want (article–yes, it’s more serious than the title makes it sound)
   • Council Eases Salary Disclosure Law Rollback Bill — But Still Aims for Delay to November (article)
5. NYC Cuts Off Wells Fargo From New Bank Contracts Following Discrimination Claims (article)

April 3 to April 9, 2022

1. The Fight for Reparations Cannot Ignore Climate Change (text)
2. How Two Best Friends Beat Amazon (video)
3. Amazon CRIES ‘Rigged Election!’ To Labor Union Win | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
4. why you SHOULD NOT teach English in South Korea | hagwon horror story | *HONEST* experience (video)
5. Saagar Enjeti: NBC, WaPo Reporters Say Criticizing Them Is HARASSMENT (video)
6. Ukraine: a conversation with Scott Ritter hosted by Joe Lombardo and Margaret Flowers. (video)
7. US Officials Admit They’re Literally Just Lying To The Public About Russia (text and video)
8. Proof: Zelensky REJECTED Peace With Russia (video)
9. Maxine Waters Tells Homeless To “GO HOME” (video)
10. Republicans’ goal is 1950s-style white Christian patriarchal dominance (text)
11. NY Judges Ignored Income, Gift Reporting Rule For Years (text/audio)
12. Six steps the world can take to halt climate change (not actually halt but avoid worst case) (text/audio)
13. A Great Voice, and a Good Friend, Leaves Us (text)
14. “Dollar Hegemony Ended Last Wednesday”: Michael Hudson Interviewed by Margaret Flowers on Clearing the Fog (text and video)
15. Oft Overlooked on Brooklyn-Queens Border, The Hole Shows Risks of Ignoring Environment (text)

March 27 to April 2, 2022

Proposed Discussion topic:
. Is Nuclear Power Our Best Bet Against Climate Change?
. George Monbiot and Theo Simon discuss nuclear power (text)
. Is It Time to Expand Nuclear Power? A debate (audio)

Other posts of interest

1. Matt Taibbi | NO HOPE for Journalism (video)
   • The Local Journalism Sustainability Act (text)
2. John Oliver calls out dangerous police bullsh*t calls for sensible drug programs (video)
3. Defund The Insurrectionists — Check My Ads (video)
4. RWW News: QAnon ‘Prophet’ Johnny Enlow Prayed Over and ‘Commissioned’ Three GOP Candidates (video)
5. Krystal Ball: AOC BETRAYS Amazon Workers to COSPLAY Class Politics (video)
6. AOC and Krystal Ball Clash Over Amazon Union Support (video)
7. Unions Are Making A Strong Showing In Elections At Two Amazon Warehouses (text)
8. Applebee’s Uses High Gas Prices To Lower Wages (video)
9. Why Capitalism Will Always Fail (Capitalism’s In-Built Self-Destruct; The Falling Rate of Profit) (video)
10. Ukraine and media coverage:
    • Antiwar NATO Soldier DESTROYS Justification For Ukraine War (video)
    • Sleepwalking Into History (text)
      “so far this has yet to be treated as what it is: an epochal moment and a warning.”
    • Why Is the Wartime Press Corps So Hawkish? (text)
    • Reacting To PBS’s Laughable Ukraine Coverage With Vijay Prashad (video)
    • Krystal Ball: Jon Stewart FLIPS on Ukraine Media Coverage (video)
    • Nazis “Not As Evil” As Putin Says NBC Host (video)
    • Peace Makes NBC Host “UNCOMFORTABLE” (video)
    • Ukraine’s silent war on Roma refugees and transgenders (text)
11. Social media seems to be having a tryst with corporate censorship, and that can be really bad news for its users (text)
12. Ginni & Clarence Thomas vs. Democracy: He Sided with Trump in Court While She Backed Coup Attempt (video/text)
13. Ocasio-Cortez Argues Clarence Thomas Must Resign or be Impeached (video)
14. Rick Scott CAN’T DEFEND His ‘Tax The Poor More’ Plan | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
15. Political Experts React to Critical Race Theory Ads (video)
16. ADL, Organization Against Anti-semitism, Whitewashes Ukrainian Nazis (video)
17. Neo-Nazi Aidar Battalion holding 300 locals and monks hostage (article)
18. Will Smith Says “Called By God” To Slap Chris Rock (video)
    America Calls For MORE Violence Against Comedians After Will Smith (video)
19. AOC Video Makes Fox News Pervs Malfunction (video)
20. AOC’s WARNING To Dems: ‘We’re In Trouble’ | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
21. ‘Their Inflation Strategy Is Working’: Corporate Profits Soared to Record High in 2021 (text)

