A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago today:
LA Times op-ed

Everybody’s heard of the My Lai massacre — March 16, 1968, 50 years ago today — but not many know about the man who stopped it: Hugh Thompson, an Army helicopter pilot. When he arrived, American soldiers had already killed 504 Vietnamese civilians (that’s the Vietnamese count; the U.S. Army said 347). They were going to kill more, but they didn’t — because of what Thompson did. . . .
. . . continued at  LATimes.com HERE
3/16/2018

Robert Reich: It’s Time to Fight for the Common Good

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Jon Wiener: There’s a familiar Republican argument against the idea of the common good: It’s my responsibility to do what’s best for me and my family. It’s your responsibility to take care of yourself. If you have problems, health problems or job problems or family problems, that’s too bad—but it’s not my problem. The state should not force me to pay for your problems. You should take responsibility for yourself. I think you’ve probably heard this argument.
Robert Reich: I’ve heard it for a very long time. It’s absurd. . .
TheNation.com 3/16/2018

David Corn on Trump & Putin; Peter Dreier on Disney workers; The Man who Stopped the My Lai massacre

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Why is there no Trump Tower in Moscow?  David Corn talks about Trump, Putin and his new book, “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump.”
Plus: Is Disneyland really the happiest place on earth? Peter Dreier says, “no, not for the workers.” Dreier, Professor of Political Science at Occidental College, was also part of the research team that produced an Economic Roundtable report, “Working for the Mouse: A Survey of Disneyland Employees,” released February, 2018.
Also: March 16 marks the 50th anniversary of the My Lai massacre; we talk with Hugh Thompson, the pilot who stopped the killing fifty years ago.   3/15/2018

Robert Reich: Donald Trump vs. the Common Good; Plus, the man who stopped the My Lai massacre, and Katha Pollitt on Russiagate skeptics

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Robert Reich says it’s time to turn away from the unbridled greed and selfishness of the Age of Trump and restore the ideal of the common good. Reich was Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Labor; his new book is ‘The Common Good.’
Also: Katha Pollitt takes up the central arguments of those on the left who are Russiagate skeptics, who say that focusing on Russian interference in the election means neglecting more important things, and that, so far, nothing proves that Trump and Putin colluded in the election campaign.
Plus: March 16 is the 50th anniversary of the My Lai massacre. We have an interview with the man who stopped the My Lai massacre, American helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson.
The Nation Podcast, 3/14/2018

Chris Hayes: What Trump Means When He Says He’s “Strong on Crime” plus Gary Younge on Kids and Guns and Michael Walzer on the Left

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“For Donald Trump, crime is not a problem to be solved; it is a weapon to be wielded”—against people of color and immigrants: Chris Hayes talks about how Trump has transformed this long-standing weapon of the right. His book “A Colony in a Nation” is out now in paperback, with a new afterword. Chris is an editor-at-large of The Nation.
Plus: Gary Younge explains how the Parkland kids are changing the fight for gun control. He knows a lot about kids and guns—he wrote the award-winning book “Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives.”
And Michael Walzer argues that a foreign policy for the left has to begin with internationalism, and with the choice of comrades. His new book is “A Foreign Policy for the Left.” He wrote about “A Solidarity of Leftists” for The Nation. 3/8/18

How Those Parkland Kids are Changing Gun Politics: George Zornick, plus Jane McAlevey on Unions

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The mass shooting at that high school in Parkland, Florida is still in the news, because of the brilliant political work being done by the students there. George Zornick analyzes the big picture: the decline of the gun industry, the growth in support for an assault weapons ban, and campaigns to shame companies that support the NRA.
Plus: Last week the supreme court heard a case that could cripple public-sector unions, some of the last strong unions in America. Jane McAlevey talks about Janus v. AFSCME and what the unions need to do to recover the ground they have lost. 3/8/18

How the Parkland Kids Are Beating the Gun Industry: George Zornick, plus Jane McAlevey on Unions & Amy Wilentz on the Trump Kids

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The mass shooting at that high school in Parkland, Florida is still in the news, because of the brilliant political work by those students. George Zornick analyzes the big picture.
Plus: This week the supreme court heard a case that could cripple public-sector unions. Jane McAlevey talks about Janus v. AFSCME and what the unions need to do to recover the ground they have lost.
And we have another episode of The Children’s Hour: stories from Amy Wilentz—this week, about Ivanka in Korea, Don Junior in India, and Jared in trouble—over his security clearance. 3/1/2018

Is it time to break up Amazon? Stacy Mitchell, plus Bryce Covert on low wage workers

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Amazon is a radically new kind of monopoly that seeks to control all of online commerce. Stacy Mitchell says it’s time for anti-trust action to separate the Amazon Marketplace from Amazon’s own retail operations.
Also: Why have wages stagnated since the seventies? Bryce Covert says one reason is the mandatory noncompete and no-poaching agreements that prevent low-wage workers from taking better-paying jobs. California has made them unenforceable; the rest of the states should do the same.  3/1/2018

It’s Time to Break Up Amazon—Stacy Mitchell; plus Bryce Covert on low wage workers and Bob Dreyfuss on the Russiagate Indictments

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Amazon is a radically new kind of monopoly that seeks to control all of online commerce. Stacy Mitchell says it’s time for anti-trust action to separate the Amazon Marketplace from Amazon’s own retail operations.
Also: Why have wages stagnated since the seventies? Bryce Covert says one reason is the mandatory noncompete and no-poaching agreements that prevent low-wage workers from taking better-paying jobs. California has made them unenforceable; the rest of the states should do the same.
Plus: Bob Dreyfuss explains the indictments of 13 Russians for crimes that involved supporting Trump for president—and talks about the next steps Special Counsel Robert Mueller might take—following the trail left by the Russian hacker group “Cozy Bear.” 2/21/2018