Message to My Readers 051722

 

Well, it has been a little more than 5 weeks since my last blog update.  Here is another update of this blog.

 

This time it is 102 pages of links to the news covering the last 5 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 five weeks there have been 24 million new cases in the world, 88 thousand new deaths in the world, 2.3 million new cases in the U.S.A., 14.7 thousand new deaths in the U.S.A., 60.4 thousand new cases in Pennsylvania, 390 new deaths in Pennsylvania, 7.8 thousand new cases in Philadelphia, and 29 new deaths in Philadelphia.  During this past five 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: 523,544,206; 6,291,615; 84,357,607; 1,026,899; 2,849,663; 44,814; 317,128; and 5,110.       

 

During the next few months, we will be contending with the new Deltacron variant and its subvariants of the coronavirus.  Subvariants of Concern include: B.1.1.529, BA.1, BA.1.1, BA.2, BA.3, BA.4 and BA.5.  While the virus continues to mutate we must remain vigilant. 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.  During the past five weeks, we blasted through the milestone one millionth death from Covid-19 in the United States; those deaths now stand about 27,000 above a million.               

 

The war of resistance by Ukraine against the Russian invasion about 84 days ago continues on.  Ukraine, with financial and material assistance from various other nations, including the U.S., has been able to repel many Russian initiatives.  Russia may soon be forced to withdraw completely from Ukraine after suffering huge losses of personnel and equipment.  Over six million people have fled Ukraine and are now refugees.  About half of them are children.  Some are beginning to return to Ukraine as the security situation is improving.       

 

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.  The 7.8 billion human beings on planet earth need to cooperate more with each other and compete less with each other.  They need to learn how to equitably and sustainably share the resources of the earth with each other and with all other species on planet earth.

 

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

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Veterans related links 051722

 

JWV Designates Volodymyr Zelensky as Honorary Patron

https://www.jwv.org/jwv-designates-volodymyr-zelensky-as-honorary-patron/

 

Tipping Point for Bill Helping Combat-Injured Veterans: Make Your Voice Heard

https://www.moaa.org/content/publications-and-media/news-articles/2022-news-articles/advocacy/tipping-point-for-bill-helping-combat-injured-veterans-make-your-voice-heard/

 

Veterans Suicide Awareness Resource FairV6B

https://www.camdencounty.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Veterans-Suicide-Awareness-Resource-FairV6B.pdf

 

H.R.475 - Health Care Fairness for Military Families Act of 2021.  01/25/2021 - Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/475

 

H.R.1282 - Major Richard Star Act.  This bill provides that combat-disabled uniformed services retirees with fewer than 20 years of creditable service may concurrently receive, without reduction, veterans' disability compensation and retired pay or combat-related special compensation.  02/24/2021 - Introduced in House and Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.  04/12/2021 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1282/

 

H.R.1801 - CHAMPVA Children’s Care Protection Act of 2021.  03/11/2021 - Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.  06/16/2021 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1801

 

H.R.1836 - Guard and Reserve GI Bill Parity Act of 2021.  03/11/2021 - Introduced in House and Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.  01/12/2022 – House On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 287 - 135 (Roll no. 6).  01/13/2022 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1836

 

H.R.2214 - Military Retiree Survivor Comfort Act.  03/26/2021 - Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2214

 

H.R.2339 - Military Hunger Prevention Act.  04/01/2021  - Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2339

 

H.R.2494 - To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish in the Department the Veterans Economic Opportunity and Transition Administration, and for other purposes.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2494

 

H.R.2724 - VA Peer Support Enhancement for MST Survivors Act.  04/21/2021 - Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.  07/14/2021 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.  04/06/2022 - Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2724

 

H.R.3402 - Caring for Survivors Act of 2021.  05/20/2021 - Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3402

 

H.R. 3967 - Honoring Our PACT Act.  Ask your senators to pass this bill now!  The House has passed the bill, "Honoring Our PACT Act" (H.R.3967), sponsored by the House Veterans Affairs Committee (HVAC) Chairman Mark Takano (Calif.). Now the Senate needs to pass it. The bill would allow for the first time all veterans who were at risk of toxic exposure, including 3.5 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, to obtain immediate and lifelong access to health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) - one of the largest expansions of health care eligibility in the VA's history. The bill would provide presumptive care for numerous conditions for veterans sickened by exposure to burn pits and other toxins. This bill (H.R.3967) would also establish a new science-based and veteran-focused process for the establishment of new presumptive conditions and would provide benefits to thousands of toxic exposure veterans who have been long-ignored or forgotten, including Agent Orange veterans suffering from hypertension.

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

 

H.R.4673 - Ensuring Veterans' Smooth Transition (EVEST) Act.  07/22/2021 - Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.  01/20/2022 - Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 265 - 163 (Roll no. 14).  01/20/2022 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4673

 

H.R.4824 - Stop Copay Overpay Act.  07/29/2021 - Introduced in House and Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4824

 

H.R.5666 - Servicemembers and Veterans Empowerment and Support Act of 2021.  10/21/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services.  11/02/2021 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5666

 

H.R.6663 - Fleet Reserve Association 100th Anniversary Act.  02/09/2022 - Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6663

 

H.R.6823 - Elizabeth Dole Home and Community Based Services for Veterans and Caregivers Act of 2022.  02/25/2022 - Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.  03/28/2022 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6823

 

H.R.7369 - the VENTURE Act would remove the restriction that a veteran have the most severe service-connected disabilities (requiring home-bound training or self-employment or both) to be eligible for the self-employment track. This legislation will open eligibility allowing more service-connected disabled veterans to participate in the self-employment track in VR&E.  04/01/2022 - Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.  04/05/2022 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7369

 

S.344 - Major Richard Star Act. Companion bill for H.R. 1282.  02/22/2021 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.  03/17/2021 - Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. Referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/344

 

S.612 - Improving Housing Outcomes for Veterans Act of 2021.  03/05/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/612

 

S.727 - CHAMPVA Children's Care Protection Act of 2021.  03/11/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/727

 

S.731 - Department of Veterans Affairs Information Technology Reform Act of 2021.  03/11/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/731

 

S.976 - Caring for Survivors Act of 2021.  03/25/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/976

 

S.1054 - Taiwan Relations Reinforcement Act of 2021.  03/25/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1054

 

S.1488 - Military Hunger Prevention Act.  04/29/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1488

 

S.535 - Global War on Terrorism Memorial Location Act wound up in S.1605 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, which was enacted as FY2022 National Defense Authorization Act (P.L.117-81), Sec. 6605 of which authorizes that the future Global War on Terror (GWOT) memorial be placed in Washington D.C. on the National Mall, which is a unit of the United States National Park System. It is located near the downtown area of Washington, D.C. and is administered by the National Park Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior. The memorial will be dedicated to the 2.7 million troops who served since Sept. 11, 2001. In 2017, then President Trump approved the "Global War on Terrorism War Memorial Act" that exempted this memorial from the law that requires a 10-year wait after an official end of the war for building a memorial on the Capitol Mall.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/535/text

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1605

https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-117publ81

 

S.1607 - Student Veterans Transparency and Protection Act of 2021.  05/13/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1607

 

S.1664 - Department of Veterans Affairs Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Processing Claims Improvement Act of 2021.  05/18/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1664

 

S.1669 - Military Retiree Survivor Comfort Act.  05/18/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1669

 

S.1850 - Chaplains Memorial Preservation Act.  05/26/2021 -Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1850

 

S.1936 - GI Bill National Emergency Extended Deadline Act of 2021.  05/27/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1936

 

S.1944 - Vet Center Improvement Act of 2021.  05/27/2021 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1944

 

S.1972 - Health Care Fairness for Military Families Act of 2021.  06/08/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1972

 

S.2089 - Burial Equity for Guards and Reserves Act of 2021.  06/16/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. 03/07/2022 - Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. 03/08/2022 - Received in the House.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2089

 

S.2431 - Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General Training Act of 2021.  07/22/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2431

