Richard Wolff on
Gaza, Palestine/Israel, Ukraine, and Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Rq3W-oRt4
Suffer Young
Women. The World Health Organization
puts the United States at 55th worldwide in maternal mortality, just behind
Russia.
https://www.laprogressive.com/gender-discrimination/suffer-young-women
A life-changing
$750 monthly stipend: A “guaranteed income” program studied what happened when
a hundred unhoused people were given money. Find out how they spent the Miracle
Messages cash and how it transformed their lives.
From Robber
Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmq7QqqY4vo
What Is Hawala?
Money Transfer Without Money Movement
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hawala.asp
The Insufferable
Bros Who Run Corporate America. A quiet
merger trial between antitrust enforcers and a pharma data giant called IQVIA
reveals how bro-style executives control your medical data.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-insufferable-bros-who-run-corporate
AS WE LOOK TO
2024, HERE’S WHAT HOPE LOOKS LIKE. When
it felt like the world was falling apart, these movements brought people
together to make what seemed impossible, possible.
https://otherwords.org/as-we-look-to-2024-heres-what-hope-looks-like/
The Harm of
Hiding a Breast Cancer Diagnosis
https://katiecouric.com/health/cancer/breaking-breast-cancer-taboos/
The number of
serious medical errors in hospitals rose after they were taken over by private
equity firms, a study found.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/upshot/hospitals-medical-errors.html
Cashiers Among
Lowest Paid Retail Workers
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/12/holiday-retail-workers.html
Despite billions
spent, new data shows almost a third of the nation’s homeless now live in
California
The state’s
homeless population increased by 6%. Why is the crisis still getting worse?
Once Public
Schools are Largely Dead, Here's What Happens Next... Republicans will then begin lobbying to
“reduce spending” by cutting the amount allocated for the vouchers, locking the
emerging two-tier status of publicly funded education into place...
https://hartmannreport.com/p/once-public-schools-are-largely-dead-ec4
Breaking Down the
Basics of Breast Cancer
https://katiecouric.com/health/cancer/understanding-breast-cancer/
Help Me Break
Through the Noise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXkIA_KBaBw
A federal
administrative law judge in Colorado has ruled that Starbucks worker and
Starbucks Workers United organizer Len Harris was illegally fired for
organizing a union. The judge has ordered Starbucks to not only rehire her, but
issue back pay and apologize.
The Great
Reordering. There can be no doubt now
that an epochal shift is underway in how the economy—in America and across the
globe—is governed. The mystery is how a moderate, conventional politician like
Joe Biden engineered it.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/10/29/the-great-reordering/
Winning the
Anti-monopoly Game. Despite press
accounts to the contrary, the Biden administration’s revival of antitrust
policy isn’t failing. It’s just getting started.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/10/29/winning-the-anti-monopoly-game/
My Parkinson’s
Crisis—And Ours. The still-mysterious
disease is spreading wildly, and Washington isn’t doing enough. As a physician
and a sufferer, I should know.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/10/29/my-parkinsons-crisis-and-ours/
Donald Trump
Freed a Convicted Medicare Fraudster. The Justice Department Wants Him Back.
The cautionary
tale of nursing home mogul Philip Esformes.
You Won’t
Recognize These Striking Hollywood Workers. And That’s the Point. Stories from inside the film industry’s gig
economy.
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2023/09/hollywood-writers-actors-strike-photos-sag-aftra-wga/
The Mirage of
“Middle Class”. The constant refrain of
campaign season implies class politics. Does it actually lead to them?
In 2024,
California employers can no longer punish employees for using marijuana outside
work
https://www.yahoo.com/news/2024-california-employers-no-longer-130000769.html
Hidden Risk
Factors, Warning Signs of Liver Disease.
Drinking, taking antibiotics, even high blood pressure can tax your
liver in potentially dangerous ways
https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2021/bad-habits-liver-damage.html
The End of Milton
Friedman’s Reign. The Chicago school
ruled supreme over economics—until recently.
https://newrepublic.com/article/175932/milton-friedman-chicagonomics-end-reign
What’s Going on
With the Economy? I Asked Biden’s Top Economic Adviser | Robert Reich –
November of 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD9BXqaZCBU
In Missouri,
Autoworkers Are Fighting for the Future of the Industry. GM workers, out on their second strike in
four years, are done with concessions.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-strike-wentzville-missouri-gm-plant-fain-industry
Striking
Autoworkers Remember Broken Promises.
Workers at the Big Three agreed to major concessions as part of the auto
bailout of 2009. Fourteen years later, with business booming, they’re on strike
to demand what they lost—and more.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-strike-ford-gm-stellantis-delphi-bailout-autoworkers-promises
In Small Town
Appalachia, Locals Battle a Weapons-Grade Uranium Plant. The company Nuclear Fuel Services wants to
process weapons-grade uranium for the U.S. government at a facility in Erwin,
Tennessee. Some locals aren’t having it.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/nuclear-pollution-uranium-contamination-unicoi
Striking a Chord
for Change: The Poor People’s Campaign for Revolution. In an effort to record their first album of
movement songs, the New York State chapter of the Poor People’s Campaign is
tapping into an old organizing tradition with hopes of inspiring change.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/ppc-music-for-revolution-activism-poor-peoples-campaign
If Democrats Want
to Win Elections, They Should Bring Back the Covid Welfare State. By many measures, Bidenomics is working
great—but most Americans are still down on the economy. That’s in large part
because the U.S. government let its temporarily generous social safety net
unravel.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/biden-democrats-economy-bidenomics-welfare-covid-left
Before Shawn
Fain, There Was Jerry Tucker
https://www.proquest.com/docview/2888381646/fulltext?sourcetype=Magazines
The Fascist
Movement’s Biggest Threat: Labor Unions?
An interview with Paul Ortiz on how unions have fought Gov. Ron
Desantis’ reactionary rule—and unions as an anti-fascist force.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/united-faculty-of-florida-paul-ortiz-bill-fletcher-ron-desantis
Conservatives
Want to Destroy Public Schools. Communities are Fighting Back. “The decision to hate your neighbors and
reject your public school isn’t actually the most affordable, practical or
preferable path for most people.”
https://inthesetimes.com/article/far-right-public-schools-takeover-south-teachers
How the Super
Rich Are Killing Social Security | Robert Reich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfZuB7XSFys
US employers add
surprisingly strong 216,000 jobs in sign of economic strength
U.S. economy adds
216,000 jobs in December, ending 2023 with a bang
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/05/us-jobs-report-december-2023
Starbucks Faces
New Pressure Over Union Campaign. Amid a
dissident bid for board seats and boycotts by activists, the company has sent
mixed signals about its willingness to engage with labor groups.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/business/starbucks-union-workers-boycott.html
Study Finds Most
Cancer Survivors Who Used Marijuana Reported 'Great Degree Of Symptomatic
Improvement' - Marijuana Moment
Finland Solved
Homelessness: Here's How (Spoiler: It's More Than Housing First) – December,
2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jt_6PBnCJE
Statement from
President Joe Biden on the December Jobs Report
Statement from
National Economic Advisor Lael Brainard on Today’s CHIPS & Science Act
Announcement
FACT SHEET:
Biden-Harris Administration
Releases Global Health Security Partnerships Annual Progress Report
Demonstrating Results from United States Investments
Payday Report -
Missile Factories Struggle to Find Workers as Wars Rage - Costco Apologizes to
Employees - Teachers Union Sue to Stop Pro-Transit Measure
How America is
pushing China out of the internet – December, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyoILSNeq8U
Why Americans
Can’t Keep Their Paychecks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QP9HESt3nc
Economic Update:
U.S. China Decoupling Myth – January 8, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6oDLv0eVTU
China – A
23-year-old girl was hospitalised after complains of multiple body pain. The
hospital examination found that she was infected with the cysticercosis.
The surprising
truth about lectins | Dr. Will Bulsiewicz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPKPBudFjsA
AVOID Ginger If
You Have THESE Health Problems!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfG-t2fINo4
“There’s More to Education Than Free
Speech,” The Wall
Street Journal, Oct. 19, 2023
Hillsdale College
Teaches FIRE that Education is More than Free Speech
https://lp.hillsdale.edu/speech/
“Harvard’s Hamas Confusion, An Elite College Degree is the Fastest Way
to Disabuse a Student of the Idea of Truth.” The Wall Street Journal, Nov.
27, 2023
https://lp.hillsdale.edu/wsj-2443095/
Starbucks is
being sued by a group representing US Consumers who allege that Starbucks is
using coffee from farms with human and labor rights violations while touting
its ‘ethical’ sourcing.
