Sabotage Ukraine aid because your donors paid you to? Sabotage your own country's energy and environmental policies because your donors promise you millions of dollars?

They're at it again: holding up US aid for Ukraine — as you read these words — while demanding more pollution and greater profits for Big Oil, Big Coal and Big Gas.

If it happened in any other developed country in the world, many of these senators would be in prison, or at least barred from office and paying huge fines.

Sabotage Ukraine aid because your donors paid you to? Sabotage your own country's energy and environmental policies because your donors promise you millions of dollars?

In every other advanced democracy in the world, that's called bribery and corruption and is criminal behavior.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Here are 55 of the worst things Trump did during his presidency" by Moya Lothian McLean, Greg Evans.

Article: "Five Trump Cabinet officials were referred to federal prosecutors; DOJ declined them all" by Rachel Maddow.

Article: "In Klamath Falls, Oregon, victory declared over antifa, which never showed up" by Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins.

Article: "he Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.

Video: "Clarissa Ward and Anderson Cooper report from Ukraine".

Article: "The West doesn't want to push Putin toward using nuclear weapons. It might not matter." by Clint Watts.

Article: "Putin has a huge advantage in the kind of nuclear weapon he would be most likely to use" by Jason Willick.

Book: Off The Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill.

Book: Social Brain by Michael S. Gazzaniga.

Article: "Roger W. Sperry " by The Nobel Foundation.

Book: The Believing Brain: From Spiritual Faiths To Political Convictions by Michael Shermer.

Book: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes.

Article: "Why Big Oil & the GOP are Sabotaging Ukraine, America, Our Atmosphere & Our Next Generation" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Push for swift passage of Postal Service overhaul bill hits snag in the Senate" by CNN.

Article: "Are Republicans Patriotic Enough to Support a Ban on Russian Oil Imports Without Turning It Into a Hustle?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Fossil fuel companies are exploiting Russia's attack on Ukraine" by Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria.

Article: "Blackburn's role in opioid crisis overshadows her crack pipe concerns" by Holly McCall.

Article: "Lawmakers say spending deal up to leaders" by Alexander Bolton.

Tweet: ".@SenShelby not on board with WH request for $22.5B for COVID relief supplemental. Says he wants a better sense of how much unspent money remains." by Ylan Q. Mui.

Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Republicans continue to refuse to agree to spending package, delay $10 billion in Ukraine aid" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "Republicans call on Biden to drop efforts to fight climate change ... because Russia invaded Ukraine" by Laura Clawson.

Article: "Lawmakers plan March 8 vote on U.S. government funding" by Reuters.

Article: "Sullivan, Colleagues Demand Biden Change Course on Failing Energy Policy as Prices Skyrocket at Home and Putin is Emboldened" by Dan Sullivan.

Article: "E.U. will unveil a strategy to break free from Russian gas, after decades of dependence" by Michael Birnbaum and Steven Mufson.

Event: March 8 @ 5pm (PT)" Powell's Books webinar: 'The Hidden History of Big Brother in America'".

Event: March 10 @ 6pm (PT)" Seattle Townhall Books webinar: 'The Hidden History of Big Brother in America'".

Article: "Alexander Vindman" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "Reports of a significant armor engagement in a suburb of Kyiv, …between Russian forces. Friendly fire restulted in the loss of 9 tanks and 4 infantry fighting vehicles. [image of tweet in Russian]" by Alexander S. Vindman.

Article: "America added 678,000 jobs in February, smashing forecasts" by Anneken Tappe.

Tweet: "Worse than SWIFT
Yesterday, Maersk and MSC stopped delivering their containers to Russia. These are two monopolists in this field, what does that mean? Nothing is delivered by sea and nothing goes by sea. Apart from the covers, oil and gas equipment, combines, products, 1/2" by Alan Abdo.

Article: "Venezuela Can Bring Putin to his Knees" by Greg Palast.

Video: Fighting Fascism From Columbus to Kiev (w/ Greg Palast).

Article: "Venezuela Pushes for Lift in U.S. Sanctions So Oil Can Flow" by Patricia Garip.

Article: "Putin's Case for War, Annotated" by Max Fisher.

Article: "Blinken Rejects Call for No-Fly Zone: 'Could Lead to a Full-Fledged War'" by Jackson Richman.

