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Does NATO Promote Global Stability or Promote War & Conflict (07/15/24) (Part 2/2) by Bringing Light Into Darkness - News & Analysis

Does NATO Promote Global Stability or Promote War & Conflict (07/15/24) (Part 1/2) by Bringing Light Into Darkness - News & Analysis

“Make the Economy Scream”: Tools of US Foreign Policy on the 50th Anniversary of US 9/11/1973 Coup of Allende & Chilean Democracy Current president, 36-year-old Gabriel Boric of the left-wing Approve Dignity coalition was sworn in as the youngest President in Chilean history on March 11 2022. Some 14 out of 24 ministers in Boric’s cabinet are women. Seven of the cabinet members are in their 30s, a...

“Make the Economy Scream”: Tools of US Foreign Policy on the 50th Anniversary of US 9/11/1973 Coup of Allende & Chilean Democracy Current president, 36-year-old Gabriel Boric of the left-wing Approve Dignity coalition was sworn in as the youngest President in Chilean history on March 11 2022. Some 14 out of 24 ministers in Boric’s cabinet are women. Seven of the cabinet members are in their 30s, a...

A 40 Year Employment History of Assessing, Counseling & Educating DWI Offenders in Travis County: What Should we Teach our Kids? Pt II This is Part II of a series of BLID shows that actually began two weeks ago on 8/14/28 under the title , A Four Decade Employment History of Assessing, Counseling & Educating Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) and other Alcohol and other Drug (AOD) Offenders in Travis...

A 40 Year Employment History of Assessing, Counseling & Educating DWI Offenders in Travis County: What Should we Teach our Kids? Pt II This is Part II of a series of BLID shows that actually began two weeks ago on 8/14/28 under the title , A Four Decade Employment History of Assessing, Counseling & Educating Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) and other Alcohol and other Drug (AOD) Offenders in Travis...

Extreme Heat Legislation & an Underfunded OSHA: A Broken Federal Worker Safety Regulatory process with Jordan Barab This week we turn our attention to the plight of and the dangers that workers routinely face as a result of profiteering being the driving force behind our economy rather than worker safety. Again, in service to growing wealth inequality, who is left behind? We begin with a review of...

Extreme Heat Legislation & an Underfunded OSHA: A Broken Federal Worker Safety Regulatory process with Jordan Barab This week we turn our attention to the plight of and the dangers that workers routinely face as a result of profiteering being the driving force behind our economy rather than worker safety. Again, in service to growing wealth inequality, who is left behind? We begin with a review of...

Wealth Inequality, Profiteering & Oppression: The Opioid Crisis as a Profiteering Outcome & A Tribute to Sinead O’Connor Tonight, we wanted to talk about the overall arching theme of BLID and that is how wealth inequality is recklessly driving our country and the world to a premature end. Wealth inequality and what we have referred to from time to time, in the service of oppression. But what does...

Wealth Inequality, Profiteering & Oppression: The Opioid Crisis as a Profiteering Outcome & A Tribute to Sinead O’Connor Tonight, we wanted to talk about the overall arching theme of BLID and that is how wealth inequality is recklessly driving our country and the world to a premature end. Wealth inequality and what we have referred to from time to time, in the service of oppression. But what does...

The US Foreign Policy is a Bomb: A Joe Biden, Elliot Abrams Bipartisan Foreign Policy Mantra, with Dave DeCamp Sarah Jones in a recent 7/6/23 piece, Why Is the Biden Administration Rewarding Elliott Abrams? Describes Elliot Abrams this way: “In 1981, an American-created military unit in El Salvador raped and murdered its way through several hamlets, including the village of El Mozote. Elliott Abra...

The US Foreign Policy is a Bomb: A Joe Biden, Elliot Abrams Bipartisan Foreign Policy Mantra, with Dave DeCamp Sarah Jones in a recent 7/6/23 piece, Why Is the Biden Administration Rewarding Elliott Abrams? Describes Elliot Abrams this way: “In 1981, an American-created military unit in El Salvador raped and murdered its way through several hamlets, including the village of El Mozote. Elliott Abra...

