Message to My Readers 031022

 

Well, it has been a little less than 6 weeks since my last blog update.  Here is another update of this blog. 

This time it is 94 pages of links to the news covering the last 6 weeks.  They appear in the categories listed below, including Veterans, Criminal Justice and Racism and Ageism and other discrimination, Economics and Coronavirus, Economics and Corruption and Healthcare and Education, Ecology and Pollution and Climate Change, Politics and Coronavirus, Politics, Terrorism, Military, and General and Miscellaneous.   Don’t forget to click on the items in the column on the right to open the pages for those categories.

Regarding the coronavirus pandemic, in the past six weeks there have been 79 million new cases in the world, 371 thousand new deaths in the world, 5.6 million new cases in the U.S.A., 83.5 thousand new deaths in the U.S.A., 118 thousand new cases in Pennsylvania, 3,219 new deaths in Pennsylvania, 10 thousand new cases in Philadelphia, and 356 new deaths in Philadelphia.  During this past six weeks, almost all the deaths were among the unvaccinated; there were almost no deaths among people who were vaccinated.  The cumulative totals for each of these categories since the beginning of the pandemic are now as follows: 452,871,388; 6,048,898; 81,088,512; 990,446; 2,767,304; 43,767; 305,599; and 5,015.       

During the next few months, we will be contending with the new Deltacron variant of the coronavirus.  There is not much known yet about the Deltacron variant.  However, until the deaths are down to, and remain, at zero for several days, we should not become too relaxed about wearing face masks and being fully vaccinated and boosted.  We are probably only about a week away from experiencing the one millionth death from Covid-19 in the United States (10,000 more than we have now).             

“In February 2022, Putin again claimed that Ukrainians and Russians are one people. He sees Ukrainians and Russians as brother nations and says that because Russia is the older brother, it should get to be in charge.”  Then, two weeks ago, Russia invaded Ukraine and has been at war with Ukraine since.  Ukraine has surprised the world with the strength of their resistance to the Russian onslaught.  Over two million people have fled Ukraine and are now refugees.  About half of them are children.  Men aged 18 to 60 are required to remain in Ukraine and join the resistance.  Meanwhile, tens of thousands of volunteers from other nations are entering Ukraine to fight on both sides.  Many of them are combat veterans from other wars.  NATO nations, including the United States, are providing support, but are not putting troops on the ground in Ukraine.  However, the troop complements in some NATO nations have increased just to be prepared for a possible expansion of the conflict beyond Ukraine’s borders.    

The world is in a great struggle to determine if the dominant form of government will be authoritarianism or democracy.  Even here in the United States, long known as the world’s beacon of democracy, there is a question about whether democracy can survive without another civil war.       

We must continue to resist tyranny, fascism, authoritarianism, racism, sexism, misogyny, xenophobia, etc.  The three impurities of life are avarice, anger, and ignorance.  What others need from us is respect, kindness, and love.  The more respect, kindness, and love that we give to others, the more respect, kindness, and love we get in our lives and the better we feel about ourselves.

Peace and love to all.  Feedback is welcome.  My contact information is:

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Veterans related links 031022

 

DAV Chap 15 January Meeting

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UcDt5z5niwHeHPt1XKFzWUP4C70ZVaij/view?ts=61f6a3f3

 

HOUSE PASSES CHAIRMAN TAKANO’S EVEST ACT H.R. 4673: Bill will automatically enroll eligible servicemembers in VA healthcare

https://veterans.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-passes-chairman-takanos-evest-act

 

As Ukraine Crisis Raises Specter of Nuclear War, Veterans Call for Disarmament and Peace

https://www.laprogressive.com/veterans-call-for-disarmament/

 

DAV frequently testifies before Congress to advise and advocate changes in law or policy. All DAV testimony is presented below.

https://www.dav.org/learn-more/legislation/testimony/

 

Upcoming Hearings

https://veterans.house.gov/events/hearings

 

VA Healthcare-VISN 4 Annual Report

https://www.visn4.va.gov/VISN4/news/annual-reports/index.asp

 

Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Summary Report: Evaluation of Care Coordination in Veterans Health Administration Facilities, Fiscal Year 2020

https://www.va.gov/oig/publications/report-summary.asp?id=5094

 

Ten Individuals Indicted for $300 Million Healthcare Kickback Scheme

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/ten-indicted-healthcare-kickbacks

 

VA proposes updates to rating schedule for respiratory, auditory and mental disorders….  The public has 60 days to provide comments to VA regarding the two proposed updates via the Federal Register notices located here and here.

https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=5764

 

H.R.6543 - Restore Veterans’ Compensation Act of 2022

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6543?s=1&r=2

 

DMVA Announces 2022 Virtual Veteran Town Hall Series

https://www.media.pa.gov/Pages/Military-and-Veteran-Affairs-Details.aspx?newsid=529

 

FACT SHEET: Biden Administration Announces Actions to Address the Health Effects of Military Exposures

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/11/fact-sheet-biden-administration-announces-actions-to-address-the-health-effects-of-military-exposures/

 

BREAKING: TESTER, MORAN BILL TO EXPAND VA HEALTH CARE FOR POST-9/11 VETERANS UNANIMOUSLY CLEARS SENATE.  Committee leaders’ bipartisan Health Care for Burn Pit Veterans Act one step closer to becoming law

https://www.tester.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=8901

 

‘Candy Bomber’ of Berlin blockade, Gail Halvorsen, dies at 101

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2022-02-17/candy-bomber-berlin-blockade-gail-halvorsen-dead-5057028.html

 

Oklahoma Bill to allow research on chemical in “magic mushrooms” to help veterans cope with PTSD

https://kfor.com/news/oklahoma-bill-to-allow-research-on-chemical-in-magic-mushrooms-to-help-veterans-cope-with-ptsd/

 

On March 1, the House and Senate Committees on Veterans' Affairs will conduct a joint hearing to receive the legislative presentation of the Disabled American Veterans.  The hearing will be streamed on YouTube and Facebook.  Check back for live video of this hearing.

https://veterans.house.gov/events/hearings/02/23/2022/joint-house-and-senate-vso-legislative-presentation-1

 

VETERANS FOR PEACE NUCLEAR POSTURE REVIEW

https://www.veteransforpeace.org/files/1016/4312/8275/Updated-1.25-FINAL-VFPNuclearReview-Jan2022.pdf

 

H.R.5819 - Autonomy for Disabled Veterans Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5819?s=1&r=31

 

H.R.6617 - Further Additional Extending Government Funding Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6617

 

Legislative Presentation of the Disabled American Veterans.  Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2022.  Time: 10:00 AM.  Location: The Capitol, Room HVC 210 & Zoom.

https://www.veterans.senate.gov/hearings/legislative-presentation-of-the-disabled-american-veterans3-1-22

 

Joint House and Senate VSO Legislative Presentation of the Disabled American Veterans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7E0LKy6J5A

 

Upcoming Hearings before a joint House and Senate Veterans Affairs Committee:

1)      Legislative Presentation of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States & Multi VSOs: IAVA, WWP, VVA, AMVETS, NCHV, SWAN, BVA, BVEC, NASDVA.  The Capitol, Room HVC 210 & Zoom 03/02/22 02:00PM

2)      Legislative Presentation of The American Legion & Multi VSOs: PVA, SVA, MOAA, GSW, NGAUS, TAPS, MMAA, ADBC-MS.  The Capitol, Room HVC 210 & Zoom 03/08/22 10:00AM

https://www.veterans.senate.gov/hearings

 

WED, March 2, 2022, 9 AM - House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mark Takano (D-Calif.) will hold a press conference at the House Triangle with Speaker Pelosi, Members, advocates Jon Stewart and John Feal, and Veterans Service Organization (VSO) leaders to highlight the urgent need to pass Chairman Takano’s Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2021 or Honoring our PACT Act on the House floor this week.       

