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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Odds and ends

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Hey! Good Evening!

This evening's music features tunes that I ran across while putting together other features. Enjoy!

^{The Thunderbirds - In My Thunderbird}

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”

-- Voltaire

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News and Opinion

Dissent Is Being Criminalized Right Under Our Noses

Many of us are deeply concerned about the recent wave of mass shootings and hate crimes that have taken place across the United States. ... So I read with interest a recent press release of Rep. Michael McCaul—the Republican incumbent in the Texas 10th Congressional District and my opponent in the 2018 election—in which he announced a new bill to respond to domestic terrorism. ...

The proposed bill would create a broad definition of “domestic terrorism” to include any attempt to “affect” or “influence” government policy or actions. And it would include property damage—even attempted property damage—as a terrorist act subject to a 25-year prison sentence. In other words, if you opposed the Dakota Access pipeline at Standing Rock and wanted the government to revoke the pipeline permit, you might be considered a terrorist. If you painted “Black Lives Matter” on a wall to advocate against police violence, that could be terrorism, too. ... The full bill is less than four pages, and would accomplish three main things: 1) define the “intent” necessary to commit a crime of domestic terrorism; 2) identify five sets of qualifying offenses; and 3) punish unsuccessful “attempts” and “conspiracies” to commit these offenses. The definition of “intent” shows the bill’s sweeping impact, far beyond responding to recent mass shootings. In regard to five criminal offenses, an act is “domestic terrorism” if is performed “with the intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or influence, affect, or retaliate against the policy or conduct of a government.” ...

Five crimes are included in the bill’s broad definition of domestic terrorism: murder, kidnapping, aggravated assault, simple assault and property damage. With respect to the crimes against people, these are already punishable under existing state and federal law, although the bill would impose longer sentences, such as 30 years for assault. Property damage would result in a 25-year sentence, far beyond the bounds of any state vandalism law. The final key aspect of the bill has to do with how it treats unsuccessful attempts and conspiracies: “Attempts or conspiracies to commit an offense … shall be punished in the same manner as a completed act of such offense.” In other words, don’t even find yourself in the same room as someone contemplating political property damage—or you can be deemed a terrorist, too.

On the same day as McCaul’s press release, The Intercept reported that American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers is lobbying to enact legislation that will enhance criminal penalties for any pipeline damage. With the support of the American Legislative Exchange Council, it has enacted laws in nine states. Oklahoma, for example, created a crime punishable by up to 10 years in jail for damage to a pipeline—again, far beyond existing federal penalties. The McCaul bill mirrors this approach, and creates major federal crimes for property damage connected to a political cause. ...

While this bill is rolled out, President Trump is ranting daily against “antifa” (i.e., anti-fascists). Recent news footage showed clashes in Portland, Ore., between white supremacist groups and anti-fascist demonstrators. Were those confrontations tantamount to domestic terrorism? The McCaul bill would give federal prosecutors near blanket authority to charge either group with terrorist charges. And Trump has already made clear which group he would focus on. There are countless examples of protest activity that McCaul would open to terrorism charges. As for Bree Newsome Bass, who scaled a flagpole in Charleston, S.C., to remove a Confederate flag? She’d be considered a terrorist. Students at Duke University who toppled a Confederate monument? Also terrorists.

FBI Targets Blacks and Left, Not White Supremacists

The FBI has plenty of powers but chooses not to use them against violent white supremacists, said Chip Gibbons, of Defending Rights and Dissent. “If the FBI gets more domestic terrorism powers, who do you think they’re going to use them against?” Gibbons asked, and then answered: dissidents and Blacks. “If anything, the FBI’s power should be restricted.”

Airstrikes in Lebanon, Syria & Iraq Mark Dangerous Escalation in Decades-Long Israeli Aggression

Lebanon's President Aoun likens Israeli drones to 'declaration of war'

President Michel Aoun said on Monday that Lebanon had a right to defend itself, likening Israeli drone strikes to a “declaration of war” amid rising tensions between Hezbollah and Israel.

Israel’s military said its northern command was on high alert at the borders with Syria and Lebanon and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri urged diplomats to help prevent a “dangerous escalation.”

After two drones crashed on Sunday in Beirut’s southern suburbs, which are dominated by Hezbollah, the Iran-backed movement warned Israel to await a response.

