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Hightower: The Kochs Are Going to Have a Huge Grip on the Oval Office
AlterNet | Jim Hightower | 11/30/16

The billionaire brothers are training political puppets to push their hateful agenda.

This past January, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, the multimillionaire protege of the Koch brother's Plutocratic Kingdom and American Legislative Exchange Council darling, revealed to a startled nation that he has penned not one but NINE new amendments to the Constitution of the USA. Forget the Bill of Rights, Abbott is proposing a Bill of Sale, effectively transferring the title of our national government from The People to The Plutocrats. The upshot of his "tweaks" would be outlawing government actions that restrain corporate abuse of workers and consumers, while also preventing future Congresses from meeting crucial public needs such as health care, voter rights, and restoration of our national infrastructure.

One could call Abbott and his Founding Father pretentious and ludicrous--which both are--but he's not the force behind this diabolical, ideological tampering with our Constitution and our people's ideals of fairness and justice. ALEC, at the direction of the Kochs and their corporate cohorts, wrote this Bill of Sale. ... Read more

The Podesta Emails

Fake news is modern propaganda: In the Trump era, history repeats itself not as farce but as clickbait
Salon | Nico Lang | 11/29/16

A new article published in The Washington Post alleges that Russia was involved in disseminating fake news designed to get Donald Trump elected.

The article was based on research from two sources: One report, titled "Trolling for Trump: How Russia Is Trying to Destroy Our Democracy," was published in War on the Rocks, an online journal focusing on matters of foreign policy and national security. The other was courtesy of PropOrNot, a nonpartisan research group. Each came to the same conclusion -- that Russian officials deployed a mixture of spambots and human agents to generate and spread false information that would be favorable to the Republican Party.

These tactics proved extraordinarily effective throughout the 2016 election, according to PropOrNot. The group claims that fake stories created by Russian interests were shared more than 213 million times during the race. ... Read more

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Donald Trump's Treasury secretary pick Steve Mnuchin is the "Forrest Gump" of America's financial woes
Salon | Matthew Rozsa | 11/30/16

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, has some choice words about Steven Mnuchin, the former Goldman Sachs executive who President-elect Donald Trump has tapped to be his new treasury secretary.

"Steve Mnuchin is the Forrest Gump of the financial crisis -- he managed to participate in all the worst practices on Wall Street," Warren said in a statement on Tuesday night. "He spent two decades at Goldman Sachs helping the bank peddle the same kind of mortgage products that blew up the economy and sucked down billions in taxpayer bailout money before he moved on to run a bank that was infamous for aggressively foreclosing on families." ... Read more

Household Debt Hits $12.4 Trillion As Subprime Loan Delinquencies Hit Highest In 6 Years: NY Fed
ZeroHedge | author | 11/30/16

The latest household debt data, which shows debt rose to $12.4 trillion in Q3, suggest some notable deterioration in the performance of subprime auto loans. This translates into a large number of households, with roughly six million individuals at least ninety days late on their auto loan payments ... Read more

Massive Wildfire Engulfs Tennessee Resort Towns, Forces Evacuations In Gatlinburg And Pigeon Forge
HP | Ed Mazza | 11/29/16

A massive wildfire burning in the Tennessee resort towns of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge has destroyed more than 100 structures, including homes and businesses, authorities said Tuesday.

... Over 14,000 people were evacuated and more than 12,000 power outages were reported, Flener said. He confirmed no fatalities had been reported, though four people were transported to the hospital for burn-related injuries. The TEMA has yet to determine the cause of the fire. ... Read more
Gatlinburg And Pigeon Forge Fires (11/29/16) [1:43]

Democrats Ask Oversight Committee To Investigate Trump's Potential Conflicts Of Interest
HP | Matt Fuller | 11//28/16

"The scope of Mr. Trump's conflicts of interest around the world is unprecedented," the 17 Democrats on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee wrote. "Over the past two weeks, new revelations have raised serious concerns about the intermingling of Mr. Trump's businesses and his responsibilities as president."

