New and Noteworthy July – Dec. 2019

Meeting Sundays 3-5 pm at Columbia International Affairs Building, Columbia University
420 W. 118th St.. (SE Corner of Amsterdam Ave. ) Room 411 or, when not available, we post a notice on Room 411 indicating where we are.

January 5 to 11, 2020

1. NYC Public Advocate Holds Rally To Dispel Myths About New Bail Reform Law
   • Williams dispels bail reform myths
2. Fresh Calls to #RaiseTheWage After Study Shows $1 Increase Could Prevent Thousands of Suicides
3. U.S. Anti-War Protesters Demonstrate
4. U.S. Anti-War movement is fired up
5. A Report Card On The American Project
6. Iran:
   • Iranian Blood Is on Our Hands, Too
   • Trump Has a Bizarre Idea of Winning
   • Iraq votes to expel U.S. troops after Iran Gen. Qasem Soleimani’s killing
   • We Really Must Stop Starting Wars
   • Iran and the need for Black activism
7. Trump is a criminal but Dem
8. World Bank warns of coming global debt crisis (but probably not imminent)
9. France strikes: nurses, teachers and lawyers join pension protests
10. How the oil industry has spent billions to control the climate change conversation

Dec. 29 2019 to Jan. 4, 2020

1. Happy New Year! Hoping it is better than 2019
   • Though not starting out very well …
   • “A nasty, brutal fight”: what a US-Iran war would look like
   • The Law and Consequences of the Recent Airstrikes in Iraq
   • Congress Was Not Notified Ahead Of Soleimani Air Strike
   • Anti-war movement must adapt to changing imperial wars
   • ‘Right Now Is the Moment to Decide If You Are Pro-Peace or Not’: Ocasio-Cortez Joins Progressive Chorus Against War With Iran
   • The Trump Administration Just Killed Iran’s Most Famous Military Commander. We’re Not Ready for What’s Next.
   • ‘Our President Will Start a War With Iran Because He Has Absolutely No Ability to Negotiate’ says Donald Trump
   • Corporate Media Turns to Warhawks, Including Former Bush Officials, to Beat Drums of War on Iran Nothing has been learned from 2003. Nothing.
2. Smile-to-pay: Chinese shoppers turn to facial payment technology
3. Starship Technologies Raises $40 Million To Expand Its Food-Delivery Robots On College Campuses
4. U.S. War on Black and Brown
5. ‘A New Age of Pogroms’
6. A national movement for community control of police
7. New Bail and Discovery Laws in New York
8. Beyond GDP
9. “Don’t Shoot the Messengers”: Amazon Accused of Threatening to Fire Climate Activists
10. ‘Just the Beginning’: Illinois Gov. Pardons Over 11,000 on Eve of Recreational Cannabis Legalization
    

Dec. 22 to Dec. 28, 2019

• Finance: We’ve agreed to discuss some posts about finance from the past weeks. Please read/listen
  • How to Save the World from Financialization
  • Misunderstanding Volcker
  • Fed Up: The Impunity of Central Banks
  • AOC Debunks All Anti Public Goods Arguments
  • Prosperity Without Growth (skip first 8:30 of podcast)

1. “We Can’t Eat Money or Drink Oil” – Youth on the Front Lines Fight for Climate and Environmental Justice
2. Where is the Outrage Over British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Book, ’72 Virgins’?
3. Here are 5 wild moments from Rudy Giuliani’s new off-the-wall and anti-Semitic interview
4. Nicaragua Has a Simple Message for Protesters: Don’t
5. Why Aren’t Brazilians Protesting?
6. Senate can’t say ‘white nationalist’
7. Lula To Fight Neoliberalism to Restore Democracy in Brazil
8. The African women standing up for change in 2019

Dec. 15 to Dec. 21, 2019

1. Adar Haider Depoliticization
2. WOW: NYT Publishes Blatant Factual Error About Cenk Uygur, Refuses To Correct & Apologize
   • NY Times Shamed Into Issuing Correction After Deliberately Smearing Cenk Uygur
3. AOC Debunks All Anti Public Goods Arguments
4. Congress can’t say “occupation”
5. Retail stores closing
6. Dutch supreme court upholds landmark ruling demanding climate action
7. Half of US military now disapprove of Trump, poll shows
8. Trump’s Plan to Criminalize Homelessness Is Taking Shape
9. Supreme Court lets stand ruling that protects homeless people who sleep on sidewalk
10. Democrats Invoke Russiagate to Advance Bill Lobbied for by Big Oil
11. How to Save the World from Financialization
12. How protests changed Hong Kong
13. Close to half of U.S. population projected to have obesity by 2030
14. Chile’s ‘A rapist in your path’ chant hits 200 cities
    • Over 1,000 women take anthem against rape to Chile’s streetsd