In a speech on Sunday, the leader of the heavily armed Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, issued the toughest threats to his enemy in years and said the drones had launched a “new phase”.

Aoun discussed the “Israeli assault” with the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jan Kubis, on Monday, the presidency said. He told Kubis the attacks in the Dahyeh suburbs and in the Bekaa violated U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 that ended the July 2006 war.

Aoun and Hariri called for Lebanon’s Higher Defence Council to meet on Tuesday.

Israeli attacks provoke Iran, Hezbollah - and could help jihadists

Rejecting Idea of 'Photo Op' Diplomacy With Trump, Iran's Rouhani Says No Talks Unless US Sanctions Lifted

Announcing he would not miss a legitimate opportunity to help his "country's development and resolve the problems of the people," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday he would not agree to talks with U.S. officials or President Donald Trump unless "cruel" and "unlawful" economic sanctions are first lifted and that guarantees are made that diplomatic progress—not a mere photo op—is the goal.

According to the Associated Press:

Rouhani's change of heart came a day after Trump said Monday that there's a "really good chance" the two could meet on their nuclear impasse after a surprise intervention by French President Emmanuel Macron during the G-7 summit to try to bring Washington and Tehran together after decades of conflict. 

"Without the U.S.'s withdrawal from sanctions, we will not witness any positive development," Rouhani said in a televised speech on Tuesday, adding that Washington "holds the key" as to what happens next.

"We seek to resolve issues and problems in a rational way but we are not after photos," Rouhani said in his remarks. "For anyone wanting to take a picture with Hassan Rouhani, this is not possible. It's possible with PhotoShop—but not in reality. Unless the U.S. removes all the sanctions—then there will be a new situation for us to consider."

UK - Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament enrages anti-Brexit MPs

Boris Johnson move to suspend parliament sets up clash with MPs

Boris Johnson has set up an extraordinary confrontation with MPs when they return to Westminster next week by announcing that he has asked the Queen to suspend parliament for five weeks from mid-September.

The prime minister claimed there would be “ample time” to debate Brexit, as he wrote to MPs on Wednesday, saying he had spoken to the Queen and asked her to suspend parliament from “the second sitting week in September”. The Queen approved the order later on Wednesday. MPs will then not return to Westminster until 14 October, when he said there would be a new Queen’s speech, setting out what he called a “bold and ambitious domestic legislative agenda for the renewal of our country after Brexit”.

The effect of the decision will be to curtail the time MPs have to introduce legislation or other measures aimed at preventing a no-deal Brexit – and increase the pressure on Jeremy Corbyn to table a vote of no confidence next week. If Johnson lost that vote, there would then be a 14-day period in which the Labour party leader, or an alternative candidate, could seek to assemble a majority. If no new government emerges, a general election would have to be held.

But government sources insist Johnson is determined not to go to the polls before Britain is due to leave the EU. “We have been very clear that if there’s a no-confidence vote, he won’t resign. We get to set an election date. We don’t want an election, but if we have to set a date, it’s going to be after 31 October,” said a senior government source.

A meeting of opposition MPs, convened by Jeremy Corbyn, agreed on Tuesday to let legislative efforts take priority over a confidence vote in the new government as a mechanism to stop no deal – a priority that could be changed given the curtailing of the parliamentary timetable. The proposed new timetable would leave MPs with a far narrower window to pass anti-no deal legislation, cutting it short by two weeks.

Jeremy Corbyn: "Suspending Parliament is not acceptable"

'This Is a Coup': Warnings of Ploy to Ram Through No-Deal Brexit as Boris Johnson Moves to Suspend UK Parliament

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday announced plans to suspend the U.K. Parliament, a move lawmakers and commentators condemned as a flagrant abuse of power aimed at forcing an exit from the European Union—with or without a deal.

"This is a coup d'etat, and it must be fought," tweeted Guardian columnist Owen Jones.

The New York Times described Johnson's decision, which was approved by the queen, as "a surprise maneuver that would make it harder for lawmakers to prevent Britain from exiting the European Union without an agreement with the bloc," also known as No-Deal Brexit. ...

Johnson has repeatedly stated the U.K. will leave the European Union at the end of October, even if an agreement is not reached.

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn called Johnson's effort to suspend Parliament an attempt "to avoid scrutiny of his plans for a reckless No Deal Brexit."