Trump's potential conflicts of interest are staggering, with business interests across the globe and no clear firewall between those businesses and the office of the presidency. Trump had said previously that he would enter into a blind trust, which would require him to sell many of his businesses and be unaware of his holdings, but he's backed away from those promises. Trump also said he would step away from his dealings and have his children run day-to-day operations. But several of Trump's children are intimately involved in his political operation ? Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr. are all on the presidential transition team ? and simply handing over the businesses to his children wouldn't disassociate Trump from his enterprises. He still knows what businesses he owns.

Trump's potential conflicts of interest have already raised serious questions about his actions and the actions of foreign governments. Just three days after a phone call between Trump and Argentine President Mauricio Macri, the development company building the $100 million Trump Tower in Buenos Aires said construction could begin as soon as June 2017.

Trump also owes a foreign bank over $300 million, and has foreign diplomats booking hotel reservations at his hotel in Washington, D.C., so they can curry favor with the president. ... Read more

Why Kellyanne Conway hates Mitt Romney
WashingtonPost | Chris Cillizza | 11/28/16

Kellyanne Conway made one thing very clear in her Sunday interview with "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd: She's not a fan of Mitt Romney. Like, at all. ...

... That's a very harsh assessment of a potential pick for secretary of state by the person who led Trump's winning campaign for the White House. Conway is suggesting that Trump is free to pick Romney over former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani (or some other Trump loyalists in the mix) but that, by doing so, he would go directly against the will of the grass-roots base that delivered him the presidency. It's sort of stunning. ... Read more
NBC Meet the Press | Kellyane Conway On Recount & Mitt Romney Meet The Press (11/29/16) [9:13]

Alex Jones Julian Assange Missing (11/28/16) [17:51]

WikiLeaks Julian ASSANGE The TIME Has COME ! (11/28/16) [19:02]

Global warming set to pass 2C threshold in 2050: report
http://phys.org/ | author | 09/29/16

Earth is on track to sail past the two degree Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) threshold for dangerous global warming by 2050, seven of the world's top climate scientists warned Thursday.

"Climate change is happening now, and much faster than anticipated," said Sir Robert Watson, former head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), the body charged with distilling climate science for policy makers. Since 1990, devastating weather-related events--floods, drought, more intense storms, heat waves and wild fires--due to climate change have doubled in number, Watson and the other scientists said in a report. ... Read more

The Truth About Climate Change.pdf

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins Interview, Part 1 [53:35] (TalkingStick Interviews)

Jimmy Dore | Trump ADMITS Global Warming Is REAL! (11/25/16) [7:27]

Jimmy Dore | Bernie Sanders Schools Clueless News Anchor On Why Hillary Clinton Lost (11/25/16) [12:17]

We Have to Face the Major Problem of Acute Financial Stress
AlterNet | Dr. Galen Buckwalter | 11/27/16

Long before the shocking election of Donald Trump, Galen Buckwalter and his colleagues were doing research and thinking hard about the emotional consequences of inequality, credit card debt and the range of financial stress points in people's lives. What they found seems so obvious, yet brilliant at the same time. Tens of millions of people have no savings and live paycheck to paycheck. How can we, as a society, pretend they are not physically and psychologically affected by this constant anxiety and vulnerability? This ends up costing our society hundreds of billions in health care and lost productivity and leads to higher addiction and suicide rates as well as increased domestic violence.

The conclusion is clear: We are out of balance in a way that is endangering our health, and our relationship with money plays an outsized role in a nationwide health epidemic. As a research psychologist studying stress and mental, physical and emotional health, I've spent the last several years examining how we deal with money in an effort to deepen a scientific understanding of how it impacts our health. In the past, I've worked with people in varying states of stress, including Marines and humanitarian workers. Today, I study the presence and effects of what we are calling acute financial stress (AFS), essentially financial PTSD. ... Read more

Ron Paul Tells Trump: "To Really 'Make America Great Again', End The Fed!"
ZeroHedge | author | 11/28/16

Former Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher recently gave a speech identifying the Federal Reserve's easy money/low interest rate policies as a source of the public anger that propelled Donald Trump into the White House. Mr. Fisher is certainly correct that the Fed's policies have "skewered" the middle class. However, the problem is not specific Fed policies, but the very system of fiat currency managed by a secretive central bank.

