Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 19 February, 2024

Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show

Monday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Why the Corporate Tax Bracket Should Go Back to 52%
Article: "Why the Corporate Tax Bracket Should Go Back to 52%" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Frequently Asked Questions About the Stock Buyback Tax Under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022" by Ashley Carpenter.
Article: "Corporate Profits After Tax (without IVA and CCAdj) (CP)" by FRED.

Article: "Was the Southwest Airlines Meltdown Impacted By the "Great Share-Buyback Scam"?" by Thom Hartmann.

Articles: "Sunday Excerpt" (currently from The Hidden History of Monopolies) by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "55 Corporations Paid $0 in Federal Taxes on 2020 Profits" by Matthew Gardner, Steve Wamhoff.
Article: "Where are the record corporate profits coming from? Your thinning wallets" by Robert Reich.
Article: "Historical U.S. Federal Corporate Income Tax Rates & Brackets, 1909-2020" by Tax Foundation.
Article: "Historical U.S. Federal Individual Income Tax Rates & Brackets, 1862-2021" by Tax Foundation.
Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Less Than 3 Percent of GDP Could End U.S. Poverty, New Research Shows" by Karl Widerquist.
Article: "Biden Renews Pushback Against Stock Buybacks" by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Jason Karaian, Stephen Gandel, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni.
 
Article: "How Presidents Day went from George Washington's modest birthday to big sales and 3-day weekends" by Ben Finley.
Article: "Jimmy Carter" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jimmy Carter's grandson gives update on ex-president's condition after year in hospice care" by Julia Reinstein.
Article: "'Last Week Tonight': John Oliver Returns To HBO & Offers To Pay Clarence Thomas $1M A Year To "Get The F*** Off The Supreme Court"" by Armando Tinoco.
Article: ""Christian" family moves to Russia to escape LGBTQ, and now can't wait to leave their living hell" by SemDem.
Article: "Why the Case Against Fani Willis Feels Familiar to Black Women" by Clyde McGrady and Katie Glueck.
Article: "Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 726" by Warren Murray.
Article: "Moscow says 700,000 children from Ukraine conflict zones now in Russia" by Reuters.
Article: "100 days of Ukraine invasion: How Russian soldiers weaponised rape in war with Kyiv" by Arpan Rai.
Article: "How stalled U.S. aid for Ukraine exemplifies GOP's softening stance on Russia" by Nicholas Riccardi.
 
Sinclair's recipe for TV news and MAGA: Crime, homelessness, illegal drugs - Is it news or propaganda?
Article: "Sinclair's recipe for TV news: Crime, homelessness, illegal drugs" by Sarah Ellison.
Article: "Keith Murdoch" by Wikipedia.
 
Was Navalny's death planned minute by minute?
Article: "Navalny's body found and shows 'signs of bruising' after mystery spies seen at prison" by Will Neal.
 
Quote: "If you're Vladimir Putin, I tell you how Vladimir Putin is probably looking at Donald Trump right now. That Trump is a poor man's idea of a rich man, a weak man's idea of a strong man, and a stupid man's idea of a smart man" - Michael Cohen.
Video: Rachel Maddow: Trump exposes true allegiance, worrying U.S. NATO allies.
Article: "Senior US official warns of security threat amid reports of Russian nuclear capability in space" by Julian Borger.
Article: "Kremlin's chilling warning to 'unleash nuclear Armageddon' on London if Ukraine war lost" by Will Stewart, Joe Smith.
Article: "Ex Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev claims Baltic countries belong to Russia" by Joshua Askew.
Article: "Kevin Stitt" by Wikipedia.
Tweet: "Congratulations, Donald. This is one of the very few things in your life you've actually earned: ..." by Mary L Trump.
Article: "Trump ranks as worst president in US history in new academics poll" by Amelia Neath.
Article: "Greedflation: corporate profiteering 'significantly' boosted global prices, study shows" by Phillip Inman.
Article: "Internment of Japanese Americans" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ralph Lazo" by Wikipedia.
Article: "United States Senate election in California, 2024" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Mark Hamill Unearths Trump-Bashing Post From Taylor Swift That's 'Aged Remarkably Well'" by Lee Moran.

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Hour Two: Meanwhile, the Kremlin threatens to fire nuclear weapons at London, Washington, Berlin and Kyiv if they lose in Ukraine
Article: "Kremlin threatens to unleash Armageddon on the West if it loses in Ukraine: Moscow warns it will fire nuclear missiles on London, Washington, Berlin and Kyiv if Russia is forced to give up territory" by Will Stewart.
Article: "Dmitry Medvedev" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ukraine makes major troop withdrawal in key win for Putin and Russia" by Michael Dorgan.
Article: "Rand Paul delivers letter from Trump to Putin" by Rebecca Morin.
 
