Podcast appearances and mentions of Saikat Chakrabarti

“Abundance,” the book I co-wrote with Derek Thompson, hit bookstore shelves a little over a month ago, and the response has been beyond anything I could have imagined. And it's generated a lot of interesting critiques, too, especially from the left. So I wanted to dedicate an episode to talking through some of them.My guests today are both on the left but have very different perspectives. Zephyr Teachout is a law professor at Fordham University and one of the most prominent voices in the antimonopoly movement. Saikat Chakrabarti is the president and co-founder of New Consensus, a think tank that has been trying to think through what it would take to build at Green New Deal scale and pace. And he is currently running to unseat Nancy Pelosi in Congress.I found this conversation wonderfully clarifying — both in the places it revealed agreement, and perhaps even more in the places it revealed difference.Mentioned:“How the Gentry Won: Property Law's Embrace of Stasis” by David Schleicher and Roderick M. Hills, Jr.“The High Cost of Producing Multifamily Housing in California” by Jason M. Ward and Luke SchlakeZephyr's Book Recommendations:The Promise of Politics by Hannah ArendtThe Populist Moment by Lawrence GoodwynListen, Liberal by Thomas FrankSaikat's Book Recommendations:Destructive Creation by Mark R. WilsonBad Samaritans by Ha-Joon ChangThe Defining Moment by Jonathan AlterThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find the transcript and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.htmlThis episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Rollin Hu and Jack McCordick. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, with Kate Sinclair and Mary Marge Locker. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota and Isaac Jones. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show's production team also includes Marie Cascione, Annie Galvin, Elias Isquith, Marina King, Jan Kobal and Kristin Lin. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

On est sans nouvelles de deux journalistes haïtiens depuis le 31 mars dernier, depuis l'attaque des gangs à Mirebalais. Selon l'Association des journalistes haïtiens, il s'agit de Jean-Christophe Collègue, ancien correspondant de Voice of America, dont la maison a été incendiée, et d'Israël Roger Claudy, enlevé par des criminels qui l'auraient pris pour des membres de la BSAP, cette unité des forces de l'ordre. Une dizaine d'autres journalistes ont dû prendre la fuite pour échapper à la violence des gangs. L'Association des journalistes haïtiens lance un appel pour exiger justice et demander aux autorités de mieux protéger les journalistes.Haïti : des drones pour lutter contre les gangsFace à cette violence toujours plus grande, la police utilise depuis quelques semaines des drones contre les groupes criminels. Ils permettent d'atteindre les zones contrôlées par les gangs. Une nouvelle stratégie qui ne fait pas l'unanimité. Ses partisans saluent un moyen pour les policiers de pouvoir enfin faire peur, voire de reprendre le contrôle de certains pans de Port-au-Prince et de ses environs. En revanche, d'autres voix critiquent l'efficacité limitée des drones et le risque de victimes collatérales. Reportage de notre correspondant en Haïti, Peterson Luxama.La République dominicaine veut « se protéger » de la crise haïtienneLa situation en Haïti inquiète son voisin, la République dominicaine, qui se barricade encore un peu plus. Hier, le président dominicain a annoncé des mesures pour, dit-il, protéger son pays. Luis Abinader « durcit le ton », écrit Le Nouvelliste qui liste les 15 mesures dévoilées hier et destinées à « contrer la migration irrégulière haïtienne ». Parmi elles, « l'envoi de 1 500 soldats supplémentaires à la frontière, en addition aux 9 500 déjà en poste, ainsi que la construction de 13 kilomètres de clôture supplémentaires aux 54 kilomètres de mur déjà construits », souligne le quotidien haïtien. Des mesures « drastiques », estime le journal dominicain El Nacional. Des mesures « fortes » pour El Caribe.Un demi-million d'Haïtiens vivent en République dominicaine, pays de 10,5 millions d'habitants.À lire aussiLa République dominicaine durcit encore le ton face à l'immigration illégale en provenance d'HaïtiAux États-Unis, les démocrates veulent riposterFace aux turbulences provoquées par Donald Trump, les démocrates sont assez silencieux jusqu'à présent. Mais voilà qu'ils décident de réagir, nous apprend le Washington Post, en créant une « cellule de guerre ». Les démocrates ont entendu leurs électeurs, rassemblés notamment hier dans les rues de plusieurs villes américaines. Des électeurs qui leur demandent de faire quelque chose. Et dans un premier temps, le parti veut « contrer les fausses informations de l'administration » Trump, explique le Washington Post. Pour cela, il va s'appuyer sur « un vaste réseau de micro-influenceurs qui peuvent avoir un public plus restreint, mais plus dévoué sur les réseaux sociaux ». Ce sont des « tactiques d'opposition créatives », se félicitent les responsables démocrates qui espèrent redorer leur blason alors que le parti est au plus bas dans les sondages, explique le Washingon Post. Pour beaucoup d'électeurs, les démocrates sont « ​​​​​​​faibles ».Des démocrates « faibles » et « vieux »Les jeunes démocrates estiment que « ​​​​​​​le parti est dominé par une vielle génération de dirigeants qui ont perdu le contact avec les luttes quotidiennes des Américains », peut-on lire dans un autre article du Washington Post. Des dirigeants qui ne sont pas assez combatifs, estime ainsi Saikat Chakrabarti qui a travaillé pour Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Des dirigeants qui « ​​​​​​​attendent simplement qu'arrive le retour de bâton pour Donald Trump et que la balance repenche en leur faveur ». « ​​​​​​​C'est comme si, depuis toujours, les démocrates et les républicains jouaient aux échecs. Sauf que là, les républicains ont mis le feu à la maison et les démocrates restent assis et réfléchissent à leur prochain coup », explique la sénatrice du Michigan, Mallory McMorrow, 38 ans, dans les colonnes du journal.Ce débat sur l'âge n'est pas nouveau et touche aussi les républicains. Nikki Haley, candidate aux primaires face à Donald Trump, avait qualifié le Congrès américain, de « ​​​​​​​maison de retraite la mieux lotie des États-Unis », rappelle le Washington Post. Fin 2023, 79% des Américains étaient pour l'instauration d'un âge maximum pour siéger à Washington. Mais pour certains démocrates, c'est devenu une urgence vitale de rajeunir le parti. Comme l'explique le Washington Post, ils ont l'impression que rien ne bouge alors que leur colère contre Donald Trump ne fait que grandir. C'est pour ça que beaucoup de démocrates trentenaires sont en train de se mettre en ordre de bataille en vue des élections de 2026.Au Chili, les machis soignent le corps et l'espritAu Chili, la médecine traditionnelle est de plus en plus populaire. Celle des Mapuches dépasse désormais la communauté et les Chiliens font plus souvent appel aux machis, ces guérisseurs et leaders spirituels. Ils connaissent les plantes locales, les utilisent pour soigner le corps et l'esprit à travers des rituels sacrés et des cérémonies. Reportage de notre correspondante, Naïla Derroisné.

Hello!Today we have on Saikat Chakrabarti, the former chief of staff for AOC and one of the formers leaders of the Justice Democrats. Saikat is currently running for Congress against Nancy Pelosi. We talk about the possibilities of a Democratic Tea Party, how progressives need to think about actually doing stuff, and a lot about housing. This was a great episode and one that I think should inform you on what the political landscape could look like if the Democratic Party actually has a full-on rebuild. Enjoy! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit goodbye.substack.com/subscribe

Democrats are trying to figure out a way forward after their bruising ballot box defeat last fall. Some in the party are pushing for a new generation of leadership, saying the current gerontocracy hasn't kept up with the political reality. One such person challenging the party establishment is Saikat Chakrabarti, who announced he's running for Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's seat in 2026. Chakrabarti made his fortune as an engineer at the payment platform Stripe, before leaving the tech industry to enter politics. He worked for Bernie Sanders' 2016  presidential campaign and helped get Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez elected to Congress, briefly serving as her chief of staff. Chakrabarti joins Marisa and Scott to offer his take on how Democrats can find their way out of the political wilderness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Hump Day! Sam and Emma speak with Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), to recap Trump's joint address to Congress from last night. Then, they're joined by Saikat Chakrabarti, candidate for Congress in California's 11th district, to give some updates on his campaign. First, Sam and Emma run through updates on Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress, Trump's attempted USAID shutdown, US aid to Ukraine, Blackrock's new move on Panama Canal, Trump's IRS cutdown, the firesale of federal properties, Trump v. judges, and OPM's mismanagement, before expanding on Democrats' varying protest tactics during Trump's speech last night, with a highlight on Rep. Al Green's message to get your hands off Medicaid. Adam Green then joins, jumping right into the complete fear of Democratic leadership to simply act, in any substantive manner, to stop or obstruct the Trump Administration, tackling leadership's seeming inability to understand the threat his regime poses to the future of democratic governance in the US, and unpacking what the productive work of Democratic representatives has looked like. After diving deep into Trump's insane breadth of Social Security lies that he fit into his joint session last night, and the direct contrasts we see between this ongoing fight and those under Bush (in 2005) and Obama (in 2013), Green also explores the strong disciplining force of Elon's legitimate threat to primary any Republican that goes against Trump, something very much reflected in Trump's own treatment of US allies. Next, Adam, Sam, and Emma parse through the ideal strategies moving forward, including emphasizing the GOP's departure from their voters' desires, the complete overstepping – both legally and financially – of Elon Musk, and the incredible devastation Trump's funding freeze and mass firings have had on our federal workers, wrapping up the interview by discussing a theoretical “progressive” version of the Laken Riley Act. Saikat Chakrabarti then walks Sam and Emma through the trajectory of his career in Democratic politics, beginning with Bernie in 2016 and helping to run AOC's campaign amid a push for a growing progressive movement, as he explores the mainstream Democratic Party's ongoing failure over the last decade to offer any transformative vision amid a rocketing cost of living, rampant inequality, and a growing fascist movement. After expanding on the parallels we see with the rise of fascism amid the inequality and crises of the 1930s, Chakrabarti looks to the modern day as he unpacks an ongoing push to expand the fight to unseat status-quo-oriented Democratic Leadership like Nancy Pelosi, and how we can support that effort! And in the Fun Half: Sam and Emma watch Trump and Chief Justice John Roberts shove the subtlety to the side as they celebrate their successful coup, reflect on Dan Bongino and Pete Hegseth's previous musings on the “leftist” investment firm Blackrock now that they're teaming up to take over the Panama Canal, and Josh in San Diego asks how to address the Democratic inclination to punch left. Tim Walz shows Democratic leadership how to set an agenda (and a narrative), Leftist Big Pharma Plus unpacks Trump's changes to the US healthcare apparatus and student debt, and Fox News solves the egg crisis (buy chickens, raise them at home). 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Marisa and Guy Marzorati discuss how California leaders are responding to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and new poll numbers showing support for vaccine and mask mandates in California schools. Then, Saikat Chakrabarti, president of the think tank New Consensus, joins to talk about the tools he developed while working for Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, running Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's campaign and congressional office and why progressives should focus more on building supply to address climate change and affordability.

