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Tidbits – Sept. 21, 2023 – Reader Comments: Auto Strike; Ukraine War; Billionaire Tax, Dems, SCOTUS; Africa and France; Walter Mosley’s New; Nuclear Truth Telling; Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich; Nano Stern Sings Victor Jara; Vito Marcantonio;

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Reader Comments: Auto Strike; Ukraine War; Billionaire Tax, Dems and Supreme Court; Africa and France; Walter Mosley's New; Nuclear Truth Telling; Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich; Nano Stern Sings Victor Jara; Vito Marcantonio; Cartoons; more ....

This Week in People’s History, June 20 . . .

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President Reagan giving a speech about smuggling arms to the Contras CIA impunity in 1988. U.S. imperialism's baby steps in 1898. Free speech for Nazis in 1978. U.S. responsibility for Vietnam War in 1971. Smallpox-infected presents in 1763. Voting wrongs, not rights, in 2013. Haymarket prisoners pardoned in 1893.

Celebrating Daniel Ellsberg and a Courage Unconfined to the Past

Norman Solomon Common Dreams
In the closing time of his life, the famed whistleblower continues to speak out with urgency, in particular about the need for genuine diplomacy between the U.S. and Russia, as well as the U.S. and China, to avert nuclear war.

Friday Nite Videos | December 16, 2022

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Trump Humiliates Himself so Badly, Even Republicans Abandon Him. To the End | Documentary. Building Resilient Organizations. I'm The Guy Behind The Viral "Insulin Is Free" Tweet. Indict Us Too: Daniel Ellsberg on US Charges vs. Julian Assange.

Friday Nite Videos | December 13, 2019

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Trump Is "Surprised" He's Being Impeached for Ukraine Scandal. 'A Rapist in Your Path': Chilean Protest Song Becomes Feminist Anthem. America’s Afghanistan Fiasco. Man Climbs Over Trump's Border Wall. How America Fails Its Whistleblowers.

Understanding the Two Types of Whistleblowers

Jefferson Morley Independent Media Institute
Maybe the specter of a lawless president and the example of an insider legal whistleblower who called him out will prod Congress to start creating more protections for those who want to speak truth to power. We need more of those protections.
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