"Please name one country, anywhere in the world, any time in the last 7000 years, where libertarianism has succeeded and produced general peace and prosperity?"

First, Michigan's Republican Governor ended the power of cities to govern themselves, replacing them with "emergency managers" and producing the Flint water crisis.

Now the Republicans who run Tennessee are trying a similar trick, wanting to defy the voters to take over the town of Mason in that state. As the headline at the Tennessee Lookout newspaper notes:

"State officials ask residents of a small, predominantly Black town near the site of new Ford investment to forfeit their city charter or face takeover."

The GOP has gone all libertarian, and libertarians don't believe in democracy, which they say should be replaced by "the magic of the marketplace" — or at least the "magic" of people made rich by the marketplace.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: National Progressive Townhall Meeting
- Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)

Article: "Zelensky's address to Congress, annotated" by Zachary B. Wolf, Curt Merrill and Ji Min Lee.

Article: "Biden signs spending bill that includes $13.6 billion in Ukraine aid" by Kathryn Watson.

Article: "Thousands Arrested in Russia as Protesters Defy Putin's Latest Crackdown on Free Speech" by Charlotte Klein.

Article: "GOP Sen. Ron Johnson flip-flops to block Biden judicial nominee" by Tierney Sneed.

Article: "Ron Johnson moves to block William Pocan nomination to federal court" by Bill Glauber.

Article: "William Pocan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Blue slip" by Wikipedia.

Article: "In 2018, Why Did 8-Republican U.S. Senators Spend July 4th In Moscow?" by Jake Thomas.

Article: "Israeli–Palestinian conflict" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Guatemala" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Read Trump's phone call with Ukraine president: Full text" by NBC News.

Article: "A Groggy Senate Approves Making Daylight Saving Time Permanent" by Luke Broadwater and Amelia Nierenberg.

Article: "How Golf Helped Shape Daylight Savings Time" by Chris Brown.

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

Article: "Congress passes $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, delivering major win for Biden" by Annie Grayer, Manu Raju and Clare Foran.

Article: "Biden demands faster drop in gas prices as oil tumbles" by Matt Egan.

Article: "Members of Congress Urge Biden, Again, To Let Leonard Peltier Go Home" by Jennifer Bendery.

Article: "Trump's decision to end DACA, explained" by Daniel Bush.

Article: "What is Prosecutorial Discretion?" by FindLaw.

Article: "The shocking reality of Donald Trump's plan to deport millions" by David Leopold.

Video: "Biden: We're not going to let unaccompanied minors starve on other side of the border".

Article: "Biden creating task force to reunite families separated at the border" by Ben Gittleson and Quinn Owen.

Article: "The Infrastructure Bill's $7.5B For EV Charging Stations Can Do A LOT" by Jennifer Sensiba.

Article: "What's in the $2.2 Trillion Social Policy and Climate Bill" by New York Times.

Video: President Biden Remarks on U.S. Assistance to Ukraine, March 16, 2022.

How Billionaires Picked Putin as "Russia's Pinochet"
- Greg Palast, Investigative Journalist/Author - latest, How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt For America's Vanished Voters & previously, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

Article: "How Billionaires Picked Putin as "Russia's Pinochet"" by Greg Palast.

Article: "From Grozny to Aleppo to Ukraine, Russia meets resistance with more firepower" by Jeremy Bowen.

Article: "Grozny" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Over 600 buildings destroyed in Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, mayor says" by Reuters.

Video: Abandoned Russian armored column in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Article: "Free Helicopter Rides" by Know Your Meme.

Book Review: "Pinochet's Economists: The Chicago School in Chile" by Georgette Magassy Dorn.

Article: "Chicago school of economics" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mont Pelerin Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Is an Efficiency Apartment?" by Kristin Hohenadel.

Article: "Tiny-house movement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "40 Years of the Reagan Revolution's Libertarian Experiment Have Brought Us Crisis & Chaos" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "'This is akin to a hostile takeover'" by Anita Wadhwani.

Article: "Trump disbanded NSC pandemic unit that experts had praised" by Deb Riechmann.

Site: "Joe Madison".

Article: "Audience at tea party debate cheers leaving uninsured to die".

Article: "Koch foundation proposal to college: Teach our curriculum, get millions" by Dave Levinthal.

Article: "There's a Straight Line from a Child-Murderer to Donald Trump's Treason" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "What is ALEC" by ALEC Exposed.

Book: "The Prophet's Way" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "On Food Safety, the Bush Administration is Out to Lunch" by John Podesta.

Article: "Tough-guy Texas mayor tells residents 'fend for themselves' and resigns" by Matt Young.

Article: "Bush: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job"" by CNN.

Article: "Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" by Bob Cesca.

Article: "Conservative Advocate" (Grover Norquist) by Mara Liasson.

Article: "'There's Nothing Left': Why Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party" by Nick Corasaniti, Annie Karni and Isabella Grullón Paz.

Article: "Comptroller to take over majority-Black town of Mason, ahead of Ford investment in west Tennessee " by Anita Wadhwani.