 

S.2513 - Brian Neuman Department of Veterans Affairs Clothing Allowance Improvement Act of 2021.  07/28/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S5144)

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2513

 

S.2533 - Making Advances in Mammography and Medical Options for Veterans Act.  07/29/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.  03/23/2022 - Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S1754-1756; text: CR S1754)  03/24/2022 - Received in the House.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2533

 

S.2624 - Fiscal Year 2022 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act.  08/05/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2624

 

S.2627 - Rural Veterans Travel Enhancement Act of 2021.  08/05/2021 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2627

 

S.2644 - GRAD VA Educational Assistance Parity Act of 2021.  08/05/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2644

 

S.2687 - Strengthening Oversight for Veterans Act of 2021.  08/10/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. 04/07/2022 - Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote.  04/11/2022 - Received in the House.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2687

 

S.2720 - Veterans’ Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research Act.  09/13/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2720

 

S.2761 - Every Veteran Counts Act of 2021.  09/20/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2761

 

S.2794 - Supporting Families of the Fallen Act.  09/22/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.  03/23/2022 - Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote.  03/24/2022 - Received in the House.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2794

 

S.2852 - Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act.  09/27/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2852

 

S.3003 - Comprehensive and Overdue Support for Troops of War Act of 2021.  10/19/2021 - Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3003

 

S.3025 - Servicemembers and Veterans Empowerment and Support Act of 2021.  10/20/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3025

 

S.3094 - Reaching Every Homeless Veteran Act of 2021.  10/27/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3094

 

S.3163 - RURAL Exams Act of 2021.  11/04/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3163

 

S.3293 - Post-9/11 Veterans’ Mental Health Care Improvement Act of 2021.  12/01/2021                - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3293

 

S.3388 - Veterans Benefits Improvement Act of 2021.  12/14/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3388

 

Gold Star Family Day Bill Introduced!  U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Joni Ernst (Iowa), members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, introduced the "Gold Star Families Day Act" (S.3734), that would dedicate the last Monday in September as a federal holiday in observance and recognition of sacrifice that all Gold Star Family members make when a father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter or other loved one dies in service to the nation.

"Gold Star Families make incredible sacrifices for our country, and that's why I'm introducing Gold Star Families Day Act with Senator Ernst - to honor and respect the painful sacrifice that continually lives with the families of our fallen heroes," said Warren.

"For the countless American families spanning generations who have given and sacrificed so much to defend our nation and protect our freedoms and way of life, our country is eternally grateful to you. As a combat veteran, I'm honored to join with my colleague Senator Warren in leading the Senate on this measure to recognize the sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters of the fallen who solemnly and proudly display the Gold Star," said Ernst.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3734?s=1&r=9

 

S.3541 - Health Care for Burn Pit Veterans Act.  02/01/2022 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.  02/16/2022 - Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote.  02/18/2022 - Received in the House.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3541

 

Prominent VSOs Issue Independent Budget Recommendations for the VA: For fiscal year 2023, the IBVSOs is recommending $121.2 billion for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to meet the full demand for care

https://www.vfw.org/media-and-events/latest-releases/archives/2022/2/prominent-vsos-issue-independent-budget-recommendations-for-the-va

 

Next Steps: Examining Plans for the Continuation of VA's EHRM Program - Streamed live Apr 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2-aPt95s3c

 

At What Cost? Ensuring Quality Representation in the Veteran Benefit Claims Process - Started streaming Apr 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR_8byEaKUg

 

VVA PA State Council Meeting, June 10 & 11, 2022

https://www.vva-pa.org/state-council-meetings

 

Herbert W Worthington Jr. Obituary

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/herbert-worthington-obituary?id=34486366

 

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The VA Watchdog

https://www.vawatchdog.org/

 

VVA National President Jack McManus Calls for Accountability and Quality Representation in Veteran Benefit Claims Process

https://vva.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Press-Release-22-02-3.pdf

 

Tough Questions on Character and Vision for Top VA Benefits and Health Nominees at Confirmation Hearing

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/04/28/tough-questions-character-and-vision-top-va-benefits-and-health-nominees-confirmation-hearing.html

 

VA Adds 9 Respiratory Cancers to List of Conditions Related to Post-9/11 Burn Pit Exposure

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/04/26/va-adds-9-respiratory-cancers-list-of-conditions-related-post-9-11-burn-pit-exposure.html

 

VA Adds 9 Respiratory Cancers to List of Conditions Related to Post-9/11 Burn Pit Exposure

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/04/26/va-adds-9-respiratory-cancers-list-of-conditions-related-post-9-11-burn-pit-exposure.html

 

Aviator Cancer Bill Would Push VA to Study Toxins Air Crews Faced, Assess Links to Cancers: Ground crew and flight crew cancers would be reviewed. So would the fuels, chemicals, and emissions they were exposed to.

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2022/04/aviator-cancer-bill-would-push-va-study-toxins-air-crews-faced-assess-links-cancers/365740/

 

Lawsuit argues veterans with substance-use disorders should be eligible for discharge upgrades

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2022-04-28/army-veteran-lawsuit-discharge-upgrade-substance-abuse-5830843.html

 

4 New Burial Sites with Capacity for More Than 300,000 Veterans and Their Families Part of VA Plans

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/04/20/4-new-burial-sites-capacity-more-300000-veterans-and-their-families-part-of-va-plans.html

 

MOAA Testifies Before Congress on Top Priorities for Veterans

https://www.moaa.org/content/publications-and-media/news-articles/2022-news-articles/advocacy/moaa-testimony-2022/

 

Read the May 2022 Newsletter from the Delaware Valley Veterans Consortium to stay informed about events and issues happening in the area.

https://dvvc.org/may-2022-newsletter/

 

PA Senate Bill 1135 - An Act providing for funding to address habitability concerns in owner-occupied and rental units, measures to improve energy or water efficiency and make units accessible for individuals with disabilities; establishing the Whole-Home Repairs Program and the Whole-Home Repairs Fund; and imposing duties on the Department of Community and Economic Development.

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/billinfo.cfm?syear=2021&sind=0&body=S&type=B&bn=1135

 

PA State Senator Nikil Saval, PA Senate District 1

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/member_information/senate_bio.cfm?id=1921

 

May 4, 2022, DMVA Digest, A publication of the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs

https://maestro.pa.gov/list/k3hdw2n4/220428B/48vj9ebp022p.vib?a0=12187

 

U.S. Navy Memorial SITREP Series

https://www.navymemorial.org/SITREP

 

The VA Moves Mountains To Make Health Care Records Accessible To Members With DrOwl

https://capitolhilltimes.com/2021/12/16/the-va-moves-mountains-to-make-health-care-records-accessible-to-members-with-drowl/

 

Jewish troops who died in World War II finally receive Star of David headstones

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2022/04/26/jewish-troops-who-died-in-world-war-ii-finally-receive-star-of-david-headstones/

 

Preserving Jewish civilization under the noses of the Nazis

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/defiance-2009

 

Enrollment Verification – Education and Training

https://benefits.va.gov/gibill/isaksonroe/verification_of_enrollment.asp

 

Discover how Veterans like you have overcome life’s challenges.

https://www.maketheconnection.net/mhm

 

Mental Health Resources for Veterans

https://www.benefits.gov/news/article/444

 

2022 Military Appreciation Month Discounts

https://www.military.com/military-appreciation-month/military-appreciation-month-discounts.html#:~:text=Current%20and%20former%20military%20members,May%201%20through%20July%204.

