Intellectual property like pharmaceutical patents is one reason so many people face a long wait for COVID-19 vaccines says Dean Baker. GPEnewsdocs

Intellectual property like pharmaceutical patents is one reason so many people face a long wait for COVID-19 vaccines says Dean Baker. GPEnewsdocs

As Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Bernie Sanders can force votes on Medicare for All and cuts to the military budget. He will face opposition from the GOP and within the Democratic Party. Rob Johnson was a Senior Economist for the Budget Committee and Chief Economist for the Senate Banking Committee. He joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.

As Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Bernie Sanders can force votes on Medicare for All and cuts to the military budget. He will face opposition from the GOP and within the Democratic Party. Rob Johnson was a Senior Economist for the Budget Committee and Chief Economist for the Senate Banking Committee. He joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.

As Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Bernie Sanders can force votes on Medicare for All and cuts to the military budget. He will face opposition from the GOP and within the Democratic Party. Rob Johnson was a Senior Economist for the Budget Committee and Chief Economist for the Senate Banking Committee. He joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.

Congresswoman Tlaib says impeach Trump and use the 14th amendment against others responsible for attack on the Capitol. Tlaib says people should demand Biden urgently deal with poverty and inequality and not cater to corporate interests. Rashida Tlaib on theAnalysis.news with Paul Jay. 

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Paul Jay

Hi, welcome to theAnalysis.news podcast. I'm Paul Jay. Please don't forget there's a donate button at the top of the webpage.

The Financial Times editorial board on January 5th, the day before the attack on the Capitol buildings wrote, "Extraordinary as it may seem, what amounts to an undeclared coup d'etat is being attempted in the US."

The Financial Times wrote this after Trump loyalist, Michael Flynn, called for martial law and the holding of a new election. The F.T. editorial board referred to a letter from 10 former secretaries of defense calling on the military not to get involved in the outcome of the election. In other words, the Secretaries of Defense, F.T., and others took the possibility of a coup against Biden and the election results seriously.

Then, in the days leading up to the storming of Congress on January 6th, there was a great deal of intelligence advising that the riot was planned and organized to take control of the building, and what was done. Normal protocols for defending the buildings were not followed. It takes a deliberate decision not to set up a powerfully defended security perimeter around a building under such conditions.

Michael C. Stenger, who was the Sergeant of Arms of the Senate who has since been fired by Mitch McConnell, was the man to whom the Capitol Police answered. Under Stenger's oversight, the Capitol Police took no extra measures to strengthen security around the building on June 6th. The Sergeant of Arms answers to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, which is why he is the one who's fired Stinger.

It's beyond credulity that McConnell was not in on the discussions about how to secure the buildings on January 6th. Was it incompetence or was there a deliberate plan to allow the rioters into the buildings? And if that's true, why?

My guest today is congresswoman from Michigan's 13th Congressional District, which includes much of the western half of Detroit and is one of the poorest in the nation. Rashida Tlaib is starting her third year in Congress, amidst political chaos not seen in modern American history. Ms. Tlaib is a member of the House Committee on Financial Services. She's also a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, which is the main investigative committee in the US House of Representatives. She's also a member of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, and she's vice-chair of the Subcommittee on the Environment.

I list all these committee appointments to say that the congresswoman and her Squad allies have forums to raise issues that rarely get discussed in the halls of Congress, given the thin majority the Democrats now hold in the House. This group of left-progressives that I say left because almost everybody is calling themselves a progressive these days. This group known as the Squad could have more clout than in the past.

First, Congresswoman, welcome to the show.

Rep. Tlaib

Thank you for having me.

Paul Jay

Accountability for the riots of January 6th started with President Trump, who's now been impeached, and awaits trial in the Senate. But doesn't this go much further than Trump, who will be out of office in a few days? Many of those who might have been involved are sti...

Congresswoman Tlaib says impeach Trump and use the 14th amendment against others responsible for attack on the Capitol. Tlaib says people should demand Biden urgently deal with poverty and inequality and not cater to corporate interests. Rashida Tlaib on theAnalysis.news with Paul Jay.

Congresswoman Tlaib says impeach Trump and use the 14th amendment against others responsible for attack on the Capitol. Tlaib says people should demand Biden urgently deal with poverty and inequality and not cater to corporate interests. Rashida Tlaib on theAnalysis.news with Paul Jay.

Congresswoman Tlaib says impeach Trump and use the 14th amendment against others responsible for attack on the Capitol. Tlaib says people should demand Biden urgently deal with poverty and inequality and not cater to corporate interests. Rashida Tlaib on theAnalysis.news with Paul Jay. 

Transcript

Paul Jay

Hi, welcome to theAnalysis.news podcast. I'm Paul Jay. Please don't forget there's a donate button at the top of the webpage.

The Financial Times editorial board on January 5th, the day before the attack on the Capitol buildings wrote, "Extraordinary as it may seem, what amounts to an undeclared coup d'etat is being attempted in the US."

The Financial Times wrote this after Trump loyalist, Michael Flynn, called for martial law and the holding of a new election. The F.T. editorial board referred to a letter from 10 former secretaries of defense calling on the military not to get involved in the outcome of the election. In other words, the Secretaries of Defense, F.T., and others took the possibility of a coup against Biden and the election results seriously.

Then, in the days leading up to the storming of Congress on January 6th, there was a great deal of intelligence advising that the riot was planned and organized to take control of the building, and what was done. Normal protocols for defending the buildings were not followed. It takes a deliberate decision not to set up a powerfully defended security perimeter around a building under such conditions.

Michael C. Stenger, who was the Sergeant of Arms of the Senate who has since been fired by Mitch McConnell, was the man to whom the Capitol Police answered. Under Stenger's oversight, the Capitol Police took no extra measures to strengthen security around the building on June 6th. The Sergeant of Arms answers to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, which is why he is the one who's fired Stinger.

It's beyond credulity that McConnell was not in on the discussions about how to secure the buildings on January 6th. Was it incompetence or was there a deliberate plan to allow the rioters into the buildings? And if that's true, why?

My guest today is congresswoman from Michigan's 13th Congressional District, which includes much of the western half of Detroit and is one of the poorest in the nation. Rashida Tlaib is starting her third year in Congress, amidst political chaos not seen in modern American history. Ms. Tlaib is a member of the House Committee on Financial Services. She's also a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, which is the main investigative committee in the US House of Representatives. She's also a member of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, and she's vice-chair of the Subcommittee on the Environment.

I list all these committee appointments to say that the congresswoman and her Squad allies have forums to raise issues that rarely get discussed in the halls of Congress, given the thin majority the Democrats now hold in the House. This group of left-progressives that I say left because almost everybody is calling themselves a progressive these days. This group known as the Squad could have more clout than in the past.

First, Congresswoman, welcome to the show.

Rep. Tlaib

Thank you for having me.

Paul Jay

Accountability for the riots of January 6th started with President Trump,

Paul Jay is the guest on The Barricade, a news outlet set up by a group of left-oriented activists from around Eastern Europe – Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, and Serbia. Paul was asked to provide background on the events in D.C. on Jan 6th.