What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days from the Hartmann Report
This Is Not a Drill: Infiltrate Your Local Dems Before It’s Too Late
What if, lacking an organized resistance to fascism like we have had in previous eras (the civil rights movement, SDS, BLM, the Wobbly’s) the Democratic Party itself could play the role of producing radical, positive transformation across America?
Bribes, Bias, and South Park: Trump’s Authoritarian Agenda Hits Primetime
The media’s job in a democratic society is to speak truth to power, not to suck up to it. But last week, CBS and its parent company Paramount waved the white flag, handing Donald Trump a $16 million bribe and agreeing to censor their own newsroom to curry favor with a twice-impeached, multiply-indicted rapist authoritarian who lost the popular vote twic…
Even Big Pharma Begged Him Not to, but Trump Did It Anyway
Americans pay more for medications than anybody else in the world. We’re the planet’s suckers: although everybody on the planet uses, by and large, the same meds, the drugs that carry the highest prices are — you guessed it — ours, the ones sold here in the USA.
The Cruelty Machine: Inside Trump’s America, Where Pain is Policy & Fear is the Fuel
Early this month, ICE agents detained a 6‑year‑old Honduran boy battling leukemia as he left an immigration court in Los Angeles with his mother and sister.
The Coming Republican Depression: How the GOP Turned America Into a Powder Keg, and Is About to Light the Match
Republicans may be fixing to crash the economy again — Republican presidents oversaw 10 of the last 11 recessions and the Republican Great Depression — and they’re doing it to satisfy the greed of the billionaires they serve.
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