• Independent voters in California need to know a magical phrase to vote in the 2020 Democratic primary. You’ll learn it in my opening monologue — this week on Redacted Tonight

• I have two interviews for you this week with an expert on the Middle East & the director of an advocacy organization fighting to get the influence of big money out of politics — on this episode of VIP

• I review the Warren campaign’s attack on Sanders & introduce an idea for why Nancy Pelosi waited until two weeks before Primary voting started to begin the impeachment — in this installment of Moment Of Clarity

• We look at the true legacy of MLK, how the fossil fuel industry is using their political power to exploit ‘public’ lands, & more — on my podcast with Eleanor Goldfield, Common Censored

• Corporate greed is playing a hand in the mass death of bees. Big surprise! — from The Intercept

• The right-wing Brazilian government had plans to support terrorism in Venezuela, yet English-speaking media chose not to report the story — from The Grayzone

• Climate change had a role in the the intensity of the Australian wildfires but economic inequality determined who suffered the most — from Truthout

• I just received the first copies of my newest book Bullet Points & Punch Lines — your pre-order copies should be shipping soon — to buy your own visit LeeCampBook.com

• For my fans in & around Philadelphia - this is your last change to get tickets for my live stand-up comedy show this Sunday! Saturday is already sold out — get details at RedactedTour.com

Welcome back!

I’m pumped for you all to get hold of my newest book. I’ve been given the opportunity to undermine corporate narratives, argue for a peaceful future, and celebrate the end of all wars. (One can hope.)

It makes a great gift for friends and family who need to be woken up.

Enjoy this edition of The Ledger. Keep fighting!

- Lee

The Fake Sanders V. Warren Fight

Primaries Rigged, MLK "Santasized," Motherhood Criminalized, Drones Over U.S. Skies

The Truth About Iran & Iraq w/ Rania Khalek

How CA Primary Voters Will Be Robbed, Excuses For Assassination Collapse

Australia’s Fires Show How Wealth Inequality Compounds Climate Disasters

Truthout | Sharon Zhang

This is not the first time that Australia has been devastatingly burned. More than ten years ago, in February 2009, fires in Australia killed 173 people, injured thousands more and destroyed 2,000 homes. The day of the February 2009 blaze, which became known as Black Saturday, constituted the country’s most deadly wildfire event in history. The fires were sudden and moved with alarming speed.

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Brazil’s far-right government backed terror plot against Venezuela, top newspaper reveals

The Grayzone | Ben Norton

Brazil’s extreme Bolsonaro government backed an attack on Venezuela in a plot to overthrow its elected president. The shocking terror operation has received no coverage in mainstream US media.

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The Playbook For Poisoning The Earth

The Intercept | Lee Fang

in September 2009, over 3,000 bee enthusiasts from around the world descended on the city of Montpellier in southern France for Apimondia — a festive beekeeper conference filled with scientific lectures, hobbyist demonstrations, and commercial beekeepers hawking honey. But that year, a cloud loomed over the event: bee colonies across the globe were collapsing, and billions of bees were dying.

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Come to a live taping of Redacted Tonight in DC on every Thursday evening that you can in 2020. I’ll also be taking my book tour for Bullet Points & Punch Lines to Philly, Austin, Dallas and more.

Get details and reserve your tickets at RedactedTour.com.

Keep fighting!

- Lee

• It now seems the false flag playbook was used to try to create war with Iran. I go through all the evidence — in this episode of Moment Of Clarity

• On my main show this week you’ll learn the REAL reasons why the militarists want war with Iran — on Redacted Tonight this week

• In studio this week I spoke with 2 young activists who’re fighting for the freedom of Julian Assange. Also, Garland Nixon came in to discuss Iran — on this episode of VIP

• The Afghanistan Papers proved that the war over there was based on & maintained through lies. People died so our war machine could continue to thrive — in my latest article on TruthDig

• Eleanor & I report on the corporate media’s constant attacks on Bernie Sanders, California’s fraudulent electoral system, & successes for the French protesters — on this week’s episode of my podcast Common Censored

• Jingoistic patriots love to claim that our all-volunteer army makes America great but this idea fails to address the reality that without insane inequality & poverty our military would struggle to find ‘volunteers’ — from The Real News

