Worldwide, Democracy is under threat - not just as a result of Putin's murderous war against Ukraine, but brewing since the 1980s and Reagan's neoliberal revolution.

Putin's attack on Ukraine is producing a series of crises which are going to, in all probability, bring a period of great pain and instability to the world and to America in the near future.

Republicans are already working to exploit it.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "The Evil Reason the GOP Will Exploit Every Crisis The World Is Facing" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Poland Demonized Refugees. Now It's Struggling to Integrate Them" by Mateusz Mazzini.

Article: "As the Fourth Great Turning Unwinds, Ukraine has become the George Floyd of the World" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Migrants may bring epidemics, warns Polish president" by AFP.

Article: "Ukraine, Russia, and crop production" by Nick Paulson, Joe Janzen, Krista Swanson, Gary Schnitkey and Carl Zulauf.

Article: "Warning: The Fed is aiming a battering ram at the American economy" by Robert Reich.

Article: "Fact check: Viral post overstates increase in crude oil prices" by McKenzie Sadeghi.

Article: "Bolsonaro Proposes Amazon Mining Over Fertilizer Shortages" by AFP.

Article: "Zarzၝzanie strachem. Jak prawica wygrywa debatę publiczną w Polsce" by Paweł Cywiński, Filip Katner, Jarosᐪw ZiÓłkowski. (Managing fear. How the right wing wins the public debate in Poland)

Article: "The Fed Has Made a U.S. Recession Inevitable" by Bill Dudley.

Article: "China locks down Shanghai, its biggest city, as Omicron fuels record surge in COVID cases" by Lucy Craft.

Article: "Help to refugees arriving in Moldova and Poland aims to alleviate pressures on neighbours" by Rebekah Daunt.

Article: "UK households face £38bn hit from rising energy bills" by Jim Pickard.

Article: "Traders warn of looming global diesel shortage" by Neil Hume, Harry Dempsey, Eva Szalay.

Article: "Ukraine war risks destabilising the west" by Gideon Rachman.

Article: "Poland's Most Powerful Man Isn't Well. Questions Are Swirling" by Marc Santora and Joanna Berendt.

Article: "Keep Your Eye on the Three F's" by Paul Krugman.

Article: "Trump touts 'great' Saudi-Russia oil deal to halt price rout, but details unclear" by Rania El Gamal, Vladimir Soldatkin, Jeff Mason.

Article: "Average UK energy bills could hit £3,000 a year, consumers warned" by Miles Brignall and Jenn Selby.

Article: "Saudi Arabia and UAE leaders 'decline calls with Biden' amid fears of oil price spike" by Edward Helmore.

Article: "Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Drug dealers, criminals, rapists': What Trump thinks of Mexicans" by BBC.

Article: "No, Biden Hasn't Introduced 'Open Borders,' Despite Surge In Migrants" by Joe Walsh.

Article: "Peddler's martyrdom launched Tunisia's revolution" by Lin Noueihed.

Article: "Arab Spring" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "Blasé Biden's inflation will doom Democrats this November" by Rich Lowry.

Article: "Biden Is Unfit to Lead in This Perilous Moment" by Nicholas L. Waddy.

Article: "The Biden Crime Family Has Been Exposed: What Is To Be Done?" by James Howard Kunstler.

Article: "Chile's Economic Destruction is a Preview of what's in Store for Biden's America" by Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris.

Article: "World War II" (1939 - 1945) by Wikipedia.

Article: "1967 Oil Embargo" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Iranian Revolution" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Shanghai begins locking down millions as China's Covid cases surge" by Vincent Ni.

Article: "That seven and a half-hour gap when the Capitol was under attack shows Trump is guilty as hell" by Dartagnan.

Article: "Trump lies about not knowing what a burner phone is. His ex-national security adviser calls B.S." by Aldous J Pennyfarthing.

Article: "'Possible Coverup': White House Logs Show 7-Hour Gap in Trump's Calls on Jan. 6" by Ryan Bort.

Article: "Rose Mary Woods" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump's unorthodox phone habits complicate January 6 investigation" by Gloria Borger, Jamie Gangel and Ashley Semler.

Article: "Trump said he doesn't know what a 'burner phone' is. John Bolton says he does." by Grayson Quay.

Article: "World's first space hotel to open in 2027 with 'activities you can't do on Earth'" by Christine Younan.

Article: "Space tourism: rockets emit 100 times more CO2 per passenger than flights – imagine a whole industry" by Eloise Marais.

Article: "Cassandra" by Wikipedia.

Book: Collapse (How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed) by Jared Diamond.

