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 What's behind the Minerals deal with Ukraine? Why it's mostly smoke & mirrors, not a contract or final deal. Why both parties compromised & left the deal vague. Who benefits from the deal? How it's related to Europe's $260B frozen Russian assets. Why it's PR. Second part of show continues discussion of the intensifying contradictions behind continuing the US global empire. Why the empire as now structured is no longer affordable and US imperialists are intent on restructuring it (once again as in 1913-19, 1944-50 and 1979-86). US deficits & debt levels unsustainable and DOGE spending cuts for tax cuts as desperate effort to regrow faltering US economy and restore empire's finances. Domestic US economic restructuring as next phase of Neoliberal policy or as beginning of the end of Neoliberal policies. (For further details on Trump-Zelensky minerals deal, check out my latest published article at http://jackrasmus.com or at LA Progressive, World Financial Review, Znet.)

This week Howie is joined by Nidal Bitari, a Palestinian refugee raised in Syria, for a discussion of the escalating crises in the Middle East. Articles Shared During Stream: Nidal Bitari, "Hatched at My Grandfather's Home. They Later Destroyed it,” New Lines Magazine, March 16, 2021, https://newlinesmag.com/essays/the-assad-dynasty-was-hatched-at-my-grandfathers-home-they-later-destroyed-it/ Joseph Daher, "Nothing Israel does will serve Syrians' struggle for freedom,” The New Arab, October 18, 2024, https://www.newarab.com/opinion/why-criticism-hezbollah-should-not-mean-support-israel Patrick Bond, "‘The Blessing' for Genocide: Nearly All BRICS+ Regimes Nurture Israel, Economically," Znet, October 1, 2024, https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-blessing-for-genocide-nearly-all-brics-regimes-nurture-israel-economically/ Streamed on 10/19/24 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/-ps2Mp01Y8g Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins.  Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign.  Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities. Green Socialist Notes Podcast Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch. Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets. Music by Gumbo le Funque Intro: She Taught Us Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom

Ep 300 of RevolutiopnZ is the fifteenth in the Next American Revolution Sequence. This time Bert Dellinger, Emiliano Feynman, Leslie Zinn, Barbara Bethune, Robin Kunstler, Anton Rocker, and Harriett Lennon  discuss social media, mass and alternative media, health, clinics, and hospitals, courts and police, education, workplace makeovers, and allocation innovations as instances of planting seeds for the RPS future in the present. I again interject comments every so often. Have you ever heard anyone ask, "yes, things are horrible, but what can we do about it?" Here is what RPS organizers did in their time to win gains and prepare to win still more gains on the road to attaining a participatory society. Can their future programmatic choices provide insights into our current possibilities? Can their future successes usefully inspire our potential current choices? Miguel Guevara, the interviewer, thinks so. I hope so. Give a listen and perhaps check out the text on ZNet too, to decide for yourself.Support the Show.

EP 296 of RevolutionZ and episode twelve of the Oral History of the Next American Revolution sequence reports on RPS's Second Convention's ups and downs and  the origin and implementation of a shadow government. Interviewees report how the national convention and subsequent shadow government were planned, assembled, and carried out. The interviewees take you fromorganizing's ethical dilemmas to the psychological and social impacts of activist choices, to the dynamics of new institution startup efforts within a corrupt, oppressive, society. Listen (and/or you can read on ZNet as well if you like) and then you can judge for yourself: Do Miguel's questions, Patti's, Malcom's, Lydia's, Bill's, and Barbara's answers, and even my interjections provide insights and inspiration applicable in our time, in our world? That is certainly their and my aim.Support the Show.

Episode 284 of RevolutionZ  presents chapter two (of fourteen) of An Oral History of the Next American Revolution. It relates personal precursors of revolutionary participatory society through the life experiences of  interviewees Alexandra Voline, Andre Goldman, and Senator Malcolm King who  discuss with their interviewer,  Miguel Guevara, all from their own world their personal trajectories into activism including the first major march, the early gun and militarism boycotts, overcoming early resistance and doubt,  achieving early momentum, and much much more on the road to forming and working toward Revolutionary Participatory Society in the U.S. And yes, that is a whole lot which is why this episode is by far the longest so far at four minutes under two hours.  (See the long list of topics below -- to get them, I skimmed the earlier article on ZNet, excerpt two of the serialization and grabbed here and there. It could have gone on and on...lives are big things and so is revolution....)Support the Show.

Ep 279 of RevolutionZ, Students Teach, We Learn, hopes to answer some questions that I felt folks might have. I try to address, spontaneously, as one might in a discussion: Why are campuses rebelling? Why now, why so many, why so fast? What are the students seeking? What reactions are rebels encountering   from other students / from administrators / from cops? Summer is near, most importantly, what's next? Is this 1968 again, how similar is it, how different? Will it be smarter? Will it change colleges, education, and society too? Will it transform campus power relations? Plus a recent article from ZNet that addresses all that and more. in carefully prepared text.Support the Show.

