• Indy journalists report the truth years before the mainstream media are forced to accept it. Here are all the times we’ve been right WAY before the corporate media — this week on Redacted Tonight

• The US meddles in foreign economies constantly & it’s the topic of my interview this week on VIP

• Epstein dead, Toni Morrison gone, and much more on my podcast this week — Common Censored

• Tulsi Gabbard was the most searched candidate after both sets of Democratic debates but Google decided to turn off her ad account while she was receiving all of that attention — on Moment Of Clarity

• Chelsea Manning is still sitting in jail for defending Julian Assange & she’s being forced to pay THOUSANDS in fines — on The Real News Network

• Chris Hedges is back from vacation and ready to skewer the dysfunctions of our system — on TruthDig

• Joe Biden is a gaffe machine, for instance, last week he implied that all poor kids are black — on Moment Of Clarity

• I’ll be performing in Los Angeles & Ventura, CA, and more — go to RedactedTour.com for tickets

• Watch the first 10 minutes of my latest hour-long comedy special for FREE at LeeCampComedySpecial.com

Hello!

The Ledger is here and what a week it has been.

It was a good week to bring back my Moment of Clarity series. Just me - straight to camera - no bullshit - no bells and whistles. You can get every episode of Moment of Clarity by subscribing for free HERE but I’ll also put links below.

Thanks for coming back and enjoy this issue of The Ledger.

- Lee

Joe Biden Says All Poor Kids Are Black

Tulsi Gabbard Sabotaged By Twitter

Epstein Dead, Morrison Gone, Manning Jailed & Parents Stolen

Does Trump Have A Foreign Policy Plan??

We’re Always Right!

Fear vs. Fear

TruthDig | Chris Hedges

The old rules of politics no longer apply. The only language understood by Donald Trump and his coterie of con artists, billionaires, generals, misfits and Christian fascists—and a Democratic Party that has sold us out—is fear. Calling out Trump’s lies and racism does not matter. Calling out his nepotism and corruption does not matter. Calling out the criminality of his administration does not matter. Calling out its incompetence and idiocy does not matter. Calling out the abject subservience of the ruling elites to corporate power does not matter. Trump and his Democratic Party opponents are immune to moral suasion.

Click to read.

Federal Judge Continues Chelsea Manning’s Confinement and $1000 a Day Fine

The Real News Network | Kevin Gosztola

Manning could be jailed for another 400 days and owe $144,00 because of an unprecedented decision by Bush-Appointed Judge Tenga.

Click to read the transcript.

My newest hour-long comedy special is only available at LeeCampComedySpecial.com.

Keep fighting!

- Lee

One-Minute Rundown:

• I open the show this week by lambasting the corporate perspectives of the Democrats in their second debate for the DNC’s presidential ticket — on Redacted Tonight

• Governor Jesse Ventura & I trash the corporate media on this week’s episode of VIP

• White Supremacist violence is nothing new in the US, as any student of American history can tell you, and The Real News Network has produced a video looking into it

• I bring you a large dose of news beyond my other shows every week on the podcast I make with Eleanor Goldfield — Common Censored

• An American citizen was held & interrogated by Customs Agents for visiting Venezuela, whose government the US is trying to topple, and I would expect that this kind of harassment becomes more common as American fascism continues to accelerate — on The Grayzone

• What won’t you ever hear in a DNC debate? — on Viewer Questions

• MintPress News are an outstanding independent news organization who have repeatedly embarrassed powerful people the world over. Here’s the story of how some Israelis tried to get revenge — on MintPress News

• I’ll be performing in Los Angeles & Ventura, CA, and more — go to RedactedTour.com for tickets

• Watch the first 10 minutes of my latest hour-long comedy special for FREE at LeeCampComedySpecial.com

Hello!

The Ledger is back and thanks for returning. I’m saving the laughs for my videos. I want to talk about something serious.

Many Americans went through hell last weekend as dozens were murdered by white supremacists targeting people of color. There is nothing that I can say that makes this better.

White supremacy needs to be uprooted from society and not just here at home. Our wars abroad are justified with the logic of white supremacy. The logic of colonialism was white supremacy. The ad campaigns that trick us into purchasing plastic shit that ends up in landfills thrives on white supremacy. Our police were literally born in the slave patrols following federal laws to return enslaved people to the white men who considered them their property.

The logic of white supremacy doesn’t only create suffering for the majority of people on this planet who aren’t white, it also draws our attention away from other issues causing the majority of people who aren’t well-off to suffer every day. While Americans blame foreigners and people of color for the slow-motion collapse of our national hegemony, the mega-wealthy are consolidating their power and wealth.

