New and Noteworthy June – Dec. 2018

Meeting Sundays 3-5 pm at Columbia as always
Location: Room 409, Int’l Affairs Bldg. Columbia Univ.
420 W. 118th St.. (SE Corner of Amsterdam Ave. )

For the week of Jan. 20 to Jan. 26, 2019

1. Martin Luther King, Jr. speech on Three Evils of Society: Racism, Extreme Materialism and Militarism
   • Transcript
   • Video
2. Bryan Stevenson wants the U.S. to face its history
   • U.S. doesn’t Distortions of MLK legacy
3. Capital Gains and Inequality
   • Capital gains tax cuts are by far the biggest contributor to growth in income inequality
     • Linked an old study because, amazingly, I can’t find any good new ones on this crucial topic.
     • Also a timely topic because Green New Deal includes a proposal to eliminate tax preference for income from capital (both capital gains and dividends)
     • Finally, it is topical because this also encourages replacing workers with robots.
4. Do not call lists: Police who prosecuters think are too ‘unreliable’ to testify in court
5. SPLC sues Trump administration for violating due process rights of immigrant children
6. Venezuela:
   • Venezuela crisis: How the political situation escalated
   • Trump appoints man who backed death squads in Latin America to ‘oversee democracy efforts’ in Venezuela
   • Trump’s intervention in Venezuela: an undemocratic coup
   • OAS Interventionist Resolution Against Venezuela Defeated
   • “A Coup is not a democratic transition”
7. A case for starting process to impeach Trump column or video
8. Latest Oxfam report shows 26 billionaires have more than 3.8 billion people combined. One of their key recommendations is to tax wealth and capital (see above) at higher, fairer, rates.
9. After LA’s Teachers Strike, “Nothing Will Be the Same”

For the week of Jan. 13 to Jan. 19, 2019

1. Banking and Finance
   • $15 Minimum Wage: Job Killer or Path Out of Poverty?
   • How neoliberalism’s obsession with markets destroyed the heart and soul of key jobs
   • Government shutdown threatens food stamps and section 8 housing
   • Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent’s Stealth Takeover of America
   • Diane Ravitch: LA teachers strike is about charter schools
     
   • Never mind killer robots—here are six real AI dangers to watch out for 1. Self-crashing cars 2. Political manipulation bots 3. Algorithms for war ? 4. A surveillance face-off 5. #deepfakes 6. Algorithmic discrimination
   • One day, your voice will control all your gadgets, and they will control
   • US real estate: the brawl over the way New York is built
     • How the 0.01% make it: union bashing
2. Fascinating, frightening discussion of chaos and deception in decisionmaking to go into Iraq No reason to think things are better today
3. Trump’s Wall Demands Hurt People Already Hurting the Most
   • Trump says most furloughed workers ‘are Democrats’
     • when he says “Democrats” does he mean “black”?
       • and would either be relevant to what is done?
4. Pentagon Officials Fear Bolton’s Actions Increase Risk of Clash With Iran
   • ‘A Reckless Advocate of Military Force’: Demands for John Bolton’s Dismissal After Reports He Asked Pentagon for Options to Strike Iran “Make no mistake: Bolton is the greatest threat to the security of the United States!”
5. Tulsi Gabbard Is a Rising Progressive Star, Despite Her Support for Hindu Nationalists
   • Previous questions about Tulsi Gabbard
6. One day, your voice will control all your gadgets, and they will control you
7. See you in court, citizens tell governments on climate change
8. Chicago’s police ‘code of silence’ went on trial — and the code won
9. Albany passes some voting reform, Cuomo not helpful
   • Senate narrows, doesn’t close, LLC loophole
   • NYS Legislature passes voting reform including early voting
     • Cuomo doesn’t fund early voting in proposed budget
   • Parolees and others left out of voting reform
   • What bail reform could look like
   • What needs to be done: Build a real firewall between consulting and lobbying
10. Astra Taylor’s What is democracy offers no simple answers

For the week of Jan. 6 to Jan.12, 2019

1. Banking and Finance
   • Relevance of the 2008 crisis for today
   • Stop Inequality Before It Starts
   • Public policy of being mean to the poor
     • How cities make money by fining the poor
     • Wisconsin legislature rushed through lame duck measures to contravene the voters. What was less covered was that it specifically revoked minimum wage increase and Medicaid expansion
   • A surge of climate lawsuits targets human rights, fossil fuels
     • Good news not covered: Dutch climate lawsuit wins on appeal.
   • India’s top court allows Monsanto patents on GM cotton
     • Seeds of suicide: how Monsanto destroys farming
   • Recipients of Section 8 face eviction due to government shutdown
   • 12 charts that show how policy could reduce inequality—but is making it worse instead
   • Fox icon Tucker Carlson blames capitalism for America’s ills, wants government to fix it “Market capitalism is not a religion”, it is “the enemy of a healthy society”, elites (Mitt Romney) don’t care about us and want to drug us.
     • Right wing has a shitstorm
       • Ben Shapiro: Tucker Carlson Claims Market Capitalism Has Undermined American Society. He’s Wrong.
       • Reason Magazine: Tucker Carlson Thinks the Problem With America Is Market Capitalism, He Couldn’t be More Wrong
       • National Review: Personal Responsibility Is No Substitute for Political Reflection
2. Carbon emissions rise second most in 20-years as majority of America believes in anthropogenic climate change‘
3. Raising the Bar on a Green New Deal
4. Do We Really Need Billionaires?
   • Howard Buffett’s border war
5. Frightening prospect of a ‘state of emergency’
   • Trump May Raid Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Funds for Border Wall That’s what the headline says. But there really aren’t any Puerto Rico hurricane relief funds, he’d be raiding money from Florida, Texas and California
6. Case Closed: The Justice Department Won’t Stand Behind Its Report on Immigrants and Terrorism
7. Tulsi Gabbard Is a Rising Progressive Star, Despite Her Support for Hindu Nationalists
   • Previous questions about Tulsi Gabbard
8. Bases, Bases, Everywhere…  Except in the Pentagon’s Report 
9. Human Again’: Florida Felons Emotional as They Begin Registering to Vote
   • Despite continuing efforts to impede it

