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FBI resisted opening probe into Trump’s role in Jan. 6 for more than a year
Carol D. Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis, Reporters - The Washington Post
_Stephan: Here is some Pulitzer level journalism that validates what I have been saying in SR for the past year. It describes in detail the lack of ethics, and the cowardice of Merritt Garland and his senior staff in doing what was so obvious -- prosecuting Trump for trying to overthrow American democracy. ... ⌘ Read more_
Red states are forming ‘a nation within a nation’ with laws that recreate ‘a pre-1960s world’: CNN analyst
Brad Reed, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: Here is yet another confirmation of the Great Schism Trend I have been writing about in SR for over a decade. The difference between Red and Blue states is becoming so glaring that others are beginning to realize we are splitting into two countries with real power devolv ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Not on My Watch’: Dems Vow To Oppose GOP Attack on Free School Meals
Julia Conley, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: The sheer nastiness of the Republicans in Congress is one of their defining characteristics. How can an ethical person be opposed to seeing that poor kids get enough to eat? And yet they are. Here is some good news about this. The Democrats are going to stand against the Republicans and insist that child food programs continue. Once a ... ⌘ Read more_
Republican IRS shenanigans will cost even more than expected
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_Stephan: The Republicans in Congress in service to their corporate masters are doing everything they can to keep the oligarchs taxes as low as possible, and their audits as infrequent as possible. It is estimated this Republican scam is going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars in tax fraud by the oligarchs. It will, of course, make the oligarchs who rent the Republican members very happy, a ... ⌘ Read more_
‘We weren’t meant to be criminals’: the gynecologists training out of state post-Roe
Melanie Sevcenko, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Almost every week now I am seeing medical research papers and articles in the general audience press about OB/GYNs and graduating medical students leaving Red states because of laws passed by the MAGAt Republicans to control women. I confess it surprises me that in the second decade of the 21st century one o ... ⌘ Read more_
“Unfriending” America: The Christian right is coming for the enemies of God — like you and me
FREDERICK CLARKSON, Senior Research Analyst at Political Research Associates - Salon
_Stephan: Here is the best explanation of what has happened to Christianity in the United States and how it linked inextricably with the Republican Party to create American christofascism.
I think this is a very important report about a major cultural trend ... ⌘ Read more_
Fewer in U.S. Say Same-Sex Relations Morally Acceptable
Jeffrey M. Jones, Ph.D., Senior Editor - The Gallup OrganizationJeffrey M. Jones, Ph.D.
_Stephan: As gender and racial equality become the norm for the majority -- watch the television commercials -- the a heated MAGAt world is increasingly incensed, and to some degree they are succeeding. Here is the evidence. Note the Red Blue difference. This minority wants to move back to their fantasy of the 50s, not recogn ... ⌘ Read more_
Xi Jinping’s new world order is collapsing before our eyes
Matthew Henderson, Reporter - The Telegraph
_Stephan: Here is a very interesting geopolitical assessment of what is going on in China. There are factors. climate change for example, that Henderson does not address, nor does he include technological breakthroughs. But I thing his economics given what we can see today is accurate._
_Cynipid gall wasp ... ⌘ Read more_
The Moral Crisis of America’s Doctors
Eyal Press, Reporter - The New York Times
_Stephan: I have been telling my SR and Explore readers for several decades now that we don't have a healthcare system in the United States, we have an illness profit system and, as this article describes, the system is getting worse and failing to produce appropriate and adequate healthcare for millions of Americans. The result is that physicians and nurses feeling increasingly "morally wronged" as the ar ... ⌘ Read more_
Study Reveals Staggering Health Toll of Being Black in America
LIZ SZABO , Staff Writer - truthdig
_Stephan: One of the worst aspects of the illness profit system, which is run by corporations owned by equity investors, is its blatant racism. If you are Black in America, unless your are affluent, you get second class healthcare. The Republican Party and it Christian Nationalist component have made racism as bad as it was backed the the 1950s._
_Speaker of the House a ... ⌘ Read more_
Rebuking Censorship Wave, Illinois Becomes First US State to Prohibit Book Bans