Episode 273 of RevolutionZ addresses Class (The PMC or as I call it, the Coordinator Class) and left organizing in the Degrowth movement. The episode is built around an essay by Emma River-Roberts, a Degrowth activist, working class organizer, and founder of The Working Class Climate Alliance, which is an affiliate of the Post Growth Institute.  The article is on ZNet and I offer it here and also some comments on it because I believe the article has bearing not only on Degrowth organizing, but really on all organizing for a better world. Support the show

MEET THE AUTHOR Podcast: LIVE - Episode 142 - PETER F. CROWLEYOriginally Aired Wednesday February 7,2024 Featuring Author/Poet PETER F. CROWLEYABOUT PETER: As a prolific author from the Boston area, Peter F. Crowley writes in various forms, including short fiction, op-eds, poetry and academic essays. In 2020, his poetry book Those Who Hold Up the Earth was published by Kelsay Books and received impressive reviews by Kirkus Review, the New Age and two local Boston-area newspapers. His writing can be found in Middle East Monitor, Znet, 34th Parallel, Pif Magazine, Galway Review, Digging the Fat, Adelaide's Short Story and Poetry Award anthologies (finalist in both) and The Opiate. His books That Night and Other Stories (CAAB Publishing) and Empire's End (Alien Buddha Press) were released during the week of Friday the 13th in October 2023.Watch or listen to all episodes here: www.IndieBookSource.com

Episode 233 of RevolutionZ with Greg Wilpert as guest, discusses the mechanics of fund raising on the left, including appeals, methods, and purposes. Support the show

Bonjour, je m'appelle Anne Mignard et je vous invite à travers les podcasts de ZNet. fr à découvrir le monde de la transformation numérique chez les petites et très petites entreprises. Aujourd'hui je vous amène dans un endroit un peu magique. Dans le bordelais, sur la commune de Saint Emilion. Tout près d'une petite rivière, se trouve le château moulin de Lagnet. Alors évidemment quand on dit château, on imagine Versailles, Chenonceau...non non vous n'y êtes pas. Un château dans cette région, c'est un domaine viticole...je me rend donc chez Anne Lise qui avec son fils et sa belle fille, produisent un nectar des plus savoureux... Alors pourquoi vous amener dans ce petit coin de Paradis ? Et bien tout simplement parce entre le moment où Anne Lise s'est lancé dans la production de vin et aujourd'hui, les nouvelles technologies ont bien changé les usages.  Exemple tout bête d'abord, vous le savez chaque fin d'été et début d'automne dans cette région on cueille le raisin. Et bien le téléphone portable a fait gagné du temps et surtout de l'énergie à toute l'équipe des vendanges. Pourquoi ? Et bien quand vous êtes dans le chais, là ou un stocke le vin, et quand une cuve est pleine, il faut prévenir ceux qui sont dans les vignes. Sinon, ils continuent de cueillir et d'amener du raison alors que la cive pour l'accueillir n'est pas prête.  Autre utilité et pas des moindres, la météo, grâce à internet aujourd'hui Anne Lise et son équipe peut consulter quotidiennement la météo, et même en croiser plusieurs...et du coup si de la pluie est annoncée, pas la peine, de traiter la vigne...car l'eau va tout emporter. Le domaine a beau avoir été un pionnier en vin bio, il n'en reste pas moins que les traitements naturels sont indispensables et peuvent eux aussi couter cher. Alors autant les économiser !  L'informatique permet aussi au château de connaitre ses stocks.  A chaque facture éditée, les bouteilles vendues sont déduites. Et désormais, l'inventaire ne se fait qu'une fois par an.  Après évidemment, via internet, il y a toute la partie commerciale. Grâce au site et aux échanges de mail, l'exploitation s'est développée....Et puis internet sert aussi à Olivier, le fils d'Anne Mise, lorsqu'il doit réparer une machine agricole.  En quelques clics, il trouve directement la pièce qui lui faut et dont il a besoin très rapidement parfois. La vigne est toujours soumise aux caprices du temps.  Et puis il y a aussi toutes les déclarations administratives obligatoires comme les douanes, aujourd'hui tout se fait par internet, explique la viticultrice, ce qu'elle déplore en partie. Certes on gagne en rapidité et en clarté parfois mais comprenez qu'à coté de chez moi, il y a un vieil exploitant qui a plus de 90 ans...allez lui dire à lui de déclarer le peu de vin qui produit par internet...peste elle. Heureusement c'est elle qui s'en charge.  Enfin, Anne Lise l'avoue, oui internet c'est commode pour bien des choses mais tellement chronophage. Quand on s'est lancé en 1984, je passais une journée par semaine assise derrière mon bureau, aujourd'hui c'est tous les jours que j'y suis....et moi dit elle je préfère largement être dans mes vignes.  