March 20 to March 26, 2022

–Proposed Discussion topic: Why Neoliberalism Needs Neofascists

1. Matt Taibbi | NO HOPE for Journalism (video)
   • The Local Journalism Sustainability Act (text)
2. John Oliver calls out dangerous police bullsh*t calls for sensible drug programs (video)
3. Defund The Insurrectionists — Check My Ads (video)
4. RWW News: QAnon ‘Prophet’ Johnny Enlow Prayed Over and ‘Commissioned’ Three GOP Candidates (video)
5. Krystal Ball: AOC BETRAYS Amazon Workers to COSPLAY Class Politics (video)
6. AOC and Krystal Ball Clash Over Amazon Union Support (video)
7. Unions Are Making A Strong Showing In Elections At Two Amazon Warehouses (text)
8. Applebee’s Uses High Gas Prices To Lower Wages (video)
9. Why Capitalism Will Always Fail (Capitalism’s In-Built Self-Destruct; The Falling Rate of Profit) (video)
10. Ukraine and media coverage:
    • Antiwar NATO Soldier DESTROYS Justification For Ukraine War (video)
    • Sleepwalking Into History (text)
      “so far this has yet to be treated as what it is: an epochal moment and a warning.”
    • Why Is the Wartime Press Corps So Hawkish? (text)
    • Reacting To PBS’s Laughable Ukraine Coverage With Vijay Prashad (video)
    • Krystal Ball: Jon Stewart FLIPS on Ukraine Media Coverage (video)
    • Nazis “Not As Evil” As Putin Says NBC Host (video)
    • Peace Makes NBC Host “UNCOMFORTABLE” (video)
    • Ukraine’s silent war on Roma refugees and transgenders (text)
11. Social media seems to be having a tryst with corporate censorship, and that can be really bad news for its users (text)
12. Ginni & Clarence Thomas vs. Democracy: He Sided with Trump in Court While She Backed Coup Attempt (video/text)
13. Ocasio-Cortez Argues Clarence Thomas Must Resign or be Impeached (video)
14. Rick Scott CAN’T DEFEND His ‘Tax The Poor More’ Plan | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
15. Political Experts React to Critical Race Theory Ads (video)
16. ADL, Organization Against Anti-semitism, Whitewashes Ukrainian Nazis (video)
17. Neo-Nazi Aidar Battalion holding 300 locals and monks hostage (article)
18. Will Smith Says “Called By God” To Slap Chris Rock (video)
    America Calls For MORE Violence Against Comedians After Will Smith (video)
19. AOC Video Makes Fox News Pervs Malfunction (video)
20. AOC’s WARNING To Dems: ‘We’re In Trouble’ | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
21. ‘Their Inflation Strategy Is Working’: Corporate Profits Soared to Record High in 2021 (text)
22. Not a Single Reporter Will Follow Up on Eric Adams’ Vague Promise of Placing Purged Homeless in “Healthy Living Conditions” (article)