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhgYHAw7yeI

 

Press Conference on the Honoring our PACT Act – Mar 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhgYHAw7yeI

 

H.R.3967 - Honoring our PACT Act of 2021

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3967

 

Joint House and Senate VSO Legislative Presentation of the Veterans of Foreign Wars & multiple VSOs – Mar 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lYt84BT1aw

 

AGENT ORANGE NEWSLETTER

https://www.publichealth.va.gov/docs/agentorange/reviews/ao-newsletter-2021.pdf

 

Joint House and Senate VSO Legislative Presentation of the American Legion and multiple VSOs – Mar 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWI15z7BNg8

 

EBCO: Russia/Ukraine: Peace is the only solution! Protect conscientious objectors and all civilians

https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2022/ebco-russiaukraine-peace-only-solution-protect-conscientious-objectors-and-all-civilians

Criminal Justice and Racism and Ageism and other discrimination related links 031022

 

The Republicans’ Thoroughly Vile, Perfectly Predictable Reaction to Biden’s Supreme Court Plan

They just can’t help themselves.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165236/gop-supreme-court-roger-wicker

 

White Supremacy Culture – Still Here, by Tema Okun | May 2021

https://www.dismantlingracism.org/uploads/4/3/5/7/43579015/white_supremacy_culture_-_still_here.pdf

 

Adventures with Dead Jews

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adventures-with-dead-jews/id1582119175

 

When, How Did the First Americans Arrive? It’s Complicated.  The first Americans weren't one group of people; they arrived at different times, and likely by different methods.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/when-and-how-did-the-first-americans-arrive--its-complicated-

 

Who’s Looking for Hawaii’s Missing Girls?  A new effort to investigate the crisis of missing and murdered Native Hawaiian women and girls also has to confront the role of law enforcement.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165155/hawaii-missing-indigenous-women-girls

 

What Is Othering?

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-othering-5084425

 

Why People Flocked to Hitler, and Why the Nazis Believed ‘Here There Is No Why’: Theodore Abel's 'Why Hitler Came Into Power' is a unique and frightening text from within the minds and consciousness of people who went on to become Nazis.

https://thewire.in/books/why-people-flocked-to-hitler-and-why-the-nazis-believed-here-there-is-no-why

 

We Are Still Here: The past and future of Native California.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/history-native-california/

 

Rejected Mail Ballots Are Showing Racial Disparities

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/us/mail-voting-black-latino.html

 

Jim Crow 2.0

https://www.laprogressive.com/jim-crow-4/

 

Guess Who Donald Trump Says Is the Latest Victim of Racism? Yep. Donald Trump.  The former president has a critical race theory about the prosecutors investigating his various malfeasances.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165261/trump-james-bragg-racism-prosecutors

 

Could “Attica” Boost Prison Abolition Movement?  This is the human toll it took to break open the prisoners’ rights movement and simultaneously create the blueprint for the imminent prison industrial complex.

https://hollywoodprogressive.com/film/attica

 

To Trump, the Law Is Always White: In his attack on Black elected officials, Trump is harkening back to the worst of post-Reconstruction America.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165270/donald-trump-black-politicians-texas-reconstruction

 

Desmond Tutu: Still Preaching

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Rollins.html

 

Dear rancid race-baiter: Show some respect for this holiday

https://www.dickpolman.net/2022/01/17/dear-rancid-race-baiter-show-some-respect-for-this-holiday/

 

Race in School: What Educators Know and Politicians Should Learn

https://www.goshennews.com/opinion/mary-sanchez-race-in-school-what-educators-know-and-politicians-should-learn/article_f1b76936-796d-11ec-a67b-e71ccec23998.html

 

A Hate that Runs Deep

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Kalet.html

 

The work of Dr. King is still not done, by Jesse Jackson

https://richmondfreepress.com/news/2022/feb/03/work-dr-king-still-not-done-jesse-jackson/

 

Despite a Dramatic Drop, the “Other Pandemic” Continues Unabated

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Cintli.html

 

Sidney Poitier, tightrope walker: A look at the political highlights and meanings of the late actor's screen career.

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Rampell.html

 

Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: Checking My Privilege as an Adult and Removing Labels of My Childhood

https://www.noozhawk.com/article/bonnie_jean_feldkamp_checking_my_privilege_as_an_adult_20220124

 

Four people arrested in connection with overdose death of actor Michael K. Williams

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-k-williams-overdose-death-four-arrests/

 

Voter Fraud Propagandists Are Recycling Jim Crow Rhetoric: The conservative plot to suppress the Black vote has relied on racist caricatures, then and now.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165283/suppress-black-vote-jim-crow

Man's Inhumanity to Man, by Robert Burns, 1784

https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/mans-inhumanity-man

 

Black Heritage in Racing Collection

https://www.derbymuseum.org/blackheritage.html

 

Bloody Sunday in Selma Alabama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3fq79yKGaQ

 

Sisterhood Sit-In: The Trolley Tour

https://www.wearemuchdifferent.com/sisterhood?fbclid=IwAR3jIeeBKqVs7rLB5n-T5TSe0m3PNmB-NBULeCdYY6yOTvi4no4Mo1wQBoE

 

Anti-BDS law in Texas violates free speech rights, federal judge rules

https://www.msn.com/en-US/news/us/antibds-law-in-texas-violates-free-speech-rights-federal-judge-rules/ar-AATo7cs

 

Cop Who Drank Fifth Of Vodka Then Drove To The Gun Range Is Back On The Force: Jacksonville Civil Service Board calls drunk SWAT officer's firing “manifestly unjust”

https://jalopnik.com/cop-who-drank-fifth-of-vodka-then-drove-to-the-gun-rang-1848482073

 

The Bizarre, Unsolved Mystery of Filippo Bernardini and the Stolen Book Manuscripts: His identity was long unknown—until the FBI arrested him earlier this year. Now everyone in the publishing industry is asking, What motivated him?

https://newrepublic.com/article/165234/filippo-bernardini-literary-publishing-scammer

 

From John Chaney to Ala Stanford, Smith Playground’s Black History Month exhibit honors Philly’s ‘Leaders and Legends’.  “I know what it means to young Black children to see some of these role models and legends be honored in this way,” said honoree Marcel Pratt.  

https://www.inquirer.com/news/smith-playground-black-history-month-exhibit-20220205.html

 

Chicago Food Industry Shaped by Formerly Incarcerated-Led Cooperative

https://www.laprogressive.com/formerly-incarcerated-led-cooperative/

 

Once Oath Keeper, Now Sheriff

https://www.laprogressive.com/once-oath-keeper-now-sheriff/

 

Progress on head-coach diversity 'unacceptable', NFL commissioner tells teams

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/progress-head-coach-diversity-unacceptable-commissioner-goodell-tells-teams-2022-02-05/

 

Jewish 1940s Movie Stars Who Changed Their Name

https://solveisraelsproblems.com/jewish-1940s-movie-stars-who-changed-their-name/

 

The Backlash Against C.R.T. Shows That Republicans Are Losing Ground

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/opinion/crt-backlash-du-bois.html?te=1&nl=the-morning&emc=edit_nn_20220206