For the weeks of Dec. 23, 2018 to Jan. 5, 2019

1. Banking and Finance
   • The exodus of New York City’s endangered middle class
   • The Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun
   • The secret shame of middle-class Americans
   • Money Changers in the House of God
   • Pelosi’s deficit obsession
   • What We Learned From a Year of Americans ‘Risking It’ Without Health Insurance
   • Neoliberalism, Brazilian style: Bolsonaro unveils mass privatization plan while slashing taxes on rich and wage of poor
   • China cuts bank reserve requirements to in effort to boost growth
   • While public employees work without pay, Pence and cronies get raises
   • Rep. Ocasio Cortez proposes 70% tax on wealthy to pay for green new deal
     • Plan to return taxes to level of 1950-70s called “radical” by mainstream press
2. Yellow Vests Rise Against Neo-Liberal ‘King’ Macron
3. Winners Take All | Robert Wright & Anand Giridharadas (if you’ve listened to other stuff from Giridharadas, you can skip about 30 minutes to where he talks more about solutions)
4. Black Agenda Radio: Twilight of US empire; Black Alliance For Peace: Trump Should Withdraw From Syria, and Africa too; Carrie Bramen on the myth of “American Niceness”
   • Listen to whichever segments you like. I recommend the last: myth of American Niceness .
5. Important Environmental Stories of 2018
6. “Prison Reform” Is Not Enough. In 2019, Let’s Fight for Decarceration
7. Romney states the obvious: Trump lacks character
   • Also praises Sessions, Haley, Mattis, Tillerson, judges (Kavanaugh), corporate tax cuts, “deregulation” and Trump policy in general
8. The Worst Thing We’ve Ever Done

For the week of Dec. 16 to 22, 2018

1. Banking and Finance
   • Official Charter of the Yellow Vests
     • Blacking out the yellow vests on cable news: corporate media doing its job
   • Paul Ryan only ever cared about the rich
   • Fossil fuel money crushed clean energy ballot initiatives across the country
   • Who is to blame for the earth’s destruction?
   • Anand Giridharadas: Winners take all: Elite charade of changing the world
   • Harvard Quietly Amasses California Vineyards—and the Water Underneath
     • Harvard’s hidden control over farmland and water rights
   • Politicians have caused a pay ‘collapse’ for the bottom 90 percent of workers, researchers say
   • The Postal Worker’s Christmas
     • Trump proposal to privatize the postal service
   • U.S. Poverty program could aid luxury high-rise
2. House passes bill to drop legal protections for gray wolves
3. Headley Case Again Raises Questions About NYPD Accountability Under De Blasio
4. A black man tried to cash his paycheck. The bank called the cops.
5. Racism is a national security issue
6. Another perspective on the First Step reform of criminal justice laws:
   • First Step Act Has Sinister Implications for the Poor and Marginalized
7. Why Deep Blue New York Is ‘Voter Suppression Land’
8. News the establishment media saw fit not to print
   • 25 undercovered stories from 2017-2018
9. Reactions to Trump’s Syria withdrawal plan say more than the plan itself
10. Mattis quits, says his views aren’t ‘aligned’ with Trump’s
11. Andrew Bacevich on Mattis & Why We Need to End Our Self-Destructive, Mindless Wars
12. UN Security Council Backs Yemen Cease-Fire in Key Port City

For the week of Dec. 9 to 15, 2018

1. 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:
     
     • From Sans Culottes to Gilets Jaunes: Macron’s Marie Antoinette Moment
     • Yellow vests rise up against elites and neoliberalism
     • Yellow Vests Show the Way
   • Robert Reich: Truth about privatization
   • Oil companies writing the rules:
     • Trump’s attack on clean water act will fuel destructive pipeline boom
       
     • The Oil Industry’s Covert Campaign to Rewrite American Car Emissions 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
2. 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.
3. Back to reality: 30 people arrested for nonviolent action in support of migrant caravans
   
4. The strange case of the Guardian & Brasil
5. University of Ghana Pulls Down Mahatma Gandhi’s Statue On Campus
6. Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door
7. What could the President do if he declares a state of emergency?
8. Yemen / Saudi Arabia
   • Senate votes to end U.S. involvement in Saudi war crimes in Yemen
   • 5 “Despicable” Democrats join Republicans to block vote on Yemen in House
9. Another child separation crisis:
   • How Incarcerated Parents Are Losing Their Children Forever
10. The humanitarian crisis in plain sight on the streets of L.A.
11. John Oliver: Authoritarianism
12. The Criminal Justice Reform Bill You’ve Never Heard Of
    
    

For the week of Dec. 2 to 8, 2018

1. 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
2. How the Black Panthers revolutionized healthcare
3. What are private security companies doing in Afghanistan?
4. U.S. wants 35-40k local fighters in Syria – General Dunford
5. U.S. Sabotages U.N. Attempt at Yemen Ceasefire, as Opposition to War Grows in Congress
6. Several roads to decarceration: all of which should be taken
7. French Protests / Yellow Vests
   • Can the climate movement survive populism: lessons from yellow-vests
   • Why the French working poor are demanding Emmanuel Macron’s resignation
   • What the ‘Yellow Vests’ Movement Tells Us About the Massive Level of Discontent in France
8. 15 worrying things about CRISPR babies scandal
9. AMLO inaugurated promises profound and radical transformation

For the week of Nov. 25 to Dec. 1, 2018

1. Banking and Finance
   • Sears bankruptcy engineered to benefit executives and stiff workers
   • Hello, Amazon Cuomo: Please listen to this Corporate Tax-Break Subsidies: Boosting Monopolies, Fueling Inequality
   • Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism The whole conference looks good though, can’t avoid noticing it’s eight white men speaking
   • Alexandria Ocasio Cortez unveils the ugly truth about poverty
     • A market fundamentalist says Ocasio-Cortez misunderstands poverty
   • Is UBI just a new “way for corporations to increase their power over us”?
   • Workers strike against Amazon across Europe:‘ We are not robots’
     
   • GM sends bold message to UAW with potential plant closures
   • The Game-Changing Promise of a Green New Deal
2.  U.N. finds the deadliest place for women is their home
   
