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The latest decision on Roe v. Wade must prove what a fascist arm of the oligarchy the SCOTUS is. Little has been decided in favor of the people as opposed to the rulers, owners of this country. From segregation to the latest gutting of the Voting Rights Act, this “legislative branch” is nothing more than a boondoggle. Moreover, if you think the Democrats are just beside themselves over this turn of events, you’re an idiot. Sorry, but we got here, mollycoddling the less than serious.   Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https://www.patreon.com/thebittertruth, or http://abeabdelhadi.substack.com

After a few necessary detours, we get into why and how a $25/hr minimum wage is due. We discuss how we got here and real ideas in how to actually afford a $25/hr wage for all working Americans. Every 4-7 years, we bailout capitalism but we can’t see our way clear to take care of taxpayers who do the work to afford the elite the profits? After over a decade of bailouts, that we’re still having this discussion is pathetic.   Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https://www.patreon.com/thebittertruth  

Matthew Hoh (https://www.matthewhohforsenate.org/) joins us to talk about his platform and the big reasons he’s running for U.S. Senate for North Carolina.   He’s a veteran of three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, resigning in protest in 2010 as a Marine officer. We get into real fixes on the wars, the economy, healthcare, his experience in combat, the whole gamut. All that’s needed is the will to do these things. Who does that will serve now? Mr. Hoh is a recipient of the Ridenhour Award and a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy. Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https://www.patreon.com/thebittertruth  

Friend of the show and activist, Cindy Sheehan (http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/) joins us to discuss the current war in Ukraine, relations with Russia and China and how the U.S. is stalled pushing the pieces around the global board. Could the dollar crash? Is nuclear war an option? What is the current mania for war and censorship among the so called American liberal based on? Cindy Sheehan has been an anti-war activist since she lost her son in 2004 in the Iraq War. Her new article, Protecting Democracy, My A$$; or How Liberals Love to Swallow (Democrat Agitprop) can be found on her site. She is also the author of books suchas Peace Mom, Dear President Bush, Revolution: a Love Story and The Obama Files. Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https://www.patreon.com/thebittertruth  

Friend of the show, and Medicare for All activist, Lisa Theobald (https://americanhealthsecurityproject.org/) joins us to talk about the state by state strategy to bring Medicare for All to the United States. Hard facts and hard numbers are a breath of fresh air among the noise. Theobald is on the Steering Committee for the American Health Security Project. She’s been a political advisor for health care and ground penetration of demographics specific to marginalized communities. She also has been a healthcare finance professional in the 10 years starting prior to the ACA concluding in 2019. Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https://www.patreon.com/thebittertruth

Texas Green Party candidate for governor, Delilah Barrios (https://delilahfortexas.com/) joins us to talk about her campaign and the big picture in U.S. policy. She is a healthcare worker who sees the failings of the current system and is working to make a change. Legalizing pot, Medicare for all in the state of Texas, gay rights (yes, it’s still a thing), and a living wage and UBI are just a few of the many things we talked about. She’s running against Beto O’Rourke and Greg Abbot, so we’ll have to see what the people will show up for.   Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https://www.patreon.com/thebittertruth    

We get into a play by play of how Democratic administrations get away with infinitely more than a Republican administration can. We compare Reagan/Bush I to Clinton, to Bush II, to Obama and finally Trump to Biden. Is anyone noticing how Biden and his policies (with little exception) are merely an extension and acceleration of Trump’s policies? How the so-called liberal can say they’re happy with Biden and the so-called conservative can think Biden is a communist is laughable. All of these observations and points will guarantee that you too can be no fun at parties… Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https://www.patreon.com/thebittertruth

Friend of the show, and medical veteran, Dr. Joe Jarvis (https://americanhealthsecurityproject.org/) joins us to talk about the state of the union in American healthcare. We get into the state by state movements that are happening because that’s how Medicare for all is going to happen. The money is there. 20% of U.S. GDP is spent on healthcare, it’s simply not helping the American taxpayer. In addition to being on the national steering committee for the American Health Security Project, Dr. Jarvis has been practicing medicine for over 30 years and was a state health officer in Nevada. He is the author of the Purple World and the forthcoming the Hurt of My People.   Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https://www.patreon.com/thebittertruth  

Now that the case for mandates is approaching a fever pitch, it’s safe to say the American Electorate is being had again. Just like gays, guns, and abortion, mandates are fast becoming the litmus for people. “Do you believe science or are you a Trumper?” is usually how these discussions go. The dirty secret, however, is the so called liberal in the U.S. is every bit as shallow and clueless as their right-wing counterparts. That means you… Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https://www.patreon.com/thebittertruth  

The 1972 Munich Olympics was a watershed moment in world history. Black September took 11 Israeli athletes hostage and the result was not as the Germans would have hoped, “nobody wanted dead Jews in Germany.” As a 9 year old boy, I was faced with who my parents were, specifically my dad. It was the first time I had to admit to myself that yes, I was “different.” As life went on, there were a lot of things I had to deal with in this regard. I began to learn that we, as a nation, are the victims of propaganda. American Exceptionalism, however, ignores the victims of imperialism. We’ll be covering a lot of that later but for now, I was 9… Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https://www.patreon.com/thebittertruth  