Crazy Alert! Trump somehow ties Navalny's murder to his own legal woes...
Article: "Trump Somehow Ties Navalny Death to His Own Legal Woes Minutes After Nikki Haley Blasts Him For Protecting Putin on Fox" by Colby Hall.
 
Biden is calling out Trump's NATO treason
Tweet: "BREAKING: The Biden campaign just released this ad demolishing Donald Trump for his un-American comments regarding NATO and Russia. Retweet to ensure every American sees. [video]" by Biden's Wins.
Video: Walk Away | Biden-Harris 2024.
Article: "Biden campaign blasts Trump's comments on Putin and NATO in a new ad." by Monica Alba.
Article: "'There's only Plan A': Defense leaders fear failure in Ukraine" by Aleander Ward and Paul McLeary.
Article: "Alexei Navalny's widow vows to continue his fight against Putin" by Sergey Goryashko, Eva Hartog and Jacopo Barigazzi.
Article: "Over 300 detained in Russia as country mourns Navalny" by AP.
 
Article: "Taiwan" by Freedom House.
Article: "Politics of Taiwan" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Judge fines Donald Trump more than $350 million, bars him from running businesses in N.Y. for three years" by Adam Reiss and Dareh Gregorian.
Article: "Whistleblower linked to FBI investigation into Trump and Deutsche Bank found dead in LA" by Mia Jankowicz.
Article: "Deutsche Bank Deaths—Spate of Suicides Involving Employees in Recent Years" by Ewan Palmer .
Article: "'Stealing from everyone': Expert says 'we are all victims' of Trump's fraud" by Brad Reed.
Article: "We are all victims of Trump's fraud" by Liz Dye.
Article: "Congress approves bill barring presidents from unilaterally exiting NATO" by Maegan Vazquez.
Article: "HIMARS changed the game in Ukraine, but a former US artillery officer says what they need now is a firepower boost with M26 cluster rockets" by Jake Epstein.
Article: "US Cluster ATACMS Could Be on Ukraine Battlefields 'Next Week': Ex-Adviser" by David Brennan.
Article: "Jamie Raskin" by Wikipedia.
Article: "George Soros fund poised to take control of nation's second-largest chain of radio stations: 'This is scary'" by Josh Kosman, Ariel Zilber.

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Hour Three: New York lobbyists "aiding and abetting" the climate crisis?
Article: "New York lobbyists 'aiding and abetting' climate crisis, research reveals" by Ava Sasani.
 
Pesticide linked to reproductive issues found in Cheerios, Quaker Oats and other oat-based foods
Article: "Pesticide linked to reproductive issues found in Cheerios, Quaker Oats and other oat-based foods" by Kate Gibson.
 
Article: "Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos are children, cites the Bible in opinion" by Josh Moon.
Article: "Chevron Deference" (1984) by Jonathan Kim.
Article: "Donald Trump's sneakers: Everything we know about the $399 'never surrender' gold high-tops" by Mike Bedigan.
Article: "Abraham Lincoln" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Did Abraham Lincoln Express Opposition to Racial Equality?" by Dan MacGuill.
Article: "Einstein and the Bomb Docudrama Explores the Physicist's Biggest Moral Dilemma" by Amanda Richards.
Article: "Kevin Morris, Hunter Biden's $6.5 million patron, draws fire from all sides " by Michael S. Schmidt, Luke Broadwater, Kenneth P. Vogel.
Article: "USS Maine (ACR-1)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Propaganda of the Spanish-American War" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Gulf of Tonkin incident" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Rocket causes deadly fire on aircraft carrier" by history.com.
Article: "Trump's business career is more connected to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy than we ever knew" by Grace Panetta.
Article: "Alexander's" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Which Iowa bills are alive? AEA overhaul, defining 'man' and 'woman' survive 'funnel' week" by Stephen Gruber-Miller, Galen Bacharier.
Article: "The 'egg cartons' of the Russian tanks: the poor protection of many T-72B3 and T-80" by @DefAviation.
Article: "Putin Signs Law Allowing Those Who've Committed Serious Crimes To Join Military" by RFE/RL.
Article: "Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks" by Liam Stack.
Article: "Trump's Truth Social Merger Clears Regulatory Hurdle" by Rihem Akkouche.
Article: "USS Forrestal" by Wikipedia.