Why we will all be better off if we can reform our political and business cultures to be less psychopath-friendly and more humanity-friendly.

Inequality is literally killing us, both individually and as a society, and its two main drivers are monopolistic business behavior, and greedy CEOs and politicians. Both are a result of psychopaths taking over politics and business.

Decades ago, when I was doing international relief work, I visited a school for Aboriginal children way up northeast near Cairns, Australia in a little town called Lockhart River.

One of the teachers there, a white guy who'd grown up in Sydney and was my guide around the place, told me the story of an “amazing, life-changing” revelation he had the first week he was teaching at the school.

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-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Can We Stop Psychopath-Driven Inequality From Making Society More Sick?" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "Ishmael:A Novel" by Daniel Quinn.

Image: “Index of Health and Social Problems in relation to Inequality among US States“ by Wilkinson & Pickett.

Article: “Psychopathy: An Important Forensic Concept for the 21st Century“ by Paul Babiak et al.

Book: “Dancing with a Ghost: Exploring Aboriginal Reality“ by Rupert Ross.

Book: “Humankind: A Hopeful History Hardcover“ by Rutger Bregman.

Article: “1 in 5 business leaders may have psychopathic tendencies—here's why, according to a psychology professor“ by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic.

Article: “Latest Research“ by Equality Trust.

Article: “Are Politicians Psychopaths?“ by David Freeman.

Article: “Banned from game night: ‘Monopoly' leads to the most fights among family, friends“ by Chris Melore.

Article: “The secret history of Monopoly: the capitalist board game's leftwing origins“ by Mary Pilon.

Article: "The Bottom 90% of Americans Are Borrowing From the Top 1%" by Peter Coy.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Bill: "S.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR].

Article: "Occupy Wall Street" by Wikipedia.

Article: "ACT UP" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump to make Saturday speech amid reports of summer rallies" by Suzanne Lynch.

Article: "Sean Monterrosa: Vallejo police under investigation after killing of unarmed man" by Sam Levin.

Article: "19 dead in a decade: the small American city where violent police thrive" by Sam Levin.

Article: "How a Deadly Police Force Ruled a City" by Shane Bauer.

Movie: "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room".

Article: "Atlas Shrugged (film series)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand" by Rachel Weiner.

Tweet: "Before we took office, the economy added back 60,000 jobs per month. It's now adding back 500,000 jobs per month.
In fact, we've created 1.5 million jobs—more jobs than have ever been created in the first three months of any president in our nation's history." by Joe Biden.

Article: "Three Tacoma police officers charged in killing of Manuel Ellis" by Hallie Golden.

Article: "Killing of Manuel Ellis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tacoma Police Officers Charged With Murder In Homicide Of Manuel Ellis" by Mark Taylor Canfield.

Article: "Water crisis ‘couldn't be worse' on Oregon-California border" by AP.

Article: "Farmers with ties to Ammon Bundy buy land, make camp by shut Oregon irrigation canal" by AP.

Hour Two: Progressive Town Hall
- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District) @RepRoKhanna

Article: "'$2 Trillion Was Already the Compromise': Progressive Revolt Brews Over Biden's Infrastructure Offer to GOP" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Medicare for None: A Response to the State-Based Universal Health Care Act of 2021" by Ana Malinow, Kay Tillow.

Article: "Joe Biden Makes Key Concession On Corporate Taxes In Attempt To Woo Republicans" by Igor Bobic, Arthur Delaney, Tara Golshan.

Article: "2021 Silicon Valley Index: COVID has affected everything" by Joint Venture.

Article: "Amazon Has Record-Breaking Profits in 2020, Avoids $2.3 Billion in Federal Income Taxes" by Matthew Gardner.

Article: "Christopher A. Wray" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "California bill calls for $7 billion in COVID-19 bonuses for healthcare workers" by Melody Gutierrez.

Article: "2021 San Jose shooting" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Feds failed to tell VTA, law enforcement about San Jose shooter's detention in 2016, officials say" by Dan Noyes.

Article: "The Little Red Hen" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Khanna Introduces The Stop Cheaters Act, Making Ultra-rich Pay Their Fair Share" by Ro Khanna.

Article: "Medicare for None: A Response to the State-Based Universal Health Care Act of 2021" by Ana Malinow, Kay Tillow.

Article: "USPS Projects Continuing Mail Delays, Setting Targets Well Below Historical Standards " by Eric Katz.

Article: "FBI investigating Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in connection with past political fundraising" by Matt Zapotosky, Jacob Bogage.

Article: "How popular is Joe Biden?" by FiveThirtyEight.

Article: "Shelby County v. Holder" by Wikipedia.

Bill: "H.R.1976 - To establish an improved Medicare for All national health insurance program." by Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7].

Article: "Flynn says he didn't endorse Myanmar-style coup after he appears to back plan in video exchange" by Donie O'Sullivan.

Article: "Michael Flynn" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Here's What's In President Biden's $2 Trillion Infrastructure Proposal" by Scott Detrow, Tamara Keith.

Article: "Should COVID now be called the ‘Fauci Flu'?" by Brian C. Joondeph.

Article: "The Island of Dr. Fauci" by Jay Whig.

Article: "What did Dr. Fauci know, and when did he know it?" by Rep. Mark Green.

Article: "Fauci's emails should put an end to the cult media built around him " by David Marcus.

Article: "Joe Concha wants to know what was up with ‘nightly' phone calls between Fauci and CNN's Cuomo" by Vivek Saxena.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Roseanne Barr" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kyrsten Sinema" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Moors" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tulsa race massacre" (1921) by Wikipedia.

Documentary: Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street.

Article: "Semitic" by Free Dictionary.

Article: "Understanding How the Federal Reserve Creates Money" by Sean Ross.

Article: "The Federal Reserve Is Going to Sell Its Corporate Bond Portfolio. What It Means." by Alexandra Scaggs.

Article: "CDC director urges parents to vaccinate teens, pointing to increase in severe cases" by Lena H. Sun.

Article: "Lafayette Square, Capitol rallies met starkly different policing response" by Rachel Chason and Samantha Schmidt.

Article: "Democrats will win in a blowout in 2022. There is no history that says otherwise." by Egberto Willies.

Transcript: "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, Transcript 5/5/2016".

Article: "The Texas Winter Storm And Power Outages Killed Hundreds More People Than The State Says" by Peter Aldhous, Stephanie M. Lee, Zahra Hirji.

Video: TX Winter Storm Killed More Than Reported (w/ Peter Aldhous).

Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "China Told Labs to Destroy Coronavirus Samples to Reduce Biosafety Risks" by Josh Chin.

Article: "1989 Tiananmen Square protests" by Wikipedia.

Book: Animal Farm by George Orwell.

Quote: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - George Orwell.

Article: "Congress finally gets its McGahn testimony" by Olivia Beavers.

Article: "Don McGahn" by Wikipedia.

Coming up Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

Wendell Potter, Former health insurance executive / President - Center for Health and Democracy / President, Business Leaders for Health Care Transformation / Founder of Tarbell / author of Deadly Spin & Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It, will be here to talk about Death & Debt By Deductibles

Plus, I'll be talking with Dennis Kucinich, Former U.S. Congressman (D-OH), Public Servant & author, The Division of Light and Power

And, Medea Benjamin, Activist/Co-Founder, CODEPINK/Global Exchange / Author, latest Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection, will be joining us live from Peru to discuss Peru's Polarized Election

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