MONDAY 12.01.25 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday December 1, 2025
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Can farmers help reduce harmful algal blooms in New York’s Finger Lakes? (00:01:30)
Reducing pollution runoff from their fields could help prevent algal blooms that lead to beach closures.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #78: Fake Meat (00:29:00)
What is plant based meat made out of?
What do the majority of Americans think about animal meat vs. plant-based meat?
What are flexitarians?
What about the need for protein?
What’s in the meatless stuff?
Meat substitutes: What is Heme?
Does it really matter how food is produced?
Fast food plant-based foods
What new on the horizon? the Cultured Meat Industry in 2020?
https://bluerockstation.podbean.com
ECONOMIC UPDATE: The Key Concept of ‘Surplus’ in Economics (00:29:00)
On today’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers an introduction to the key economic concept of the surplus.” He explains economic structures as ways of organizing the production and social distribution of the surplus. Then he briefly applies this concept to the economies of slavery and feudalism before focusing on the role of the surplus in capitalism. Finally, we use the surplus to delineate the ways alternative post-capitalist systems, such as socialism or communism, distribute it.
https://economicupdate.libsyn.com
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: How Banks Took Over Almost Every World Government (00:57:59)
Wisdom School Lesson: In Defense of Dirt: Rewilding Our Children Before Their Bodies Forget. Investigative reporter Greg Palast joins Thom Hartmann for a shocking revelation detailing how the banking sector took over almost every world government. With scrutiny of Larry Summers, Epstein and the End Game Memo.
SPIRIT IN ACTION: Confronting Big Brother In America – Thom Hartmann (00:55:00)
(Originally aired 3/12/2022) Thom Hartmann’s completely articulate voice & extensive knowledge & insights all combine to insure his place as the USA’s #1 progressive talk show host. His more than 30 books are equally compelling, and today we talk with Thom about his latest, The Hidden one of the most articulate voices of progressive radio in the USA, and he’s a compelling writer as well. His most recent book is The Hidden History of Big Brother In America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy and it combines history, current events, & clear-sighted analysis or the way forward.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 17 (00:24:48)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
https://librivox.org/the-jungle-by-upton-sinclair
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
GREEN STREET with PATTI and DOUG WOOD: THE SUGAR SCANDAL (00:29:00)
The sugar industry has spent years downplaying the health impacts of sugar and promoting the use of fluoride in public water supplies. In the news this week, Patti and Doug talk about a new warning on plastic pollution and children’s health, how play sand in Australia has been found to be laced with asbestos, and the EPA’s head-scratching approval of another PFAS pesticide ingredient. Then scientific researcher Chris Neurath talks about his work uncovering documents that show how the sugar industry manipulated science and worked secretly behind the scenes to support community fluoridation programs despite evidence of fluoride’s neurotoxicity and links to other serious health impacts.
https://www.greenstreetnews.org
THE BRADCAST: 11/28/2025 Encore: President of United States Calls for Killing Democratic Officials (00:58:00)
Encore: Original airdate 11-20-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: The pathetic, desperate coward in the White House, Donald Trump, called for six Democratic members of Congress, all veterans, to be executed for sedition after they published a video accurately advising all U.S. military service members that they are required by law to reject unlawful orders. Republicans, who have pretended for months to be furious about political violence, today remained silent or lied to cover up for Trump. A senior military attorney warned that Trump’s killings of civilians in boat strikes off the Caribbrean and Pacific coasts are unlawful, but was overruled. Federal prosecutors dropped a bunch of cases against people who protested federal immigration raids in Chicago. The Trump Administration’s new plans to drill off the coasts of California and Florida face ferocious opposition. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675