December 8 to 14, 2019

1. Belatedly posting: The Invention of Thanksgiving
2. Poverty in America a Literal ‘Death Sentence,’ Says Sanders, Following Devastating GAO Report
3. Transcending Neoliberalism: How the Free-Market Myth Has Prevented Climate Action
4. Paul Volcker, former Fed chair, dies at 92
   • Misunderstanding Volcker
   • Fed Up: The Impunity of Central Banks
5. Nativity scene depicts Jesus, Mary and Joseph as refugees separated in cages
6. Measuring What Counts The Global Movement for Well-Being
7. Transcending Neoliberalism: How the Free-Market Myth Has Prevented Climate Action
8. ‘But how is Labour going to pay for that?’ To Answer Effectively We Must Talk Politics, Not Economics
9. NYCHA Playgrounds Languish in Disrepair While Funds Go Unspent
10. Six ‘Worst Banks of 2019’ get awards in shaming ceremony at City Hall
11. Banks getting away with same crimes that crashed the economy in 2008
12. East Siberian Sea Is Boiling With Methane
13. Manhattan hotel workers ‘traumatized’ after new boss fires them for union push
14. Impeachment, NAFTA, FBI Report
    • William Barr’s War on Reality, Truth, and the Law
    • Are These Two Articles of Impeachment the Best the Democrats Can Do?
15. Who Keeps Europe’s Farm Billions Flowing? Often, Those Who Benefit
16. How the international capitalist class overthrows socialist states
17. Prosecutor, advocates seek freedom for innocent man. Court & AG object
18. Boris Johnson wins majority in UK election after collapse of Labour vote
    • Boris Johnson wrote a novel in 2004 that was full of racial, sexist and anti-semitic slurs
    • U.S. Lobbyists Prepare to Seize “Historic Opportunity” in Tory-Led Brexit to Shred Consumer Safeguards, Raise Drug Prices
19. Revelations About the Forever War in Afghanistan
20. We tortured some folks

December 8 to December 14, 2019

1. Repeating from last week because we picked this as a discussion topic:
   • Brazil In Black And White
   • ‘We’re Self-Interested’: The Growing Identity Debate in Black America
     • Deciphering ADOS: A New Social Movement or Online Trolls?
   • When We See Each Other: Black Americans, African Immigrants
2. Unsettling Sovereignty
3. Puerto Rican Politics Will Never Be the Same
4. Hong Kong’s Fight for Life
5. This is not Restoration: The British Colonial Past Is No Model for a Democratic Future
6. NYPD Flies Another ‘Thin Blue Line’ Flag, As Mayor Dodges Questions On Controversial Symbol
7. U.S. life expectancy declines again, a dismal trend not seen since World War I
8. ABC News Has Covered Sanders for Only Seven Minutes in 2019
   • Bernie Sanders Media Blackout Is Real, Nina Turner
9. Race and presidential campaign
   • Black Voters to Black Candidates: Representation Is Not Enough
   • Kamala Harris isn’t ‘electable’? It could be code for not being a white man
   • Bloomberg has a Buttigieg moment
10. Nikki Haley Seemingly Defends Confederate Flag, Says It Showed ‘Service, And Sacrifice, And Heritage’
11. George Zimmerman SUES Trayvon Martin’s family and Florida prosecutors for $100MILLION claiming they engineered false evidence in his homicide trial from shooting black teen
12. Trump calls Trudeau ‘two-faced’ after world leaders appear to joke about US President
13. Macron sets scene for vigorous debate on future of NATO but, as often happens, Trump hijacks news and the debate never occurs
14. Examined Life: Philosophical film
15. Massive union strike shuts down transportation across France amid growing anger over Macron’s pension reform
16. A look at France’s heated debate over pensions
17. Do Rezonings Always Have To Lead To Gentrification?
18. Trump Declared War on the Poor–And the Poor Are Fighting Back (Real News Network)
19. The Far Right Doesn’t Want to Beat The Left; It Wants To EXTERMINATE IT
20. Against the Dead Consensus

November 24 to 30

1. Pete Buttigieg faked black endorsements
2. Brazil In Black And White
3. ‘We’re Self-Interested’: The Growing Identity Debate in Black America
   • Deciphering ADOS: A New Social Movement or Online Trolls?
4. Commission’s Public Financing Program Is a Historic Missed Opportunity 
   • Campaign panel’s proposal threatens New York’s minor parties
   • Would Cuomo picks really have blown up campaign reform?
5. New York State of Crime – Pay to Play
6. Internet freedom is declining around the world—and social media is to blame
7. ICE creates fake university, scams and deports 250 students
8. One year after the Google walkout, key organizers reflect on the risk to their careers
9. Another bleak UN report on climate change; points to US and other developed countries to act
10. Federal prosecutors launch criminal probe of opioid makers, distributors
11. The Role of Luck in Life Success Is Far Greater Than Lucky Are Willing to Acknowledge
12. New York Subway Police Make Us Less Safe
13. ‘An Unjust Society Is Far Costlier’: AOC Says Beware the Deficit Scolds Who Only Complain About Paying for Stuff When It Benefits People
14. Six ‘Worst Banks of 2019’ get awards in shaming ceremony at City Hall

Nov. 10 to Nov. 16, 2019

1. 114,000 Students in N.Y.C. Are Homeless.
2. Satire with at least a grain of truth: Buttigieg Campaign Appeals To Moderate Republicans By Touting Low Approval Among Black Voters
3. Wall Street Dems Show Their True Colors
4. EPA’s Anti-Science ‘Transparency’ Rule Has a Long History
5. Black Cop Who Shot a White Woman Sentenced to 12 1/2 Years in Prison
6. Defenseless: Missouri justice system violates the Constitution every day
7. ‘Assassination attempt’: Bolivia’s Morales is certain helicopter malfunction was bid to kill him
   • Bolivian coup was all about the lithium & OAS had a hand in it, ousted president Morales tells RT
8. Chile’s Wealth Gap Has Thousands Living in Shanty Towns
9. Unprecedented ‘Architecture of Surveillance’ Created by Facebook and Google Poses Grave Human Rights Threat: Report
10. The case for subsidized jobs
11. Wisconsin Governor Signs Bill Criminalizing Pipeline Protesters
12. Studio exec wanted Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman: screenwriter
13. ARMY USES STUDENT DEBT CRISIS, NOT ONGOING WARS, TO MEET RECRUITING GOALS IN 2019
14. Palestinian woman shot dead by Israeli soldiers at checkpoint

