Friday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: 9/11: America Can’t Let the War Lies Go Down the Memory Hole Again
Article: “9/11: America Can’t Let the War Lies Go Down the Memory Hole Again“ by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “Osama Bin Laden: Profile of a Terror Leader“ by ABC News.
Article: “In historic call, Trump speaks to Taliban leader amid concerns about deal with US“ by Conor Finnegan.
Book: A Charge To Keep: My Journey to the White House by George Bush.
Article: “Afghanistan a Year Later: Can We Finally Speak Honestly About Bush & Cheney’s “Little War”?“ by Thom Hartmann..
Article: “Why Is the Afghan National Army Performing So Miserably?“ by James A. Warren.
Article: “Trump’s New Big Lie: Afghanistan“ by Fred Kaplan.
Article: “Why Did President Polk Want War with Mexico?“ by teachinghistory.org.
Article: “George W. Bush Was AWOL, But What’s “Truth” Got to Do With It?“ by Dan Froomkin.
Tweet: “New: Republican Party has removed a page from their website bragging about Trump’s deal with the Taliban that committed Biden to withdraw 5,000 US troops from Afghanistan — and led to the fall of Kabul today.“ by Hugo Lowell.
Article: “Abraham Lincoln’s Opposition to the Mexican War“ by Daniel Walker Howe.
Article: “Mohamed Atta“ by Biography.com.
Article: “Hospital Worker: I Saw Osama“ by CBSNews.com.
Article: “The Haliburton affair: conflict of interest at its worst“ by David Gries.
Article: “Trump put 5,000 Taliban fighters back in battle and tied Biden’s hands in Afghanistan“ by Jon Perr.
Article: “Now deranged Putin targets Poland: Russia says Warsaw ‘next in line for denazification’“ by Vassia Barba.
Article: “‘Some People Won’t Get Back’ – UK Defence Secretary Breaks Down Over Afghanistan Crisis“ by Alexandra Rogers.
Article: “Three oil fields in northern Iraq halt operations amid regional tensions“ by Amr Salem.
Article: “Despite earlier stance, Trump boasts of ‘relationship’ with Taliban leader“ by Steve Benen.
Article: “Pakistan frees Taliban co-founder at US request; will play constructive role in Afghan peace initiative“ by IANS.
Article: “How Trump’s Plan to Secretly Meet With the Taliban Came Together, and Fell Apart“ by Peter BakerMujib Mashal and Michael Crowley.
Article: “Did Dick Cheney Sink Halliburton (And Will It Sink Him?)“ by S. C. Gwynne.
Article: “The Large Policy“ by Brenda Wineapple.
Article: “Trump Scrubs His Website of His Statement Bragging About His Afghanistan Withdrawal Plan“ by David Badash.
Article: “The Truth About Tonkin“ by Lieutenant Commander Pat Paterson, U.S. Navy.
Article: “Bush Rejects Taliban Offer On Bin Laden“ by John F. Harris.
Article: “Afghanistan’s military collapse: Illicit deals and mass desertions“ by Susannah George.
Article: “Statement by President Joe Biden on Afghanistan“, August 14, 2021 by Joe Biden.
Article: “Occupy Wall Street“ by Wikipedia.
Site: Democracy Watch News.
Site: Mark Taylor-Canfield.
Article: “Seattle’s gaffe-prone mayor Katie Wilson safe in her job for now after recall organizers made silly mistake in bid to unseat her“ by Adriana Tardugno.
Site: Occupy 2026.
Event: Sep 17, Zuccotti Park: 15th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street,.
Article: “Tom Morello“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Undue Medical Debt“ by Wikipedia.
Is Trump’s Fear of Death Pushing His Movement Toward a “Jonestown” Moment?
Article: “‘Gripped by the terror of death’: Macabre theory floated for Trump’s ‘Jonestown’ antics“ by Travis Gettys.
Article: “Bandy X. Lee“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Donald Trump Wants to Bury America With Him“ by Alan Elrod.
Article: “Jonestown“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Leo Ryan“ (killed at Jonestown) by Wikipedia.