Bonjour, je m'appelle Anne Mignard et je vous invite à travers les podcasts de ZNet. fr à découvrir le monde de la transformation numérique chez les petites et très petites entreprises.   Aujourd'hui je vous parle d'un passionné de guitare qui depuis ses 18 ans, fabrique ses instruments en amateur et qui grâce aux outils numériques a pu faire de sa passion un métier celui de luthier. Après ses études, en 2007, Clément Guéton, avec un diplôme de designer industriel s'est lancé dans la vie active. Il a rapidement été embauché par une société spécialisée dans la fabrication de poêle à bois et cheminée. Armé d'une souris ou d'un crayon à papier, il a alors dessiné toute la journée des ces deux éléments  de chauffage au gré des désirs des clients dans la limite des contraintes techniques.  En même temps, Clément consacrait alors tout son temps libre à son instrument fétiche, la guitare. Il en jouait bien sûr mais en fabriquait aussi grâce au savoir-faire acquis durant ses études.   Les années ont passé et l'entreprise a décliné. Tant et si bien que Clément, en 2014 s'est vu remercié avec des indemnités. L'occasion pour le luthier amateur de se lancer. Sans boutique et pour se faire connaître, il a tout simplement choisi de vendre ses guitares sur un site internet, sur lequel il a tout misé. Il s'est d'ailleurs formé à cet effet, pour être le mieux référencé possible.  Le nom du site : ligerie-guitare.fr.  Sur ce site, tout y est, le catalogue, les photos des prototypes, les prix...mais aussi un configurateur qui permet aux clients de choisir les caractéristiques de leur guitare avant de passer commande.... une quantité d'options est disponible dans la fabrication du futur instrument. Le site comporte aussi toute la partie réparation, avec à chaque fois, une illustration et le tarif pour changer une corde de guitare ou un micro. Et face à ce vaste choix d'options, le client n'est il pas perdu ? Il peut toujours envoyer des mails pour des questions ou tout simplement appeler de vive voix Clément. Et ça marche, puisque le site est aujourd'hui le second recommandé par Google pour tout ce qui est "guitare made in France" ou encore " guitare sur mesure".   Mais Clément n'est pas qu'un exécutant des désirs des clients, comme il l'était pour les poêles à bois, il dessine et crée lui-même les instruments. Avec un papier et une feuille mais aussi une quantité d'instruments informatiques qui laisse libre choix à son imagination en terme de couleur, de graphisme ou encore de matière. Ce qu'apprécient nombre de musiciens, certains plus ou moins connus dans le milieu du rock métal...qui font fonctionner le bouche à oreille. Clément a aussi créé de petites vidéos de démonstration de ses instruments sur sa chaîne Youtube. Là aussi, toute la communication est maîtrisée...les images et le son sont de bonne qualité et les vidéos dédiées aux guitares très informatives et bien illustrées.   Du coup, nul besoin de boutiques physiques. De toute façon, les deux tiers des clients de Clément n'habitent pas sa région .  De nombreuses commandes se font uniquement par mail, messagerie instantanée et téléphone, ensuite la guitare terminée, elle est envoyée via transporteur. Dans l'ensemble Clément est plutôt fier et satisfait de s'être lancé dans l'aventure mais n'a qu'un seul regret...il n'a plus le temps de jouer de son propre instrument. 

Bonjour, je m'appelle Anne Mignard et je vous invite à travers les podcasts de ZNet. fr à découvrir le monde de la transformation numérique chez les petites et très petites entreprises.    Aujourd'hui nous nous rendons à Paris, rue Saint Ambroise dans le 9ieme arrondissement,  retrouver Boubaker Salouba, patron avec sa femme Adeline de la boulangerie pâtisserie baptisée Atelier Guinot Baker.   Tous deux n'ont pas trente ans et se sont lancés dans l'aventure du commerce de proximité, en août 2019, avec un objectif: faire du bon pain et de bon gâteaux avec les méthodes d'aujourd'hui.  Dès la reprise du fond de commerce, ils ont installé la fibre et retapé tout le magasin pour le mettre au goût du jour...Lumière, chaleur, machines, propreté et bonnes odeurs.... Mais la modernité est aussi passée par des outils informatiques. Une caisse notamment dernier cri qui leur rend bien des services.  Imaginez, à chaque transaction, elle enregistre le produit acheté, l'heure, la date et bien sûr le prix. Des données très utiles pour Boubaker qui lui permettent d'anticiper les ventes et d'éviter les pertes.  Le grand souci des boulangers pâtissiers, car un gâteau ou un pain peut être délicieux aujourd'hui mais très moyen 24 heures après.  Et puis avec le prix des céréales qui explose aujourd'hui explique Boubakermieux vaut savoir les quantités à commander si on ne veut pas plomber les finances.  Les finances justement parlons-en. Le comptable qui suit le jeune couple, peut grâce notamment à ces données de caisse connaître la situation de ses clients. Des données stockées sur un cloud automatiquement.  Un gain de temps pour tout le monde.  Un comptable lui aussi bien équipé question technologie, puisqu'il s'entretient régulièrement avec ses clients en visioconférence.  Même chose pour Boubaker lorsqu'il doit s'entretenir avec son banquier ou bien ses fournisseurs. Il a juste à monter à l'étage de la boutique et allumer son ordinateur.  Une chance quand on connaît les problèmes de circulation à Paris.  Mais pour un boulanger-patissier, faire du bon pain et de bons gâteaux ne suffit pas aujourd'hui...encore faut-il que ça se sache.  Pour cela les deux amoureux se sont lancé juste fin 2020 sur les réseaux sociaux. Via Instagram et Facebook, ils postent régulièrement leur création et recueillent des commentaires. Parfois désagréables mais le plus souvent délicieux.  Ils commencent même à se faire un nom puisque des commandes leur sont venues récemment de l'étranger. Du Canada, du Maroc, d'Angleterre et du Portugal. Des clients ont acheté des pâtisseries qu'ils se sont fait livré....par les airs, on l'imagine. Reste un terrain à conquérir pour Boubaker, les plates-formes de livraison de repas. Il étudie le marché et devrait bientôt se lancer.  Enfin si son affaire continue de fonctionner...le magasin compte aujourd'hui dix salariés,.... Boubaker pourrait même investir dans de nouvelles machines connectées...Alors certes il faudra toujours qu'il se lève à 3h du matin pour aller aux fourneaux mais il aura plus de temps pour faire autre chose et rentrer du coup plus tôt chez lui pour s'occuper notamment de ses enfants.    Voilà c'était l'histoire du jour des tpe/pme dans le monde du numérique. Des récits signés zdnet.fr à retrouver sur toutes vos plateformes préférées.  