 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced: Returning home for burial with full military honors is Army Pfc. William J. Sharp, 18, of Osborn, Ohio, was assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He was reported killed in action on July 24, 1950, after his unit sustained heavy casualties while defending against the North Korean army’s advance near Hwanggan, South Korea. Following the war, his remains could not be recovered. He will be buried in Dayton, Ohio, on May 20, 2022. 

https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/2456002/soldier-accounted-for-from-korean-war-sharp-w/

 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced: Returning home for burial with full military honors is Army Pvt. Walter G. Wildman, 20, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was assigned to Company M, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. On Nov.13, 1944, his unit was part of the Hürtgen Forest offensive in Germany, when he was reported killed in action. Following the battle his remains could not be recovered. He will be buried in Newton, Pennsylvania, on May 23, 2022.

https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/2921542/soldier-accounted-for-from-world-war-ii-wildman-w/

 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced: Returning home for burial with full military honors is Army Pfc. Jack E. Lilley, 19, of Wadsworth, Ohio was assigned to Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on July 20,1950, after his unit was forced to retreat from the vicinity of Taejon, South Korea. Following the battle, his remains could not be recovered. He will be buried in Westerville, Ohio, on June 14, 2022.

https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/2839970/soldier-accounted-for-from-korean-war-lilley-j/

 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced: Returning home for burial with full military honors is Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Newell F. Mills Jr., 21, of St. Petersburg, Florida, was assigned to the 354th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group. On April 7, 1945, Mills was piloting a P-51D Mustang fighter escorting a formation of B-24 Liberator bombers to a target in Geesthacht, Germany. The formation encountered German fighters near Bremen, where he and the other escort pilots engaged the Germans. Following the mission, Mills and his wingman never returned to base or were reported as prisoners of war. The War Department issued an administrative Finding of Death on April 8, 1946. He will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on a date yet to be determined.

https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/2958722/pilot-accounted-for-from-world-war-ii-mills-n/

 

Caregiver resources you should know about

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USVHA/bulletins/3177a99

 

America250: Marine Veteran Duane Dewey

https://blogs.va.gov/VAntage/98059/america250-marine-veteran-duane-dewey/

 

Hepatitis B: The other vaccine you should know

https://blogs.va.gov/VAntage/103263/hepatitis-b-the-other-vaccine-you-should-know/

 

VA helped Veteran Kevin Rumley. Now he helps others.

https://blogs.va.gov/VAntage/103153/va-helped-veteran-kevin-rumley-now-he-helps-others/

 

VFW Salutes Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage: People from throughout the Pacific Ocean islands and around the Pacific rim helped build and defend America

https://www.vfw.org/media-and-events/latest-releases/archives/2022/5/vfw-salutes-asian-american-native-hawaiian-and-pacific-islander-heritage

 

VFW Post Makes Community ‘Better Place for All’: Post members view Day of Service as an opportunity to serve and inspire others

https://www.vfw.org/media-and-events/latest-releases/archives/2022/5/vfw-post-makes-community-better-place-for-all

 

From a Teenager in China to an Army Lawyer in America: The Remarkable Career of Judge Advocate General John L. Fugh

https://armyhistory.org/from-a-teenager-in-china-to-an-army-lawyer-in-america-the-remarkable-career-of-judge-advocate-general-john-l-fugh/

Criminal Justice and Racism and Ageism and other discrimination related links 051722

 

The magnificent dance of Margo Jefferson's Constructing a Nervous System: The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic returns with a brilliant memoir on race, criticism, and self

https://theweek.com/culture/books/1011491/the-magnificent-dance-of-margo-jeffersons-constructing-a-nervous-system

 

Black Like Me? Bridgerton and the Fantasy of a Non-Racist Past.  We can imagine a world where the only thing wrong with racial inequality is that non-white people are not allowed to share in the spoils of empire—but would we really want to live in it?

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/bridgerton-racism-shonda-rhimes/

 

Another World: The fantasias of Niki de Saint Phalle.

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/niki-de-saint-phalle/

 

‘They Made Me More Dangerous Than Anyone Could Ever F-cking Imagine’: Frank R. James, named as a suspect in the New York City subway shooting, left an online trail of hate

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Fculture%2Fculture-news%2Ffrank-james-new-york-brooklyn-subway-shooting-social-media-posts-1336740%2F

 

David Roediger, "Thinking Through Slavery..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyU_4hDBxco

 

A Reckoning With How Slavery Ended: Kris Manjapra’s new book, “Black Ghost of Empire,” examines the ways white slaveholders were compensated, while formerly enslaved people were not.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166102/reckoning-slavery-ended-kris-manjapra-black-ghost-empire

 

'Atlanta' Episode Highlights Debate Over Reparations - Apr 16, 2022  T

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Ytl6ZQ8NU

 

VP Harris Holds First-Ever Cabinet Meeting On The Black Maternal Health Crisis - Apr 16, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9intONnKUg

 

What has happened to us? | Gene Lyons

https://santamariatimes.com/opinion/commentary/what-has-happened-to-us-gene-lyons/article_eb1e88c9-664b-55cf-8ae5-7d842d07903d.html

 

Jamie Stiehm: Racing away from our past with Judge Jackson

https://www.nvdaily.com/nvdaily/jamie-stiehm-racing-away-from-our-past-with-judge-jackson/article_32320c5f-530d-539e-a050-9fb624436c3e.html

 

Guns become leading cause of death for children and adolescents in America

https://theweek.com/news/1012874/guns-become-leading-cause-of-death-for-children-and-adolescents-in-the-us

 

Prosecutor accidentally shoots himself in courthouse office

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-accidents-fff9452aa94ba60c892647c1ad816014

 

Why We Need Speechwriters Who Look Like America: America’s first Black presidential speechwriter on how leaders can speak more effectively to a diversifying country.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/20/why-we-need-speechwriters-who-look-like-america/

 

New Podcast Celebrates Black History and Future

https://thehumanist.com/magazine/spring-2022/up-front/new-podcast-celebrates-black-history-and-future

 

Repair Can’t Wait: The Case for Reparations

https://thehumanist.com/magazine/spring-2022/commentary/repair-cant-wait-the-case-for-reparations

 

Why Every Parent Should be a Gay-Friendly Parent

https://thehumanist.com/magazine/spring-2022/humanist-living/why-every-parent-should-be-a-gay-friendly-parent

 

AHA’s Ten Commitments at Work in Uganda

https://thehumanist.com/magazine/spring-2022/up-front/ahas-ten-commitments-at-work-in-uganda

 

Faith in Oneself: Towards a Black Humanist Buddhism

https://thehumanist.com/magazine/spring-2022/features/faith-in-oneself-towards-a-black-humanist-buddhism

 

Sex, Death, and Empire: The Roots of Violence Against Asian Women.  The line from America’s earliest empire in the Philippines to Japan, Korea, Vietnam—and anti-Asian violence at home—is straight, clear, and written in blood.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/anti-asian-racism-women/

 

Amid the Uprisings: Cedric Robinson’s theory of collective resistance.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cedric-robinson-essays/

 

Who Did Joe Biden Pardon? Full List of People Granted Clemency

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-pardon-full-list-people-granted-clemency-1701005

 

The Climate Crisis is a Struggle Against Colonialism - Reparations Now! - Started streaming Apr 27, 2022

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

 

The Climate Crisis is a Struggle Against Colonialism - Reparations Now! - Streamed live on Apr 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kPAgufVimE&t=18s

 

Neil Gorsuch Has a Critical Race Theory About Puerto Rico: The justice’s recent opinion takes a strong stance against the shameful way the United States has ruled over the territory.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166219/gorsuch-puerto-rico-insular-cases

 

Founder of Black Doctors Consortium appointed regional director of U.S. Health and Human Services by Biden.  Dr. Ala Stanford started the organization to provide COVID-19 testing and vaccines to underserved communities during the pandemic

https://www.phillyvoice.com/ala-stanford-biden-health-human-services-regional-director-appointment/amp/

 

Don’t Let the Tobacco Industry Use George Floyd to Kill a Ban on Menthol Cigarettes: Most members of the Congressional Black Caucus agree that the ban is a great move. So why is Al Sharpton taking the side of R.J. Reynolds?