US congressional
leaders reach deal top-line spending agreement
Government as a
Monopoly? The Hidden History of
Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream – January 7, 2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/government-as-a-monopoly
Racial &
Economic Justice Fund
https://breadrosesfund.org/grants-scholarships/racial-economic-justice-fund/
How the .01% see
US'in's! A single sentence from WD-40's CFO explains how companies are greasing
the wheels for disinflation
https://qz.com/a-single-sentence-from-wd-40s-cfo-explains-how-companie-1851156776
California's homelessness crisis just can't catch a break. Recent data dispels a widespread theory for
who's to blame
https://theweek.com/business/economy/california-homelessness-crisis
Letters to the
editor: Locking Up Mental Health Centers is a Step Backwards; Netanyahu Knew Hamas Was Coming; Distorted
Israel/Palestine History; & Give Progressives Reasons to Vote Democratic.
https://populist.com/30.01.Letters.html
How the oligarchy
shrank America’s middle class (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 8)
I saw it happen.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-declining-power-of-the-middle
Dispatches: MORE
JOBS DROP UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FURTHER; STUDY SHOWS CORPORATE PROFITEERING
‘AMPLIFIED’ GLOBAL INFLATION; IT’S HIGH TIME, AS 6 DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS URGE
DEA TO RESCHEDULE MARIJUANA BY YEAR-END; RURAL JOBS GREW IN SEPTEMBER, BUT
THEY’RE STILL LAGGING; SENATE REPUBLICANS HAND PUTIN PROPAGANDA VICTORY;
CHATTANOOGA VW WORKERS ANNOUNCE PUSH TO JOIN UAW; DEJOY’S USPS LEADERSHIP IS
DEADLY; DISARRAY ALERT: HOUSE REPUBLICANS STRUGGLE WITH SLIM MAJORITY AND
CHAOS; & REPUBLICANS ADVANCE PLAN FORCING TAXPAYERS TO CLEAN UP BIG OIL’S
MESS.
https://populist.com/30.01.Dispatches.html
Froma Harrop:
What happens if anti-vaxxers just face the consequences? From the commentary, "Once the vaccine
came out, though, excess deaths for Republicans were almost double those for
Democrats. Perhaps it's in the right's interest to keep its voters alive."
Soybeans’ Big
Players Looking to a Bruising Year Ahead
https://populist.com/30.01.Guebert.html
The High Cost of
Low Holiday Prices. Give a gift to the
starving workers who made your favorite holiday sweater — tell their employers
to pay up.
https://populist.com/30.01.Kolhatkar.html
The Importance of
Home. For generations, poor people have
relied on each other to keep a roof over their heads. But in the world’s
wealthiest country, we need more.
https://populist.com/30.01.Ramos.html
What The Numbers
Now Tell About Biden’s Economy
https://populist.com/30.01.Conason.html
Workers Need a
Fighting Chance
https://populist.com/30.01.McCall.html
Wall Street or
the Working Class: The Democrats Must Choose.
They can’t try to have it both ways indefinitely. If they really helped
working people meet the economic challenges facing them, the party would lose
favor with the barons of finance and their corporate cronies.
https://populist.com/30.01.Leopold.html
If Democrats Ran
Red States, Fewer People Would Die. It
shouldn’t surprise us that a political party that swears its first allegiance
to billionaires and giant multinational corporations would choose money and
profits over health and life...
https://populist.com/30.01.hartmann.html
Scraping Away the
Anti-Worker, Anti-Racial Equity Vestiges of the Reagan Era. The Biden administration aims to undo
contracting policy holdovers from the 1980s to boost public investment benefits
for workers and their communities.
https://populist.com/30.01.SAnderson.html
America’s anxiety
disorder. How can we best remedy it?
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/americas-stress-crisis
Dangerous Ideas
Need Stifling
https://populist.com/30.01.Retsinas.html
Hey House GOP,
Keep Hands Off Social Security and Medicare!
House Speaker Mike Johnson knows how important Social Security is to
hard-working Americans, so he has devised an accountability-free way to gut it.
https://populist.com/30.01.Schakowsky.html
Private employers
hire 103,000 new workers in November; pay growth decelerates
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_1fb9707a-9499-11ee-b68b-9b4a1134a8ef.html
Outrage in
Wyoming Erupts Over Public Land Auction
https://populist.com/30.01.Rose.html
Finally Sold on
Reading Ebooks
https://populist.com/30.01.Patterson.html
Inside AI's giant
land grab. Chatbots may live in the
cloud, but they're powered by massive concrete boxes — and they're coming to a
town near you.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-data-centers-land-grab-google-meta-openai-amazon-2023-12
Marx’s Vision of
Sustainable Human Development
https://monthlyreview.org/2005/10/01/marxs-vision-of-sustainable-human-development/
This week new
workers filed to join the union in New Orleans, LA. And workers won their
elections in Baton Rouge, LA, Duluth, MN, Los Angeles, CA, Plainfield, IN,
Philadelphia, and Strongsville, OH. That’s a whole lot of new partners,
becoming partners - welcome and congratulations!
Who is America’s
Largest Landowner?
https://landreport.com/land-report-100
American Jewish
Congress (AJC)
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/american-jewish-congress-ajc
Can Democracy
Survive the Morbidly Rich? So, Donald
Trump won Iowa. A crazed billionaire who wants to “suspend the constitution“
and claims the right to a murder his political enemies. It doesn’t have to be
this way.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/can-democracy-survive-the-morbidly-204
City Hall’s
Mishandling of L.A.'s Homeless Crisis Not Its Cause. I doubt that well-run local homeless services
would make a qualitative difference. The overall trend of increasing
homelessness since 2011 would continue.
https://www.laprogressive.com/homelessness/homeless-crisis
Rightwing Billionaires & Trump Want a Nation Where
Everything is For Sale. Republicans are
pushing our country: no social safety net, corrupt regulatory and police
agencies, politicians and legislation for sale, and absolute immunity for the
morbidly rich… - January 8, 2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/rightwing-billionaires-and-trump-77b
Commons vs
Private. The Hidden History of
Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream – January 14, 2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/commons-vs-private
Economic Update:
Corporations vs Democracy – January 16, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh44qQK5av4
Banks prepare to
take on the Biden administration over billions of dollars in overdraft fees
"Everyone
should have safe, affordable medicines with transparent prices." – Mark
Cuban
World’s 20
Happiest Countries in 2023
Gaza: Ghastly
Window on Global Capitalism's Crisis. Global
corporate and political elites are in a drunkard’s hangover from the world
capitalist boom of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/gaza-ghastly-window
California Fails
to Provide Adequate Healthcare Access to Children and Young Adults. Among 33 issues of importance to youth on
which California was graded, the state received a D- on providing access to
healthcare.
Anger in Red
States Is Rising. MAGA anger and anger
in the red states and rural areas is rising for good reason. We should all be
angry.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/maga-anger-is-righteous
Ask Prof Wolff
Live - January 17, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d4ckzB6j5Q
Diamonds Are a
Crook's Best Friend (with Aja Raden).
What do the new rolling sanctions mean for Russia and for organized
crime?
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/diamonds-are-a-crooks-best-friend
POWER Grants Help
Appalachian Region Focus on Community, Infrastructure, & Education
STATEMENT:
Keystone Research Center Lauds UAW Deals with Automakers
ARISE Grants Will
Boost Sustainable Manufacturing in Southwest Pennsylvania & Appalachia
Fair Taxation Can
Help Achieve a More Just Pittsburgh Nthando Thandiwe and Stephen Herzenberg1
https://krc-pbpc.org/wp-content/uploads/Pittsburgh-Fair-Taxation-Brief-Final.pdf
In 2024, Will PA
Finally Forge Ahead, Like Our Neighbors, By Raising Our Minimum Wage?
Federal Climate
Infrastructure Funds Spur Job-Creating Investments in PA, OH, WV and KY
The Early Returns
Show Big Clean Manufacturing Investments in Coal Country
Other States
Enact Pro-Worker, Pro-Union Laws in 2023 That Pennsylvania Should Consider
https://krc-pbpc.org/research_publication/pro-worker-laws/
Why Is Paying for
College So Complicated?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/18/business/college-tuition-money.html
Sanders targets
pharma CEOs to testify in Senate, but some see 'retaliation' for lawsuit
against Biden admin.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sanders-targets-pharma-ceos-testify-before-help-committee
Congressional
Researchers Detail Limitations Of Marijuana Rescheduling For State Markets And
Criminal Justice Reform
Microsoft says
state-backed Russian hackers accessed emails of senior leadership team members
– January 19, 2024
Late Stage
Capitalism's Hostile Architecture. Jesus
would have been arrested for the bread and fish thing and I can’t imagine the
multiple laws against the wine/water trick.
https://www.laprogressive.com/homelessness/late-stage-capitalism
Artificial Intelligence Isn't. A.I. programs can craft images of flowers by
comparing millions of flower images. But A.I. programs cannot imbue a flower
painting with the beauty that Georgia O’Keefe did.
https://www.laprogressive.com/techie-tips/artificial-intelligence-isnt
Libertarians
Object. The Hidden History of
Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream – January 21, 2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/libertarians-object
The Silent
Revolution in American Economics | Robert Reich – January 22, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2x7LFBz8U8
Economic Update:
As The Empire Crumbles – January 22, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jklp36Ukhfo
The Red State
Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now. As conservative states wage total culture
war, college-educated workers—physicians, teachers, professors, and more—are
packing their bags.
https://newrepublic.com/article/176854/republican-red-states-brain-drain
The Colombian
Murder Case That Refuses to Die. Twenty-two
years ago, three union leaders for mine workers employed by an American company
were killed. The murders have gone unsolved. But now the Colombian government
is prosecuting two company executives for financing the paramilitary group
responsible for the killings.
https://newrepublic.com/article/176808/colombian-murder-case-refuses-die
Americans Are
Finally Starting to Feel Better About the Economy. Consumer sentiment, among Democrats and
Republicans, has jumped sharply in the past two months. That’s encouraging news
for Joe Biden.