For Part Three of ChinaTalk's industrial policy series, we are joined by two leading lights of the American left: Saikat Chakrabarti, AOC's former Chief of Staff, and Zack Exley of the 2016 Bernie campaign. (Don't forget to check out Part One with Rob Atkinson and Part Two with José Fernandez.) Co-hosting is Vishnu Kannan, a junior fellow in Carnegie's Technology and International Affairs Program. Saikat and Zack take us inside the creation of the Green New Deal, lay out how bold leadership can change a nation's economic trajectory, lament Democrats' lukewarm appetite for industrial policy, and offer up their vision for an American developmental program that harnesses the full potential of its people and capital. We discuss everything from how Harvard teaches economics wrong to what CIA Director Bill Burn's declassified Iraq War cables have to do with the classic film Casablanca. Please consider supporting ChinaTalk at https://glow.fm/chinatalk/ Outtro music: https://youtu.be/DuVJeJcMod0  Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For Part Three of ChinaTalk's industrial policy series, we are joined by two leading lights of the American left: Saikat Chakrabarti, AOC's former Chief of Staff, and Zack Exley of the 2016 Bernie campaign. (Don't forget to check out Part One with Rob Atkinson and Part Two with José Fernandez.) Co-hosting is Vishnu Kannan, a junior fellow in Carnegie's Technology and International Affairs Program. Saikat and Zack take us inside the creation of the Green New Deal, lay out how bold leadership can change a nation's economic trajectory, lament Democrats' lukewarm appetite for industrial policy, and offer up their vision for an American developmental program that harnesses the full potential of its people and capital. We discuss everything from how Harvard teaches economics wrong to what CIA Director Bill Burn's declassified Iraq War cables have to do with the classic film Casablanca. Please consider supporting ChinaTalk at https://glow.fm/chinatalk/ Outtro music: https://youtu.be/DuVJeJcMod0 

New Consensus president and former AOC chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti discusses the omissions of the American Recovery Plan. 