White Americans who support racism deserve condemnation, that includes those who aren’t actively murdering people because of their bigotry. But the rest of us also need to double our efforts to fight back against this scourge that terrorizes immigrant communities, black communities, native communities, & Latino communities.

We need to end racist violence from civilian gunmen, from police officers, from capitalists AND from our soldiers abroad. We need to do it now.

What They Will Never Say At The Dem Debates (plus Viewer Questions)

Common Censored Podcast #69: Enemy Hamburger, Voters No More, Mass Shootings

This week on my podcast Common Censored:

• What we have to accept about mass shootings if we actually want to stop them.

• Our corporate media continues to desperately dig for Russian collusion - even in our food.

• Our "democracy" decrees that voting is a privilege, not a right.

• PLUS Seven lessons from the Honk Kong protests.

Click to listen.

Jesse Ventura On MSNBC Paying Him To Not Talk About War

Democratic Debate Idiocy, Boeing Crashes, Nuclear Bailout

How a Small Group of Pro-Israel Activists Blacklisted MintPress on Wikipedia

MintPress News | Whitney Webb

For over ten years, Wikipedia has been a key focus of right-leaning, pro-Israel groups that have effectively weaponized the online encyclopedia as a means of controlling the narrative when it comes to the state of Israel’s more than 50-year-long military occupation of Palestine.

Click to read.

‘You don’t have any rights’: CBP agents interrogate US citizen and seize his phone after Venezuela solidarity trip

The Grayzone | Max Blumenthal

The detention of a US citizen returning from Venezuela was an apparent extension of the US government’s efforts to punish citizens who have protested its policy of regime change and economic warfare.

Click to read.

White Nationalist Terror Attack in El Paso Was Not an Isolated Incident

The Real News Network | Gerald Horne & Arun Gupta

An history of white terror in America and what its modern manifestation means for our future.

Click to visit TRNN.

My newest hour-long comedy special is only available at LeeCampComedySpecial.com.

Keep fighting!

- Lee

One-Minute Rundown:

• Mueller testified in front of Congress last week & the Russiagate narrative collapsed even further into a smoking ball of mush — on Redacted Tonight this week

• The DNC-controlled house voted against a bill in support of BDS last week while Israel went on a home-demolition spree in Palestine — Aaron Maté reported on it for The Grayzone

• A major CNN propagandist got caught throwing Julian Assange under the bus — this & an interview with the founder of 21st Century Wire on VIP

• I bring you a large dose of news beyond my other shows every week on the podcast I make with Eleanor Goldfield — Common Censored

• Greta Thunberg is coming to the US & she’s coming by boat so as to avoid supporting the pollution-heavy airline industry— on EcoWatch

• I cover a MASSIVE budget increase for America’s mass human murder industry this week on Viewer Questions

• Undocumented immigrants still have rights & I explain them in this article for TruthDig

• Bernie Sanders & several other candidates vying to win the DNC’s presidential primary will attend a forum entirely focused on indigenous people’s concerns — on Grist

• I’ll be performing in London, Los Angeles, Ventura, and more — go to RedactedTour.com for tickets

• Watch the first 10 minutes of my latest hour-long comedy special for FREE (get the whole thing for $3.90) at LeeCampComedySpecial.com

Hello!

Welcome back to The Ledger. Congratulations to any of you in Puerto Rico on your recent success kicking out your governor. I’d love to hear some of your experiences if you email me at LeeCampLedger@protonmail.com.

Puerto Rico’s victory goes in the “good news” category. In the “bad news” bucket is the Arctic on fire, Europe still baking, and our politicians still owned by billionaires.

We need action.

We need true resistance.

We need an anti-capitalist Green New Deal that strikes at the heart of industrialism.

If you still need to be convinced that we need action NOW I’d like to recommend Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate.

People living in poverty need you now. The rich have their own plans to survive climate change - they don’t care about us. We need to care about each other.

- Lee

The Top 5 Ways to Defeat ICE Agents

The Democrats and the corporate media will breathlessly tell you how Donald Trump is a racist (he is). They’ll relay the gut-wrenching horror of having your family ripped apart by Border Patrol (I’m sure it is). They’ll let you know that keeping children in cages is not what America stands for and not who we are (it kinda is). But despite all of this, they practically never tell everyone how to actually fight back against ICE raids and Border Patrol detentions.

