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This week on the Sunday edition of PNN, I will discuss the ramification of the two COVID vaccine mandate cases Supreme Court rulings and what they actually mean for the survival of democracy itself. On the surface these cases look rather benign, but the legal 'reasoning' used by unelected conservative judges could destroy the last shred of democracy itself, as the court steals power from t...

Days after the Martin Luther King holiday, I became keenly aware that in order for any honest environmental legislation to pass and be implemented, we must pass universal voting rights that no state legislature can rescind. Our nation has been overcome by 'corporate capture' and as a byproduct of that event, is characterized by wholesale corruption which would make Tammany Hall crooks look...

On this observance of Dr. King's life, I wanted to dedicate a show to his honor. In this age of increasingly open and virulent racism, the need to confront the injustice of said racism is obvious. This episode will not present the popular 'Disneyfied' version of King, which constantly reruns the "i Have A Dream" speech, but only grants attention to the surface meaning, while...

Recently, journalist Jane Mayer published a piece in the New Yorker titled: Inside the Koch-Backed Effort to Block the Largest Election-Reform Bill in Half a Century. The piece also features a leaked audio from the Koch-Backed founded known as Stand Together. This leaked audio blatantly features public relations expert Kyle McKenzie on a conference call with an aide to Mitch McConnell discussing h...

We have marked the first anniversary of the January 6th insurrection. President Biden gave a strong speech, practically calling out Trump as the Inciter-in-Chief behind this massive act of violent treason, which should be recognized as the first salvo in a second American Civil War. The GOP of Trump reacted, in a predictable manner. They were predictably entitled. They were predictably gaslighting...

2022 has just begun, and yet the dangers of 2020 still hold us hostage. Donald Trump has not yet been indicted for his role in inciting the January 6th Insurrection. His GOP enablers now sitting in Congress have also escaped indictment so far. As a result of this inaction on the part of Merrick Garland's DOJ, Republicans are getting bolder. Plans are already in the making to elect Trump's...

Income inequality is not merely an issue of labor justice, but also one of environmental justice. Multiple studies in recent years have documented a clear link between the excesses of the very rich and increased environmental destruction. This state of affairs cannot continue.  I will discuss this issue and possible solutions to this global injustice. The rich treat this planet as their private pl...

This Sunday after Christmas, I will talk about the children Santa forgot--namely the COVID ORPHANS. As a result of irresponsible GOP policies, especially those pushed by GOP state Attorney Generals like Eric Schmitt of Missouri; there are 140,000 new COVID ORPHANS. Policies which deny the responsibility of public health departments to mandate universal masking in public and vaccination have been a...

The Sunday before Christmas, I want to discuss the very 'special present' Missouri Attorney General AND US Senate candidate, Eric Schmitt is giving to the children of the state, namely the 'liberty' to either contract COVID-19 or carry it to their families. In the finest tradition of giving, Eric Schmitt and his GOP collaborators just keep fighting to 'spread COVID CHEER to eve...

This Sunday, I will discuss this issue of restorative justice within the context of a deadly pandemic once again, spiraling out of control. Journalist Thom Hartmann, recently called out the "Trumpies and Maskholes" as they gleefully act as the 21st century equivalent of 'Typhoid Mary or Typhoid Mark," with no consideration for the people they hurt and possibly kill. Meanwhile, t...

West Va. v EPA is the case that could dismantle all regulations especially environmental regs, by using the Nondelegation Doctrine. This case has enormous implications for our nation as we know it. If corporate polluters win, then ANY new regulations for the EPA or other agencies would have to gain legislative approval. 

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to Roe v. Wade coming from Mississippi. While the corporate media has focused on abortion rights, this case poses a much deeper threat to the rights of minorities on multiple fronts. This case would use the abortion issue as a way to coronate 'states rights' at the expense of any sort of federal appeal. Without a federal level of law to supe...

This Sunday's show isn't one that has been underreported lately, but that's only because the case involves an extremely egregious injustice here in Missouri. This is the story of Kevin Strickland. Strickland had been incarcerated in Missouri over 40 years--for a crime he did not commit. Due to a recent change in Missouri law, a judge was able to vacate this conviction, since the prime...