March 20 to March 26, 2022

–Proposed Discussion topic: Why Neoliberalism Needs Neofascists

Other posts of interest

1. Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix (text)
2. Ummm…Are We The Baddies? (podcast)
3. Zelensky Bans 11 Political Parties, None Of Them Neo-Nazi (video)
   Ukrainian President Bans 11 Opposition Parties! (video)
   Zelensky nationalizes TV news and restricts opposition parties (article)
4. DONBASS – CIVILIANS EVACUATE MARIUPOL AND REVEAL THE FIGHTING METHODS OF THE AZOV REGIME’S NEO-NAZIS (article)
   • Ukraine Officials Say 300 Civilians Were Killed by Russian Bombing of Mariupol Theater (text)
   • 100,000 civilians trapped in Mariupol amid Russia’s ‘constant bombing’, says Zelenskiy (text)
5. Shady Capitalist Scheme Is Full Of Ways To Screw You Over! (video)
6. Fox News Will Criticize ANYTHING Except For Capitalism (video)
   • President Biden Warns Oil Firms Against ‘Price Gouging‘ (text)
7. Bloomberg News Tells Poors To Eat Beans & Sell Their Car To Save Money | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
8. Leaded Gasoline Reduced IQ Of 170 Million Americans, Study Finds (video)
9. WORKER QUITS AND IS FORCED TO REPAY SALARY! (Philippines) (video)
10. Why and how Hawley’s attack on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was disgusting (podcast clip)
    • Josh Hawley’s latest attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson is genuinely nauseating (text)
11. Interracial Marriage BAN Ok With GOP Senator | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
    • U.S. Senator Says Legalizing Interracial Marriage Was a Mistake, Backtracks Unconvincingly (text)
12. Trump Supporters: What Really Happened On January 6th? (video)
13. Trump Supporter Opinions Become INSTANT Embarrassment (video)
14. Why some Americans haven’t gotten COVID yet and why it’s not inevitable they ever will: Experts (article and video)
15. Jesus Showed Up In Woman’s Closet To Encourage Her Campaign (video)
16. Predominantly Black Town Ordered To Surrender Charter After Ford Invests In Area (text)

March 13 to March 19

Discussion topic: A Path to Neighborhood Power
— plus a deep dive on community land trusts in NY

1. Good discussions of Ukraine Crisis: Building a Just and Peaceful World (videos)
2. Video: Unhinged Officials Push No-Fly Zone & World War III
3. The Atlantic Publishes Editorial Shilling for World War III (article)
   worth comparing to Saagar Enjeti’s comments pre-invasion (video)
   and MSNBC Guest Says Putin WORSE Than Hitler | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
   Aaron Maté: MSNBC Praises Hitler To Manufacture Consent For Ukraine War (video)
4. Anna Khachiyan: Russophobia Is The Latest Liberal Activism | Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar (video)
5. YouTube Censoring Anti-Ukraine War Coverage (video)
6. Colbert Cheerleads War With “Clear Conscience” (video)
7. Saudi Arabia BEHEADS 81 In Unprecedented Execution (video) (relates directly to #5)
8. Aaron Maté: US/NATO Preparing False Flag Chemical Attack In Ukraine? (video)
9. Aaron Maté: Democracy Now Pushes For War & Peace In Ukraine? (video)
10. Irish Politicians GO OFF On Western Hypocrisy Over Ukraine (video)
11. The Real Reason Media Covers Ukraine 400 Times More Than Other Violent Conflicts (video)
12. CNN Host Admits War Is About Ratings (video)
13. How Billionaires Picked Putin as “Russia’s Pinochet” (article)
14. American Volunteer Soldiers Used As “Cannon Fodder” In Ukraine (video)
15. Tax the land (text)
16. Police Arrest Man Suspected Of Stalking, Killing Homeless In NYC, DC (article)
    VOCAL-NY statement on incidents (text)
17. A too-risky plan to curb Georgians’ free speech (text)
18. Chris Smalls EXPOSES Amazon’s FAKE $15 Min Wage SCAM | Krystal Kyle & Friends Podcast (video)
19. Aaron Maté: Putin Lays Out Demands To End War (video)
20. Aaron Maté: Video: Biden Predicted Ukraine War In 1997! (video)