https://newrepublic.com/article/166246/fda-ban-menthol-cigarettes-al-sharpton-rj-reynolds-george-floyd

 

Pyramids and the Ancient Nile Valley Civilization. - Sep 8, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnM7qfSdGDY

 

Pro-Confederates celebrating 'Confederate Memorial Day' clashed with protestors at Georgia's Stone Mountain

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pro-confederates-celebrating-confederate-memorial-151124199.html

 

A Role Model for the Midterms: Democrats need to fight back against the Republicans’ phony culture war. Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow showed how.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/09/a-role-model-for-the-midterms

 

Are the Kids All Right?: Racism | CBS Reports.  A racial reckoning is happening in America, but the voices of kids and teens are often missing from that conversation. In this episode of the CBS Reports documentary series "Are the Kids All Right?" young people from across the country share their perspectives on race and firsthand experiences with racism in the U.S. today.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/are-the-kids-all-right-racism-cbs-reports/

 

Crypto Is a Risky Bet for Black Americans: There are better ways to close the racial wealth gap while giving a leg up to Americans of every color.

https://www.populist.com/28.09.AsanteMuhammad.html

 

Don’t Say Mexican

https://www.populist.com/28.09.Cintli.html

 

Sacramento Shooting Aftermath: Interviewing a Community Advocate

https://www.populist.com/28.09.Sandronsky.html

 

Jackie Robinson’s Last Fight: As baseball celebrates the 75th anniversary of Robinson’s breaking the color line, it’s worth remembering a man at odds with his own myth.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jackie-robinson-baseball-racism/

 

Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: Building Trust in Everyday Moments Dismantles Proverbial Closet

https://www.noozhawk.com/article/bonnie_jean_feldkamp_building_trust_in_everyday_moments_dismantles_20220425

 

Coard: Slavery never really ended because 13th Amendment still allows it

https://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/michaelcoard/coard-slavery-never-really-ended-because-13th-amendment-still-allows-it/article_a04c13ca-ea30-5f8d-a534-4a1ba46c7e00.html?fbclid=IwAR13kYiuR3f2jHmMHhphgkn63WklMd8y_OrhNFZse1vx3nM_-kjNK8unFEk

 

‘He’s Following Me! I am Working!’: Over 40 Cops Arrive After a Washington Sheriff Falsely Claimed a Man Threatened Him. The Man Was Delivering Newspapers and Was the One Being Harassed While on the Job.

https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/05/06/hes-following-me-i-am-working-over-40-cops-arrive-after-a-washington-sheriff-falsely-claimed-a-man-threatened-him-the-man-was-delivering-newspapers-and-was-the-one-being-harassed-while-on-th/

 

Who Keeps Us Safe?  Two 911 calls, six years apart, reveal the perils of policing and the promise of alternatives.

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2021/10/police-killing-black-shooting-911-alternative-oakland/

 

A Jim Crow–Era Murder. A Family Secret. Decades Later, What Does Justice Look Like? Inside a movement to reinvestigate hundreds of racist killings.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/10/jim-crow-unsolved-murder-lynching-justice-margaret-burnham-stories-families/

 

What Does It Mean to Call Someone a “Male Chauvinist Pig”?  The three jabs in quick succession—male, chauvinist, pig—are part of a larger feminist history.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/10/what-does-it-mean-to-call-someone-a-male-chauvinist-pig/

 

Slavery and the History of Congress's Enumerated Powers

https://racism.org/articles/law-and-justice/constitutional-law/10326-slavery-and?fbclid=IwAR1TQEstn16Lq-6l39Sy__sSNqEBuYxhbgU19Khao_VOE8WtrMpcixhHG6c

 

We’re in the Midst of a White-Collar Crime Wave: Financial malfeasance has never been more rampant, or more under-punished.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/white-collar-crime-crypto/

 

Diary of a Queer Kid: My experience as a child with an “odd” gender identity makes me very afraid for kids facing malicious transphobia in Texas.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/diary-queer-kid-texas/

 

Distant Moments: Joan Scott and the war over the past.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/joan-scott-judgement-history/

 

Abolition Democracy: W.E.B. Du Bois and the making of Black Reconstruction.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/web-du-bois-black-reconstruction/

 

Plan To Honor Black Fla. Judge Scuttled Over 1999 School Prayer Ruling

https://www.au.org/the-latest/church-and-state/articles/plan-to-honor-black-fla-judge-scuttled-over-1999-school-prayer-ruling/

 

Native, Inc.: Fifty years ago, Indigenous Alaskans created their own corporations to manage their land and affairs. Their success holds lessons in the lower 48, where tribal rights are under renewed attack.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/native-inc/

 

He Spurred a Revolution in Psychiatry. Then He ‘Disappeared.’  In 1972, Dr. John Fryer risked his career to tell his colleagues that gay people were not mentally ill. His act sent ripples through the legal, medical and justice systems.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/02/health/john-fryer-psychiatry.html

 

“It Tears You Apart Mentally and Physically”: The Health Crisis Afflicting Black Farmers.  Farming is a stressful occupation. Black farmers face the additional burdens of racism, debt and fear of displacement.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/black-farmers-stress-debt-land-loss-racism-mental-health-crisis

 

PHILLY HAS AN EQUITY PROBLEM WITH MAIL BALLOT DROP BOXES: Elections officials say they’re working to fix it. But they don’t yet have a concrete plan, budget, or timeline.

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/inq2/philadelphia-mail-ballot-drop-boxes-equity-20220513.html

 

Women to the Rescue, Now!  A Review of “Hope, But Demand Justice” By Pat Hynes, 2022 Haley’s.

https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/women-to-the-rescue

 

Pete Buttigieg steals the show with VIRAL response to Buffalo tragedy - May 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX8HcwPvQEw

 

Former Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught sentenced to 3 years probation

https://phl17.com/nmw/former-vanderbilt-nurse-radonda-vaught-sentenced-to-3-years-probation/

 

Mass mobilization of nurses keeps RaDonda Vaught out of jail, but the battle must continue!  Statement of the WSWS Health Care Workers Newsletter

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/05/12/heal-m12.html

 

How the construction of the Vine Street Expressway uncovered lost Black burial grounds: The highway runs over a pair of cemeteries run by the First African Baptist Church, which served a congregation of free Black people in the pre-Civil War era.

https://billypenn.com/2022/05/06/i676-vine-street-expressway-black-burial-grounds-history-philadelphia/

 

Police: Woman used perfume to ignite boyfriend's clothes, started Camden apartment fire

https://www.fox29.com/news/arrest-made-in-mothers-day-fire-that-left-22-displaced-in-camden

 

2 killed, 3 injured after shooting at busy Houston flea market: police

https://globalnews.ca/news/8837202/houston-flea-market-shooting-2-killed-three-injured/

 

Who are the victims of the mass shooting in Buffalo?  Ten people, including a retired Buffalo Police officer, were killed and three were wounded in a shooting Saturday afternoon at the Tops Market on Jefferson Ave.

https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/crime/what-we-know-tops-shooting-victims-buffalo-mass-shooting/71-30ad7b83-6732-4780-8f0d-ce6d5f656752

 

Community holds vigil, protests in wake of racially motivated mass shooting

https://buffalonews.com/news/local/community-holds-vigil-protests-in-wake-of-racially-motivated-mass-shooting/article_4babfb60-d471-11ec-b5a6-0344838a6698.html#tracking-source=home-top-story

 

Churchgoers tackled, hogtied gunman after deadly Laguna Woods church shooting

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-15/multiple-people-shot-at-church-in-laguna-woods-o-c-sheriff-says

 

The Buffalo Shooting Is the Latest White Rage Backlash, Brought to You by the GOP: The gunman was angry about “replacement theory.” Gee, where do we think he might have first heard about that?

https://newrepublic.com/article/166499/buffalo-shooting-great-replacement-racism

 