   • Domestic violence a major cause of homelessness
     
3. Climate change in the U.S. will hurt poor people the most, according to a bombshell federal report
   • Trump: “I don’t believe it”
4. This is what Trump’s caravan ‘invasion’ really looks like
5. The chaos behind Donald Trump’s policy of family separation at the border
   • Families Are Still Being Separated at the Border
6. Paris protest: ‘People are in the red. They can’t afford to eat’
   • Rejecting Macron’s speech, fuel tax protesters call new demonstrations in France
   • France fuel protests: Police in Paris fire tear gase
   • Left Party publications denounce protest movement in France
7. The US mortality crisis: CDC reports extraordinary drop in life expectancy
   • U.S. life expectancy keeps falling
8. US immigrants go hungry for fear using food stamps will lead to deportation
   • Immigration ‘public-charge’ rule
9. Senate is moving closer to (calling for) ending U.S. support for the war in Yemen
10. Bail reform is working
    • Crime rates plunge in New Jersey; bail reform advocates gloat
    • 105 New York City Inmates Freed in Bail Reform Experiment

For the week of Nov. 18 to Nov. 24, 2018

1. Financial topics
   • Chris Hedges and David Harvey discuss neoliberalism
     • Part 2
   • Will Progressives Ever Think About How We Structure Markets
   • Is student debt forgiveness progressive?
   • Facebook let a family sell their 16-year-old girl as a child bride, and only noticed 2 weeks later
2. Amazon deal
   • Podcast: How tax breaks hurt us all, don’t generate jobs
   • Movement to stop Amazon incentives begins
3. America’s permanent war
   • Trump stands with Saudi Arabia, MBS justified because Saudi is such a big arms buyer
     • Trump’s amoral Saudi statement is a pure and honest expression of decades old U.S. values and foreign policy orthodoxies
   • Yemen: Hodeidah sees ‘worst fighting yet’ despite UN ceasefire calls
   • Taliban say no pact struck with U.S. on deadline to end Afghan war
   • Trump administration hawks putting US on course for war with Iran
   • Are killer robots the future of war?
     
4. Want to see your dystopian future: look at China
5. Trump backs criminal justice reform
   • Sentencing reform: real change or placebo

For the week of Nov. 11 to Nov. 17, 2018

1. Is neo-liberalism destroying the world?
   • Here’s how neoliberal economists wreak havoc on the global poor while protecting the financial elite
2. A Global Green New Deal
3. Alarm over talks to implant employees with microchips
4. How The Brazilian Dictatorship Made My Father Disappear  
   • Past history, admired by current president
5. What Is the Point of Equality long podcast: philosophical discussion
   • Even longer, deeper philosophical paper
6. Judge rejects deal to overhaul NY public housing
7. MTA Preparing for another fare hike
8. Amazon subsidies to gentrify NYC
   • Amazon HQ2 won’t improve quality-of-life for New York
   • Amazon’s billion dollar shakedown of America’s cities
   • Delay Deny, Deflect: How Facebook’s leaders fought through crisis
9. Code Pink report: War profiteers U.S. war machine and the arming of repressive regimes
10. Black Alliance for Peace:
    Statement on the 17th Anniversary of the War in Afghanistan
    • 17 F’ing years! When will it end? Where is the U.S. peace movement?
    • U.S. sets new record for bombs dropped on Afghanistan (with 3 months to spare); probably for civilian casualties,  too.but we aren’t tracking it well enough to know
11. Efforts to block Congressional war powers vote on Yemen 
12. Corporate Control of Global Food Markets: A Recipe for Disaster
13. Homes for All: Renter power movement continues to grow
14. In these times, popular resistance is essential (as is Popular Resistance)
15. Juliana v United States: US Supreme Court allows kids’ historic climate lawsuit to go forward  Case aims to compel the government to slash greenhouse-gas emissions.

For the week of Nov. 4 to Nov. 10, 2018

• Financial Crises: Past, Present and Future
  • Rescuing the banks instead of the economy Michael Hudson
  • After the Fall John Lanchester looks on 2007-09 financial crisis and aftermath
  • Prof. John Powell on Housing and Credit Inequality
  • Inherited Wealth: Dynasties in the 21st century
  • By 2040, the world won’t have enough water to go around
    • BankAmerica, Pepsico and others want to solve it
    • Newark’s water breaches levels for dangerous contaminant
• Fixing the Economy and Financial System
  • Building institutions, policies and public support: Public bank, community land trust, cooperatives
  • Bury Supply-Side Economics
    • Free Markets Ideology Is Making Society Sick
  • Trade and Unions: Why Economic Nationalism is the Dead End for the Labor Movement
    • Globalization for the 99%

Other news

• Tragedy of Saudi/Emirati/U.S. war on Yemen
• Nauru: Zero tolerance immigration, suicidal children
• Acting AG Whitaker Tells Dems To Shove It
  • Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III’s record as AG
• Williamsburg’s unstoppable development boom
• Tech economy:
  • Rise of the gig economy
  • Google Employees Walk Out To Protest Company’s Treatment Of Women
    • Tech privilege: Google Revamps Sexual-Harassment Policies After Massive Employee Protest
• U.S. Election
  • Amendment 4 in Florida passed: What’s next for convicted felons and their voting rights? 
  • Medicaid’s Stunning Victory

From the week of Oct. 28 to Nov. 3, 2018

1. Banking and Financial Posts
   1. After the Fall John Lanchester looks on 2007-09 financial crisis and aftermath
   2. The Big, Dangerous Bubble in Corporate Debt
   3. Bloomberg, Inc. Considers Income Inequality
      1. “Getting to Fair”
         1. Cathy O’Neil and Noah Smith debate: Capitalism’s impact on inequality
         2. A libertarian weighs in: Do the rich capture all the gains from economic growth?
   4. Exposing China’s Overseas Lending
   5. The Makings of a 2020 financial crisis, worse thean the previous one
2. Jair Bolsonaro: Brazil’s swing to the right brings fear and celebration
3. Trump plans executive order to end birthright citizenship
4. Is Trump inciting far-right terror in the U.S.
   • Here Is a List of Far-Right Attackers Trump Inspired. Cesar Sayoc Wasn’t the First — and Won’t Be the Last.
5. Jeff Sessions interrupted by religious leaders during speech, tell him to ‘repent’ and ‘care for those in need’
6. This is what genuine ‘fake news” looks like Trump claims he can overrule the Constitution with little-known “no one will stop me” loophole He did say he would be a Jacksonian president
7. Supreme Court stomps on voting rights of North Dakota native Americans
   • Standing Rock makes last-ditch effort for right to vote
8. U.S. says the time to end the Saudi-backed war in Yemen is now
9. Bombing and Starvation: Saudi war on Yemen
   • Voices for Rising for Yemen Actions Nov. 6, 7 and 8
10. Merck pulls out of agreement to supply life-saving vaccine to millions of kids in West Africa
11. Lessons from Bolsonero’s Victory — Glenn Greenwald
12. Noam Chomsky: Members of Migrant Caravan Are Fleeing from Misery & Horrors Created by the U.S.

