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Sep 01 2021
Cartnoon
Sep 01 2021
The Breakfast Club (Raise Your Voice)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or whenever we get around to it) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.
This Day in History
Nazi Germany invades Poland, start of World War II; Beslan hostage crisis begins in Russia; Bobby Fischer beats Boris Spassky for world chess crown; Boxer Rocky Marciano and singer Gloria Estefan born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
It’s important to raise your voice in things you feel passionate about and things that you know about. Don’t raise your voice just to raise your voice if you have nothing behind it and don’t know what you’re talking about.
Aug 31 2021
Cartnoon
In this week’s #ByeLine, @CapehartJ has a question for those who refuse to get vaccinated or wear a mask, “If you don’t care about the rest of us – why should we are about you?” #SundayShow pic.twitter.com/9SrQlaHy9A
— The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart (@TheSundayShow) August 29, 2021
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Aug 31 2021
The Breakfast Club (Protect It)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or whenever we get around to it) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.
This Day in History
Britain’s Princess Diana killed in a Paris car crash; Poland’s Solidarity labor movement born; Jack the Ripper’s first victim found dead in London; Violinist Itzhak Perlman and singer Van Morrison born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
Aug 30 2021
Cartnoon
Snickers (stylized as SNICKERS) is a chocolate bar made by the American company Mars, Incorporated, consisting of nougat topped with caramel and peanuts that has been enrobed in milk chocolate.
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Aug 30 2021
The Breakfast Club (Relish For Confusion)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or whenever we get around to it) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.
This Day in History
The Civil War’s Second Battle of Bull Run ends; Thurgood Marshall confirmed as first black Supreme Court justice; First black astronaut blasts off; Ty Cobb’s baseball debut; David Letterman moves to CBS.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
Aug 29 2021
Cartnoon
Roger Sprung ABM Hall of Fame Video
Highlights of the career of American Banjo Museum Hall of Famer, Roger Sprung!
Happy Birthday Roger! 91!
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Aug 29 2021
The Breakfast Club (Coffee and Beignets)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club!
AP’s Today in History for August 29th
Hurricane Katrina blows ashore in southeast Louisiana. Roger Sprung born in 1925
Breakfast Tune Southwest Winds Roger Sprung, Hal Wylie, & the Progressive Bluegrassers
Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs below
The U.S. Empire’s Achilles Heel: Its Barbaric Racism
Aug 18 2021 BAR Reprint of Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report March 14, 2012
“More than nine years ago the late BAR publisher Glen Ford captured the essential character of the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan that is as relevant and revealing today as it was in 2012.”
The American atrocities in Afghanistan roll on like a drumbeat from hell. With every affront to the human and national dignity of the Afghan people, the corporate media feign shock and quickly conclude that a few bad apples are responsible for U.S. crimes, that it’s all a mistake and misunderstanding, rather than the logical result of a larger crime: America’s attempt to dominate the world by force. But even so, with the highest paid and best trained military in the world – a force equipped with the weapons and communications gear to exercise the highest standards of control known to any military in history – one would think that commanders could keep their troops from making videos of urinating on dead men, or burning holy books, or letting loose homicidal maniacs on helpless villagers.
These three latest atrocities have brought the U.S. occupation the point of crisis – hopefully, a terminal one. But the whole war has been one atrocity after another, from the very beginning, when the high-tech superpower demonstrated the uncanny ability to track down and incinerate whole Afghan wedding parties – not just once, but repeatedly. Quite clearly, to the Americans, these people have never been more than ants on the ground, to be exterminated at will.
The Afghans, including those on the U.S. payroll, repeatedly use the word “disrespect” to describe American behavior. But honest people back here in the belly of the beast know that the more accurate term is racism. The United States cannot help but be a serial abuser of the rights of the people it occupies, especially those who are thought of as non-white, because it is a thoroughly racist nation. A superpower military allows them to act out this characteristic with impunity.
American racism allows its citizens to imagine that they are doing the people of Pakistan a favor, by sending drones to deal death without warning from the skies. The U.S. calls Pakistan an ally, when polls consistently show that its people harbor more hatred and fear of the U.S. than any other people in the world. The Pakistanis know the U.S. long propped up their military dictators, and then threatened to blow the country to Kingdom Come after 9/ll, if the U.S. military wasn’t given free rein. They know they are viewed collectively as less than human by the powers in Washington – and, if they don’t call it racism, we should, because we know our fellow Americans very well.
The U.S. lost any hope of leaving a residual military force in Iraq when it showed the utterly racist disrespect of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison, the savage leveling of Fallujah, the massacres in Haditha and so many other places well known to Iraqis, if not the American public, and the slaughter of 17 civilians stuck at a traffic circle in Nisour Square, Baghdad. What people would agree to allow such armed savages to remain in their country if given a choice?
The United States was conceived as an empire built on the labor of Blacks and the land of dead natives, an ever-expanding sphere of exploitation and plunder – energized by an abiding and general racism that is, itself, the main obstacle to establishing a lasting American anti-war movement. But, despite the peace movement’s weaknesses, the people of a world under siege by the Americans will in due time kick them out – because to live under barbarian racists is not a human option.
- In Latest Yes Men Prank, ‘Paul Wolfowitz’ Says Afghanistan War ‘Failure From Day One’
ANDREA GERMANOS
- Socialist Magazine Current Affairs Fires Most of Staff for Trying to Start Worker Co-Op
Lindsey Ellefson
- How US created Taliban & al-Qaeda, and behind Afghanistan war profiteering
Propaganda Today with Ben Norton
- After 25 Years, There’s a Reason MSNBC Can’t Look Back
SPENCER SNYDER
- Things Have Changed
PAUL STREET
Something to think about over coffee prozac
DeSantis Locks Down Florida After Spread Of Covid Vaccination Gets Out Of Hand
Aug 28 2021
The Breakfast Club (Prepared)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or whenever we get around to it) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.
This Day in History
artin Luther King, Jr. gives his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech; Clashes mar the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Black teen Emmett Till abducted and killed in Mississippi; Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana granted a divorce.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Aug 27 2021
Cartnoon
You are cordially invited to attend Last Week Tonight’s Masterpiece Gallery Tour. Visit lwtgallery.com or johnoliverhasyourraterotica.com for details.
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Aug 27 2021
The Breakfast Club (More Dangerous)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or whenever we get around to it) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.
This Day in History
Krakatoa erupts in South Pacific; President Lyndon Johnson and Mother Teresa born; America’s first successful oil well; Britain’s Lord Louis Mountbatten killed; Beatles manager Brian Epstein dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.