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‘Green News Report’ – November 4, 2025

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Musk’s Privatized Internet Satellite System Threatens U.S. National Security

Why the FAA should revoke the billionaire's license to own and operate Starlink, and federal law must be amended to nationalize it...

Trump’s Project 2025/Agenda 47 is ‘The Final Dagger in the Heart of the Civil Service’: ‘BradCast’ 9/4/2024

Guest: Jacqueline Simon of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE); Also: Tabulation prob in MA primary; GOP U.S. Senate nominee in MT caught using racial slurs against Native Americans...

Evidence Fails to Establish Attempted Trump Assassination Was Politically Motivated

Underscoring absurdity of Trump claim of 'taking a bullet for democracy'...

UPDATE: 8/29/24: New FBI release confirms our conclusions...

Trump Judge Upholds Inflation Reduction Act’s Mandate for Medicare to Negotiate Drug Pricing

'No one is entitled to sell the Government drugs at prices the Government won't agree to pay,' federal judge rules...

‘Winning Begets Winning’: U.S. Labor Movement Rising First Time in Decades: ‘BradCast’ 9/18/2023

Guest: UC-Santa Barbara labor historian and author, Nelson Lichtenstein...

How Reagan’s Veto Gave Birth to Today’s Mendacious Right-Wing Media Echo Chamber

And how the Fairness Doctrine, extended to cable, could have prevented Jan. 6 and the threat to democracy's survival...

Why Reagan Undermining the Hostage Release in Iran to Defeat Carter in 1980 Still Matters Today: ‘BradCast’ 3/27/2023

Guest: Investigative journalist, author, Russ Baker; Also: Climate change and tornadoes; Fox 'News' is 'tired' of school shootings...

Harbingers of Republican Implosion: ‘BradCast’ 3/21/2023

Uncertainty and necessity of Trump indictment(s); Bragg ponders 'perp walk' protocol; MAGA fears a protest 'trap'; Fox 'News' eating its own...

Reagan’s Big Government Gift to Big Pharma is Still Giving and Still Killing: ‘BradCast’ 9/16/2022

Guest: Ernest A. Canning on that and CA's big step toward socialized medications; Also: Trump's election theft effort on GA prosecutor's mind; GOP Senate nom no longer an election denier (now that he won the nomination); Patagonia gives away the company to save the planet...

As COVID Continues, Reagan’s Gift to Big Pharma is Still Endangering Global Health

Dismantling pharmaceutical monopolies begins with repealing his 1987 Executive Order giveaway...

Arizona’s Rightwing A.G. Finds No Evidence of 2020 Fraud in Maricopa: ‘BradCast’ 4/12/2022

Also: Brooklyn subway shooting; NY Lt. Gov. indicted; What you don't know about inflation; Biden taps ethanol to further lower gas prices...

While Beneficial, Federal Court Intervention Won’t Resolve Los Angeles Homelessness Crisis

Lengthy opinion exposes century of entrenched racism, corruption and indifference but overlooks extreme predatory capitalist inequality...

UPDATE, 9/24/21: 9th Circuit Overturns Injunction

With Reaganesque Optimism, Biden’s Address Signals End of Reagan Era: ‘BradCast’ 4/29/2021

Guests: Salon's Heather Digby Parton, Pro Left Podcast's 'Driftglass'...

Prime Time for Joe Biden: ‘BradCast’ 3/12/2021

Guest: Salon's Heather Digby Parton on the new President's unexpected progressivism, 'the death knell of Republican ideology,' and 'a very consequential battle over the future of American politics'...

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