From the week of Oct. 21 to Oct. 27, 2018

1. Women, Rage, and Power with Rebecca Traister
   
   • A book for all the angry ladies
2. The Rule of the Uber-Rich Means Tyranny or Revolution
   • The Myths of the Ruling Class
3. Why and how conservative nonsense dominates American politics
4. This is what happens when you take Ayn Rand seriously
5. The institutions crypto was meant to disrupt are all in- what will this mean?
6. Donald Trump: U.S. will build up nuclear arsenal to pull out of treaty Reagan signed, accelerates arms race
7. The Fascist Threat Our Political Establishment Won’t Acknowledge
8. Thom Hartmann: American Democracy I5s on the Brink
9. Chicago Public Schools: Military Academies
   • Apparently there are 4 military academies in Chicago that are part of the public school system — the first started in 2004 — with little controversy.
10. How High Schools Shaped American Cities
11. Jair Bolsonaro Wants Brazilian Cops to Kill More. So, Why Are Victims of Police Violence Voting for Him?
    • Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro Is the Fascist Face of Neoliberalism
12. Why Does the Far Right Hold a Near-Monopoly on Political Violence?
13. The Economic Cost of Violence 
    • $14.2 Trillion: 5.6 Trillion Military, 4.9 Trillion Internal Security, $2.3 Trillion Losses from Crime, $1.0 Trillion Losses from War
14. Great Barrier Reef forecast warns entire system at risk of bleaching and coral death this summer
15. Ruling against Monsanto Round-up upheld

From the week of Oct. 14 to Oct. 20, 2018

1. Hedge Funds to Profit From Puerto Rico Debt Restructuring
2. When Women are the Enemy: The Intersection of Misogyny and White Supremacy
3. Record Homelessness in NYC: 114,659 public school students
4. Ethiopia appoints women to 50% of cabinet posts
   
5. Top CFPB Regrets Racist Comments he regrets expressing the views but doesn’t disavow them
6. Saudi Arabia and Yemen
   • UN: Yemen could be worst famine in 100 years but this doesn’t make the headlines
   • Rev. Pat Robertson: Selling Arms more important than human life
   • As world demands justice for Khashoggi killing, Trump declares war on journalists
7. David Cay Johnston: Trump is a criminal tax cheat
8. America’s Moral Failure on Climate  Not too late. Action is needed.
9. Americans don’t just disagree on the issues. They disagree on what the issues are
10. Is Mind Control Tech’s ‘Greatest’ Invention?
11. Facebook is not your friend
12. Lawsuit against Trump for 1st Amendment violation
13. Hard to make this stuff up
14. Vets for Peace comment on Park Service proposal to restrict protests
15. Occupy the SEC comments on proposal to weaken Volcker Rule
16. The U.S. Mail is not for sale: Postal Workers Speak Out

From the week of Oct. 7 to Oct. 13, 2018

1. Climate Change
   • A major new climate report slams the door on wishful thinking
   • Earth has only 12 years to stem catastrophic climate change, experts warn
   • A major new climate report slams the door on wishful thinking
   • 50,000 Come Together in Germany to Defend Ancient Forest and Fight Coal
2. The white southerners who changed their views on racism
3. The Color of Economic Anxiety
4. Chicago police violence
   • Jason Van Dyke Found Guilty In Murder Of Laquan McDonald
     • After verdict, AG Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III comments ” It is imperative that the city not repeat the mistakes of the past — the safety of Chicago depends on it.” Though, perhaps that was in a different context.
   • AG Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III opposes Chicago police consent
     • AG Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III hasn’t read DOJ Chicago police report. But he knows he doesn’t trust it.
   • 756 people have been killed by police in 2018 in the U.S.
     • 1 police killing in U.K. in 2018
5. Digital monitoring of the poor  Author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor.
6. Brazil Election: Jair Bolsonaro Heads to Runoff After Missing Outright Win
   • Brazil’s Bolsonaro-Led Far Right Wins a Victory Far More Sweeping and Dangerous Than Anyone Predicted. Its Lessons Are Global.
7. Don’t Call Nikki Haley a Moderate. She’s an Extremist on Israel, Iran, and Human Rights
8. Interconnected anti-immigrant organizations have long hidden behind neutral names while pushing nativist policies.anti-immigration-policies
9. Trump Faces Probe into Tax Fraud After NYT Exposes How He Helped Parents Scam Millions from Gov’t
10. Swiss bank UBS goes on trial in France over tax-dodging scheme
11. Autocrats love Artificial Intelligence
12. Brian Kemp’s Long History of Making Black Votes Disappear Stacey Abrams opponent gets to run election. How is this legal? Did he attend the Richard J. Daley School of Government?
13. Bosses Rule Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It)
    • for those of us who prefer podcasts, a good (long) interview of Elizabeth Anderson by Russ Roberts
14. David Graeber: BS Jobs: How Meaningless Work Wears Us Down
15. The Suffocation of Democracy
16. Merchants of Death: How the Military-Industrial Complex Profits from Endless War
17. As Demands for US Probe Into Alleged Murder of Khashoggi Grow, Saudi Arabia Is Taunting Trump
    • Trump Says Halting Saudi Arms Sales ‘Very Tough Pill to Swallow’
      
    • Jamal Khashoggi: Saudi Arabia’s crown prince must restore dignity to his country — by ending Yemen’s cruel war astonishingly mild criticism by Khashoggi
    • Saudi Arabia has been going after dissidents abroad for decades
    • America deserves to know how much money Trump is getting from the Saudi government
18. Trade and Unions: Why Economic Nationalism is the Dead End for the Labor Movement
19. Pan-Africanism Conference Charts Course Towards a Socialist Continent
20. Wall Street is Spending Big to Protect its Ability to Jack Up Rents
21. Seed, Pesticide and Banking Monopolies — Not Immigrants — Are Destroying Farm Country
22. Working People Will Make a Better World
    