Federal Reserve-generated increases in money supply cause economic inequality. This is because, when the Fed acts to increase the money supply, well-to-do investors and other crony capitalists are the first recipients of the new money. These economic elites enjoy an increase in purchasing power before the Fed's inflationary policies lead to mass price increases. This gives them a boost in their standard of living. ... Read more

Retailers Panic: 63% Of Americans Plan Not To Shop On Black Friday
ZeroHedge | author | 11/23/16

According to a Reuters poll, some 63%, or nearly two-thirds, of US adults did not plan to shop on Black Friday this year. Some 32% said they plan to finish about half of their holiday shopping on that day. As a result "shocked" US retailers are doing everything they can in their scramble for market share. ... Read more

The Naked Truth: Trumpland (10/25/16) [43:20]

Donald Trump Cancels Meeting With The New York Times
HP | Michael Calderone | 11/22/16

Trump was scheduled to meet off-the-record with Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and a few other key representatives of the paper before participating in an on-the-record session with the reporters and editorial columnists, a Times spokeswoman told The Huffington Post on Monday. But Trump claimed early Tuesday that the "failing" paper changed the ground rules, prompting him to back out.

A Times spokeswoman told HuffPost on Tuesday that the paper did not change the conditions, but that Trump's team had requested the visit only be off-the-record. ... Read more

Trump Vows To Back Out Of The Trans-Pacific Partnership, Effectively Killing It
HP | Alana Horowitz Satlin | 11/22/16

Donald Trump plans to pull the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership on his first day in office, putting the future of the sweeping trade deal in jeopardy.

The TPP was one of President Barack Obama's most controversial foreign policy moves. The agreement aimed to promote free trade while putting pressure on countries faltering on human rights, but it was widely panned by green and labor rights groups. Critics say the deal favors major corporations and wouldn't improve conditions for vulnerable workers in places like Vietnam and Malaysia. ... Read more

Trump Says Any Conflicts Of Interest Were Priced Into Your Vote
HP | Paul Blumenthal | 11/21/16

WASHINGTON ? Thirteen days after winning the presidential election, Donald Trump announced on Twitter that no one should worry about the potential conflicts of interest he could face over his range of global properties because everyone knew about them when they elected him. He blamed any questions of impropriety on the media for reporting on them.

The evening tweet from the president-elect reads: "Prior to the election it was well known that I have interests in properties all over the world.Only the crooked media makes this a big deal!" ... Read more

"Emotionally F**king Pissed" Media Blows Embargo And Lashes Out At Trump - "F*ck Him"
ZeroHedge | author |11/22/16

Just yesterday Trump called a summit of all the major mainstream media executives and anchors at Trump Tower. While many expected the meeting to be an oppotunity to ask questions of the president-elect, the media elites apparently got the surprise of their lives when Trump spent the majority of the meeting attacking they're blatant biased coverage the 2016 presidential elections referring to the room as a bunch of "dishonest, deceitful liars." One participant in the meeting described it as a "f--ing firing squad" after "Trump started with Jeff Zucker and said "I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed...." We suspect that was rather less cordial than they expected.

Despite the conversation being completely off the record, many of the "emotionally fucking pissed" media anchors have decided to blow their embargoes and lash out at Trump. According to one source interviewed by the New Yorker, the meeting at Trump Tower was "fucking outrageous." The same source also questioned how he could remain impartial after the meeting saying "How can this not influence coverage?"...yes, because coverage was so impartial up until yesterday. ... Read more

A Message from President-Elect Donald J. Trump (11/21/16) [2:37]

Jon Stewart on President-elect Trump, hypocrisy in America (11/17/16) [5:56]

TYT | DAPL's Worst Nightmare: Big Oil EXPOSED By Whistleblower (11/21/16) [14:38]

Donald Trump's Potential Conflicts of Interest Continue To Mount
HP | Paul Blumenthal | 11/19/16

When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe became the first foreign head of state to meet in person with President-elect Donald Trump, a photograph taken of the official event at Trump Tower in Manhattan showed a curious attendee: Trump's daughter Ivanka.