 

The Supreme Court killing affirmative action would have devastating consequences: Affirmative action policies have been under attack since their inception.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/supreme-court-killing-affirmative-action-would-have-devastating-consequences-n1288043?te=1&nl=the-morning&emc=edit_nn_20220206

 

Can Whoopi Goldberg’s public history lesson actually do some good?  Goldberg’s comments reflect a growing national ignorance about the Holocaust. What happened next could be a model for how we move forward.

https://www.vox.com/culture/22916147/whoopi-goldberg-the-view-suspension-holocaust-race

 

Shirley Cuban, mother of Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, dies

https://www.wearecentralpa.com/entertainment-news/shirley-cuban-mother-of-mavericks-owner-mark-cuban-dies/

 

A conservative law student took Mississippi’s only CRT class and ended up loving it

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/4/2078445/-What-happens-when-a-white-law-student-at-Ole-Miss-takes-a-CRT-class-She-learns-something-about-race?detail=emaildkre

 

Nazi Gatherings In Broad Daylight In Florida Spark Alarm - Feb 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0onbdFVexKk

 

Why Students Need to Learn about Reconstruction: It’s difficult to understand today’s racial injustices without knowing about the radical decade that followed the Civil War.

https://progressive.org/public-schools-advocate/students-learn-about-reconstruction-miller-220129/

 

Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Movement for Black Lives

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31944798-assata-taught-me

 

Whoopi Goldberg ideology vs. Israel: Revisionism and support for revisionists triggers tensions among Jews about the past that bleeds into the present and causes a foreboding about the future.

https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/whoopi-goldberg-ideology-vs-israel/

 

School Boards Have Long Been a Tool of White Supremacy: Our history of letting white Americans veto racial progress in schools.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/01/school-boards-have-long-been-a-tool-of-white-supremacy/

 

Blazing Trails, Breaching Walls

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Rollins.html

 

Apartheid and The Great American Experiment

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Cintli.html

 

Seven Senators Who Go Back to Civil War Days

https://www.creators.com/read/jamie-stiehm/12/21/seven-senators-who-go-back-to-civil-war-days

 

Dave Chappelle, James Carville, and the Persons in the Sauna

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Friedman.html

 

Holding Change

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Seggel.html

 

The Year in Sports: Athletes Face Backlash but Refuse to Back Down

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/sports-year-review-backlash/

 

Structural Racism And Black Women’s Employment In The US Health Care Sector

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01400

 

Louisville mayor candidate: Gunman aimed directly at me

https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-louisville-mayoral-candidate-unharmed-182845926.html

 

How the USO Served a Racially Segregated Military Throughout World War II

https://www.uso.org/stories/3001-how-the-uso-served-a-racially-segregated-military-throughout-world-war-ii

 

‘What Took Us So Long?’: Black Caucus Members Propose Awarding 200,000 Black Civil War Vets Congressional Gold Medal

https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/02/11/what-took-us-so-long-black-caucus-members-propose-awarding-200000-black-civil-war-vets-congressional-gold-medal/

 

Fayetteville native: Attempt to change a tire leads to harrowing confrontation, gun shot

https://www.fayobserver.com/story/opinion/2022/02/13/fayetteville-nc-native-attempt-confrontation-gun-shot/6753479001/

 

Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2021

https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2021

 

New Swing-State Ads Try to Tell Black Voters: Yes, Biden’s Looking Out for You.  Enthusiasm is at dangerous lows among the constituency that made Joe Biden the Democratic nominee. One group is trying to do something about it.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165388/midterms-2022-black-vote-enthusiasm

 

The Police State Is Failing Officers Too: Alternatives to policing are critical to the health and safety of both overpoliced people, historically and predominantly Black and brown, and the police themselves.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nyc-police-gun-violence/

 

The Black Migrant Trail of Tragedies: Immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean who make the dangerous trek across the Americas to the US face racist policies and practices everywhere they go.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/black-migration-racism/

 

Mexico Has Become a "Roofless Prison" for Haitian Refugees—With Biden's Help: Thousands of migrants are trapped at the border as the United States and Mexico crack down on deportations—under Biden’s policies, many will be expelled.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/haitian-refugees-monterrey-mexico-casa-indi-migrants

 

What's Next for the Defund Movement?

https://inthesetimes.com/article/future-of-defund-the-police-movement-minneapolis-abolitionists

 

Black Farmers Sow the Seeds for the Future: A century after the height of Black farming, young land stewards pick up the plow.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/black-farmers-collective-seattle-yes-farm-next-generation-ownership

 

Farmers Reject Nicor's Pipe Dream: Residents of the historic Black farming community of Pembroke, Illinois want an energy upgrade—but they want renewables, not fossil fuels.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/illinois-black-farmers-reject-nicor-natural-gas-pipeline-rural-pembroke

 

The New Judge Judy Is As Classist As Ever: How a TV justice extends contempt for the poor.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/judge-judy-justice-system-capitalist-tv-class-media-carceral-judy-justice-scandal

 

'Judas and the Black Messiah' Review: I Was a Panther for the FBI

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/movies/judas-and-the-black-messiah-review.html

 

‘Judas and the Black Messiah’: Shaka King’s Movie Wrestles With the History of Black Power.  This political film — starring Lakeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya — shouldn’t be mistaken for history but it will most certainly educate a new cohort about the Black Panthers

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/judas-black-messiah-shaka-king-1122364/

 

She found her father’s segregated schoolhouse decaying in the Va. woods. Now, it is on the way to being saved.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/02/16/va-schoolhouse-dawn-preserve-enslaved/

 

Julius Rosenwald (August 12, 1862 – January 6, 1932) was an American businessman and philanthropist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Rosenwald

 

The Tip-Off From a Nazi That Saved My Grandparents

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-tip-off-from-a-nazi-that-saved-my-grandparents

 

Police Response To N.J. Mall Fight Sparks Outrage After Black Teen Cuffed As White Teen Watches

https://www.moorenews.net/articles/4/5/7325/Police-Response-To-N-J-Mall-Fight-Sparks-Outrage-After-Black-Teen-Cuffed-As-White-Teen-Watches.html

 

The Ali Summit Revisited

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Rollins.html

 

The Groups Pushing Anti-Trans Laws Want to Divide the LGBTQ Movement: The same people keep pushing bill after bill, developing their strategy as they go.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165403/groups-pushing-anti-trans-laws-want-divide-lgbtq-movement

 

Banned Books Should Be Required Reading: The people who want to ban ‘Maus’ or ‘The 1619 Project’ are the ones who need to read them

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Alperstein.html

 

On The High Court, Affirmative Action Isn't Only For Republicans

https://www.nationalmemo.com/biden-supreme-court

 

This Black History Month, Don’t Ban Our History — Teach It: As politicians ban books and courses, this Black History Month seems especially significant.