From the week of Sep. 30 to Oct. 6, 2018

1. They Don’t Want to Know: Rebecca Solnit on Brett Kavanaugh and
   the Denial of Old White Men
   • The Many Mysteries of Kavanaugh’s Finances
   • Here’s what prosecutor Rachel Mitchell gets wrong about the evidence against Kavanaugh
   • Women aren’t a monolith – and the white women supporting Kavanaugh prove it 
2. A Soldier’s Tale of Bravery and Morality Spenser Rapone interviewed by Chris Hedges
3. Brazil’s Moment of Truth
4. Beware thought leaders and the wealthy purveying answers to our social ills
5. The Opportunity Atlas:  Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility
   • Opportunity Atlas Provides Another Chance to Review Redlining’s Legacy
   • The American Dream: One Block Can Make All The Difference
6. Podcast: Mistakes Were Made
7. Amazon Concedes $15 Floor Wage, Bernie Sanders Plays Minor Role in Significant Victory
8. Judge blocks Trump’s efforts to end Temporary Protected Status for 300,000 immigrants
9. International court of justice orders US to lift new Iran sanctions
   • U.S. pulls out of international accords, says UN world court ‘politicised’
10. Disaster Profiteers vs. the People of Puerto Rico
11. NAFTA 2.0 Enshrines Deregulation for all of North America
    • Renegotiated NAFTA: Some big progress, some big problems
    • Trump’s Proposed NAFTA Deal Doesn’t Cut It
12. China: Families of up to one million detained in mass “re-education” drive demand answers
13. Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Yazidi activist, Congolese surgeon for fighting to end sexual violence

From the week of Sep. 23 to Sep. 29, 2018

1. Chris Hedges: America the Farewell Tour
   • Hour-long book talk
   • Interview with Hugh Hamilton: Part 1
   • Interview with Hugh Hamilton: Part 2
2. A Conversation About American Racism with Ibram X. Kendi
   • A Brief History of Racism Ibram X. Kendi on the history of racist thought and how racist policies are the cradle of racist ideas.
3. Ted Cruz And Wife Chased Out Of DC Restaurant By Anti-Kavanaugh Protesters
   • Right wing portrayal of event
   • Left-wing commentary on it
     
4. Pompeo Lied to Congress About Yemen to Protect Arms Sales
5. The 63 most outrageous lines from Donald Trump’s New York press conference
6. Bolton: International Criminal Court Will Face Repercussions If Americans Prosecuted
7. It’s Trump vs. Everyone Else on Iran at the UN

From the week of Sep. 23 to Sep. 29, 2018

1. Chris Hedges: America the Farewell Tour
   • Hour-long book talk
   • Interview with Hugh Hamilton: Part 1
   • Interview with Hugh Hamilton: Part 2
2. A Conversation About American Racism with Ibram X. Kendi
   • A Brief History of Racism Ibram X. Kendi on the history of racist thought and how racist policies are the cradle of racist ideas.
3. Ted Cruz And Wife Chased Out Of DC Restaurant By Anti-Kavanaugh Protesters
   • Right wing portrayal of event
   • Left-wing commentary on it
     
4. Pompeo Lied to Congress About Yemen to Protect Arms Sales
5. The 63 most outrageous lines from Donald Trump’s New York press conference
6. Bolton: International Criminal Court Will Face Repercussions If Americans Prosecuted
7. It’s Trump vs. Everyone Else on Iran at the UN

From the week of Sep. 16 to Sep. 22, 2018

1. On the Media: Doomed to Repeat  What, if anything, did we learn from Hurricane Maria and Financial Crisis
2. On the Media: Face the Racist Nation
3. Chris Hedges: America: The Farewell Tour
4. U.N.: Reports Say China Imprisons Uyghurs
5. It’s Time for a Public Option in the Pharmaceutical Industry
6. Looking back at the financial crisis of 2007-2009
   • Frontline: Money,  Power, Wall Street
     • Full interview of Cathy O’Neil and others here.
   • Inside Job
7. McDonald’s workers strike over ‘rampant’ sexual harassment
   • #MeToo meets McDonald’s
   • EU Ends Tax Probe Into McDonald’s With a Rare Reprieve
     
8. Proposed film to watch: The Devil We Know
9. Now it s great time to commit white collar crime
   •  Federal prosecution of white-collar crimes was at a 20-year low under Obama
   • Corporate penalties have plunged at SEC since Trump took office
10. Best government money can buy
    • Trump’s link to private prisons proves why Citizens United must go
11. The Chinese government is rounding up Muslims and throwing them in camps
12. Black Agenda Report Book Forum: Martha Escobar’s Captivity Beyond Prisons
13. Hurricane Florence: Pig Waste Lagoons Overflow
    • Hiding Farm Abuses from Public Scrutiny
14. How Grassroots Activists Made Peace with North Korea Possible

From the week of Sep. 9 to Sep. 15, 2018

Sunday, Sept. 16 we screened Prison in 12 Landscapes

• Prison Strike 2018
• Prison Abolition Syllabus 2.0

1. Ear Hustle brings you the stories of life inside prison,
   shared and produced by those living it. 
2. Cong. Barbara Lee’s Speech after 9/11
   • Repeal 9/11 Authorization for Use of Force to Cancel Blank Check for Endless War
3. How the Republican Party Uses Donald Trump
4. Serena Williams Is Calling Out Sexism in Tennis
   • Serena Williams cartoon, the Dallas shooting and the weapon of white femininity
   • Serena Williams is owed an apology for much more than a penalty
   • Serena Williams deserves share of blame for her actions
   • Carlos Ramos was correct—and a consummate professional at the US Open
   • A Crying Shame: The 2018 US Open will only be remembered for Serena
5. How the Republican Party Uses Donald Trump
6. Serena Williams Is Calling Out Sexism in Tennis
7. Trump Presidency Is the Biggest Legacy of the Financial Crisis
8. Right Wing Has No Principle Besides Winning
9. American Airlines Flight Attendants Up In Arms Over ‘Inhumane’ New Policy
10. Maybe This Financial System Can’t Be Fixed
11. Barack Obama’s return just reminds us how he fueled the distrust that led to Donald Trump
12. Trump Administration Discussed Coup Plans With Rebel Venezuelan Officers