This Sunday, we will be talking about the rising danger of white supremacy and neo-Nazism in the USA. Rick Spisak interviewed Professor Wendy Lynn Lee about rising fascism on college campuses including direct censorship, and the dismantling of entire academic departments that are seen as 'underperforming' by business standards.  I will discuss the growing danger of neo-Nazism and their use...

This week on our Sunday show, Rick Spisak will give a segment on a rare environmental win for Florida! The state of Florida denies an oil drilling permit in Immokalee, Florida! Tune in for this important interview featuring Rick Spisak's expert reporting on the Stone Crab Alliance's work.  The BIg Story deals with the hypocrisy of COP26, including the fact that fossil fuel lobbyists gained...

This week, I am repeating part of a show that ran this past Sunday on PNN. The show deals with how Spire, one of the largest natural gas suppliers has been causing a panic in St. Louis (where Spire is based), over a 65 mile stretch of pipeline. The STL or St. Louis Pipeline as it has been dubbed had its certificate yanked by a DC court, over claims that the FERC assessment and certification was no...

This Sunday, I will be talking about one of the largest natural gas suppliers in the USA---Spire. Here in Missouri, we have a problem that other states will face soon enough, namely how Spire is using a foul scare tactic in order to get a pipeline in business. Spire executives sent an email to customers November 4, warning of possible gas shortages and OUTAGES, heading into the dangerous Winter mo...

This Sunday the big story is all about the January 6th Insurrection, how close we came to devolving into a Trump dictatorship--and the need to expel members of Congress who either participated, planned, or aided and abetted. A recently released congressional interim report gives more details--approximately 394 PAGES worth. Add to that the bombshell reporting of Rolling Stone on the insurrection an...

This week on PNN Sunday's Show, Jeanine will talk about the Tennessee juvenile judge who has been jailing children as young as 7.  Judge Donna Scott Davenport has been terrorizing children in Tennessee for many decades. Only recently has this gross miscarriage of justice come to light. This is our big story. Additionally, Jeanine will discuss the 'bathroom protesters' at Arizona State...

Last week, I reported on the greenwashing phenomenon as criminal fraud perpetrated by the public relations industry on behalf of big fossil fuel and the banks that fund them. This week, I will focus on the greenwashing being done by alleged 'objective' economists. As it turns out, these economists are anything but--objective. And, why would they be? They are often paid by big fossil fuel....

This week on our Sunday report, Jeanine will cover the ongoing saga of yet another Republican Governor who eagerly seeks to abuse power. Missouri Governor Mike Parson is seeking criminal charges of 'hacking' against St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist Josh Renaud. Renaud wrote a piece exposing a major data security risk involving the Social Security numbers of some 100,000 Missouri teachers...

This week, Jeanine had an interview with Buzzflash Editor Mark Karlin. Mark will talk about the legal need to prosecute anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers for willfully endangering others and posing a possible terroristic threat.   

This week, Jeanine has an interview with Buzzflash editor and noted journalist/activist Mark Karlin. They discuss the COVID Wars and the need for possible criminal prosecution of those who willingly spread COVID as they also spread COVID denial, and anti-vaxx, anti-mask propaganda.  The argument is made that no one has a right to endanger others by willfully exposing them to airborne pathogens.

This week, I will discuss the DeSmog coverage of corporate greenwashing. In short, greenwashing IS premeditated fraud. Some may call it 'misinformation', which is the essential feature of fraud. Premeditated fraud is and has always been a criminal act, yet corporations are permitted a blank check on this act. This must stop.  In our environmental heroes, zeroes and villains, I will discuss...

This week on Progressive News Network, Jeanine will discuss the gross miscarriage of justice taking place in Missouri right now. Death Row inmate Ernest Johnson is scheduled to be executed this Tuesday by lethal injection. He was convicted of three grisly murders, yet the evidence also implicates an accomplice who was at the scene as well. That accomplice took a deal with the prosecutor to testify...