Prager University Part 42. Price Transparency: How to Fix HealthcareWhat's Wrong With The 1619 Project?Be Brave - Nikki HaleyWhat Is Big Green?What I Can Teach You About Racism How the Left Sees the World: Power, Race, and Class Price Transparency: How to Fix Healthcarehttps://youtu.be/vYwR-DTzKr0 PragerUHow can a simple blood test cost $30 at one lab and $300 at another across the street? The answer to this question could save billions, as well as make healthcare more accessible and affordable for everyone. Will Bruhn, co-founder of Restoring Medicine, explains. Script: How messed up is our healthcare system? This messed up.  Researchers compared prices amongst 53 hospitals for a standard heart procedure, called a CABG, or coronary artery bypass grafting. Not only did the researchers find a 10-fold difference in price for the same procedure across hospitals — from $44,000 dollars to $448,000 dollars; but they also found no correlation between higher prices and better quality of care.  Other studies have shown there can be up to a 39-fold variation in price for a simple blood test across medical centers in the same metro area.  Here's the punchline.  We have no idea how much we're paying for healthcare services.   Why is it that when you need to get a surgery or medical test, you can't get a price the same way you can when you shop for, say, an airline ticket?  Imagine if the airlines didn't post prices. Instead, when you bought your ticket, Delta just said, "we'll bill you after your flight because we don't know what the cost of fuel will be that day." Then a week later you get a bill for $4,000. You'd scream bloody murder and rightly so. Yet this is precisely what we are dealing with in American healthcare. With rare exceptions, when you go in for back surgery or a thousand other kinds of medical procedures, you have no idea how much it's going to cost you. Worse, no one would be able to tell you if you bothered to ask. That's because medical billing is a ridiculously complex dance between hospitals, insurance companies, and various middlemen. The hospitals charge crazy prices — $100 for aspirin, for example — and the insurance companies and middlemen agree, through special, often secret deals, to pay some percentage of that.  That's how your knee replacement which the hospital says costs $50,000 on its itemized bill, actually costs you $5,000 — after your deductible.  Out of all this confusion, one thing is crystal clear: medical costs are skyrocketing.   And, Americans are having more and more trouble paying the bill.  Nearly 1 in 5 of us has medical debt in collections.  If you think this problem doesn't apply to you because you have insurance through your employer, and therefore your costs are covered, think again.   Over the past five years, employees have had to increase their contribution to their premiums by 15%, in addition to a 36% increase in deductibles. Meanwhile, wage increases have not kept up, rising 14% over the same period.  Yes, that salary increase you so richly deserved was eaten up by the increased insurance premium you had to pay.  If the ever-increasing cost of medical care was reflected in the quality of the care you were getting — that is, if you were paying more to get better care — maybe this would make some sense, but, as we saw in the coronary bypass example, there is little or no correlation between what you pay and what you get.  So how do we get out of this mess?  A big part of the answer is price transparency — something almost every American wants. Even in our era of political polarization, almost 9 out of 10 Americans say they favor price transparency for medical services.  Makes sense.  Markets only work when consumers have the proper information to make purchasing decisions. And the two most important pieces of information are the price and the quality of a good or service. As it relates to health care, Americans don't have access to either of those. For the complete script visit https://www.prageru.com/video/price-t...​ https://youtu.be/OrqFbyTABmQ What's Wrong With The 1619 Project?PragerUIn August of 2019, the New York Times published The 1619 Project. Its goal is to redefine the American experiment as rooted not in liberty but in slavery. In this video, Wilfred Reilly, Associate Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University, responds to The 1619 Project’s major claims.   Script: Have you heard of The 1619 Project? It was published by the New York Times in August of 2019. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2020. Its thesis: The United States was founded in 1619, when the first slave was brought to North America. Wait—that brings up some questions… What happened to 1776? To July 4th? The Declaration of Independence? George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison? According to The 1619 Project, the Founding Fathers pushed for all that “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” stuff to protect their slave holdings. Independence from England? That was just a smoke screen. To them, everything that’s wrong with America is tied to her “original sin” of slavery: from segregation to traffic jams (yes—traffic jams!). For The 1619 Project authors, racism is not a part of the American experience; it is the American experience. Is this true? Let’s look at three of the project’s major claims: 1. Preserving slavery was the real cause of the American Revolution. If you asked the Founders why they no longer wanted to be a British colony, they would have given you a long list of reasons: Taxation without representation, conflicts over debts from the French and Indian War, and the Stamp Act would be just a few. Probably most important was the burning desire to be free—to chart their own destiny as a sovereign nation. Protecting slavery? Slavery was not under threat from the British. In fact, Britain didn’t free the slaves in its overseas colonies until 1833—57 years later, after the Declaration of Independence. Yes, the subject of slavery was hotly debated at the Constitutional Convention, but that was after the war was won. 2. Slavery made America rich. Slavery made some Americans rich—true enough. Eli Yale, for example, made a fortune in the slave trade. He donated money and land for the university that is named after him. But the institution of slavery didn’t make America rich. In fact, the slave system badly slowed the economic development of half the country. As economist Thomas Sowell points out, in 1860, just one year before the Civil War began, the South had only one-sixth as many factories as the North. Almost 90% of the country’s skilled, well-paid laborers and professionals were based in the North. Banking, railroads, manufacturing—all were concentrated in the North. The South was an economic backwater. And the cost of abolishing slavery was enormous—not merely in terms of dollars (Lincoln borrowed billions to pay for it), but also in terms of human life: 360,000 Union soldiers died in order to free 4 million slaves. That works out to about one soldier in blue for every ten slaves freed. It’s hard to look at that butcher’s bill and conclude that the nation turned a profit from slavery. And many things have happened since 1865. In the almost 200 years since the Civil War, the population of the country has grown almost 900% and our national GDP has increased 12,000%. Slavery did not make America rich. 3. Racism is an unchangeable part of America. This argument is more philosophical than scholarly, but it undergirds the entire 1619 Project. It’s also pernicious because it suggests that the United States is an inherently racist country that can’t overcome its flaws. Yet that’s exactly what it’s done. Today, America is the most successful multi-racial country in history, the only white majority country to elect a black President—twice. Of course, progress has not always been smooth. There have been terrible setbacks. But to compare American attitudes about race today to America a hundred years ago, let alone to 1619, is absurd. For the complete script visit https://www.prageru.com/video/whats-w...​ https://youtu.be/bOhI_DlT5FM Be Brave - Nikki HaleyPragerUFree speech and intellectual freedom are the civil rights issues of our time. Are you ready to defend them? That’s the question that former US Ambassador Nikki Haley poses in this challenging video. This video was made possible by a generous grant from Colorado Christian University (CCU). PragerU subscribers may be eligible for a $1,000 scholarship for courses taken through CCU Online. Learn more at prageru.com/ccu.  Script: I know what it’s like to walk into a room where plain truth seems like a foreign concept. Where just speaking your mind can feel daunting. Where the founding principles of The United States of America are openly ridiculed. For two years, I served as the US Ambassador to the United Nations. Just to give you an idea of how strange things can get at the UN, consider that the Human Rights Council is dominated by some of the world’s worst human rights offenders—countries like China, Cuba, and Venezuela. True democracies, like Israel, are routinely abused. And America, the nation that has protected the God-given rights of hundreds of millions of people all over the globe, is openly criticized. Why am I telling you this? Because most college campuses have become as anti-American—which is to say morally backward—as the UN. And the only person who can set it right side up is you. If that sounds like I’m asking you to shoulder a heavy burden, that’s because I am. I wouldn’t be asking if I didn’t think you were up to it. I fully believe that you are. I’ve spoken at a lot of colleges. I’m convinced that most of the students still have a strong, intuitive love of our country. That’s why I’m optimistic about America’s future. But I know that it’s hard to speak out. I know the academic establishment is against you. I didn’t say this was going to be easy. It is, however, going to be necessary. So, what is it that I’m asking you to do? Be brave. Defend your right to speak out. Defend America. To your friends. In class. Around campus. Wherever you go. Speaking out doesn’t mean being rude and, of course, it never means resorting to violence. It means, having the facts and saying the truth with clarity and purpose. And, if you’re saying the truth, don’t back down, even if your classmates or professor—or, in my case, the representatives of 193 governments—try to make you look foolish. Defending America means you need to know American history. Given how poorly that history is taught these days, you might have to supplement your education. Start with the primary sources: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, George Washington’s farewell speech, the Gettysburg Address and Lincoln’s second inaugural. And build out from there. Discover America’s history for yourself. Make up your own mind. Always remember that you’re comparing America to reality, not to utopia. Also remember that you have to judge people in the context of their time, not by the standards of our time. If you do that, I have every confidence you’ll find yourself loving this country as much as I do. America has a great story to tell. But first you have to have the courage to tell it. What the fight for racial equality was to prior generations, the fight for free speech and intellectual freedom is to your generation. You are on the front line. You are the rebel. Never before, in my lifetime, can I remember when more Americans were as stifled or as constantly told what they’re allowed to think and what they’re allowed to say. And what are we allowed to say in America? What sorts of fashionable ideas are considered sophisticated by our top universities? So often, they’re the very same ones espoused by the thugs on the Human Rights Council: That America is racist, that capitalism—the only economic system to lift billions of people out of poverty—is the source of our problems, that socialism is bliss, that freedom of speech is not that important. These are very bad ideas. They’re also dead wrong. There is no question that America can and should improve. That’s the hard work we have in front of us. But the constant slandering of... For the complete script visit https://www.prageru.com/video/be-brave​ https://youtu.be/CeMwlhV443k What Is Big Green?PragerUYou hear lots of dire predictions these days -- the planet is burning, the seas are rising, and so on. But what is the real purpose of all this doom and gloom? Is it to protect the environment? Or is there a different motive? Rogan O’Handley, aka DC Draino, gets to the bottom of these questions in this important video. Script: You've heard a lot about Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Tech, and all the other big bad players out there. I want to talk to you about the biggest, baddest one of them all. This Goliath doesn't deal in billions. It deals in trillions. I'm talking about… Big Green. Yes, the Environmental Movement. It's the richest, most powerful "Big" in the world right now. Nothing else even comes close. Until we see it for what is and reign it in, it's going to get even bigger. And as is usually the case, bigger is not always better. You see, Big Green wants to take over your life. It has to. This makes perfect sense. Big Green, after all, intends to save the planet from oblivion. Your freedom would seem to be a small price to pay. To accomplish its mission Big Green needs two things: Money. And power. It already has a lot of both. But it's hungry for much more. Who do we mean when we say Big Green? We mean the major organizations that set the agenda for the movement. This would include, among dozens: Greenpeace. 