Not sure when this was posted, Nov. 2019 or so

1. NYPD Flies Another ‘Thin Blue Line’ Flag, As Mayor Dodges Questions On Controversial Symbol
2. ABC News Has Covered Sanders for Only Seven Minutes in 2019
3. “Mike” Bloomberg has a Buttigieg episode
4. They Loan You Money. Then They Get A Warrant For Your Arrest.

Nov. 24 to 30, 2019

1. Pete Buttigieg faked black endorsements
2. Brazil In Black And White
3. ‘We’re Self-Interested’: The Growing Identity Debate in Black America
   • Deciphering ADOS: A New Social Movement or Online Trolls?
4. Commission’s Public Financing Program Is a Historic Missed Opportunity 
   • Campaign panel’s proposal threatens New York’s minor parties
   • Would Cuomo picks really have blown up campaign reform?
5. New York State of Crime – Pay to Play
6. Internet freedom is declining around the world—and social media is to blame
7. ICE creates fake university, scams and deports 250 students
8. One year after the Google walkout, key organizers reflect on the risk to their careers
9. Another bleak UN report on climate change; points to US and other developed countries to act
10. Federal prosecutors launch criminal probe of opioid makers, distributors
11. The Role of Luck in Life Success Is Far Greater Than Lucky Are Willing to Acknowledge
12. New York Subway Police Make Us Less Safe
13. ‘An Unjust Society Is Far Costlier’: AOC Says Beware the Deficit Scolds Who Only Complain About Paying for Stuff When It Benefits People

Nov. 17 to Nov. 23, 2019

1. 114,000 Students in N.Y.C. Are Homeless.
2. Satire with at least a grain of truth: Buttigieg Campaign Appeals To Moderate Republicans By Touting Low Approval Among Black Voters
3. Wall Street Dems Show Their True Colors
4. EPA’s Anti-Science ‘Transparency’ Rule Has a Long History
5. Black Cop Who Shot a White Woman Sentenced to 12 1/2 Years in Prison
6. Defenseless: Missouri justice system violates the Constitution every day
7. ‘Assassination attempt’: Bolivia’s Morales is certain helicopter malfunction was bid to kill him
   • Bolivian coup was all about the lithium & OAS had a hand in it, ousted president Morales tells RT
8. Chile’s Wealth Gap Has Thousands Living in Shanty Towns
9. Unprecedented ‘Architecture of Surveillance’ Created by Facebook and Google Poses Grave Human Rights Threat: Report
10. The case for subsidized jobs
11. Wisconsin Governor Signs Bill Criminalizing Pipeline Protesters
12. Studio exec wanted Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman: screenwriter
13. ARMY USES STUDENT DEBT CRISIS, NOT ONGOING WARS, TO MEET RECRUITING GOALS IN 2019
14. Palestinian woman shot dead by Israeli soldiers at checkpoint

Nov. 10 to 16

1. Counterspin: Netfa Freeman on Police Militarization this topic starts 11:10 into episode. Earlier stuff on ranked choice voting also interesting
   • Call It the Surge’: Vowing Nationwide Crackdown, Trump Touts Tougher Police
2. Lula is Freed in Brazil In Victory for Movement to Resist Bolsonaro
3. Paul Jay and Sharmini Peries Disappear from The Real News Network
4. WSJ: Google collecting medical data on millions without informing patients or doctors
5. Las Vegas City Council criminalizes being homeless
6. Facebook not even bothering to explain suspensions anymore
7. Kamala Harris updates:
   CORRECTION: Kamala Locked Up More People for Weed Than We Thought
   California Removes Arrest Reports From Kamala Years
8. Gentrification and Climate Change: How high ground in Miami is being taken from Little Haiti and Overtown: There Goes the Neighborhood: Part 1 of 3
9. Amazon spent $1.5 million on Seattle City Council races. The socialist it opposed has won.
10. Bolivia:
    • Bolivian Coup Comes Less Than a Week After Morales Stopped Multinational Firm’s Lithium Deal
    • What the coup against Evo Morales means to indigenous people like me
    • Did a coup force Bolivia’s Evo Morales out?
11. In concession to protestors, Chilean lawmakers agree to referendum to replace Pinochet constitution
12. Capitol Police Attempted To Arrest Code Pink Activist Medea Benjamin For Allegedly ‘Assaulting’ Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz
13. Rodney Reed Lawyers relieved and thankful after stay of execution
14. ‘Grand American Tradition of Immunizing Its War Criminals’ Continues as Trump Pardons US Soldiers

November 3 to 9, 2019

1. America Will Keep Losing Its Middle Class as Long as “The Free Market” Dominates the Economic Debate
2. California Becomes Second State to Allow Public Banks
3. Housing Advocates Plan Another Aggressive Push in Albany
4. U.S. withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement
   • The EPA disbanded our clean air science panel. We met anyway
5. Nigeria oil spills ‘spark environmental genocide’
6. The Case for Economic Disobedience
7. Freedom Rider: America Needs Protest
8. By trying to silence Sanders, America’s corporate media de-legitimizes themselves
9. No Friend But The Mountains U.S.’s history of repeated betrayals of the Kurds
10. Haitian Opposition Calls For More Protests Against President

October 27 to November 2, 2019?