The appearance of Ivanka Trump, who is executive vice president of development and acquisitions for the Trump Organization, raises alarm bells for those concerned about the unprecedented potential for conflicts of interest involving the incoming president.

With her two brothers, Don Jr. and Eric, Ivanka has taken the reins of her father's vast global business empire through a so-called blind trust. (It is not a blind trust.) At the same time, the three adult children are on Trump's transition team, giving him advice and, apparently, meeting with dignitaries from countries where they could do business in the near future. ... Read more

*Fox | Vice President Elect Mike Pence: I Wasn't Offended by Message from Hamilton Cast (11/20/16) [3:00]

Donald Trump Meets With His Indian Business Partners Despite Blind Trust Promises
HP | Paul Blumenthal | 11/19/16

Exactly a week after winning the presidential election, Donald Trump took time out to meet with Indian business partners and his three eldest children at Trump Tower in Manhattan. The meeting came despite the president-elect's assurances that he was handing off his business to his children in a "blind trust" to avoid potential conflicts of interest while serving in the nation's highest office.

Trump held the talks with business partners Sagar Chordia, Atul Chordia and Kalpesh Mehta on Tuesday, the Indian newspaper The Economic Times first reported. Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric Trump, who attended the meeting, are supposed to be heading the trust, managing their father's assets and business portfolio. They also sit on the executive committee of the presidential transition team. ... Read more

Trump in the White House: An Interview With Noam Chomsky
AlterNet | Noam Chomsky |11/20/16

On Nov. 8, 2016, Donald Trump managed to pull the biggest upset in U.S. politics by tapping successfully into the anger of white voters and appealing to the lowest inclinations of people in a manner that would have probably impressed Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels himself.

But what exactly does Trump's victory mean, and what can one expect from this megalomaniac when he takes the reins of power on Jan. 20, 2017? What is Trump's political ideology, if any, and is "Trumpism" a movement? Will U.S. foreign policy be any different under a Trump administration?

Some years ago, public intellectual Noam Chomsky warned that the political climate in the U.S. was ripe for the rise of an authoritarian figure. Now, he shares his thoughts on the aftermath of this election, the moribund state of the U.S. political system and why Trump is a real threat to the world and the planet in general. ... Read more

*Massachusetts Peace Action | Noam Chomsky: After the Electoral Extravaganza (05/15/16) [1:26:30]

6 Despicable Things President-Elect Trump Has Done This Week
AlterNet | Janet Allon | 11/19/16

It has been one of the longest weeks in human history and the Trump presidency has not even begun yet. Any notion that reasonable, well-intentioned people should give him a chance--hey, maybe he was just kidding about all that hateful, bigoted stuff he spewed on the campaign trail--was immediately dispelled. One of his first official acts was to name Steve Bannon, the anti-Semitic mastermind of the racist, "alt-right," fake-news website Breitbart, to chief propagandist and horse's ass whisperer. The president-elect dodged the media, regained control of his Twitter account and proceeded to confirm all of our worst fears about him.

1. He tapped Jeff Sessions as U.S. attorney general.
2. His surrogate floated the Muslim registry idea and justified it by citing one of the most shameful eras in American history.
3. He tapped insanely Islamophobic General Michael Flynn (Ret.) for top national security post.
4. He invited his daughter Ivanka to a meeting with the Japanese prime minister.
5. He took credit for the fact that a Ford factory is not moving to Mexico when it was never moving to Mexico.
6. He demanded an apology from the "Hamilton" cast.