350.Org. Nature Conservancy. Sierra Club. World Wildlife Fund. And, of course, the politicians, bureaucrats, corporations, and media outlets who support and promote their agenda. Before we get any deeper into this, let's stipulate a few things. The climate is changing. It appears, though we can't be sure, to be slowly warming. If it continues to warm, it could cause serious environmental problems sometime in the distant future. Industrialization probably plays a role in this warming process. Reasonable people should be able to agree on this. Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi and Republican leader Newt Gingrich actually once sat down together and said as much in a public service ad they made in the 1990s. But Big Green has no interest in being reasonable. Reasonable doesn't get you money. Reasonable doesn't get you power. So, let's talk about the money. Greenpeace, Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, and Sierra Club all have financial assets in the $100 to $300 million-dollar range. Name a Fortune 500 company and chances are they're writing big checks to Big Green.   Banking giant, Citigroup, for example, has committed $100 billion to "combat climate change." But the real money is at the government level. In 2009 the Obama Administration directed more than $110 billion to be spent on renewable energy "investments" under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act alone. What the taxpayer got for this investment other than long-forgotten $500 million-dollar boondoggles—like Solyndra—is hard to say. According to the best economic models, the Paris Climate Accord will cost the world $1 to 2 trillion every year. Total cost for The Green New Deal $52 trillion—minimum. But money is only a means to an end. The end is power. The power to transform society into what they think it should be. That's what this is really about. Here's how Saikat Chakrabarti, the architect of the Green New Deal described it to the Washington Post: "…it wasn't originally a climate thing at all…we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing." Maybe you like all this. That's fine. But don't pretend it's about protecting the environment. Chakrabarti was being honest. You should be, too. It's about transferring more and more power to the government—at every level: federal, state, local. And the way to get the power is to gin up scary scenarios. The planet is burning. The seas are rising. We're all going to be dead soon unless we listen to those masters of disaster, Al Gore, Bill McKibben, and Greta Thunberg. And what have all their horror stories led to? For the complete script visit https://www.prageru.com/video/what-is... https://youtu.be/Htm8TuB-5Hc What I Can Teach You About RacismPragerURenowned political science professor Carol Swain started out life with every possible disadvantage. She ended up teaching at two of the most prestigious universities in the country. How did she do it? She shares her story and her wisdom in this inspiring video.  Script: Let me tell you how my story ends: I become a tenured, award-winning professor of political science at an Ivy League university and then at one of the leading universities in the South. Now let me tell you how my story begins: I grow up in rural Virginia literally dirt poor. I drop out of school in the eighth grade and have three children by the time I'm 20. I consider myself to be a reasonably modest person, but even I have to admit that's quite a journey. How did I do it? I worked hard. Not crazy, 24/7 hard. Just hard. I made good decisions. Not brilliant, three-dimensional chess decisions. Just good ones. I met people along the way who helped me and sincerely wanted to see me succeed, not because they had something to gain, but because they were decent people. Almost all of these individuals, by the way, were white. But mostly, I think I was blessed in one crucial way. I was born in America, a true land of opportunity for anyone of any color or background. In this country, where you start your life does not determine where you end up. That works in both directions, by the way. You can start out with every advantage and waste them all. Or start out with nothing and become a success. It all depends on you. Your attitude is far more important than your race, gender, or social class in determining what you will accomplish in life. When I hear young blacks, or anyone for that matter, talk about systemic racism, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.  I want to laugh because it's such nonsense. I want to cry because I know it's pushing untold numbers of young blacks into a dead end of self-pity and despair.  Instead of seizing the amazing opportunities America offers them, they seize an excuse to explain why they're not succeeding. I was born into a world where systemic racism was real — no fooling, outright bigotry, back-of-the-bus real. But here's what you need to know: yes, that racism shaped the black experience, but even then it did not define it. Change was in the air. Call it systemic reform. The modern civil rights movement was in its infancy, and the leaders who fought for equal rights for blacks were men and women of all races. They believed in America and were determined to see it live up to its highest ideals — ideals manifest in the Declaration of Independence, and the US Constitution. Did I know growing up that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned slaves? I don't think I ever thought about it. If I did, I'd like to think that I would have had enough common sense to know that we can't judge men who lived 250 years ago by the moral standards of our own day. But I know that Jefferson wrote the words in the Declaration of Independence that made slavery ultimately impossible; that all men are created equal. And, I know that Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, Adams, and the rest of the Founders risked everything to make my world, my America, possible. How could I not be grateful for that and for the sacrifices so many others have made to preserve it? The truth is, I cannot remember a time when I did not love America and feel pride in the belief that I live in the greatest country in the world. I knew if I diligently pursued my ambitions, I could leave the poverty of my early years, with all its abuse and depression, behind me. I was fortunate in another way. I was spared the life-sapping, negative messages about America that are crippling a generation of young people. These ideas are poison: White privilege. Whiteness as a form of property. Unconscious racism. Reparations. Microaggressions.  Police have it out for blacks.  That the United States was created to protect and promote slavery.  These are the ideas young people are told they must accept.  For the complete script visit https://www.prageru.com/video/what-i-...​ https://youtu.be/jAAIekJB3wk How the Left Sees the World: Power, Race, and ClassPragerUHow do those on the Left determine right from wrong? Since Marx, they’ve relied on a formula based on status, skin color, and wealth. But is that the way to reach a moral conclusion? Dennis Prager uses Israel and the United States to provide an illuminating perspective on this question.  Script: Why does the left hate Israel? On the surface, it doesn't make sense. Israel is a liberal democracy. It extends full rights to women, to gays, and to its many Arab citizens. Like all countries, which are made up of flawed human beings, Israel is flawed. But compared to most countries, not to mention its neighbors, it is a civil rights paradise.  So, why does the left hate Israel? The reason is that the left — and as I always emphasize, I am talking about the left, not about liberals — is not guided by a moral compass. It is guided by three other compasses:  A power compass, a race compass, and a class compass. Let's begin with the power compass. Instead of evaluating people and nations on the basis of right and wrong or good and evil, the left evaluates them on the basis of weak and strong. If you're weak, you're good. If you're strong, you're bad. Israel is strong. Therefore, it is bad. America is strong. Therefore it is bad. The Palestinians are regarded as weak. Therefore, they are good. When you are guided by a moral compass, you don't ask, "who's strong and who's weak?" You ask, "who's morally right and who's morally wrong?" Fifty years ago, Israel was not a big issue for the left. Why? Because it was perceived as weak. But after the 1967 Six Day War in which Israel achieved a stunning military victory, it all changed. Israel became strong, so Israel became bad. And the Palestinians were weak, so they became good.  So, no matter how much terror Palestinians engaged in — hijacking airplanes, murdering eleven Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Munich Olympics, blowing up Israelis in pizza parlors and at weddings — the left's position never changed: Palestinians good. Israel bad. Because the Palestinians were weak. And Israel was strong. That's one of the three ways the left judges the world. You can test this theory in other ways. Why is the United States bad? Because it's strong. And Third World countries that oppose the United States are good.  Cuba, for example, has been adored by the left for decades. Never mind that Cuba's communist party has ruined Cuba, that Cubans have no civil rights, and Cuba is one of the poorest countries in the world. Since Cuba is weak, to the left, Cuba is good.  The same was true with North Vietnam in the 1960s. It was considered weak, so it was good. The US was strong, so it was bad. It didn't matter that America was trying to preserve the freedom of the South Vietnamese, exactly as it had preserved the freedom of the South Koreans. The US was strong. So it was bad.  Which brings us back to Israel. The stronger Israel gets — as it effectively defends itself, as its economy grows, and its diplomatic position improves — the more the left hates it.  The second of the left's compasses — the race compass — is another reason the left hates Israel. Just as it substitutes weak and strong for good and evil, the left substitutes non-white and white for good and evil. The left doesn't judge people by their actions, but by their race. That's why, for example, the left asserts that a black person cannot be a racist, only a white person can be s racist. And that provides the second reason Israel is labeled evil: Israelis are considered white and Palestinians are not white. Never mind that more than half of Israel's population is not white. The result: the left essentially ignores Palestinian terror and loudly condemns Israel's responses to terror.  FOLLOW us! Facebook:

