Politics

The Real Black Panthers

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The Real Black Panthers

4/15/21 by NPR

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/121794789
Episode: https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510333/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/throughline/2021/04/20210415_throughline_final_mix_black_pantherwads_lw_41421_real.mp3

The Black Panther Party’s battles for social justice and economic equality are the centerpiece of the Oscar-nominated film ‘Judas and The Black Messiah.’ In 1968, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the Black Panther Party “without question, represents the greatest threat to internal security of the country.” And with that declaration he used United States federal law enforcement to wage war on the group, But why did Hoover’s FBI target the Black Panther Party more severely than any other Black power organization? Historian Donna Murch says the answer lies in the Panthers’ political agenda and a strategy that challenged the very foundations of American society.

Trumpism – Wikipedia

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Trumpism – Wikipedia

Trumpism is a term for the political ideology, style of governance, political movement and set of mechanisms for acquiring and keeping power that are associated with Donald Trump, and his political base. Though Trumpism is sufficiently complex to overwhelm any single framework of analysis, it has been called an American political variant of the far-right and of the national-populist and neo-nationalist sentiment seen in multiple nations worldwide from the late 2010s to the early 2020s. Some have deemed Trumpism as akin to fascism. Most historians argue that this is an inaccurate use of the term, pointing out that while there are parallels there are also important dissimilarities. The label "Trumpism" has been applied to conservative–nationalist and national–populist movements in other Western democracies.

 

Lyndon Johnson attorney general was 93 – Los Angeles Times

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Ramsey Clark dies: Lyndon Johnson attorney general was 93 – Los Angeles Times

Ramsey Clark, the attorney general in the Johnson administration who became an outspoken activist for unpopular causes and a harsh critic of U.S. policy, has died. He was 93.

Clark, whose father, Tom Clark, was attorney general and U.S. Supreme Court justice, died Friday at his Manhattan home, a family member, Sharon Welch, announced to the media, including the New York Times, the Washington Post.

After serving in President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Cabinet in 1967 and ’68, Clark set up a private law practice in New York in which he championed civil rights, fought racism and the death penalty, and represented declared foes of the United States including former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. He also defended former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Why The Stakes Are High For Both Parties : NPR

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Filibuster Fight: Why The Stakes Are High For Both Parties : NPR

Even President Biden, a champion of Senate tradition who has resisted calls to scrap the filibuster, opened a path last week to someday backing its demise, and he endorsed the idea that it's a civil rights issue.

Now that the filibuster is the biggest obstacle to Biden's agenda, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is threatening the GOP: compromise with us or we'll nuke the filibuster. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has a counter threat, that nuking the filibuster will bring a "nuclear winter" on the Senate floor.

"Nobody serving in this chamber can even begin — can even begin — to imagine what a completely scorched earth Senate would look like," McConnell said.

He warned of a "100 car pile up," with constant quorum calls and senators required to be physically present in the Capitol day and night in order for the chamber to function. Then he gave Democrats a picture of what he says would happen when Republicans regain control of the majority: "We wouldn't just erase every liberal change that hurt the country. We'd strengthen America with all kinds of conservative policies with zero input from the other side."

I bet if they do away with the filibuster, change will come much more quickly and more violently. Policies resisted for years because they hurt minorities on both sides of aisle, will get implemented but maybe that's good in the sense is it will lead to greater creativity but more people incarcerated under stupid ideological laws passed by both sides of the aisle.

KunstlerCast 342

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KunstlerCast 342

3/24/21l

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/120852504
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Hobbs Magaret is a regenerative cattle rancher in Central Oregon. Raised on the ranches of the Texas Panhandle and further educated at The University of Oregon, he has experienced two extremes of the contemporary American Experiment. Hobbs, his wife, and his daughter live in Sisters, Oregon, where they use regenerative and fossil fuel averse techniques to rehabilitate degraded ag land and sell beef directly to regional consumers. Visit his website at SistersCattleco.com and checkout his interesting videos at TikTok. The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger.

While I certainly thought James Howard Kunstler’s analysis of the election that was is kind of assine, the man is kind of critic our world needs as we plunge into the climate crisis while the politicians debate assine things as people keep dying from the COVID.