TRNN | Sanders and Nurses Join Forces to Fight Trump and Establishment Democrats (11/17/16) [4:35]

Trump Offers Jeff Sessions Attorney General Job
HP | Ryan J. Reilly | 11/18/16

President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly offered Republican Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions ? who was rejected as a federal judge in 1986 due to allegations of racist comments ? the position of attorney general.

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, 69, would serve as the nation's top law enforcement official if nominated by Trump and confirmed by his fellow members of the Senate. Sessions, an early Trump backer, is an immigration hard-liner who has been in the Senate since 1997 and previously served as attorney general for the state of Alabama. ... Read more

*TYT | Republicans To Kill Elizabeth Warren's Greatest Accomplishment (11/17/16) [7:30]

TDC | Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Brilliant Speech on President-elect Trump (11/10/16) [17:02]

RT | Space 360: First-ever panoramic video shot at International Space Station (11/18/16) [1:27]

*How Jared Kushner, Like Donald Trump, Used His Rich, Privileged Upbringing to Get to the White House
AlterNet | Brendan Gauthier / Salon | 11/17/16

There's an unqualified rich kid about to have unimaginable political influence -- and his name isn't Trump.

Federal anti-nepotism law mandates, "A public official may not appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement, in or to a civilian position in the agency in which he is serving or over which he exercises jurisdiction or control any individual who is a relative of the public official."

Kushner, 35, is President-elect Donald Trump's son-in-law (considered a "relative" under the aforementioned U.S. code). But the New Jersey native is now eyeing a more legally ambiguous "special counsel" role, according to The Wall Street Journal. Assuming an informal advisory role in Trump's White House would allow Kushner, sans paycheck, to both skirt anti-nepotism law and maintain his businesses: Kushner Properties and Observer Media.

NBC News reported on Wednesday that Trump had requested Kushner "receive top-secret clearance to join him for his Presidential Daily Briefings, which began Tuesday." Trump designated Kushner and retired lieutenant general Mike Flynn "his staff-level companions for the briefings going forward," sources told NBC. ... Read more

*Charlie Rose | Bernie Sanders interview (11/15/16) [25:26]

Normalizing the Abnormal: NPR Begins Its Whitewashing of Breitbart's Racism
AlterNet | Kali Holloway | 11/16/16

If you are curious about how racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric, and organizations dedicated to propagating the same are able to slip into the mainstream, do yourself a favor and listen to NPR's Wednesday morning interview with Breitbart senior-editor-at-large Joel Pollak.

NPR apparently felt the need to invite on a Breitbart mouthpiece to put in a good word for Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's newly announced senior policy adviser. Bannon previously led Breitbart, a publication beloved by the so-called alt-right, a loose coalition of white nationalists, "identitarians," neo-Nazis, anti-Semites, racists, and misogynists who were ecstatic over Bannon's appointment. Pollak's segment was a master class in obfuscation and a primer on how to flip the script and turn totally justified accusations of bigotry, misogyny and anti-Semitism into "reverse racism." ... Read more

*VICE | Our Rising Oceans (VICE on HBO: Season 3, Episode 1) (01/11/16) [43:51]

After Running On Economic Populism, Republicans Want To Destroy The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
HP | Ryan Grim | 11/17/16

Senate Republicans are gearing up for an assault on one of the trademark populist achievements of the Obama administration, vowing to take on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The agency, the brainchild of Elizabeth Warren, back when she was a law professor, was enacted as part of the 2010 Wall Street reform bill. Since then, it has returned nearly $12 billion to 27 million consumers who'd been victims of one predatory scam or another. More than 1 million consumer complaints have been filed with the agency. Targeting the CFPB would seem to be a strange move under President-elect Donald Trump, a populist who won the White House on the back of deep economic anxiety, promising to break the hold the rich and powerful have on Washington. ... Read more

*VICE | Countdown to Extinction | We the People (VICE on HBO: Season 3, Episode 3) (01/15/16) [29:46]

Donald Trump's Transition Team, Or Lack Thereof, Is Causing Real Panic
HP | Sam Stein | 11/15/16

The self-proclaimed government outsider is having trouble finding people to run the government.