Click to read the article.

Pentagon Budget Now Bigger Than Entire U.S. Gov’t

Getting to Utopia, Dems’ Garbage Healthcare, Cops Get All Wet

This week on my podcast Common Censored:

• The new UK Prime Minister, the most popular name for a Russian penis

• A look at the Utopia we imagine and the gaping chasm between here and there

• The Dem's Healthcare Paradox: how to seem progressive on the issue of universal healthcare without losing a red cent from their big pharma and insurance sugar daddies

Click to listen.

CNN’s Jim Acosta Caught Throwing Journalist Under The Bus

The TRUTH About The Mueller Hearing, Boris Johnson PM, Protesters Glued To Congress

Bernie Sanders among 2020 candidates joining the first-ever Native American political forum

Grist | Paola Rosa-Aquino

By and large, presidential candidates tend to stick to the same big, national issues, like the economy or healthcare. But next month, voters will get to hear a handful of hopefuls weigh on some less-covered topics: voter ID laws, harsh new punishments for pipeline protesters, and Standing Rock.

Click to read.

Greta Thunberg to Cross the Atlantic by Emissions-Free Boat to Attend UN Climate Summits

EcoWatch | Andrea Germanos

Sixteen-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg will head to the Americas next month, and, keeping in line with her climate commitment not to fly, she announced Monday that she will make the voyage by fossil fuel emissions-free boat.

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Progressive Democrats vote against BDS, Palestinian rights

The Grayzone, Pushback | Aaron Maté

My newest hour-long comedy special is only available at LeeCampComedySpecial.com.

Keep fighting!

- Lee

THE ONE-MINUTE RUNDOWN:

• ICE & the Trump Administration are trying to match Obama’s deportation records. It’s getting ugly, so I shared some tips with you on how people being targeted by ICE should respond — this and much more on Redacted Tonight

• A deeper look at the situation in Puerto Rico — on The Real News Network

• The US government is removing references to climate change from its web sites and the research it funds — on EcoWatch

• Alex Vitale wrote the book, “The End of Policing.” I sat down with him this week to talk about the end of policing — this week on VIP

• Mother Jones Magazine is named after a prolific revolutionary American but the magazine’s writers aren’t living up to her name — on FAIR

• Eric Garland was murdered by a policeman who’ll see no jail time — Get my take on this story on more on Viewer Questions this week

• A British perspective on Britain’s newest right wing Prime Minister — on Novara Media

• Watch the first 10 minutes of my latest hour-long comedy special (get the whole thing for $3.90) at LeeCampComedySpecial.com

Hello and welcome back to The Ledger!

I performed in Minneapolis this weekend, and I really appreciate everyone who came out. I had a great time and I hope you all did too. Next month - LONDON.

I’ll be in London on August 18 performing with the wonderful Eleanor Goldfield. And then I’ll be in Wisconsin for two shows in September.

We need to keep on fighting against the western war machine’s ambitions in Iran, Venezuela, and wherever they show up next. The Military Industrial Complex will never give up when they can smell a profit.

Remember, in both Iran and Venezuela, it was US meddling that caused their crises. We’ve sanctioned the shit out of them both. We’ve held coups in both. We’ve provided material support to terrorist rebels. And our war hawks won’t just let their investments go to waste.

Organizations like Code Pink & Answer Coalition need to be overflowing with fresh members, so check them out.

- Lee

Eric Garner’s Killer Goes Free (Plus Viewer Questions)

Time To Abolish Police?

How To Stop ICE Agents, Google Spying, Military Bases Galore

Prime Minister Boris Johnson Is the Ultimate Expression of Neoliberalism in Collapse

Novara Media | Aaron Bastani

Future historians will reflect on the events of this week as an extraordinary snapshot of the present moment. Today Boris Johnson has been elected leader of the Conservative party, by tomorrow he will be Britain’s prime minister. On Thursday London expects to see temperatures above 35°C, as the country’s public conversation – through sheer observation – comes to accept the reality of climate change. In the Persian Gulf, meanwhile, a regional cold war continues to turn hot, with members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard interrogating crew members of the UK oil tanker Stena Impero. The rise of the extreme right, climate systems breakdown, the slow ebb of American hegemony, Britain’s inability to navigate a multilateral world. Days which crystallise the stories set to define the coming century.