Bonjour, je m'appelle Anne Mignard et je vous invite à travers les podcasts de ZNet. fr à découvrir le monde de la transformation numérique dans les petites et très petites entreprises. Direction Toulouse, aujourd'hui et le salon de coiffure By Karen, qui comme son nom l'indique est tenu par Karen, une jeune femme d'une trentaine d'année. La coiffure et la coloration des cheveux sont depuis toujours sa passion. Du coup , l'année de ses 15 ans, elle a fait ses premiers pas dans un salon avec dans les mains, brosses, peigne mais aussi ciseaux.  A l'époque, pas question de jeter un œil sur un écran, les rendez-vous des clients se prenaient par téléphone, on payait en liquide ou par chèque et la comptabilité était envoyée par courrier postal. Une époque révolue pour cette trentenaire dont le métier à totalement changé. Plus question aujourd'hui de se faire connaître uniquement par son pas de porte. Même si le salon est situé dans un quartier huppé de la ville rose, Karen a largement investi les réseaux sociaux. En 2010, tout d'abord, elle a débarqué sur Facebook et commencé ses premiers clichés pour attirer clientes et clients. Sept ans plus tard, elle a investi Instagram, et là ce ne sont plus les coupes seulement qui ont été mises en avant mais les couleurs exécutées, les avant-après soins de cheveux et tout un ensemble de nouveautés qui font qu'aujourd'hui que le salon attire de la clientèle dans tout le département. Ce qui marche c'est le lissage avoue telle ! Et d'ailleurs cette technique qu'elle met en avant sur son site internet ouvert depuis 5 ans. Elle y poste les modèles et les références....et ça marche. Selon ses statistiques, elle reçoit en moyenne, tous les jours, trois appels en lien avec cette prestation. Des appels qui donnent lieu à trois rendez-vous hebdomadaire Des rendez-vous rentables qui durent plusieurs heures. Mais attention pas question de laisser les clientes prendre seule leur rendez vous en ligne trop risqué. Imaginez qu'elle décommande ou même pire qu'elle ne viennent pas ce sont alors des heures de travail qui partent en fumée. Non Karen préfère encore le bon vieux téléphone et se débrouille toujours pour répondre malgré le moteur des sèche-cheveux. Ca permet aussi d'être plus souple sur les horaires s'il le faut et si elle peut. Et puis c'est un premier contact qui compte avec la cliente affirme telle. Pour ce qui est des formations, Karen tout comme son employée Orlane, en sont friandes. Mais encore faut-il avoir le temps, les finances et l'envie de se rendre régulièrement à Paris. Mais cette année, le salon a fait appel à une nouvelle gamme de produit. Et bonheur pour les coiffeuses, tous les deux mois une séance est organisée en visio-conference pour présenter les nouvelles gammes, montrer des techniques et répondre aux questions. Au début, Karen étais un peu méfiante, mais Orlane l'a convaincu. Normal, l'ancienne apprentie salariée a suivi toute sa formation en école de coiffure via des visio et des tuto. C'est l'avenir, il paraît. Encore faut-il avoir une maître d'apprentissage comme Karen avoue la jeune employée.