A few tech
stocks, known collectively as the “Magnificent Seven,” have driven the S&P
500 to a new high. A line chart showing
the percentage changes of the total market value of the combined ‘Magnificent
Seven’ stocks, which are Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and
Tesla, versus the overall S&P 500 from its last low on Oct. 12, 2022. These
stocks have vastly outperformed.
Here’s why these
stocks have an outsize impact on the market.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/22/business/magnificent-seven-stocks-tech.html
Organize or
Die. Unions must use their current
momentum to propel new organizing.
https://progressive.org/magazine/organize-or-die-nolan-20231218/
Vox Populist:
Revolving Doors in Congress; Privatization in Schools. Words from populist author, public speaker,
and radio commentator Jim Hightower.
https://progressive.org/magazine/money-rules-congress-money-rules-schools-hightower-20240104/
Edge of Sports:
Why the Politics of the Sports World Has Been a Hot Mess. Since Biden’s election, apathy has reigned.
If people want to see a return of the athlete activist, then our attention
needs to be on the state of the struggle off the field.
https://progressive.org/magazine/politics-of-the-sports-world-has-been-a-hot-mess-zirin-20240102/
Smart Ass
Cripple: Fixing Our Broken System of Long-Term Care. Everyone in need of home and community
assistance must be able to get it—without being made to feel like a burden.
https://progressive.org/magazine/fixing-our-broken-system-of-long-term-care-ervin-20231228/
Work Won't Love
You Back: Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired. Workers are taking matters into their own
hands, reshuffling the structure of the old organizations and inventing new strategies
for the workforce of today.
https://progressive.org/magazine/sick-and-tired-of-being-sick-and-tired-jaffe-20231220/
Workers want
unions, but the latest data point to obstacles in their path. Private-sector unionization rose by more than
a quarter million in 2023, while unionization in state and local governments
fell
https://www.epi.org/publication/union-membership-data/
Decline of labor
unions weakens American democracy
https://www.epi.org/blog/decline-of-labor-unions-weakens-american-democracy/
There’s no
debate. Measurable income inequality has
skyrocketed in recent decades
Taking on Big
Pharma's Corporate Greed – January 25, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSz5xoxM5vo
Treasury
Secretary Janet Yellen on the economy, election – January 25, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBz3mceAG-M
Pennsylvania governor
proposes to overhaul the state university system
Handwriting
Boosts Brain Connectivity and Learning – January 26, 2024
https://neurosciencenews.com/handwriting-learning-brain-connectivity-25522/
Construction
starts on huge lithium project near Salton Sea despite threat of a lawsuit
Column: The
lithium revolution has arrived at California’s Salton Sea
Sanders ratchets
up criticism of drug company CEOs ahead of possible subpoena
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4429392-sanders-ratchets-up-criticism-of-drug-company-ceos-ahead-of-possible-subpoena/
Gene therapy
shows promise for an inherited form of deafness
Just two northern
white rhinos remain. The species’ first IVF pregnancy could save them from extinction
The first
successful embryo transfer in a southern white rhino paves way for using
technique to save rarer northern cousins
Biden
administration plans to slash overdraft fees at big banks: ‘I call it
exploitation,’ president says
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/19/biden-administration-plans-to-slash-overdraft-fees-at-big-banks.html
Reviving America,
One College Town at a Time. How
symbiotic relationships between colleges and their communities have reaped
rewards in Erie, Pennsylvania, and Waterville, Maine.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/01/08/reviving-america-one-college-town-at-a-time/
The New Political
Economy. The rules of the marketplace,
once managed by experts, are increasingly subject to partisan conflict.
Good—that’s what the Founders intended. And liberals need to be the vanguard.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/01/08/the-new-political-economy/
Everyday High
Prices. How discounting led to
inflation, shortages, and inequality.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/01/08/everyday-high-prices/
Manufacturing and
Liberty. As Biden strives to break
China’s hold on the West, it’s time to relearn America’s no chokepoint
strategy.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/01/08/manufacturing-and-liberty/
Need a New
Economic Vision? Gotcha Covered
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/01/08/need-a-new-economic-vision-gotcha-covered/
Medicine at the
Mercy of Wall Street. Investment bankers
turn publicly funded pharmaceuticals into privately held gold mines. Reforming
the patent system would change that.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/01/08/medicine-at-the-mercy-of-wall-street/
Trust Fund U. In its defense of affirmative action, Harvard
has cast itself as a force for social equality. But the Ivy League’s true
function is to consolidate the power of the wealthy.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/01/08/trust-fund-u/
The Rise of the
American Oligarchy. What targeting
Russia’s wayward billionaires revealed about our own.
A Brief History
of Superyachts. And how they explain the
world.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/a-brief-history-of-superyachts/
How the US Became
the World’s Refuge for Dirty Money. Who
needs the Bahamas anymore when you’ve got Sioux Falls?
The Dark Side of
the $100 Bill. Benjamins are fueling
international crime and corruption. So why are we printing more than ever?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/100-bill-crime-corruption-treasury-tax-evasion/
When Gilded Age
Lawmakers Saved America From Plutocracy.
And how Biden’s team is using their playbook to take on Big Tech.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/how-gilded-age-lawmakers-saved-america-from-plutocracy/
Philanthropy in
America Is Broken. We taxpayers heavily
subsidize ultrawealthy giving. But who really benefits?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/philanthropy-broken-giving-foundations-democracy/
Billionaires’
Giving Pledge: Part Tax Strategy, Part PR Stunt. Has it made the world a better place? You be
the judge.
How “Woke
Capitalism” Became a Right-Wing Obsession.
Vivek Ramaswamy may no longer be running for president. But his anti-ESG
legacy has already won.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/woke-capital-vivek-ramaswamy-esg-capitalism-finance/
Receipts. Proof.
Timelines. Screenshots: Why We Can’t Look Away From Rich People’s Drama. The uber-wealthy are losing it over the
dumbest things—and we’re hooked.
Elon Musk’s Texas
Takeover. How the world’s richest man transformed
the Lone Star State into “the modern incarnation of the company town.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/elon-musk-spacex-texas-boca-chica-oligarchy/
There Is a Very
Good Reason Why Donald Trump Thinks Everything Is Rigged. In business, he was a master of gaming the
system.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/donald-trump-oligarch-in-chief-rigged-business-record/
Meet the Silicon
Valley CEOs Who Insist That Greed Is Good.
Even if “effective accelerationism” kills us all.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/12/effective-accelerationism/
These
Billionaires Want to Disrupt Death—and Keep Their Fortunes Forever. Sci-fi meets Silicon Valley meets the trust
industry.
Economic Update:
US Capitalism At The Crossroads – January 29, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAByukA-nIA
Disinformation Is
the Real Threat to Democracy and Public Health.
Disinformation abounds, and it can kill. Fortunately, it can often be
unambiguously identified
Trump's
attorney's last-ditch scheme BLOWS UP in her face – January 30, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52aJVlELvOQ
The Right Is
Winning Its War on Schools. Using bogus scandals and funding crunches,
Republicans across the country are decimating public education.
https://newrepublic.com/article/177563/right-winning-war-schools
The Economists
Who Found the Richest People of All Time.
Branko Milanovic and Guido Alfani study inequality over the course of
human history. The results are not good.
https://newrepublic.com/article/177555/economists-found-richest-people-time
America’s
Remarkably Resilient Economy. Spending
by consumers and governments keeps powering growth. Can it last?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gdp-report-consumer-spending-economy-price-index-425deb40
Good news on the
economy?
https://www.readtangle.com/economic-news-gdp-growth-biden/?ref=tangle-newsletter
Is the
Vibecession Finally Coming to an End?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/opinion/biden-trump-vibecession-economy.html
Preliminary
Results for January 2024
http://www.sca.isr.umich.edu/?ref=readtangle.com
Why Can't
Morbidly Rich Tech CEOs Be Sued or Arrested?
