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Monday's Daily Stack

Hour One: on Martin Luther King Day - White Supremacists Now and Then...
- Political Commentator/JFK Historian Lamar Waldron, author of The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination and Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA, and co-author with Thom of "Ultimate Sacrifice" and "Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination"

Article: "Trump, Pence Visit Martin Luther King Memorial" by NBC.

Article: "White students in MAGA gear crashed the Indigenous Peoples March and harassed participants" by Amanda Sakuma.

Article: "Inside the GM plant where nooses and 'whites-only' signs hung" by Mallory Simon and Sara Sidner.

Video: Threat in Miami : The Milteer Tape.

Book: Killing King: Racial Terrorists, James Earl Ray, and the Plot to Assassinate Martin Luther King Jr. by Stuart Wexler, Larry Hancock.

Article: "Church Committee", 1975-6.

Article: "Pike Committee" by Wikipedia.

Article: "October surprise" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs" by Brown University.

Article: "William Barr’s shady track record of covering up the crimes of a Republican president" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Bush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair, Aborting a Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails 'Cover-Up'" by David Johnston.

Article: "Mr. Barr's Cloud: Growing Darker" by The New York Times.

Article: "Essay; The Patsy Prosecutor" by William Safire.

Hour Two: How to Make a Difference, Run for Office or Debate Your Friends & Relatives
- Roger Wolfson, Former Counsel to Senators Lieberman, Kerry, Wellstone and Kennedy; TV & Screen Writer-Law & Order: SVU, Saving Grace, The Closer and more; Founder, Writers Action Group (WAG)

Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.

Video: The Debate Answer that Ruined Michael Dukakis In 1988.

Video: "Learn How To Negotiate From The FBI's Lead Hostage Negotiator Chris Voss".

Article: "Ronald Reagan v. Jimmy Carter: "Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?"" by Bret Schulte.

Book: Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives by George Lakoff.

Video: Women's March 2019: Tens of thousands take to streets across the world – video.

Article: "Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting", December 14, 2012 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Defining Deviancy Down" by Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Quote: "Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum." ("Love the sinner and hate the sin.") - Augustine of Hippo.

Quote: "Hate the sin, love the sinner" - Mahatma Gandhi.

Article: "Nonviolent Communication" by Wikipedia.

The Secret Border Trump Plan & Calls for Perjury Investigation into Secretary Nielsen...
- Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR)

Article: "Why Didn’t They Stop? Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Parable of the Good Samaritan" by Andy Rau.

Article: "Nearly 15,000 migrant children in federal custody jammed into crowded shelters" by AP.

Article: "Kirstjen Nielsen Lied to Congress About Trump’s War on Migrant Children" by John Nichols.

Article: "Jeff Merkley says he asked FBI to investigate DHS secretary for perjury because he's 'sick and tired of this administration lying'" by Devan Cole.

Article: "Huge migrant teen detention camp in Texas shutting down" by AP.

Article: "Feds: Thousands more migrant children were separated from families; we still don't know total number" by Agnel Philip.

Article: "Trump defends immigration proposal against 'amnesty' criticism from conservatives" by Brett Samuels.

Hour Three: Conversations With Great Minds: The End of Ice
- Dahr Jamail, Independent Journalist & Staff Reporter-Truthout; author, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq and his new book, The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption

Site: Conversations With Great Minds.

Book: Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq by Dahr Jamail.

Article: "The Arctic Is Warming Twice as Fast as the Rest of the Globe" by Lou Del Bello.

Article: "Deepwater Horizon oil spill" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Coral bleaching" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Antarctic ice is melting six times faster than it did in the 1980s and could 'destabilize' glaciers" by Chris Ciaccia.

Article: "If oceans stopped absorbing heat from climate change, life on land would average 122°F" by Zoë Schlanger.

Article: "Permian–Triassic extinction event" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Climate Change and Rising Food Prices Heightened Arab Spring" by Ines Perez.

Article: "Arab Spring" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "The Thomas Jefferson Papers".

Article: "Global Extinction Within 18 - 34 Months" by Malcolm Light.

Event: 21 Jan 2019, 7:30pm ET : Powell's on Burnside, Portland: "The End of Ice with Dahr Jamail".

Article: "Bernie Sanders' MLK message in South Carolina: Trump is a racist" by Naomi Lim.

Article: "Pictures emerge showing Covington High School members dressed in full body "blackface" while harassing black basketball players at a public basketball game in 2015." by trk424552.

Quote: "It's a great day. A beautiful day. Thank you for being here. Appreciate it" - Donald Trump at the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on the National Mall on MLK day.

Article: "Mike Pence compares Trump’s border wall stance to Martin Luther King’s legacy" by Kristine Phillips.

Speech: "Madison Square Garden Speech", President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936. "They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred"

Article: "Pride (In the Name of Love)" by U2.

Video: MLK on The Mike Douglas Show.

Article: "Pure (TV series)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gov. Ricketts Proclaims “Religious Freedom Day”" by Gov. Pete Ricketts.

Article: "Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Offers DACA Deal In Exchange For Border Wall Funding" by Sara Boboltz Matt Fuller.

Article: "Federal food assistance arriving early because of shutdown" by AP (similar stories for many states).

Article: "Paychecks, IPOs and GDP data: Here are the next things the government shutdown could disrupt" by Jacob Pramuk.

Article: "In Business and Governing, Trump Seeks Victory in Chaos" by Russ Buettner and Maggie Haberman.

Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

I'll be talking with Kate Pickett, Professor of Epidemiology, Research Champion for Justice and Equality and Deputy Director of the Centre for Future Health at the University of York / Co-Author (with Richard Wilkinson) of several books including their latest released today, The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity, and Improve Everyone’s Well-Being.

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