What you may have missed on PDR last week
Following is our end-of-the-week summary of all the topics covered on our Politics Done Right on KPFT 90.1 FM program, which is also streamed on Facebook Live, YouTube Live, Twitter, and Twitch.
SPECIAL NOTE
Monday February 26th, 2024
VICE Management Kills Vice.Com, Set to Lay Off Hundreds of Employees: While managers got away with millions, it’s unclear if laid-off staffers will even get severance. [More]
MSNBC Journalist Katie Phang points out that Trump’s lawyers struck out trying to nail Fani Willis: MSNBC’s Katie Phang nails it on Fani Willis. She listed in quick detail all the reasons why the Trump lawyers failed to prove any wrongdoing by the district attorney. [More]
AOC Blasts AIPAC as ‘The NRA of Foreign Policy’: The New York Democrat was among lawmakers and others calling out the pro-Israel lobby group as it advocated against a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. [More]
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Tuesday February 27th, 2024
Bezos’ Move Isn’t an Argument for Not Taxing Local Billionaires: Right-wing harrumphing about the foolishness of raising taxes on the rich rests on a relative handful of high-profile anecdotes that profoundly distort the actual tax-the-rich story. [More]
A $1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School: Ruth Gottesman, a longtime professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, will make free tuition available to all students from now on. [More]
Wednesday February 28th, 2024
$400,000 Per Missile? Sanders Rips War Profiteers ‘Fleecing’ US Taxpayers: “Congress must put an end to this form of corporate welfare,” the senator said, arguing that one new way to do that involves reviving an old policy. [More]
Bill Burch, Democratic Candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner, returns to discuss TX environment: Petroleum Engineer Bill Burch, a Texas Railroad Commissioner Candidate, exposes the lax oil sector regulation that is causing the poisoning of our groundwater, ranch land, farmland, and more. [More]
Thursday February 29th, 2024
Ted Griffith, an experienced fixer of communications issues, discusses his book ‘Theater of Lies‘: Ted Griffith did not mince his words as he knocked the culture of lies under which we live. More importantly, he has some good advice. [More]
Mustafaa Carroll’s frank discussion about the asymmetric Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza: Former CAIR-Houston Executive Director & CAIR-Texas Interim Executive Director discussed the Israel-Hamas War in Gaza frankly. [More]
After winning her case, Letitia James made it clear that even President Trump is subject to the law: Letitia James did not pull any punches after winning the case against Trump in totality. She made it clear not even a crooked former president will escape the law. [More]
Friday March 1st, 2024
Growing Inflation Pains: How Democrats Must Go on Offense on the Economy: The corporations driving greedflation don’t care about working families, and they never will. The rich continue to get richer while everyday families struggle to afford basic necessities. [More]
CA Gov. Gavin Newsom shows how to tie IVF and women’s reproductive rights around the GOP’s neck: California Governor Gavin Newsom appeared on Meet The Press and gave a clinic on how to tag Trump & the GOP for their hostility to IVF and women’s reproductive rights. [More]
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