War is a Racket that lines the Pockets of the Rich while Decimating the Life Quality of millions: What if Profiteering from War was Outlawed? With Lindsay Koshgarion Tonight’s show details the endless profiteering that comes from war. Tonight Lindsay Koshgarian from the National Priorities Project returns to BLID to discuss the show focus, surrounding General Smedly Butler’s recognition that War i...

War is a Racket that lines the Pockets of the Rich while Decimating the Life Quality of millions: What if Profiteering from War was Outlawed? With Lindsay Koshgarion Tonight’s show details the endless profiteering that comes from war. Tonight Lindsay Koshgarian from the National Priorities Project returns to BLID to discuss the show focus, surrounding General Smedly Butler’s recognition that War i...

Revisiting Russia-US NATO led- Ukraine War through a Geopolitical Lens: with Mike Whitney We are socialized informationally outside our awareness, as six corporations control 90% of the (non-internet) information made available to us. "This meant that 232 media executives were calling the shots for 90% of the informational media made available to us. Information is power and like wealth in our nat...

Revisiting Russia-US NATO led- Ukraine War through a Geopolitical Lens: with Mike Whitney We are socialized informationally outside our awareness, as six corporations control 90% of the (non-internet) information made available to us. "This meant that 232 media executives were calling the shots for 90% of the informational media made available to us. Information is power and like wealth in our nat...

Important Ukraine Realities Being Hidden from the US Public on the 4th of July: with Scott Ritter Scott Ritter an American author, pundit, former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer, former United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) weapons inspector working as a weapons inspector for the UNSCOM from 1991 to 1998, which was charged with finding and destroying all weapons of mass destru...

Important Ukraine Realities Being Hidden from the US Public on the 4th of July: with Scott Ritter Scott Ritter an American author, pundit, former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer, former United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) weapons inspector working as a weapons inspector for the UNSCOM from 1991 to 1998, which was charged with finding and destroying all weapons of mass destru...

Celebrating a Long History of Struggle for LGBTQ Equal Rights: Transforming a Culture that kills to one that Saves, with Bob Dailey Happy Stonewall anniversary and Gay Pride Month! On the 54th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots of June 29 1969 we seek to Bring Light Into Darkness surrounding the history before and after 1969 of LGTBQ rights and their struggle for equal rights and protections under...

Celebrating a Long History of Struggle for LGBTQ Equal Rights: Transforming a Culture that kills to one that Saves, with Bob Dailey Happy Stonewall anniversary and Gay Pride Month! On the 54th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots of June 29 1969 we seek to Bring Light Into Darkness surrounding the history before and after 1969 of LGTBQ rights and their struggle for equal rights and protections under...

Elevating Juneteenth with Roscoe Overton Happy Juneteenth! Roscoe Overton details the extensive research project he completed and the discovery along the way that the Overtons were among the first black families to have purchased land in Texas as he shares and connects his generational ancestry from Nashville Tennessee to Austin and central Texas. Roscoe’s research and curiosity began some 70 year...

Elevating Juneteenth with Roscoe Overton Happy Juneteenth! Roscoe Overton details the extensive research project he completed and the discovery along the way that the Overtons were among the first black families to have purchased land in Texas as he shares and connects his generational ancestry from Nashville Tennessee to Austin and central Texas. Roscoe’s research and curiosity began some 70 year...

Wealth Inequality, Trade Agreements & How a Progressive Annual Wealth Tax Could Help Promote Economic Democracy Tonight, we feature a January 17, 2023 report by the Institute for Policy Studies entitled, Report: “Extreme Wealth: The Growing Number of People With Extreme Wealth and What an Annual Wealth Tax Could Raise” by Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo. Joining us on Bringing Light Into Darkness is co...

Wealth Inequality, Trade Agreements & How a Progressive Annual Wealth Tax Could Help Promote Economic Democracy Tonight, we feature a January 17, 2023 report by the Institute for Policy Studies entitled, Report: “Extreme Wealth: The Growing Number of People With Extreme Wealth and What an Annual Wealth Tax Could Raise” by Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo. Joining us on Bringing Light Into Darkness is co...

Where US Militarism & Wealth Inequality Merge A recent 5/14/23 NYT article by Talmon Joseph Smith entitled The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, With Familiar (Rich) Winners, indicates that at the end of 2022 the top 1% holds about as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent, and is predominantly white. The growing gap between the very rich and everyone else is nothing new. Bernie Sanders i...