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Rogers.html

 

How the "critical race theory" moral panic morphed into book-banning frenzy: The attack on CRT isn't about teaching history. It's about the right's desire to destroy public education

https://www.salon.com/2022/02/05/how-the-critical-race-theory-moral-panic-morphed-into-book-banning-frenzy_partner/

 

Jesse Jackson: It is time for Congress to act to defend free elections

https://tribunecontentagency.com/article/jesse-jackson-it-is-time-for-congress-to-act-to-defend-free-elections/

 

Highlighting the fight against restrictive voting laws

https://www.griffindailynews.com/news/highlighting-the-fight-against-restrictive-voting-laws/article_ba3ca23d-8ddc-547e-8d97-7c81c33f26be.html

 

Maya-Nahua Philosophy Banned in the USA Again

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Cintli.html

 

Banning Books is Never a Good Look

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Uretsky.html

 

Progressives Have More in Common with Censors of ‘Maus’ than We Think

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Schmidt.html

 

The Ghosts on the Walls

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Friedman.html

 

Talking About Cosby

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Patterson.html

 

Brian Flores Levels a Lawsuit Against the NFL for Discriminatory Practices: Everyone associated with the NFL should find the same courage as the former Miami Dolphins head coach—or the league will fall back into its racist sloth.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/brian-flores-lawsuit-nfl/

 

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Epidemic of book bannings must be read as a warning

https://www.times-standard.com/2022/02/06/amy-goodman-and-denis-moynihan-epidemic-of-book-bannings-must-be-read-as-a-warning/

 

Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: The Making of a Reader Takes Vision and the Right Book

https://www.noozhawk.com/article/bonnie_jean_feldkamp_making_of_reader_takes_vision_and_right_book_20220207

 

'It's a real stab in the heart': Native American tribe's eviction plan raises civil rights concerns

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/18/us/nooksack-tribe-evictions-washington/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0MzZPbSFNsPD8uckgJxpF0E4lmD5uIlcYV3EHc3FHGhrAdi-Hae_VyaU8

 

Honoring the Memory of the Underground Railroad

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/legally-weird/honoring-the-memory-of-the-underground-railroad/

 

Has the Antiracist Movement Become a Counterproductive Religion?  John McWhorter takes aim at the fundamentalists on the far left—who are scaring away allies Democrats desperately need.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/01/17/has-the-antiracist-movement-become-a-counterproductive-religion/

 

“Do You Ever Fantasize About Older Men Jimmy?”

https://carbonbaselife.car.blog/2022/02/22/do-you-ever-fantasize-about-older-men-jimmy/

 

The Supreme Court Has Teed Up a Radical Reimagining of LGBTQ Rights: By taking a flier on a plaintiff whose First Amendment rights have only been hypothetically violated, the high court may avoid having to consider the rights of those who might face anti-gay discrimination.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165458/supreme-court-lgbtq-rights-discrimination

 

Blackbird (Remastered 2009)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Man4Xw8Xypo

 

Toronto middle school students give a Jewish teacher the Hitler salute

https://www.jta.org/2022/02/22/global/toronto-middle-school-students-give-a-jewish-teacher-the-hitler-salute

 

What Do Crime Writers Owe Their Subjects?  John Darnielle’s new novel, “Devil House,” probes the moral implications of investigating a cold case.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165471/crime-writers-owe-subjects-john-darnielle-devil-house-book-review

 

Witt: Alternatives to bigger jails aren’t a partisan issue

https://trib.com/opinion/columns/witt-alternatives-to-bigger-jails-aren-t-a-partisan-issue/article_3521ec45-f4ef-5db2-9d7c-2111b065d118.html

 

Social Justice Isn’t Microwavable

http://www.populist.com/28.05.Young.html

 

All the GOP Has Left is Racism & That’s a Lie, Too: White supremacy promoted as pseudo-science is a lie, and the racist politics that flow from it are poison in the bloodstream of our republic

https://hartmannreport.com/p/all-the-gop-has-left-is-racism-and?s=r

 

Eliminating Offensive Mascots, the Tomahawk Chop and Denigrating ‘War Cries’

http://www.populist.com/28.05.Cintli.html

 

The Republican Party is No Longer the Party of Abraham Lincoln

http://www.populist.com/28.05.Joseph.html

 

Have Gun Will Rattle

http://www.populist.com/28.05.Uretsky.html

 

The Promise

http://www.populist.com/28.05.OLeary.html

 

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Stop gun violence: A Valentine’s Day plea from the heart

https://www.times-standard.com/2022/02/20/amy-goodman-and-denis-moynihan-stop-gun-violence-a-valentines-day-plea-from-the-heart/

 

Feldkamp: How making bail determines your experience with our justice system

https://www.lowellsun.com/2022/02/20/feldkamp-how-making-bail-determines-your-experience-with-our-justice-system/

 

What, Exactly, Do Republicans Find So Troubling About Ketanji Brown Jackson? Sure, it’s ideology to some extent. But she’s impeccably qualified for a Supreme Court seat. Gee, what else could it be?

https://newrepublic.com/article/165589/ketanji-brown-jackson-confirmation-republican-opposition

 

Fort Lauderdale police chief fired over minority-first practices in hiring and promotions, report says

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/05/us/fort-lauderdale-police-chief/index.html

 

Let’s Talk About the Taking of Black Land: From Seneca Village to “urban renewal,” the government has claimed Black property—rarely with the “just compensation” promised by the Fifth Amendment.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/black-land-seneca-village/

 

Ukraine and Putin Remind Israel: You’re on your own

http://factsandlogic.org/hotline_archive/hotline_220308.html

 

Philly Police Fire—but Do Not Name—Cop Who Killed 12-Year-Old Boy: Cops have said the pre-teen was armed, but the picture is getting more complicated.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/thomas-siderio-philadelphia-cop-killer-fired-but-not-named

 

These Three Republicans Voted Against Making Lynching a Hate Crime

https://www.newsweek.com/emmet-till-antilynching-act-three-republicans-vote-1683518

 

‘A crisis that is hiding in plain sight’: Missing and murdered women of color

https://icmglt.org/a-crisis-that-is-hiding-in-plain-sight-missing-and-murdered-women-of-color/

 

Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad Hardcover – October 18, 2022

https://www.amazon.com/Half-American-African-Americans-Fighting/dp/198488039X/ref=sr_1_1

Economics and Coronavirus related links 031022

 

How Much Longer Can We Keep Doing This Without a Vaccine?  All parents are struggling during the pandemic, but those with kids too young to be vaccinated are barely holding on.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/covid-parent-child-vaccine/

 

My Disabled Life Is Worthy: The loss of disabled and chronically ill lives due to COVID-19 is no less tragic or preventable.

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Alperstein.html

 

Corporate Journalists Are Blind to a Big COVID Lesson

https://www.creators.com/read/ted-rall/01/22/corporate-journalists-are-blind-to-a-big-covid-lesson

 

Why aren’t daycares testing kids for COVID?  Without clear federal guidance, many families with little ones are stuck in a loop of COVID quarantines.

https://www.popsci.com/health/covid-testing-daycare-kids/

 

What Do Masks Do to Kids?  Face masks keep kids safe from Covid-19 and keep schools open. There’s no evidence they harm kids developmentally.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165306/face-masks-dont-harm-kids-development

 

How Pfizer Cashed In on the Pandemic

https://progressive.org/magazine/pfizer-cashed-in-pandemic-nichols/

 

Don’t Let the Anti-Vaxxers Bring You Down

http://www.populist.com/28.01.McMillen.html

 

An Undiscovered Coronavirus? The Mystery of the ‘Russian Flu’.  Scientists are grasping for any example that could help anticipate the future of Covid, even a mysterious respiratory pandemic that spread in the late 19th century.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/health/russian-flu-coronavirus.html

 

Why “Follow the Science” Failed—and How to Fix It Before the Next Covid: Americans have heard conflicting advice from various public health agencies during this pandemic. The solution begins with local reform.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165391/follow-science-failedand-fix-next-covid

 

