October 5
Paul Street, Author of
This Happened Here: the Trumping of America
Meeting # 3,787 - Paul Street, author and political commentator
Street will discuss the lessons and nature of Donald Trump’s (first?) presidency as detailed in his 2021 book This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America. He will further present a radical analysis of current fraught US political situation on the eve of the 2024 presidential and likely post-election scenarios.
Paul Street is an award-winning journalist, historian, author and speaker based in Iowa City, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois. Street has taught U.S. history at numerous Chicago-area colleges and universities. Paul currently publishes The Paul Street Report at https://paulstreet.substack.com/
Street’s writings, research findings, and commentary have been featured in a large number and wide variety of media venues, including The New York Times, CNN, Al Jazeera, RT, the Chicago Tribune, WGN (Chicago/national), WLS (ABC-Chicago), Fox News, and the Chicago Sun Times. He has been seen and/or appeared in more than 100 radio and television interviews/broadcasts.
Street is the author of ten books to date:
Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11;
Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era; Still Separate,
Unequal: Race, Place, Policy and the State of Black Chicago;
Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: a Living Black Chicago History;
Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics;
The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power; Crashing the
Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics;
They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy;
Hollow Resistance: Obama, Trump, and the Politics of Appeasement; This Happened Here:
Neoliberals, Amerikaners, and the Trumping of America.
October 26
Twilight of the Neocons / The Rise of the Multipolar World Order
Meeting # 3,790 - David Ramsay Steele, political commentator and author
The speaker states the talk will cover the rise of the Multipolar world order in which no one nation-state dominates the world.
Bio of David Ramsay Steele https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ramsay_Steele
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/david.r.steele.14/
Books by DRS
October 12
Punting on the One Yard Line
How the United States Ruling Class is Tearing the Entire Country, as well as the Planet, Apart
Meeting # 3,788 - college regular Jonathan Barton hopes to stop this process
The speaker states that "The United States ruling class, which is currently dominated by the political, economic, military, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, fossil fuel, corporate media, big agriculture, fundamentalist religion, intelligence (HA !) and surveillance establishment would rather allow their destructive system to tear the entire country, as well as the planet, apart rather than concede that WE THE PEOPLE have more than earned the right to self - govern, and that we are fully qualified, skilled, motivated, united and ready to independently enact structural change which reflects everyday folks values, dreams and hopes for a complete civic reordering of our communities. The result of WE THE PEOPLE 'VOLUTION' is a mutually agreed upon way of life based on PEACE / LOVE / EQUALITY / LIBERATION / DEMOCRACY / TRANSPARENCY / JUSTICE / SOLIDARITY ."
Corporate CEOs
October 19
Joe Kopsick Presents his Platform for Illinois State Assembly
Write-In, Independent, 60th District
Meeting # 3,789
College regular Joe Kopsick will present his platform for State Assembly (the lower house of the Illinois legislature), focusing on his own original legislative ideas. Topics discussed will include environment, taxes, debt, health care, housing, education, child protection, policing and emergency services, transportation, and elections.
The Ruling Class