C.J. Hopkins gives us an update on COVID1984 from New Normal Germany and a recap of GloboCap as he understands it after 2+ years of medical tyranny. What GloboCap is doing now is "clearing and holding" or identifying all  sources of global insurgency and resistance to its global occupation and wiping them out in order to implement its new program. Regarding the debate on Putin and the WEF, he says it's not a Marvel comic book and that we're dealing with a much more complicated constellation of power dynamics, even though Russia and China are integrated with global capitalism. We discuss Covid fatigue and the increasing global persecution against "COVID deniers", "Russian agents", and dissidents. Even though the Covidian Cult is dissolving, the New Normal has been cemented into society and it isn't going away, reality is being revised. He believes the digital pass systems will be imposed on us. He stresses the importance of resisting and also thinks bugging out isn't a bad idea. Watch On BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble Geopolitics & Empire · C.J. Hopkins: GloboCap is Clearing & Holding, Rooting Out Resistance, Implementing New Program #284 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.comDonate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donationsConsult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopoliticseasyDNS (use code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.comEscape The Technocracy course (15% discount using link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopoliticsPassVult https://passvult.comSociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.comWise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites Consent Factory https://consentfactory.orgPersonal Website https://cjhopkins.comTwitter https://www.twitter.com/CJHopkins_Z23Twitter https://www.twitter.com/consent_factory Books Zone 23, Consent Factory Essays, Plays... https://cjhopkins.com/books About C.J. Hopkins C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist. His plays have been produced and have toured at theatres and festivals including Riverside Studios (London), 59E59 Theaters (New York), Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), Belvoir St. Theatre (Sydney), the Du Maurier World Stage Festival (Toronto), Needtheater (Los Angeles), 7 Stages (Atlanta), the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Adelaide Fringe, Brighton Festival, and the Noorderzon Festival (the Netherlands), among others. His writing awards include the 2002 First of the Scotsman Fringe Firsts, Scotsman Fringe Firsts in 2002 and 2005, and the 2004 Best Play of the Adelaide Fringe. His political satire and commentary has been featured on NPR Berlin, in CounterPunch, ColdType, The Unz Review, OffGuardian, ZeroHedge, Dissident Voice, The Greanville Post, ZNet, Black Agenda Report, and other publications, and has been widely translated. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Are you interested in learning how Silicon Labs produced the industry leading Wireless SoC, the EFR32?  This podcast episode reflects on the different milestones that contributed to the astronomic growth in popularity of the EFR32.   Take time to review the EFR32 resources: https://www.silabs.com/wireless Take time to thank all of your co-workers!

I was joined by anti-imperialist author, Justin Podur, as he breaks down the situation in Afghanistan today whilst highlighting key historical events that have contributed to the present moment.   Justin Podur is the author (with Joe Emersberger) of Extraordinary Threat: The US Empire, the Media, and 20 Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela (Monthly Review 2021), of America's Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the DR Congo (Palgrave Macmillan 2020) and Haiti's New Dictatorship (Pluto Press 2012). He has contributed chapters to Empire's Ally: Canada and the War in Afghanistan (University of Toronto Press 2013) and Real Utopia (AK Press 2008). He is an Associate Professor at York University's Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change. In fiction Justin is the author of three novels: The Path of the Unarmed (self-published on Wattpad 2020), Siegebreakers (Roseway 2019) and the Demands of the Dead (self-published 2014).  A fellow of the Independent Media Institute's Globetrotter project, he has previously reported from India (Kashmir, Chhattisgarh), Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico (Chiapas), and Israel/Palestine for ZNet, TeleSUR, rabble.ca, Ricochet, and other publications.   I.G. @TheGambian Twitter: @MomodouTaal @JustinPodur  

 In the first half hour of today's show, Dr. Rasmus reviews a June 1 article by the San Francisco Federal Reserve showing that the US labor market is far weaker than the ‘headline' unemployment rate indicates. Rasmus argues that jobs are being recalled (not created) at a slow rate and likely with fewer hours and thus weekly earnings. The long term historic trend, of a ‘jobless recession' recovery will continue in 2021 and beyond. The second half hour of the show addresses Biden's historic ‘about face' in infrastructure negotiations this past week: cutting corporate taxes to 15% instead of raising them to 28% as Biden had promised + reducing his infrastructure spending proposal again even further, from the prior week's $1.7T (down from $2.25T) to $1 trillion. The ‘smoke and mirrors' moves of Republican counterproposals, and Democrats, are discussed. The final number will likely be around $1T, as predicted. All that remains is what will be the composition of spending of that $1T. (Check out Dr. Rasmus' article in Counterpunch, Znet, and other sources, as well as his blog, jackrasmus.com, for a more detailed print publication analysis of the political games behind the infrastructure negotiations).

Michael Albert is an organizer, publisher, teacher, and author of over twenty books and hundreds of articles. He cofounded South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute, ZNet, and various other projects, and works full time for Z Communications. He is the author, with Robin Hahnel, of the economic vision named participatory economics. He helped create the International Organization for a Participatory Society in 2012. He is also the podcaster behind Revolution Z and an instructor at the School for Social and Cultural Change.