The primary cause, according to multiple sources, is the revamped leadership structure at Trump's transition offices ? the demotion of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie from the top post and his replacement with Vice President-elect Mike Pence.

On Tuesday morning, for example, the Obama administration alerted the press that it had not yet received a memorandum of understanding signed by Pence, which would legally allow the old and new administrations to begin discussions on how to hand off critical government functions. That document still hadn't arrived by 4:30 p.m., and only later in the evening did a White House official confirm it had been received. The official noted that the language signed by Pence was identical to a memo signed by Christie, making the holdup all the more peculiar. ... Read more

There Is No Trump Pivot - Stomach-Turning Staffing Possibilities
HP | Marina Fang | 11/15/16

Just as they did during his campaign, Republicans insist that President-elect Donald Trump will "pivot" and moderate his proposals and rhetoric when he takes office. But so far, Trump has provided little evidence that confirms this wishful thinking. In the week since his election, he has done more to affirm his core campaign promises than assuage concerns about his presidency, and even his deviations from his campaign platform are not providing solace for his opponents.

Nowhere is that more apparent than in the stomach-turning list of potential Trump Cabinet officials and senior staffers. His pledge to "drain the swamp" has resulted in a slew of lobbyists angling for administration positions, former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin rumored as a candidate for treasury secretary and billionaire investor Wilbur Ross as commerce secretary, drawing the ire of progressives like Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). ... Read more

*TYT | Trump's Team Fighting Each Other (11/15/16) [17:35]

*TYT | Did Trump Try To Give His Kids Top Secret Clearance? (11/15/16) [5:25]

*TYT | Trump To Appoint Complete Lunatic To EPA (11/15/16) [11:34]

TYT | Republicans Grovel At Trump's Feet (11/15/16) [8:11]

Donald Trump's Trying to Give His Kids Top Secret Security Clearance, Making Sure His Conflicts of Interest Are Extra Bold
AlterNet | Simon Maloy / Salon | 11/15/16

We're not even a week into the still-indigestible reality of President-elect Donald Trump and the incoming administration is already up to its armpits in conflicts of interest, internal squabbling, heavy-handed recriminations, and absurdist incompetence.

To pick out just one representative example of all this is difficult given that the Trump transition is predictably shaping up to be a vast substrate for corruption and scandal, but if forced, I'm going to have to go with the report that Trump wanted to give his adult children top secret security clearances. ... Read more

American Empire in Chaos: Is Trump the Ultimate Blowback From Our Never Ending Wars?
AlterNet | Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch | 11/13/16

The one thing you could say about empires is that, at or near their height, they have always represented a principle of order as well as domination. So here's the confounding thing about the American version of empire in the years when this country was often referred to as "the sole superpower," when it was putting more money into its military than the next 10 nations combined: it's been an empire of chaos.

Back in September 2002, Amr Moussa, then head of the Arab League, offered a warning I've never forgotten. The Bush administration's intention to invade Iraq and topple its ruler, Saddam Hussein, was already obvious. Were they to take such a step, Moussa insisted, it would "open the gates of hell." His prediction turned out to be anything but hyperbole -- and those gates have never again closed.

From the moment of the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, in fact, everything the U.S. military touched in these years has turned to dust. Nations across the Greater Middle East and Africa collapsed under the weight of American interventions or those of its allies, and terror movements, one grimmer than the next, spread in a remarkably unchecked fashion. Afghanistan is now a disaster zone; Yemen, wracked by civil war ... Read more

Lucian Read Video: Mni Wiconi ("Water is Life" in the Sioux language) (11/15/16) [8:26]

This Gorgeous Short Film Takes Us to the Heart of the Dakota Access Pipeline Standoff
MotherJones | Wes Enzinna | 11/15/16

... Premiering here, Read's latest short film, Mni Wiconi: The Standing at Standing Rock, turns a camera on the plight of Native Americans, a group that has been neglected and wronged perhaps more than any other in this nation. "We were thinking of ways to continue the America Divided project with groups that weren't included in that series," Read says. "And I'd especially been thinking about poverty and inequality in Indian country." ... Read more

Chomsky: Trump's Win Puts Govt in the Hands of the 'Most Dangerous Organization in World History'
AlterNet | Tom Boggioni / Raw Story | 11/14/16

Chomsky warns of a president who "could exploit the fear and anger that has long been boiling in much of the society, and who could direct it away from the actual agents of malaise to vulnerable targets."