March 6 to March 12

Other items of note
— post on budgetting: Testimony on NYCHA and New York City’s Fiscal Year 2023 Preliminary Budget

1. How Putin’s oligarchs funneled millions into GOP campaigns (text)
2. Members of Congress Caught Profiting Off Ukraine War (video)
3. Ukraine Exposes White Supremacist Foreign Policy (text)
4. Ukraine Crisis: Building a Just and Peaceful World (past and future webinars)
5. Krystal Ball: Ilhan Omar DRAGGED for Based Ukraine Take (video)
6. How Russia Will Counterpunch the U.S./EU Declaration of War (article Tony B says Facebook is not allowing on the platform)
7. ‘No off-ramps’: U.S. and European officials don’t see a clear endgame in Ukraine (article with audio)
8. Annoyed about preparing your taxes? GOP benefits and Turbotax is paying Congress to make your life difficult. (text)
9. GOP’s violent rhetoric keeps getting worse — and almost nobody is paying attention (text)
10. Here’s Why You Might Get Arrested For Renting From Hertz (text)
11. Larry Summers Holds Positions With Numerous Financial Bottom-Feeders (text)
12. Adams Plan to Remove Homeless People From the Subway ‘Right Away’ Has Hit a Delay (text)

Feb. 27 through March 5, 2022

1. Ukraine – Russia
   • Invasion of Ukraine: Some Context (podcast)
   • What the Media Is HIDING About Ukraine/Russia (video)
   • Why Russia is Invading Ukraine (video)
   • Ukraine Neo-Nazis Infiltrate EVERY LEVEL Of Military & Government (video)
   • How Ukraine’s Jewish president Zelensky made peace with neo-Nazi paramilitaries on the front lines of war with Russia | The Grayzone (article with multiple videos)
   • Youth Climate Activists: Our Answer to War Must Be Radical Exit From Fossil Fuel (text)
   • US/NATO Provoked Ukraine War Say Most Experts On Russia (according to Jimmy Dore) (video)
   • From Crisis to Catastrophe? What is to be Done in Eastern Europe. (article)
   • GLEN FORD: U.S. Prepares to Gas Russia Into Submission, March 20, 2014 (article)
2. U.S. Lawyers Are Foreign Kleptocrats’ Best Friends (text)
3. Lawmakers seek to unmask property owners behind LLCs (text)
4. Right-Wing Lunatics Are Dooming The Country (video)
5. Unimpressed with Post Office Banking Trial, Backers Eye New Initiative (text)
6. The U.S. added 678,000 jobs in February. It’s another sign of a hot labor market (text)
7. You Are Being Lied to About Inflation | Robert Reich (video)
8. Trump Committed a Felony in Effort to Steal the 2020 Election—Will He Be Held Accountable? (video)

Feb. 20 through Feb. 26, 2022

Proposed discussion topics

1. Heather McGhee on Critical Race Theory & Other Stuff (podcast)
2. Philly is poised to become the first U.S. city to run its own bank (text)
3. Biden Urged to Ignore War Hawks and Pursue ‘Real Path to Peace’ in Ukraine (text)
4. Child Poverty SKYROCKETS 41% In Colossal Dem Failure | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
5. Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson? (text)
6. Biden Considered a SCOTUS Pick Who Jailed a Man 12 YEARS For Weed Sale | Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar (video)
7. Boston Review: Rethinking Political Economy (text)
8. Blue Lies Matter (text)

Other items of note:

1. Kenyan ambassador’s statement on Ukraine conflict (video)
2. The Punishment Bureaucracy: How to Think About “Criminal Justice Reform” (text)
   • I don’t like things that try to say “how to think” but besides title seems interesting.
3. So, where the heck is the public bank of New Jersey? | Opinion (article)
4. WORST Propaganda I’ve Ever Seen: Media Blames The Left For Biden’s Failures | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
5. The Boycott: Upcoming film about anti-BDS legislation discussed last week. Read Synopsis. (Text)
6. CEOs are just crowing about how they can raise prices on consumers all while bringing in record profits. (video)