Article: "Ukrainian authorities begs Western countries to give combat aircraft.".

Article: "Russian President Vladimir Putin Accused of Taking Steroids That Cause "Aggressiveness" ".

Article: "New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) " by Wikipedia.

Article: "Student Organizer of Statewide Protest Against Florida 'Don't Say Gay' Bill Suspended for Handing Out Pride Flags: Report".

Article: "'We Say Gay': Thousands of Students Across Florida Walk Out to Protest DeSantis-Backed 'Don't Say Gay' Bill" by David Badash.

Tweet: "Anti-trans Texas House candidate Jeff Younger came to the University of North Texas and this is how students responded." by Dallas.

Article: "Florida House approves CRT, 'don't say gay' bills" by Jeffrey S. Solochek.

Article: "Why far-right White evangelicals are among Vladimir Putin's strongest American supporters" by Alex Henderson.

Article: "Franklin Graham under fire for 'pray for Putin' appeal" by Graig Graziosi.

Article: "Pope Francis breaks diplomatic protocol and visits Russian Embassy" by Niamh Cavanagh.

Law: "American Rescue Plan Act of 2021" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Yes, the video showing a large anti-war protest in St. Petersburg, Russia is real".

Article: "Republicans, Democrats slam Lindsey Graham after he calls for Putin's assassination" by Christopher Wilson.

Article: "List of assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Did Trump Throw Kurds under the Bus for Turkey because of his Istanbul Revenue Stream?" by Juan Cole.

Bill: "H.R.3355 - SAFE Act of 2021" (Save America's Forgotten Equines) by Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9].

Article: "As Russia Pounds Ukraine, NATO Countries Rush In Javelins and Stingers" by Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt.

Article: "The U.S. won't repeat it's sending Stingers to Ukraine" by Alexander Ward And Quint Forgey.

Book: Understanding Socialism by Richard D. Wolff.

Article: "Economic Bill of Rights" by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Article: "Zelensky says 16,000 foreigners have volunteered to fight for Ukraine against Russian invasion" by Timothy Bella, Annabelle Timsit.

Article: "Many nuclear power reactors in Ukraine are no longer producing electricity." by William J. Broad.

Article: "Ukraine war: what is the Budapest Memorandum and why has Russia's invasion torn it up?" by Aldo Zammit Borda .

Article: "Putin's Long Tables Explained: Why He Puts Some Leaders, Including Germany's Scholz, At An Extreme Distance" by Derek Saul.

Article: "Bestselling Author Shows How Trump Allies Are Plotting To Undermine Jan. 6 Probe" by Ed Mazza.

Article: "'Can't spend halftime in opponent's locker room': GOP push to oust Cheney, Kinzinger " by Juliegrace Brufke.

Article: "Ukraine update: Why is American fast food still fueling Russia?" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Arizona Bill Would Make Teachers Reveal to Parents if Kids Came Out as LGBTQ" by Patricia McKnight.

Article: "Soviet colonel dubbed 'the man who saved the world' for refusing to push the nuclear button in 1983 dies age 77" by Mark Hodge.

Article: "Inoculating against misinformation: Finland's efforts to bring media literacy to the classroom" by Nada Zohdy.

Article: "Florida politics podcast: DeSantis rips teens in masks but Trump rules Florida at CPAC" by Antonio Fins.

Site: "Thom Hartmann Podcasts & Newsletter".

Article: "More Russians, Ukrainians seek asylum at U.S.-Mexico border" by Dasha Afanasieva, Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke.

Article: "Blinken: Ukraine can absolutely win the war" by BBC.

Article: "Heat Pumps for Peace and Freedom" by Bill McKibben.

Article: "Sen. Ed Markey urges USPS to invest in electric fleet to help 'empty Vladimir Putin's oil- and gas-funded piggy bank'" by Benjamin Kail.

Law: "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act" (HIPAA).

Book: "Conservatives Without Conscience" by John W. Dean.

Article: "The Lincoln Project" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Don Winslow" by Wikipedia.

Twitter: "Meidas Touch".

Video: Can These Three Brothers Defeat Trump? (w/ Brett Meiselas).

Article: "Ludwig Müller" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

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

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

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