Prager University Part 42.  Price Transparency: How to Fix Healthcare What's Wrong With The 1619 Project? Be Brave - Nikki Haley What Is Big Green? What I Can Teach You About Racism How the Left Sees the World: Power, Race, and Class   Price Transparency: How to Fix Healthcare https://youtu.be/vYwR-DTzKr0 PragerU How can a simple blood test cost $30 at one lab and $300 at another across the street? The answer to this question could save billions, as well as make healthcare more accessible and affordable for everyone. Will Bruhn, co-founder of Restoring Medicine, explains. Script: How messed up is our healthcare system? This messed up.  Researchers compared prices amongst 53 hospitals for a standard heart procedure, called a CABG, or coronary artery bypass grafting. Not only did the researchers find a 10-fold difference in price for the same procedure across hospitals — from $44,000 dollars to $448,000 dollars; but they also found no correlation between higher prices and better quality of care.  Other studies have shown there can be up to a 39-fold variation in price for a simple blood test across medical centers in the same metro area.  Here's the punchline.  We have no idea how much we're paying for healthcare services.   Why is it that when you need to get a surgery or medical test, you can't get a price the same way you can when you shop for, say, an airline ticket?  Imagine if the airlines didn't post prices. Instead, when you bought your ticket, Delta just said, "we'll bill you after your flight because we don't know what the cost of fuel will be that day." Then a week later you get a bill for $4,000. You'd scream bloody murder and rightly so. Yet this is precisely what we are dealing with in American healthcare. With rare exceptions, when you go in for back surgery or a thousand other kinds of medical procedures, you have no idea how much it's going to cost you. Worse, no one would be able to tell you if you bothered to ask. That's because medical billing is a ridiculously complex dance between hospitals, insurance companies, and various middlemen. The hospitals charge crazy prices — $100 for aspirin, for example — and the insurance companies and middlemen agree, through special, often secret deals, to pay some percentage of that.  That's how your knee replacement which the hospital says costs $50,000 on its itemized bill, actually costs you $5,000 — after your deductible.  Out of all this confusion, one thing is crystal clear: medical costs are skyrocketing.   And, Americans are having more and more trouble paying the bill.  Nearly 1 in 5 of us has medical debt in collections.  If you think this problem doesn't apply to you because you have insurance through your employer, and therefore your costs are covered, think again.   Over the past five years, employees have had to increase their contribution to their premiums by 15%, in addition to a 36% increase in deductibles. Meanwhile, wage increases have not kept up, rising 14% over the same period.  Yes, that salary increase you so richly deserved was eaten up by the increased insurance premium you had to pay.  If the ever-increasing cost of medical care was reflected in the quality of the care you were getting — that is, if you were paying more to get better care — maybe this would make some sense, but, as we saw in the coronary bypass example, there is little or no correlation between what you pay and what you get.  So how do we get out of this mess?  A big part of the answer is price transparency — something almost every American wants. Even in our era of political polarization, almost 9 out of 10 Americans say they favor price transparency for medical services.  Makes sense.  Markets only work when consumers have the proper information to make purchasing decisions. And the two most important pieces of information are the price and the quality of a good or service. As it relates to health care, Americans don't have access to either of those. For the complete script visit https://www.prageru.com/video/price-t...​   https://youtu.be/OrqFbyTABmQ What's Wrong With The 1619 Project? PragerU In August of 2019, the New York Times published The 1619 Project. Its goal is to redefine the American experiment as rooted not in liberty but in slavery. In this video, Wilfred Reilly, Associate Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University, responds to The 1619 Project's major claims.    Script: Have you heard of The 1619 Project? It was published by the New York Times in August of 2019. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2020. Its thesis: The United States was founded in 1619, when the first slave was brought to North America. Wait—that brings up some questions… What happened to 1776? To July 4th? The Declaration of Independence? George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison? According to The 1619 Project, the Founding Fathers pushed for all that “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” stuff to protect their slave holdings. Independence from England? That was just a smoke screen. To them, everything that's wrong with America is tied to her “original sin” of slavery: from segregation to traffic jams (yes—traffic jams!). For The 1619 Project authors, racism is not a part of the American experience; it is the American experience. Is this true? Let's look at three of the project's major claims: 1. Preserving slavery was the real cause of the American Revolution. If you asked the Founders why they no longer wanted to be a British colony, they would have given you a long list of reasons: Taxation without representation, conflicts over debts from the French and Indian War, and the Stamp Act would be just a few. Probably most important was the burning desire to be free—to chart their own destiny as a sovereign nation. Protecting slavery? Slavery was not under threat from the British. In fact, Britain didn't free the slaves in its overseas colonies until 1833—57 years later, after the Declaration of Independence. Yes, the subject of slavery was hotly debated at the Constitutional Convention, but that was after the war was won. 2. Slavery made America rich. Slavery made some Americans rich—true enough. Eli Yale, for example, made a fortune in the slave trade. He donated money and land for the university that is named after him. But the institution of slavery didn't make America rich. In fact, the slave system badly slowed the economic development of half the country. As economist Thomas Sowell points out, in 1860, just one year before the Civil War began, the South had only one-sixth as many factories as the North. Almost 90% of the country's skilled, well-paid laborers and professionals were based in the North. Banking, railroads, manufacturing—all were concentrated in the North. The South was an economic backwater. And the cost of abolishing slavery was enormous—not merely in terms of dollars (Lincoln borrowed billions to pay for it), but also in terms of human life: 360,000 Union soldiers died in order to free 4 million slaves. That works out to about one soldier in blue for every ten slaves freed. It's hard to look at that butcher's bill and conclude that the nation turned a profit from slavery. And many things have happened since 1865. In the almost 200 years since the Civil War, the population of the country has grown almost 900% and our national GDP has increased 12,000%. Slavery did not make America rich. 3. Racism is an unchangeable part of America. This argument is more philosophical than scholarly, but it undergirds the entire 1619 Project. It's also pernicious because it suggests that the United States is an inherently racist country that can't overcome its flaws. Yet that's exactly what it's done. Today, America is the most successful multi-racial country in history, the only white majority country to elect a black President—twice. Of course, progress has not always been smooth. There have been terrible setbacks. But to compare American attitudes about race today to America a hundred years ago, let alone to 1619, is absurd. For the complete script visit https://www.prageru.com/video/whats-w...​   https://youtu.be/bOhI_DlT5FM Be Brave - Nikki Haley PragerU Free speech and intellectual freedom are the civil rights issues of our time. Are you ready to defend them? That's the question that former US Ambassador Nikki Haley poses in this challenging video. This video was made possible by a generous grant from Colorado Christian University (CCU). PragerU subscribers may be eligible for a $1,000 scholarship for courses taken through CCU Online. Learn more at prageru.com/ccu.   Script: I know what it's like to walk into a room where plain truth seems like a foreign concept. Where just speaking your mind can feel daunting. Where the founding principles of The United States of America are openly ridiculed. For two years, I served as the US Ambassador to the United Nations. Just to give you an idea of how strange things can get at the UN, consider that the Human Rights Council is dominated by some of the world's worst human rights offenders—countries like China, Cuba, and Venezuela. True democracies, like Israel, are routinely abused. And America, the nation that has protected the God-given rights of hundreds of millions of people all over the globe, is openly criticized. Why am I telling you this? Because most college campuses have become as anti-American—which is to say morally backward—as the UN. And the only person who can set it right side up is you. If that sounds like I'm asking you to shoulder a heavy burden, that's because I am. I wouldn't be asking if I didn't think you were up to it. I fully believe that you are. I've spoken at a lot of colleges. I'm convinced that most of the students still have a strong, intuitive love of our country. That's why I'm optimistic about America's future. But I know that it's hard to speak out. I know the academic establishment is against you. I didn't say this was going to be easy. It is, however, going to be necessary. So, what is it that I'm asking you to do? Be brave. Defend your right to speak out. Defend America. To your friends. In class. Around campus. Wherever you go. Speaking out doesn't mean being rude and, of course, it never means resorting to violence. It means, having the facts and saying the truth with clarity and purpose. And, if you're saying the truth, don't back down, even if your classmates or professor—or, in my case, the representatives of 193 governments—try to make you look foolish. Defending America means you need to know American history. Given how poorly that history is taught these days, you might have to supplement your education. Start with the primary sources: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, George Washington's farewell speech, the Gettysburg Address and Lincoln's second inaugural. And build out from there. Discover America's history for yourself. Make up your own mind. Always remember that you're comparing America to reality, not to utopia. Also remember that you have to judge people in the context of their time, not by the standards of our time. If you do that, I have every confidence you'll find yourself loving this country as much as I do. America has a great story to tell. But first you have to have the courage to tell it. What the fight for racial equality was to prior generations, the fight for free speech and intellectual freedom is to your generation. You are on the front line. You are the rebel. Never before, in my lifetime, can I remember when more Americans were as stifled or as constantly told what they're allowed to think and what they're allowed to say. And what are we allowed to say in America? What sorts of fashionable ideas are considered sophisticated by our top universities? So often, they're the very same ones espoused by the thugs on the Human Rights Council: That America is racist, that capitalism—the only economic system to lift billions of people out of poverty—is the source of our problems, that socialism is bliss, that freedom of speech is not that important. These are very bad ideas. They're also dead wrong. There is no question that America can and should improve. That's the hard work we have in front of us. But the constant slandering of... For the complete script visit https://www.prageru.com/video/be-brave​   https://youtu.be/CeMwlhV443k What Is Big Green? PragerU You hear lots of dire predictions these days -- the planet is burning, the seas are rising, and so on. But what is the real purpose of all this doom and gloom? Is it to protect the environment? Or is there a different motive? Rogan O'Handley, aka DC Draino, gets to the bottom of these questions in this important video.   Script: You've heard a lot about Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Tech, and all the other big bad players out there. I want to talk to you about the biggest, baddest one of them all. This Goliath doesn't deal in billions. It deals in trillions. I'm talking about… Big Green. Yes, the Environmental Movement. It's the richest, most powerful "Big" in the world right now. Nothing else even comes close. Until we see it for what is and reign it in, it's going to get even bigger. And as is usually the case, bigger is not always better. You see, Big Green wants to take over your life. It has to. This makes perfect sense. Big Green, after all, intends to save the planet from oblivion. Your freedom would seem to be a small price to pay. To accomplish its mission Big Green needs two things: Money. And power. It already has a lot of both. But it's hungry for much more. Who do we mean when we say Big Green? We mean the major organizations that set the agenda for the movement. This would include, among dozens: Greenpeace. 350.Org. Nature Conservancy. Sierra Club. World Wildlife Fund. And, of course, the politicians, bureaucrats, corporations, and media outlets who support and promote their agenda. Before we get any deeper into this, let's stipulate a few things. The climate is changing. It appears, though we can't be sure, to be slowly warming. If it continues to warm, it could cause serious environmental problems sometime in the distant future. Industrialization probably plays a role in this warming process. Reasonable people should be able to agree on this. Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi and Republican leader Newt Gingrich actually once sat down together and said as much in a public service ad they made in the 1990s. But Big Green has no interest in being reasonable. Reasonable doesn't get you money. Reasonable doesn't get you power. So, let's talk about the money. Greenpeace, Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, and Sierra Club all have financial assets in the $100 to $300 million-dollar range. Name a Fortune 500 company and chances are they're writing big checks to Big Green.   Banking giant, Citigroup, for example, has committed $100 billion to "combat climate change." But the real money is at the government level. In 2009 the Obama Administration directed more than $110 billion to be spent on renewable energy "investments" under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act alone. What the taxpayer got for this investment other than long-forgotten $500 million-dollar boondoggles—like Solyndra—is hard to say. According to the best economic models, the Paris Climate Accord will cost the world $1 to 2 trillion every year. Total cost for The Green New Deal $52 trillion—minimum. But money is only a means to an end. The end is power. The power to transform society into what they think it should be. That's what this is really about. Here's how Saikat Chakrabarti, the architect of the Green New Deal described it to the Washington Post: "…it wasn't originally a climate thing at all…we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing." Maybe you like all this. That's fine. But don't pretend it's about protecting the environment. Chakrabarti was being honest. You should be, too. It's about transferring more and more power to the government—at every level: federal, state, local. And the way to get the power is to gin up scary scenarios. The planet is burning. The seas are rising. We're all going to be dead soon unless we listen to those masters of disaster, Al Gore, Bill McKibben, and Greta Thunberg. And what have all their horror stories led to? For the complete script visit https://www.prageru.com/video/what-is...   https://youtu.be/Htm8TuB-5Hc What I Can Teach You About Racism PragerU Renowned political science professor Carol Swain started out life with every possible disadvantage. She ended up teaching at two of the most prestigious universities in the country. How did she do it? She shares her story and her wisdom in this inspiring video.   Script: Let me tell you how my story ends: I become a tenured, award-winning professor of political science at an Ivy League university and then at one of the leading universities in the South. Now let me tell you how my story begins: I grow up in rural Virginia literally dirt poor. I drop out of school in the eighth grade and have three children by the time I'm 20. I consider myself to be a reasonably modest person, but even I have to admit that's quite a journey. How did I do it? I worked hard. Not crazy, 24/7 hard. Just hard. I made good decisions. Not brilliant, three-dimensional chess decisions. Just good ones. I met people along the way who helped me and sincerely wanted to see me succeed, not because they had something to gain, but because they were decent people. Almost all of these individuals, by the way, were white. But mostly, I think I was blessed in one crucial way. I was born in America, a true land of opportunity for anyone of any color or background. In this country, where you start your life does not determine where you end up. That works in both directions, by the way. You can start out with every advantage and waste them all. Or start out with nothing and become a success. It all depends on you. Your attitude is far more important than your race, gender, or social class in determining what you will accomplish in life. When I hear young blacks, or anyone for that matter, talk about systemic racism, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.  I want to laugh because it's such nonsense. I want to cry because I know it's pushing untold numbers of young blacks into a dead end of self-pity and despair.  Instead of seizing the amazing opportunities America offers them, they seize an excuse to explain why they're not succeeding. I was born into a world where systemic racism was real — no fooling, outright bigotry, back-of-the-bus real. But here's what you need to know: yes, that racism shaped the black experience, but even then it did not define it. Change was in the air. Call it systemic reform. The modern civil rights movement was in its infancy, and the leaders who fought for equal rights for blacks were men and women of all races. They believed in America and were determined to see it live up to its highest ideals — ideals manifest in the Declaration of Independence, and the US Constitution. Did I know growing up that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned slaves? I don't think I ever thought about it. If I did, I'd like to think that I would have had enough common sense to know that we can't judge men who lived 250 years ago by the moral standards of our own day. But I know that Jefferson wrote the words in the Declaration of Independence that made slavery ultimately impossible; that all men are created equal. And, I know that Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, Adams, and the rest of the Founders risked everything to make my world, my America, possible. How could I not be grateful for that and for the sacrifices so many others have made to preserve it? The truth is, I cannot remember a time when I did not love America and feel pride in the belief that I live in the greatest country in the world. I knew if I diligently pursued my ambitions, I could leave the poverty of my early years, with all its abuse and depression, behind me. I was fortunate in another way. I was spared the life-sapping, negative messages about America that are crippling a generation of young people. These ideas are poison: White privilege. Whiteness as a form of property. Unconscious racism. Reparations. Microaggressions.  Police have it out for blacks.  That the United States was created to protect and promote slavery.  These are the ideas young people are told they must accept.  For the complete script visit https://www.prageru.com/video/what-i-...​   https://youtu.be/jAAIekJB3wk How the Left Sees the World: Power, Race, and Class PragerU How do those on the Left determine right from wrong? Since Marx, they've relied on a formula based on status, skin color, and wealth. But is that the way to reach a moral conclusion? Dennis Prager uses Israel and the United States to provide an illuminating perspective on this question.   Script: Why does the left hate Israel? On the surface, it doesn't make sense. Israel is a liberal democracy. It extends full rights to women, to gays, and to its many Arab citizens. Like all countries, which are made up of flawed human beings, Israel is flawed. But compared to most countries, not to mention its neighbors, it is a civil rights paradise.  So, why does the left hate Israel? The reason is that the left — and as I always emphasize, I am talking about the left, not about liberals — is not guided by a moral compass. It is guided by three other compasses:  A power compass, a race compass, and a class compass. Let's begin with the power compass. Instead of evaluating people and nations on the basis of right and wrong or good and evil, the left evaluates them on the basis of weak and strong. If you're weak, you're good. If you're strong, you're bad. Israel is strong. Therefore, it is bad. America is strong. Therefore it is bad. The Palestinians are regarded as weak. Therefore, they are good. When you are guided by a moral compass, you don't ask, "who's strong and who's weak?" You ask, "who's morally right and who's morally wrong?" Fifty years ago, Israel was not a big issue for the left. Why? Because it was perceived as weak. But after the 1967 Six Day War in which Israel achieved a stunning military victory, it all changed. Israel became strong, so Israel became bad. And the Palestinians were weak, so they became good.  So, no matter how much terror Palestinians engaged in — hijacking airplanes, murdering eleven Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Munich Olympics, blowing up Israelis in pizza parlors and at weddings — the left's position never changed: Palestinians good. Israel bad. Because the Palestinians were weak. And Israel was strong. That's one of the three ways the left judges the world. You can test this theory in other ways. Why is the United States bad? Because it's strong. And Third World countries that oppose the United States are good.  Cuba, for example, has been adored by the left for decades. Never mind that Cuba's communist party has ruined Cuba, that Cubans have no civil rights, and Cuba is one of the poorest countries in the world. Since Cuba is weak, to the left, Cuba is good.  The same was true with North Vietnam in the 1960s. It was considered weak, so it was good. The US was strong, so it was bad. It didn't matter that America was trying to preserve the freedom of the South Vietnamese, exactly as it had preserved the freedom of the South Koreans. The US was strong. So it was bad.  Which brings us back to Israel. The stronger Israel gets — as it effectively defends itself, as its economy grows, and its diplomatic position improves — the more the left hates it.  The second of the left's compasses — the race compass — is another reason the left hates Israel. Just as it substitutes weak and strong for good and evil, the left substitutes non-white and white for good and evil. The left doesn't judge people by their actions, but by their race. That's why, for example, the left asserts that a black person cannot be a racist, only a white person can be s racist. And that provides the second reason Israel is labeled evil: Israelis are considered white and Palestinians are not white. Never mind that more than half of Israel's population is not white. The result: the left essentially ignores Palestinian terror and loudly condemns Israel's responses to terror.   FOLLOW us! Facebook:

With renewed optimism that the United States will now be a stronger partner than ever before in meeting the challenge of climate change, Saikat Chakrabarti joins Nate to discuss what comes next for the Green New Deal and more progressive politics in America.Saikat is former campaign manager and chief of staff to Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, co-founder of Justice Democrats, and currently president of New Consensus, a think tank focused on developing the Green New Deal.

New Consensus president Saikat Chakrabarti talks about what Biden can do, even without Congress, to make a real difference in the lives of ordinary Americans

It is no secret that the NEA, also know as the National Education Association has very liberal views. In 2020 so far it has been to the tune of $3.7 million in contributions, $2.5 million in lobbying, and $5.8 million in outside spending. Many of their members are Conservative, but NEA doesn’t care. They have drawn their line in the sand, and they have made know who they will support. As we are coming to an end of the 2020 campaign season, I felt it was important to provide you with the truth. That being said, episode #4 will discuss The National Education Association, also known as NEA, and their political contributions to Joe, Kamala, and Far-Left Democrats.Big Political Contributions by NEALet us begin by stating with the 2020 political contributions. NEA has made $3,795,006 in political contributions. Not grants, not teacher supplements, or even school PPE. $3.7 million given to politicians. This includes almost $70,000 to the Joe Biden campaign. The National Education Association’s political contributions go deeper than just the Biden campaign. Democrat candidates have received 98.35% of the monies coming from the largest teacher union in the country. So who are the candidates getting this money, and how much are they getting?According to campaign filings, the numbers of contributions from the NEA are as follows. In the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi raked in $11,471. While squad members followed suit with Ilhan Omar, $10,952, Rashida Tlaib, $4,256, Ayanna Pressley, $2,207, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, $2,769. But the contributions do not end in the House. Now let us look to the Senate. Elizabeth Warren brought in $20,417, Vice-Presidental candidate Kamala Harris, $9,896, and Gary Peters $20,945, which was the largest amount.So to be fair, the NEA has given a contribution to Lindsey Graham of $5. And they also gave a contribution to the Trump Campaign of $40. True it is not quite the amount that the education association gave the Biden campaign, but at least they gave. I hope that you can detect my sarcasm. Be sure to listen to the podcast for full details, and of course sign-up for the newsletter below.Important links for NEA Political Contributions to Joe, Kamala, and other Far-Left DemocratsNEA Political ContributionsBecky Pringle writes about the electionEducation Association Political ContributionsMore Interesting Podcast like NEA Political ContributionsUniversities Far-Left Agenda Has Indoctrinated Future EducatorsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Saikat Chakrabarti illegally moved $885K in campaign contributions.Podcast 1: Inaugural Episode in The BeginningNational Debt the #2 Issue for Conservatives in the 2020 Election$25 Trillion National Debt | Who Does America Actually Owe For The Debt?

The Lebanese government steps down as violent protests rock the country. With the economy and food security now at breaking point, Christiane Amanpour speaks to Ghassan Hasbani, former Lebanese Deputy Prime Minister, about last week’s devastating explosion, and where the responsibility lies. Then, the arrest of media tycoon Jimmy Lai marks the most high-profile attempt by Beijing to crack down on democracy in Hong Kong. Pro-democracy member of Hong Kong's Legislative Council, Claudia Mo, reflects on the effects of the new national security law and the threat to press freedom. Jennifer Granholm, former Michigan Governor and Saikat Chakrabarti, former Chief of Staff for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, discuss the case for “Medicare For All”, and the direction of the Democratic party. And our Hari Sreenivasan speaks to David Kaye, former U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression, about what he calls the ‘Trump effect’ and the rise in authoritarian leadership.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Last year, the hard-left—pressure groups like the Sunrise Movement, politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, and labor unions like the Service Employees International Union—presented the “Green New Deal,” a package of radical environmentalist policy demands that ranged (according to an “FAQ” document that the Green New Dealers denounced and memory-holed shortly after its release) from banning air travel to retrofitting every building in the United States. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell denounced it as a “radical, top-down, socialist makeover of the entire U.S. economy”; Saikat Chakrabarti, one of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s close allies and a former aide, admitted the Green New Deal was “a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy” plan. But what would the plan actually mean for consumers and families? Today, I’m joined by Jason Isaac, Senior Manager for the “Life: Powered” project at the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) to dig into that question and other issues related to energy both in Texas and nationally. Subscribe to the podcast on your platform of choice at: https://influencewatch.fireside.fm/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter • Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capital.research.center/ • YouTube: https://bit.ly/CRCYouTube

Since releasing some content that was critical and skeptical of the current alarmism & politicization of the environmentalist movement, the lunacy of the extinction rebellion cult and the suspiciously sudden and monumental rise of the global Greta phenomenon, I have received incredible support and valuable feedback from most. However, I have also since been accused by some as being "uncaring" "insensitive" "deluded & paranoid" and of also being "a typical insecure cis-white-male" simply for expressing my views and concerns. In this Drive With Dave episode I take on these false and ridiculous claims and clarify my position and intention. LINKS: Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictionshttps://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictionsDo you think the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is promoting science rather than socialism?  Read the following admission from the co-chair of the UN IPCC Working Group III, during an interview in 2010 with the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung: “We must free ourselves from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy … We must state clearly that we use climate policy de facto to redistribute the world’s wealth.”The Great Climate Debate Pt. 2 Feat. Ralph Ellis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZiK85LW5no&t=4899sGlobal warming is a blatant lie PROOFhttps://youtu.be/EHFfOOF-6FsDebunking EVERY Climate Argument With Geologist Tony Hellerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIBP8vKVf0M In the 1970s, we were told we were in a global cooling crisis and if something wasn’t done, we’d enter a new ice age. When that didn’t happen, a few decades later we were told that entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend was not reversed by the year 2000. We’re now being told we only have 12 years to combat climate change, and the solution is to fundamentally dismantle the system of free enterprise. That means the government and the UN controls things like how we produce our energy, what food we eat, and what type of cars we drive. The question is, even if we believed their alarmist, catastrophic predictions, would their proposals work? Not according to the climate scientists’ own models. Based on those models, even if the United States cut its carbon dioxide emissions to zero, it would only avert global warming by a few tenths of a degree Celsius—in 80 years. We would see no noticeable difference in the climate, yet it would come at an enormous cost to the American people. Climate change is happening, and human activity undoubtedly plays a role, but big-government climate policies are all economic pain, no environmental gain. 50 years of failed doomsday, eco-pocalyptic predictions; the so-called ‘experts’ are 0-50.https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/50-years-of-failed-doomsday-eco-pocalyptic-predictions-the-so-called-experts-are-0-50/Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti admitted recently that the true motivation behind introducing the Green New Deal is to overhaul the “entire economy.” “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal, is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all,” Chakrabarti said to Inslee’s climate director, Sam Ricketts. “Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?” Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing,” he added.“We must free ourselves from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy … We must state clearly that we use climate policy de facto to redistribute the world’s wealth.” - Also from the top: “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. The real enemy then is humanity itself.”  — “The First Global Revolution” (1991) — Published by the Club of Rome  

In this episode: the Congressional far-left reshuffles its staff, Wikipedia is called out for whitewashing the history of the Communist Party USA, and more union officials face the music for scandals in the national United Auto Workers and the Chicago Teamsters Union. Subscribe to the podcast on your platform of choice at: https://influencewatch.fireside.fm/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capital.research.center/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/CRCYouTube