From the week of Sep. 2 to Sep. 8, 2018

1. David Graeber: BS Jobs: How Meaningless Work Wears Us Down
2. Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers
3. I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
   • While Trump Clearly Horrible President, Critics Denounce Right-Wing ‘Unelected Cabal’ Represented by Anonymous Op-Ed
4. Trump cancels pay raises for almost 2 million federal workers using his own budget deficit as an excuse
5. Major prison strike spreads across US and Canada as inmates refuse food
6. Shortchanged Racial Disparities in New York’s Economic Development Programs under Cuomo Predominantly White Communities Received 23 Times More Funding that Communities of Color
   
7. Gov. Cuomo’s Free College Hustle
8. The Revenge of Joe the Plumber The post-crisis class interests of small business sit comfortably next to the xenophobia of the alt-right
9. Judge Kavanaugh, and 5 conservatives on Roberts Court, advance right-wing and corporate interests more than 90 percent of the time
10. Public Bank NYC: Banking on Justice
11. What You Need to Know About Yemen
    • Pentagon to train Saudi pilots on US soil amid Yemen uproar
12. Prisoners in multiple states carry out a prison strike

From the week of Aug. 26 to Sep. 1, 2018

1. Corruption: We’ve agreed to make this a topic on Sunday
   • What Is Corruption?
   • The Menendez trial revealed everything that’s gone wrong with US bribery law
   • Why Manafort and Cohen Thought They’d Get Away With It
   • Andrew Cuomo and the Corruption of Albany
     • Two years later, Another Ex-Cuomo Aide, Found Guilty in Corruption Trial
   • Reposting: Elizabeth Warren takes on corruption
2. Beware Rich People Who Say They Want to Change the World
3. Remembering John McCain
   • What the Media Leaves Out of John McCain’s Record of Misogyny and Militarism
   • Despite What the Press Says, “Maverick” McCain Has a Long  and Distinguished Record of Horribleness
   • The Other Side of John McCain
4. Media Continues Writing Premature Obituaries for the Democratic Left
   • Andrew Gillum: Progressive Insurgent Seizes Democratic Nomination for Florida Governor
     • Gillum responds to ‘monkey this up’ comment: DeSantis is joining Trump ‘in the swamp’
   •  Voters defeat GOP-backed ‘right to work’ law, in victory for unions
5. I killed Bob Marley, ex-CIA agent confesses
6. Democrats Just Confirmed Lots Of Trump’s Judges So They Could Skip Town
7. California Becomes First (or Second) State To End Cash Bail After 40-Year Fight
   1. New Jersey Bails Out
8. Hurricane Maria: Puerto Rico raises official death toll from 64 to 2,975
9.  Hurricane Harvey survey: 30 percent say lives are still upended a year after storm hit Texas 
   
10. It’s surprisingly easy to get away with murder in America
11. The Preferential Tax Treatment of Capital Gains Income Should Be Curbed, Not Substantially Expanded
12. Trump cancels pay raises for almost 2 million federal workers using his own budget deficit as an excuse
13. Brutal conditions in US prisons drive inmates to strike

From the week of Aug. 19 to Aug. 25, 2018

1. The Fight for Universal Rent Control in New York State
2. Creating a Public Bank in the Financial Capital of the World
3. Sen. Warren introduces Accountable Capitalism Act
   • Vox: Elizabeth Warren has a plan to save capitalism
   • National Review: Elizabeth Warren’s Corporate Catastrophe
   • Forbes, Capitalist Tool, Columnist: One part of a comprehensive restoration of inclusive form capitalism
   • New York Times: Warren bill isn’t worth covering
4. Elizabeth Warren takes on corruption
5. US President Wakes Up, Orders Nation’s Top Law Enforcement Officer to Target His Political Enemies
6. Ahead of DNC Vote, Progressives Unite to Demand Party End Supremacy of Superdelegates
   • Is the Democratic Party Now Democratic?
7. That Facebook Will Turn To Censoring The Left Isn’t A Worry—It’s A Reality
8. Kofi Annan: Former UN chief and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
9. Banks Are Becoming Obsolete in China—Could the U.S. Be Next?
10. More Than 500 Children Still Separated From Their Families
11. Change the World, Not Yourself, or How Arendt Called Out Thoreau
12. Protests ask senators to oppose Trump’s pick for Supreme Court

From the week of Aug. 12 to Aug. 18, 2018

1. Meet Gustavo Petro, Colombian Former Guerilla & Leftist Who Mounted Historic Campaign for Presidency
2. An examination of the 2016 electorate, based on validated voters   people of color made up nearly 50% of non-voters, only 25% of voters.
   
3.  Abolish ICE! End IDC abuse once and for all
   
4. Why It’s Time to End Felony Disenfranchisement
   
   • Now is the time to return the eligibility to vote to Floridians who have done their time
5. Google Tracking User Data Even When ‘Location History’ Is Off: AP
6. Our Opponents’ Actions Show We Are Winning
   
7. Black Lives Matter in our Schools: Developing an Anti-Racist Pedagogy
   
8. An Electoral Vision for Black Lives
9. Landmark Verdict Against Monsanto May Not Have Been Possible Without Activism
   
10. Poll Shows Democratic Voters Like Socialism More Than Capitalism
11. Polluted lives: The cost of South Africa’s gold rush
12. Breakfast With a Dose of Roundup? Weed Killer in $289 Million Cancer Verdict Found in Oat Cereal and Granola Bars
    
    • General Mills Responds to Report of Cancer-Linked Chemical Found in Its Cereals
      
      • EWG Responds to General Mills and Quaker Oats: ‘Legal Is Not the Same as Safe’
        