Feb. 6 to Feb. 19, 2022

1. ‘Israel Is Like A Spoiled Kid Who Never Gets Punished’ – Jim Zogby (video)
2. Status Coup EXPOSES Amazon Forcing Employees Out of Meeting in Latest Union Busting Leak (video)
3. AOC SILENT On Pelosi Leadership, Warns Of ‘Jim Crow’ Return |Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar (video)
4. The BLM Mystery: Where did the money go? (text)
5. Trump’s race-war fantasies continue to escalate — while the media pretends not to notice (text)
6. ThinkOlio: From Colonial New York to Global Capitalism (video)
7. Suicide Hotline Collected, Monetized The Data Of Desperate People, Because … Surveillance Capitalism (text)
8. On Riots (video)
9. The U.S. Is Wrong on Yemen. Again. (text)
10. The Black woman sentenced to six years in prison over a voting error (wtf?)
11. Daunte Wright’s family dismayed at lenient sentence (text)
12. Bari Weiss SILENT About Actual Censorship Of Free Speech (video)
13. BANNED Journalist Sues Twitter For Violating His Free Speech (video)
14. Matt Taibbi The British Medical Journal Story That Exposed Politicized “Fact-Checking” (article)
15. Gay Man Yells ‘Hail Satan’, Burns Bible In Protest Of Book Burning (video)
16. Fatal police shootings in 2021 set record since The Post began tracking, despite public outcry (article)
17. Thoughts on the Canadian Trucker “Freedom Convoys” (article)
    • Coverage of Canadian Truckers compared to OWS and other (video)
18. Occupy the SEC to the DoJ: Stop rubber-stamping bank mergers (text)
19. Biden’s Plan to Permanently Seize Afghan Assets Set to Cause Untold Suffering (text)
20. Jon Stewart: Corporate profits driving inflation, and Bryan Stevenson (podcast)
21. Why we don’t have universal healthcare: it really is about race (and greed) (podcast clip)
    • The Hidden History of American Healthcare (full podcast)
22. It’s Settled That Israel Is Committing the Crime of Apartheid—Now What Should We Do About It? (text)
23. The Flint Cover-up: Wiped Phones and the Battle for Evidence in Rick Snyder’s Prosecution (text/audio)

January 30, 2022 to February 5, 2022

1. Why Ukraine is the West’s Fault (video)
2. U.S. Hoped Putin Would be a ‘Sober Yeltsin’ – RAI with Stephen Cohen (video)
3. Ukraine and U.S. War Propaganda (text)
4. The Violent States of America (podcast)
   • Violent States of America (text)
5. US and UK escalate Russia war fever, but NATO splits over Ukraine emerge (podcast)
6. Most Americans Don’t Want War With Russia. Where Are Progressives? (text)
7. America Is Reaping What it Sowed in Ukraine (text)
8. Reposted: Ukraine: What Does it Have to Do with Black Folks? (text)

