Friday Nite Videos | June 10, 2022

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Chairman Bennie Thompson's Opening Statement at Jan. 6 Hearing. Rep. Liz Cheney's January 6 Hearing Presentation. Filmmaker Nick Quested Recalls Documenting Jan. 6 Attack. The Janes | Trailer. Insurrectionists Experience Consequences As Jan. 6th Hearings Begin.

Thomas Piketty’s Case for ‘Participatory Socialism’

Ezra Klein The New York Times
Piketty’s new book, “A Brief History of Equality,” is perhaps his most optimistic work. Piketty proposes a truly radical policy agenda — a universal minimum inheritance, worker control over the boards of corporations and “confiscatory” levels of wealth and income taxation — that he calls “participatory socialism.”

Jan 6 Was an Attempted Coup D’Etat

Cline Center’s Coup D’état Project
Using the Cline Center’s Coup D’état Project definitions, we classify the storming of the US Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 as an attempted coup d’état: an organized, illegal attempt to intervene in the presidential transition by displacing the power of the Congress to certify the election.

Can Ms. Marvel Change the Image of Islam in America?

Juan Cole Informed Comment
In the first episode of this tv series, the 16-year-old Pakistani-American superhero despairs of being allowed to go to a comic book convention, saying, “Anyway, it is not as if the brown girls are the ones who save the world.” Obviously, the point of this series is to disprove this defeatist point of view.

Rep. Liz Cheney's January 6 Hearing Presentation

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) presented a roadmap for the indictment of Donald Trump, including video testimony from former Trump officials ex-Attorney General Bill Barr and ex-Senior Advisor Ivanka Trump.