Dr. Rasmus explains why the official U-3 unemployment figure of 13.3% is a gross misrepresentation of the unemployment rate. What’s wrong with the U-3. Plus the Labor Dept’s own admission that the 13.3% is distorted by the questions it has asked the jobless. Why the Labor Force participation Rate and Employment to Population ration show little improvement in the jobless situation. Why there is a brief phase of 2-3 months when the economy will not keep falling but level off and maybe recover 20% of the loss of the past few months, but why a W-Shape recovery longer term is on the agenda. Why most jobs won’t come back or return only slowly over the next 10 yrs.  Dr. Rasmus concludes with some commentary on his latest blog publication, ‘Confronting Institutional Racism’, and why (and how) the demonstrations and protests need to expand and grow organizationally, in terms of alliances, and in its demands—or it will go the way of the ‘Occupy’ movement of 2011 and ‘yellow vests’ in France in recent years. (Check out the article ‘Confronting Institutional Racism’ on Dr. Rasmus’s blog, jackrasmus.com or on Counterpunch, Znet, or Global Research public blogs today)

Guest:   Cheri Beasley, Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court joins us to discuss the challenges of the NC Supreme Court during the coronavirus, what plans they have in place because of it, when they anticipate re-opening the courts and other related topics.   Andy Piascik, long-time activist and award-winning author who writes regularly for Z, Znet, Counterpunch and many other publications and websites joins us to discuss his article-"1948 NFL Season in Review".   Jerald Hoover, Owner/Beatwriter for Pure Sports New York gives his assestment of the "Last Dance"-The Documentary on the playing life of Michael Jordan in the NBA. Listen tonight at 6pm Est at blogtalkradio.com/la-batchelor or at 646-929-0130. You can ask questions to our guest at padnation@facebook or padnation2@twitter. Interested in advertising on the show or having your own show, email us at labatchelor40@gmail.com.   Watch the show live at facebook live at la batchelor.   Listen to the podcast of each show atthebatchelornews.airtime.pro, itunes, spotify or at tunein.com. Follow us at padnation@facebook, padnaton2@twitter and instagram.

This conversation between Max Wilbert and Vince Emanuele covers mutual aid, organizing strategies, revolution vs. reform, coronavirus, survival, the Iraq war, the crumbling of the United States, and more. Vince Emanuele was born and raised in America's Rust-Belt and lives in Michigan City, Indiana. In 2002, he joined the United States Marine Corps. In 2005, Vince refused orders for a third deployment and immediately began working with the antiwar movement. Today he works in Michigan City and is co-founder of a community space called PARC—Politics, Arts, Roots, Culture. Vince's writings and transcribed interviews have appeared in teleSUR English, AlterNet, CounterPunch, the Christian Science Monitor, In These Times, CounterCurrents and ZNet. Featured music: Perilune and Lights of Elysium by AERØHEAD. CC BY-SA 3.0. Banga by Chris Morrow. CC BY 3.0.

On Monday, US President Donald Trump lost an early round of his court fight with Democrats after US District Judge Amit P. Mehta of the District of Columbia ruled the president's accounting firm must turn over his financial records to Congress as lawmakers seek to assert their oversight authority. Also Monday, the White House blocked former counsel Donald McGahn from testifying to Congress, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is facing increased pressure to support impeachment from Democratic House colleagues but has counseled other Democratic leaders to let investigations of Trump run their course. At some point, can we just get down to governing?On Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro proposed early elections for the National Assembly, which is headed by opposition leader Juan Guaido. What's the basis of or tactic behind this call by Maduro?On Tuesday, British Prime Minister Theresa May urged British lawmakers to back her “new” Brexit deal, which would include a binding vote by Parliament on whether to hold a second Brexit referendum. In a speech in London, May said lawmakers will have “one last chance” to deliver Brexit in a vote early next month. What's going on here, and what's “new” in her new Brexit deal?As Republican-controlled state legislatures continue to pass legislation restricting abortion access — a steady movement that has prompted outrage and deep concern that a conservative-leaning US Supreme Court might now be compelled to overturn Roe v. Wade — reproductive rights groups organized a mass national protest Tuesday to speak out against the new wave of draconian laws. What happened at the rallies? GUEST:John Kiriakou — Co-host of Loud and Clear on Radio Sputnik. Pete Dolack — Activist and writer who has worked with several groups and currently works with Trade Justice New York Metro. His writings can be found on the Systemic Disorder blog and on news sites such as CounterPunch and ZNet. He is the author of the book "It's Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment" and is working on a book about economic democracy that includes a chapter about Venezuela.Alexander Mercouris — Editor-in-chief of The Duran.Erin Grant — Deputy director of Abortion Care Network.