January 23, 2022 to January 29, 2022

1. The Biden Jobs Boom Is Bigger Than We Thought (text)
   • America’s fastest recovery in 40 years (chart)
2. Biden Considering Deploying Thousands of Troops to Eastern Europe (text)
3. A Palestinian shepherd peacefully resisted the Israeli occupation. And now he’s dead  (video)
4. Analysis of copaganda in NYTimes and elsewhere (text)
5. The Potter Report: UnitedHealth’s $24 Billion Profit (text)
   • Major Health Insurer pressures employees to lobby against CA’s Single-Payer Bill (text)
6. Jan. 6 Was Not the Beginning or the End (text)
7. The number of unionized workers declined in 2021 (text)
8. New Report on Juvenile Fees in Florida criminal legal system (text)
9. PG&E Should Be Broken Up Over Probation ‘Crime Spree’: Judge (text)
10. Trevor Noah skewers Congressional Insider Stock Trading (video)
11. Federal Court Revokes Oil and Gas Leases, Citing Climate Change (text)
12. Ukraine and U.S. War Propaganda (text)
    • US and UK escalate Russia war fever, but NATO splits over Ukraine emerge (podcast)
    • Most Americans Don’t Want War With Russia. Where Are Progressives? (text)
13. After a string of broken promises, fed-up Amazon workers walked out. (video)
14. How Ginni Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, influences the Supreme Court (audio)
15. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: This Supreme Court was built by dark money (text)
16. Rep. Jamaal Bowman on national politics, supreme court (audio)
17. The Onion: Lies All Police Officers Are Legally Allowed To Tell You (slideshow)

January 16, 2022 to January 22, 2022

1. REPOST from last week: The American polity is cracked, and might collapse. Canada must prepare (text)
2. Bernie FINALLY Fed Up On Biden & TURNS On Him | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
3. Silicon Valley’s quest to live forever could benefit humanity as a whole — here’s why (article)
4. Vehicle Residency: Homelessness We Struggle to Talk About (article)
5. Jimmy Dore compares himself to MLK, says we should ally with Boogaloo (video)
6. MLK Three Evils Speech — Militarism, Racism and Poverty (text/video)
   • If short of time, this link starts at 32:55 Revolution of Values (or read last third of transcript)
7. 8 Fears Holding the Left Back (video)
8. Florida could shield whites from ‘discomfort’ of racist past (text)
9. People’s Policy Project: Water for All (text)
10. Injustice but ultimately a victory (video)
11. Columbia University Has Lost Its Way (text)
    • Calls Columbia a predatory real estate firm, Harvard is more of a hedge fund.
12. IRS will require taxpayers to sign up with ID.me to access their online accounts

January 9, 2022 to January 15, 2022

1. The American polity is cracked, and might collapse. Canada must prepare (text)
2. Greg Abbott’s Promise to Eliminate Rape Is Holding Up About as Well as You’d Expect (text)
3. Study Identifies ‘Structural Failures’ That Increase Homelessness (text)
4. Ukraine: What Does it Have to Do with Black Folks? (text)
5. Racism has cost the U.S. $16 trillion, Citigroup finds (text)
6. Emma Watson SMEARED For Pro-Palestine Posts (video)
7. Ale asked me to forward this podcast to you with a note that people should start listening at 58:40.  https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiosputnik/headline-first-anniversary-of-capitol-in
8.  Malm, Andreas: Climate, Corona, Chronic Emergency (2020) -book
9. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n22/adam-tooze/ecological-leninism – review/critique of Malm
10. Muddled, top-down, technocratic: why the green new deal should be scrapped | Aditya Chakrabortty | The Guardian
11. The lethal folly of humanitarian interventionism – spiked (spiked-online.com)