Not only has Section 230 turned the web into a stalking ground for
sexual predators, it’s also given Putin cheap & easy access to Americans,
an access he’s been using for years to tear us apart...
https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-cant-morbidly-rich-tech-ceos-3dc
'Blood on your
hands'. A roundup of the headlines from
the US front pages
https://theweek.com/us-todays-newspapers
Marianne
Williamson on Social Security: Honor The Elders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmzQ1YsG2K8
Biden Takes Aim
at Grocery Chains Over Food Prices. President Biden has begun to accuse stores
of overcharging shoppers, as food costs remain a burden for consumers and a
political problem for the president.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/us/politics/biden-food-prices.html
The Biden
administration made opening offers to drug companies whose products face
Medicare price negotiations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/us/politics/medicare-drug-price-negotiations.html
Democrats and the
working class
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/opinion/biden-trump-democratic-party-future.html
A “Goldilocks”
economy
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/opinion/biden-trump-economy-goldilocks.html
James Madison
Warned us the Morbidly Rich Are the Greatest Threat to our Republic. Madison wasn’t talking about an abstraction
or some highfalutin concept. He was talking about how some rich people will
inevitably try to seize political power to screw everybody else.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/james-madison-warned-us-the-morbidly-ea8
From Route 66 to
Anytown, USA. The Hidden History of Monopolies:
How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream – February 4, 2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/from-route-66-to-anytown-usa
Economic Update:
The US Economy As An Apartheid System – February 5, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dQ58Mt-xfQ
Why Air Travel Is
So Expensive and Unpleasant; Why Is My Doctor Unionizing?; Want Environmental
Progress? Follow The Kids; The Rattiest Right-Wing Congress Critter; A New Road
to Farm, Food and Climate Progress; My New Year’s Resolutions for Some Powerful
People
https://populist.com/30.02.Hightower.html
The Deadly New
GOP Plan to Rapidly Privatize Medicare. Medicare
Advantage is not Medicare: it’s private health insurance for seniors that’s
largely paid for with our tax dollars. They make their money by routinely
denying claims…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-deadly-new-gop-plan-to-rapidly-be9
Think Tipping Is
Out of Control? Watch This. | Robert Reich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS71sdrfm8U
Airbnb Drives Up
Housing Costs for All: Let's Regulate It.
Corporate landlords are buying up homes and converting them into
short-term rentals, but some cities are fighting back.
https://www.laprogressive.com/homelessness/airbnb-drives-up-housing-costs
Capitalism Hits
Home: Positive Changes: Connections & Community Development – February 8,
2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAeUMRpx1ts
Seven companies
billed Medicare over $2 billion for catheters that patients never ordered.
Doctors and health groups suspect a major scam.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/health/medicare-billing-scam-catheters.html
Mutant wolves
roaming Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have developed cancer-resilient abilities:
study
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mutant-wolves-roaming-chernobyl-exclusion-032300787.html
We now have the
most detailed description of the human brain ever | New Scientist
Therapy dogs and
school wellbeing: A qualitative study - ScienceDirect
AI is evolving
for its own benefit, not ours | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25934573-800-ai-is-evolving-for-its-own-benefit-not-ours/
Unleash your
immunity - ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407923002105
How we get high:
Unlocking the secrets of the endocannabinoid system | New Scientist
How to tell if
you have a weak or strong immune system | New Scientist
WHAT EFFECT DID
LOCKDOWNS HAVE ON CHILDREN'S IMMUNE SYSTEMS? - PMC
How CRISPR
therapy could cure everything from cancer to infertility | New Scientist
ARE THERE SEX
DIFFERENCES IN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM? - PMC
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9897808/
The food and
drink that really can boost your immune system | New Scientist
The AI immune
system that's changing our understanding of human health | New Scientist
How the immune
system changes with age and why | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734243-800-how-the-immune-system-changes-with-age-and-why/
SCIENCE &
HEALTHNew Study Shows How Marijuana Compounds Like Cannabinoids, Terpenes And
Flavonoids Interact For Medical Benefits
A Closer Look at
Stress and Cancer Outcomes | Cancer Today
CDK4/6 Inhibitors
in Early-stage Breast Cancer | Cancer Today
https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/cdk4-6-inhibitors-in-early-stage-breast-cancer/
A Less Radical
Approach | Cancer Today
https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/a-less-radical-approach/
Ultrasound Device
Opens Blood-brain Barrier | Cancer Today
https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/ultrasound-device-opens-blood-brain-barrier/
Is Immunotherapy
Safe in People With HIV? | Cancer Today
https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/is-immunotherapy-safe-in-people-with-hiv/
The Reality of
Chemo Brain | Cancer Today
https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/the-reality-of-chemo-brain/
Falling Short |
Cancer Today
https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/falling-short/
Taking Action to
Support Cancer Research | Cancer Today
https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/taking-action-to-support-cancer-research/
Controlling
Peripheral Neuropathy | Cancer Today
https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/controlling-peripheral-neuropathy/
Moving the Needle
on Metastatic Breast Cancer | Cancer Today
https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/moving-the-needle-on-metastatic-breast-cancer/
Progress in Rare
Cancers | Cancer Today
https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/progress-in-rare-cancers/
An Ocean of
Opportunity. A diet that incorporates
fatty fish could help reduce your risk for certain cancers.
https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/an-ocean-of-opportunity/
Music to the Ears
| Cancer Today
https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/music-to-the-ears/
How can
palliative care and hospice services support a person with cancer? | Cancer
Today
Cancer’s Economic
Impact | Cancer Today
https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/cancers-economic-impact/
Economic Update:
The U.S. Tax System: Designed For Economic Injustice – February 12, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-GvgQuheUs
Pennsylvania
Governor Says Lawmakers ‘Don’t Even Have A Choice’ But To Legalize Marijuana As
Other States Move Ahead – February 12, 2024
Candy Cartel: How
Candy Companies Are Cashing In | Robert Reich – February 13, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMnSU-JlFnQ
Smoking impairs
the adaptive immune system, even long after the smoker quits.
Global
Capitalism: Europe 2024: Disunity, Decline, Despair [February 2024] – February
14, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OB4p4_Sr0w
Headlights are
blinding us. Here’s why it’s mostly an American problem
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/15/cars/headlights-tech-adaptable-high-beams-cars?cid=ios_app
State warns of
‘major’ vacancies in agency overseeing services for vulnerable populations
Blood asks Pillen
to respond to ‘worsening’ violence, worker safety at Nebraska state psychiatric
hospital
Economic Update:
Capitalism and Tax Injustice – February 19, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDNpPob-DJU
The Biden
administration awarded $1.5 billion to a New York-based chipmaker,
GlobalFoundries.
Why the Corporate
Tax Bracket Should Go Back to 52%. It’s
time to again tax the rich, be they individuals or giant corporations, to
restore the American middle class and return our nation to the vitality that,
before the Reagan Revolution, was normal...
https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-the-corporate-tax-bracket-should-467
‘Enshittification’
is coming for absolutely everything. The
term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if
we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?
https://www.ft.com/content/6fb1602d-a08b-4a8c-bac0-047b7d64aba5
Today is the
BIGGEST filing in Starbucks Workers United history - join us in welcoming the
TWENTY-ONE new stores announcing their organizing efforts together!!!
Biden cancels
$1.2B in student loan debt for borrowers on income-driven repayment plan
Ask Prof Wolff
Live - February 21, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xGbMPa-Wbk
The Ins and Outs
of Inflammation — and Why It’s So Important to the Aging Process
https://katiecouric.com/health/aging/inflammaging-inflammation-aging/
Trickling Down:
How the Anti-Tax Movement Hijacked America (with Michael Graetz). Just as reactionary legal activists slowly
and methodically captured the Court, greedy, selfish antitax zealots have
slowly and methodically imposed their will on federal tax policy.
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/trickling-down-how-the-anti-tax-movement
Artificial
Intelligence Solves Problems We Don’t Have
https://jacobin.com/2024/01/artificial-intelligence-solves-problems-we-dont-have
Conversations
With Friends
https://jacobin.com/2024/01/conversations-with-friends/?ref=mc.news
The
Silicon-Tongued Devil
https://jacobin.com/2024/01/the-silicon-tongued-devil
Automated
Intimacy
https://jacobin.com/2024/01/automated-intimacy
Detroit Techno’s
Dance with Death
https://jacobin.com/2024/01/detroit-technos-dance-with-death
FBI issues new
warning about QR code scams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU_y85NlSeY
The race to
develop male birth control. New
contraception is being conceived
https://theweek.com/health/male-birth-control
Bidenomics Is
Still Working Very Well
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/opinion/biden-economy.html
The Political
Failure of Bidenomics
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/opinion/bidenomics-working-class.html
WEB Dubois;
11/1/1959 "Life in Socialist Lands: China". Address to The Community
Church of Boston.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yV5KbAzjVY&t=93s
Community Church
of Boston
https://www.youtube.com/c/thecommunitychurchofbostonofficial
Democrat SHATTERS
The GOP's 'Anti-Woke' Stunts – February 25, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOX6-kUaod4
How love impacts
your health. Turns out you actually can
die of a broken heart
https://theweek.com/health/how-love-impacts-health
China's slowing
economy, Xi's government tactics leave American investors wary
Economic Update:
Breaking Up With Capitalism – February 26, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eRBl7quf1g
Too many older
workers are scared to death that they will never be able to retire... –
February 26, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KsD8oarmbE
Pennsylvania
Agriculture Secretary ‘Excited’ To Regulate Marijuana Under Governor’s Plan,
Saying State Is ‘Really Good At Growing Things’
Capital One Is
Buying Discover Financial for $35 Billion.
