Lives are at stake, and the next person needing help could easily be you, a member of your family, or, like me, an old friend's husband.

O. Henry died over a hundred years ago, but his story The Gift of the Magi about a poor woman who sold her long hair to buy a gift for her husband on the same day he bought her a hard-sought gift of combs for her long hair still echoes through our culture.

In a modern-day variation on the story, my friend of many decades, Elizabeth Barlow Montes, donated one of her kidneys to a friend's sister back in 2004. Now her husband, whose lifelong diabetes finally destroyed his own kidneys, needs a kidney to save his life but Elizabeth can't be that donor as she only has one left.

Covid has revealed a number of cracks in our healthcare system, from the way for-profit hospitals are failing us to the just-fixed-by-Democrats problem of "surprise billings." Among the most tragic and long-term problems Covid is leaving us, however, are an as-yet-unknown number, probably thousands to tens-of-thousands, of Americans who will need transplants for organs the virus ravaged.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The amazing story of how a lie told by a politically ambitious Supreme Court clerk in 1886 altered the course of American history and paved the way for the modern corporate takeover of US politics.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The Best of the Rest of the News.

— Are we on the verge of a third major European war?
— The Plot to End America
— The Plot to Change America
— Covid didn't cause the hospital crisis
— Crazy Alert: fascists demand groveling
— In Good News: Republican voter suppression notwithstanding, Stacey Abrams has a good shot at becoming Georgia's governor, helping to turn that purple state blue
— Video of the week with Dr. Jason Box: Is the Jet Stream Collapsing? And what about all that frozen methane?

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Russia and China's plans for a new world order" by Gideon Rachman.

Article: "Taiwan reports new large-scale Chinese air force incursion" by Reuters.

Article: "China flies 39 warplanes towards Taiwan as tensions with island rise" by Sky News.

Article: "Biden Weighs Deploying Thousands of Troops to Eastern Europe and Baltics" by Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt.

Article: "America's Generation Gap on Ukraine" by Peter Beinart.

Article: "Analysis: Crisis in Ukraine a showdown of two world views" by John Daniszewski.

Article: "Cuban missile crisis" (1962) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Finland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Time for Citizens United to Go': US Oligarchs Poured $1.2 Billion Into 2020 Elections" by Jake Johnson.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Article: "Can America Answer the Call of Kidney Karma?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry.

Article: "Organ transplants up partially due to COVID-19. Wife says husband was proud donor".

Article: "COVID Spawns 'Completely New Category' Of Organ Transplants" by JoNel Aleccia.

Article: "Association of Race and Ethnicity With Live Donor Kidney Transplantation in the United States From 1995 to 2014" by Tanjala S. Purnell, Xun Luo, Lisa A. Cooper et al.

Site: "KidneyKarma.com".

Article: "Why aren't there enough hospital beds?" by Judd Legum.

Article: "Congressional Democrats Join Republicans to Undermine Biden Administration's Surprise Medical Billing Rule" by Austin Ahlman.

Bill: "S.377 - Living Donor Protection Act of 2021" by Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY].

Article: "Senators Gillibrand And Cotton, Representatives Nadler And Herrera Beutler Introduce Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation To Protect Organ Donors" by Kirsten Gillibrand.

Article: "Covid disease damage leading to 'completely new category' of organ transplants" by JoNel Aleccia.

Article: "Assessing Global Organ Donation Policies: Opt-In vs Opt-Out" by Harriet Rosanne Etheredge.

Article: "Organ Donation Statistics" by Health Resources & Services Administration.

Article: "Strong Winds Cause Power Outages Across SoCal, Over 70,000 Residents Impacted" by CBSLA.

Article: "'Terrifying' wildfire near California's Big Sur coast at 700 acres; many remain evacuated" by AP.

Article: "List of United States military bases" by Wikipedia.

Article: "List of Russian military bases abroad" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Size of China's navy may be closing gap on US fleet but what can the PLA do with just one overseas naval base?" by Kristin Huang.

Article: "North Korea claims successful test of hypersonic missile" by Kim Tong-Hyung.

Article: "Cold War" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ukraine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kievan Rus'" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Selective Service System" by Wikipedia.