Federal judge blocks Missouri's law banning abortions after eight weeks

A federal judge has blocked Missouri from enforcing a law banning abortion in the state after eight weeks except in cases of medical emergency.

A day before the law was set to take effect, US district judge Howard Sachs ruled that the state not enforce it, pending litigation or further order of the court, according to a court document.

“While federal courts should generally be very cautious before delaying the effect of state laws, the sense of caution may be mitigated when the legislation seems designed, as here, as a protest against supreme court decisions,” the judge wrote in Tuesday’s ruling.

“The hostility to, and refusal to comply with, the supreme court’s abortion jurisprudence is most obviously demonstrated in the attempt to push ‘viability’ protection downward in various weekly stages to eight weeks.”

Super Awkward for Right-Wing Blogger Andy Ngo to Make a Cameo in Video of Plot Against Antifa

Right-wing blogger Andy Ngo went from relative obscurity to a national conservative hero in the struggle against antifa after antifascists beat him up during a rally in Portland, Oregon, earlier this summer. But now video has surfaced of Ngo smiling and laughing with members of the far-right group Patriot Prayer shortly before they allegedly orchestrated an attack on a group of antifascists at a leftist bar in a separate incident in May. A female bar patron was knocked unconscious and said she suffered a fractured vertebrae.

In his coverage, Ngo framed the incident as an “antifa brawl” and did not mention that he was with members of Patriot Prayer as they donned body armor, helmets, and weapons before launching their alleged attack.

To Ngo’s critics, the footage confirms what they’ve argued all along: that far from a victim of political violence in Portland, he’s a willing participant. He’s been repeatedly accused of selectively editing videos from protests in a manner that absolves far-right activists of responsibility and skews blame towards antifa.

His coverage of antifa’s protest tactics (which are sometimes violent) in Portland has helped drive national attitudes toward the decentralized activist movement over the last two years. The June attack inspired two GOP senators to introduce legislation to label antifa as domestic terrorists, and Ngo has even found a sympathetic ear in mainstream figures like CNN anchor Jake Tapper and President Donald Trump.

Palestinian Harvard student says he was barred from US over friends' social media posts

A Palestinian teenager admitted to Harvard said he was detained for hours at Boston’s airport and refused entry into the United States after officers disapproved of his friends’ political comments on social media.

Ismail Ajjawi, who lives in Lebanon, said that an officer also asked him about his religion during eight hours of questioning Friday at Logan international airport, according to an account he provided to the campus newspaper, the Harvard Crimson.

After five hours of searching his phone and laptop, Ajjawi said that an officer called him into a room and “started screaming at me”

“She said that she found people posting political points of view that oppose the US on my friend(s’) list,” he said in the statement to the Crimson. The 17-year-old said that he protested that the comments came from friends and that he never posted his own political views but said his visa was nonetheless canceled and he was sent home.

“We’re in a Crisis of Deaths”: Migrant Death Toll Tops 900 in Mediterranean as 40 Die Off Libya

The Number of Migrants Forced to Wait Out Their Cases in Mexico Exploded in July

The number of migrants ordered to wait out their asylum cases in Mexico more than doubled in July after the Trump administration expanded the policy to two additional cities. A total of 11,804 immigrants were sent back to Mexico in July under the policy, officially known as Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), according to a new report by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. That’s up from 5,883 people in June and 5,161 in May.

Border crossings have steadily declined since May, but the administration has still ramped up Remain in Mexico cases since then, the report shows. The Department of Homeland Security not only expanded the program to two additional ports of entry — the Laredo Port of Entry and the Brownsville International Bridge, both in Texas — but also put more people on the Remain in Mexico docket across the board. Of the 11,804 cases in July, over 3,000 were in Laredo and nearly 1,500 were in Brownsville.

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CEOs claim Biden’s brother promised them 2020 candidate would help their companies

James Biden, brother of Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden, is facing renewed claims that he lured potential business associates with promises his brother could be influenced to adopt their business model. According to sworn declarations contained in a court filing in Tennessee, James Biden told potential partners at two medical services companies that his brother Joe would help their companies land lucrative contracts with the court system.

