At this moment when it appears certain that Donald Trump has used the power of his office for corrupt political purposes, the larger question that we will all live with for years is how will the Republican Party respond. Will they pretend that he was simply an aberration, drop him like a hot potato, and go back to pretending that they have some legitimate existence beyond doing the bidding of billionaires and corporations? Or will they open the party to politicians who are actually interested in serving the people? As long as the Supreme Court continues to assert that there is absolutely nothing wrong with billionaires and corporations owning their very own politicians, odds are The GOP will simply continue to be an extension of the lobbying industry. With or without Donald Trump.

Part 2 - And...If the republic greed can't overcome corruption in government how are we going to stop them from stealing the future of our children and grandchildren? The New UN climate report is chilling, and warns of unprecedented challenges that only radical measures can stop. Our choice now is between more money for billionaires and corporations, or the future of our civilization and species. So far, our politicians and the lobbyist class have chosen the billionaires and corporations.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Mid-day with Mark
- Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)

Article: "Read Trump's Call With the Ukrainian President".

Article: "Mueller Report (Redacted) Searchable Version (PDF)".

Article: "Trump admits withholding Ukraine aid as scandal grows" by Demetri Sevastopulo.

Article: "Even Senate Republicans want the White House to share a whistleblower report on Trump with Congress" by Li Zhou.

Article: "Bush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair, Aborting a Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails 'Cover-Up'" by David Johnston.

Article: "Essay; The Patsy Prosecutor" by William Safire.

Article: "Contempt of Congress" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Egypt Arrests More Than 1,000 After Anti-Sissi Protests: NGOs" by AP.

Article: "UN Says Gaza Could Become Uninhabitable by 2020" by Lisa Schlein.

Article: "NDAA Conferees to Meet" by Senate and House Armed Services Committees.

Bill: "S.Con.Res.22 - A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that there is a climate emergency which demands a massive-scale mobilization to halt, reverse, and address its consequences and causes." by Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT].

Bill: "H.Con.Res.52 - Expressing the sense of Congress that there is a climate emergency which demands a massive-scale mobilization to halt, reverse, and address its consequences and causes.." by Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3].

Site: Safe Climate Caucus.

Article: "Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike called out in Trump-Ukraine call transcript" by Alfred Ng.

Article: "Trump asked Ukraine president 8 times to investigate Joe Biden's son, say reports" by Lily Puckett.

Article: "Blagojevich Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison" by Monica Davey.

Article: "What We Know About The Attack On Saudi Oil Facilities" by Geoff Brumfiel.

Article: "Gulf of Tonkin incident" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pence knew about and actually participated in Trump's apparent Ukraine extortion plot: report" by David Badash.

Article: "Watergate scandal" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "It was great that you were the first one who told me that she was a bad ambassador because I agree with you 100%. Her attitude towards me was far from the best as she admired the previous President and she was on his side. She would not accept me as a new President well enough" - .

Quote: "Well, she's going to go through some things. I will have Mr. Giuliani give you a call and I am also going to have Attorney General Barr call and we will get to the bottom of it." - President Trump.

Article: "Treason laws in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike... I guess you have one of your wealthy people... The server, they say Ukraine has it." - Donald Trump.

Quote: "Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it... It sounds horrible to me." - Donald Trump.

Article: "There Are 3 Glaring Ellipses In The Trump-Zelensky Call Summary" by Molly Redden.

Law: "Logan Act", 1799 - forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments having a dispute with the U.S.

Article: "Rudy Giuliani claims the State Department asked him to contact Ukraine on behalf of President Trump" by Shira Tarlo.

Article: "Trump-Ukraine call was referred to DOJ for possible campaign finance violation" by Zachary Basu.

Article: "State Department throws Rudy Giuliani under the bus after he says he was 'on a mission' from the US government" by Jen Hayden.

Article: "Acting spy chief refuses to comply with House intel panel subpoena" by Zachary Cohen and Alex Marquardt.

Article: "Whistleblower complaint to be turned over to House and Senate Intel" by Zachary Basu.

Article: "Michael Cohen goes to prison, slamming Trump along the way" by Michael R. Sisak, Jim Mustian.

Video: Trump attacks on whistleblower risk promoting future leaks.

Article: "Presidential Records Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Umm ... There's A Whistleblower About the President's Tax Returns" by Josh Marshall.