Julia Conley, Staff writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: This is serious good news. In diametric contrast to the Republican actions this is what Illinois Governor J.B. Pritsker, a Democrat, is doing. Making sure libraries are not subject to censorship by MAGAt complainers. And just to make the contrast absolutely clear note what Texas MAGAt Republican Governor Greg Abb ... ⌘ Read more_
NAACP Issues Travel Advisory in Florida
Chyna Fields, - NAACP
_Stephan: When I was a teenager back in the 1950s a Black friend whose family was planning a trip to visit relatives in Florida showed me what they called the Green Book. Almost all Black families that travelled had a copy. It told them how they could safely travel through the South; where it was safe to eat, where you could stay the night. As I held it and read it I was appalled. This was America and I was revulsed tha ... ⌘ Read more_
Corporate conventions flee Florida over ‘openly hostile’ political climate: report
Maya Boddie, Staff Writer - AlterNet
_Stephan: I wonder if the voters of Florida who are responsible for making Ron DeSantis their governor realize the damage he is doing to their state. It doesn't seem to be having any effect, and I see this as another example of how MAGAts simply are not influenced by facts._
_The pace of discoveries in this f ... ⌘ Read more_
New GOP Bills Would Hand Richest 1% Over $28 Billion in Tax Cuts Next Year
Jake Johnson, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: The Republican Congress submissives who have been rented like whores by the oligarchs are trying to change the U.S. Tax structure to save the richest 1% billions of dollars. And how does it treat average Americans? The poorest 20%, they'll get to save about $40. This is what corruption looks like and what it achieves for the corrupter. ... ⌘ Read more_
The revolt of the Christian home-schoolers
Peter Jamison, Reporter - The Washington Post.
_Stephan: Fundamentalist evangelical Christianity functionally is no different than the Taliban of Afghanistan, and is no more Christian than the Taliban is Muslim. These are very sick people who have distorted a religion of compassion, into one of male dominance, fear, resentment, and hate, just as the Taliban has done in the Muslim world. They live in a dark world of willful ignorance, an ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Anne Frank pornography’ being banned in Florida, Texas schools
Andrew Lapin, Reporter - The Jerusalem Post (Israel)
_Stephan: I start each day by trying to find good news, not one offs, but trends fostering wellbeing. To be candid, there are very many because most of the cultural trends in the United States are in decline. Instead, what I find our stories like this one centered on stupidity and willful ignorance. These education trends particularly alarm me, b ... ⌘ Read more_
Your tax dollars at work … suppressing women
, \\- St Louis Post-Dispatch
_Stephan: Missouri has led the way in the control of women. Controlled by christofascist who are rigging the election system to assure they stay in power. Other Red states will follow and the difference between Red and Blue states will become ever more pronounced. The result will be an internal emigration out of the state, and a decline in the quality of medical care for women, as OB/GYN physicians move to ... ⌘ Read more_
US’s Largest Lobbying Group Sues to Stop Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Plan
Sharon Zhang, News Writer - truthout
_Stephan: America's healthcare is ranked as the worst amongst the developed nations of the world, and part of the reason for that ranking is the obscene cost of prescription drugs in the U.S.. And behind all of that is the corruption of our Congress. Biden, to his credit, although he is getting very little acknowledgement for his wo ... ⌘ Read more_
Record Numbers of Teachers Quitting Due to Politics, Work Environment, and COVID
Elizabeth Urban, Staff Writer - The Messenger News
_Stephan: In both the U.K. and the U.S., as this report lays out, Right wing politics and the pandemic have devastated public education as teachers flee the profession. In the Red states, and particularly in rural far right districts where MAGAt fanatics seek to gut the libraries and complain about teachers it is ... ⌘ Read more_
Views of State of Moral Values in U.S. at New Low
, \\- The Gallup Organization
_Stephan: The culture war the MAGAts have contrived and cultivated is destroying American culture. Here is the evidence of this. We are going to get a clear sense of what is happening by seeing what occurs with criminal Trump's trial._
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- 54% say the state of moral values in ... ⌘ Read more
Living Near Green Spaces Can Reduce Risk Of Dementia, Study Finds
Abby Moore, - mbg planet
_Stephan: By design we live surrounded by woods. Take this research seriously. If you live in a city go hiking. Spending time in nature is important, that's one of the many reasons fostering the wellbeing of nature is the right path. Make some regular time in nature a part of your life.