• Big Tech cannot help but show their true colors by suppressing voices critical of US regime change ops in Iran, Venezuela, & Bolivia — on The Grayzone

• There has been a national outcry after Oakland PD violentely cracked down on the advocacy group “Moms 4 Housing” — on Common Dreams

• A Mississippi prison that had repeatedly been refused the funding it needed to operate safely experienced immense violence & human rights abuses. It could’ve been avoided — on ProPublica

• You can watch a live taping of Redacted Tonight for FREE in Washington DC every Thursday evening. Come by some time this year — details and tickets at RedactedTour.com

Welcome back to The Ledger,

There’s a lot of HEAVY news this week so I’ll save this space for something adorable (which also has a heavy context but I do what I can to make you smile). Apparently Australian wombats are herding animals into their burrows as they flee from the wildfires.

They’re furry fucking heroes. Anyway, keep fighting!

- Lee

Fake Reasons Given To Create War With Iran

The War in Afghanistan Is a Fraud (and Now We Have Proof)

Bombs have numbers. Humans have names. Our American military boasts a skill and passion for using numbers to turn names into yet more numbers. But these numbers have grown so gargantuan and out of control that one struggles to comprehend them.

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Iraq, Bernie & French Protesters All Attacked

Everything You Need To Know About Iran

The Real Reasons Behind War With Iran

Lawmakers Refused to Increase an Infamous Prison’s Funding. Then, Chaos Erupted.

ProPublica, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting | Jerry Mitchell

Understaffed and underfunded, Mississippi’s Parchman prison recently received media attention for its grisly violence, gang control and subhuman living conditions. However, lawmakers have known about these issues for years and have done nothing to fix them.

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Despite Community Protest, Militarized Police Remove Housing Rights Activists From Oakland Home in Pre-Dawn Raid

Common Dreams | Eoin Higgins

Members of the advocacy group "Moms 4 Housing" were forceably evicted from a home they were occupying in Oakland early Tuesday morning by armored police, hours after community members turned out in force to show support for the coalition of homeless and marginally housed mothers pushing to end the housing crisis in the Bay Area. 

"We've built a movement of thousands of Oaklanders who showed up at a moments notice to reject police violence and advocate for homes for families," the group's Twitter account said shortly after the arrests Tuesday. "This isn't over, and it won't be over until everyone in the Oakland community has a safe and dignified place to live."

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Under US pressure, social media companies censor critical content and suspend Venezuelan, Iranian, and Syrian accounts

The Grayzone | Ben Norton

As the US escalates its hybrid wars, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are suspending accounts and censoring content that conflicts with Washington’s pro-war narrative. The Grayzone spoke to several people silenced in these social media purges.

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Poverty Is the New Draft

The Real News | Jacqueline Luqman

The draft might be gone, but not everyone volunteers for the same reasons. Inconsistent access to education, healthcare, or housing means marginalized communities are systemically pushed into military service to gain those benefits--especially poor students.

Click to read the transcript.

I’ll be taping Redacted Tonight in DC every Thursday in 2020 and I hope you can come to a show. I’ll also be taking my book tour for Bullet Points & Punch Lines to Philly, Austin, Dallas and more.

Get details and reserve your tickets at RedactedTour.com.

Keep fighting!

- Lee

• I give you 6 reasons why Trump’s decision to assassinate General Soleimani was dumb & dangerous — on this episode of Moment Of Clarity

• ANSWER Coalition want you in the streets this Thursday & on Jan 25 to demand “No War With Iran!” I’ll see you there! — on Common Dreams

• This episode is a look back on last years stories about police brutality & mass incarceration — on this episode of Redacted Tonight

• The correspondents take the reins and cover Trump’s impeachment and Bernie’s chances on VIP

• The wildfires in Australia and what we can all learn from indigenous resistance — and more on this episode of my podcast Common Censored

• How Western nations are using the philanthropy industrial complex to manipulate the Arab world — on Consortium News

• According to a new study shuttering coal plants has saved 26,000 lives in the US in the last decade — on Yale Environment 360

• Redacted Tonight tapes live in Washington DC every Thursday evening & I’d love to have you in the audience at some point this year. I’ll also be taking my book tour for Bullet Points & Punch Lines across the country this year — Get details and tickets at RedactedTour.com

The word of the week is: OH FUCK! THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX WANTS TO GET US ALL KILLED.

