Coming From Left Field (Video)

Walker Bragman is a journalist, JD, occasional cartoonist, and co-founder of OptOut Media Foundation. He writes for Salon, The Hill, Truth Out, Huffington Post and other publications. His recent reporting involves “Moms for Liberty,” an astroturf organization influenced by right-wing dark money that has been accused of using "parental rights" as a cover for strategically harassing public schools.

Links to Walker Bragman’s journalism:

Important Context News: https://www.importantcontext.news/

OptOut News: https://www.optout.news/

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Sarah Augustine, a Pueblo (Tewa) descendant, is the founder and co-chair of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal principal that originated in the 15th and 16th centuries to justify colonial expansion and domination of indigenous land rights and tribal sovereignty.  We discuss impact of this doctrine, native boarding schools, combating the “extractive logic” of exploiting nature for profit rather than social value and rights for indigenous people.

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William Z. Foster was one the most recognized and respected labor leaders in U.S. history. Chris Townsend is his prodigy. A long-time union organizer and, with the support of others, is instrumental in the unionization of Starbucks stores across the country.

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Links:

The Undercover Organizers Behind America’s Union Wins-Portside

Secret Union Tactic Fuels Unprecedented Labor Wins- Bloomberg News Original- YouTube:

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The promise that you can “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” is central to the story of the American Dream. Not so fast…. Acclaimed journalist Alissa Quart argues that at the heart of our suffering is a do-it-yourself ethos, the misplaced belief in our independence, and the conviction that we must rely on ourselves alone.

Alissa Quart website:

http://www.alissaquart.com/

Book:

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream by Alissa Quart

https://www.kingsbookstore.com/book/9780063028005

Economic Hardship Project

https://economichardship.org/

Podcast:

Going For Broke

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-for-broke/id1585501973

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Carlos Garrido provides a comprehensive development of his concept of the purity fetish, tracing the outlook to the Eleatic school of Ancient Greek philosophy and showing how it has appeared in 20th and 21st  century Western Marxism and contemporary U.S. socialism.

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Nathan Robinson is the editor of Current Affairs magazine and is a leading voice of millennial left politics. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Nation, Salon, The Guardian, and elsewhere.

We discuss his new book where he gives a detailed explanation of how conservative arguments work and why we need to resist them, then goes through twenty-five separate talking points, showing precisely why each one fails.

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Our “friend of the show,” Bill Ehrhart returns to our podcast to discuss General Smedley D. Butler, one of the most colorful officers in the Marine Corps' long history; he was one of the two Marines who received two Medals of Honor for separate acts of outstanding heroism.

Butler and Ehrhart are both cut from the same cloth, Marines, opinionated, and on the correct side of politics.

Supplemental pictures and videos:

https://ComingFromLeftField.com/sb  

Books:

War Is A Racket by Smedley D. Butler

Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire by Jonathan M. Katz

Devil Dog: The Amazing True Story of the Man Who Saved America (Pulp History) by David Talbot (Author), Spain Rodriguez (Illustrator)

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University. She is an MSNBC Opinion Columnist and commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and other media outlets about authoritarianism, Fascism, and threats to democracy around the world..  Her latest book, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, looks at how illiberal leaders use propaganda, corruption, violence, and machismo - and how they can be defeated.

The book:

Strongmen- Mussolini To The Present

https://www.kingsbookstore.com/book/9780393868418

Substack:

Ruth Ben-Ghiat Lucid Substack

https://lucid.substack.com/

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Tom  Hulst was a policy advisor to Washington Governor Daniel J. Evans, an administrator in the State Office of Public Instruction, superintendent of Peninsula School District, and college political science teacher. His book “The Footpaths of Justice William O. Douglas” is a remarkable tribute to Douglas, hiking, place, and family.

Tom’s book:

The Footpaths of Justice William O. Douglas: A Legacy of Place

https://www.kingsbookstore.com/book/9780595330409

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Anthony Conwright is a writer and educator based in New York City.  He contributes to Mother Jones, The Nation, Huffington Post, New Republic, and others.  He is a remarkable journalist, always with a refreshingly unique perspective on our modern political economy. Follow his works on:

Mother Jones:

https://www.motherjones.com/author/anthony-conwright/

The Nation:

https://www.thenation.com/authors/anthony-conwright/

Huffington Post:

https://www.huffpost.com/author/aconwright-628

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