To read the research paper upon which this article is based see:
[Road proximit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2023/06/13/living-near-green-spaces-can-reduce-risk-of-dementia-study-finds/)_
As Insurers Cut Coverage Due to Climate Disasters, Senators Probe Continued Backing of Fossil Fuels
Kenny Stancil, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: It is getting almost no media attention, but Bernie Sanders, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Ron Wyden, in a wellbeing fostering move, are supporting the transition out of the carbon era in an ingenious way -- through the insurances companies. Here's the report._
![](https://www. ... ⌘ Read more
Saudi crown prince threatened ‘major’ economic pain on U.S. amid oil feud
John Hudson, National Security Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan: There are two things about Saudi Arabia that matter to the oligarchs. One, is oil at a reasonable price.Two, that the Saudis continue to spend billions of dollars that goes into the coffers of the American military-industrial corporations. But as this article describes, the game is changing. What the article ... ⌘ Read more_
New Jersey is teaching kids about climate. Opponents call it ‘indoctrination.’**
Anya Kamenetz, - Grist
_Stephan: The main thing that defines MAGAts is not their despicable politics, as bad as they are. What really lies at the foundation of this community is that they believe facts being one such cohort. Consider anti-vaxxer Robert Kennedy, Jr. for example. I recently had a lengthy exchange with an anti-vaxxer, a prominent person in the holistic me ... ⌘ Read more_
Jersey Residents Support Teaching Climate Change in Schools
Dan Cassino , Executive Director, FDU Poll - Fairleigh Dickinson University
_Stephan: Here is a fact-based assessment of the situation in New Jersey described in the previous article. Education is part of preparing to deal with climate change, it fosters wellbeing. I don't see why this is so hard to comprehend. I think it is very important to note the difference between Democrats and Republicans. We ar ... ⌘ Read more_
Trump vows to stay in the race even if convicted
ALEX ISENSTADT, - Politico
_Stephan: It is my opinion that this announcement by criminal Trump is a calculated move designed to do as much damage as possible to the democracy of the United States in vengeance for being prosecuted and convicted. It is essentially a threat of disruption because criminal Trump knows there is no precedence for an ex-president being convicted of multiple felonies. Can you send an ex-president to ... ⌘ Read more_
What Lower Fertility Rates Mean for Climate Change
CARTER DILLARD AND PHOEBE BARNARD, Staff writers - truthdig
_Stephan: I haven't seen much about population and climate change recently; although I have looked because I know it to be a factor. But, IAMECON, an economic and social science research think tank based in Austin, Texas has just published a paper I think you ought to see. It is a rather bleak view of population's role in the future. Part of this is informed spe ... ⌘ Read more_
Commentary: 50 years after the first ERA debate, women still don’t have equal pay or representation
Rachel Shteir, Biographer of Betty Friedan - Chicago Tribune
_Stephan: I have never understood the pay disparity between men and women. In the past when I had many employees I never made such a differential; my rule has always been "same work same pay." But I know that the Republican Party has always done everything it could to ... ⌘ Read more_
Editor’s Note – Something to be Noted
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: Friday morning, as I do each morning I went through the television media -- CNN, MSNBC, Fox, BBC, PBS, NBC, CBS, ABC, CGTN -- to see how the indictment of criminal Trump was being covered. On every channel but one it was the A-bloc story, and the subject of intense coverage. Do you want to guess the one exception? Did you guess the Fox propaganda operation. If you did your right. I was stunned, ... ⌘ Read more_
Read the full text of the Trump indictment for details on the charges against him
, \\- CBS News
_Stephan: Here is a link to the entire indictment document. Please read it, and pass it along to friends and family as appropriate._
A federal indictment against former President Donald Trump [was unsealed on Friday](https://www.cbsnews.com/n ... ⌘ Read more
Why Billionaires Hate Social Security
Richard Eskow, Contributing Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: I have always wondered why a billionaire making more in a minute than most Americans make in a year, or a poor person in a decade or their entire life concern themselves with Social Security. And yet they do, and the evidence for their dislike, indeed, hate is incontrovertible. This article makes an explanatory case, and when you click through also click through to the many studies this ... ⌘ Read more_
Oklahoma Approves First Religious Charter School in the U.S.