Ivermectin doesn't prevent severe disease from Covid-19, new study finds

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/18/health/ivermectin-severe-covid-19/index.html

 

Why were scientists so slow to study Covid-19 vaccines and menstruation?  How ignoring a key side effect of Covid-19 vaccines led to one of the most pervasive vaccination myths about fertility.

https://www.vox.com/22935125/covid-vaccine-trials-menstrual-cycle-period-changes-fertility-myths

 

COVID vaccines offer lasting protection against reinfection, studies find

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/02/covid-vaccines-offer-lasting-protection-against-reinfection-studies-find

 

Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers by John Nichols

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/678763/coronavirus-criminals-and-pandemic-profiteers-by-john-nichols/

 

How Long Covid Exhausts the Body

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/02/19/science/long-covid-causes.html

 

Why Is This Group of Doctors So Intent on Unmasking Kids?  The physicians and scientists of the Urgency of Normal are cherry-picking data in their push to end pandemic precautions, but are getting favorable mainstream media attention and support from wealthy, white communities that never felt the full brunt of Covid-19.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165413/mask-mandates-kids-back-to-normal

 

Long Covid Is Just Getting Started. We’re Not Ready for It.  Even after the pandemic, we don’t know what Covid holds for us. But we should be prepared.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165499/long-covid-america-not-ready

 

Famotidine clinical trial shows reduction in Covid-19 symptoms

https://www.northwell.edu/news/the-latest/famotidine-clinical-trial-shows-reduction-covid-19-symptoms

 

Antidepressants tied to lower COVID-19 death rates

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/11/antidepressants-tied-lower-covid-19-death-rates

 

After Two Years of Covid, the U.S. Economy Is Thriving. We Have the Great Recession to Thank.  Unlike in the last economic crisis, the government didn’t hesitate about spending money during the pandemic.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165635/pandemic-covid-great-recession-economy

 

The Story of the Spanish Flu Ended Before the Virus Did. The Same Is Happening With the Covid Pandemic.  This isn’t the first time society has struggled to make sense of the long tail of a pandemic.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165664/spanish-flu-covid-pandemic-virginia-woolf

Economics and Corruption and Healthcare and Education related links 031022

 

Economic Update: The Socialism Issue – Jan 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTfbGTe1zQc

 

Today's Socialism for Americans - Economic Update with Richard Wolff – Feb 1,2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdSh41iRCx4

 

Town Taken Over by Two Rich Guys - Economic Update with Richard Wolff – Feb 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUXNB5dDsaQ

 

Ask Prof Wolff: The Tragedy of Ex-Socialist Nations – Feb 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSEtaPwqO54

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Democracy in Workplaces and Communities - Feb 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI0cWocHphQ

 

Is Bitcoin Is Being Manipulated By The Banks? Economist Richard Wolff - Feb 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypTu5j1IgMM

 

Economic Update: Rebuilding a Labor and Left Movement - Feb 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNgSypL-FTY

 

Politics of Boris Johnson and Trump - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Feb 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_6ac3MB21Q

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Anarchism, Libertarianism, and Capitalism - Feb 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCheeFyqQdM

 

Will We Wake Up From Inflation Nightmare? (w/ Richard Wolff) - Feb 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YVam-Y3SrU

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Workplace Ownership Models - Feb 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKvwN_dmJZQ

 

This Generation is Ready for a New System - Global Capitalism with Richard Wolff – Feb 13, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrREpKw3auI

 

Economic Update: Fascism – Feb 14, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTZEtFwUpbc

 

U.S. Approaching Fascism? - Economic Update with Richard Wolff – Feb 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glGBrzTPztQ

 

How Capitalism Becomes Fascism - Economic Update with Richard Wolff – Feb 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edN0SCV3DOU

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Finding Common Ground with Canadian Truckers – Feb 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo13VR9C2uI

 

Are Americans Willing To Pay High Cost Of War In Ukraine? (w/ Richard Wolff) – Feb 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpiYnxUzYvU

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Transitions Between Economic Systems - Feb 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75nqHVDqLkc

 

Wolff Responds: Inflation, Prices, Interest Rates...A Policy Crisis - Feb 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orfOkHUypLs

 

Economic Update: Covid Criminals, Pandemic Profiteers – Feb 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnvBcR5Z3lI,

 

$30 Trillion Debt Gimmick - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Feb 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1NgK8pDPfs

 

Ukraine and Sanctions – How it Affects You (w/ Prof. Richard Wolff) - Feb 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctpiVZnw9VQ

 

AskProfWolff: Corporate Debt & Government Bailouts - Feb 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2MLJH-1QlI

 

Wolff Responds: Ukraine, Sanctions, and Rising Inflation – Feb 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bO79IXjYH8

 

Economic Update: Unaffordable Housing - Premiered Feb 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGwl4z1jZzU

 

What Truckers Could Be Demanding - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Mar 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZJd9cmMqwg

 

Ask Prof Wolff: The Yugoslav Experiment - Mar 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gHCSZe58ws

 

Economic Update: Green Party vs. 2-Party Monopoly - Mar 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQHMfIg4cDA

 

Non-Profit or Non-Taxed? - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Mar 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmkvu9OQ_Pg

 

U.S. Two-Party Political Cartel - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Mar 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziZOpRn4-44

 

Global Capitalism: The Inflation: Causes, Effects, & Outlook [March 2022] – Mar 9, 2022 

In this lecture, Prof. Wolff will discuss the following:

1. Impact of Ukraine events

2. What the FED can and cannot do about it

3. Solutions for inflation, past and present

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KDYZgBLQ3E

 

Boxed In: The Lehman Trilogy’s theater of financial malfeasance.

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/lehman-trilogy/

 

“If These Demands Are Not Met, We Will Be Striking by Not Attending School”: An interview with Ayleen Serrano and Nikayla Dean, organizers of Oakland’s student Covid protests.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/student-protest-covid-school/

 

Anti-Capitalist Crypto Experiments - All Things Co-op

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47DWVL7HgQc

 

The Future of Epidemic Tracking Is in Your Toilet: Wastewater is a crucial epidemiological tool for tracking Covid-19. It’s only going to get more important as climate change accelerates.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165271/covid-tracking-wastewater-climate

 

PHA is relocating residents to redevelop crumbling public housing towers. Most will never return.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/pha-westpark-apartments-residents-relocate-20220203.html

 

A MORAL BUDGET VERSUS A WAR BUDGET

https://kairoscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/PPC-BBB-fact-sheet.pdf

 

Capitalism Hits Home: How Americans Cope With Falling Living Standards – Feb 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX8xfo-2EDs

 

Joe Biden’s Good Start

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Editorial.html

 

How Corporate Greed is Causing Tornado Deaths

https://hightowerlowdown.org/podcast/how-corporate-greed-is-causing-tornado-deaths/

 

It’s Time for Biden to Keep His Promises On Marijuana: Even without Congress, the president could take important steps to ease federal cannabis prohibition. What’s he waiting for?

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Armentano.html

 

Restaurants Must Adapt or Die

http://www.populist.com/28.03.McMillen.html

 

The Continuing Phony Debate on ‘Free Trade’

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Baker.html

 

Cupid’s Most Painful Barb: Syphilis

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Retsinas.html

 

The Limits of Global ‘Laissez-Faire’

http://www.populist.com/28.03.OLeary.html

 

Ralph Nader: Think Big to Overcome Losing Big to Corporatism

https://scheerpost.com/2022/01/10/ralph-nader-think-big-to-overcome-losing-big-to-corporatism-2/

 

Can You Spare a Tire?