1. Economics and Finance:
   • The Next Debt Crisis That No One’s Talking About
   • ‘What Is the Fed Not Telling Us?’: Fears of Economic Instability After Central Bank Intervention Spikes
     • If you want to get into the weeds: Understanding the Great Repo Fiasco
   • This really shows nothing was learned from 2008.
     • Banking Regulators Should Not Give Wall Street’s Five Biggest Banks a $40 Billion Deregulatory Gift for Their Dangerous Derivatives Trading
     • Don’t mess with rules curbing derivatives risk
   • PG&E Blackouts Spur Calls for Public Ownership
2. Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hariri Resigns After Weeks Of Protests
3. Iraq’s Prime Minister Agrees to Resign Amidst Largest Protests Since 2003
4. How Much Money Has Your Doctor Received From Drug Companies?
5. Opinion: The $15 minimum wage was supposed to hurt New York City restaurants — but both revenue and employment are up
6. Is Obama right about ‘woke’ signaling and toxic ‘cancel’ culture, are there maybe other things to call out?
   • Obama’s Very Boomer View of ‘Cancel Culture’
7. Brazil leader Bolsonaro lashes out at media over report alleging ties to left-wing activist’s killing
8. Chile: 1 Million Protest Extreme Inequality in Latin America’s Richest Country: Neoliberalism was born in Chile, Neoliberalism will die in Chile (we hope)
9. Twitter banning political ads: Is this the right thing to do?
   • Facebook staff demand Zuckerberg limit lies in political ads
   • Who Elected Zuckerberg Head of the Thought Police?
10. Snowden Spoke About His Book, Barack Obama, the Russians, the Media & Bernie Sanders in the Podcast
11. California Feudalism
    • ‘Modern Day Slavery’: Prisoner Firefighters Risking Their Lives in California Battling Wildfires an Example of System’s Injustice, Say Critics
    • Prisoners Are Fighting California’s Wildfires on the Front Lines, But Getting Little in Return
12. ACLU sues to reveal the FBI’s uses of facial recognition
13. Bringing Pennsylvania’s Young People Safely Home from Juvenile Justice Placements
14. DeVos uses disappointing national test scores to criticize federal involvement in education, push ‘education freedom’
15. Meet America’s newest military giant: Amazon
16. Jarhead author: Drones and robots won’t make war easier—they’ll make it worse
17. ‘Until Freedom’ Protesters Hold Day of Rage Against Racist Policing
18. India strips Kashmir of special status and divides it in two

October 20 to October 26, 2019

1. ‘America is running away’: Irate Kurds pelt withdrawing US forces with vegetables (VIDEO)
   • Turkey to resume assault on Kurds in Syria with ‘more determination’ if US doesn’t keep its promises – Erdogan
2. The U.S. Has Been Silencing Black Girls’ Voices for Decades
3. Bernie Sanders Pledges to End Practice of Prosecuting Whistleblowers Under the Espionage Act
4. Protests in Haiti: An Overlooked Crisis the World Should Not Ignore
5. Police officer kills woman inside her Texas home
   • Texas police officer charged with murder in shooting of black woman in her own home
6. Uber lays off another 350 people
7. Rape, medical experiments, and forced abortions: One woman describes horrors of Xinjiang concentration camps
8. Homeless advocates demand more affordable housing in NYC
9. Brazilians come together to clean beaches after massive oil spill decimates coast
   • Brazilians rally to clean beaches amid outrage at Bolsonaro’s oil spill inaction
10. How ‘Proactive Policing’ Might Damage Health
11. Ending Endless War: Andrew Bacevich on How Reckless Use of U.S. Military Power Caused Today’s Crisis
12. Incredibly scuzzy behavior at Cuomo’s behest … where no one is paying attention
    • Flawed process mars NY campaign finance reform
13. Nobody gets liberated until the plutocrats are defeated
14. Chile in Flames: The Neoliberal Model in Crisis Throughout the Region
15. How Europe’s Greedy Lending to Africa Is Driving the Migration Wave That Fuels the EU’s Xenophobic Politics
16. Students sue DeVos for illegally propping up failing for-profit colleges
    • Trump admin gave over $10 million in aid to students at unaccredited for-profit colleges
17. Is your Congressperson a sponsor of No Shame at School Act?
    • If not, you might ask them why not

