Bringing our manufacturing back from overseas will reverse the 40-year-long slide of the American middle class and rebuild our nation's security & economy.

China is threatening the United States: this could get very ugly, very quickly. Here's what's happening.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is planning a trip to Taiwan, the first for a Speaker in a quarter-century, as part of a larger trip to the region that will include Singapore, Japan, Indonesia and Malaysia.

China broke away from Taiwan in 1949 and has claimed ever since that the island nation is part of China proper. Taiwan, one of the worlds' most vibrant democracies, wants to maintain their independence as a separate, sovereign nation.

China is not happy about Pelosi's trip and the increased level of US recognition of Taiwan's independent existence that it endorses, making implied threats of military or significant diplomatic punishment if she goes through with the trip.

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-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: ""Free Trade" Has Put America & Democracy At the Mercy of China" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "President Clinton's Remarks on the Passage of the China Trade Bill" by AP.

Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.

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

Article: "How the West invited China to eat its lunch" by Faisal Islam.

Article: "Some U.S. military parts imported from China" by Wyatt Andrews.

Article: "Ross Perot’s Warning of a ‘Giant Sucking Sound’ on Nafta Echoes Today" by Eduardo Porter.

Article: "The Semiconductor Problem" by David Leonhardt.

Article: "Pentagon calls out China’s military threats as Taiwan tensions worsen " by Karoun Demirjian.

Article: "Biden: U.S. military does not support Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan" by Adela Suliman.

Article: "China threatens to take ‘forceful measures' if Nancy Pelosi makes Taiwan visit" by Oliver Browning.

Article: "Global chip shortage is not over and the slowdown is ‘going to bite,' analyst says" by Goh Chiew Tong.

Article: "Beijing is trying to stop Pelosi from visiting the leading supplier of chips to the U.S., warning it is ‘seriously prepared' to retaliate if she goes to Taiwan" by Nicholas Gordon.

Article: "Excessive Heat Warning" (Oregon) by Bob Shaw.

Article: "Democrats Outsmart Mitch McConnell With Surprise Reconciliation Deal" by Arthur Delaney.

Article: "Donald Trump threatens to sue CNN for branding him a ‘liar'" by Josh Marcus.

Article: "GOP 'Working Hand in Hand With Big Pharma' to Kill Drug Price Reform Behind Closed Doors" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Since 2021, Big Oil Has Spent Over $200 Million to Sabotage Climate Action: Analysis" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Shell and Centrica post profits totalling £11bn as households struggle with bills" by Jasper Jolly.

Article: "WATCH: Controversial Liz Cheney Video Surfaces From 2019. She Accuses 'Democrat Party' of 'Killing Babies' After Birth" by Ursula Faw.

Article: "A 2nd straight quarter of GDP contraction shows the Fed is on the back foot in its fight against inflation, says Mohamed El-Erian" by Jennifer Sor.

Article: "Why today's decision by the Fed is dead wrong" by Robert Reich.

Article: "Wuhan Enters Another Lockdown as Rest of World Pretends Covid-19 Pandemic Is Over" by Matt Novak.

Article: "Shanghai Neighborhoods Resubmit to Lockdown as Covid Cases Rebound" by Kelly Wang, Shi Jing and Bao Zhiming.

Article: "National Archives retrieved 15 boxes of Trump White House documents from Mar-a-Lago" by Kevin Breuninger.

Video: How Foreign Companies Are Raising Housing Prices.

Article: "Wall Street's Barons are Causing Homelessness: Can We Stop Them?" by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: ".@Thom_Hartmann: "...that huge tax cut that Reagan did, and then George W. Bush doubled-down on it, and then Donald Trump tripled-down on it, has transferred $50 trillion... out of the pockets of working class people & into the pockets of the top one-tenth of 1%." #TheReidOut" by The ReidOut.

Article: "Dear Millennials: I'm Sorry We Didn't Stop Them" by Thom Hartmann.

Law: "18 U.S. Code § 2385 - Advocating overthrow of Government".

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

Article: "Is it time for Democrats to kick Joe Manchin out of the party?" by Robert Reich.

Article: "Bill to Let Medicare Negotiate Drug Prices Is Blocked" by Robert Pear.

Article: "Problem Solvers Caucus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What you need to know about the Manchin-Schumer deal on climate, taxes, health care" by Christopher Wilson.

Article: "Texas education officials proposed changing "slavery" to "involuntary relocation" when teaching second graders" by Caitlin O'Kane.