Event: Beaverton, OR - September 25 @ 7:00 PM: Thom and Naomi Klein Will be discussing Naomi's new book - "On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal" at Powell's Books At Cedar Hills Crossing.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Article: "Ukraine whistleblower wants to speak to House and Senate Intel" by Axios.

Article: "Schiff: Transcript of Trump's call with Ukrainian president 'reads like a classic mob shakedown'" by TMN.

Article: "Pelosi announces formal impeachment inquiry: 'No one is above the law'" by TMN.

Article: "Senate makes seismic shift, National Intelligence director to testify about whistleblower before House Intel" by Douglas Christian.

Article: "Romney: If Trump pressured Ukrainian president 'it would be troubling in the extreme'" by Devan Cole.

Article: "Impeachment of Bill Clinton" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Impeachment process against Richard Nixon" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
- Naomi Klein, Journalist/Author of several books including Shock Doctrine & This Changes Everything ... her latest is On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal / filmmaker, A Message From the Future / and, the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University

Event: Beaverton, OR - September 25 @ 7:00 PM: Thom and Naomi Klein Will be discussing Naomi's new book - "On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal" at Powell's Books At Cedar Hills Crossing.

Site: Naomi Klein Book Tour.

Book: No Logo by Naomi Klein.

Article: "Wildfire In The Pacific Northwest" by BLM.

Article: "Arctic wildfires: How bad are they and what caused them?" by BBC.

Article: "2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jair Bolsonaro says 'deceitful' media hyping Amazon wildfires" by Tom Phillips.

Article: "Climate Change Will Create 1.5 Billion Migrants by 2050 and We Have No Idea Where They'll Go" by Izzie Ramirez.

Article: "Australian immigration detention facilities" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Climate movement" by Wikipedia.

Event: 20-27 Sept: "Global Climate Strike".

Resolution: "H.Res.109 - Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal." by Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria [D-NY-14].

Video: Trump admin. ignored own report on climate impact on Guatemalan migration.

Article: "A report documents the systematic abuse inflicted on migrant children" by Washington Post.

Article: "As promised, Trump slashes aid to Central America over migrants" by Lesley Wroughton, Patricia Zengerle.

Article: "Temporary protected status" (TPS) by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Guardian view on Modi's 100 days: trashing lives and the constitution".

Article: "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants America To Talk About Poverty" by Steve Inskeep.

Article: "The chance of 'catastrophic' climate change completely wiping out humanity by 2100 is now 1-in-20" by Tim Collins.

Report: "Fifth Assessment Report" by IPCC.

Article: "Hurricane Katrina" by Wikipedia.

Article: "House committee chairs say White House readout confirms worst fears: 'This was a shakedown'" by Hunter.

Video: Pres. Trump meets with President of Ukraine Vlodimir Zelensky.

Tweet: "OMG -- get a load of the look on Zelensky's face as Trump tells him, "I really hope that you and President Putin can get together and solve your problem." by Aaron Rupar.

Article: "Chelsea Manning imprisoned without charge for six months for refusing to testify against Julian Assange" by Kevin Reed and James Cogan.

Article: "Reality Winner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John N. Mitchell" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kashmir: How Modi's Aggressive 'Hindutva' Project has Brought India and Pakistan to the Brink - Again" by Abdullah Yusuf.

Article: "Jared Kushner's Real-estate Firm Sought Money Directly From Qatar Government Weeks Before Blockade" by Clayton Swisher, Ryan Grim.

Article: "Qatar hosts largest US military base in Mideast" by Brad Lendon.

Article: "Trump Invited the Russians to Hack Clinton. Were They Listening?" by Michael S. Schmidt.

Article: "Acting spy chief Joseph Maguire in spotlight ahead of House hearing on Ukraine whistleblower complaint" by Chandelis Duster.

Article: "Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near the White House" by Daniel Lippman.

Article: "From 'Crooked Hillary' to 'Little Marco,' Donald Trump's Many Nicknames" by Paola Chavez, Veronica Stracqualursi.

Event: Chicago, IL - October 3rd at 6pm: Booksignings w/Thom Hartmann - "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" at Smart 265 in Carol Stream.

Article: "The White House Sent Talking Points on Ukraine to Dems - And Then Tried to Take Them Back" by Morgan Baskin.

Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work, author of Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown will be here to discuss economic news of the day.

Plus, will Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire testify before the House Intelligence Committee and (behind closed doors) the Senate Intelligence Committee? What will we learn?

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Thu, Oct 3 pm: Smart 265 in Carol Stream.

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