October 13 to 19, 2019

1. Economics after neo-liberalism
   • Economics after neo-liberalism
   • How the Economics Profession Is Coming to Terms with Its Role in the Great Financial Crisis
   • Meritocracy’s Casualties
   • The Key to a Sustainable Economy Is 5,000 Years Old
     • A right-wing commentator thinks Debt Jubilee is coming
   • UK Labour Party Agenda: Creating an economy that works for all
2. Finance before neo-liberalism: The Stock Market Crash of 1929
3. Ecuador repeals law ending fuel subsidies in deal to stop protests
   • Ecuador’s Leftist Leaders Arrested In Police Raids Nationwide
4. Black Agenda Report: Josh Myers Critique of NY Times 1619 Project
5. Juveniles Found Innocent But Still Convicted
6. Everybody betraying everybody is Syria
7. Sec. of State Mike Pompeo on Being a Christian Leader
8. Wasteland of Corruption
9. The Alcatraz Occupation: A Powerful Symbol of Indigenous Resistance and Leadership
10. Intuit is evil; Congress is complicit
    • TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing their taxes for free
    • TurboTax Prevented Google From Indexing Its Free Tax Filing
    • TurboTax is Lobbying to Make Filing Your Taxes More Difficult
11. Death, Misery and Bloodshed in Yemen
12. Chicago teachers strike stops classes for 361,000 students
13. UAW leaders send deal with GM to workers for ratification vote; strike continues
14. What, if any, restrictions should there be on free speech? and by whom?
    • On the Media: Sticks and Stones episode
    • Should Trump be kicked off twitter?
    • Zuckerberg doubles down on free speech
    • Warren targets Facebook with ad claiming Zuckerberg supports Trump
    • Defiant Zuckerberg Says Facebook Won’t Police Political Speech
15. Trump administration rule could end free school lunches for about 500,000 children (or more)

October 6 to October 12

1. GE’s Latest Casualty? Pension Promises
2. GM Workers Strike Against Low Wages and Two-Tier Contract
3. Belabored Podcast: GM Strike, Prospect of combined strike by Chicago teachers, service and park workers, organizing in the gig economy
4. Trump’s first cabinet meeting: Most of these sycophants have been replaced by even worse.
5. Judge LAUGHS At Trump
6. CONFIRMED: Trump Breaks ANOTHER Law
7. The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You
   • Billionaires paid lower tax rate than working class for first time in US history: study
8. The Economist asks: Why is there still poverty in America? “The choice is a political one”
9. The Constitution Won’t Save American Democracy either activists will, or it won’t be saved
10. A New York Times Op Ed Says Free Speech Is Killing Us
11. Ecuador:
    • Ecuadorian Protests Intensify as President Flees Capital, Blames Venezuela
    • Lenín Moreno moved the Government to Guayaquil; reaffirms his position on economic measures
12. Angry Queens Residents Shout Down Plans For Homeless Shelter: ‘I Hope Someone Burns It Down!’
13. Wolff on the U.S. Housing Market
14. Cop Acquitted for Rape, Despite 5 Videos Showing Him Having Sex With a Child
15. Cop Thinks He’s Getting An Award, He Gets A Reality Check Instead
16. Dallas Police Arrest Suspect In Joshua Brown Capital Murder Case, Seek 2 Others
17. Adom Getachew on Anti-colonial Worldmaking
18. The Trump Administration Wants Restaurant Servers To Do More Work For Less Pay
19. Betsy DeVos Facing Jail Time
20. INCREDIBLE Bernie Sanders Video Exposes LIES by Mainstream Media
21. Pathetic: CNN Caught Doctoring Photos & Video Of Bernie Sanders
22. Fox News Fool Wants Trump To Be King
23. Krystal Ball: The stories the media doesn’t want you to know about
24. Trump Accused By 43 More Women!
25. Trump’s Border Fantasy Includes Stabbing and Shooting Migrants, Feeding Them to Reptiles
26. GOP official indicted for human smuggling and sale of children in bizarre international fraud scheme
27. After Nearly 60 Years On Air, WBAI 99.5 Shuts Down

Sept. 29 to Oct. 5, 2019

1. Hundreds of cops are in extremist Facebook groups. Why haven’t their departments done anything about it?
2. Wall Street Still Too Big (Complex and Interconnected) to Fail
3. The Police Can’t Solve the Problem. They Are the Problem.
4. The Red Summer of 1919 in U.S. Cities : Massacres of Blacks
   • 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
5. Ibram X. Kendi on How to be an Antiracist (moderately long speech followed by long discussion)
6. Save the Children..from maturity
7. Revealed: how US senators invest in firms they are supposed to regulate
8. France set to roll out nationwide facial recognition ID program
9. U.S. Government Plans to Collect DNA From Detained Immigrants
10. Not taking positions on candidates but sometimes giving them attention:
    • Critique of Warren foreign policy approach v Sanders
    • Sanders/Warren contrasted
    • The Progressive Labor Platform is Popular
    • Dancing Instead of Policy
    • Are Biden poll numbers inflated?
    • Republicans used to sound like this
11. Botham Jean’s brother on hug with Amber Guyger after murder sentence: ‘She still deserves love’
12. The Chinese Revolution at Seventy
13. Larouchepac sends mentally ill woman after AOC
14. Is Democratic impeachment strategy already a failure?
15. At least 30 pine nut farmers killed by U.S. drone strike.
16. Chilling PSA Highlights School Shooting Realities
17. Why Wall Street Loves Strongmen: Why should we be surprised it is amoral?