Taken from James DiEugenio’s 2013 book, Reclaiming Parkland, we get into a sort of primer for the uninitiated. There are many aspects to the murder of JFK but one thing seems to be a constant, and that is Lee Harvey Oswald was not a “lone nut,” and the infamous “single bullet theory,” was a fabrication. The Warren Commission had more in common with the Washington Generals than an actual investigation. In addition to the DiEugenio book, we highly recommend Oliver Stone’s Showtime documentary, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass. Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https://www.patreon.com/thebittertruth

Dr. Joseph Q. Jarvis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18dlLa_MVdY) joins us to talk about the overdue need for real healthcare reform in the U.S. We get into what’s wrong, who really owns it, who benefits and where we need to go fast. We’re not even close to behind the rest of the industrialized world. Dr. Jarvis has been practicing medicine for over 30 years and was a state health officer in Nevada. He is the author of the Purple World and the forthcoming the Hurt of My People.   Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https://www.patreon.com/thebittertruth    

Does anyone wonder why we seem to move from outrage to outrage, without ever addressing the bad actors in the previous debacle? We talk about how the U.S. population is easily manipulated into hating the other without looking at who’s pulling the strings and why. If you have a habit of always yelling “hooray for our side,” this may be required listening. The system is the problem. Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https://www.patreon.com/thebittertruth

Award winning comedian, author, and friend of the show, Andrew Heaton (https://mightyheaton.com/) joins us to talk about U.S foreign and domestic policy and the hypocrisy of both. We get into both party’s policies and their tone-deaf responses here and abroad. Heaton is the host of “The Political Orphanage” comedy and news podcast. He’s a frequent Reason TV contributor as well as a former congressional staffer. Having worked in Washington D.C., he is also an accomplished comedian and author of “Laughter is Better Than Communism.” Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https://www.patreon.com/thebittertruth

Friend of the show, longtime activist and host of Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox, Cindy Sheehan (http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/) joins us to talk about the latest whitewashing of yet another war criminal and how this is more than a trend. America loves war and there seems to be no two ways about it. Ms. Sheehan has been on the front lines of regime change wars since lost her son in 2004 in Iraq. She also ran as an independent against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https://www.patreon.com/thebittertruth

What do the two parties have in common? What do you hear most when the ruling class wants us to behave and in our reliable place? Unity! Be unified! This is code for being compliant. We get into some examples and ask you to think. Here’s an essay written on the compliance that I predicted we’d be enjoying today. It goes with the theme of the podcast. https://thebittertruth.info/blog/lullaby-and-goodnight Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https://www.patreon.com/thebittertruth

After the Oakland Unified Schools debacle, in the 90s, many thought Ebonics was extinct. However, as we have seen in the U.S., if something can keep people down, we really can’t quit it. This is a frank discussion on the difference between language and slang. Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https://www.patreon.com/thebittertruth  

Actress, writer and activist, Jennifer Jajeh, joins us to discuss show biz in the age of Israeli apartheid and how, even in the U.S., free speech isn’t quite free. We get into her one woman show, I Heart Hamas, and her time living in the West Bank during the first Intifada. Jajeh is a Palestinian-American actress, comedian and writer from San Francisco, California. She received a bachelor’s degree in History and Philosophy from UCLA and received her actor's training at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York City. She toured her one woman play, I Heart Hamas, for over five years in the U.S. Europe and the Mid-East. Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https://www.patreon.com/thebittertruth  

Activist, author, speaker and friend of the show, Miko Peled (https://www.patreon.com/mikopeled) Joins us to discuss the ongoing land grab and slaughter of Palestinians by Israel. The so-called ceasefire made the American media go to sleep, not the IDF. He details the illegal arrests and the bulldozing of Palestinian homes inside the State of Israel as well as bombing Gaza and stolen homes in the West Bank. Is Israel a true democracy or merely another Mideast theocracy, not unlike Saudi Arabia, proving yet again that we can’t reform apartheid? Peled is a renowned activist for Palestinian rights and the author of the General’s Son and Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five. Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https://www.patreon.com/thebittertruth

Two time Texas Senate candidate, and friend of the show, Sema Hernandez joins us to discuss the reality of ballot access and viable alternatives to the one party system. Spoiler alert: I sound like a crazy person. Ms. Hernandez has run for the Texas Democratic nomination for the Senate in 2018 and 2020. In 2018, she garnered nearly 300,000 votes on a budget of $4,000 against Robert “Beto” Francis O’Rourke. His budget was over $4 million, barely doubling the votes Hernandez received. The 2020 race was an even bigger corporate grease fire as the DNC rounded up 11 candidates to crowd the field before confused voters settled on MJ Hegar. She went on to lose to Ted Cruz. Good Times… Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https://www.patreon.com/thebittertruth