Site: "Salem International" .

Article: "Kidnapped in Colombia -- A Country Held Hostage" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Article: "Fury as Texas homeowners hit with eye-watering electricity bills up to $17,000 due to 'high demand' during freeze" by Jessica Kwong.

Article: "Transcript: Thom & Joe Madison in Darfur 14 March 2008, part 2".

Article: "Southern Sudan/Darfur 2008" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Thom Hartmann Program June 27 2008 show notes" by Sue Nethercott.

Article: "I ran the White House pandemic office. Trump closed it" by Beth Cameron.

Article: "The Scandal of Michigan's Emergency Managers" by Chris Savage.

Article: "Flint water crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Libertarian Party National Platform 1980"

Article: "International Court of Justice orders Russia to stop invasion of Ukraine as it investigates claims of genocide" by Jake Epstein.

Article: "Biden's low approvals worry Democrats campaigning in midterm elections" by Caitlin Huey-Burns, Adam Brewster.

Video: Putin's Road to War.

Article: "A Guide to Voter Caging" by Justin Levitt.

Tweet: "I grew up with many on the American Left enamored with communist Soviet Union. Now we have many on the American Right enamored with authoritarian Russia. So I say the same thing to @TulsiGabbard , Tucker, Et al. I said to the Left in my youth: "Go live there if u love it so much." by Joe Walsh.

Article: "Israel is trying to keep out Russian oligarchs fleeing sanctions — but some have already arrived" by Shira Rubin.

Article: "Israel's Bennett emerges as a mediator in Russia-Ukraine war" by Josef Federman.

Article: "Howard Dean Scream" by Brad.

Video: Trump: Wouldn't it be nice if we got along with Russia? .

Article: "Bill Clinton 15 Years Ago: 'I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman'" by Steven Nelson.

Article: "Obama: 'If You Like Your Doctor, You Can Keep Your Doctor'" by Mary Lu Carnevale.

Article: "Trump gives emphatic endorsement to authoritarian Orbán for Hungary president" by Sarah K. Burris.

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Hungary sets election for April 3 in big challenge to Orban" by Justin Spike.

Tweet: "CPAC is going to Budapest. Mike Pence was just in Budapest talking about his hopes for the Supreme Court outlawing abortion. Tucker Carlson embraced Orban and his anti Semitic fascist state on Fox prime time. Why are they all going to Hungary? What magnetic force is drawing" by Steve Schmidt.

Article: "2022 Hungarian parliamentary election" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Péter Márki-Zay" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Orban in Moscow: Russian Demands Are Reasonable, Sanctions Are Pointless" by Valerie Hopkins.

Article: "Bolsonaro visits new populist friends, "strong man Putin" and Hungary's Viktor Orban".

Article: "Hungary's Orban faces toughest challenger so far" by BBC.

Article: "Sudetenland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ukraine is Putin's Sudetenland" by Mark Karlin.

Article: "Neville Chamberlain" by Wikipedia.

Article: "China locks down more than 30 million people as COVID-19 flares, threatening global supply chains" by CBS/AP.

Article: "What is the hybrid 'deltacron' variant of the coronavirus?" by Denise Chow.

Article: "Oregon Bill Tackles Megaquake 'Nightmare': Fuel Storage Site" by Sarah Jane.

Article: "Daniel Webster" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "Oil prices are decreasing, gas prices should too.
Last time oil was $96 a barrel, gas was $3.62 a gallon. Now it's $4.31.
Oil and gas companies shouldn't pad their profits at the expense of hardworking Americans." by President Biden.

Article: "Big Oil Is Planning $38 Billion In Buybacks This Year" by Charles Kennedy.

Article: "Saudi Arabia considering ditching the dollar for oil sales to China: report" by Brandon Gage.

Article: "Dollars or Rubles? Russian Debt Payments Are Due, and Uncertain" by Eshe Nelson, Alan Rappeport and Lauren Hirsch.

Article: "OPEC" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Here's why gas prices won't go negative like crude oil" by Stephanie Asymkos.

Article: "Exposed: The Trump, Putin & Saudi Connection to High Gas Prices " by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Saudi, UAE leaders ignore Biden when he calls to talk gas prices: report" by Steven Nelson.

Book: Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow.

Article: "Revealed: New GOP Plan to Raise Taxes on Working People & End Social Security & Medicare" by Thom Hartmann.

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

Article: "SS St Louis: The ship of Jewish refugees nobody wanted" by Mike Lanchin.

Site: Haaretz.

Article: "Group of Seven (G7)" by Wikipedia.

Clip: "The Man from Abilene" - Eisenhower (vote for peace. Vote for Eisenhower) (click on second Republican thumbnail).

Clip: "I like Ike" - Eisenhower cartoon with elephant, drum) (click on first Republican thumbnail).

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

Happy Saint Patrick's Day

How this tiny Christian college is driving the right's nationwide war against public schools: Kathryn Joyce, Investigative Reporter - Salon / Author of 2 books: The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking and the New Gospel of Adoption and Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement

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