Guest: Joe Emersberger. We talk about the latest failed coup in Venezuela, the sanctions causing tens of thousands of deaths, and the level of political support or resistance to intervention in the US and Europe. We also discuss Canada’s foreign policy and involvement in the American and British empires. Lastly we assess the risk of a larger war with Russia and China as they oppose American aggression and sanctions in various parts of the world. Joe Emersberger is a Canadian engineer and UNIFOR member with Ecuadorian roots. He writes for FAIR, Venezuela Analysis, Counterpunch, The Canary, MintPress News, Telesur English, and Znet. Timestamps: 00:00 Canada’s foreign policy and involvement in US empire and British empire 10:00 LIMA Group 12:45 Venezuela Constituent Assembly, 2018 election 18:20 Sanctions causing tens of  thousands of deaths in Venezuela 19:30 January 23 and April 30 coup attempts 36:00 Political support and resistance to intervention and sanctions in US and Europe 43:00 Maduro cabinet members’ false defections 48:00 Warnings against military intervention 57:00 Anti-interventionist movement 1:00:00 Trump-Putin phone call on Venezuela, larger risk of war with Russia & China   FOLLOW Joe on Twitter @rosendo_joe and find his writing at FAIR, Venezuela Analysis, Counterpunch, The Canary, MintPress News, Telesur English, and Znet. Around the Empire is listener supported, independent media. Pitch in if you can at Patreon: patreon.com/aroundtheempire or paypal.me/aroundtheempirepod. Website: aroundtheempire.com. SUBSCRIBE on YouTube. FOLLOW @aroundtheempire and @joanneleon. SUBSCRIBE/FOLLOW on iTunes, iHeart, Spotify, Google Play, Facebook or on your preferred podcast app. Recorded on May 4, 2019. Music by Fluorescent Grey. Reference Links: Report finds that US sanctions have killed 40,000 people in Venezuela since 2017, Joe Emersberger, The Canary The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy, Yves Engler Trump’s May 3 tweet about phone call with Putin Kremlin readout on Trump’s phone call with Putin Venezuela's Failed Uprising: How a Deal to Oust Maduro Unraveled, Bloomberg Quotes from retired Adm. James Stavridis in Foreign Policy: Venezuela Is at a ‘Tipping Point’

This week the US announced that it would freeze Venezuelan assets and block payments for Venezuelan oil imports. The loss of the US market is a major blow to Venezuela’s oil income. These sanctions are just the latest in a long line of penalties imposed on Venezuela in order to destabilize the government. Joe Emersberger is a writer for Znet who has been following the situation in Venezuela closely.

This week the US announced that it would freeze Venezuelan assets and block payments for Venezuelan oil imports. The loss of the US market is a major blow to Venezuela’s oil income. These sanctions are just the latest in a long line of penalties imposed on Venezuela in order to destabilize the government. Joe Emersberger is a writer for Znet who has been following the situation in Venezuela closely.

Michael Albert is an American activist, speaker, and writer. He is co-editor of ZNet, and co-editor and co-founder of Z Magazine. He also co-founded South End Press and has written numerous books and articles. Micheal speaks about the structures of society that continually enhance the few at the benefits of the many. And what we need to do to make the changes we need.

Michael Albert is an American activist, speaker, and writer. He is co-editor of ZNet, and co-editor and co-founder of Z Magazine. He also co-founded South End Press and has written numerous books and articles. Micheal speaks about the structures of society that continually enhance the few at the benefits of the many. And what we need to do to make the changes we need.

Bob Brodie: User Group Manager for Atari Hi and welcome to another special interview edition of Antic the Atari 8-bit computer podcast.  My name is Randy Kindig and I'll be providing the interview questions for this episode.  I'm extremely pleased to provide this interview with a name well-known in the Atari community: Mr. Bob Brodie.  Bob worked for Atari as User Group Manager and later Director of Communications from 1989 to 1994.  Bob was directly involved in many of the Atarifests in that timeframe and I recall personally meeting him at an Atarifest in Indianapolis.  I think you'll find that he has many interesting stories and perspectives concerning his time working for the Tramiels and even a story involving an Atari 1450XLD.  I personally want to thank Bob for the time he spent talking with me, even calling me back when he remembered additional information or stories he thought might interest everyone.  Bob is a classy guy and I enjoyed talking with him immensely. This interview took place on February 17, 2016. Quote “Oh, about 6 ½ feet up in the air, I see a 1450XLD, unboxed, just sitting there!” Links Dateline Atari! with Bob Brodie on GEnie - http://textfiles.com/games/CONSOLES/brodie.txt New User Group Coordinator, ROVAC ZMAGAZINE, Issue  #171, August 22, 1989 - http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/ZNET/0170.txt INTRODUCING BOB BRODIE, START Columnist Makes His Debut, START VOL. 5 NO. 7 / APRIL/MAY 1991 - http://www.atarimagazines.com/startv5n7/bob_brodie.html Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rgbrodie San Leandro Computer Club - http://slcc.bdgeorge.com