Sept. 15 to Sept. 28, 2019

1. Economics and Finance:
   • The Unsustainability of Inequality
   • Investors behaving badly
     • Investors Cash In on Ebola Bonds That Haven’t Paid Out
     • Private-Equity-Backed Firms Are Behind Ad Blitz on ‘Surprise Billing’
     • How Private Equity Buyouts Exacerbate Problems Plaguing For-Profit Colleges
2. Japan defense minister: Not aware of any Iran involvement in Saudi attacks
3. Trump pushing for major crackdown on homeless camps in California, with aides discussing moving residents to government-backed facilities
   • Abhorrent’: Trump Condemned After Showing More Concern for Real Estate Than Human Beings in Remarks on Homelessness
4. The New American Homeless
5. Affordable Housing: Who Can Really Afford This?
6. Regulating the Poor: The Potential Consequences of the Smoke-Free Public Housing Rule
7. Warming Oceans Are Rising at Alarming Rate, Says New UN Report
   • UN: “The impacts of climate change have been growing; often with terrifying results, ranging from wildfires, droughts, flooding, and hurricanes to sea-level rise, ocean acidification to the melting of the permafrost.“
8. Report: Can’t Pay, Can’t Vote: A National Survey on the Modern Poll Tax
9. Nearly 50,000 UAW workers go on strike against GM
   • Corruption Cases in the Auto Workers Complicate Bargaining
10. Despite Kashmir, Bill Gates to honor Modi
11. Bill Shaw: Millennials Have It Bad and Are Coming For Us. Here’s Our Escape Clause (intentionally oblivious right-winger)
12. Not taking positions on candidates but sometimes giving them attention:
    • Fox News CAVES on Trump Impeachment
    • Tulsi Gabbard tied to RADICAL right-wing
    • This should end Joe Biden’s Campaign
    • Bogus “Working Families Party” Endorsement Of Warren Exposed
13. Palestinian flags and “Free Palestine” chants flood Labour conference
14. Roger Waters: Militarism is Exacerbating the Climate Crisis
15. Is Canada’s Government a Partner in America’s Crimes?
16. Fed Up With De Blasio, Homeless Advocates Revive Sleep-Out Protest At City Hall Park

Sept. 8 to Sept. 14, 2019

1. How to be an anti-racist: Author Ibram X. Kendi interviewed
2. California just dropped a bomb on the gig economy — what’s next?
3. Is Neo-liberalism losing it’s influence? (Reposted from last week as we are likely to discuss this Sunday)
   • IMF: Neoliberalism Oversold?
   • Ruling the Interregnum: Economic Ideas and Authority in Non-Hegemonic Times
   • The Rise (and Fall?) of the Economists
4. How the War on Terror Corrupted America
5. I Love Amazon: Let’s Break it Up
6. Counterspin: Afghanistan’s Unending War, Deregulation & Corporate America
7. “We Are Striking to Disrupt the System”: An Hour with 16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg
8. The Catastrophic Tenure of John Bolton
9. Homelessness in the U.S.
10. NY Cop abuses teen biker
    • Cop abusing his power on Biker
    • NYPD Probing Cop Who Smashed Teen’s Bike
11. Appeals Judge Slams The Brakes On 14th Street Busway
12. Trump Administration Rolls Back Clean Water Protections
13. Trump Regulators Granted 85% of Industry Wishes
14. The Super-Rich People Backing the Trump Agenda
15. Trump immigration plans: Supreme Court allows asylum curbs

September 1 to 7, 2019

1. Couple Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide Said They Couldn’t Pay Medical Bills
2. Chinese official says Trump’s fentanyl tweets are ‘not true at all’
3. Uber launch first airport ride-booking kiosk
4. Report Accuses Trump Allies of Conspiring to Profit Off Saudi Nuclear Deal
   • Report: Corporate and Foreign Interests Behind White House Push to Transfer U.S. Nuclear Technology to Saudi Arabia
5. Why withdrawal of Hong Kong extradition bill won’t quell protests
6. Dior Thought Sauvage Ad With Native Americans was a good idea. Not everyone did.
   • Dior partnered with a Native American group for its controversial ad. But does it matter?
7. Leading Israeli Journalists Launch Racist Rants about Palestinians
8. How Elites Crush Black Dissent
9. Racial Inequality Is Rooted in Denial of Home and Land Ownership
10. The thousands of U.S. locales where lead poisoning is worse than in Flint
11. A New HUD Rule Would Effectively Encourage Discrimination by Algorithm
12. Pakistan Army Accuses India of ‘State Terrorism’ in Kashmir