Trump Leads Republicans in Bizarre “Cheat Like Hell” Oath...
Article: “Trump leads GOP convention in pledge to ‘cheat’ in midterms: ‘So help me God!’“ by Robert Davis.
Looks like Trump is about to lose to Iran even worse than so far...
Article: “‘Very bad for Trump’: Mass panic as Iran war spirals with ‘catastrophic’ new threat“ by Alexander Willis.
Article: “Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthis seize an island in a key strait, opening a new front in the Iran war“ by Fatma Khaled, Samy Magdy And Cara Anna.
Article: “Houthis reportedly advance to key Red Sea island, further threatening crucial oil choke point“ by Sam Meredith.
Article: “Houthis using AI for missiles? Anthropic says Yemen weapons“ by Vivek Dubey.
Article: “German far-right AfD wins Saxony-Anhalt election, falls short of majority“ by Al Jazeera.
Article: “Marine Le Pen“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Crowd member at GOP convention repeatedly shouts ‘He should be shot!’ as Ted Cruz namechecks Dems“ by Kathryn Wilkens.
Article: “Trump pledged $5K ‘dividend’ to every US adult if GOP wins midterms. Can he do that?“ by Rae Deng.
Video: lashback: McCain tells supporter Obama is ‘a decent, family man.”
Article: “Trump’s $500 Obamacare ‘Rebate Checks’ Announced Thursday—But Who Qualifies Is Murky“ by Sara Dorn.
Article: “Trump Keeps Promising Cash To Americans—But They Haven’t Gotten Any“ by Mary Whitfill Roeloffs.
Site: “No Kings“ (next, October 17).
Site: Indivisible (”The next No Kings Day will be different. Join the No Kings kickoff call this Thursday, 9/10 at 8pm ET/5pm PT to learn about the national day of voter participation being planned for this October.”).
Article: “Trump reveals Brazil, Argentina involved in controversial beef deal“ by Mallory Wilson.
Article: “Quashing Consumers’ Right-To-Know, Congress Repeals Country-Of-Origin-Labeling For Beef And Pork“ by Nancy Fink Huehnergarth.
Article: “Charlie Kirk“ by Wikipedia.
Quote: “I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.“ - Charlie Kirk.
Article: “Assassination of Charlie Kirk“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Assassination of John F. Kennedy“ (November 22, 1963) by Wikipedia.
Book: Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination by Richard Belzer, David Wayne.
Book: JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power by John M. Newman.
Law: “Patriot Act“, 2001.
Video: Trump Bribes Americans For Votes, Brags About Crowd Size to Empty Seats & Our Talarico FCC Fight - Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Quote: “Dank Ihrer Führung wird Deutschland sein Ziel erreichen, Heimat zu sein. Heimat zu sein für alle Deutschen der Welt.“ by Rudolph Hess, 1934 Nuremberg rally.
Video: “Triumph of the Will“ by Leni Riefenstahl.
Hour Two: As the Treasury heads to the danger zone - it looks like we’re headed for another rate hike. We’re paying for Trump’s incompetence.
Article: “Inflation persisted in August, potentially locking in a Fed interest rate hike“ by Jeff Cox.
Article: “Treasury yields surge after Bessent’s beefed-up buyback operation fails to calm market“ by Joy Wiltermuth.
Article: “IEA warns global oil refining system ‘stretched to the limit’ as Iran, Ukraine wars tighten market“ by Sam Meredith.
Article: “Diesel hits all-time high of $6 per gallon, and just about everything will cost more“ by Steve Kopack and Kayla Steinberg.
As RFK Jr. Claims Neither His Father Nor Uncle ‘Would Recognize the Democratic Party’ - he het’s fact checked. Would his father or uncle recognize him and his seeming lies?
Article: “RFK Jr. Reportedly Used $9,000-an-Hour Military Jet to Attend GOP Campaign Events“ by Kathryn Wilkens.
Article: “Trump ‘wrong’ in claiming US Arabs cheered 9/11 attacks“ by BBC.