Article: "Trump alumni launch America First Policy Institute" by Lexi Lonas.

Article: "GOP Sen. Susan Collins says she will vote for Biden Supreme Court pick Ketanji Brown Jackson, giving her likely confirmation bipartisan support" by Kevin Breuninger.

Site: UNHCR.

Article: "Pentagon says Polish proposal to transfer jets to US to give to Ukraine isn't 'tenable'" by Jeremy Herb, Kylie Atwood, Jennifer Hansler and Oren Liebermann.

Article: "Marshall Plan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How much air pollution do rocket launches cause?" by Breeze Technologies.

Hour Two: Will the Russia Ruble Oil Scheme Work?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book)

Article: "Here's How Putin's Demand for Ruble Payments for Gas Could Play Out" by Patricia Cohen.

Article: "All Russia's big exports could soon be in roubles, Kremlin signals" by Guy Faulconbridge.

Article: "Petrodollars" by Investopedia.

Article: "Reserve currency" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bretton Woods system" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Maynard Keynes" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Harry Dexter White" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nonwhite Refugees Fleeing Ukraine War Held in Detention Centers in Poland, Estonia, Austria" by Democracy Now!

Article: "Drought Updates" by Coachella Valley Water District.

Article: "How can desert surf parks, lagoon resort be approved amid drought? Here's what law says" by Janet Wilson.

Article: "Holocene extinction" (6th extinction) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump, reliving his glory days of relevance, begs Putin for dirt on Hunter Biden" by Kerry Eleveld.

Article: "Koch Industries' valentine to Vladimir Putin" by Dana Milbank.

Article: "500 Companies Have Withdrawn from Russia—But Some Remain" by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld.

Article: "Crypto mining is the latest fossil fuel scam lining oil investors' pockets" by April Siese.

Article: "The Durham Investigation: What We Know and What It Means" by Jack Goldsmith, Nathaniel Sobel.

Article: "Donald Trump-Russia dossier" (Steele dossier) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jared and Ivanka made up to $640 million in the White House " by Jordan Libowitz and Caitlin Moniz.

Article: "Can the World Learn from the Failure of the Budapest Accords?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Epoch Times" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden gets second Covid booster and says US at a 'new moment in this pandemic' – as it happened" by Richard Luscombe.

Article: "'Tear This Deal Up': Outrage as DeJoy Finalizes Plan to Buy Gas-Guzzling Trucks" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Is Louis DeJoy's Plan for New Gas Post Office Truck Fleet the Last Straw?" by Jalen Small.

Article: "Who Controls The D.C. National Guard? By Delegation, It's The Pentagon" by Josh Kovensky.

Article: "President Biden pitches minimum tax on billionaires in new budget" by Pete Schroeder.

Article: "Manchin Blasted for Opposing Biden's Plan to Tax US Billionaires" by Jessica Corbett.

Article: "Jeff Bezos's True Tax Rate Is 0.98%" by Jared A. Brock.

Article: "Joe Manchin may be smaller and more corrupt than we even realized" by Laura Clawson.

Article: "House Republican resolution would erase House impeachment of Trump for Ukraine extortion" by Hunter.

Article: "The 147 Republicans Who Voted to Overturn Election Results" by Karen Yourish, Larry Buchanan and Denise Lu.

Article: "197 House Republicans Reject Impeachment Of Trump, Blaming Democrats For The Chaos" by Paul Blumenthal.

Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Chicago school of economics" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fact check: Trump's misleading claims on Obama-Biden aid to Ukraine" by Tara Subramaniam. Trump: "They sent blankets. I sent Javelins."

Article: "What happened to the military equipment left in Afghanistan?" by Eleanor Watson.

Article: "The United States has closed at least 10 bases around Afghanistan. But drawdown details remain murky." by Susannah George and Dan Lamothe.

Article: "Alaska Permanent Fund" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ron DeSantis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tom Cotton" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Josh Hawley" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rick Scott" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Revealed: Trump used White House phone to make call on January 6 that was not on official log" by Hugo Lowell.

Article: "Trump admin broke law with visa delays for Afghans, Iraqis who worked for U.S., judge rules" by Dan De Luce.

Article: "Trump asks Putin to release any info about Hunter Biden" by Zoë Richards.

Article: "'Joe Biden Doesn't Own This Station': Store Manager Begs for an End to 'I Did That' Stickers on His Gas Pumps" by Kipp Jones.

Book: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky.

Article: "Screen readers" by AFB.

Site: National Federation of the Blind.

Movie: "The Manchurian Candidate".

Article: "Billionaire Republican Donors Are Now Giving To Manchin And Sinema" by Michela Tindera.

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