Sarah Mervosh, National Education Reporter - The New York Times
_Stephan: If you know anything about American history you know that one of the foundational principles of the United States was the absolute separation of church and state. Whole colonies, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania as examples, were founded by people who did not want the British linkage of the state and the Anglican Church to prevail i ... ⌘ Read more_
Military service key factor in 3 decades of extremist attacks
Nikki Wentling, Reporter - Military Times
_Stephan: We have a major problem in the American military. Veterans constitute the majority of civil violence perpetrators. What the article doesn't properly stress is that what has really been found is that White male veterans are the source of mass violence. Why is this happening? And with evidence this clear why is nothing being done about this. As one o ... ⌘ Read more_
Social Conservatism in U.S. Highest in About a Decade
Jeffrey M. Jones, - The Gallup Organization
_Stephan: The positive cultural changes we are undergoing in parts of our society, racial equality, gender equality, dealing with climate change, fostering wellbeing. For another portion of our population all those things produce fear, hate and resentment. As a result of this dichotomy we have The Great Schism Trend. This Gallup survey shows we are getting more and more s ... ⌘ Read more_
‘People Didn’t Listen to Our Warnings’: Scientists Say It’s Too Late to Save Arctic Summer Ice
Paige Bennett, Staff Writer - EcoWatch
_Stephan: Every day I listen to and read the media. I listen to politicians. What I hear is mediocrity and, the exception for a few individuals in both communities, a lack of ethics. Almost no one in the country, and few in the world, really seem to recognize what is happening to the planet as a resul ... ⌘ Read more_
Climate Crisis Is on Track to Push One-Third of Humanity Out of Its Most Livable Environment
Abrahm Lustgarten, Environmental Reporter - ProPublica
_Stephan: I have been telling you for years now this was coming. There are going to be hundreds of millions of people around the world who are going to have to physically relocate because of climate change. This report describes it well. I urge you to do some research, you can do it o ... ⌘ Read more_
Uninsurable America: Climate change hits the insurance industry
Andrew Freedman and Nathan Bomey, - Axios
_Stephan: And here we see another one of my predictions coming into reality. I have warned you again and again to watch what the insurance industry is doing in your area because they watch closer than anyone what is going on with climate change and sea rise. When you live in a changing area, and you can no longer obtain insurance for your house its time ... ⌘ Read more_
Supreme Court Slashes Legal Protections for Striking
MARJORIE COHN, Staff Writer - truthdig
_Stephan: The far right Congressional christofascists of the Republican Party have successfully restructured the Supreme Court through the Federalist Society in order to support the wealth inequality they seek in service to the oligarchs who rent them. Unions were the social mechanism that created the American middle class, and the christofascists and their masters hate them. So ... ⌘ Read more_
Model Prosecution Memo for Trump Classified Documents
Andrew Weissmann, Ryan Goodman, Joyce Vance, Norman L. Eisen, Fred Wertheimer, Siven Watt, E. Danya Perry, Joshua Stanton and Joshua Kolb, Attorneys - Just Security
_Stephan: There such an endless amount of blather on television, the internet, and printed media about criminal Trump's stolen classified document crimes that it is hard to work out what has real substance. Here, I think, is the best and most accurate p ... ⌘ Read more_
Youth Climate Lawsuit Against Federal Government Headed for Trial
, \\- Yale Environment 360
_Stephan: I think the Republicans have made a major miscalculation, and I see it as good news. They understand that young people are strongly in support of major climate change policies, which the Republicans are not. So their solution is to make it as difficult as possible for the young and people of color to vote. That I think is the miscalculation. Because I bel ... ⌘ Read more_
Americans are waiting longer and longer to get married
DANIEL DE VISÉ, Staff Writer - The Hill
_Stephan: Marriage is one of the core trends of any culture, but there is not one version or one specific time. Cultures change, and the place of marriage in the American culture has, as this report describes._
Americans aren’t marrying young anymore.