The deal combines two of the largest credit-card companies in the U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/capital-one-is-buying-discover-financial-sources-say-a7c43dd2
HELP Committee
Hearing: The Retirement Crisis in America – February 28, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5dVz9Lyupo
Fox Chase Cancer
Center Welcomes Charnita Zeigler-Johnson
https://www.foxchase.org/news/2022-10-10-fox-chase-cancer-center-welcomes-charnita-zeigler-johnson
Career Speaker:
Charnita Zeigler-Johnson
Charnita
Zeigler-Johnson, PhD, MPH
https://www.foxchase.org/charnita-zeigler-johnson
A former US
surgeon general says he went to the ER for dehydration and ended up with a
$5,000 bill. He called the healthcare system 'broken.'
THCV Increases
Energy And Motivation Without Marijuana’s ‘Munchies’ Effect, Double-Blind Study
Finds – February 27, 2024
NEWSLETTER Florida
cannabis potency cap dead (Newsletter: February 28, 2024)
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/florida-cannabis-potency-cap-dead-newsletter-february-28-2024/
Capitalism Hits
Home: World Transformations Have Hit Our Homes Hard – February 29, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH7bUs-60yk
Biden orders US
investigation of national security risks posed by Chinese-made ‘smart cars’
Historic
Washington Crossing Bridge to be replaced
https://mercerme.com/historic-washington-crossing-bridge-to-be-replaced/
Who Really Stands
With American Workers? On economics,
Donald Trump is just Mitch McConnell with tariffs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/opinion/biden-trump-unions.html
Doctors Said She
Had Anxiety — She Actually Had One of the Rarest Cancers
https://katiecouric.com/health/cancer/rare-kidney-cancer/
Senator Christine
M. Tartaglione Labor Report: March 1, 2024
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100167946.863.219&gen=1
FACT SHEET:
Biden-Harris Administration
Announces New Actions to Boost Housing Supply and Lower Housing Costs
FACT SHEET:
Biden-Harris Administration
Takes Action to Address Risks of Autos from China and Other Countries of
Concern
FACT SHEET: Vice
President Harris Announces Action to Lower Child Care Costs for More than
100,000 Families
FACT SHEET:
President Biden Issues Executive Order to Protect Americans’ Sensitive Personal
Data
PhRMA Funnels
Millions to Groups Fighting Drug Pricing Reforms. The pharma lobby gave more than $16 million
in 2022 to advocacy groups, many of them ostensibly “grassroots,” that are
battling the Medicare drug price negotiations now underway.
https://readsludge.com/2024/03/01/phrma-funnels-millions-to-groups-fighting-drug-pricing-reforms/
Is Marijuana Bad
for Health? Here’s What We Know So Far. Marijuana’s
health impacts—good and bad—are coming into focus
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-marijuana-bad-for-health-heres-what-we-know-so-far/
A new mom died
after giving birth at a Boston hospital. Was corporate greed to blame?
Economic Update:
Capitalism, Gender, And A Split Society – March 4, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-3W4nBjInc
After years of
declining vaccination rates, Britain is experiencing a measles outbreak.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/world/europe/uk-measles-outbreak.html
Monopoly in Milk:
The End of a Family Dairy Farm. The
Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream
https://hartmannreport.com/p/monopoly-in-milk-the-end-of-a-family
Safety of
sildenafil (Viagra) in extremely premature infants: a phase I trial
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41372-021-01261-w
A Harvard
Champion of Affirmative Action Accepts Reality.
As the university’s longtime president, Derek Bok fought for racial
preferences. Now, the nonagenarian icon of the educational establishment not
only bows to the monumental Supreme Court ruling against Harvard but also
offers wise ideas for making campuses truly diverse.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/03/05/a-harvard-champion-of-affirmative-action-accepts-reality/
Based on Incomes,
Americans Are a Lot Better Off Under Biden Than Under Trump. Despite a spurt of high inflation that has
dramatically receded, Joltin’ Joe’s economy is far more robust than that of his
oft-indicted predecessor.
Democratic
Presidents Have Better Economic Performances than Republican Ones The facts are clear when it comes to real
wage gains or job creation.
The Human Toll of
Philips’ Massive CPAP Recall: With Every Breath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkE8JIc5E0A
Ask Prof Wolff
Live - March 6, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIupIi-rlKI
How 90% Of The
World’s Pure Cinnamon Is Produced In Sri Lanka | Big Business | Business
Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhO5fKkHTH8
These Cancers
Were Beyond Treatment—But Might Not Be Anymore
https://www.hoag.org/articles/these-cancers-were-beyond-treatment-but-might-not-be-anymore/
The Emperor of
All Maladies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_of_All_Maladies
The School Issues
We’re Battling Over Aren’t the Ones That Matter
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/opinion/book-banning-crt-education.html
How to Fix the
Crisis of Trust in Higher Education
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/opinion/college-enrollment.html
Today, we have a
rapidly aging population and millions of seniors live in poverty. It’s time to
act. – March 8, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8XZZfD2aS0
Iowa Has Robins
in February and We Can Barely Water the Hogs – March 4, 2024
https://katiecouric.com/news/opinion/art-cullen-storm-lake-iowa-climate-change-immigration/
Covid Lockdowns
Kept Her From Her Doctors — Then She Got Colon Cancer – February 29, 2024
https://katiecouric.com/health/cancer/colon-cancer-because-of-covid-lockdowns/
Unionizing the
Ivy League. Harvard faculty and the
Dartmouth basketball team are organizing — what about your workplace? – March
5, 2024
https://the.ink/p/unionizing-the-ivy-league
Senator Christine
M. Tartaglione Labor Report: March 8, 2024
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100167986.1346.910&gen=1
Inequality is
*the* fundamental issue facing our world. Oxfam America tells us why. – March
10, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VHhjf6XaF0
Joe Biden
‘deserves more credit’ for ‘historic’ economic results: Pete Buttigieg – March
10, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCkhJg-Sruo
Economic Update:
Debris From A Declining Empire – March 11, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeBkEHmc4-U
Two Ways US
Government Officials Create Homelessness: One Gradual, the Other Instant. In Gaza, US-supplied weapons made thousands
of Palestinian families instantly homeless. Domestically, policies and laws
enacted by politicians gradually created homelessness.
Join me LIVE for
a hearing to discuss why we must move to a 32-hour workweek – with no loss in
pay.
Senator Bernie
Sanders – March 14, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0fYQkQBOGc
Capitalism Hits
Home: How Do We Change For A More Hopeful Egalitarian America? – March 14, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8HU_09fYDo
Opinion Today:
Medical injustice, disguised as paperwork
Healing Us -
Official Trailer 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcmcub3NQaA
Without One
German Product, Modern Civilization Would Collapse – 1 year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHfQLjtLJdY
One Company Makes
ALL Our Technology (and it's in Trouble) – 1 year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWIoyFCXCew
The Hidden Toll
of Surviving Layoffs. The workers who
remain deal with stress, guilt, and a changed workplace.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/03/the-hidden-toll-of-surviving-layoffs/677763/
Hospital
Consolidation Kills. Your weekly excerpt
from one of my books. This week: "The Hidden History of Monopolies: How
Big Business Destroyed the American Dream"
https://hartmannreport.com/p/hospital-consolidation-kills
New York Times
explains how the process of selling a home may change.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/16/realestate/buy-sell-house.html
Economic Update:
Patriarchy and Capitalism – March 18, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBiX9o171pE
Why Americans
Deserve a 4-Day Workweek | Robert Reich on MSNBC – March 18, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvJ7w2OviWk
Bernie Sanders
CRUSHES Trickle-Down Economics Apologist – March 18, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4pT1xvofvs
China’s new AI
Child Tong Tong: cute or creepy? – 2 weeks ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6eeRIGbGso
Teamsters VP
'Pretty Certain' Biden Will Get Union's Endorsement After Meeting. John Palmer praised President Biden's
accomplishments for labor and trashed Trump's anti-union record.
https://www.meidastouch.com/news/teamsters-vp-pretty-certain-biden-will-get-unions-endorsement
Ask Prof Wolff -
March 20, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65AKhdA7WUk
You won't believe
what Norway just found! – March 8, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xSs2DPIBQQ
Catherine,
Princess of Wales, announces she has cancer.