Executives at Azzam Medical Services and Diverse Medical Management, firms that provide rural healthcare solutions, claim they were told by the younger Biden sibling that his brother would incorporate their healthcare model into his presidential campaign. The allegations against James Biden are not new, and follow claims that Biden’s son Hunter offered access to his father to help Chinese companies establish high-level influence in the US. But the latest accounts go further in establishing that Biden’s relatives have sought to profit from his public service.

Azzam and Diverse Medical first sued James Biden in June, claiming he had used his influence in a scheme to bankrupt their model of medical care that offered rural residents treatment for opioid addiction, mental health issues, veterans’ issues, and sexual trauma. ...

The allegations do not include any claims that Joe Biden knew anything of the claims his brother is alleged to have made. The latest allegations conform with claims of influence-peddling offered by executives at a hedge fund once owned by James Biden and his nephew Hunter, according to Politico.

Political ethicist Richard Painter said Joe Biden needs to make it clear that he will not be influenced by family ties. Painter said: “If he wins the nomination Biden needs to make concrete promises that if he’s elected president he will insulate his administration from anyone in his family whose trying to make money, and that includes his brother and his son.”

Critics Denounce Biden's Use of Tragic Family Story to Attack Medicare for All as Both 'Manipulative' and 'Cynical'

A new ad by former Vice President Joe Biden released Tuesday that uses his personal story of familial loss as an attack line against Medicare for All is being panned by critics as a cynical ploy that obfuscates the similar kind of pain that millions of people could endure under a Biden plan that would leave them un- or under-insured.

Characterizing the commercial—in which Biden recounts losing his first wife and daughter in a 1972 car accident and his son Beau to brain cancer in 2015—as "so manipulative" towards potential voters, writer Natalie Shure said on Twitter that the former vice president was using his life story to swipe at the Medicare for All proposal supported by his top Democratic primary rivals.

"Single payer would equitably support *all* families through their darkest moments," tweeted Shure. "Obamacare doesn't; nor would Biden's plan."

This is so manipulative. Biden is citing his family tragedies to argue against “tearing up Obamacare and starting over,” by which he means M4A. Fuck that. Single payer would equitably support *all* families through their darkest moments. Obamacare doesn’t; nor would Biden’s plan https://t.co/oQYc2tTwYu

— Natalie Shure (@nataliesurely) August 27, 2019

Journalist Chris Person was even harsher on Biden. "This is easily the cruelest, dirtiest, and most manipulative thing Joe Biden has done so far," said Person, "dangling his son's cancer against the fight for Medicare For All."

Media critic Adam Johnson, in a tweet, called Biden's use of his family tragedy "extremely cynical."

"Again he's equating those pushing Medicare for All with GOP trying to undermine Obamacare by misleading what it means to 'tear it down' BUT this time the added bonus of using images of his dead children!" added Johnson.

The Quiet Death of the “White Bernie Bro” Attack

Bernie Sanders faced ferocious criticism in the media throughout the 2016 primaries — and central to that critique was what the Washington Post called Bernie Sanders’s big black-voter problem. Black voters, we were told, decisively rejected Sanders’s politics — and, by extension, left flank challenges to the Democratic establishment. And the proof was in the polls: overwhelming majorities of black voters preferred Hillary Clinton. ... Was it this — something about his politics — that explained his polling among black voters? That was certainly conventional wisdom among almost all of the media. But in the New Republic, Jamil Smith flagged a different explanation: the Sanders campaign insisted that he was “simply less familiar to voters of color than Clinton.” And this, I noted at the time, was borne out by the data, which showed Bernie’s favorability and preference among black voters rising in direct proportion to his name recognition.

The upshot of this argument, of course, is that black voters were not rejecting Sanders’s message, and that as his name recognition continued to climb, his favorability and preference numbers would climb with it. The rest is history. By January of this year, it had already become clear that enthusiasm for another Sanders run was remarkably inflected by race — with comparatively strong support coming from black voters. And this month, a poll from Pew confirms the trend: only 49% of Sanders supporters are white, compared with 56% of Biden voters, 59% of Harris voters, and a remarkable 71% of Warren voters.

The explicit, constantly invoked basis for the 2016 critique of Sanders on race — his strong support among white voters and weak support among black voters — has completely vanished. All of the polling arguments made against him in 2016 now largely apply to his opponents, and the polling arguments made in favor of Hillary Clinton now overwhelmingly apply to Bernie Sanders.

