Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 2 June, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Can We Survive a New Apartheid Engineered by America's Elites?
Article: "Can We Survive a New Apartheid Engineered by America's Elites?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The End of Apartheid" by U.S. State Department.
Article: "Building Trust and Supporting Human Rights in Apartheid South Africa" by ADST.
Article: "Aiding democracy? Donors and civil society in South Africa" by Julie Hearn.
Law: "Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986".
Article: "Impact Metrics Dashboard: All Tracked Programs" by impactcounter.com.
Article: "Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of killing poor children by cutting foreign aid and says he's giving away his wealth" by Matt Lavietes.
Article: "Marco Rubio said no one has died due to U.S. aid cuts. This mom disagrees" by Gabrielle Emanuel, Jonathan Lambert.
Article: "Elon Musk's Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death" by Michelle Goldberg.
Article: "On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama" by Kirsten Grind and Megan Twohey.
Article: "Really, Secretary Rubio? I'm Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?" by Nicholas Kristof.
Article: "Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn't True." by Nicholas Kristof.
Article: "More USAID staff ousted after Trump administration dismantles aid agency" by Jonathan Landay, Patricia Zengerle and Andrea Shalal.
Article: "U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Apartheid South Africa, 1948–1994" by Alex Thomson.
Article: "Anti-Muslim hate group leader attacks migrant aid contractors as 'treasonous'" by Caleb Kieffer.
Article: "The making of Elon Musk: how did his childhood in apartheid South Africa shape him?" by Rachel Savage.
Tweet: "We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead." by Elon Musk.
Site: Veterans For Peace.
Article: "Honduras" by Wikipedia.
Fascist alert. Was Rep Nadler's aide detained and handcuffed as a warning and an intimidation tactic? You Betcha!
Article: "Aide to Rep. Nadler Is Handcuffed Amid Confrontation With Federal Agents" by Christopher Maag.
Can we make June 14th the largest march in history?
Article: "June 14 - Call For The Largest March In Us History" by MalcolmNance.
Article: "USAID signs pulled from HQ as judge puts 'limited' block on Trump bid to dismantle agency" by Rebecca Morin.
Article: "Fort Vancouver" by NPS.
Article: "Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are 'Losers' and 'Suckers'" by Jeffrey Goldberg.
Article: "Donald Trump's comments on John McCain" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jim Jones" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Franklin Graham" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jerry Falwell Jr." by Wikipedia.
Article: "Sean Hannity" by Wikipedia.
Torah: "There are three crowns: the crown of Torah, the crown of priesthood, and the crown of kingship." - Chapter 4, Mishna 17: The Crown of Torah.
Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Terry Nichols" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Antisemitism" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Turkish Tufts University student released from immigration facility" by Madeline Halpert.
Article: "Trump irritated that his team didn't tell him about 'TACO,' sources say" by Alayna Treene and Phil Mattingly.
Article: "The Silent Genocide: How Trump's America is Choosing Who Lives and Who Dies" by Thom Hartmann.
Hour Two: Trump wants to roll back banking regulations - What could go wrong?
Article: "'What could possibly go wrong?' Trump rollback of banking rules creates shock" by Alex Henderson.
Article: "2008 financial crisis" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Banking Crisis of 1933" by Encyclopedia.com.
Law: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (1999) (Financial Services Modernization Act Of 1999).
Article: ""Foreclosure King" Steven Mnuchin Doesn't Appreciate His Totally Accurate Nickname" by Bess Levin.
Article: "Stated income loan"(Liar loan) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Reserve requirement" by Wikipedia.
Tweet: "After the Great Recession — which cost millions of jobs and destroyed countless lives — our government put regulations in place to make sure it never happened again. Now, Trump is getting rid of those rules. What could possibly go wrong?" by Rep. Pramila Jayapal.
More fascism...Trump moves to get political control of doctors and scientists...
Article: "Exclusive: US veterans agency orders scientists not to publish in journals without clearance" by Aaron Glantz.
Article: "Elon leaves with reputation in tatters" by Brian Tyler Cohen.
Article: "Fact Sheet: Trump Administration, Doge Punish Agencies Investigating Elon Musk's Companies" by House Committee on the Judiciary - Democrats.
Article: "Operation Spiderweb: a visual guide to Ukraine's destruction of Russian aircraft" by Artem Mazhulin, Oliver Holmes, Lucy Swan, Laure Boulinier, Arnel Hecimovic.
Article: "Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks Collapse After 'Humiliating' Drone Attack" by Tamás Orbán.
Article: "List of ship losses during the Russo-Ukrainian War" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Russia says blasts led to deadly train crashes in regions bordering Ukraine" by Deborah Cole.
Article: "Germany's Merz lifts range limit on weapons donated to Ukraine" by Linus Höller.
Article: "Trump showed Ramaphosa a photo from DRC as proof of 'White genocide'" by France 24.
Article: "Video shows pastors arrested in Capitol Rotunda prayer-against-Trump encore" by John Bowden.
Quote: "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem" - Ronald Reagan.
Article: ""Put Them in Trauma": Inside a Key MAGA Leader's Plans for a New Trump Agenda" by Molly Redden, Andy Kroll, Nick Surgey.
Hour Three: Poland elections...
- Rob Picheta, Reporter, CNN U.K. & Europe @robpicheta @cnn
Article: "Populist Karol Nawrocki wins Polish presidential election, setting stage for more clashes with PM Tusk" by Rob Picheta.
Article: "Who Is Karol Nawrocki, Poland's Next President?" by Amelia Nierenberg.
Article: "Ukrainian refugee crisis" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Poland election results: Who won, who lost, what's next" by Sarah Shamim.
Article: "POLAND: NATO on Russia's Border, a Propaganda War and Whispers of Invasion" (2017) by Hammad Sarfraz.
Article: "Donald Tusk" by Wikipedia.
World news....Clampdown in Rome, China invading Taiwan?, Ukraine fights back, Right-winger wins Poland - what does that mean?
Article: "Thousands march in Rome against security clampdown law" by Le Monde with AFP.
Article: "Trump is handing China a 'golden opportunity' to invade Taiwan: expert" by Tom Boggioni.
Article: "Ukraine Destroys 40 Aircraft Deep Inside Russia Ahead Of Peace Talks In Istanbul" by Samya Kullab.
Movie: "The Grey Zone".
Video: Texas pastor under fire for saying gay people 'should be sentenced with death'.
Article: "The Nazi Camp System: Terminology" by United States Holocaust Museum.
Article: "Terrorism Confinement Center" by Wikipedia.
Article: "US judge blocks use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans" by Ana Faguy.
Article: "Virginia elections, 2025" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Africa" by Wikipedia.
Book: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild.
Substack: "LookingNWords" by Rohn Kenyatta.
Book: Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis.
Article: "What Donald Trump Knew About Undocumented Workers at His Signature Tower" by Massimo Calabresi.
Book: The Riddle of Violence by Kenneth D. Kaunda.