Once again, Pope Francis has spoken truth to power. At an event last Monday, the Pontiff spoke to 7,000 schoolchildren, and one of them asked him a question about war. In response, the Pope said, "Why so many powerful people do not want peace? Because they live off wars!" He called the $400 billion dollar global arms trade an "industry of death," and said that people who profit from making and selling weapons "make more money with the war!"

Even the children he was speaking to can understand that it is wrong to profit off of death and destruction. And, even young people can see that it's harder to achieve peace when we have such powerful forces working against that goal.

All over the world, huge corporations manufacture products that are designed to kill, and allow executives and investors to pretend like they're anything but war profiteers. Just like his comments on capitalism and greed, the Pope is right and it's time for the world to rethink our policy of perpetual war.

-Thom

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Tuesday's Daily Stack 

Article: "Obama's Pacific trade deal will not tame China" by Gideon Rachman.

Article: "Permanent normal trade relations: U.S. and China" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement" (TPP) by EFF.

Article: "Application of sharia law by country" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Elizabeth Warren Details Obama's Broken Trade Promises" by Zach Carter.

Article: "World spotlight on Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank" by Daleen Hassan.

Site: ObamaTrade.

Law: "Buy American Act", 1933.

Article: "White-On-White Crime Strikes Again In Waco" by Julia Craven.

Article: "My Son Died for Ramadi. Now ISIS Has It" by Michael Daly.

Article: "Congress plots to pay for a trade deal by raiding Medicare" by Michael Hiltzik.

Article: "New law allows cuts in multiemployer pensions" by Alicia H. Munnell.

Hour Two: How Do We Prevent Another Amtrak Disaster?
- Michael Sargent, Heritage Foundation 

Article: "Ignore Politicians Saying Amtrak Crash Is Proof More Funding Is Needed. We First Need to Know More" by Michael Sargent.

Article: "Maglev Train Record in Japan: Reaches 374 MPH for 11 Seconds" by Nick Sanchez.

Article: "Interstate Highway System" by Wikipedia.

 

Album: "Secret Treaties" by Blue �yster Cult.

Article: "1983 United States embassy bombing" (Lebanon) by Wikipedia.

Article: "USS Cole bombing" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bush Rejects Taliban Bin Laden Offer" by Kathy Gannon, 13 October 2001.

The good: "Russ Feingold running for Senate" by Jonathan Easley.

The bad: Stacey Dash: "Fox Host: Actresses Paid Less Than Male Co-Stars Should Be 'Grateful' To Be Cast" by Ahiza Garcia.

The very, very ugly: "Lindsey Graham Will Drone You for Thinking About Joining ISIS" by Evan McMurry.

Movie: "The Prosecution of an American President".

Book: The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Vincent Bugliosi.

Book: "Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders" by Vincent Bugliosi.

Article: "I've Read Obama's Secret Trade Deal. Elizabeth Warren Is Right to Be Concerned" by Michael Wessel.

Article: "Sanders: Make College Tuition-Free" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Sanders, Cummings File Bill on Rising Rx Prices: Taxpayers Would Save $1 Billion in 10 Years" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Michigan Bill would prohibit local wage, benefit agreements" by Alisha Green.

Article: "Texas Passes Ban on Fracking Bans (Yes, You Read that Right)" by Cole Mellino.

Article: "Forbidden Data: Wyoming just criminalized citizen science" by Justin Pidot.

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann (read online).

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Shocking Video: Texas Soldier Dies After Telling Jail Guards He Couldn't Breathe 20 Times" by Democracy Now!

Article: "February 15, 2003 anti-war protest" (Iraq war, largest anti-war rally in history) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Camp Casey, Crawford, Texas" (Cindy Sheehan, 2005) by Wikipedia.

Article: "If Bill Maher Made The Same Controversial 9/11 Comments Today, Would He Have Lost His Show?" by Andrew Kirell.

Article: "Phil Donahue on His 2003 Firing from MSNBC, When Liberal Network Couldn't Tolerate Antiwar Voices" by Democracy Now!

 

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief 

Article: "United Parcel Service To Pay $25 Million For False Delivery Claims" by Jim Donovan.

Article: "Conservative group's ad hits de Blasio for $15 minimum wage proposal" by Chris Isidore.

Article: "Time Is Now for Moral and Spiritual Revival in America, as Christianity Dwindles" by American Family Association.

Article: "After Nearly a Month, Clinton Finally Takes Questions" by Anna Merod.

Article: "State Department Aims To Release Clinton Emails In January 2016" by Nicholas Salazar.

Article: "Federal Judge Rejects State's 2016 Proposal For Clinton Emails" by Nicholas Salazar.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Article: "TRNS News Notes - 5/19" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 5/18" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: Why Baltimore "Suddenly" Matters to the Media
- Ralph Nader, Return to Sender 

Article: "Suddenly, Baltimore - Wonder Why?" by Ralph Nader.

Article: "How Baltimore and cities like it hold back poor black children as they grow up" by Emily Badger.

Book: "Only the Super-Rich can save us" by Ralph Nader.

Book: Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-right Alliance To Dismantle The Corporate State by Ralph Nader.

Article: "Report on the Subject of Manufactures" by Alexander Hamilton.

Article: "AFL-CIO's Trumka to Clinton: Candidates can't hedge bets" by Gabriel Debenedetti and Brian Mahoney.

Article: "In One Quote, Bernie Reveals the One Thing Preventing Free College From Becoming a Reality" by Gregory Krieg.

Article: "New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage" by David Cecere, September 17, 2009.

Article: "Section 215 of the Patriot Act Expires in June. Is Congress Ready?" by Nadia Kayyali.

Article: "None of the above" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams.

 

Article: "Sanders Fights Rising Drug Prices" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Quite a formula the oligarchs have developed" by Faryn Balyncd.

Article: "WTO Rejects U.S. Meat 'Origin' Labels" by Tennille Tracy.

Article: "Senators Fight Over Controversial Catfish Inspection Program" by Arlette Saenz.

Article: "Another Side of Tilapia, the Perfect Factory Fish" by Elisabeth Rosenthal.

Site: "USITC Tariff Database".

Movie: "Hoffa".

Book: Hoffa by Arthur A. Sloane.

Article: "Remembering Malcolm X on His 90th Birthday" by Democracy Now!

Article: "Obama to Limit Military-Style Equipment for Police Forces" by Julie Hirschfeld Davis.

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