August 18 to August 31, 2019

1. Empire State of Mind
2. 1619 Project: African slaves were brought to North American in 1619. Will the U.S. finally grapple with the legacy?
3. Ibrim X. Kendi: Acknowledging Racism Is A Good Start. But It’s Only The First Step.
4. Trump is ‘joking’ about pardons? How is this a defense?
5. Johnson’s move to suspend parliament has the hallmarks of a “tin-pot dictator”
   • Johnson Shuts Down U.K. Parliament to Help Ensure No-Deal Brexit
6. Trump Proposes Eliminating Methane Emissions Regulations for the Oil and Gas Industry
7. Mexico border wall: Trump orders aides to seize private land and disregard environmental rules
8. A Top Financier of Trump and McConnell Is a Driving Force Behind Amazon Deforestation
9. ‘Stain on Public Service’: Ocasio-Cortez Calls Out Fellow Democrat Barbara Boxer for Helping Lyft Fight Against California Labor Bill
10. Trump administration policy alters automatic citizenship for some children of US military, government workers
11. Trump Keeps Lying to Farmers…and They’re Finally Furious!
12. Townsville Mayor Jenny Hill says homelessness charities ‘enable’ people to live in parks by providing food
13. Trump adds $4.1 trillion to national debt. Here’s where the money went
14. Trump: California ‘a disgrace to our country’
15. Gay Couples Discriminated Against by Kim Davis To Be Paid $225,000
16. Pence tells Netanyahu US backs Israel’s right to defend itself
17. Right-wing Israeli activists block new school for Bedouin village
18. Israel reduces fuel shipments to sole Gaza power plant
19. Mitch McConnell Received Donations from Voting Machine Lobbyists Before Blocking Election Security Bill
20. Susan Collins ‘Sad’ That Support For Brett Kavanaugh Has Cost Her Votes
21. Trump administration leaves menstruating migrant girls ‘bleeding through’ underwear at detention centres, lawsuit claims
22. The Protest Dispersed. Then an Israeli Sniper Shot a 9-year-old Palestinian Boy in the Head
23. ‘I Beat That N***r Like He Owed Me Money’: New Jersey Cop Faces Up to 40 Years for Federal Charges Including Using Excessive Force
24. Incoming Harvard Freshman Deported After Visa Revoked
25. Black TV Anchor Compared To Gorilla On Live TV By White Co-Host
26. Sunrise Movement Needs To Demand More in the Green New Deal
27. Murdered spies, poisoned Brits and tens of thousands dead – 20 years of Vladimir Putin
28. HORROR: Trump Suggests NUKING Hurricanes to Stop Them
29. Bolsonaro: I’ll save Amazon rainforest by giving it to corporations
30. Conservative Propagandist Totally Shut Down On Palestinian Rights
31. Kamala Volunteers Childishly Storm Out Of Bernie’s DNC Speech
32. NYT: Pro-Trump operatives compiling “fireable” dirt on hundreds of journalists
33. Oil Companies Persuade States to Make Pipeline Protests a Felony
34. PA slams U.S. for removing Palestinians from list of countries
35. Palestinian child killed in Israeli settler hit-and-run attack
36. Trump Claims to Be ‘Environmentalist’ After Skipping G7 Climate Meeting
37. Christian ‘historian’ insists religious people have extra rights under the Constitution
38. Dem. Pres. Candidate Williamson Says ‘Absolutely’ a Capitalist
39. Israel Launches Unprovoked Attacks: Uses Its Firepower, Far And Wide
40. Richard Wolff responds to Jordan B. Peterson on Marxism
41. Wolff on Meritocracy
42. Yemen: 6 children die every hour from starvation
43. Nearly every single person arrested for weed in NYC this year was black or Latinx
44. Chris Hayes examines the ubiquity of anti-semitism in America
45. Chris Hayes On The Inception Of White Terrorism In America
46. Drugmakers’ liability for opioid crisis could reach $150 billion
47. David Koch’s Monstrous Legacy
48. SEIU has an ambitious new plan for workers’ rights. Democratic candidates should take notice.
49. Stripping Uncle Sam of His Protective Lies and Taboos
50. Trump Tweets About Disloyal Jews, Then Tweets He’s “King of Israel”
51. The Democracy We Think We Live In
52. The Amazon is burning

August 4 to August 17, 2019

1. Yes, America Is Rigged Against Workers
2. Everyone knows Trump is a racist. So why can’t the media say it?
3. MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace is stunned as an ex-Republican goes scorched-earth on the GOP
4. Hotel Owners Seeking City Hall Approval Threw De Blasio a $90K Fundraiser
5. India Moves to Annex Kashmir, Heightening Tensions with Nuclear Rival Pakistan
6. On the Media: Sons of the Soil India rewriting history of Kashmir
7. Nuclear Weapons: Dangerous, Expensive and Immoral
8. Mattis Joins Board of Contractor Profiting from Zero Tolerance Policy
9. Netanyahu Banned Omar And Tlaib Because The Occupation Must Be Hidden To Survive
10. Epstein’s Death Highlights A Staffing Crisis in Federal Prisons
11. Why are we all paying a tax to credit card companies?
12. Stop Trump’s Attack on Immigrant Families: ‘Public Charge’ Rule Revision
13. Rikers: New York City is considering closing its infamous jail Will its culture of violence die with it?
    • Or will it cancel the plan? Public Comment Needed Now.
    • Here’s How: At Public Comment link:
      • Under “Borough” select “CW” (City-wide)
      • Under “Project” select “C 190333 PSY Borough Based Jail System”
      • Under “My Comments” select “In favor.” Testimony in your own words would be most powerful.
14. Trump Endangers the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act

July 28 to August 3

1. Koch, Bradley Money Fuels Trump’s Right-Wing Echo Chamber
2. Trump Isn’t Inciting Violence by Mistake, But on Purpose. He Just Told Us.
   • All the times (in early 2016) that Trump called for violence at his rallies
3. Long history of denying racism
4. More on busing:
   • End of busing in Indianapolis
   • Integration v White Intransigence
   • Kirsten Gillibrand Is Right: Racism Is About White People
5. Chicago Race Riots 1919
   • Chicago’s Race Riots Of 1919 Contributed To The Segregation We See Today
6. My Frantic Life as a Cab-Dodging, Tip-Chasing Food App Deliveryman
   • The Shadow Bosses of the Gig Economy
7. Parents Are Giving Up Custody of Their Kids to Get Need-Based College Financial Aid
8. Brazilians Fight Far-Right Campaign to Silence Greenwald & Intercept Leaks
9. Report Accuses Trump Allies of Conspiring to Profit Off Saudi Nuclear Deal
10. UN Report on Child Casualties Blacklists only Muslim Perpetrators
11. James Baldwin