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Joseph.html

 

Union Nurses Seek Workplace Protections

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Sandronsky.html

 

We Need a 92 Percent Tax on Pandemic Profiteers: Let’s tax billionaires—and übermillionaires—back to where they stood when Covid-19 hit.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tax-billionaires-covid/

 

Facebook’s Sad, Hilarious Pivot (Again) to Video: Faced with an unprecedented crisis, the tech company is pursuing a path that many in the media industry are sure to find darkly amusing.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165290/facebook-zuckerberg-metaverse-earnings-report

 

Republicans Are Attacking a Biden Nominee Over His Stance on the Gig Economy: No, the gig economy isn’t taking over. Yes, employers use it to evade, illegally, their responsibilities for employees. Enter David Weil.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165275/republicans-attack-biden-nominee-david-weil-gig-economy

 

Democrats in Congress Are Poised to Hand Biden a Big Economic Win: The House passed the China competitiveness bill, which includes funding to shore up faltering supply chains.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165286/competes-act-china-supply-chain

 

How the Economy Defied Omicron to Add Nearly Half a Million Jobs: More people worked from home, but employers kept hiring, giving the Biden Administration a political lift.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-the-us-economy-defied-omicron-to-add-nearly-half-a-million-jobs

 

States Now Hold the Key to Making Medicare for All a Reality: With action stalled at the national level, local elected officials and movement organizers have joined forces to enact single-payer healthcare.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/medicare-for-all-single-payer-healthcare-california-new-york

 

Why single payer died in the California Legislature, again

https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/02/california-single-payer-legislature/

 

How to get Congress to reform our broken healthcare system

https://hightowerlowdown.org/podcast/how-to-get-congress-to-reform-our-broken-healthcare-system-3/

 

I Am Not Proof of the American Dream

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/opinion/tara-westover-educated-student-debt.html?te=1&nl=the-morning&emc=edit_nn_20220206

 

The Supreme Court Has Long Been Anti-Worker. This Is Biden’s Chance to Change That.  To fulfill his promise of being a “pro-union president,” Biden should choose a justice who has shown a commitment to defending workers’ rights.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/supreme-court-biden-breyer-union-labor

 

In a Single Year, $1.78 Trillion Was Taken From the Working Class: The wealth workers should have received, had wages kept up with productivity, was instead given to shareholders.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/build-back-better-wealth-gap-worker-power-income-inequality-wage-theft

 

A U.S. Court Just Intervened to Stop 17,000 Railroad Workers From Going On Strike: A conversation with Jeff Kurtz, a railway engineer and union member for 40 years.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/railroad-workers-labor-battle-bnsf-freight-blet-union

 

Biden sets first-year record with 6.6 million jobs added

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/04/business/joe-biden-jobs-record/index.html

 

Hello Tax the Rich Activists

https://mailchi.mp/51bd697f5a03/ttr-update-204?e=4c8b797e84

 

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION — JANUARY 2022

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

 

Job, Career, Calling: Key to Happiness and Meaning at Work?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/career-transitions/201206/job-career-calling-key-happiness-and-meaning-work

 

No, the US doesn’t have $30 trillion in debt

https://qz.com/2121442/no-the-us-does-not-have-30-trillion-in-debt/

 

‘Rooting against America’: Fox News faces backlash for seemingly celebrating a ‘bad jobs report’

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/4/2078606/--Real-patriots-don-t-root-for-failure-Fox-News-giddily-predicted-huge-losses-ahead-of-jobs-report?detail=emaildkre

 

How the Economy Got Restructured to Screw Workers: Why should capital bother to enslave labor when it can eliminate it instead?

https://newrepublic.com/article/165302/economy-got-restructured-screw-workers

 

Employment Situation Summary

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

 

My course "Wealth and Poverty" starts right here next Friday, And every subsequent Friday for 14 weeks

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/wealth-and-poverty-announcement?fbclid=IwAR0hC-jjg5AqtjfWzUCKMFk-yNNvDADqZMrH9aLWXG02aRl7M8E26QemiRE

 

Biden Is Doing All He Can for Unions, but It Still Isn’t Enough: A new administration report has great ideas, but only Congress can give labor real power, and the filibuster’s getting in the way.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165329/biden-union-task-force-report-pro-act-labor

 

Overworked, Underpaid, Traumatized, and Too White: Why congressional staffers are pushing to unionize their offices on Capitol Hill

https://newrepublic.com/article/165324/congress-staff-unionize-overworked-underpaid-traumatized-white

 

Fearless commentary on finance, economics, politics and power

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/01/michael-hudson-on-debt-parasites.html

 

The Land Belongs to God

https://michael-hudson.com/2017/01/the-land-belongs-to-god/

 

Editor's Note: Evicting the Elderly

https://progressive.org/magazine/editor-note-evicting-elderly-lueders/

 

‘Want to Go Home’: All over the country, nursing homes and senior care facilities are breaking the law, evicting elderly residents, and getting away with it.

https://progressive.org/magazine/evictingelderly-lueders/

 

Setting People Up to Succeed: An interview with guaranteed basic income advocate Michael Tubbs.

https://progressive.org/magazine/setting-people-up-to-succeed-stockwell/

 

Edge of Sports: Olympics Committee and Beijing, Peas in a Pod

https://progressive.org/magazine/olympics-beijing-peas-in-pod-zirin/

 

How To Play Monopoly

https://www.creators.com/read/jim-hightower/12/21/how-to-play-monopoly

 

NEW Tesla BATTERY CHESS MOVE OF THE CENTURY?!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K_aBoxtSnk

 

No, the Richest One Percent Don’t Pay 40 Percent of the Taxes.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/fact-check-richest-1-dont-pay-40-of-the-taxes.html

 

Who Said It: Jeff Bezos or Michael Scott? See how well you know your bad bosses.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165241/who-said-it-jeff-bezos-michael-scott-amazon-the-office

 

The Real Problem With Spotify Isn’t Joe Rogan: It’s how the streaming service exploits musicians to pay podcasters like Rogan millions of dollars.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165349/joe-rogan-spotify-real-problem-exploits-musicians

 

5 technologies that can help older people stay safe in their homes

https://www.nbcnews.com/paid-content/paid-content/5-technologies-can-help-older-people-stay-safe-their-homes-n1282008

 

Will Minneapolis Pass a Law That Helps Renters Buy Their Homes?  Advocates see the fight as a chance to stop developers from displacing residents.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/will-minneapolis-pass-a-law-that-helps-renters-buy-their-homes/

 

Why Big Chains Thrived While Small Restaurants Died: How the National Restaurant Association bent the government to the will of the corporate behemoths—and left workers in the dust.

https://www.motherjones.com/food/2022/02/national-restaurant-association-relief-revitalization-fund-pandemic-mcdonalds-subway-nra/

 

Are We Even Talking About the Same “Housing Crisis”?  There’s a know-it-when-you-see-it quality to the term. Maybe that’s a problem.

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2022/02/housing-crisis-keyword-mother-tongue-abinder-affordable/

 

Wake Up Democrats! Address Blue-Collar Grievances: Working families used to be the Democratic Party’s base. What made them so susceptible to the Republican con, and how can Democrats win them back?