The share of U.S. ... ⌘ Read more
CEOs got smaller raises. It would still take a typical worker two lifetimes to make their annual pay
ALEXANDRA OLSON, Business Writers - Associated Press
_Stephan: Wealth inequality is so great in the United States that I don't think most Americans really comprehend it. Can you really imagine what it is like to have a $50 million a year income? We have become a feudal society, and it is doing us great damage as a culture._ ... ⌘ Read more
Students and Faculty at Ohio State Respond to a Bill That Would Restrict College Discussions of Climate PoliciesOhio Staters Grapple With Bill That Stifles Climate Speech
Dan Gearino, Staff writer - Inside Climate News
_Stephan: MAGAts like Trump and DeSantis, and all those who think like them consider science to be not facts, but just a political philo ... ⌘ Read more_
New Zealand announces its biggest emissions reduction project in history
Tess McClure, Reporter - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: The prestige and stature of the United States is diminishing worldwide, particularly amongst the young. While we, in the U.S. have politicians trying to even suppress discussion about climate change, countries like New Zealand are proactively doing something._
_Illustration: Victoria Ellis / Axios_
More than 9 million American adults aren’t taking their medications as prescribed due to ... ⌘ Read more
Planet Earth Is ‘Quite Sick’: 7 of 8 Boundaries for Safe and Just World Already Breached, Study Says
Kenny Stancil, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: I read this sort of warning almost every week now in the academic literature, but often can't find a competent general audience version, because both corporate media and Republican politicians don't seem to comprehend was is happening to earth in general and American partic ... ⌘ Read more_
Montana’s New Anti-Climate Law May Be the Most Aggressive in the Nation
Kristoffer Tigue, - Inside Climate News
_Stephan: I find this amazing given the overwhelming evidence of what climate change is doing. But the Republicans in the face of all of that continue with this amazing stupidity. The voters of Montana have no one to blame but themselves for what is going to happen to their state. And, as this article lays out, Montana is not the only Red s ... ⌘ Read more_
The First Name of a Supreme Court Justice Is Not Justice
Josh Chafetz, Law Professor at Georgetown University and the author of Congress’s Constitution. - The New York Times
_Stephan: Georgetown University Law Professor Josh Chafetz does an excellent job in this exegetic essay describing exactly what the most corrupt Supreme Court in the nation's history is about, and what they are doing. And, do I even need to say it, sucks its collective thumb and does nothing. A ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Clean energy is moving fast’: Solar set to overtake oil in investments for the first time ever
Rosie Frost, Staff Writer - euronews.green
_Stephan: Here is some excellent good news. The world is moving in the right direction._
_Investment in solar power is set to overtake oil for the first time ever in 2023. Credit: Paul Sancya / AP_
Solar energy inve ... ⌘ Read more
Know any airplane mechanics? A wave of retirements is leaving some US industries desperate to hire
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Reporter - Associated Press
_Stephan:_
_Mechanic trainees working on a plane engine Credit: AP_
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Kwasi Bandoh, a senior recruiter for an airline, stood before a group of aviation mechanic students at their graduation ... ⌘ Read more
It’s greedflation, stupid
ROBERT REICH, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center - Robert Reich substack
_Stephan: Robert Reich lays out what is going on in the American economy very well. It is all about greed. I always think about the movie scene in which Michael Douglas says, "Greed is good." It has become the most powerful trend in the United States._
_A NASA plane flew over the Palmer Peninsula of ... ⌘ Read more_
The Body-Worn Boom
Richard Coleman, President, Axon Federal - Politico
_Stephan: Here is some good news. Not surprising, since it is so logical but nonetheless good. Body cameras are revealing, and I suspect constraining to police behavior. And all it does is get police to behave as they should, and to provide a cinema verite of what happened. Cameras are a neutral instrument, and in this case it fosters wellbeing._
_Axon Body ... ⌘ Read more_
Bottom-Dwelling Marine Animals Thriving on Offshore Wind Farm Foundations
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Contributing Writer - EcoWatch
_Stephan: Here is another example showing how fostering wellbeing produces unanticipated good consequences. My views about this are not based on partisan politics. What I care about is well produced social outcome data. And it is clear on that basis that fostering wellbeing is always the best choice._