July 21 to July 27, 2019

1. Picture The Homeless Launches Fund To Stay Afloat
2. Defense spending is America’s cancerous bipartisan consensus
   • Most powerful man on Earth threatens to kill millions, world ignores it.
3. The myth that busing failed
   • Detroit case that undermined integration
4. How Much Is a View Worth in Manhattan? Try $11 Million
5. Melinda Katz claims victory in Queens DA race after recount — Tiffany Cabán vows court fight
6. Health Care:
   • The Patient Perspective: The Devastating Impacts of Skyrocketing Drug Prices on American Families
   • Profit over Patients: How the Rules of Our Economy Encourage the Pharmaceutical Industry’s Extractive Behavior
   • Podcast intended to advise young people on health care describes how dysfunctional our system is.
7. What economists have gotten wrong for decades
8. Treasure Island: Leak Reveals How Mauritius Siphons Tax From Poor Nations to Benefit Elites
9. The case for a universal basic income, open borders, and a 15-hour workweek
10. There Are Too Few Companies and Their Profits Are Too High
11. Puerto Rico: Governor’s resignation sparks power struggle
12. Why Half a Million Puerto Ricans Are Protesting in the Streets
13. What kind of Prime Minister will Boris Johnson make?

From July 7 to July 20

1. Ibram X. Kendi Am I an American?
   • Anti-Racist Historian: Attacks on Rep. Omar Rooted in Belief “America Is for White People”
2. Best of the Left: How to Build a War from Scratch (Iran)
   • Intercepted: Donald Trump, Iran and the Gulf of Tonkin Redux
   • Democracy Now: As Trump Imposes New Sanctions, Iran Says U.S. Has “Permanently Closed Path to Diplomacy”
   • Real News Network: Wilkerson: US Further Isolates Itself From its Allies Over Iran Policy
   • “Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story Of the Iran Nuclear Scare” 
   • FAIR: Counterspin: Media Setting Up Iran as New ‘Threat’ That Must Be Confronted
   • How “Neutral” “Experts” Took Over Trump’s Iran Policy
   • People’s Republic: Iran in context: geopolitical struggles against U.S. empire
   • Thom Hartmann: Iran vs America: What’s Next with Jamal Abdi 
   • BBC: Is the U.S. heading for war with Iran?
3. Iran says its seizure of British ship a ‘reciprocal’ move
4. 50 Years Ago: Apollo Astronauts Land, Take First Steps on Moon
5. Happy Bastille Day: Bastille Day inspired centuries of civil disobedience in France. Here’s why
6. California Feudalism: full report
   • Older column on same subject by one of report’s authors
7. More on Modern Monetary Theory
   • Modern Money Theory 101: A Reply to Critics
   • Doug Henwood critiques it
   • Pavlina Tcherneva replies
   • Thomas Palley: Modern Money Theory (MMT) vs. Structural Keynesianism
   • What Is Modern Monetary Theory and Why Is It So Important to the Green New Deal?
8. Honduras Now Ruled By A “Criminal Gang” – With Western Government Support
9. Libra: Our corporate overlords’ new currency.
   • Reposting Bill Black: Facebook’s Libra Currency Monetizes Identity and Threatens Privacy
   • Talking Politics: Libra
   • On the Media on currencies, and crytocurrencies (but not discusssing libra specifically)
10. Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin On What’s Really Happening in Iran
11. The Troubling Elimination of Puerto Rican Public Schools
12. NYC’s Latest Luxury Scheme Could Leave Gowanus Residents in a Foul Place
13. What, to the undocumented immigrant, is the 4th of July?
14. A Real Deal: How New Yorkers Banded Together and Cracked the Landlord Lobby
15. Background on Libya: General who likely bombed migrant camp has worked for CIA
16. Venezuela
    • UN Human Rights report on Venezuela
    • Venezuela – The Bachelet “Human Rights Lie”
    • Economist Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Sanctions Have Devastated Venezuela & Killed Over 40,000 Since 2017
17. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Bachelet appalled by conditions of migrants and refugees in detention in the U.S.
18. Trump Seeking to Effectively Outsource Asylum Seekers to Guatemala
19. Honduras Now Ruled By A “Criminal Gang” – With Western Government Support
20. Private Equity’s Latest Scheme: Closing Urban Hospitals and Selling Off the Real Estate
21. House Votes to Stop Trump From Launching Unauthorized Attack on Iran

From June 23 to July 6, 2019

1. Independence Day Perspectives
   • ‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’ Frederick Douglass, Revisited
   • An Independence Day Alternative
   • 6 ways to celebrate Ghana’s Independence Day — all of them better than the typical U.S. practice, IMHO
2. Leftists fight each other more than capitalists
3. Too Many Companies Drain Value From the Economy
4. This is what “Draining the swamp” looks like?
   • Some Contractors Housing Migrant Children Are Familiar to Trump’s Inner Circle
5. Libra: Our corporate overlords’ new currency, as seen by Bill Black
6. U.N. reports human rights violations in Venezuela
   • Venezuela responds blaming U.S. sanctions
   • NYTimes on the U.N. report, not even a single mention of U.S. sanctions’ role in the Venezuelan crisis
7. Citing $69 Trillion Price Tag by 2100, Moody’s Warns Central Banks of Far-Reaching Economic Damage of Climate Crisis
   • And people claim the Green New Deal is too expensive.
8. Sudan’s civilian opposition and military have reached a power-sharing deal
9. Mueller Report Gets the Trump Tower Meeting Wrong; Promotes Browder Hoax

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