We’re In The Midst Of A Political Realignment by MFlowers Decades of lesser evil voting and the failed policies that have been the result are creating a political realignment in the United States. Such a realignment has been going on in other countries recently such as Spain, Venezuela, Greece and Iceland. The two major parties in the US, the Democrats and Republicans, are shrinking and more people are joining third parties or switching to be unaffiliated. We’ll discuss this political realignment and what it means with Darcy Richardson and Ashley Smith. Relevant articles and websites: Donald Trump Frees Us to Vote as We Wish by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Will the Democrats Put Out the Bern? by Ashley Smith The Sanders Campaign and the Left by Ashley Smith and Lance Selfa International Socialist Organization Uncovered Politics   Guests: Darcy Richardson is the author of more than a dozen books covering American political history.  Richardson’s books on American history and politics — one of which earned an Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) from scholarly Choicemagazine in 2005 — were cited in Newsweek’s “What You Need to Read” section in July 2010. His most recent book, Bernie: A Lifelong Crusade Against Wall Street & Wealth, was published by Sevierville Publishing in December 2015. Long active in third-party politics, Richardson has rubbed shoulders with some of the best-known political figures of the past three decades.  In addition to managing one of the late Minnesota Senator Eugene J. McCarthy’s campaigns and serving as a senior advisor in another, Richardson ran for Pennsylvania Auditor General in 1980 and for the U.S. Senate eight years later on the Philadelphia-based Consumer Party ticket.  In 2012, he offered himself as a protest candidate in several Democratic presidential primaries, briefly challenging Wall Street’s increasingly corrupt influence on the Democratic Party and the nation’s body politic. A resident of Jacksonville, Richardson has been quoted in major publications such as the Wall Street Journal, theWashington Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer, and has written numerous articles for a wide range of publications.  He has also been a guest on several nationally-syndicated radio talk shows, ranging from the progressive “Thom Hartmann Show” to Joseph Farah’s conservative “WorldNetDaily Radioactive” program. Darcy can be reached via email at darcy@uncoveredpolitics.com Ashley Smith is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review (ISR) and on the Steering Committee of the International Socialist Organization. He has written on various subjects for the ISR as well as Socialist Worker, New Politics, ZNet, and Jacobin. He lives in Burlington, Vermont.

In this episode, Bo Bennett speaks with author and journalist Antony Lowenstein about his latest book, Disaster Capitalism, dealing with a broken political system in need of fixing. Antony Loewenstein is an Australian independent freelance journalist, author, documentarian and blogger. He has written for the The Guardian, Washington Post, New Statesman, Al Jazeera, Huffington Post, The Daily Star, Le Monde Diplomatique English, Foreign Policy, The National, Al Akhbar English, Dawn, Haaretz, The Nation, New Internationalist, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, BBC World Service, Adbusters, Al Masry Alyoum, Juan Cole, Mondoweiss, Tehelka, Sydney's Sun-Herald, New Zealand Herald, Sydney Ideas Quarterly, The Australian Financial Review, Crikey, Melbourne's Age, Brisbane's Courier Mail, Canberra Times, Online Opinion, New Matilda, The Conversation, ABC Unleashed/The Drum, Amnesty International Australia, Green Left Weekly, Eureka Street, Kill Your Darlings, Tikkun, Adelaide's Advertiser, The Bulletin, Znet, Overland, Sydney PEN, The Big Issue, Counterpunch and many others.

Professor Cohn is president of the National Lawyers Guild. She lectures throughout the world on international human rights and U.S. foreign policy. A news consultant for CBS News, and a legal analyst for Court TV, she also provides legal and political commentary on BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, Air America and Pacifica Radio. Professor Cohn is the author of Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law and co-author of Cameras in the Courtroom: Television and the Pursuit of Justice. Her new book, Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent, will be published in winter 2009. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals such as Fordham Law Review, Hastings Law Journal and Virginia Journal of International Law, as well as The National Law Journal, Christian Science Monitor and Chicago Tribune. Professor Cohn is a contributing editor to Jurist, MWC News and Guild Practitioner and her weekly columns appear on AlterNet, Counterpunch, CommonDreams, HuffingtonPost, OpedNews, AtlanticFreePress, AfterDowningStreet, ZNet, and GlobalResearch, and are archived at http://www.marjoriecohn.com/. She has been a criminal defense attorney at the trial and appellate levels for many years, and was staff counsel to the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board. Professor Cohn is the U.S. representative to the executive committee of the Association of American Jurists. The recipient of the San Diego County Bar Association's 2005 Service to Legal Education Award, Professor Cohn was recognized as one of San Diego's Top Attorneys in Academics for 2006 and 2008, was given the 2007 Bernard E. Witkin, Esq. Award for Excellence in the Teaching of the Law by the San Diego Law Library Justice Foundation, and received the 2008 Peace Scholar of the Year Award from the Peace and Justice Studies Association. She sits on the Advisory Board of the US Human Rights Network, the Advisory Committee of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego and the Advisory Board for the Haywood Burns Memorial Fellowships for Social and Economic Justice, and serves on the Roster of Experts at the Institute for Public Accuracy. Professor Cohn testified in 2008 about government torture policy before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. She was a legal observer in Iran on behalf of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers in 1978 and she has participated in delegations to Cuba, China and Yugoslavia. She lived in Mexico and is fluent in Spanish. Professor Cohn has taught at Thomas Jefferson School of Law since 1991. www.marjoriecohn.com