The Ideas Behind the Buffalo Massacre Are Now Mainstream on the Right.  Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Elise Stefanik: They’ve all revved-up loons who hate Jews, people of color, and immigrants, and some want to kill.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/buffalo-massacre-tucker-carlson/

 

From Jim Crow to Buffalo, replacement theory’s trail of destruction runs across American history: White supremacy is not defined by acts of outlandish violence. It is inflicted on America’s non-white population every day

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/16/white-supremacy-replacement-theory-civil-rights

 

Lawrence: ‘Fox News has blood on its hands’

https://news.yahoo.com/lawrence-fox-news-blood-hands-033100147.html

 

Growth, diversity, segregation, and aging in America’s largest metropolitan areas: A 2020 census portrait

https://www.brookings.edu/research/growth-diversity-segregation-and-aging-in-americas-largest-metropolitan-areas-a-2020-census-portrait/

 

The Great Replacement Theory Is Just Republican Orthodoxy Now: The vile conspiracy that led to a mass shooting in Buffalo has been normalized by leaders on the right.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166508/great-replacement-theory-stefanik-carlson

Economics and Coronavirus related links 051722

San Mateo: Nearly 90 students test positive for COVID-19 after prom.  Masks were recommended at the event but many students chose not to wear them.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/21/san-mateo-nearly-90-students-test-positive-for-covid-19-after-prom/

 

CDC: COVID the third leading cause of death in US in 2021

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/22/cdc-covid-the-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-us-in-2021/

 

Amazon workers won’t get paid for Covid leave anymore

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/30/amazon-workers-wont-get-paid-for-covid-leave-anymore.html

 

He Was Just Trying to Study COVID Treatments. Ivermectin Zealots Sent Hate Mail Calling Him a Nazi.

“I just don’t understand why these things turn into polarized political issues.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/08/ivermectin-hcq-fluvoxamine-covid-boulware/

Economics and Corruption and Healthcare and Education related links 051722

The U.S. Is Run by a Selfish Oligarchy, a Ruling Elite with a Pretend Democracy & Free Market (1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE0DF9MT5J8

 

Don’t Expect Gasoline Prices to Fall Quickly: While oil is quick to reflect changing demand patterns, gasoline usually lags on the way down.

https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/gasoline-prices-wont-fall-very-fast

 

Bernie Sanders and Amazon Workers Speak Out About How to Win at Work - Streamed live 17 hours ago (as of 04/12/22)

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

 

Deutsche Bank Forecasts US Recession (w/ Richard Wolff) - Apr 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS8LjYp_rbc

 

Economic Update: Capitalism & Its Self-Delusions - Premiered Apr 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbdJ-LuVZqI

 

A Simple Evaluation of the U.S. Economy - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Apr 12, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oV8lKlohls

 

Capitalism Moving On From U.S. Stronghold -Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Apr 12, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADGolysVL3E

 

Ask Prof Wolff: The Relationship Between Government and Businesses - Apr 13, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw-QGnqqaUc

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Government Finance - The Truth Behind Borrowing - Apr 15, 2022 

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

 

Economic Update: Ukraine & An Empire's Decline - Premiered Apr 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTMLvTYlg20

 

Missing Historical Context of Ukraine Invasion - Chris Hedges and Richard Wolff - Apr 19, 2022 

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

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Falling Profits & Undemocratic Decisions - Apr 20, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQXIbCpAe34

 

Did Corporate Greed Cause Inflation? (w/ Prof. Richard Wolff) - Apr 21, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRK76Dnli7o

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Why Employees Need a Seat At The Table - Apr 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOlhMe4Y_JA

 

Economic Update: Progressive Politics Win - Premiered Apr 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt63180k098

 

All Things Co-op: Innovation Under Capitalism - Premiered Apr 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufmFSUoZio0

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Can Private Foundations "Save" Capitalism? - Apr 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9s07uyt37o

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Bankruptcy Is Normal Under Capitalism - Apr 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rugIZXVMoV8

 

Economic Update: Inflation - How Markets Fail - Premiered May 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y54R5CcOf4E

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Why Inequality Exists Within Some Nonprofits - May 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07i18OrugNk

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Marxist Dialectics - Where Philosophy and Economics Meet - May 6, 2022

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

 

Economic Update: Housing - Human Right VS System Failure - Premiered May 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HS0RNk4sjE

 

Global Capitalism: Marxism: From Critique of Capitalism to Alternative System [May 2022] - Premiered May 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlfo1HKlQz8

 

Ask Prof Wolff: The Stock Market Is Rigged - May 13, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKp4AfbNDMQ

 

Frightening Housing & Stock Markets - Global Capitalism with Richard Wolff - May 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8c3ZCf2gQ

 

Economic Update: Jobs Driving Us Mad - Premiered May 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFG26h433Vs

 

New York’s Billion-Dollar Stadium Boondoggle: Governor Kathy Hochul’s budget includes an enormous giveaway to the owners of the Buffalo Bills.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/buffalo-bills-stadium-hochul/

 

How the “Jewel of Harlem” Became Unlivable: Esplanade Gardens was trumpeted as a way to build wealth for middle-class Black New Yorkers. But its crumbling infrastructure shows how the government gave up on affordable housing.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165931/esplanade-gardens-harlem-new-york-harlem-housing

 

Shock Therapy For Neoliberalism Or Democracy? (w/Prof. Joseph Stiglitz ) - Apr 13, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92bfkwA9q9s

 

Why The FED Should Worry You (w/ Prof. Richard Wolff) - Apr 13, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmwRS1lBvv8

 

Capitalism Hits Home: The Business of Mental Health - Premiered Apr 14, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFme5mYsFlA

 

We Can’t Let Billionaires Control Major Communications Platforms: Elon Musk may not be sitting on Twitter’s board, but he remains its largest shareholder—and that’s bad news.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/elon-musk-twitter-board/

 

It’s Time to End Forced Arbitration Completely: Congress essentially admitted that forced arbitration is a corrupt practice—but only banned it in one area.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/forced-arbitration/

 

Congress Is Dragging Its Feet on Recognizing a Staffers’ Union: Congressional workers often struggle to get by, and they lack legal protections to organize and collectively bargain.

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/congress-staff-unions/

 

Shrinking the Economy to Save the World: The degrowth movement argues that the only way toward an ecologically sustainable world it to redirect economies away from market imperatives.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/degrowth-movement-economy/

 

Colonialism’s Ledger: Puerto Rico in the shadow of debt.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/rocio-zambrana-colonial-debts/

 

Honoring Dolores Huerta’s Legacy: At 92 years old, the iconic labor activist continues to fight for workers’ rights.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/dolores-huertas-legacy/

 

Freedom From Fossil Fuels Tour

https://xrboston.org/action/freedom-from-fossil-fuels-tour/

 

Corporate America’s Long Con: Howard Schultz, Starbucks’s returning CEO, says the coffee chain is getting into scammy NFTs. But that’s nothing compared to the scam that corporations have been pulling on workers for decades now.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166109/shultz-starbucks-nfts-corporate-america-long-con

 

How To Build Fierce and Worker-Centered Unions: A Q&A with an organizer about her new book and on building worker power through resilience.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/daisy-pitkin-on-the-line-solidarity-union-like-a-moth-to-a-flame

 

How Deindustrialization Shaped My Working-Class Family: And why it took my father 40 years to see the ocean

https://inthesetimes.com/article/deindustrialization-offshoring-manufacturing-factory-factories-unemployment-layoff-work-labor-workers-working-people-working-class-industry-ohio-michigan-south-carolina-pepsi-gm

 

Fintan O'Toole: Russia's 'Feral' Capitalism Is A Threat To Democracy - Apr 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F-yTuvjoY8

 

Fintan O’Toole: Threat to democracy alive and well in West.  Feral capitalism has eroded information free flow, rule of law and democratic checks

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-threat-to-democracy-alive-and-well-in-west-1.4850138

 

Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X

 