She says she was told after her surgery in January that her abdominal
condition was not cancerous, but then the diagnosis changed.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/22/catherine-princess-of-wales-announces-she-has-cancer/
Senator Christine
M. Tartaglione Labor Report: March 22, 2024
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100168028.740.188&gen=1
The D.E.A. Needs
to Stay Out of Medicine. Restrictions on
pain medications are hurting patients who are suffering.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/opinion/dea-opioids-restrictions-overdoses.html
Richard Wolff: Why Marx? Why Now? – March 22, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY_WAYykjx0
Pharmacogenomics:
What does it mean for your health?
https://www.cdc.gov/genomics/disease/pharma.htm
Economic Update:
How Capitalism Distributes Power – March 25, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rr2p8Nn8Dk
AllStore: Working
for Peanuts. What happens when big-box
store workers try to fight the Man.
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/stage/allstore
Experimenting
with Tribally-Owned Internet. 18 percent
of the residents of reservations lack home Internet service, and the share of
households on tribal land with Internet access is 21 percentage points lower
than neighboring non-tribal areas.
https://www.laprogressive.com/firstpeoples/tribally-owned-internet
LA Homelessness,
Traffic Jams Getting Steadily Worse. Private
profitability, not public benefit, now determines LA’s future, similar to other
large US cities.
https://www.laprogressive.com/los-angeles-2/traffic-jams-getting-steadily-worse
Obamacare Is in
Grave Danger, Again. Republicans seem
determined to destroy the Affordable Care Act.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/opinion/trump-obamacare.html
Medics design AI
tool to predict side-effects in breast cancer patients. Trials in UK, France and the Netherlands
indicate tool can predict if patient will experience problems from surgery and
radiotherapy
The lowest-paid
U.S. workers are seeing their wages surge faster than any other group of
earners
Fastest wage
growth over the last four years among historically disadvantaged groups. Low-wage workers’ wages surged after decades
of slow growth
https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2023/?mc_cid=4cb962c904&mc_eid=bbd855ee75
Dairy Queen
announces Summer Blizzard Treat Menu with sweet buy-one-get-one deal
https://livingonthecheap.com/dairy-queen-summer-blizzard-menu-bogo-free-deal/
Why the ‘Great
Recession’ never came | DW Business – March 30, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr9qt836A18
Bidenomics Is
Making China Angry. That’s OK.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/opinion/biden-trump-china.html
What happens when
you send cancer into space? | BBC News – 2 weeks ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5ONVyAXn1w
Economic Update:
Resurgent Labor Organizing In The South – April 1, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT74ONjMvKg
This is Why Rich
People Hate the IRS | Robert Reich – April 2, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF3OsZf_hto
The psychological
poverty trap: How lack of money impacts decision-making, procrastination and
loss of control – March 26, 2024
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-psychological-poverty-lack-money-impacts.html
Bernie: The Podcast | Episode 1 - The Political
Revolution – April 3, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBEpS9YjH1U
Bernie: The Podcast | Episode 2 – Oligarchy – April 3, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRODOFBTFKA
Bernie: The
Podcast | Episode 3 - Unions and the Future of Work – April of 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwOOKndMVyg
Bernie: The
Podcast | Episode 4 - The Media Crisis – April 22, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRRXu4iSahw
Unions and the
Future of Work – April 3, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3pzSbztMtM
Live from the
White House – April 4, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynY2Bx_vGtM
Another Great
Jobs Report - The Economy Is Strong, Joe Biden Is A Successful President
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/another-great-jobs-report-the-economy
What Dollar
General Doesn’t Want You To Know – 2 weeks ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE5THiD-kTk
U.S. Money Supply
Is Doing Something No One Has Witnessed Since the Great Depression, and It
Foreshadows a Big Move to Come in Stocks
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-money-supply-doing-something-090600755.html
Unbundling Cable,
Phones, and TV. Your weekly excerpt from
one of my bestselling books. This week: "The Hidden History of Monopolies:
How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream"
https://hartmannreport.com/p/unbundling-cable-phones-and-tv
Covering a
university that combines diversity and excellence — as well as Donald Trump,
Ukraine and competitive quizzing. – April 8, 2024
Economic Update:
The Myth of Black Buying Power – April 8, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuyrN7cfdxM
Ask Prof Wolff -
April 8, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-eylUiDsAw
President Biden
Announces New Plans to Deliver Student Debt Relief to Over 30 Million Americans
– April 8, 2024
https://mailchi.mp/f16a3262350f/opso-weekly-newsletter-2457181?e=6996f56ad1
Is It Inflation?
Or Is It Greedflation? | Robert Reich – April 9, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj7WEbh4e0M
Alternatives to
Capitalism-Imperialism: Challenging Today’s Neocolonial Disorder
Pennsylvania
Lawmakers File Marijuana Legalization Bill Ahead Of Committee Hearing This Week
– April 10, 2024
NEWSLETTERFeds
seize state-licensed cannabis (Newsletter: April 9, 2024)
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/feds-seize-state-licensed-cannabis-newsletter-april-9-2024/
Crews Begin
Removing Shipping Containers Off the Dali, Ship that Collapsed Key Bridge
THIS Therapy
Lengthens Telomere By 100%?? - Reported By A 83 Year Old Doctor – April 1, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMtC40HAeoY
For Puerto Rico,
True Decolonization Must Mean Independence.
The Puerto Rico Status Act nominally presents a choice on the
archipelago’s political future, but U.S. impositions will never offer a path to
liberation. With a people’s education campaign, new autonomous directions are
possible.
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QMV9CWGBC7RPYVSXDNJH/full?target=10.1080/10714839.2024.2323395
Cloud Capped Star
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3051894/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov_pl
From the Genocide
in Palestine and Ukraine to the Fascist Threat: Working Toward a Revolutionary,
Marxist-Humanist Organizational Response–by Peter Hudis et al.
Why are food
prices out of control? | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich ft. Michael Pollan
– April 13, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y-Qu0a0MZA
WATCH: Crockett
ROASTS Ivermectin-Toting GOP Quack – April 13, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w27uKdZANic
Economic Update:
A Sea Change In US Labor's Militancy – April 15, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18FoE3IiNYg
Why a Vietnamese
billionaire has been sentenced to death – April 12, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqUQ6HYIjiM
“I Want My Taxes
to…” Reflections for Tax Day – April 10,
2024
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/i-want-my-taxes-to
Rents Are Too
High Nationwide: A Renters' Tax Credit Would Help. A monthly tax credit that capped housing
costs at 30 percent of income could keep millions of Americans—including me—in
our homes.
https://www.laprogressive.com/housing-and-homlessness/rents-are-too-high-nationwide
Capitalism Hits
Home: The United Nation World Happiness Report – April 18, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x4EJZenzmc
Spoiler alert:
Greed. Greed. Greed. – April 18, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szrSJRWPfFQ
Make Giving Back Your Second Act. Get involved and make a positive difference
in your community. AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers serve with organizations
dedicated to helping others.
https://americorps.gov/serve/americorps-seniors
SUPPLEMENTAL
NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. SNAP
changes lives. You can too.
https://careandshare.org/get-involved/volunteer/snap-volunteer/
Disaster Relief
Programs: Volunteer & Donate; Train & Educate
https://www.ready.gov/get-involved
Volkswagen
workers vote for union in Tennessee — a major win for organized labor – April
20, 2024
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vw-volkswagen-uaw/
I don't accept
this corporate and right-wing line. – April 21, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NxKclJXrxs
Economic Update:
A Critique of Government Spending – April 22, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5rtUZlGABo
The
Small-Business Tyrant Has a Favorite Political Party – April 23, 2024
Why Homelessness
Stalks America Like the Grim Reaper. Both
homelessness & inflation are the result of America allowing housing to
become a commodity that can be traded & speculated in by financial markets
& overseas investors...
https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-homelessness-stalks-america-like-866
Is the Supreme
Court about to criminalize homelessness?
The court will decide if bans on outdoor camping are 'cruel and unusual'
https://theweek.com/politics/supreme-court-criminalize-homelessness
How do we fix the
Steward Health Care disaster? Cerberus
and de la Torre should put their money where their mouths are. – April 20, 2024
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/20/opinion/how-to-fix-steward-health-care/
The Racial Wealth Monopoly. Your weekly excerpt from one of my
bestselling books. This week: "The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big
Business Destroyed the American Dream" – April 21, 2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-racial-wealth-monopoly
After Long Delay,
Marijuana Social Equity Fund In Massachusetts Awards $2.3 Million In Grants To
Cannabis Businesses - April 22, 2024
Fact Sheet: Vice
President Harris Announces Historic Advancements in Long-Term Care to Support
the Care Economy – April 22, 2024
Star Trek Actress
Kitty Swink Had a 4% Survival Rate After Pancreatic Cancer — It's Been 20 Years
(Exclusive). "My job now is to give
others hope," the actress and activist said
https://people.com/star-trek-actress-kitty-swink-pancreatic-cancer-survival-exclusive-8630002
Skepticism Is
Healthy, but in Medicine, It Can Be Dangerous.
