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Rich people from the States go to Puerto Rico to exploit wildly unequal tax laws. New York magazine described “a wave of mostly white mainlanders” that “has moved to Puerto Rico, buying real estate and being accused of pushing out locals who pay their full tax burden.” … These tax giveaways favoring non–Puerto Ricans are gross and unfair; you have to acknowledge in the same breath that money going to them is money not going to Puerto Rico’s energy systems, schools, hospitals, housing. We talk about the harms inflicted on Puerto Rico that have nothing to do with hurricanes, with Julio López Varona at the Center for Popular Democracy. Also: Customs and Border Protection released findings from an “internal investigation” declaring that no horse-riding Border Patrol agents actually hit any Haitian asylum seekers with their reins, as they chased them down on the Southern border last fall. How’s that for racist dismissal?

With Rachel Thunder and Attorney Kevin Sharp. At the end of September 2022, after Leonard Peltier’s 78th birthday, chances for his release are possibly better than ever before. His new attorney, Kevin Sharp, confirmed that no proof exists that ties Peltier to the 1975 deaths of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge reservation. Kevin Sharp is former Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, now in private practice. He agreed to take the Peltier case pro bono. And the Democratic National Convention voted unanimously on September 10, 2022, to urge President Biden to release Leonard Peltier from prison. The Huffington Post called this a sign of the growing momentum to remedy what many consider a decades long stain on the nation’s criminal justice system. ...

Scientists reach new conclusions about climate tipping points. YouTuber Simon Clark calls it “the scariest paper I’ve ever read”. From ocean currents to Arctic ice – the workings of this planet are not stable. Sixteen giant Earth systems can switch from one state to another, at temperatures close to present day. Everybody needs to get this. The new paper is titled: “Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points.” The lead author is UK scientist David Armstrong McKay. He is Research Consultant and Science Communicator from Georesilience Analytics. David is also associated with the University of Exeter and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

Today we take a long critical look at the history and role of the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a militarized security agency working in collaboration with Israel to enforce the occupation and colonization of Palestine. Professor Joseph Massad, who has done extensive research on the PA, addresses the issue in an Electronic Intifada Podcast. Massad teaches modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of several books, including Desiring Arabs and Islam and Liberalism. We have excerpted this podcast for presentation today. To see or hear its entirety, follow this link: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-45-palestinian-authority-and-other-collaborators (archive from 2-13-2022).

This week on Talk World Radio we’re talking with two members of Women for Weapons Trade Transparency (WWTT). They are Rosie Khan and Lillian Mauldin, both Founding Board Members. WWTT is a nonprofit promoting transparency of the weapons and arms trade. Their website is https://w2t2.org.