Financial Empire w/ Daniela Gabor & Ndongo Samba Sylla: The Dig

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dig/id1043245989?i=1000550118226

 

The Wall Street Consensus at COP26

https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/cop26/

 

The world needs a decolonial Global Green New Deal

https://international.dsausa.org/statements/the-world-needs-a-decolonial-global-green-new-deal/

 

Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674241398

 

My Mother’s Eviction—An Update: Her former senior care facility was found in violation and ordered to pay a fine, but it is appealing the ruling.

https://progressive.org/magazine/mother-eviction-update-lueders/

 

Work Won't Love You Back: What Teachers Can Teach Us About Work

https://progressive.org/magazine/teachers-teach-us-about-work-jaffe/

 

Democratic Elites Don’t Understand the Class Culture Gap: If we want to stop the anger, we need to stop the scorn.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165933/class-culture-gap-democratic-elites-economic-populism

 

The Right’s War on Vaccines Is Spreading Beyond Covid: Childhood vaccination rates are plummeting amid misinformation and fearmongering.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166140/anti-vaccine-spreading-beyond-covid

 

The Global South Is Confronting a Debt Crisis, and the IMF Is Responding With Half Measures: Poor countries need debt relief fast. The International Monetary Fund’s new “sustainability” idea probably won’t help and might even make the climate crisis worse.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166134/global-south-imf-sustainability-trust

 

Jennifer Abruzzo Has Become One of the Quiet Heroes of the Biden Administration: The NLRB’s general counsel shows herself once again to be the Biden administration’s leading light on expanding labor rights.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166143/jennifer-abruzzo-nlrb-quiet-hero-biden-administration

 

Truck Drivers Hijacked by Immoral Corporate Bosses

https://hightowerlowdown.org/podcast/truck-drivers-hijacked-by-immoral-corporate-bosses/

 

Our privacy rights are being sold, stolen and stripped, says Hightower

https://www.rgj.com/story/opinion/columnists/2019/05/30/our-privacy-rights-being-sold-stolen-and-stripped-says-hightower/1292425001/

 

Lessons About Poverty in America’s Heartland: Being poor affects everything from your health to the water you drink. It can also be transformed into a powerful force for change.

https://www.populist.com/28.08.Remer.html

 

Unions Arise in What Newsrooms Remain in the US

https://www.populist.com/28.08.Atkins.html

 

Taxing Billionaires the Right Way

https://www.populist.com/28.08.Conway.html

 

Biden and the Billionaire Tax: We need a lot more pitchfork populism from working-class Joe.

https://www.populist.com/28.08.Kuttner.html

 

More Quick Thoughts on the March Jobs Report – Good News on Inflation

https://cepr.net/more-quick-thoughts-on-the-march-jobs-report-good-news-on-inflation/

 

Opinion: As prices soar, we need action — not spin

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/05/prices-soar-action-is-needed-not-spin/

 

How To Make Housing as a Human Right a Reality: The federal government has for years enabled the private market to make money off our housing needs. Now, as home prices and rents skyrocket, there is a simple solution: offer people a public option for housing.

https://portside.org/2022-04-04/how-make-housing-human-right-reality

 

Amazon workers’ astounding win, and how corporate America is trying to take back power

https://robertreich.org/post/680432413956030464

 

Medicare Disadvantage

https://www.populist.com/28.08.Uretsky.html

 

RALPH NADER: Going for Big Watch on Big Budgets

https://www.albanyherald.com/opinion/ralph-nader-going-for-big-watch-on-big-budgets/article_733c7b32-b1df-11ec-ad1a-070311209fb3.html

 

‘Socialist Register’ Takes the Measure of Neoliberal Capitalism

https://www.populist.com/28.08.Sandronsky.html

 

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION — APRIL 2022

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

 

The World We Have: An Intro to Global Economics, Session 1 - Apr 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YjZFYIJ4vY&t=46s

 

Current Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States - April 20, 2022

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201761

 

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Inflation and Class Struggle - Premiered Apr 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6sZWcP9iSk

 

What Happens When the Workers Become Owners - Apr 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgw2V_BLWpc

 

How London became the dirty money capital of the world | FT Film - Apr 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyk12Wf_TeQ

 

Just run the numbers: Medicare for All is the best option mathematically & humanely

https://medium.egbertowillies.com/just-run-the-numbers-medicare-for-all-is-the-best-option-346ece6f8e9c

 

Housing: Will rising mortgage rates end the boom?  The latest numbers show an increase in interest rates

https://theweek.com/business/1012848/housing-will-rising-mortgage-rates-end-the-boom

 

Laboratories of Anti-Monopoly: States are on the front line of the fight against corporate consolidation.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/laboratories-of-anti-monopoly/

 

47,000 SoCal Grocery Workers Get Biggest Raise in Decades: After teetering for weeks at the edge of a strike, Kroger and Albertsons employees approve a new union contract. - Apr 23, 2022

https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/socal-grocery-workers

 

OOPS! Joe Manchin Spills The Beans On His Agenda - Apr 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtj5LcM0ZU4

 

A “Hunger Cliff” Is Looming for Millions of Americans: As public health emergencies end, so do emergency allotments for households receiving vital nutrition benefits.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166187/hunger-cliff-pandemic-food-stamps

 

The Impact of Trade on Black Workers

https://groundworkcollaborative.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/The-Impact-of-Trade-on-Black-Workers.pdf

 

We Need to Talk About Rural Gentrification: While city dwellers find “deals” on real estate in the country, locals are priced out.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166201/need-talk-rural-gentrification-heaven-place-earth-book-review

 

The Case for Not Worrying (Too Much) About Elon Musk Taking Over Twitter: The Tesla CEO’s plans are grandiose—and vague.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166217/elon-musk-tesla-twitter-deal

 

Now Amazon Is Being Challenged in the Boardroom as Well: A campaign by New York and Illinois pension fund leaders, led by New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, aims to pressure the company on its shocking record on workplace safety and high employee turnover.

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/amazon-corporate-directors-pension/

 

WHITE PICKET FENCE: Their family lived across from a whites-only development on the Main Line. Five generations later, Toney Goins still feels as if he doesn’t belong.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/inq2/more-perfect-union-main-line-covenants-discrimination-housing-development-20220426.html

 

The Amazon Labor Union’s Historic Victory Was the First Step: But with the full support of the New York City labor movement and the broader community, the workers can win.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/amazon-union-vote-staten-island/

 

We Can’t Let Billionaires Control Major Communications Platforms: Elon Musk may not be sitting on Twitter’s board, but he remains its largest shareholder—and that’s bad news.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/elon-musk-twitter-board/

 

Without Clinic Escorts, Abortion Would Be Even Harder to Access: Lauren Rankin’s new book about abortion clinic escorts, Bodies on the Line, shows how much ordinary people can do to ensure that abortion is accessible in America.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/lauren-rankin-clinic-escorts/

 

The Long Road to Methadone Access in Rural America: The U.S. has treatments to help people dealing with opioid addictions but throws up hurdles to access.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166210/methadone-access-rural-america-opioid-epidemic

 

Bernie Challenges Biden To Do What He Promised - Apr 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbq3Tcfydm8

 

“It Would Be Huge”: Democrats Cheer Biden’s Baby Steps on Canceling Student Debt.  The president said on Thursday that he was mulling some form of forgiveness, although he stopped short of the $50,000 figure for which some have lobbied.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166240/cancel-student-loan-debt-midterms

 

Capitalism Hits Home: Mental Health in a Profit-Driven, Isolated Society - Premiered Apr 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaVprxc66bs

 

Work Isn’t the Enemy of Good Parenting: Lara Bazelon’s book argues that children benefit from seeing their mothers pursue careers.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166224/work-isnt-enemy-good-parenting-lara-bazelon-book-review

 

Don’t Count Your Recession Before It’s Hatched: The grim first-quarter GDP number has people invoking the R-word. We’ll see. In the meantime, take that trip to Costa Rica you can’t afford.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166258/2022-first-quarter-gdp-recession-predictions

