Ghosts in Kroger's Kitchen. ~~ Pat Garofolo

 https://boondoggle.substack.com/p/ghosts-in-krogers-kitchen

Time to End the Medicare Advantage Scam ~~ Thom Hartman

https://hartmannreport.com/p/time-to-end-the-medicare-advantage

State Secrets ~~ Pat Garofalo

https://boondoggle.substack.com/p/state-secrets

Apple Schools North Carolina PLUS: The Amazon HQ2 displacement era begins ~~ Pat Garofalo

https://boondoggle.substack.com/p/apple-schools-north-carolina

'Catastrophe' Feared as 35 Million People Are Set to Lose Jobless Aid in 3 Days ~~ Jake Johnson

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/09/03/catastrophe-feared-35-million-people-are-set-lose-jobless-aid-3-days

"Millions will suffer as they lose this critical source of income and the loss of spending will suppress job growth."

Can ordinary people run society? ~~ Paul D'Amato

https://socialistworker.org/2007-1/620/620_11_RunSociety.php

The Meaning of “Open Borders” ~~ JACOB HORNBERGER

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/25/the-meaning-of-open-borders/

What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire. ~~ Howard Zinn

https://scheerpost.com/2021/08/16/what-the-classroom-didnt-teach-me-about-the-american-empire/

Bees ~~ Dimitri Pisarev

http://www.thebellforum.net/Bell2/www.thebellforum.com/content8304.html?r=22-Bees-by-Dimitri-Pisarev

Say No to Water Privatization in the Infrastructure Bill

https://inthesetimes.com/article/open-letter-bipartisan-infrastructure-water-privatization

Water costs have soared in recent years as federal funding for water infrastructure has shrunk. Privatization is the last thing we need.

Medicare for ALL ~~ Article by Natalie Shure

https://portside.org/2021-07-27/well-never-fix-hospitals-price-gouging-if-we-dont-break-their-stranglehold-congress

M4A

Rather than force hospitals to be up front with patients about their costs, we should strip them of the power to set them.

A Nighttime Walk Without Bugs or Bats ~~ DAVE LINDORFF

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/20/a-nighttime-walk-without-bugs-or-bats/

Lawns....  and the environmental catastrophe they bring with them.  Very few authors are speaking up against the violent destruction of the prettification of the natural world...  I invite each person to go out and look around - daytime at night...  Listen to the silence...  Where are the insects and birds?  Kudos to Lindorff for writing this ~~ NB

Socialism and the Intellectuals ~~ Paul Lafargue Socialism and the Intellectuals

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lafargue/1900/03/socint.htm

MARX AND ENGELS ON IDEOLOGY

https://mltoday.com/from-the-classics-marx-and-engels-on-ideology/

Cuban President Díaz-Canel: Revolutionaries to the Streets!

https://www.liberationnews.org/cuban-president-diaz-canel-revolutionaries-to-the-streets/

Massive Inequality Is a Feature of Capitalism, Not a Bug ~~ Richard Wolff

https://inthesetimes.com/article/inequality-capitalism-biden-administration-economy

MUSIC THREAD - Hallelujah I’m A Bum!

How about a music thread for a change?

United States Withdraws From Afghanistan? Not Really ~~ NOAM CHOMSKY – VIJAY PRASHAD

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/07/united-states-withdraws-from-afghanistan-not-really/

Mr. Anonymous and the Not-So-Spontaneous Birth of the Libertarian "Movement" ~~ Anaxarchos (Marxist, labor organizer, writer, researcher)

http://www.thebellforum.net/Bell2/www.thebellforum.com/contentaff6.html?r=14-Not-So-Spontaneous-Birth-of-the-Libertarian-Movement

and 

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0812/S00378/mr-anonymous-the-libertarian-movement.htm

Amazon Hires Off-Duty Cops to Harass Workers, the Press, and Supporters ~~ Madeleine Freeman

https://www.leftvoice.org/amazon-hires-off-duty-cops-to-harass-workers-the-press-and-supporters

Bessemer, Alabama’s police chief has confirmed that off-duty officers have been hired by Amazon to act as “security” for the BHM1 facility in the middle of a historic and intense union drive. Two Left Voice reporters who were recently expelled from Amazon’s premises by the cops: report from the ground.