Monday 17 May '21 show notes

  • Life Will Dramatically Change Under Brutal American Oligarchy - The stakes are higher than they've been since the 1860s and the 1930s.
  • National Progressive Townhall Meeting - Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA, 7th District / Chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus
  • His Family in the West Bank Dealing w/the Current Crisis. - Dean Obeidallah, Host of Dean Obeidallah show weekdays 6-9PMET @SXMProgress Radio Ch127/Columnist-The Daily Beast
  • Why Biden should reappoint Powell as Fed chair, as soon as possible - Dean Baker, Senior Economist - Center for Economic and Policy Research, which he co-founded in 1999. Author of several books, including Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer / Read more at his blog "Beat the Press"
  • The Resurrection of Reagan's Welfare Queen - David Sirota, Founder-The Daily Poster / Jacobin Magazine Editor & Guardian Columnist
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Life Will Dramatically Change Under Brutal American Oligarchy
Thom plus logo The stakes are higher than they've been since the 1860s and the 1930s; this may be our last chance to rescue democracy in this country.

Want some racism, sexism, misogyny, blunt and angry nationalism, and good-old-fashioned corruption with your government?

We just had an example during the four years of the Trump presidency of how this could change everyday life in America, and the election to leadership of Trump acolyte Elise Stefanik shows how many in the Republican Party want to institutionalize it. It's important to understand what it really means.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom
Monday's Daily Stack Daily Stack
Hour One: Life Will Dramatically Change Under Brutal American Oligarchy - The stakes are higher than they've been since the 1860s and the 1930s; this may be our last chance to rescue democracy in this country.
Article: "Israel-Gaza conflict: 200 Palestinians killed in a week, say officials" by Hazem Balousha and Oliver Holmes .
Article: "U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel" by U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel" by Congressional Research Service.
Article: "Episode 9: Trump's war with his generals" by Jonathan Swan, Zachary Basu.
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976
Article: "Congress Must Pass the 'For the People Act'" by Wendy R. Weiser, Daniel Weiner, Dominique Erney.
Article: "Fact Sheet: The American Jobs Plan" by White House.
Article: "Fact Sheet: The American Families Plan" by White House.
Article: "Benjamin Netanyahu" (Israel) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan" (Turkey) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Andrzej Duda" (Poland) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Narendra Modi" (India) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Benito Mussolini" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Vladimir Putin" (Russia) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Rodrigo Duterte" (Philippines) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jair Bolsonaro" (Brazil) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Le Pen family" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Cheney defiant as Republicans oust her from leadership for rebuking Trump" by Sahil Kapur, Haley Talbot, Kasie Hunt and Leigh Ann Caldwell.
Article: "Sturmabteilung"(brown shirts) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Night of the Long Knives" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Fact Sheet: The American Jobs Plan" by White House.
Article: "Fact Sheet: The American Families Plan" by White House.
Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].
Bill: "S.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR].
National Progressive Townhall Meeting
- Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA, 7th District / Chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus @RepJayapal
Article: "Fact Sheet: Congressional Progressive Caucus Priorities" by Institute for Policy Studies.
Article: "Fireside chats" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "USPS removed 711 sorting machines this year, new court documents show" by Kristen Holmes and Paul P. Murphy.

Hour Two: National Progressive Townhall Meeting, continued
- Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA, 7th District / Chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus @RepJayapal
Bill: "H.R.2474 - Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019" by Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3].
Bill: "H.R.3884 - MORE Act of 2020" by Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-10].
Quote: "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and black people. We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting people to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, break up their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." - John Ehrlichman.
Article: "Cheney defiant as Republicans oust her from leadership for rebuking Trump" by Sahil Kapur, Haley Talbot, Kasie Hunt and Leigh Ann Caldwell.
His Family in the West Bank Dealing w/the Current Crisis.
- Dean Obeidallah, Host of Dean Obeidallah show weekdays 6-9PMET @SXMProgress Radio Ch127/Columnist-The Daily Beast @DeanObeidallah @SXMProgress @thedailybeast
Article: "Hydraulic fracturing" (fracking) by Wikipedia.
Article: "History of Israel" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: Why Biden should reappoint Powell as Fed chair, as soon as possible
- Dean Baker, Senior Economist - Center for Economic and Policy Research, which he co-founded in 1999. Author of several books, including Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer / Read more at his blog "Beat the Press" @DeanBaker13 @ceprdc @beat_the_press
The Resurrection of Reagan's Welfare Queen
- David Sirota, Founder-The Daily Poster / Jacobin Magazine Editor & Guardian Columnist @davidsirota @DailyPoster
Article: "The Resurrection Of Reagan's "Welfare Queen"" by Andrew Perez, David Sirota.
Article: "Andrew Jackson" (Old Hickory).
Article: "The Trail of Tears " by PBS.
Article: "Second Bank of the United States" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!" -- Andrew Jackson.
Article: "Lincoln and Taney's great writ showdown" by Scott Bomboy.
Article: "Jurisdiction stripping" by Wikipedia.
Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).
Article: "Paramilitary" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Blackshirts" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Death squads in El Salvador" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Three Percenters" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Killing of George Floyd" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Terry Nichols" by Wikipedia.
Article: "List of United States military bases" by Wikipedia.
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