Hour Two: It Can Happen Here: A White Supremacist Coup That Succeeded...
- Laura Flanders, Host & executive producer-The Laura Flanders Show on tv/radio & Youtube (including over 300 PBS Stations) / She is the author of several books & you can subscribe to the free podcast at LauraFlanders.org

Article: "It Can Happen Here: A White Supremacist Coup That Succeeded" by Laura Flanders.

Video: The Forgotten Coup, January 6th & the Small Town Americans on the Frontlines of Democracy.

Article: "Compromise of 1877" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Richard Mack" by Wikipedia.

Site: Oath Keepers.

Article: "Trump speech outlines plans for future America: Mass executions, internment camps, and martial law" by Mark Sumner.

Transcript: "Donald Trump speaks at America First Agenda Summit in Washington, DC Transcript".

Article: "Mortgage rates fall as fears about the US economy loom" by Anna Bahney.

Article: "Andrew Garbarino" by Wikipedia.

Article: "One chart reveals how the cost of insulin has skyrocketed in the US, even though nothing about it has changed" by Rachel Gillett and Shayanne Gal.

Article: "The History of a Wonderful Thing We Call Insulin" by American Diabetes Association.

Article: "Insulin Patent Sold for $1" by Rachel Delle Palme.

Article: "Centrists to launch Forward, new third US political party" by Reuters.

Article: "Philip Proctor" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Firesign Theatre" by Wikipedia.

Article: "22 Republican attorneys general sue Biden administration over federal school lunch policy" by Jon Skolnik.

Article: "CNN Special Report: Steve Bannon, Divided We Fall Reported by Drew Griffin, Airs Sunday, July 17 AT 8pm ET" (repeated?) by CNN.

Article: "Fact check: Trump did not call Republicans “the dumbest group of voters”" by Reuters.

Article: "Snipers train metro police to protect large-scale events to fullest capacity".

Article: "2022 Fed Rate Hike Impact On Mortgages, Home Buying And More" by Lauren Nowacki.

Book: Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis.

Article: "California Gov. Gavin Newsom Signs Gun Safety Bill Modeled After Texas Abortion Ban" by Lydia O'Connor.

Article: "Firearm Manufacturers Testify on Gun Violence", July 27, 2022.

Hour Three: Christian Nationalism Is On the March - How We Got Here
- Professor Marcia Pally who Teaches at New York University & Fordham University / Guest Professor, Theology Faculty, Humboldt University-Berlin / Fellow, Center for Theological Inquiry, Princeton

Book: White Evangelicals and Right Wing Populism: How Did We Get Here? by Marcia Pally.

Book: The New Evangelicals: Expanding the Vision of the Common Good by Marcia Pally.

Article: "The Jan. 6 riot shocked Americans. Maybe it shouldn't have." by Marcia Pally.

Article: "Trump knew crowd at rally was armed yet demanded they be allowed to march" by Martin Pengelly.

Article: "America's 1% Has Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%" by Nick Hanauer, David M. Rolf.

Article: "GoodRx" by Wikipedia.

Article: "January 6 committee prepares for a busy August" by Annie Grayer and Zachary Cohen.

Article: "Republicans recycle their mass shooting playbook to deflect blame for Roe overturn " by Amanda Marcotte.

Article: "Here's How Japan's Low Gun Death Rate Compares To The U.S. And Other Countries" by Brian Bushard.

Article: "Ohio 10-year-old went to Indiana for abortion, man charged with her rape" by AP.

Article: "Andrew Yang, Christine Todd Whitman move ‘Forward’ with third party" by Callie Patteson.

Article: "David Jolly" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Christine Todd Whitman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Will Texas have enough teachers when school starts again?" by Bill Zeeble.

Article: "Florida needs 9,000 more teachers just weeks ahead of the start of school" by Sarah Hollenbeck.

Article: "J. B. Pritzker" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Russian state TV host rages that DOJ might put 'our Trump' in prison for trying to steal election " by Brad Reed.

Book: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

Article: "The Jungle" by Theodore Roosevelt Center.

Article: "Bigger Corporations Are Making You Poorer" by Matt Stoller.

Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.

Site: BIG by Matt Stoller: The history and politics of monopoly power..

Book: Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy by Matt Stoller.

Book: How Antitrust Failed Workers by Eric A. Posner.

Article: "Eric Posner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Therapist Staffing Company and Two Owners Settle Charges that They Colluded on Rates Paid to Physical Therapists in Dallas/Fort Worth Area" by FTC.

Article: "Statement of Commissioner Rohit Chopra In the Matter of Your Therapy Source, LLC, Neeraj Jindal, and Sheri Yarbray" by FTC.

Book: Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work by Dr. Paul Babiak, Dr. Robert D. Hare.

Site: "Nextdoor.com".

Book: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer. "First they came for the ... What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise..."

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