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Mother Jones Is Failing Its Namesake

FAIR | Naomi LaChance

Kevin Drum, a political columnist for Mother Jones, wrote in a blog post (6/26/19) last month that he did not understand why workers do not want their employer to work with the government agencies carrying out President Donald Trump’s brutal immigration policies, particularly Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). When workers at home goods website Wayfair staged a walkout because their company was supplying bunk beds  and mattresses for a child detention camp in Texas, Drum could not fathom their insubordination.

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Climate Change References Are Disappearing From U.S. Government Sites

EcoWatch | Jordan Davidson

It's no secret that the Trump administration has championed fossil fuels and scoffed at renewable energy. But the Trump administration is trying to keep something secret: the climate crisis. That's according to a new analysis from the watchdog group Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) who found that more than a quarter of the references to climate change on .gov websites vanished.

Click to read.

Corruption, Mismanagement, & Disrespect Fuel Puerto Rico Protests

The Real News Network | Greg Wilpert

Tell your friends about my newest hour-long comedy special and watch the first 10 minutes of it for free at LeeCampComedySpecial.com.

Keep fighting!

- Lee

THE ONE-MINUTE RUNDOWN:

• Jeffrey Epstein has been caught… again. Maybe he’ll see justice this time — on Redacted Tonight this week

• Ray McGovern of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) weighs in on the continued collapse of the Russiagate narrative — on Consortium News

• My guest this week was Daniel Haiphong who came onto the show to discuss his book questioning the false narrative of American exceptionalism — on this episode of VIP

• Bernie Sanders has enemies in the mainstream media & they’re back up to their old trick of misrepresenting polling data to make him look less popular — on TruthDig

• I bring you a large dose of news beyond my other shows every week on the podcast I make with Eleanor Goldfield — Common Censored

• The chemical pollutants that corporations are happy to put in our bodies have real effects on our development — on Grist

• A key part of the Russiagate narrative has fallen apart. A federal judge says there is no provable connection between the Russian government & the Internet Research Agency — this week on Viewer Questions

• Trump caused more of a shitstorm than I think he was comfortable with this weekend when he tweeted that four congressional women of color should go back to their countries. Three of them were born in the US and Rep. Ilhan Omar is a citizen. The Real News Network looks at what this might mean for the tenor of the 2020 election. Hint: it’s going to be ugly.

Welcome back!

I had a great show in Kansas City this weekend and the billionaire, child-sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is being charged for pimping children again, but there’s a lot the mainstream media isn’t telling you.

I really appreciate that you choose to listen me and I have a slate of great content for you this week.

Remember — to paraphrase Chris Hedges — we all have a duty to rebel now. Find people organizing against the deportations, our impending climate crisis-caused extinction, or an end to homelessness. Help them.

If you are already organizing for a better world. Thank you! I do my work to boost yours.

I have a show this weekend in Minneapolis and I hope to see you all there. I know that’s unrealistic but I can try to manifest it — don’t judge me!

- Lee

Fed. Judge Shoots Down Mueller Report Finding (and Viewer Questions)

Epstein's Economic Force, Arizona Bay, CIA Unredacted & Dem Deportation

Proof CNN Is Filled With Nonsense & Nonevents

The TRUTH About Jeffrey Epstein, Clinton, & Trump

Mind the gap: Lead, mercury, asbestos, and differences in IQ

Grist | Naveena Sadasivam

Decades before Freddie Gray died in police custody in 2015, he lived in a dilapidated house in the Baltimore neighborhood of Sandtown-Winchester, a part of the city where the average life expectancy is lower than in North Korea. Two out of every five children in the neighborhood tested positive for lead between 2005 and 2015.

Click to read.

The Sanders Campaign Is Fighting Back Against Biased Media Coverage

TruthDig | Ilana Novick

Sen. Bernie Sanders is doing well in the polls, but as his presidential campaign staff explains to Politico, you’d never know that from his media coverage and comments from reporters. Yet in a July 12 New York Times analysis of multiple public opinion polls asking likely voters whom they would choose for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sanders ranks second, behind Joe Biden.

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Making the Worst Case Appear the Better

Consortium News | Ray McGovern

Democrats, stenographers who pass for journalists and the “Mueller team” will need all the time they can to come up with imaginative responses to two recent bombshell revelations.

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Trump's Racist Tweets Fan Hatred, Defining the Coming Election

The Real News Network

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Tell your friends about my newest hour-long comedy special and watch the first 10 minutes of it for free at LeeCampComedySpecial.com.

Also, I’m performing live in London, England as well as Minneapolis, and more. You can get tickets or vote for your own city at RedactedTour.com.

Keep fighting!

- Lee