Article: "U.S. Has Contingency Plans for a Draft of Medical Workers" (2004) by Robert Pear.

Article: "Yalta Conference" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Finland in World War II" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Illustrious Dunderheads" by Rex Stout.

Hour Two: An Optimist's View on 2022
- Joe Trippi, Democratic Strategist / Host - That Trippi Show podcast

Article: "This week on The Brief: Joe Trippi on an optimistic vision for 2022 and the pro-democracy movement" by Dorothy He.

Article: "Democrats make surprising inroads in redistricting fight" by AP.

Article: "'Gerrymandering On Steroids': How Republicans Stacked The Nation's Statehouses"(REDMAP) by David Daley.

Article: "Herschel Walker" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mehmet Oz" by (Dr. Oz).

Article: "Biden Is Shedding the Support of His Base—and That Could Be Bad for Democracy" by Dean Obeidallah.

Site: Join the Union.

Article: "Ukraine says evidence points to Russia being behind cyber-attack" by AFP.

Article: "1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden" by Wikipedia.

Article: "White House Eliminates Cybersecurity Coordinator Role" by Nicole Perlroth and David E. Sanger.

Article: "'Newt has lost it': Jan. 6 committee member confused by Gingrich's 'weird' idea the US will be overthrown " by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Razing Arizona: plan to steal the 2020 election blown by ill wind from Michigan" by annieli.

Article: "Start the Steal: New MAGA Emails Reveal Plot to Hand Arizona to Trump " by Andy Kroll.

Tweet: "A former Speaker of the House is threatening jail time for members of Congress who are investigating the violent January 6 attack on our Capitol and our Constitution.
This is what it looks like when the rule of law unravels..." by Liz Cheney.

Article: "Crimea" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donbas" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Russian naval facility in Tartus" (Syria) by Wikipedia.

Speech: "Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence" - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.

Article: "Vice President Kamala Harris Warns Of Looming 'Wars Fought Over Water'" by CBS SF.

Article: "Major mineral deposits of the world" by USGS.

Article: "Interactive map of mineral resources and mines across the United States" by AGI.

Article: "List of elements facing shortage" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Conflict resource" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Water conflict" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Molycorp shuts down Mountain Pass rare earth plant" by Cecilia Jamasmie.

Article: "Balkans" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bosnia's Dodik: From moderate to genocide-denying autocrat" by Sabina Niksic.

Hour Three: Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
- Conversations with Great Minds: Dr. Brian Klaas, , Associate Professor- Global Politics. University College London / Columnist, Washington Post / Host, Power Corrupts podcast and author of the new book, Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us

Article: "Dark triad" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Narcissism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Machiavellianism (psychology)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Psychopathy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Strong job candidates with foreign names miss out on job interviews, study shows" by Jane Burnett.

Article: "Behavioral Dishonesty in the Public Sector" by Asmus Leth Olsen, Frederik Hjorth, Nikolaj Harmon, Sebastian Barfort.

Article: "Cheating students more likely to want government jobs, study finds" (India) by Emily Alpert Reyes.

Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Law: "Tillman Act of 1907".

Article: "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Subordinate Monkeys More Likely To Choose Cocaine Over Food" by Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

Quote: "All power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton.

Article: "The Rich Drive Differently, a Study Suggests" by Benjamin Preston.

Article: "Great man theory" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Albert J. Dunlap" ("Chainsaw Al") by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Why Is Inflation Rising Right Now?" by Taylor Tepper.

Article: "Trump allies' fake Electoral College certificates offer fresh insights about plot to overturn Biden's victory" by Zachary Cohen and Marshall Cohen.

Article: "Trump and the Dark Art of Bad Publicity" by Michael Kruse.

Article: "Jim Justice" (WV governor) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Democrat Kyrsten Sinema Lauds John McCain as 'My Personal Hero'" by Sean Moran.

Article: "10 Secrets of Fred Trump's Coney Island Revealed in History Project Exhibit" by Coney Island History Project.

Article: "Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge" by BBC.

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

I'll be debating Julio Rivera, Editorial Director - Reactionary Times / Contributor - Newsmax, American Thinker & Townhall.com

Plus, I'll be talking with Jaime Harrison, Chair - Democratic National Committee (DNC)

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