This is the first issue of the Ledger in 2020 and I hope we all have a full year ahead of us of stopping wars and working to end climate change.

Don’t believe the corporate media’s lies, and please share this newsletter with your friends. Keep fighting.

- Lee

6 Things Media Won’t Tell You About Assassination of Iranian General

America’s Illegal Murder of Iran’s Top General & Much More

Trump’s Impeachment & The DNC Primary

We Live In A Police State

Shuttering of U.S. Coal Plants Saved More than 26,000 Lives Over the Past Decade, Study Finds

Yale 360 |

The shutdown of hundreds of coal-fired power plants in the United States over the past decade has saved an estimated 26,610 lives, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Sustainability. This closure of coal plants also has reduced carbon dioxide emissions and lowered air pollution and ozone levels, and has even increased nearby crop yields, the study found.

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THE ANGRY ARAB: The NGO Invasion of the Arab World

Consortium News | As`ad AbuKhalil

During the last few decades the number of Western-supported NGOs has substantially increased in all Arab countries.  In 2015, the Palestinian prime minister estimated that the West spent $800 million on funding 2882 NGOs in the West Bank alone. 

This investment has brought good returns to Western governments in the form of significant changes in the dominant political culture. 

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'No War With Iran' Marches Set for Thursday Across US

Common Dreams | Eoin Higgins

In communities nationwide, Americans "will urge restraint and that the United States avoid yet another unnecessary, costly war of choice in the Middle East."

Click to read.

I’ll be taping Redacted Tonight in DC every Thursday in 2020 and I hope you can come to a show. I’ll also be taking my book tour for Bullet Points & Punch Lines to Philly, Austin, Dallas and more.

Get details and reserve your tickets at RedactedTour.com.

Keep fighting!

- Lee

• We’ll know society is getting better when I can’t find enough material about US militarism to fill an entire episode. Until then, enjoy this highlights episode from the last year — on the last episode of Redacted Tonight in 2019

• The fossil fuel industry pushes fracking on us with complete disregard for public health & safety. My guest this week is fighting back — on VIP this week

• Japan has a plan to keep older people working physically demanding jobs for longer, YouTube admits to censoring alternative voices, and more on the latest episode of my news podcast with Eleanor Goldfield — Common Censored

• I tear into the headlines from last week as I warm up the Redacted Tonight LIVE audience — on this Redacted Pre-Show

• Kentucky & the Supreme Court have teamed up to attack maternal health & abortion access for women — on my latest Moment of Clarity

• My fans knows that economic inequality enrages me. These are some of the lies about inequality that keep more people from actually resisting this bullshit — on The Real News Network

• With everything we’ve learned about Google violating our privacy in the last decade I gift you all this list of alternatives to Google products including search, email, maps, & more — on TechSpot

• Pete Buttigieg isn’t popular but he’s still in the race because he has the support of a handful of billionaires & a ton of intelligence agents — from The Grayzone

• A ProPublica-Alabama Local collaborative investigation looked into cases where jails released violent offenders who went on to re-offend. The jails released them to avoid paying for the inmate’s medical care — from ProPublica

• Bullet Points & Punch Lines is a book of my essays condemning our society as it struggles through late-stage capitalism. It is now available for pre-order with a limited number of signed copies. It will ship in January — Click To Pre-Order

Thanks for coming back,

The next decade will be a time for hard work and real resistance. We will be struggling to save ourselves from a militarized police state, a dystopian surveillance state, and a fossil fuel industry whose owners would far prefer human extinction to losing a cent of profit. Now go and have a happy new year.

The fight continues in 2020!

- Lee

The New Attack On Women

Should We Bring Back Wolves?