In an interview with TruthOut, political theorist Noam Chomsky warned the choice of Donald Trump will put the world at risk, saying the policy-adverse president-elect may let the Republican party run amok.

"On November 8, the most powerful country in world history, which will set its stamp on what comes next, had an election," Chomsky said. "The outcome placed total control of the government -- executive, Congress, the Supreme Court -- in the hands of the Republican Party, which has become the most dangerous organization in world history." ... Read more

Breitbart's Greatest Hit (Pieces): Some Of The Website's Most Disgusting Headlines
HP | Willa Frej | 11/14/16

The VIX Is Dead: According To The BIS, This Is The New "Fear Indicator"
ZeroHedge | author | 11/15/16

Over the past few years, one of the recurring themes on this website has been an ongoing discussion of how the VIX has lost its predictive value as a market risk indicator. This culminated recently with a note by Russel Clark who explained in clear term why the "VIX is now broken." Today, in a fascinating note Hyun Song Shin, head of research at the Bank for International Settlements, the "central banks' central bank" has agreed with the increasingly prevailing conventional wisdom that the VIX is no longer the world's fear barometer. Instead, Shin believes that the world's most traded currency is now the true fear gauge: the US Dollar. ... Read more

*60 Minutes | President-elect Trump speaks to a divided country (11/13/16) [39:42]

DN | From the First African-American President to One Supported by the Ku Klux Klan: Trump Wins in Upset (11/09/16) [6:00]

CNN | Michael Moore Says Bernie Sanders Would Be President If Democrats Had Listened To The People! (11/10/16) [12:27]

*RT | Peter Lavelle interviews Dr. Ron Paul (11/11/16) [22:06]

*DR | The Future Of The Affordable Care Act In A Trump Administration (11/14/16) [1hr]

Donald Trump's Transition Team Is a Sordid New Swamp of Lobbyists, Donors, Family and Republican Retreads
AlterNet | Gary Legum / Salon | 11/14/16

Trump's transition team is revealed as a brand-new bog of cronyism and influence peddling.

One could almost feel sorry for Chris Christie, if that dignity train had not left the station months ago. Tapped to lead Donald Trump's transition team after he was passed over in favor of Mike Pence for the vice presidential slot on the Republican ticket, Christie was replaced as head of the transition team on Friday by ... Mike Pence.

The move is unsurprising for two reasons: For one, Pence is a former congressman who served with some of Capitol Hill's current leaders. The New York Times reported that, with the campaign -- along with most of the rest of the civilized world -- caught somewhat off-guard by Trump's surprise win, there was a need to ramp the process up quickly. That means letting Pence and his closest aides tap contacts throughout Washington for help, contacts that Christie likely lacks. ... Read more

The Big Trump Media Story: Bannon and a Crew of Dangerous Propagandists Are in the Cockpit of National Power
AlterNet | Thom Hartmann | 11/14/16

Get ready for a media shitstorm. Steve Bannon, Michael Savage and Alex Jones (among others) are now in the cockpit of national power, while the nation's major newspapers and television networks are doing their very best to "normalize" avowed bigot and fascist (using Mussolini's definition of the word) Donald Trump. Bannon is Trump's chief adviser. And as Salon reports, even the right-wing sympathists at AIPAC are "apopleptic" about Trump working with a man who as editor of the alt-right Breitbart "news" site called "conservative commentator Bill Kristol ... a 'renegade Jew' and Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum... 'a Polish, Jewish, American elitist scorned.' ... Bannon's ex-wife has even testified in court that Bannon has 'said he doesn't like Jews' and didn't want his children to go to school with Jews." Read more

Donald Trump's Proposed Cabinet Would Bring Some Fringe Figures In From The Cold
HP | Amanda Terkel | 11/10/16

Not to mention his potential appointees are pretty much all white men.