Ocasio Cortez Ex-Chief Of Staff Faces Federal Investigation After Abrupt Resignation. Saikat Chakrabarti is reportedly facing a federal probe having to do with the unorthodox way he conducted his campaigning businesses. Complaints had been filed over the way his private entities were handling cash, operating as LLC's instead of PAC's.Some worry that this method was used to conceal campaign contributions that exceeded the federal maximum allowed and served to obfuscate what otherwise should be publicly available campaign information. Though proponents of AOC and her staff feel it was just a way to campaign on behalf of many new progressive candidates at once.Saikat, Ocasio Cortez, and others were part of Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress. Organizations designed to elect new progressive and far left Democrats as a direct challenge to establishment Democrats.Recently Saikat Chakrabarti resigned amid controversy over his tweets and infighting between AOC, her staff, and House Democrats. The Democratic Party has tried to reel in the far left congresswomen while Trump are exploited the tensions for political gain. Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate)

Last time we talked about The Squad's spat with Nancy Pelosi (this includes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley), but this week The Squad is being targeted by someone else: Donald Trump. He tweeted that they should go back to their home countries if they dislike America (all four are American citizens and three were born here). We'll dig into Trump's morally reprehensible comments, talk about Lindsey Graham's unhinged attack on them, and we'll also revisit the Pelosi-Squad dispute and talk about how House Democrats want AOC's Chief of Staff, Saikat Chakrabarti fired for criticizing them. We'll also talk about Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign, interview 2020 congressional candidate Anthony Clark, and also Mike's Prager YOU ad makes its debut.

It's gotten heated this last week between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the squad, on the one hand, and Nancy Pelosi, centrist Democrats, and the House Democratic Party leadership on the other. But this conflict isn't empty intra-party bickering. It's an actual political and moral battle, with one side, AOC's, on the right side of history and one, Pelosi's, not. Miles Kampf-Lassin wrote about the battle and what it means, in an article called "They're Not Just Mad at AOC — They're Scared of Her." https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-nancy-pelosi-democratic-party We also mentioned a recent Washington Post profile of AOC's chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, that's worth a read: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/07/10/feature/how-saikat-chakrabarti-became-aocs-chief-of-change/

The gang is back. They talk about: 1. The Last Czars on Netflix 2. The Democratic Establishment's new war against the AOC quartet and Saikat Chakrabarti in particular 3. The last half of the episode is an interview with Ryan Grim about his new book "We've Got People" available here: https://strongarmpress.com/catalog/weve-got-people/

On this episode of The Critical Hour, Dr. Wilmer Leon is joined by John Burris, lead attorney and founder of the Law Office of John L. Burris. He is primarily known for his work in the area of civil rights, with an emphasis on police misconduct and excessive force cases. The Department of Justice will not charge police in connection with Eric Garner's death. The decision came five years after Garner's dying words — “I can't breathe” — became a rallying cry. New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo will not face federal charges relating to the choking death of Garner, ending a years-long inquiry into a case that sharply divided officials and prompted national protests over the use of excessive force by the police. The United States attorney in Brooklyn, Richard P. Donoghue, announced the decision not to bring criminal civil rights charges on Tuesday morning, one day before the fifth anniversary of Garner's death. That is the deadline by which the department would have to file charges against Pantaleo. What are we to make of this?CNN reported Monday that it had exclusively obtained new documents which "reveal that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange received in-person deliveries, potentially of hacked materials related to the 2016 US election, during a series of suspicious meetings at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. The documents build on the possibility, raised by special counsel Robert Mueller in his report on Russian meddling, that couriers brought hacked files to Assange at the embassy. The surveillance reports also describe how Assange turned the embassy into a command center and orchestrated a series of damaging disclosures that rocked the 2016 presidential campaign in the United States." Are the actions of Assange as described in this report as nefarious as CNN makes them out to be, or are there other possibilities for his behavior?Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-NY) chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti has tweeted messages suggesting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is an ineffective legislator, that a Native American lawmaker voted “to enable a racist system” and that moderate Democrats are modern-day segregationists because they backed a Senate border aid bill. How is this adding to the pressure on Ocasio-Cortez, who has taken Congress by storm?US President Donald Trump said early Tuesday his administration would investigate accusations that Alphabet Inc's Google worked with the Chinese government. The president repeated accusations made previously by Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and venture capitalist, that Google worked with the Chinese government. Also in the world of social media giants, US Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) said Facebook is “delusional” to believe people will trust it with their money, as lawmakers from both sides of the aisle grilled the social media company on its plans for a digital currency at a hearing on Tuesday. What does all this mean?The recent MintPress News article, "The CIA is Invoking Wikileaks to Push for the Expansion of a Cold War Era Secrecy Law," states, "More than three decades later, the CIA is apparently unsatisfied with the protections the bill [the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (IIPA) in 1981] granted 'covert agents.' It has enlisted a select group of senators and representatives to help expand the universe of individuals who are protected, making members of the press who cover intelligence matters more vulnerable to prosecution." What's really going on behind the scenes?GUESTS:John Burris — Lead attorney and founder of the Law Office of John L. Burris. He is primarily known for his work in the area of civil rights, with an emphasis on police misconduct and excessive force cases. Catherine Shakdam — Political commentator and analyst focusing on the Middle East, and the author of "A Tale Of Grand Resistance: Yemen, The Wahhabi And The House Of Saud." Eugene Craig III — Republican strategist, former vice-chair of the Maryland Republican Party and grassroots activist.Linwood Tauheed — Associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Chris Garaffa — Web developer and technologist.John Kiriakou — Co-host of Loud and Clear on Radio Sputnik.

Democrats Try To "Out Woke" The Far Left, They're Spiraling Out Of Control. Recently Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez implied that Nancy Pelosi was targeting her based on her race. This is part of an ongoing war between far left, social justice Democrats and the more mainstream moderate Democrats. Seemingly in response to AOC's claim the House Democrats official twitter account made the same accusation against Saikat CHakrabarti, AOC's chief of staff.The outrage from everyone was immediate. Left and right quickly condemned the Democrats over their absurd "woke" tweet.But this is just another sigm that the Democrats and actually the entirety of the American left is in disarray. Even Donald Trump came to the defense of Nancy Pelosi which just makes everything even stranger.Today moderate leftists and disaffected liberals are under attack and the left has gone completely off the rails. When republicans and Trump come to the defense of Nancy Pelosi, something is wrong.Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate)

According to LifeSiteNews, the American Psychological Association has now formulated a task force to study polyamory in hopes of removing the "stigma" associated with it, and have even given the lifestyle its own politically correct term – "consensual non-monogamy." Saikat Chakrabarti, admitted in a recent Washington Post interview that the Green New Deal was not created to protect the environment, but to implement socialism. And now Identity politics are being used by Democrats against... Democrats! Someone get the popcorn started, this is going to get interesting. Five Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gunboats tried to seize a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf Wednesday but backed off after a British warship approached. The question becomes, “Is Iran trying to provoke a war with its attacks on America and Britain?” Dan Perkins will join me to discuss the issue. Don't forget about the Edwards Notebook and the Veteran's Tip of the Day! All of this and more as time allows. Listen live, join the chatroom, be a part of the show.

According to LifeSiteNews, the American Psychological Association has now formulated a task force to study polyamory in hopes of removing the "stigma" associated with it, and have even given the lifestyle its own politically correct term – "consensual non-monogamy." Saikat Chakrabarti, admitted in a recent Washington Post interview that the Green New Deal was not created to protect the environment, but to implement socialism. And now Identity politics are being used by Democrats against... Democrats! Someone get the popcorn started, this is going to get interesting. Five Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gunboats tried to seize a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf Wednesday but backed off after a British warship approached. The question becomes, “Is Iran trying to provoke a war with its attacks on America and Britain?” Dan Perkins will join me to discuss the issue. Don't forget about the Edwards Notebook and the Veteran's Tip of the Day! All of this and more as time allows. Listen live, join the chatroom, be a part of the show.

Trump decides to use Executive Order to get an accurate count of citizens and stops trying to add question to census. It's ok to ask any number of questions on census, except citizenship? The Court case and the "rationale" for the decision. AOC accuses Pelosi of targeting freshmen congresswomen of color. AOC's chief-of-staff & Justice Democrat ringleader Saikat Chakrabarti admitted the real reason behind promoting the Green New Deal - and it isn't about "saving the planet" or "climate change." All Americans need to know this because the media will absolutely give them a free pass on this admission. Dow closes above 27,000 for first time ever. Radical Left still crediting Obama - who, according to the Radical Left, was responsible for literally nothing during his 8 years. Or they criticize this economy as not working for everyone. They do know that most Americans hold their retirements in the stock market through mutual funds, 401(k)'s and IRA's, right? Miley Cyrus not having a baby until she knows her kid can "live on an earth with fish." This is the crazy, radical, enraged Left. Some exciting changes coming for the show very soon now!

Friday, July 12,2019: Special guest, JEFF DAUBE, Director of the #ZOA in #Jerusalem, #Israel on President Trump's economic conference for Muslim Arabs (Palestinians) a conference they refused to attend, but for a few Palestinian businessmen who paid a high price for doing so ... they were promptly arrested upon their return by the Palestinian Authority or PLO. The conference included a $50 billion economic investment plan - learn more. IS PEACE POSSIBLE?! Director Daube also speaks to the increase in Jew-hatred and the S.2940 Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2018. Contact your Senators and House members - let's get it passed in 2019! And hear about Trump Heights, a new community set to be built in Israel's Golan Heights to honor the #President. Plus, does AOC and her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, support national socialism and communism? Find out why some think so....