Human Exoskeletons, Alternative Voices Fight Back & What 2020 Will Look Like

Firsthand Proof: How Fracking Destroyed America

The Military Industrial Complex Has Run Wild

What Happens When Sheriffs Release Violent Offenders to Avoid Paying Their Medical Bills

ProPublica, Alabama Local | Connor Sheets

Sheriffs regularly release sick and injured inmates to avoid paying their hospital bills. But in Alabama, some defendants charged with violent offenses like murder have been let out. And some have gone on to commit new crimes.

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The spooks’ choice: Coup plotters and CIA agents fill Pete Buttigieg’s list of national security endorsers

The Grayzone | Samuel D. Finkelstein

Why are so many intelligence veterans throwing their weight behind a young Indiana mayor with such a thin foreign policy resume?

These questions continue to loom large over the 2020 Democratic primary field: Who is Pete Buttigieg? And what is he doing here?

Seemingly overnight, the once obscure mayor of Indiana’s fourth-largest city was vaulted to national prominence, with his campaign coffers stuffed with big checks from billionaire benefactors.

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The complete list of alternatives to all Google products

TechSpot | Sven Taylor

With growing concerns over online privacy and securing personal data, more people than ever are considering alternatives to Google products. After all, Google’s business model essentially revolves around data collection and advertisements, both of which infringe on your privacy. More data means better (targeted) ads and more revenue. The company pulled in over $116 billion in ad revenue last year alone – and that number continues to grow.

Click to read.

The Top 5 Mainstream Media Myths That Perpetuate Income Inequality

The Real News Network | Taya Graham, Stephen Janis

Visit The Real News.

I’ll be taping Redacted Tonight in DC every Thursday in 2020 and I hope you can come to a show. I’ll also be taking my book tour for Bullet Points & Punch Lines to Philly, Austin, Dallas and more.

Get details and reserve your tickets at RedactedTour.com.

Keep fighting!

- Lee

• The Washington Post recently reported on the lies our government told — and our corporate media repeated — to justify the Afghanistan War — get this story and more on this episode of Redacted Tonight

• Nicole Roussell produces one of my favorite radio shows (and podcasts): Loud & Clear. We sat down to discuss the state of the American Empire — on VIP this week

• More cracks have appeared in the Syria chemical attack stories & now a journalist has quit Newsweek because they wouldn’t let him report it and Wikileaks has revealed more! — on this episode of Moment Of Clarity

• The French are engaged in a long term popular resistance movement to fight against their government’s austerity measures. The US couldn’t handle a “resistance” this wild — on Common Dreams

• American labor power is having a resurgence & we need more of it. A strike almost shut down the DNC primary debate last week — on The Conversation

• How local newsrooms can play a role in responding to climate change — on Grist

• Great last minute gift idea - Bullet Points & Punch Lines, my latest book, is now available for pre-order with a limited number of signed copies. It will ship in January — Click To Pre-Order

Welcome back!

I have more great content for you this week. Hindsight is 2020 - but it's time to grab the future by the horns! Let's change everything next year. I hope you'll join me!

Keep fighting!

- Lee

Media Blackout On New Chemical Weapons Leak

Media Blackout On New Chemical Weapons Leak

Entire Afghanistan War A Fraud, Rich People Scrubbing History

Shrinking budgets, rising seas: How local newsrooms can cover climate change

Grist | Zoya Teirstein

Climate change impacts millions of Americans at a regional and local level. This year alone, drought ravaged southeast Alaska, floods destroyed crops in rural Iowa, and a bomb cyclone shut down a major highway in northern California.

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150 cooks, servers and dishwashers almost shut down a Democratic debate, showing unions’ growing clout in the party

The Conversation | Ruben J. Garcia

Organized labor’s clout in the Democratic Party is growing. For evidence, look no further than the small California food services union that nearly managed to shut down a presidential debate.

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Latest Bid by France's Macron to Quell Protests Over Neoliberal Pension Scheme Fails as Strikes Continue

Common Dreams | Eoin Higgins

The French president's approach has generated a resistance movement with protesters blockading streets and engaging in a general strike. 

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Come to one of my live shows next year. I’ll be taping Redacted Tonight in DC every Thursday and I’ll be taking my book tour to Philly, Austin, Dallas and more.

Get details and reserve your tickets at RedactedTour.com.

Keep fighting!

- Lee