Bernie Sanders Thinks We May Want to Tax Silicon Valley to Save Journalism

Bernie Sanders may not love how the media covers him, but he wants to save it anyway. His plan involves blocking future media mergers and a possible tax on Silicon Valley to support newsrooms. The proposal, rolled out in the Columbia Journalism Review on Monday, comes as Sanders and the Washington press corps are at each other’s throats. Campaign aides have lambasted reporters for what they see as selective coverage of polling data and unfair treatment of policy proposals like Medicare for All. Political journalists also cried foul after the senator suggested earlier this month that Jeff Bezos’ ownership of The Washington Post influenced its coverage of his campaign.

On Monday, the Democratic hopeful echoed long-standing left-wing complaints of a rapidly consolidating industry, separating “real journalism” from “the gossip, punditry, and clickbait that dominates today’s news.” He warned of the hollowing-out of local outlets and laid blame for the perverse pressures now reshaping media at the feet of Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and President Donald Trump.

“One reason we do not have enough real journalism in America right now is because many outlets are being gutted by the same forces of greed that are pillaging our economy,” Sanders wrote. “At precisely the moment when we need more reporters covering the healthcare crisis, the climate emergency, and economic inequality,” he continued, “we have television pundits paid tens of millions of dollars to pontificate about frivolous political gossip, as local news outlets are eviscerated.”

Sanders’ proposals would seek to reverse these trends by walking back deregulation by Trump and his predecessors. His administration would impose an immediate moratorium on mergers and reinstitute old FCC rules to limit a company’s ability to own newspapers and TV stations in the same markets. It would also “consider” taxing the targeted ads that have allowed Silicon Valley to dominate, and then “using the revenue to fund nonprofit civic-minded media.”

Democracy Watchdog Warns FEC Courting 'Disaster' by Heading Into 2020 Elections Without a Quorum

The Federal Elections Commission was left without a quorum Monday when vice chairman Matthew Petersen, the fourth member of the already depleted agency, resigned, just months before the 2020 election cycle kicks into gear with the primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire.

At three members, the FEC is left toothless and without the power to even convene meetings—much less enforce the rules.

The FEC can no longer:
Conduct meetings
Issue fines
Make rules
Conduct audits
Vote on the outcome of investigations https://t.co/ZVYyGLvZs7

— Joe Yerardi (@JoeYerardi) August 26, 2019

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Brazil Tells the G7 and Its Amazon Fire Fund to Go to Hell

Brazil will reject an offer of $22 million in emergency aid from G7 countries to help fight wildfires raging through the Amazon, according to a top presidential aide, who branded the gesture as “imperialist” and said the funds should be used to “reforest Europe” instead. World leaders at the G7 summit in Biarritz pledged $22 million Monday to help Brazil fight the record number of fires burning in Brazil, after summit host Macron highlighted the issue as an urgent crisis harming “the lungs of the planet.”

But the global concern over the fires has riled Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, who insists the blazes are a domestic issue and has accused Macron of adopting a “colonialist mindset” toward his country. On Monday, Bolsonaro’s chief of staff, Onyx Lorenzoni, said the government would not take up the offer. ...

Despite having claimed last week that Brazil lacked the resources to fight the fires, Bolsonaro has chafed at the international community’s attempts to involve itself in the crisis. “These countries that send money here, they don’t send it out of charity. ... They send it with the aim of interfering with our sovereignty,” he said during a Facebook Live broadcast.

His foreign minister, Ernesto Araujo, repeated the claim Monday, tweeting that it was “very evident” that the G7 was attempting to spin the fires into “a fabricated ‘crisis’ as a pretext for introducing mechanisms for external control of the Amazon.”

How Bolsonaro’s Climate Change Denial & Anti-Indigenous Policies Led to Massive Fires in the Amazon

Worth a full read, lots more detail at the link.

A Top Financier of Trump and McConnell Is a Driving Force Behind Amazon Deforestation

Two Brazilian firms owned by a top donor to President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are significantly responsible for the ongoing destruction of the Amazon rainforest, carnage that has developed into raging fires that have captivated global attention. The companies have wrested control of land, deforested it, and helped build a controversial highway to their new terminal in the one-time jungle, all to facilitate the cultivation and export of grain and soybeans. The shipping terminal at Miritituba, deep in the Amazon in the Brazilian state of Pará, allows growers to load soybeans on barges, which will then sail to a larger port before the cargo is shipped around the world.

