Democrats & Biden face a choice. Do they finish the job and end neoliberalism? Or do they declare "mission accomplished" and revert back to neoliberal policies?

The Democratic Party is having an internal battle over the "small" and the "large" infrastructure bills, but what's really at stake is the future of neoliberalism within the party. The smaller "bipartisan" bill represents the neoliberal worldview, including public-private partnerships and huge subsidies to for-profit companies, whereas the larger "reconciliation" Democratic Party-only bill hearkens back to the FDR/LBJ classic progressive way of doing things.

Milton Friedman began selling neoliberalism to America in the 1950s, and we fully bought into it in the 1980s. Most Americans had no idea, really, what this new political/economic ideology meant; they just knew it involved free trade, economic austerity/tax cuts and deregulation/privatization.

The free trade part, we were told, would bring about the end of great-power wars because countries that were economically interdependent wouldn't dare ruin their own economies by going to war with a significant trading partner.

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Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "DOJ officials rejected colleague's request to intervene in Georgia's election certification: Emails" by Katherine Faulders and Alexander Mallin.

Article: "READ: Letter Jeffrey Clark Circulated At DOJ In Attempted Georgia Coup " by Kate Riga.

Article: "Trump N.J. golf club can't use presidential seal now that he's out of office, complaint says" by Jonathan D. Salant.

Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" by James Monroe.

Video: Watch All In With Chris Hayes Highlights: August 4th | MSNBC.

Article: "Oregon Legislature's BIPOC caucus calls out Newberg School Board for effort to reverse anti-racist policies" by Sam Stites.

Article: "The Big Money Behind the Big Lie" by Jane Mayer.

Site: Code Pink

Law: "18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy".

Article: "Neoliberalism: America has Arrived at One of History's Great Crossroads" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Analysis Of The Zimbabwean Hyperinflation Crisis: A Search For Policy Solutions" by Thomas Stoddard Conkling.

Site: "New Democrat Caucus".

Book: "The Hidden History of American Oligarchy" by Thom Hartmann.

Video: Phil Gramm debates Glass-Steagall repeal.

Article: "The racism at the heart of the Reagan presidency" by Ian Haney-Lopez.

Article: "US Inflation Rate by Year from 1929 to 2023" by The Balance.

Article: "War and McPeace: Russia and the McDonald's theory of war" by Mark Rice-Oxley.

Article: "Problem Solvers Caucus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "North Texas Hospitals' Request For Emergency Staff Denied By State" by Caroline Vandergriff.

Article: "A Texas GOP leader railed against vaccines and masks. Then he died of covid." by Jonathan Edwards.

Article: "Texas GOP shamed for mourning death of anti-vaxx official -- without mentioning he died from COVID-19" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Covid-19 Has Brought Out the Face-Mask Nazis" by Richard W. Rahn.

Article: "The Vaccine Isn't Working" by Wayne Allyn Root.

Article: "Top Biden Advisor Admits Most Face Masks Are Not Very Effective" by Big League Politics.

Article: "The Covid Hypocrites Preach, But They Don't Practice" by Rich Lowry.

Article: "Big City Mayors Ignore Their Own Mask Mandates" by Eric Butler.

Article: "High Noon at the Delta Variant Panic Porn Corral" by Stephen Kruiser.

Article: "Critical Race Theory Is a Hustle" by Jason L. Riley.

Article: "Teaching Critical Race Theory Devalues College Education Even Further" by Ron Hart.

Article: "Critical Race Theory Is Complex -- Oh, Who Are We Kidding?" by Ann Coulter.

Article: ""Forget Critical Race Theory. I Don't Trust Elites to Teach Basic Civics"" by David Harsanyi.

Article: "U.S. Naval Academy Steams Full Speed Ahead on Critical Race Theory" by Stu Cvrk.

Article: "Confronting Teacher Union Twaddle" by Larry Sand.

Article: ""Reverse Racism" and Other Lies Liberals Tell" by Derek Hunter.

Article: "The Virgin Islands just destroyed Ron DeSantis' anti-vaccine mandate for cruises out of Florida " by Orlando Sentinel.

Review: "Binary Economics: The New Paradigm" by Patricia Hetter Kelso.

Article: "Binary economics" by Wikipedia.

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

Site: Mondragon Corporation (co-op)

Article: "Judge determines that Bill Barr lied in court and to congress about the Mueller Report" by Frank Vyan Walton.

Article: "Bill Barr On Trump's Election Fraud Lies: 'It Was All Bulls**t'" by Hayley Miller.

Article: "Oregon Coronavirus at a glance".

Article: "Defense Secretary Weighs Recommending Vaccine Mandate for Troops" by Helene Cooper.

Law: Posse Comitatus Act (1878).

Video: Are Far Right Christians Taking Over The Military? (w/ Mikey Weinstein).

Hour Two: Is There a Progressive Case Against Quantitative Easing?
- Dean Baker, Co-Founder & Senior Economist - Center for Economic and Policy Research

Article: "Is There a Progressive Case Against Quantitative Easing?" by Dean Baker.

Article: "Quantitative easing" (QE) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Overnight Rate" by James Chen.