January 2, 2022 to January 8, 2022

1. The Corporate Plan to Murder Medicare Runs Through Medicare Advantage (text)
   • Medicare Advantage’s cost to taxpayers has soared in recent years, research finds (text)
   • Backdoor Privatization Scheme Poses Another Threat To Medicare (podcast)
2. Assessing de Blasio’s Housing Legacy: Why Hasn’t the “Most Ambitious Affordable Housing Program” Produced a More Affordable City? (text)
   • deBlasio’s Impact on Housing (video)
3. “Innocence Isn’t Enough”: Arizona Urges the Supreme Court to Send Barry Jones Back to Death Row
   • For historical context, the Supreme Court has long been concerned that “too much justice” would “upend the criminal justice system” because “disparities in sentencing are an inevitable part of our criminal justice system.” McCleskey, 481 U.S. at 308, 317. (not my editorializing; the American Bar Association reading SCOTUS opinions).
4. Free speech, free press and overall openness and transparency are key to Swedish society.
5. Humans waging ‘suicidal war’ on nature – UN chief Antonio Guterres
   • (this IS my editorializing (JS)) Humans (mostly rich ones) and corporations are waging a war on nature which harm humans (especially, poor ones), animals and plants
6. David Pakman is Liberal Propaganda (video)
7. How Denmark invented Social Democracy (video)
8. Another Voice: Buffalo tenants need protection from Good Cause bill (text)
   Clearer headline: NY tenants need protection provided by a Good Cause bill
9. Eric Adams’ New Jail Commissioner Pushes Out Acclaimed Head of Investigations (text)
10. Manhattan D.A. Acts on Vow to Seek Incarceration Only for Worst Crimes (text)
11. A Year Later, Progressives Warn ‘Another January 6’ Is Coming If Voting Rights Not Secured (text)
12. What Do You Call a Failed Insurrection? PRACTICE (text)
13. Corporate Profits Drive 60% of Inflation Increases (text)
14. Noam Chomsky: GOP’s Soft Coup Is Still Underway One Year After Capitol Assault (text)
15. Meme that Proves Facebook Is Run by the Dumbest People on the Planet

Dec. 26, 2021 to January 1, 2022 Happy New Year!

1. Why A UN Torture Expert Changed His Mind On Assange (video)
2. Ralph Nader Radio Hour: Inspiring Activists! (podcast)
   • Don’t Toss It, Fix It! Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the “Right to Repair” (text)
3. EPA finds PFAS are more toxic than previously thought (text)
4. Whitewashing Black-owned homes is no answer for real estate racism (text)
5. 25 Years of Democracy Now
   • 25th Anniversary event (video)
   • 1997 bell hooks & Herb Kohl on the Life & Legacy of Paulo Freire, Visionary Brazilian Education Activist (audio)
   • 2021 Scholar Angela Davis on Prison Abolition, Justice for Palestine, Critical Race Theory & More (video)
6. Why New York’s Billionaires’ Row Is Half Empty (video)
7. 2021: The Year Of The Worker (video)
8. Leftist YouTubers PAID to Spread Pro-War Propaganda (video)
9. Cities vowed in 2020 to cut police funding — but budgets expanded in 2021 (article)
10. Afghanistan War Pays Off BIG For Generals Who Lied (video)
11. In Response to My Viral Musk Tweet Reply: Fixing Wealth Inequality (article)
12. What Employers Need to Know About Colorado’s New Equal Pay Act (article)
13. California Appeals Court Says Bail Companies Must Follow Consumer Protection Laws (article)
14. Why Facebook Whistle-Blower Frances Haugen Thinks She’ll Outlast Mark Zuckerberg (podcast)
15. Ungerrymandered: Michigan’s Maps, Independently Drawn, Set Up Fair Fight (text)
16. How the NY Times covered white, male VP’s before Kamala Harris (text/audio)
17. A SWAT Team DESTROYED This Woman’s Home—City Refused to Pay for Damage (video)
18. If you don’t fight for democracy when it’s under attack, you can lose it almost overnight. (video)
19. Anti-Meritocracy in Media: CNN Birdbrain Breaks Down 2024 Dem Favorites For President | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
20. Boosters Could DAMAGE Your Immune System – Say NY Times & Scientists (video)
21. Backdoor Privatization Scheme Poses A Threat To Medicare (podcast)
22. Meme of the week: The Koch brothers own a lot of real estate. But their best investment may be the Manchin they bought in West Virginia

Earlier Posts:

Jan. – Dec. 2021

Jan. – Dec. 2020

July – Dec. 2019
Jan. – June 2019

July – Dec. 2018
Jan. – June 2018

July – Dec. 2017
Jan. – June 2017

July – Dec. 2016
Jan. – June 2016