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Environmental Racism has been discussed since the 1980's when the Rev. Chavis denounced this crime against humanity from the rooftops. Put bluntly, environmental racism is the ultimate corporate crime of convenience. Large scale polluters target low income communities and communities of color because they frequently lack the fiscal resources to fight these corporate criminals. Furthermore, suc...

Brook Hines has The Weekly Beat, and then shares thoughts on Joe Biden's unsportsmanlike behavior toward civil rights leaders in leaked audio. Rick Spisak in conversation with poet and storyteller Kevin Kiely. Jeanine Molloff on Trump's shenanigans in Texas to steal the election.  SOURCES: Iowa caucus autopsy finds DNC meddling behind fiasco Shadow app that sunk the Iowa caucus created by...

PNN - Poets of the East -Episode One - Host Rick Spisak is Joined by Mircea Dan Duta POET, AUTHOR, EDITOR  and other Poets This first Episode We introduce Mircea Dan Duta and the Voices of Other Poets of the east. Our  reach will be global but we have a strong focus on the POETIC VOICES OF ROMANIA although from time to time we will be joined by other poets and story-tellers across the globe which...

After a week of hiatus, we are going to talk about ECOCIDE. Ecocide is an old idea that is becoming the latest proposed 'crime against humanity.' International attorneys along with various environmental groups are proposing this idea. As we move closer to the Doomsday scenario, the time has come to make environmental destruction a criminal act as heinous as the genocide of a specific peopl...

Brook Hines, Jeanine Molloff, and Rick Spisak each week with progressive news and analysis. 

Brook Hines on the history that is being made right now. What is required of this moment? What is the moral response? What is the response we're likely to get? I discuss it ALL.  TRIGGER WARNING: suicide is discussed in the context of economic depression and Emile Durkheim's analysis of anomie.  Jeanine Molloff on Trump's stealth plan to steal the election, and provides prescriptives t...

This week on the Environmental Justice Report, I will talk about the people and events which bring me gratitude. I have heard from many apologists who refuse to face the ugly reality about Thanksgiving, namely that it is a holiday that celebrates how white men instituted a genocide against indigenous people of color in the name of various European monarchs. This genocide was the beginning of a mas...

Brook Hines on austerity and how people are managing without income. Trigger warning: suicidal ideation (not associated with mental illness) is discussed.  Jen Perelman joins us to talk about the fecklessness of party elites; the "socialism" excuse in South Florida; and how it felt to vote for Joe Biden (not good). Rick Spisak chats with Denis Campbell.  Jeanine Molloff has The Justice R...

Tonight, post-election--I will discuss the deleterious effects that 'horserace reporting' or 'horserace journalism' has on elections--and on democracy itself. Though this is a show dedicated to environmental justice issues; there can be no justice if the journalism of the day cheapens itself by providing a handicapping scorecard for the high stakes rollers of the political class. W...

Brook Hines on how messaging 'ain't it chief.' Kartik Krishnaiyer joins to share his bottom line on why Dems keep losing in Florida (and nationally).  Rick Spisak chats with Denis Campbell on matters of Brexit and "Trumpenstein."  Jeanine Molloff on Trump's "clumsy coup." SOURCE MATERIAL: FL Dems trounced again -- Palm Beach Post with the worst take of the elect...

Brook Hines with election post-mort. Rick Spisak chats with Denis Campbell in UK on US elections and Covid. Jeanine Molloff turns to "horserace reporting" on The Justice Report. Essential AOC interview with NYTs (archive here).  David Sirota on the silencing of AOC. Florida campaign insider tells all.   

Brook Hines and special guest Victor Tiffany with response to early election night returns

Brook Hines with pre-election coverage. Jeanine Molloff with important new Covid information, research.  Buzzfeed article on civil unrest. Kavanaugh WaPo article on scandal of citing Bush v Gore as precedent in Wisconsin Why Bush v Gore Still Matters | ProPublica Article on Hitler's quotes/ideology used in "warrior" training for Kentucky State Police  Highly recommended resource on e...

Judge Amy Coney Barrett has been vilified by those of us on the political left for her anti-feminist views as espoused by her lifelong membership in an ultra-fundamentalist sect of Catholicism called the People of Praise. While this is a legitimate concern; the corporate media evaded another political 'red flag' until five days ago--and that is Judge Amy's long standing, intimate famil...

Brook Hines --> I'm sick this week, which I talk about. I have a form of post-viral syndrome that's similar to what Covid long-haulers are experiencing. Essentially it's like have a "small flu" every so ofter. In light of this mild *disability* I've got EXTRA Rick Spisak and Jeanine Molloff this week.  Rick has two amazing interviews. First one is with Patrick O'Ne...

What would a second Trump administration mean for environmental concerns--expecially issues of environmental racism? How could environmentalists mitigate the damage that has been done on a wholesale level? Tune in to this episode.

Brook Hines on social media censorship; the NY Post Hunter Biden story; what Ukraine has to do with it.  Rick Spisak interviews Maggie Hurchalla for an update on the SLAPP suit against her.  Jeanine Molloff with The Justice Report on Trump's disasterous COVID response.  Hunter Biden stories in NY Post here and here. Find more at NY Post searching on "Hunter Biden" Glenn Greenwald on...

This week on EJR, we will be going into more detail regarding the damage done by the arbitration tool known as ISDS or the Investor Settlement Dispute regimen.  ISDS is a major feature built into bilateral and multilateral trade agreements for the past 50 years. More recently, ISDS has been used to set aside established law in areas other than tariff policies. ISDS has been called a tool of econom...

Brook Hines on voter registration, liberal powerlessness, & a weird week in Russiagate.  Rick Spisak chats with Denis Campbell in Wales about Trump and the election. Jeanine Molloff's The Justice Report on gross inequality in healthcare.    Voter registration in swing states  No one seems to grasp how screwed we are DNI declassfies notes on collusion Pelosi bullish on Crowdstrike (by Aaron...

St. James Parish, Louisiana is also known as 'Cancer Alley.' The abnormally epidemic rate of cancer  along this region coincides with massive industrial pollution. There has been zero accountability for the public regarding this situation. The fact that St. James Parish is dominantly a community of color is no small coincidence. Once again, we witness another instance of environmental raci...

Brook Hines on Trump's Covid diagnosis.  Jeanine Molloff with The Justice Report. 

The Kingsbay Plowshares 7 were a group of coscientious objectors protesting the US Navy's ongoing use of nuclear weapons of mass destruction. 7 peace activists were convicted of bogus felonies for spray painting a sidewalk among other things. These convictions are the result of the further illegitimate criminaiization of what should be protected 1st Amendment activity. 

This week, the Environmental Justice Report will discuss the intersectional nature between racism and environmental injustice. It is established fact that environmental disasters negatively impact communities of color far more than white communities. It is no small coincidence that environmental activists are being targeted almost as viciously as Black Lives Matter activists. 

Brook Hines, Rick Spisak, and Jeanine Molloff bringing you the best in progressive media, analysis each week. 

This week on EJR, I will discuss how the convergence of police, federal fusion centers, and private 'security' firms hired by corporate polluters works overtime not only to illegitimately harass journalists daring to report truthfully about corporate polluters--but has succeeded in classifying journalists as alleged 'environmental terrorists.' Such abuse of the law has been allowed...