The Amazon terminal is run by Hidrovias do Brasil, a company that is owned in large part by Blackstone, a major U.S. investment firm. Another Blackstone company, Pátria Investimentos, owns more than 50 percent of Hidrovias, while Blackstone itself directly owns an additional roughly 10 percent stake. Blackstone co-founder and CEO Stephen Schwarzman is a close ally of Trump and has donated millions of dollars to McConnell in recent years. ...

The port and the highway have been deeply controversial in Brazil, and were subjects of a 2016 investigation by The Intercept Brasil. Hidrovias announced in early 2016 that it would soon begin exporting soybeans trucked from the state of Mato Grosso along the B.R.-163 highway. The road was largely unpaved at the time, but the company said it planned to continue improving and developing it. In the spring of 2019, the government of Jair Bolsonaro, elected in fall 2018, announced that Hidrovias would partner in the privatization and development of hundreds of miles of the B.R.-163. Developing the roadway itself causes deforestation, but, more importantly, it helps make possible the broader transformation of the Amazon from jungle to farmland.

Schwarzman, a founder of Blackstone, owns roughly a fifth of the company, making him one of the world’s richest men. In 2018, he was paid at least $568 million, which was, in fact, a drop from the $786 million he made the year before. He has been generous toward McConnell and Trump with that wealth. In 2016, he gave $2.5 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, McConnell’s Super PAC and put Jim Breyer, McConnell’s billionaire brother-in-law, on the board of Blackstone. Two years later, Schwarzman kicked in $8 million to McConnell’s Super PAC. Blackstone employees have given well over $10 million to McConnell and his Super PAC over the years, making them the biggest source of direct financing over McConnell’s career. McConnell’s Senate campaign declined to comment. Schwarzman is a close friend and adviser to Trump, and served as the chair of his Strategic and Policy Forum until it fell apart in the wake of the Charlottesville neo-Nazi rally, in which Trump famously praised “very fine people, on both sides.” ...

In recent months, the Sackler family, whose members founded and own the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, have become pariahs for their role in facilitating the opioid crisis and the deaths of tens of thousands of people. Schwarzman’s contributions to the destruction of the Amazon, which stands between humanity and an uninhabitable planet, may ultimately render him as socially untouchable as the Sacklers, given the scale of the fallout from the destruction of the rainforest.

Amazon Fires: Beef and soy industries blamed for their contribution to the blazes raging

Tropical Storm Dorian gathers strength as it nears Puerto Rico

Tropical Storm Dorian gathered strength and hurtled toward Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic on Tuesday, threatening to hit at near-hurricane strength. ...

Puerto Rico’s governor, Wanda Vazquez, has declared a state of emergency and provided a list of all the new equipment that public agencies have bought since Hurricane Maria.

“I want everyone to feel calm,” she said. “Agency directors have prepared for the last two years. The experience of Maria has been a great lesson for everyone.”

Elsewhere, the National Hurricane Center issued tropical storm warnings for Martinique, St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines. The center said the storm has maximum sustained winds near 50mph and is forecast to strengthen during the next 48 hours before whacking Puerto Rico.

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Also of Interest

Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.

The Media’s Russian Radiation Story Implodes Upon Scrutiny

John Hickenlooper Is the New Joe Lieberman

Corporate Media Take the Trump Line on Trade

Bernie Sanders’ GND Plan Will Nationalize Power Generation in the U.S.

Why are Koch-funded activists trying to derail a US city's public transit?

Army Corps suspends permit for Rosemont Mine

Protectors of Mauna Kea Are Fighting Colonialism, Not Science

Oldest parasite DNA yet recorded found in prehistoric puma poo

The Misguided Attacks on ‘This Land Is Your Land’

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A Little Night Music

Jammers - The Thunderbird

Medallions - Buick 59

The Camelots - Lulu

Champion Jack Dupree - Nasty Boogie Woogie

The Sophomores - I Get A Thrill

The Megatons - Shimmy Shimmy Walk Pt1

The Clovers - If I Could Be Loved By You

Huey "Piano" Smith - Don't You Just Know It

Bobby Lewis - Tossin' and Turnin'

Jr. Walker & The All-Stars - Shotgun

The Mar-Keys - Last Night

Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Express Yourself

Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music

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