Trump decides to use Executive Order to get an accurate count of citizens and stops trying to add question to census. It's ok to ask any number of questions on census, except citizenship? The Court case and the "rationale" for the decision. AOC accuses Pelosi of targeting freshmen congresswomen of color. AOC's chief-of-staff & Justice Democrat ringleader Saikat Chakrabarti admitted the real reason behind promoting the Green New Deal - and it isn't about "saving the planet" or "climate change." All Americans need to know this because the media will absolutely give them a free pass on this admission. Dow closes above 27,000 for first time ever. Radical Left still crediting Obama - who, according to the Radical Left, was responsible for literally nothing during his 8 years. Or they criticize this economy as not working for everyone. They do know that most Americans hold their retirements in the stock market through mutual funds, 401(k)'s and IRA's, right? Miley Cyrus not having a baby until she knows her kid can "live on an earth with fish." This is the crazy, radical, enraged Left. Some exciting changes coming for the show very soon now!

Trump decides to use Executive Order to get an accurate count of citizens and stops trying to add question to census. It's ok to ask any number of questions on census, except citizenship? The Court case and the "rationale" for the decision. AOC accuses Pelosi of targeting freshmen congresswomen of color. AOC's chief-of-staff & Justice Democrat ringleader Saikat Chakrabarti admitted the real reason behind promoting the Green New Deal - and it isn't about "saving the planet" or "climate change." All Americans need to know this because the media will absolutely give them a free pass on this admission. Dow closes above 27,000 for first time ever. Radical Left still crediting Obama - who, according to the Radical Left, was responsible for literally nothing during his 8 years. Or they criticize this economy as not working for everyone. They do know that most Americans hold their retirements in the stock market through mutual funds, 401(k)'s and IRA's, right? Miley Cyrus not having a baby until she knows her kid can "live on an earth with fish." This is the crazy, radical, enraged Left. Some exciting changes coming for the show very soon now!

Today's Topics: 1) Who is really serving you in Congress? AOC or Saikat Chakrabarti? 2) Linda Sarsour is the "boss" of Nancy Pelosi? 3) This actually happened to a Christian Pastor in the Mall of American but MSM is telling you about it and more...Join us for the LIVE show every Tuesday at 10amPT/1pmET where you will be able to ask questions and weigh in on topics of discussion with your co-hosts Susan Knowles and Bill Cloud.All you need to do is follow the link to the GOD'S VIEWS ON POLITICAL NEWS page on Facebook.You can also get to the Facebook page by clicking on the show Logo.Each week we'll take your questions LIVE during our discussion and hopefully bring you some clarity on what is happening from a Biblical perspective as well.It will be a fascinating hour delving into God's Word and understanding that most of what we are witnessing in news and politics today has more to do with a spiritual battle than anything else.ABOUT THE CO-HOSTS:BILL CLOUD:Bill Cloud was raised in a traditional Christian home in South Georgia. After being born again, Bill immediately developed a hunger for the Word of God and in particular the Hebraic perspective of the Bible.Bill began studying Hebrew under the tutelage of a local rabbi and has spent many hours studying, not only the Hebrew text, but the Hebraic roots of Christianity as well. This research has been rewarded with a keen insight into Biblical Judaism and its relationship to Christianity.For five years, Bill and his wife Beth served as Youth Pastors in Central Florida. For over three years, Bill served as chief researcher, writer and Publications Director for Perry Stone and Voice of Evangelism Ministries.In May 2000, Bill and his wife, Beth, founded Shoreshim (Hebrew word for “roots”) Ministries.Bill is a featured speaker in venues throughout the country and has appeared with notable teachers such as Jonathan Cahn, Perry Stone, Mark Biltz, Hal Lindsay, John Hagee and Chuck Missler. He has also made several appearances on a variety of television broadcasts seen on TBN, Daystar, and Inspiration. Bill and his family reside in Cleveland, Tennessee.SUSAN KNOWLES:Susan Knowles is a licensed psychotherapist, former practicing Family Law attorney, online conservative radio talk show personality and producer at Stand For Truth Radio.Susan is also the author of a popular children's book, "My Ears Are Not Like Yours" available on Amazon.She has appeared as a guest on The Glenn Beck Show, The Pat & Stu Show, The Doc Thompson Show and The Rick Amato Show on One America News Network.Susan has also been a frequent guest on The Morning Blaze with Doc Thompson. In addition, she has made guest appearances on AM 760 KFMB, 600 KOGO News Radio San Diego, 106.7 WYAY FM in Atlanta, News Radio 610 WIOD in Miami, Fla. and Overnight America with Jon Grayson. Her shows are also featured on MOJO50.Additionally, Susan is a former Contributor to TheBlaze.

Today's Topics: 1) Who is really serving you in Congress? AOC or Saikat Chakrabarti? 2) Linda Sarsour is the "boss" of Nancy Pelosi? 3) This actually happened to a Christian Pastor in the Mall of American but MSM is telling you about it and more...Join us for the LIVE show every Tuesday at 10amPT/1pmET where you will be able to ask questions and weigh in on topics of discussion with your co-hosts Susan Knowles and Bill Cloud.All you need to do is follow the link to the GOD'S VIEWS ON POLITICAL NEWS page on Facebook.You can also get to the Facebook page by clicking on the show Logo.Each week we'll take your questions LIVE during our discussion and hopefully bring you some clarity on what is happening from a Biblical perspective as well.It will be a fascinating hour delving into God's Word and understanding that most of what we are witnessing in news and politics today has more to do with a spiritual battle than anything else.ABOUT THE CO-HOSTS:BILL CLOUD:Bill Cloud was raised in a traditional Christian home in South Georgia. After being born again, Bill immediately developed a hunger for the Word of God and in particular the Hebraic perspective of the Bible.Bill began studying Hebrew under the tutelage of a local rabbi and has spent many hours studying, not only the Hebrew text, but the Hebraic roots of Christianity as well. This research has been rewarded with a keen insight into Biblical Judaism and its relationship to Christianity.For five years, Bill and his wife Beth served as Youth Pastors in Central Florida. For over three years, Bill served as chief researcher, writer and Publications Director for Perry Stone and Voice of Evangelism Ministries.In May 2000, Bill and his wife, Beth, founded Shoreshim (Hebrew word for “roots”) Ministries.Bill is a featured speaker in venues throughout the country and has appeared with notable teachers such as Jonathan Cahn, Perry Stone, Mark Biltz, Hal Lindsay, John Hagee and Chuck Missler. He has also made several appearances on a variety of television broadcasts seen on TBN, Daystar, and Inspiration. Bill and his family reside in Cleveland, Tennessee.SUSAN KNOWLES:Susan Knowles is a licensed psychotherapist, former practicing Family Law attorney, online conservative radio talk show personality and producer at Stand For Truth Radio.Susan is also the author of a popular children's book, "My Ears Are Not Like Yours" available on Amazon.She has appeared as a guest on The Glenn Beck Show, The Pat & Stu Show, The Doc Thompson Show and The Rick Amato Show on One America News Network.Susan has also been a frequent guest on The Morning Blaze with Doc Thompson. In addition, she has made guest appearances on AM 760 KFMB, 600 KOGO News Radio San Diego, 106.7 WYAY FM in Atlanta, News Radio 610 WIOD in Miami, Fla. and Overnight America with Jon Grayson. Her shows are also featured on MOJO50.Additionally, Susan is a former Contributor to TheBlaze.

Kevin dicusses President Donald Trump's speech at CPAC over the weekend and Rep. Jerry Nadler attacking Trump on allegations of obstruction of justice with Matt Gorman, Vice President at Targeted Victory & Former NRCC Communications Director, Jennifer Holdsworth, Senior Democratic Strategist, and Saikat Chakrabarti, Chief of Staff for Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Kevin dicusses President Donald Trump's speech at CPAC over the weekend and Rep. Jerry Nadler attacking Trump on allegations of obstruction of justice with Matt Gorman, Vice President at Targeted Victory & Former NRCC Communications Director, Jennifer Holdsworth, Senior Democratic Strategist, and Saikat Chakrabarti, Chief of Staff for Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

We present the audio recording of the first-ever Current Affairs: Live! Join the entire Current Affairs team — and guests Ian Madrigal, Saikat Chakrabarti and Lee Carter — as they delight, confuse, and singalong with the Washington, DC crowd last week. Many thanks to the wonderful band, Crush Funk Brass, and band leader, Santo Buzzanca. Follow CFB on twitter and instagram. Vanessa's J20 article is here. Our Chomsky Drop video is here. The art Brianna and Lyta were referring to is here. Learn more about Solidarity Forever here. Support Current Affairs by becoming a patron at our patreon page.

Saikat Chakrabarti, Julia Salazar, Lee Carter, Bhaskar Sunkara The 2016 breakthrough of Bernie Sanders – and the more recent success of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – has put the American left in its strongest position for decades. Join a panel of American socialists to discuss the potential of this growing movement, what demands it should be making, and the obstacles it faces in making socialism mainstream in America.

Gabe spoke with Saikat Chakrabarti, communications director for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ( @Ocasio2018 ), who is running a primary challenge against @repjoecrowley to represent NY-14 in Congress. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/, follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod, support us at https://www.patreon.com/NobodyKnewPod and email us at nobodyknewpod@gmail.com.

Justice Democrats' Executive Director, Saikat Chakrabarti, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss Justice Dems' model of changing the Democratic party from the inside out by recruiting unapologetically progressive US House candidates who have pledged to refuse donations from corporate PACs and corporate lobbyists. | Episode 114