_Families gather for resources, including Medicaid eligibility and enrollment information ... ⌘ Read more_
State Farm axes new California home insurance policies citing ‘escalating risk’ of climate change: report
Alex Henderson, Staff writer - AlterNet
_Stephan: I have been telling readers for more than a decade that if you live in a coastal area or where major fires increasingly occur watch what is happening with home insurance and insurance rates because my prediction is that part of what is going to drive internal migrati ... ⌘ Read more_
Up to 70% of California beaches could disappear by end of the century
Katharine Gammon, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: The beaches disappear, what do you think will happen to those beach communities? When do you think the insurance companies will stop insuring the houses of the people that live there? What will happen to their economies?_
_Newport Beach in Orange county was am ... ⌘ Read more
Disney’s Orlando Campus Cancellation a Blow to Neighboring Projects
Deborah Acosta, - The Wall Street Journal
_Stephan: Ron DeSantis, in my opinion, is not only a vulgar rather nasty fascist, he is the governor of a state whose wellbeing based on the evidence is a little interest to him. His has crippled healthcare for women, violated the wellbeing of the LGBTQ community, attempted to trash the state's public education system, damaged the libraries, made ... ⌘ Read more_
How pollution is causing a male fertility crisis
Katherine Latham, - BBC (U.K.)
_Stephan: Our greed and stupidity as a species is making it harder and harder for us to reproduce, as this article describes. Maybe not being able to have children will finally wake us up to the fact that the only way to get through what is happening is to make fostering wellbeing at every level our highest and most compelling priority._
_The notion that clear-cutting can be counteracted by the planting of trees is a political product of the timber industry.P._
... ⌘ Read more
Seniors are flooding homeless shelters that can’t care for them
Christopher Rowland, Business Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan: America is a very sick country and it all traces back to one thing, profits are more important than people; it's all about greed, when it should be about fostering wellbeing. We have miserable social outcome data, in many categories the worst in the developed world. It is out in the open but rarely discussed. Our values are ba ... ⌘ Read more_
Washington’s $849 million capital gains windfall shows ‘taxing the rich is a really good idea’**
Brett Wilkins, - AlterNet
_Stephan: As I am writing this it has just been announced that the Republicans and Democratic negotiators have reached a deal on the debt. At the same time I am reading a first report on the effects in my state, Washington, that have resulted from raising taxes on rich. Remember 25% of the nation's debt came fro ... ⌘ Read more_
Only 13 Percent of Methane Emissions Are Actually Regulated, Study Shows
Andris Piebalgs, Maria Olczak, and Paul Balcombe, - truthout
_Stephan: What I think this story is telling us is that once again greed has trumped wellbeing and humanity is still not getting serious enough about climate change. As you know from the stories I regularly run, the ecosystems of the earth are changing more quickly than originally projected, and the effect on all form ... ⌘ Read more_
Global heating will push billions outside ‘human climate niche’**
Damian Carrington, Environmental Editor - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: If you read me regularly you know I have been telling you for years now that climate change is going to fundamentally change the environments in which humans can live, and we must prepare for massive migrations both internally and across national borders. Here is the latest fact based report._
![](https://www.schwartzreport.n ... ⌘ Read more
How Washington Bargained Away Rural America
LUKE GOLDSTEIN, -
_Stephan: The mythology of American farming believed by most Americans not involved with it, is that it is a world of family owned farms happily living a quintessential American life. Unfortunately, that fantasy is, as I said, a myth. As this article makes clear, "we essentially do ag policy like it’s one large casino run by agribusiness, giving farmers just enough chips so they can play and keep betting but never wi ... ⌘ Read more_
U.S. among 17 countries that practice forced labor, a form of ‘modern slavery,’ report finds
Miriam Berger, Foreign News Staff Writer - The Washington Post
_Stephan: You think slavery has ended in the United States; it has not. Individuals can't own people but the government can, and does. This story lays out the American truth that dare not speak its name.