 

Marianne Williamson is interviewed about unions by act.tv host Julianna Forlano - Apr 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxf2iPGnwW8

 

Burnout: The truth about overwork and what we can do about it | DW Documentary - Apr 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q98aCklzCBE

 

Why Are So Many Women Miserable Today? - Capitalism Hits Home - Apr 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPXhwjl-rok

 

Yes, Wages Did Go Up. But Now We’re Back to the Crap-Job Economy.  Covid initially drove wages up, especially for working-class people. But that’s over—another illustration of capital’s dethronement of labor.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166218/covid-wages-up-return-crap-job-economy

 

The Strike Zone: Little-known labor heroes provide a path forward for today.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/the-strike-zone/

 

Google is making it easier to scrub your personal info from search results: You can ask the search giant to remove links to sites that reveal your personal information, such as a phone number or address.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/google-request-removal-of-personal-information/

 

Reach your financial goals one step at a time: Join Enrich, a personal finance program provided by New Jersey Department of the Treasury.

https://njfinlit.enrich.org/?utm_campaign=20220418_nwsltr&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

 

Timothy Caulfield, Susan Gerbic Awarded Balles Prizes for Critical Thinking

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/02/timothy-caulfield-susan-gerbic-awarded-balles-prizes-for-critical-thinking

 

Remembering Carl Sagan

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/02/remembering-carl-sagan

 

How to Talk to Science Deniers

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/02/how-to-talk-to-science-deniers

 

Truth Gets Its Boots On

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/02/truth-gets-its-boots-on/

 

International May Day Online Rally 2022 - Premieres May 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6WuaBPuPqo

 

Understanding America's homelessness crisis: Major cities are cracking down on homeless encampments. But why are so many people 'living rough'?

https://theweek.com/briefing/1013082/living-on-the-streets

 

Mexico: Rail link worth billions won’t go through Texas after Abbott used trade as ‘political tool’.  Instead, the proposed rail line would be routed along the far edge of West Texas up through Santa Teresa, N.M., about 20 miles west of downtown El Paso.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2022/05/01/mexico-rail-link-worth-billions-wont-go-through-texas-after-abbott-used-trade-as-political-tool/

 

The Whole-Home Repairs Act (Senate Bill 1135) is a bipartisan bill that creates a one-stop shop for home repairs and weatherization while building out our workforce and creating new family-sustaining jobs in a growing field. The Whole-Home Repairs Act is the first bill of its kind in the nation, making it so that Pennsylvanians can stay warm, safe, and dry in homes they can afford.

https://www.pasenatorsaval.com/wholehomerepairs/

 

Special Report: STUDENT LOAN DEBT AMONG EDUCATORS

https://www.nea.org/studentdebt/2021report

 

Opinion: Calling Joe Biden

https://www.csindy.com/opinion/columnists/hightower/opinion-calling-joe-biden/article_c3e21a16-c593-11ec-a150-bbf854efce85.html

 

Jim Hightower: Democrats, Please Be Democrats!

https://magicvalley.com/opinion/columnists/jim-hightower-democrats-please-be-democrats/article_25bf73f0-57e2-5aa9-aad3-6147b628f077.html

 

All Signs Point to Higher Food Costs

https://www.populist.com/28.09.ArtCullen.html

 

America’s Top 15 Earners and What They Reveal About the U.S. Tax System: An unprecedented trove of leaked IRS data shows who reported the most income in America from 2013 to 2018, as well as their tax rates, revealing that the very richest pay lower rates than the merely rich.

https://www.propublica.org/article/americas-top-15-earners-and-what-they-reveal-about-the-us-tax-system

 

Affordable Housing Shouldn’t Have to Take a Miracle 

https://www.populist.com/28.09.Waddell.html

 

Conason: Blame Biden for higher prices - but then what?

https://www.mainstreet-nashville.com/opinion/conason-blame-biden-for-higher-prices---but-then-what/article_cd94936e-bf34-11ec-999f-8b4ae3867fed.html

 

Restoring America’s Manufacturing Might

https://www.populist.com/28.09.Conway.html

 

Is It Racist to Criticize China?  Those who attack Tim Ryan’s ad challenging China’s predatory trade practices as ‘anti-Asian’ are playing a dangerous game.

https://prospect.org/world/is-tim-ryan-a-racist/

 

Corruption in Drug Patents: Take Away the Money

https://cepr.net/corruption-in-drug-patents-take-away-the-money/

 

Biden Is Pushing for a Tom Paine Tax Plan: Over two centuries ago, Tom Paine urged our new republic to tax extreme wealth. This tax season, President Biden is picking up the call.

https://www.populist.com/28.09.Pizzigati.html

 

Robert Reich: Inflation is out of control! Urgent memo to Biden and the Democrats

https://www.argusobserver.com/opinion/robert-reich-inflation-is-out-of-control-urgent-memo-to-biden-and-the-democrats/article_28f8f314-bcef-11ec-9336-efa0a1e5f2c6.html

 

The Poor: Caught in Drug-Bureaucracy

https://www.populist.com/28.09.Retsinas.html

 

A Shipwreck, an Insurance Scam, and a Murderous Cover-Up: The suspicious death of a marine surveyor illuminates flows of illicit money in the global economy.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166306/shipwreck-insurance-scam-murderous-cover-up

 

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: US Labor - Supply vs. Demand - Premiered May 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcCu4AP_S98

 

How Socialism Gives Us Free Time - David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles - May 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWcOZaL7xR0

 

Consumer Protection Progress and Regress – From the Sixties to Now

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/16/consumer-protection-progress-and-regress-sixties-now

 

System Failures

https://www.populist.com/28.09.Kalet.html

 

Beware Megabillionaire with Big Plans for Twitter

https://www.populist.com/28.09.Patterson.html

 

Milbank: DeSantis saves Florida kids from being indoctrinated with math

https://www.stltoday.com/milbank-desantis-saves-florida-kids-from-being-indoctrinated-with-math/article_87d643d0-6c09-5323-9cbf-21e6da9d3250.html

 

Dignity and Healthcare

https://www.populist.com/28.09.GNichol.html

 

What Unions Are Doing to Protect American Democracy: Voting rights and democratic institutions are under attack nationwide. Unions, with their 14 million members, may be the best hope for fighting back.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166336/wisconsin-unions-protect-american-democracy

 

Feds accuse Starbucks of unfair labor practices in Buffalo

https://apnews.com/article/business-new-york-buffalo-national-labor-relations-board-1bc73bc25dae7dbd8c14358d2012879a

 

The Tragedy of the Expanded Child Tax Credit: As the midterms loom, the recipients of the now-expired benefit are turning against Democrats.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166389/child-tax-credit-midterms-manchin?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co.: No middlemen. No price games. Huge drug savings.

https://costplusdrugs.com/

 

Collectives Generate Healthy Money Talks, Empower People: Fischer is excited to see the Collectives’ financial education kit out in the world, and hopes to generate more healthy money talks with Cosmos workshops for justice-oriented organizations.

https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/collectives-generate-healthy-money-talks

 

Economy: Surprise slump brings stagflation fears.  Is the U.S economy at risk?

https://theweek.com/inflation/1013297/economy-surprise-slump-brings-stagflation-fears

 

Most Americans Say There Is Too Much Economic Inequality in the U.S., but Fewer Than Half Call It a Top Priority: Democrats and Republicans differ on whether addressing economic inequality requires major changes to the economic system

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/most-americans-say-there-is-too-much-economic-inequality-in-the-u-s-but-fewer-than-half-call-it-a-top-priority/

 

The AMA’s Little-Known Committee that Sets Physician Service Prices: Talk about “agency capture.” The American Medical Association’s shadowy “RUC” panel tilts Medicare and Medicaid payments in favor of specialties like surgery and away from needed family care. No wonder it keeps its meetings secret.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/05/03/the-amas-little-known-committee-that-sets-physician-service-prices/

 

Bernie Sanders DUNKS ON Lindsey Graham Without Even Trying - May 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toALFf4R0-Q

 

Inside Purdue Pharma’s Multimillion-Dollar Payouts to Politicians and Pill-Pushers: We uncovered a spreadsheet revealing little-known spending that helped sell opioids.