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Gardner.html

 

Manufactured Meat

https://www.creators.com/read/jim-hightower/12/21/manufactured-meat

 

Team Greed Plays Big-Time Sports!

https://www.creators.com/read/jim-hightower/12/21/team-greed-plays-big-time-sports

 

Alan Guebert: Tyson Foods: Meatpacking isn't for chickens anymore

https://www.thepublicopinion.com/story/opinion/columns/2021/12/10/guebert-tyson-foods-meatpacking-isnt-chickens-anymore/6435481001/

 

Building Back OSHA

https://m.usw.org/blog/2021/building-back-osha

 

College and University Labor Militancy Grows

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Sandronsky.html

 

Will We See Deflation in the Next 12 Months?

https://www.cepr.net/will-we-see-deflation-in-the-next-12-months/

 

A Tale of Two Industries

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Joseph.html

 

Ending child care subsidies won’t restock store shelves. A fairer, more sustainable global economy might.

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Kolhatkar.html

 

Which Side is Manchin On?  One multimillionaire senator has the power to decide whether millions of kids — including mine — stay out of poverty.

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Olsen.html

 

One small step for Starbucks workers, one giant leap for workers across America: Why strikes are sweeping America -- and why that's a good thing

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/starbucks

 

Television Hits: Red State/FD, MED, PD

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Retsinas.html

 

Why Parents Shouldn’t Rely on Santa for Big Christmas Gifts

https://www.poncacitynews.com/opinion/why-parents-shouldnt-rely-santa-big-christmas-gifts

 

Hopeful Green Inventions

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Lingo.html

 

Tesla Will Pay $0 Federal Tax Despite Elon Musk’s $11 Billion Personal Tax Bill: Tesla has no taxable income to report in the U.S.

https://observer.com/2022/02/tesla-2021-federal-corporate-tax-elon-musk-personal-income/

 

In the age of work from home, Pennsylvania factories struggle with staffing

https://www.wesa.fm/economy-business/2022-02-10/in-the-age-of-work-from-home-pennsylvania-factories-struggle-with-staffing

 

It’s time to stop the insanity that is killing public education

https://baptistnews.com/article/its-time-to-stop-the-insanity-that-is-killing-public-education/

 

Hey, Larry David, Your Super Bowl Commercial Was Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Bad: Forget crypto. The currency that’s tanking right now is celebrity liberalism. Looking at you, Matt Damon, Reese Witherspoon, and LeBron James.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165376/larry-david-crypto-super-bowl-commercial-pretty-pretty-pretty-bad

 

We Need a 92 Percent Tax on Pandemic Profiteers: Let’s tax billionaires—and übermillionaires—back to where they stood when Covid-19 hit.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tax-billionaires-covid/

 

The University Crisis: Does the pandemic mark a breaking point?

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/american-universities-crisis/

 

Learning From Decades of Public Health Failure: A conversation with George Aumoithe on the history of disease prevention, the economic roots of the crisis American hospitals face, and why we need to do better.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/learning-from-decades-of-public-health-failure/

 

Last Resort Abortion in a Rural Reproductive Rights Wasteland: “If abortion is taken away in Wisconsin completely, people will do much worse things.”

https://inthesetimes.com/article/abortion-reproductive-healthcare-rural-wisconsin-abortion-rights-planned-parenthood-milwaukee-madison

 

Is Decentralizing the Internet the Answer?  Bitcoin, crypto, blockchain... what does it mean, and is anything coming from Big Tech really “revolutionary?”

https://inthesetimes.com/article/decentralized-internet-tech-crypto-blockchain-web3-regulation

Which Side Are You Democrats On? Even the friendliest Democratic officials are cowards. The labor movement needs to save itself.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/democrats-biden-pro-act-marty-walsh-labor-amazon-union

 

Times have never been better for billionaires. - Feb 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYSAm7FueJ0

 

Wealth & Poverty Class 1: What's happened to income and wealth in America over the past 40 years?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVNdvkXTe1E

 

Politics are Polarized, But Not for the Reason You Think | Robert Reich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Q9ynm2Rfg

 

Capitalism Hits Home: Political Right vs. Abortion Rights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0O1NXcB3RI

 

Why Worker Co-ops are Special (and Socialist) - All Things Co-op

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LFdMGokJPU

 

Inside America’s Greatest Modern Labor Success Story: An interview with Geoconda Argüello-Kline, who retired this month after 10 years leading the most successful private-sector union local in America

https://newrepublic.com/article/165407/geoconda-arguello-kline-culinary-union

 

A Woman Is Cured of H.I.V. Using a Novel Treatment: She’s the third person ever to be cured. Researchers announced that the new approach holds the potential for curing more people of racially diverse backgrounds.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/health/hiv-cure-cord-blood.html

 

'Where is my office anyway?' As COVID recedes, remote workers prepare to head back

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/17/1080881870/return-to-the-office-remote-work-hybrid-schedule-worker-productivity

 

How the Left Should Think About Inflation: There is no compelling reason to raise interest rates, now or later.

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/inflation-federal-reserve/

 

Addressing lost opportunity, frustration in forgotten America

http://www.populist.com/28.04.ArtCullen.html

 

The Stock Market Bubble and the Regulation Paradox: Understanding the several smaller financial-market bubbles that make up the big one

https://prospect.org/economy/stock-market-bubble-and-regulation-paradox/

 

Young Workers Rising

https://m.usw.org/blog/2022/young-workers-rising

 

U.S. Politicians Spend Their Time Papering Over the Social Problems Caused by Profit-Driven Capitalism

https://www.pressenza.com/2022/01/u-s-politicians-spend-their-time-papering-over-the-social-problems-caused-by-profit-driven-capitalism/

 

Dean Baker | All workers should share the benefits of growth; raise the federal minimum wage

https://www.tribdem.com/news/editorials/columns/dean-baker-all-workers-should-share-the-benefits-of-growth-raise-the-federal-minimum-wage/article_d38d766c-7ac6-11ec-a05e-d74d02a06a8c.html

 

Could California Actually Pass Single-Payer Health Care?

https://www.laprogressive.com/pass-single-payer-health-care/

 

California’s Single-Payer Health Care Down but Not Out?

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Sandronsky.html

 

Psst: Want to know why Americans are gloomy about the "best" economy since 1984?  Hint: It's not inflation.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-starbucks-dilemma?utm_source=url

 

Bush-Era Crack Panic Is Back, and It’s Going to Get People Killed: Right-wingers dusted off their 1980s playbook to demonize a valid harm-reduction technique—and Democrats shamefully caved to them.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165357/biden-crack-pipe-fake-outrage

 

Rest in Peace: Goat Gonads, et al.

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Retsinas.html

 

‘Ratings whore’ Jeff Zucker has quit. Good riddance. Trump was his original sin.