Skepticism and distrust of health practitioners is on the rise. How are
doctors supposed to restore patient trust?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opinion/medical-skepticism-doctors-trust.html
Sanders locks
onto next drug pricing target: Ozempic – April 25, 2024
FACT SHEET:
President Biden Announces New Workforce Hubs to Train and Connect American
Workers to Good Jobs Created by the President’s Investing in America Agenda –
April 25, 2024
A Long Way Down. Lots of people are trying to come to terms
with narrowed horizons, cramped futures…and they’re pretty pissed. – April 25, 2024
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/a-long-way-down
Southern
Autoworkers aren’t Listening to the GOP’s BS Any More. The problem for Republicans is that unions
are “democracy in the workplace,” and the GOP hates democracy as a matter of
principle... – April 25, 2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/southern-autoworkers-arent-listening-50c
G20 Ministers Get
Behind a Global Wealth Tax on Billionaires.
A 2 percent levy, they say, could raise $313 billion a year to ease
poverty and climate disparities. – April 26, 2024
University of
Texas Faculty Strike - Alabama Amazon Workers Could Vote Again – April 26, 2024
Cannabis Use
Linked to Epigenetic Changes, Study Reveals – April 26, 2024
https://www.sciencealert.com/cannabis-use-linked-to-epigenetic-changes-study-reveals
China Dumps
$74,000,000,000 in US Treasuries in One Year As Two BRICS Nations Say They've
Abandoned Dollar in Mutual Trade - April 26, 2024
According to data
from the OECD, American
workers are putting in almost 60 hours a year more than the
weighted average for OECD nations… a benchmark that workers from countries in
the European Union are already ~180 hours shy of. – April 26, 2024
https://sherwood.news/world/nicolai-tangen-says-americans-just-work-harder/
Monopolies over
Labor. Your weekly excerpt from one of
my books. This week: "The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business
Destroyed the American Dream"
https://hartmannreport.com/p/monopolies-over-labor
Economic Update:
The Phenomenon of China – April 29, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6LBNDKTk8Q
It’s not a scam:
What Philly homeowners should know about water and sewage line warranties. Homeowners are responsible for the exterior
plumbing from their home to the street’s water and sewer mains, and most home
insurance policies don't cover it.
https://www.inquirer.com/business/plumbing-water-sewage-line-warranty-20240429.html
Joseph Stiglitz
and the Meaning of Freedom. The famous
liberal economist wants to take back the language of liberty from the right.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/joseph-stiglitz-and-the-meaning-of-freedom
Should
Billionaires Exist? | Robert Reich – April 30, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTAlWw9Hbcg
How capitalism
enslaved us all | Grace Blakeley interview – 1 month ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLPGrdRid7Y
Global
Capitalism: On Labor - A May Day 2024 Special [May 1st, 2024]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2w7q_ssCZc
We Have the Power
to Rein in Greedy Corporate Landlords. A
broad coalition of housing justice groups, social justice organizations, labor
unions, and civic leaders have banded together to pass the Justice for Renters
Act in California.
https://www.laprogressive.com/housing-and-homlessness/greedy-corporate-landlords
Progressives Must
Put Medicare for All Back on the Agenda.
We need to put single payer back on the table, loudly, proudly, and
strategically.
https://www.laprogressive.com/healthcare/medicare-for-all-back-on-the-agenda
New study
challenges long-held assumption about cancer – April 29, 2024
https://www.freethink.com/health/cancer-without-genetic-mutations
An Oil
Price-Fixing Conspiracy Caused 27% of All Inflation Increases in 2021. The FTC just found evidence that American oil
companies colluded with the Saudi government to hike gas prices, costing the
average family $3,000 last year. The question is, what can we do about it?
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-oil-price-fixing-conspiracy-caused
Proposed federal
marijuana changes could reshape the cannabis industry - CBS San Francisco –
April 30, 2024
Purge Of
Disability Benefits Is Happening – Late-April, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khiikeYURFQ
The New Sundown
Towns. As Grants Pass, Oregon—and the
nation—await a Supreme Court ruling on just how far cities can police the
homeless, a volunteer mayor and her unhoused constituents try to weather the
backlash. – April 30, 2024
https://newrepublic.com/article/181036/new-sundown-towns-grants-pass-v-johnson
Two More Colleges
Announce They’re Closing As Pandemic’s Costs Linger – May 1, 2024
Woman hits a nerve
with millions as she reacts with disbelief at JP Morgan CEO's comments about
average American's quality of life – May 1, 2024
New era for pot
regulation leaves old problem: Many cannabis companies can’t find a bank | WANE
15 – May 1, 2024
Pennsylvania
college No. 2 most expensive in U.S. – May 2, 2024
https://www.pennlive.com/life/2024/05/pennsylvania-college-no-2-most-expensive-in-us.html
Majority Of
Americans Say Marijuana Banking Bill Would Promote Public Safety And Help
Underserved Communities, Financial Association Poll Finds - Marijuana Moment –
May 2, 2024
Less for Labor
Means More for CEOs. Your weekly excerpt
from one of my books. This week: "The Hidden History of Monopolies: How
Big Business Destroyed the American Dream"
https://hartmannreport.com/p/less-for-labor-means-more-for-ceos
Economic Update:
Uneven Development a Key Problem of Capitalism – May 6, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMu3Xvntx3c
Marxist Richard
Wolff on China: Why no talk of class? – May 6, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yJP6MP6IUo
Are Billionaires
Simply Money Addicts - Like Scrooge McDuck?
Why are the GOP and billionaires so committed to gutting worker
protections while increasing the wealth of the top one percent?
https://hartmannreport.com/p/are-billionaires-simply-money-addicts-a76
How Wall Street
Priced You Out of a Home | Robert Reich – May 7, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9TOGxDJ0TE
A new
pronouncement on animal consciousness should change people’s views on eating
meat—but it won’t. Recent findings
suggest, more than ever, that nonhuman animals are capable of suffering.
Scientists are begging us to listen. – May 7, 2024
An Oil
Price-Fixing Conspiracy Caused 27% of All Inflation Increases in 2021. The FTC just found evidence that American oil
companies colluded with the Saudi government to hike gas prices, costing the
average family $3,000 last year. The question is, what can we do about it?
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-oil-price-fixing-conspiracy-caused
Global
Capitalism: A Marxist Critique of Capitalism for 2024 [May 2024]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBLJ7UAqXSo
The Family Does
It Work? Did It Ever? – May 9, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAxpJfP6I4M
Is higher
education worth the cost? New study says it depends on the school. In California and the Bay Area, Stanford
University rose to the top of the list, providing students with the most bang
for their buck and essentially no cost of attendance. But fewer low- and moder…
Paid sick leave
sticks after many pandemic protections vanish – May 9, 2024
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paid-sick-leave-sticks-after-many-pandemic-protections-vanish-kff/
Is this for
real?! | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich – May 11, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avk3c7XkmNE
Breakthrough
therapies at Stanford are saving lives. Can we afford them? This is the future of medicine, experts
agree. But the cost of this new class of medical treatment is raising alarm
about availability and affordability, even as its potential grows.
The housing
crisis in the U.S. is flipped upside down in Japan, where each home that's
occupied could be next to an empty one by 2033 – May 12. 2024
https://fortune.com/2024/05/12/housing-market-crisis-us-vs-japan-vacant-homes-abandoned-properties/
OpenAI's Sam
Altman Has a New Idea for a Universal Basic Income – May https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-sam-altman-universal-basic-income-idea-compute-gpt-7-2024-5
Economic Update:
Prospects for a Political Turn Left – May 13, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntv-dtMIqYU
Ask Prof Wolff
Live - May 15, 2024 with Jared Yates Sexton – May 15, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SweHxEPu3s
Alarming Virus
Evolution – Scientists Identify First-Ever Mammal-to-Human Bird Flu Case – May
16, 2024
Amazon raised
warehouse wages to $15 an hour 5 years ago. Today, half of workers surveyed
told researchers they struggle to afford food or rent | Fortune – May 16, 2024
Scientists
Examined 50 Years Of Tax Cuts For The Rich - Their Shocking Conclusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP93Gq-VeqU
A Vast, Untapped
Source of Lithium Has Just Been Found in The US – May 18, 2024
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-vast-untapped-source-of-lithium-has-just-been-found-in-the-us
Economic Update:
Roots of a Surging US Labor Movement – May 20, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEU4gnzu-4o
What is Biden
Doing Right? – May 20, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCor-vvpAeg
Trustbusting is
as American as apple pie. Author Matt
Stoller on why recalling American history can rally people against the
corporate tyrannies of Scrooge McDuck. – May 21, 2024
https://the.ink/p/matt-stoller-antitrust-an-american-value
The Looting of
Venezuela. How U.S. foreign policy impoverished the country—and boosted
corporate profits – May 21, 2024
https://newrepublic.com/article/181217/us-sanctions-venezuela-looting-corporate-profits
'Undeniable
Wrongdoing': Congressional Democrats Ask DOJ to Investigate Big Oil. Companies made "public promises to
reduce emissions... while privately seeking to lock in continued fossil fuel
production for decades into the future," wrote two Democratic leaders who
referred the case. – May 22, 2024
How to Stop War
Profiteering. Weapons contractors are
raking in billions from America’s support for Israel and Ukraine. It’s time to
rein them in. - May 22, 2024
https://newrepublic.com/article/181289/stop-war-profiteering
The day will come
when we will succeed in making health care a human right. – May 23, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L40jIrsHF_Y
Capitalism Hits
Home: Women’s Traditional Labor, Skills and Strengths Are Learned Behaviors –
May 23, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeLlvle_ij0
Scientists just
discovered an enormous lithium reservoir under Pennsylvania – May 23, 2024
Daily marijuana
use surpasses alcohol consumption, new study finds. Here's what it means for
the booze business – May 23, 2024
Senators Launch
Probe of Trump's $1 Billion Offer to Big Oil.