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2021/10/how-purdue-pharma-paid-out-to-politicians-and-pill-pushers/

 

The High Human Cost of America’s Sugar Habit: Low pay, chemical exposure, and a life of debt.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/09/sugar-central-romana-fanjul-dominican-republic/

 

How Private Equity Looted America: Inside the industry that has ransacked the US economy—and upended the lives of working people everywhere.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/private-equity-apollo-blackstone-kkr-carlyle-carried-interest-loophole/

 

The Smash-and-Grab Economy: Private equity billionaires are looting the country, leaving everyday Americans to clean up the mess—and fight for the scraps.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/private-equity-buyout-kkr-houdaille/

 

Real Estate Predators Tried to Cash In on the Pandemic. Then Tenants Fought Back.  “I feel sometimes that we’re up against this faceless money monster.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/private-equity-brooklyn-park-slope-greenbrook-nw1-mcnam-schumer/

 

Everything Everywhere All at Once: How Private Equity Rules Your World: From your favorite burger joint to your local dentist, PE titans are invested in almost everything you do.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/private-equity-city-pensions-burger-king-roark-liverpool-yale/

 

Biden and Trump Both Trashed Private Equity’s Favorite Tax Dodge. Surprise! It’s Still Here.  A brief and enraging history of the unkillable carried-interest loophole.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/carried-interest-loophole-biden-trump-private-equity-tax-break/

 

These Are Congress’ Biggest Private Equity Investors: Featuring some of DC’s wealthiest politicians.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/congress-private-equity-scott-warner-delbene-blumenthal-romney/

 

The Fight to Keep Their “Poor People’s Paradise” out of Private Equity’s Hands: Private equity buys up mobile home parks across the country and raises rent. Sans Souci residents banded together to try something different.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/private-equity-sans-souci-colorado-mobile-homes/

 

Two Behemoths Dominate the Motorized Wheelchair Industry. Disabled Customers Pay the Price.

The mom-and-pop shops of the past are gone. In their place? Skeleton crews, long waits, and endless bureaucracy.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/motorized-wheelchairs-numotion-national-seating-mobility/

 

My Newspaper Was Gutted by Journalism’s Biggest Bogeyman; Pottstown had a thriving daily paper. Then Alden Global Capital came around.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/alden-global-capital-hedge-fund-private-equity-pottstown-journal/

 

I Work at a Furniture Store That Went to Hell Once Bain Capital Bought It: “You’re just a number and totally replaceable—just used and tortured in a weird way.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/bain-capital-mitt-romney-bobs-discount-furniture-private-equity/

 

It Was Hard Enough to Get Treatment for Eating Disorders. Then Private Equity Took Over. About half of the people with eating disorders having public insurance, yet few, if any, options exist to help them.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/eating-disorder-treatment-centers-private-equity-aca/

 

Elizabeth Warren’s Long, Thankless Fight Against Our Private Equity Overlords: She sponsored a bill to fight what she calls “legalized looting.” Too bad her colleagues don’t seem all that interested.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/elizabeth-warren-private-equity-stop-wall-street-looting/

 

Leon Black’s No Good, Very Bad Year: The billionaire private equity honcho was on top of the world. Until he wasn’t.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/leon-black-apollo-jeffrey-epstein-guzel-ganieva-private-equity/

 

President Biden addresses plans to combat inflation - May 10, 2022

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

 

The Truth About Inflation: Saudi Arabia and Russia fueled inflation, but Biden’s relief plan probably didn’t, and there are hopeful signs even with high prices likely to continue into 2023.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/05/11/the-truth-about-inflation-2/

 

Target Workers Are Joining the Union Wave: Employees at a store in Virginia filed for a union election Tuesday, with more locations potentially to come.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166412/target-union-virginia-nlrb-amazon-starbucks

 

Nurses Are Fighting Back—but the Nightmare Continues: Despite a wave of strikes spurred by the pandemic, they are still working in unsustainable conditions and hospitals are dangerously understaffed.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nurses-strikes-labor/

 

Why the Biden Administration’s Plan to Fix Gas Prices Isn’t Working: It’s tempting to believe high prices are all about price gouging. But the reality is far wilder.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166463/biden-lower-gas-prices-price-gouging

 

Amazon to Managers: Can’t Bust a Union? You’re Fired.  Several managers at the Staten Island warehouse were canned. It looked a lot like a warning to other Amazon managers.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166445/amazon-managers-union-busting-fired

 

Biden’s Embrace of Unions Is a Boon for Democracy: The White House’s support for labor organizing will become critical if Democrats get locked out of power at the federal level in November.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166487/biden-unions-starbucks-amazon-democracy

 

Memo to Democrats: Bust the Credit Card Cartel.  A midterm election plan for Democrats to win the gratitude of millions of exploited merchants.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/05/13/memo-to-democrats-bust-the-credit-card-cartel/

 

The New Labor Movement Is Young, Worker-Led and Winning: From Starbucks and Amazon to political campaigns and digital media, workers in historically unorganized occupations are forming unions—and breathing new life into the U.S. labor movement.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/new-labor-movement-amazon-starbucks-union

 

The Rip-Off Economy Will Save Itself. It Won't Save You.  Squandering our national moment of opportunity at capitalism’s casino.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/economy-crypto-wall-street-pandemic-scam

 

No Half Measures, We Need Biden to Cancel All Student Loan Debt: The Debt Collective has successfully pushed Biden to extend the pause on student loan payments. Now we’re organizing to make the White House cancel all student debt.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/biden-cancel-student-loan-debt-collective

 

Rapid Grocery Delivery Service Buyk Accused of Wage Theft by Former Workers: Before the Russian-funded delivery startup collapsed, Buyk sold itself as a way for workers to escape the gig economy. Former workers say it failed to deliver.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/buyk-wage-theft-gig-economy-new-york-russia-labor

 

50 Years of Class War in Wisconsin:A conversation with veteran educators and organizers Frank Emspak and Adrienne Pagac about the conditions that paved the way for the Wisconsin Uprising.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/scott-walker-act-10-wisconsin-uprising-class-struggle-unions-labor

 

The Privatization of Everything: A conversation with author Donald Cohen and Marianne Williamson - May 14, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSJe4RPYcIs

 

The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781620976531

 

Hit Reset on Student Debt, All $1,896,944,109,232 of It: It’s time for Biden to do the right thing. Every day it’s more obvious that having 46 million people drowning in $1.8 trillion of student debt isn’t sustainable.

https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/hit-reset-on-student-debt

 

S.4204 - A bill to establish a Medicare-for-all national health insurance program.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4204/cosponsors

 

MISSION BBQ IS HIRING

http://mission-bbq.activehosted.com/index.php?action=social&chash=097e26b2ffb0339458b55da17425a71f.3282&s=5b837c8ff8e2b358b39f0acae375e9de

 

How inflation became America’s greatest economic problem: The last time inflation was this high, the Fed engineered a severe recession. Unfortunately, the problem is much more complex now. Can the off-ramp to spiking inflation go better this time?

https://www.grid.news/story/360/2022/05/11/how-inflation-became-americas-greatest-economic-problem/

 

Empty shelves and hungry kids: The U.S. baby formula shortage is a crisis.  And it’s getting worse.

https://www.grid.news/story/politics/2022/05/10/empty-shelves-and-hungry-kids-the-us-baby-formula-shortage-is-a-crisis/

 

Goldman's Blankfein: Prepare for possible recession

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-15/goldman-s-blankfein-says-companies-should-prepare-for-recession