While the Amazon is on fire, reporter Lee Fang details how Republican lobbyists in the United States are helping organize American multinational corporations to exploit that rain forest. Reporter Judd Legum tells us that fossil fuel lobbyists inside the DNC voted to kill a Democratic Party climate debate. Climate change is the most expensive and destructive force in the world right now, but business and lobbyists see it as an opportunity to make more money. More money destroying the rain forests, more money rebuilding from storms, more money from staying in power by vilifying climate refugees like the people fleeing Guatemala's five year drought and showing up on the southern border of the United States.

As Teddy Roosevelt said, "There could be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains."

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Event: Aug. 24 730p: Portland, Or: Thom Hartmann in "This Land Sings" at the "Alberta Rose Theater".

Event: Aug. 25 3pm: Portland, Or: Thom Hartmann in "This Land Sings" at the "Alberta Rose Theater".

Twitter: "#womensequalityday".

Article: "The following list is of NINE things a woman couldn't do in 1971 - yes the date is correct, 1971." by MiniMe.

Article: "Watch live: Trump, Macron hold joint press conference following G-7" by The Hill.

Article: "G-7 summit ends with little consensus amid Trump's mixed messaging on the trade war" by Toluse Olorunnipa, Michael Birnbaum and Damian Paletta.

Article: "PBS Questions Trump at the G7: Why do you keep repeating a lie?" by C-Span.

Article: "China will retaliate with tariffs on $75 billion more of US goods and resume auto tariffs" by Yun Li.

Article: "Trump escalates the US-China trade war by announcing tariff hikes - on Twitter" by Li Zhou.

Article: "Trump says China called U.S. trade team "twice" and wants "to make a deal" as companies are leaving" by CBS News.

Video: Beijing denies Trump's claim that China called US officials to restart talks.

Article: "The Amazon in Brazil is on fire - how bad is it?" by BBC.

Article: "Leonardo DiCaprio's new environmental fund pledges $5 million in aid amid Amazon fires" by Amanda Jackson.

Event: Aug. 27 6pm: Portland, Or: "Bonds Over Borders - Fundraiser - Comedy - Music".

Site: Innovation Law Lab.

Article: "Bonds Over Borders".

Hour Two: The Anatomy of a Genocide...
- Dr. Omer Bartov, Brown University - John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History / Professor of History & Professor of German Studies / Author of numerous books including his most recent, Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz

Article: "Bosnian genocide" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rwandan genocide" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Holocaust" by Wikipedia.

Article: "El Paso Walmart shooting: what we know" by Anya van Wagtendonk, Sean Collins, and German Lopez.

Article: "Police Use of Fatal Force Identified as a Leading Cause of Death in Young Men" by Robin Lally.

Book: The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America by Thom Hartmann.

Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Article: "Breakup of the Bell System" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How AT&T conquered all forms of communication after the government forced it to break up" by Matthew Stuart.

Article: "Burning down the party" by Judd Legum.

Book: The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt.

Article: "Karl Lueger" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William L. Shirer.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Article: "Trump says China sincerely wants a trade deal: ‘I'm not sure they have a choice'" by Kevin Breuninger, Amanda Macias.

Article: "No Nukes for Iran, No Tariffs on French Wine, and China Trade Deal in Sight: Macron, Trump Summarise G7 Results at Joint Presser" by Tim Korso.

Article: "Trump's bewildering history lesson on Obama and Crimea" by Aaron Blake.

Article: "G7: Trump's demands for Russia's readmission cause row in Biarritz" by Julian Borger.

Article: "Trump suggests hosting next G7 at his Doral golf resort" by BBC.

Article: "Iran's Foreign Minister Was Invited to Meet Trump in the Oval Office" by Robin Wright.

Article: "US sanctions Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif" by BBC.

Article: "Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif arrives in Biarritz in surprise visit to G7 leaders summit" by Roland Oliphant, David Chazan.

Article: "Trump official calls Zarif's G7 appearance a 'curveball'" by CNN.

Article: "Trump says France's Macron "asked me for approval" of Iranian envoy's G-7 visit" by CBS/AP.

Article: "Trump says he wasn't blindsided by arrival of Iranian diplomat Javad Zafir" by Mark Moore.

Article: "Israeli airstrike hits targets in Syria to thwart Iranian drone attack" by AP.

Article: "G7 summit: Trump 'would meet Iran's Rouhani if circumstances right'" by BBC.

Hour Three: "I had to move to China to live the 'American Dream'"
- Curt Kelley, American who moved to China to live the "American Dream"

Article: "China's middle class is exploding" by Kim Iskyan, Stansberry Churchouse Research.

Article: "Foxconn suicides" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Amazon is burning because the world eats so much meat" by Eliza Mackintosh.

Article: "Eat less meat: UN climate-change report calls for change to human diet" by Quirin Schiermeier.

Article: "Our Food Is Killing Too Many of Us" by Dariush Mozaffarian and Dan Glickman.

Article: "Broccoli Is Dying. Corn Is Toxic. Long Live Microbiomes!" by Louise Elizabeth Maher-Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson.

On the Issues.....
- 2020 Democratic Presidential candidate Tom Steyer

Article: "Tom Steyer" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Case: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..."

Article: "How The Fortune 100 Turned $2 Billion in Lobbying Spend Into $400 Billion of Taxpayer Cash" by Adam Andrzejewski.

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