13. Kroger rolls out driverless cars for grocery deliveries
14. Kris Kobach, Ally of Trump, Foe of Voting Rights, Wins Primary For Kansas Governor Over GOP Incumbent Concedes
15. Jakarta, the fastest-sinking city in the world
16. Podcast: What Would U.S. Policy in Syria Be If We Cared About the Syrian People
17. Officials worry Trump may back Erik Prince plan to privatize war in Afghanistan
18. Surprise: CEO compensation surged in 2017
19. One news story, two spins:
    • Victory For The Peace Movement: Military Parade Canceled #AntiwarAutumn Goes Forward
    • Trump cancels $92 million military parade, cites cost, says maybe next year
20. As Corporate Media Has ‘Moved On,’ Just a Reminder That 565 Children Are Still Separated From Families Due to Trump’s Monstrous Policies
21. Federal judge blocks Trump administration’s attempt to rescind Obama-era clean water protections
22. Trump Can’t Delay Protections From Chemical Plant Hazards, Judge Rules

From the week of Aug. 5 to Aug. 11, 2018

1. We’ve also agreed to discuss: The People’s Budget as proposed by the Congressional Progressive Caucus, what we like, what we don’t and what’s missing?
   • Full People’s Budget Report
2. Homelessness is a housing problem
3. The Ku Klux Klan in Connecticut
4. Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year
5. Inspectors reported contamination in water tanks. NYCHA had it erased.
6. Prosecutors: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
7. Mass Incarceration and the Challenge of Reentry
8. How Can America Reduce Mass Incarceration
9. Obama and Democrats Share the Blame For Trump’s Supreme Court
10. Missouri Voters Overwhelmingly Reject ‘Right To Work’ Law
11. Mike Pence launches plans for Space Force as new military service
12. ‘We Just Bombed a SCHOOL BUS’: Outrage After US-Backed Saudi Coalition Slaughters Children in Yemen
13. Barney Frank on His Regrets From the Great Recession
14. Maryland elections company bought by Russian oligarch close to Putin
15. Inwood Residents Unhappy About Rezoning
16. Puerto Rican Government Acknowledges Hurricane Death Toll of 1,427
17. 9 months after Hurricane Maria, thousands of Puerto Ricans still don’t have power
18. Video: “bait truck” filled with Nikes in black Chicago neighborhood was part of railroad sting

From the week of July 29 to Aug. 4, 2018

1. Zimbabwe election: Zanu-PF has most seats, incomplete results show
2. 23andMe, GlaxoSmithKline Will Use Your DNA to Develop New Drugs
   • Everyone will have “agreed” to give 23andMe the right to do that, but we don’t always think through all the implications
     • How I gave away my face for free
3. Twitter posting on US border crossing harassment
4. Bizarre Right-Wing Trump Portrait Gets Mercilessly Mocked On Twitter
5. A New Wave Of Hardline Anti-BDS Tactics Are Targeting Students, And No One Knows Who’s Behind It
6. Florida: Amendment 4 restores the eligibility to vote to people with prior felony convictions who fully complete their sentences — earning back the eligibility to vote.
7. How Single Payer Would Look in New York State
8. Should prisons be in business with one of the most dangerous industries in America?
9. Robert Mueller Is Going After Shady Democrats Now, Too
10. Despite Ban, New York City Still Putting Youth in Solitary Confinement
11. A Surveillance State Unlike Any the World Has Ever Seen
    • Does China’s digital police state have echoes in the West?
12. Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China
13. Facebook deletes accounts over signs of Russian meddling in US midterms
    • Facebook takes down pages of Brazilian activist network ahead of elections
    • A Threat to Global Democracy: How Facebook & Surveillance Capitalism Empower Authoritarianism
14. Google and Facebook are strangling the free press to death. Democracy is the loser
15. Apple’s $1 Trillion Milestone Reflects Rise of Powerful Megacompanies
16. Trump Fuel Efficiency Rollback Is an Attack on Science and the Public Interest
17. Opioid defendants step up giving as a costly reckoning looms
    • Blood Money: A New Foundation From Big Pharma Tackles Opioids
    • How Tech Billionaires Hack Their Taxes With a Philanthropic Loophole
18. Marcos Xiorro: planned a 1821 slave revolt against plantation owners and Spanish Colonial government in Puerto Rico

From the week of July 22 to July 28, 2018

1. Geithner’s Grift, Paydays and Democratic Drift
2. Democratic Party Politics 101 with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Corporate Media
3. Purges: A Growing Threat to the Right to Vote
4. NewYork-Presbyterian ignores critics in plan to close behavioral health unit
5. Vulture Equity Circles East Harlem
6. Swedish deportation halted by woman on jet
7. They don’t own homes. They don’t have kids. Why millennials are plant addicts
8. The Ugly Destination of Trump’s Iran Policy
9. Climate change study ties warming temperatures to rising suicide risk
   • Higher temperatures increase suicide rates in the United States and Mexico
10. ‘Unprecedented’ Heat Wave Fueling Arctic Fires Made More Than Twice as Likely by Climate Change: Analysis
11. Behind Greece’s Deadly Fires
12. First Nations take on Canadian government to stop Trans Mountain pipeline
13. The Crisis Next Time: Planning for Public Ownership as an Alternative to Corporate Bank Bailouts
14. Cuomo Campaign Bolstered by Puerto Rico Bondholders Causing Austerity in the Territory
15. Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2018
16. Confirmation hearings: Kathleen Kraninger Director-Designate Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
17. Children separated from their parents during the Holocaust recall lasting trauma they experienced from forced separation.
18. MTA announces next rounds of toll and fare increases for 2019 and 2021
    • Community groups want chat with de Blasio over funding discounted MetroCards for the poor
19. Military
    • Robert Reich: The Military-Industrial Drain
    • The Necessity of Moral Resistance in the Face of Militarism | Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II
20. The Disturbing Evolution Of ‘Lock Her Up’
21. Pakistan election 2018: Imran Khan claims victory
22. New E.P.A. Chief Closes Dirty-Truck Loophole Left by Scott Pruitt
    • How Andrew Wheeler, the New Acting E.P.A. Chief, Differs From Scott Pruitt, Same strategy, more effective tactics
23. Socialism is having a moment in the sunlight
    • Just Stop Worrying And Embrace The Left