"Emboldened by impunity, Mr. Trump and Big Oil are flaunting their
indifference to U.S. citizens' economic well-being for all to see, conferring
on how to trade campaign cash for policy changes." – May 23, 2024
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trumps-quid-pro-quo
Scientists
Discover Key Food Nutrients Linked to Slower Brain Aging – May 24, 2024
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-key-food-nutrients-linked-to-slower-brain-aging
Rent Control Now! How Joe Biden can help fix the nation’s
chronic housing problem—and win the 2024 election – May 24, 2024
https://newrepublic.com/article/181227/rent-control-now
What If Climate
Change is Far Worse than Scientists Think? Shocking Evidence – May 25, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJOMptTukZc
Solution: Break
Up the Internet Giants. Your weekly
excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Hidden History of
Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream" – May 26, 2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/solution-break-up-the-internet-giants
EXCLUSIVE: What
is Uber Caregiver? First look at new product launching this summer. The new feature, Uber Caregiver, can help get
loved ones to doctor's appointments by tapping into health insurance benefits.
https://www.today.com/health/news/uber-caregiver-rcna152364
Economic Update:
New Energies Organizing Unions – May 27, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlrTsv7aXTo
DEA Says 'THCA Does Not Meet The Definition' Of Legal Hemp As
Congress Weighs Cannabinoid Recriminalization In Farm Bill – May 27, 2024
There has been a
massive redistribution of wealth in America. But it's gone in the wrong
direction. – May 28, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClXjPmK3yQQ&t=14s
Medicare
Advantage: Why Are We Paying for "Sham" Insurance? So, here we are, handing billions of dollars
a month to insurance industry executives so they can buy new Swiss chalets,
private jets, and luxury yachts... – May 29, 2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/medicare-advantage-why-are-we-paying-a86
Why Are So Many
Americans Misinformed About The Economy?
It’s not just the media’s negativity, a Washington Post columnist
insists, but the public’s attraction to bad news – May 30, 2024
https://www.americaamerica.news/p/why-are-so-many-americans-misinformed
LIVE with the
Sanders Institute – June 2, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmkfHZ5A1CE
Economic Update
(Special Edition): Exclusive interview with Dr. Cornel West – June 3, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un6AA-_ToWg
Homeless
advocates gear up for supreme court case decision
Fauci Torches
“Crazy” MTG for Her Insane Attacks. The
former NIAID head did not hold back against Marjorie Taylor Greene. – June 4,
2024
https://newrepublic.com/post/182211/fauci-crazy-marjorie-taylor-greene-attacks-covid
Why Corporations
Have More Rights Than People | Robert Reich – June 4, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAIlo3upJHM
Going from
Democracy… to Plutocracy… and Now to Kleptocracy – June 4, 2024
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/going-from-democracy-to-plutocracy
GOP Congressional
Committee Removes D.C. Marijuana Sales Ban And Adds Cannabis Banking
Protections In Key Spending Bill – June 4, 2024
Richard Wolff on
Israel as a Project of Colonial Capitalism – June 4, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUdYqUo4Dwk
Democracy
Thwarted: Vermont Council Delegates Must Keep Voting Until Results Please AFL
Headquarters? a re-run election that
turns the labor council back into a top-down, dysfunctional organization—like
it was for decades—will be a setback for labor locally and nationally. – June
5, 2024
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/democracy-thwarted
Solution: Bring
Back the Corporate Death Penalty. Your weekly
excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Hidden History of
Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream" – June 9, 2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/solution-bring-back-the-corporate
South Africa
Could Be First Country to Provide Universal Basic Income - Business Insider –
June 9, 2024
https://www.businessinsider.com/south-africa-universal-basic-income-anc-2024-6
Economic Update:
Labor Vs Capital Struggle in US Intensifies – June 10, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh1KcaiVbtc
Republicans’
Trickle-Down Revival: Bold Move or Blunder?
Are Americans catching on and increasingly rejecting horses, sparrows,
and politicians who try to sell them on more trickle-down tax cuts for the
rich? – June 11, 2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/republicans-trickle-down-revival-819
New SSA System
Can End Benefits In 2025 – June 12, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/live/Tx4cErUSBTM
The Dangerous Myth of Population Growth: How Billionaires
Are Leading Us Astray. So, really, Musk
and Bezos are just echoing a thought virus that has infected much of humanity
since the early days of evangelical religion and warfare… - June 13, 2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-dangerous-myth-of-population
Capitalism Hits
Home: Voluntary Childlessness Is A Worldwide Trend. Why? – June 13, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBU6fTUg70k
Pennsylvania
Lawmakers Step Up Push For Marijuana Legalization, With Emphasis On Social
Equity – June 13, 2024
Solution: Ban
Preemption Laws Written by Corporations.
Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Hidden
History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream" –
June 16, 2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/solution-ban-preemption-laws-written
Taking Vitamin
D3? This Might Save Your Life – June 17, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ukyja7cpfM
Economic Update:
The Political Economy Of Tariffs – June 18, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLKVPQg_rzw
Dialectic At
Work: For Roses and Bread: On Marxism as a Theory of Overcoming Trauma – June
20, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ6esJHvoxk
The Supreme Court
Made It Easier to Union Bash | Robert Reich on MSNBC - June 22, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Ju2AZPY80
The Core
Solution: Competition. Your weekly
excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Hidden History of
Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream" – June 23, 2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-core-solution-competition
Economic Update:
Fracking vs Fossil Fuel Profits - Interview with Award winning Director Josh
Fox – June 24, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9wowrqFXuQ
Trump Would Take
a Wrecking Ball to Our Economy | Robert Reich – June 25, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NDd_LNwT8E
Brazil's Supreme
Court decriminalizes marijuana possession – June 26, 2024
https://www.dw.com/en/brazils-supreme-court-decriminalizes-marijuana-possession/a-69475215
St. Louis Basic-Income
Lawsuit Threatens Pilot Program - Business Insider – June 26, 2024
Biden Vs. Trump
On Marijuana: Where The Candidates Stand Heading Into The 2024 Election – June
26, 2024
Economic Update:
State Senator And Socialist - Interview with Kristen Gonzalez (NY State
Senator) – July 1, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2edCF-Tw2E
The Truth About
Immigrants and the Economy | Robert Reich – July 2, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCl9-uaKzv8
Federal judge
partially blocks U.S. ban on noncompetes – July 3, 2024
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/03/nx-s1-5020525/noncompete-ban-block-ftc-competition-ryan-texas
Dialectic At
Work: A Theoretical Rupture: Overdetermination – July 4, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W21APf0Ukxg
The Lie That
Costs Americans Their Jobs I 10 Economic Myths Debunked #6 – July 5, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt9rKP85CJk
Economic Update:
From The Old Socialisms To The New – July 8, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v6bz6qi2AY
Boeing Is
Everything Wrong With American Capitalism | Robert Reich – July 8, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duNbqQj8ewI
We must scrap the
cap and demand that the wealthy pay their fair share to extend Social Security.
– July 9, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuF1cHKWbds
This Bill Would
Cut Social Security BEFORE Project 2025 w/ Alex Lawson – July 9, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5DMmf3etxI
The Right to
Education for Disabled Young Adults. A
law in Pennsylvania makes it possible for schools to kick out disabled students
as soon as they turn twenty-two. – July 9, 2024
https://progressive.org/latest/the-right-to-education-for-disabled-young-adults-ervin-20240709/
Global
Capitalism: The Decline of the US Empire [July 2024] – July 10, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyw6vD2kiew
Capitalism Hits
Home: Trump As Totem – July 11, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoSixtiyc3Y
Property code
enforcement a sore spot in some SD towns – July 11, 2024
https://www.sdnewswatch.org/faith-south-dakota-property-code-enforcement-rural-housing/
The Real Welfare
in America I 10 Economic Myths Debunked #7 – July 12, 2024
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