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Polman.html

 

Ralph Nader: Investigative Nemesis Of Corporate Criminals Morton Mintz Turns 100 – OpEd [Eurasia Review]

https://insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/ralph-nader-investigative-nemesis-of-corporate-criminals-morton-mintz-turns-100-oped-eurasia-review

 

Very Hip Companies Face Unions and Don’t Like It

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Atkins.html

 

Bernie Sanders demolishes the rich in Senate speech: ‘Oligarch’ America is here: ‘Time is approaching that we should offer a unanimous resolution congratulating the billionaire class’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/bernie-sanders-oligarch-america-speech-b2017004.html

 

‘Nurses Have Finally Learned What They’re Worth’: As the coronavirus spread, demand for nurses came from every corner. Some jobs for travelers paid more than $10,000 a week. Will the boom last?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/magazine/traveling-nurses.html

 

Youth to Biden: Drop Debt.  Democrats may be doomed in the midterms without student debt cancellation.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/youth-vote-student-debt-cancellation-loan-forgiveness-midterms

 

Sanitation Strike Not a Waste: A sanitation workers strike ended in defeat, but it was a good fight garnering national support.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/new-orleans-hoppers-unions-sanitation-workers-strikes-labor-movement-fair-wages-grassroots-organizing-city-waste-union

 

Middle America: A Family Farm’s Demise, a Democracy’s Decline

https://progressive.org/magazine/family-farm-demise-conniff/

 

Work Won't Love You Back: Wanted: An Anti-Work Movement

https://progressive.org/magazine/antiwork-movement-jaffe/

 

The Big Quit

https://progressive.org/magazine/the-big-quit-herman/

 

How Big Businesses Are Colonizing the Classroom: Parents say their children’s education suffers when career and technical education programs are tailored to the needs of corporations.

https://progressive.org/magazine/big-businesses-colonizing-classroom-bryant-hillman/

 

The Growing Blight of “Infill” McMansions: Their awful ugliness exemplifies the unbalanced economy that spawned them.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/01/17/the-growing-blight-of-infill-mcmansions/

 

Why Are We Torching Our Best Tool to End Child Poverty? My daughter and I were on the verge of homelessness before the Child Tax Credit. What’s going to happen to vulnerable families now?

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Moore.html

 

To Fix the Supply Chain Mess, Take on Wall Street: Financiers bent on short-term profits are largely responsible for America’s shortage of semiconductors and other key materials. Before we offer them more subsidies, how about demanding some accountability?

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/01/17/to-fix-the-supply-chain-mess-take-on-wall-street/

 

Accidents Waiting to Happen: The folly of blaming individuals for fatalities that could have been prevented.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/01/17/accidents-waiting-to-happen/

 

We the Regulators: Between Marxism and market fundamentalism is a new vision for progressive government.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/01/17/we-the-regulators/

 

Meat-Eating and Subsidizing Our Way Towards Extinction

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/21/meat-eating-and-subsidizing-our-way-towards-extinction

 

When Your Doctor Isn’t a Doctor: Thousands of urgent care clinics have popped up over the last decade. How safe are they?

https://newrepublic.com/article/165235/when-urgent-care-doctor-is-not-doctor

 

2022 ORGANIZING GUIDE - WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

https://medicareforall.dsausa.org/2022-organizing-guide/intro

 

2022 ORGANIZING GUIDE - MEDICARE FOR ALL, NOT MEDICARE FOR WALL STREET:

DSA CALLS FOR THE END OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S MEDICARE PRIVATIZATION SCHEME

https://medicareforall.dsausa.org/2022-organizing-guide/medicare-privatization

 

Chris Hedges | Our SICK Society 🤮

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwnynLc2U4Q

 

European Soccer Only Has Itself to Blame for Its Russia Problem: The invasion of Ukraine shines a harsh light on the obscene greed that has guided decision-making for decades.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165505/european-soccer-putin-russia-abramovich

 

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Technological Dynamism - Feb 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ay-bnxxRg4

 

Competition Between States -Anti-Capitalist Chronicles - Feb 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIr187kBwXs

 

Houston Is Hailed as a National Success for Fighting Homelessness. But the Reality Isn’t Quite as Rosy.

Simple overall stats don’t show the truth of the housing crisis.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165368/houston-homeless-population-reality-isnt-rosy

 

Most Powerful Economies in the World (1980-2026) - Jun 9, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmOnUSE6vjQ

 

You Are Being Lied to About Inflation | Robert Reich - Feb 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi4KMCQuQYE

 

Under Pressure, the Biden Administration Rebrands Its Medicare Privatization Initiative

https://jacobinmag.com/2022/02/biden-medicare-privatization-direct-contracting-dce-aco-reach-rebrand/?link_id=0

 

HOW TO ENJOY LIFE, AND AVOID SSA INVESTIGATIONS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08v2hIA93fY

 

Biden Was Spot-On: The Meat Monopoly Is Real and Insidious.  It was great to see the president criticize the large meatpackers Tuesday night. But why didn’t he say what he’ll do about it?

https://newrepublic.com/article/165576/biden-meat-monopoly-antitrust-economy

 

Jim Hightower: Corporations Win Olympic Gold in "Downhill Ethical Backflip"

https://magicvalley.com/opinion/columnists/jim-hightower-corporations-win-olympic-gold-in-downhill-ethical-backflip/article_926b92dc-3ef5-5328-889a-c7347c21766e.html

 

Unions Can Prevent Workplace Disasters: A trillion-dollar company like Amazon, with a centi-billionaire CEO, shouldn’t have warehouses that collapse.

http://www.populist.com/28.05.Entralgo.html

 

What Happened, Ms. Yellen?  How the Treasury has become the graveyard of progressive financial regulation

http://www.populist.com/28.05.Kuttner.html

 

Exploiting Young Workers

https://m.usw.org/blog/2022/exploiting-young-workers

 

Welfare Is No Substitute for a Child Tax Credit: Some in Congress say the child tax credit isn’t needed because Temporary Assistance for Needy Families is a success. Our reporting found it’s marked by repeated failures.

http://www.populist.com/28.05.Hager.html

 

More Quick Thoughts on Inflation After the January CPI

https://cepr.net/more-quick-thoughts-on-inflation-after-the-january-cpi/

 

Good Riddance to Amazon’s Terrible Bookstores: Amazon is as dominant as ever—and its retail ambitions aren’t going anywhere. But booksellers can toast the end of its disastrous foray into their turf.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165601/good-riddance-amazon-terrible-bookstores

 

The fed is about to shaft American workers

https://robertreich.org/post/675282257789992960

 

Physicians Slam Industry Push to ‘Fix’—Not End—Medicare Privatization Scheme: “The industry thinks they can save it with minor tweaks and cosmetic fixes. But we won’t back down until Direct Contracting is shut down, for good,” one doctor said of the Trump-era program.

http://www.populist.com/28.05.Johnson.html

 

Unfair Labor Practice Strike at California Art College

http://www.populist.com/28.05.Sandronsky.html

 

How BlackRock, Vanguard, and UBS Are Screwing the World: Such firms control a huge portion of the world's wealth. Instead of using that power to solve climate change, they're blocking progress and profiting off inequality.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165623/blackrock-vanguard-ubs-climate

 

How the Left Should Think About Inflation: There is no compelling reason to raise interest rates, now or later.

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/inflation-federal-reserve/

 

A “Simultaneously Hidden and Deliciously Obvious” History of Levantine Cuisine: Writer Antonio Tahhan and Anny Gaul, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, discuss a new collection of essays on the region’s food.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/anny-gaul-antonio-tahhan-interview/

 

The Avoidable Tragedy of Road Deaths: The media pays a lot of attention to rising crime, but more than twice as many people die in traffic collisions in the US.

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/driving-deaths/

 

Why Teachers Are Dropping Out: Covid and the culture wars have turned an exodus of teachers into an emergency.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/teachers-covid-culture-wars/

 

The Market’s Specter: China between capitalism and communism.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/china-communism-free-markets/

 

Amazon referred to US attorney general over ‘potentially criminal conduct’: House judiciary committee asks Merrick Garland to investigate whether retail giant obstructed Congress with misleading conduct

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/09/amazon-attorney-general-potentially-criminal-conduct-house-judiciary-committee

 

Why Gas Costs So Much? Trump, Saudi Arabia & Putin Exposed! - Mar 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=837aDz_paNg