From the week of July 15 to July 21, 2018

1. Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States
   • States slow to prepare for hacking threats
2. Kavanaugh nominated to the Supreme Court
   • Brett Kavanaugh and the new judicial activism  From the CFPB to the EPA to the ACA to net neutrality, a consistent thumb on the scales for capital.
   • Law Commentary Trump Hits Another Home Run With Supreme Court Pick Brett Kavanaugh (from head of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies (I guess we can look forward to a Jefferson Beauregard Sessions Center in the future).
   • The Dark Money Campaign to Replace Anthony Kennedy Has Already Begun
     • Powell memo of our day?
   • Brett Kavanaugh On Guantanamo Detainees: International Law Doesn’t Matter
     • Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s judicial record on the Guantanamo military commissions is richer and less one-sided than some analysts have suggested.
   • Kavanaugh Must Explain His Views on Presidential Immunity
3. Experts say U.S. among 10 most dangerous nations for women
   • The world’s most dangerous countries for women
4. Russiagate is a Ruling Class Diversion “It was not Trump’s flaming racism that made him a traitor to his class and to the empire.”
5. Infamous contractor wants to privatize the Afghanistan war (again)
6. Simmering Rebellion in South Carolina Prisons
7. Global temperatures reach extreme highs, breaking records
8. Amazon, Stop Powering Government Surveillance
9. Broad Coalition Hosts 175+ #ConfrontCorruption Vigils Nationwide
   • Corruption is not just in D.C.
     • Guilty, Again: Dean Skelos, Former NY State Senate Leader, Is Convicted of Corruption in Retrial
     • Cuomo distances himself from Kaloyeros, after conviction
10. The FBI vs. Occupy: Secret Docs Reveal “Counterterrorism” Monitoring of OWS from Its Earliest Days

From the week of July 8 to July 14, 2018

1. Ethiopia and Eritrea declare war ‘has come to an end’
   • The backstory of how Ethiopia and Eritrea found peace after 20 years
2. The story of American poverty, as told by one Alabama county
3. With a Large Mandate, Lopez Obrador Takes Decisive Steps for Mexico’s Presidency
4. Two new studies point to how police killings and violence harm the mental health of African Americans and students—even those who have not been exposed to the incidents.
   • Police kill more than 300 black American each year. These events might have spillover effects on the mental health of people not directly affected.
5. Mapping Police Violence project
6. Harvest of Empire: Movie (trailer) Perspective on immigration crisis
7. It’s Time to Stop Calling it ‘The Great Migration’
8. Shelter design can help people recover from homelessness
9. Brett Kavanaugh and the new judicial activism  From the CFPB to the EPA to the ACA to net neutrality, a consistent thumb on the scales for capital.
10. Yemen’s spiraling hunger crisis is a man-made disaster
    • American-made bombs in Yemen are killing civilians, destroying infrastructure and fueling anger at the U.S.
11. Federal judge dismisses Detroit schools literacy lawsuit
    • Why Doesn’t the Constitution Guarantee the Right to Education?
12. Frederick Douglass turns 200
13. 150th anniversary of the 14th Amendment That Declared Blacks U.S. Citizens
14. Science for the People
15. U.S. Army Is Discharging Immigrant Recruits Who Were Promised Citizenship
16. Officer resigns after not helping woman harassed for wearing a Puerto Rico flag shirt
17. After Guilty Verdicts in Upstate Bid Rigging Trial, Watchdogs Warn of Continuing Risk of Abuse of State Economic Development Programs
18. Protests Disrupt Real Estate Conference over Private Prison Companies’ Attendance
19. Public Banking Will Be on the Ballot in L.A. this Fall

From the week of July 1 to July 7, 2018

1. On Being, Podcast: Getting Proximate to Pain, and Holding to the Power of Love
2. Amazon blasted for offering merchandise promoting white supremacy
3. A Year Later, the Fascists of Charlottesville Are Back for More — This Time Outside the White House
4. Democracy Dies in the Blinding Light of Day
5. Chicago’s 1995 Heat Wave
6. How China Got Sri Lanka to Cough Up a Port
   • Sri Lanka the latest victim of China’s debt-trap diplomacy
7. How US-China rivalry over technology is a front for a geopolitical quest for supremacy
8. China, Marxism & the Future of America
9. How Dangerous is New EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler? Very. Here’s Why.
10. How America’s Wars Fund Inequality at Home
11. Pentagon Questioned Over Blackout On War Zone Troop Numbers
12. The Janus decision is a significant setback for democracy. What should public-sector workers do now?
13. Meet Flippy, Your Burger-Flipping Robot
14. Why Walmart Is Testing Robots In Stores—and Here’s What It Learned
15. Mar-A-Lago Seeks Permit To Hire More Foreign Workers

From the week of June 24 to June 30, 2018

1. Washington’s Narrow Definition of Human Rights
2. “What to the Slave is 4th of July?”
   • Frederick Douglass, Revisited
3. A Portrait of New York City 2018 — Measure of America
   • Or related Brian Lehrer episode.
4. Almost 600 arrested at Washington protest over Trump immigration policy
   • #OccupyICE Spreads Across The Nation
   • White Extinction Anxiety
5. Budget cuts threaten to end food stamps program in Louisiana
6. Went Down to the Rich (White) Man’s House: Poor and Unhoused People March on Washington DC for their lives and self-determination
7. Big Banks Are Once Again Taking Risks With Complex Financial Trades, Report Says
   • When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn
     • Never, as long as they keep getting bailed out — why should they?
8. Recent Supreme Court decisions
   • overturns long-established precedent on union dues
   • ducks decision on gerrymandering (podcast) — allowing gerrymandered districts to remain
   • protects deceptive pregnancy clinics
   • approves Trump Muslim ban
   • protects monopolistic practices by American Express
   • protects state taxation of Amazon sales
   • approves purges of voter rolls
   • punts on case of whether baker must serve gay couple
   • companies may forbid class-action suits by their employees
   • lawyers can’t override their client’s choice to plead innocent
   • took a somewhat broad interpretation of protection from searches
9. Is Supreme Court a political body?
   • This may seem obvious to you but apparently the justices don’t see it
10. Anthony Kennedy and the Privatization of Meaning
11. Trump’s hidden back channel to Justice Kennedy: Their kids
12. America Is Guilty of Neglecting Kids: Our Own
13. As Interest in Democratic Socialism Surges, Ocasio-Cortez Explains to Colbert What a ‘Moral’ Economy Would Look Like
14. After Joe Crowley Defeat, Anti-War Progressive Barbara Lee Considers Bid for House Democratic Chair

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