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Friday Nite Videos | January 25, 2019

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Ari Melber Interview With Four Key Mueller Witnesses. Redemption (feat Jessie Davis) – Baba Brinkman Music Video. Get Me Roger Stone | Movie Trailer. Bernie Sanders on the End of the Government Shutdown. P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo.

Elizabeth Warren's Wealth Tax Is Constitutional, and Necessary

Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times
The concentration of wealth in America has reached levels that make the gilt of the 19th century Gilded Age look like dross. There’s sound economic and social sense in taxing the hell out of excessive incomes and excessive wealth.

The Elite’s Crusade to Save the World Without Changing A Thing

Anand Giridharadas The Guardian
The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Today’s new titans of tech and finance want to solve the world’s problems, as long as the solutions never, ever threaten their own wealth and power. These plutocrats believe capitalism’s winners, not its victims, should supervise all social change.

Impeach Donald Trump (long)

Yoni Appelbaum The Atlantic
Starting the process will rein in a president who is undermining American ideals—and bring the debate about his fitness for office into Congress, where it belongs. The Atlantic is the first major publication to call for Trump's impeachment.

The Young Left’s Anti-Capitalist Manifesto

Clare Malone FiveThirtyEight
Its goal is to remake our economic system — and the Democratic Party. Since the 2016 election, the left’s political and cultural influence has ballooned. Membership in DSA grew exponentially during the first years of the Trump administration.

Remembering a South African Freedom Fighter Called ‘Yahabibi’

Jeff Klein Mondoweiss
During the the famous series of battles around Cuito Canavale in Southern Angola in 1987-8, Wiseman, with his ability to monitor the South African communications, worked as a radio operator with the Cuban and Angolan forces defending the city.
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