On Sunday, Dec. 23, we will be at Columbia 3-5 pm as usual. Join us there!
For the week of Dec. 16 to 22, 2018
- Banking and Finance
- Official Charter of the Yellow Vests
- Fossil fuel money crushed clean energy ballot initiatives across the country
- Anand Giridharadas: Winners take all: Elite charade of changing the world
- Harvard Quietly Amasses California Vineyards—and the Water Underneath
- Politicians have caused a pay ‘collapse’ for the bottom 90 percent of workers, researchers say
- The Postal Worker’s Christmas
- U.S. Poverty program could aid luxury high-rise
- House passes bill to drop legal protections for gray wolves
- Headley Case Again Raises Questions About NYPD Accountability Under De Blasio
- A black man tried to cash his paycheck. The bank called the cops.
- Racism is a national security issue
- Why Deep Blue New York Is ‘Voter Suppression Land’
- News the establishment media saw fit not to print
For the week of Dec. 9 to 15, 2018
- Banking and Finance
- Are You Ready for the Financial Crisis of 2019?
- History of cooperatives, cooperation and communalism in U.S Interview begins 18:30 minutes into the podcast
- The Public Ownership Solution
- Can Socialism Save Democracy?
- Yellow vests:
- Robert Reich: Truth about privatization
- Oil companies writing the rules:
- Debunking market fundamentalism: On Being podcast When the Market is the Only Language
- “I don’t think we can attack prosaic things like the level of inequality or the level of, even, societal anger without going to a deeper place of uprooting a culture in which money is the fundamental currency of value.”
- Or, even better, this interview “Are elites making the world a better place?”
- Why green new deal advocates must address militarism
- 70th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights Does anyone care? Certainly not the Trump administration
- Boundlessly Idealistic, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Is Still Resisted
- Article 9: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile
- Article 25: (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family …
- yes, “himself”. Well, nothing is perfect.
- Back to reality: 30 people arrested for nonviolent action in support of migrant caravans
- The strange case of the Guardian & Brasil
- University of Ghana Pulls Down Mahatma Gandhi’s Statue On Campus
- Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door
- What could the President do if he declares a state of emergency?
- Yemen / Saudi Arabia
- Another child separation crisis:
- The humanitarian crisis in plain sight on the streets of L.A.
- John Oliver: Authoritarianism
- The Criminal Justice Reform Bill You’ve Never Heard Of
For the week of Dec. 2 to 8, 2018
- Banking and Finance
- Asset forfeiture is a travesty of justice. We hope the Supreme Court will stop the practice
- Podcast about asset forfeiture: Money side of the highway
- Justices’ Jokes In Seized SUV Row Have Advocates Grinning
- America’s Concentration Crisis: How monopolization is contributing to inequality
- NYT Columnist recognizes that American Capitalism Isn’t Working.
- Defense Department fails audit — that was supposed to be done decades ago
- Shell Oil, under pressure from investors, agrees to carbon footprint targets
- A Closer Look at the Tax Incentives in the Amazon Deal
- What a Green New Deal might look like
- An Ecosocialist path to limiting global temperatre rise to 1.5C
- Asset forfeiture is a travesty of justice. We hope the Supreme Court will stop the practice
- How the Black Panthers revolutionized healthcare
- What are private security companies doing in Afghanistan?
- U.S. wants 35-40k local fighters in Syria – General Dunford
- U.S. Sabotages U.N. Attempt at Yemen Ceasefire, as Opposition to War Grows in Congress
- Several roads to decarceration: all of which should be taken
- French Protests / Yellow Vests
- 15 worrying things about CRISPR babies scandal
- AMLO inaugurated promises profound and radical transformation
Earlier items Jan. – June 2018 July – Dec. 2017 Jan. – June 2017