Article: "The Fed says it is going to start buying individual corporate bonds" by Jeff Cox.

Article: "Republican Congressman Legitimizes Violence as Response to Election Dispute" by Lee Fang.

Article: "Mo Brooks Slapped With Censure Resolution Over Pre-Riot Speech" by Ed Kilgore.

Law: "52 USC 20701: Retention and preservation of records and papers by officers of elections; deposit with custodian; penalty for violation".

Democrats Must Control the Crime Narrative Before It Controls Them
- Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editorial Director/Publisher - The Nation Magazine

Article: "Democrats Must Control the Crime Narrative Before It Controls Them" by Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Article: "Chesa Boudin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Suing Pennsylvania Attorney General Over Opioid Epidemic Settlement" by AP.

Article: "Larry Krasner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "US sees ammunition shortage amid record firearms purchases: report " by Patrick Reilly.

Article: "Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota led to a Covid-19 outbreak in Minnesota, new report says" by Jen Christensen and Christina Maxouris.

Article: "Sturgis motorcycle rally ready to roll despite Delta variant surge" by Megan Cerullo.

Article: "Kristi Noem to Appear at Sturgis Charity Ride as Some Fear Rally Will Prompt COVID Spread" by Julia Marnin.

Article: "Sturgis rally may have caused more than 250,000 new coronavirus cases, study finds" by Doha Madani.

Article: "Share repurchase" (stock buyback) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Price–earnings ratio" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fed Reiterates Pledges on Near-Zero Rates and $120 Billion in Monthly Bond Buys" by Alexandra Scaggs.

Article: "Pic Of The Moment: How To Deal With Anti-Vaxxers" by EarlG.

Article: "Anti-Vaccine Hecklers Get An Earful From New Jersey's Gov" by Lee Moran.

Video: New Jersey Governor goes viral shutting up anti-vaccine protestors.

Article: "Friedrich Hayek" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ludwig von Mises" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chicago school of economics" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: Nature vs Enbridge Pipeline: Wild Rice & Water Rights on Tribal Lands
- Mari Margil, Executive Director - Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights

Article: "Press Release: First "Rights of Nature" Enforcement Case Filed in Tribal Court to Enforce Treaty Guarantees" by Frank Bibeau, Thomas Linzey.

Article: "Line 3 Pipeline" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Wild rice" (manoomin) by Wikipedia.

Article: "White Earth Nation" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "Dances with Wolves".

Article: "Ecuador adopts Rights of Nature in Constitution" by GARN.

Article: "The Klamath River now has the legal rights of a person" by Anna V. Smith.

Article: "Tribal Resolution Recognizes Rights of Menominee River" by CSWAB.

Article: "A Massive 'Heat Dome' is Settling Over the US: What Does it Mean?" by Deena Robinson.

Article: "Air quality worsening in Spokane, smoke expected to stick around" by Fox 28 Spokane.

Article: "Bolivia – national rights of nature legislation " by Australian Earth Laws Alliance.

Article: "This country gave all its rivers their own legal rights" by Sigal Samuel.

Article: "Colombia Constitutional Court Finds Atrato River Possesses Rights" by GARN.

Article: "Ganges and Yamuna rivers granted same legal rights as human beings" by Michael Safi.

Article: "Orange County Adopts Rights of Nature Law, First in Florida" by Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights.

Article: "Streams and lakes have rights, a US county decided. Now they're suing Florida" by Isabella Kaminski.

Video: "The Power Of The Fed".

Article: "Steven Mnuchin, Foreclosure King Of America" by Nomi Prins.

Article: "The Language Toomey Inserted into the Stimulus Bill Enshrines a $681 Billion Trading Slush Fund for Mnuchin with the NY Fed" by Pam Martens and Russ Martens.

Article: "Adverse possession" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "The GOP is not upset about masks. They are upset that they're caught for treason.
The GOP is not upset about infrastructure. They are upset that they're caught for treason.
The GOP is not upset about Olympic athletes. They are upset that they're caught for treason." by Eric Garland.

Tweet: "The GOP will be throwing out the following issues to distract from the hearings on their plan to murder elected officials and overthrow democracy:
Roe v Wade, guns, evolution, birth control pills, race, religion...
...anything to keep from discussing their treason." by Eric Garland.

Tweet: "The GOP decided to sell America's democracy out. There is a pile of corpses already around that decision, and there would have been many more.
The GOP doesn't want to discuss treason.
And yet, it's all that matters. Until every traitor is held to account." by Eric Garland.

Article: "New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will mandate Covid vaccines for certain indoor activities" by Robert Towey.

Article: "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program" (food stamps) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Marxism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "U.S. Foreign Property Investment - Statistics & Facts" by Statista.

Article: "Charles Koch funded eviction push while investing in real estate companies" by Andrew Perez and David Sirota.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Major Garrett: Obama has expanded, not reduced gun rights" by CBS News.

Article: "Nurse's Attempt To Prove Vaccines Make People Magnetic Hilariously Backfires" by David Moye.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 2 section 1. "The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them." (domestic emoluments clause).

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].

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