Citation: To access the research report upon which this article is based see: ... ⌘ Read more_
Rolling Back a Century of Progress, Republicans Are Reviving Child Labor
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_Stephan:_
_Child labor Credit: Getty_
Two recent exposés about child labor in the United States highlight how prevalent the once-outlawed practice has become. In February, the _New York Times_ published ... ⌘ Read more
How a green card freeze will exacerbate the nursing crisis
KELLY HOOPER, - Politico
_Stephan: Few politicians seem to realize that when they oppose immigration and, if they are Republicans, want to go back a century to permit child labor, they do not understand how many educated immigrants comprise a significant percentage of highly trained work forces, like say nurses.The American healthcare system already the worst, yet most expensive, in the developed world d ... ⌘ Read more_
The GOP Would Rather Hold Hungry Families Hostage Than Tax the Wealthy
Sasha Abramsky , - Truthout
_Stephan: The American economy is being held hostage by MAGAt christofascists serving the interests of their leader criminal Trump, and the oligarchs who rent them as needed. We are so close to becoming a christofascist anocracy._
_Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy along with ... ⌘ Read more_
Right-wing US Supreme Court delivers ‘catastrophic loss for water protections’**
Jessica Corbett, Staff Writer - AlterNet / Common Dreams
_Stephan: The MAGAt majority on the Supreme Court has just gutted the EPA and destroyed protections for wetlands, "the waters of the United States," and endangered wildlife. It is a historically bad decision that serves the interests only of the oligarchs and the corporations they control._
Georgia GOP Chair Goes Full Flat-Earth, Says Globes Are Part of a Conspiracy
NIKKI MCCANN RAMIREZ, - Rolling Stone
_Stephan: I don't think most Americans really realize how wacky and ignorant the MAGAts are; how much they live in another world. Consider this from the GOP District Chair in Georgia._
_Kandiss Taylor at Georgia’s Republican primary debate on Sunday, May 1, ... ⌘ Read more_
76 Percent of Surveyed Doctors Don’t Want to Work in Abortion-Restricted States
Julie Rovner , Robin Toner Distinguished Fellow and chief Washington Correspondent at Kaiser Health News (KHN). - truthout / Kaiser Health News
_Stephan: I predicted this was going to happen, and now it has. What doctor wants to live in a Red state where giving a female patient the help she correctly needs and is entitled to can result in you being destroyed financ ... ⌘ Read more_
The Anti-Trans Panic Is Rooted in White Supremacist Ideology
Florence Ashley and Blu Buchanan, - truthout
_Stephan: As you listen to the commentary of the media it is clear they haven't a clue what the sexual obsessions of the MAGAt world are really about. This is the best short explanation of what is going on with the White supremacy anti-LGBTQ movement, and how and why it links to the anti-abortion movement. This is all part of the attempt underway by the MA ... ⌘ Read more_
House Republicans Pretty Much Admit They Are Taking Debt Limit ‘Hostage’**
Jonathan Nicholson, - HuffPost
_Stephan: The MAGAts don't care if we default. They think that Biden will be blamed, and that will make it possible for them to win the White House. I think they are relying on Jack Smith indicting Trump, clearing the way for another Republican to win the white House. This is all coordinated, and funded by oligarchs who want their taxes, and the ta ... ⌘ Read more_