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This summer, the climate movement celebrated a landmark win. Sixteen young people, who sued the state of Montana back in 2020 for promoting fossil fuels, prevailed in their lawsuit against the state, enjoying what has been described as a sweeping win. Their case was the first constitutional climate case and first youth climate case to … Continued
Updates on economists favoring rent control, leading global capitalists resent/resist US China-bashing, urgent drug shortages in US and a public pharma industry. Major discussion of causes of rising US economic inequality since the 1960s and its socially explosive political effects. Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally … Continued
On Today’s Show: Spain: Soccer Head Faces Sexual Assault Charge for World Cup Forced Kiss; Women Players Strike over Pay Mexico Decriminalizes Abortion in Major Step Forward for Reproductive Rights in Latin America Fulton County Jail: Shawndre Delmore Is 10th Person to Die at Notorious Facility So Far in 2023 Democracy Now! is a daily … Continued
On today’s show, I’ll speak to Rise-Economy’s Jamie Buell and Kevin Stein about their latest report on the oil and gas industrial complex’s collusion and grift of the COVID 19 Paycheck Protection Program with three of the top U.S. banks. Read more https://rise-economy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Whose-Paycheck-Are-We-Protecting_The-Role-Banks-Played-in-Funding-Climate-Change-Through-the-PPP.pdf
00:08 David Haskell, Guggenheim fellow, professor of biology and environmental studies at Sewanee: the university of the south; author of Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction. [originally recorded in 2022]
On Today’s Show: Spain: Soccer Head Faces Sexual Assault Charge for World Cup Forced Kiss; Women Players Strike over Pay Mexico Decriminalizes Abortion in Major Step Forward for Reproductive Rights in Latin America Fulton County Jail: Shawndre Delmore Is 10th Person to Die at Notorious Facility So Far in 2023 Democracy Now! is a daily … Continued
An Alarming Poll by CNN Has 46% Against Biden With 44% Saying Any Democrat Would Be Better Than Trump As Biden and Trump’s Favorability Stands at 35% We begin with an alarming poll by CNN that should be a wakeup call for Democrats which finds that nearly half of registered voters (46%) say that any … Continued
