Neoliberalism has failed - The question is whether we'll return to sane & humane economic policies & ban big money from politics or if we'll embrace the authoritarian policies of Putin, Trump & Le Pen.

A bit over 40 years ago the UK and the United States — followed within a few years by most of the rest of western Europe — embarked on a radical experiment in governance and economics.

"Neoliberalism" was the word invented by a small group of utopian economists at a 1938 meeting in France, and it was turned into a movement at a 1947 meeting in Mont Pelerin, Switzerland. At that time the world had been shaken by the rise of Communism in the Soviet Union (and China) and the disaster Fascism brought to Germany and then all of Europe.

The hope of neoliberalism's founders was that it would prevent the rise of both communism and fascism in the developed democracies of the world: a sort of magic formula for governance that would keep the world safe and free forever.

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Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Putin, Trump, and Le Pen are Cashing In on the Collapse of Neoliberalism" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Chile's 1988 Plebiscite and the End of Pinochet's Dictatorship " by Liz Dee.

Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Hausse de la CSG et gel des pensions : ce que les retraités ont perdu en 2018" (Rise in the CSG and freezing of pensions: what retirees lost in 2018) by Adeline Lorence.

Article: "France's Rich Get Much Richer After Abolition Of Wealth Tax" by Alex Ledsom.

Article: "Sure looks a lot like conservatism" by Didier Fassin.

Article: "Emmanuel Macron's Unwanted New Title: 'President of the Rich'" by Adam Nossiter.

Article: "5 key points from Macron's big labor reform" by Nicholas Vinocur.

Article: "France's popular housing support to be cut" by Richard Lough.

Article: "Macron's tax cuts for the wealthy not bearing fruit - yet: study" by Reuters.

Article: "France's Macron shrugs off fall in popularity among pensioners" by Reuters.

Article: "The Kremlin plans to send 100,000 Ukrainians to Siberia and the Arctic Circle, report says, as Zelenskyy warns of 'filtration camps' for captured people" by Sophia Ankel.

Article: "Macron hints at compromise over plan to raise retirement age" by Kim Willsher.

Article: "Prepared Remarks: Chairman Sanders' Opening Statement at Budget Committee Hearing on President Biden's fy2023 Budget" by Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Russia Airs Its Ultimate 'Revenge Plan' for America" by Julia Davis.

Article: "Honoring Eric Boehlert's Spirit, starting with the NYT's Bizarre Story on Jackson Hearings." by Bethesda 1971.

Article: "Jackson Confirmation Aside, G.O.P. Sees an Opening With Black Voters" by Jonathan Weisman and Maya King.

Article: "April 11, 2022" (The media IS rooting against Biden, with links) by Heather Cox Richardson.

Article: "Fact Sheet: The Biden Administration Announces New Actions to Lessen the Burden of Medical Debt and Increase Consumer Protection" by White House.

Article: "Biden heads to Iowa to unveil plan to reduce gas prices as inflation soars – live" by Richard Luscombe.

YouTube: "WhiteHouse".

Article: "Inflation is out of control! Urgent memo to Biden and the Democrats! " by Robert Reich.

Article: "'Don't Let Dead Cats Stand on Your Porch'" (6 axioms) by Lyndon B. Johnson.

Article: "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "Blood libel" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pizzagate conspiracy theory" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fox News Dangerously Declares War on Teachers: Calls for Violence, Accusations of 'Inclination' to Pedophilia" by David Badash.

Article: "Ohio School Board Holds Emergency Meeting Over 'It's Okay to Be a Unicorn!' After One Parent Complains" by David Badash.

Article: "'Highest rates ever': Conservatives force school districts to ban over 1000 books – LGBTQ and Black authors targeted" by David Badash.

Article: "Pro-Trump Arizona candidate complains Biden's new rules wouldn't let him build his 'very cool' ghost gun" by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "Your morning racism. Courtesy of Tucker and Penn's Amy Wax" by underpants.

Article: "Media critic Eric Boehlert killed in New Jersey bike crash" by AP.

Article: "Franklin D. Roosevelt" by Wikipedia.

Speech: "1944 State of the Union Address" (Second Bill of Rights or Economic Bill of Rights Speech) by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Site: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Youtube Channel.

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

Article: "NRA Was 'Foreign Asset' To Russia Ahead of 2016, New Senate Report Reveals" by Tim Mak.

Article: "Biden on Putin: 'I think he is a war criminal'" by Sam Fossum and Kevin Liptak.

Article: "Lindsey Graham called for Putin's assassination. Even discussing it brings danger to US, experts say" by Grace Hauck.

Article: "'Don't Say Gay' bill: Florida Senate passes controversial LGBTQ school measure" by Brooke Sopelsa, Tat Bellamy-Walker and Reuters.

Article: "No taxation without representation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mark Kelly" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Marianne Williamson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Russian state TV is repeatedly airing clips of Tucker Carlson and Rep. Madison Cawthorn talking about the war in Ukraine" by Brent D. Griffiths.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chuck Grassley" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gasoline prices" (by country) by GlobalPetrolPrices.com.

Article: "Shanghai's 'grim' Covid outbreak threatens more global supply chain disruption" by Martin Farrer.

Article: "Global shipping giant Maersk says the Shanghai lockdown will cause delays and drive up transport costs in a fresh blow to the supply chain" by Abby Wallace.

Hour Three: The state of black America
- Marc H. Morial, President & CEO - National Urban League / Former Mayor of New Orleans, LA (1994 to 2002)

Video: Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo).

Article: "Operation Eagle Eye (United States)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The National Urban League releases 2022 "State of Black America" report" by CBS News.

Article: "19 states enacted voting restrictions in 2021. What's next?" by Jane C. Timm.

Article: "'Gerrymandering On Steroids': How Republicans Stacked The Nation's Statehouses"(REDMAP) by David Daley.

Article: "Georgia Republicans Seek Further Changes to Election Laws" by AP.

Article: "Block the Vote: How Politicians are Trying to Block Voters from the Ballot Box" by ACLU.

Article: "Supreme Court Bars Challenges to Partisan Gerrymandering" by Adam Liptak.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Shelby County v. Holder" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Plessy v. Ferguson".

Article: "Democrats Must Demand Justice Thomas Resign...and His Wife is Prosecuted" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) just shut down Mitch McConnell at a press conference" by kpete.

Article: "'Unsatisfactory in all aspects': NYT reporters break down details of Jared Kushner's sweetheart Saudi deal" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Before Giving Billions to Jared Kushner, Saudi Investment Fund Had Big Doubts" by David D. Kirkpatrick and Kate Kelly.

Article: "Locked in cells '23 hours at a time, no lights, no exercise': Activists want youth center shut down" by Lauren Sue.

Article: "Seats in Congress Gained/Lost by the President's Party in Mid-Term Elections" by The American Presidency Project.

Article: "Under House bills, Biden and Trump would have split Michigan's Electoral College votes" by Clara Hendrickson.

Law: "Taft-Hartley Labor Act", 1947.

Article: "What Is the PRO Act?" by AFL-CIO.

Book: American Insecurity: Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction by Adam Seth Levine.

Article: "An Unlikely Alliance: Ecosocialists Join Forces with Unions to Push the PRO Act" by Emma Fletcher.

Site: Bloc Party Justice Democrats podcasts.

Site: Vote Smart.

Article: "Equality Florida Joins Lawsuit to Challenge Don't Say Gay Law" by Brittany.

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

Article: "Citizens United V. Federal Election Comm'n: Justice Stevens' dissent".

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

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