Article: “Republicans Show Laughable ‘God Made Trump’ Video at MAGA Fyre Fest“ by Sarah Ewall-Wice.
Article: “A Doctor Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator.“ (Roger Marshall) by Sarah Kliff.
Article: “Debtors’ prison“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI ‘could kill all humans’“ by Tom Gerken.
Movie: “Colossus: The Forbin Project“.
Article: “Terminator (franchise)“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Anthropic Called SFPD Over Claude User Who Threatened to Kill CEO Amodei“ by Emily Johnson.
Movie: “WarGames“.
Article: “Sharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users’ control, research finds“ by Robert Booth.
Article: “I, Robot“ by Isaac Asimov.
Article: “Three Laws of Robotics“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Artificial general intelligence (AGI)“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Bernie Sanders aims to ban AI ‘superintelligence.’ But experts can’t agree on what the term means“ by Tom Howarth.
Book: The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve Coll.
Article: “Osama bin Laden“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “1982 Lebanon War“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Letter to the American People“ by Osama bin Laden.
Article: “Hallie Shoffner“ by Ballotpedia.
Bible: “‘For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.’“ - Matthew 25:35.
Article: “Petit Jean State Park“ by Wikipedia.
Video: George Carlin - The American Dream: “You Have to be Asleep to Believe it” Article: “Politically Incorrect: A Eulogy“ (Bill Maher) by Chris Raphael.
Article: “How Eisenhower Forced Israel to End Occupation After Sinai Crisis“ by Donald Neff.
Article: “‘4% of Gaza’s population is dead’: Report reveals shocking death toll from Israeli genocidal war“ by AP.
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Article: “How Did Lucifer Fall and Become Satan?“ by Ron Rhodes.
Article: “Roger Marshall“ by Wikipedia.
Movie: “2001: A Space Odyssey“.
Book: 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke.
Hour Three: Trump’s $500 Healthcare Rebate Plan Called ‘An Absolute Joke’ as Premiums Skyrocket
Article: “Trump’s $500 Healthcare Rebate Plan Called ‘An Absolute Joke’ as Premiums Skyrocket“ by Jake Johnson.
Article: “Massachusetts health care reform“ (Romneycare) by Wikipedia.
Article: “Health care subsidies expire with millions of Americans now facing steep insurance hikes” by Ali Swenson.
Article: “Changes to Medicaid, the ACA and other key provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act“ by AMA.
Al Franken, other Jewish Americans endorse El-Sayed in Michigan Senate race
Article: “Al Franken, other Jewish Americans endorse El-Sayed in Michigan Senate race“ by Theodoric Meyer.
Quote: “ This act upon us could cause us to become a facist state and cause us to abuse our power.“ - OmegaStauf (Sep 11 2001).
Quote: “I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life.“ - Osama bin Laden.
Article: “Trump Just Voted In Florida. Here’s How Other People With Felony Convictions Can, Too.“ by Matt Shuham.
Article: “Should We Eliminate the Social Security Tax Cap? “ by Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
Article: “9/11 conspiracy theories“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Researcher Jacob Coxon who warned ‘AI could kill us all’ gave up his equity to leave Anthropic“ by Prabhakar Jha.
Article: “August 4-30, 2001: Bush Nearly Sets Record for Longest Presidential Vacation“ by International Center For 9/11 Justice.
Quote: “I don’t think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile.“ - Condoleezza Rice.
Article: “Transcript: Bin Laden determined to strike in US, August 6, 2001.
Article: “War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Iraq War“ (2003–2011) by Wikipedia.
Article: “2020-2021 US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan“ by Wikipedia.
Article: “Fact Check: Trump Gave Taliban Everything They Wanted, Laid Groundwork for Afghanistan Challenge“ by Democratic Party of Oregon.
Video: Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You [Official Music Video].
Article: “The 9/11 Commission Report“.
Article: “What this blacksmith’s viral video going after 9/11 ‘truthers’ says about Donald Trump“ by Callum Borchers.
Article: “Joe Biden, master oil trader“ by Economist.