This is mother's milk for Christo-fascist Republicans. Ukraine is the international equivalent of Comet Pizza in Washington, DC. Make no mistake. There is a battle right now between autocracy and democracy around the world. Countries are lining up on either side. And that's really what's going on, at this stage, with Ukraine.

This is literally a battle for the 21st century order. For the way the people of the world, the entire planet and all its resources, will ultimately be run and used.

It could determine whether our world will be ruled by a small number of morbidly rich autocrats and their factotums, or whether it will be ruled by the people themselves through politicians freely and fairly elected.

Whether climate change will be challenged, or fossil fuel oligarchs will continue to ruin our planet. Whether democracy will succeed, or recede into history and we will enter a new feudal era like the way most of the world was run for the past 7,000 years.

This war in Ukraine is not just about deciding the fate of the region for the next few years or even the next few decades because every autocrat in the world — from tinpot dictators to China's Xi — are watching carefully. The outcome of Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine may well define the fate of the world for the next century.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: East Palestine's crisis proves Trump should have never deregulated big rail - Regulations work!
- Julio Rivera, Editorial Director - Reactionary Times / Contributor - Newsmax, American Thinker & Townhall.com

Article: "Republicans don't care about human health regardless of who is to blame for the Ohio train disaster" by John Stoehr.

Article: "Norfolk Southern Has Thrown Roughly $100 Million Into Politics Since 1990" by Prem Thakker.

Article: "DeWine seeks federal help for East Palestine" by Mary LeBus.

Article: "NTSB Chair Contradicts Posts That Wrongly Claim Trump to Blame for Ohio Train Wreck" by D'Angelo Gore.

Article: "Almost 45,000 animals died after Ohio train carrying toxic chemicals derailed" by Jamie Johnson.

Video: Is Putin's Ukraine Invasion Really About Homophobia? Featuring Greg Palast.

Article: "Post-9/11 GI Bill (Chapter 33)" by VA.

Article: "Did Godless Gays Cause the Ukrainian War? Is Putin Right?" by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: "My message to congressional Republicans: you can either be the party of Ukraine & the globalists or you can be the party of East Palestine & the working people of America" by Josh Hawley.

Article: "Memorandum on Security Assurances in connection with Ukraine's accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons".

Article: "Putin to the West: Hands off Ukraine" by James Marson.

Article: "Oleg of Novgorod" by Wikipedia.

Article: "On The Historical Unity Of Russians And Ukrainians" by Vladimir Putin.

Article: "Memorandum on Security Assurances in connection with Ukraine's accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons;".

Article: "Trump's "Shared Psychosis" Is Destroying the Fabric of Society" (adrenochrome) by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Ukraine Invasion: What Lessons Is China Learning?" by Jianli Yang and Yan Yu.

Article: "Why care about Ukraine and the Budapest Memorandum" by Steven Pifer.

Article: "Putin's Invasion Foretold" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Putin Calls Ukrainian Statehood a Fiction. History Suggests Otherwise" by Michael Schwirtz, Maria Varenikova and Rick Gladstone.

Article: "Ukraine's not a country, Putin told Bush. What'd he tell Trump about Montenegro?" by Daniel Baer.

Video: Is Putin's Ukraine Invasion Really About Homophobia? Featuring Greg Palast.

Article: "The Supreme Court heard Biden's loan forgiveness case today. Here's when we expect the court to rule on student loans." by Michelle Mark.

Article: "Judge In Georgia Special Grand Jury Case Weighs In On Foreperson Media Tour" by Emine Yücel.

Article: "Performance bond" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chicago's mayoral election, explained" by Associated Press.

Article: "Woke In The Streets: In-Road Wireless EV Charging Comes To Indiana" by Tina Casey.

Article: "Inductive coupling" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Minsk agreements" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Video shows sparks and flames well before Ohio train derailment" by CBS News.

Article: "6 Bombshell Revelations From Trove of New Evidence in Fox News Defamation Suit" by Aidan McLaughlin.

Article: "Progressive Democrats Introduce First Bill to Tighten Rail Safety Regulations Since Ohio Disaster" by Prem Thakker.

Article: "Fox News delivered unreleased Biden campaign ads to Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner" by Hunter.

Article: "CNN cuts ties with Donna Brazile after hacked emails show she gave Clinton campaign debate questions" by Dylan Stableford.

Article: "Hey MAGA: It's not called "Cancel Culture," it's called "Consequence Culture." by Dean Obeidallah.

Article: "Golden Rule" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Platinum Rule " by Gordon C. Nagayama Hall.

Article: "'Stupid' Dilbert creator killed his career because of a highly flawed right-wing poll: analysis " by Tom Boggioni.

Article: "Ukraine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cancer eating the heart of Australian democracy" by Kevin Rudd.

Book: The Trouble With Dilbert: How Corporate Culture Gets the Last Laugh by Norman Solomon.

Article: "‘Dilbert' Detractor Is Not Amused" by Michael Colton.

Article: "See No Evil" by Harpers.

Article: "Kevin McCarthy Blasted for Handing Over Jan. 6 Footage to Tucker Carlson" by Fatma Khaled.

Hour Three: The impact of banning mifepristone exposed
- Monifa Bandale, Senior Vice President - MomsRising

Article: "Abortion providers brace for ruling in abortion pill case" by Rachel Roubein, McKenzie Beard.

Article: "Mifepristone" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Childbirth Is Deadlier for Black Families Even When They're Rich, Expansive Study Finds" by Claire Cain Miller, Sarah Kliff and Larry Buchanan.

Article: "Black Americans are Systematically Under-Treated for Pain. Why?" by Sophie Trawalter.

Article: "What to know about kidney disease in African American people" by Zawn Villines.

Article: "Serena Williams" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization" (2022) (abortion).

Case: "Roe v. Wade" (1973) (abortion legal).

Article: "13 States Have Abortion Trigger Bans—Here's What Happens When Roe Is Overturned " by Elizabeth Nash, Isabel Guarnieri.

Article: "Pregnancy-related deaths up to 3 times more likely in states with abortion bans, report says" by Christine Fernando.

Article: "Joe Manchin says Pete Buttigieg is 'responsible' for the train wreck in Ohio" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "How big insurance is profiting massively from Medicare privatization" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "BIG INSURANCE 2022: Revenues reached $1.25 trillion thanks to sucking billions out of the pharmacy supply chain – and taxpayers' pockets" by Wendell Potter.

Article: ""Bailed out by taxpayers": Data shows Big Insurance profiting massively from Medicare privatization" by Jake Johnson.

Bill: "H.R.9187 - Save Medicare Act" by Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2].

Book: The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives by Jesse Eisinger.

Article: "Michael Cohen (lawyer)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Michael Cohen Presents Check Trump Gave Him For Stormy Daniels Hush Money" by Igor Bobic.

Article: "Rand Paul" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stop the Medicare "Advantage" Scam Before Medicare is Dead" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Medigap" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Houghton facing ‘potentially devastating' property tax appeal by Walmart" by TV6 News Team.

Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Quote: "It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It" - Upton Sinclair.

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