So far, the names being floated for a Donald Trump administration largely have one thing in common: They're men. And for the most part, they're white men. BuzzFeed obtained one list of 41 names under consideration for Cabinet and top White House positions. Of those, only six are women. In other news stories listing potential appointees, no women are named.

Many of them are also fringe figures -- people who have never been in government or who have been out of government for some time and are itching to get back in.
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As Obama Spoke On Trump's Win, The Faces Of White House Staffers Said It All
HP | JamesMichael Nichols | 11/10/16

On Wednesday, however, the White House staff, along with the rest of America, listened as Obama discussed the election results in a televised address. And their faces said it all. ... Read more

*Jimmy Dore & TYT | Donald Trump Defeats Hillary Clinton -- Why She Lost & What's Next? (11/09/16) [14:30]

The Democratic Party Has Exploded
HP | Zach Carter | 11/11/16

The Democratic Party exploded Tuesday night. There will be months of finger-pointing and internal reprisals over exactly what Democrats should have done differently. But the shocking thoroughness of the defeat is plain. Donald Trump ? a man who opened his presidential campaign by calling Mexicans "rapists" ? bested Mitt Romney's share of the Latino vote by 8 percentage points. He performed better among black voters than his 2012 predecessor, and he swept four Rust Belt states that President Barack Obama carried twice ? Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin ? under a harsher economy than we face today. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, which should matter, but does not. ...

... Obama also glued together two otherwise hostile ideological factions within the Democratic Party. Time magazine hailed him as the second coming of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, while he declared himself a member of the corporate-friendly, free-trading New Democrat coalition. Millions of Americans who love Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) also love Obama. So do well-heeled technocrats who admire President Bill Clinton and economist Larry Summers. ... Read more

*TYT | What Trump Will Do In His First Hundred Days (11/09/16) [8:14]

TYT | Trump Team Already Bragging About Enemies List (11/09/16) [4:30]

Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing, Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit
TheIntercept.com | Glenn Greenwald | 10/09/16

THE PARALLELS BETWEEN the U.K.'s shocking approval of the Brexit referendum in June and the U.S.' even more shocking election of Donald Trump as president last night are overwhelming. Elites (outside of populist right-wing circles) aggressively unified across ideological lines in opposition to both. Supporters of Brexit and Trump were continually maligned by the dominant media narrative (validly or otherwise) as primitive, stupid, racist, xenophobic, and irrational. In each case, journalists who spend all day chatting with one another on Twitter and congregating in exclusive social circles in national capitals -- constantly re-affirming their own wisdom in an endless feedback loop -- were certain of victory. Afterward, the elites whose entitlement to prevail was crushed devoted their energies to blaming everyone they could find except for themselves, while doubling down on their unbridled contempt for those who defied them, steadfastly refusing to examine what drove their insubordination. ... Read more

DONALD TRUMP WILL BE PRESIDENT. THIS IS WHAT WE DO NEXT.
TheIntercept.com | Jon Schwarz | 10/09/16

It's not hyperbole to say the United States, and in fact the world, will need some luck to get out of this one alive. So let's concentrate on making our own luck.

The people who run America have constructed a political system that's like a glitchy killer robot, one even they can't control anymore.

Working as designed it murders African Americans and pregnant women and opioid addicts. The Iraq War was a minor hiccup that caused it to obliterate a country, several thousand Americans, and hundreds of thousands of people all around the world. The housing bubble was a more serious bug that liquidated hundreds of thousands more from the poorer half of the rich world.

But with Donald Trump, for perhaps the first time, the robot totally ignored the commands of its creators and now has everyone in its crosshairs. ... Read more

*In Donald Trump's Cabinet From Hell, Corporatism and Cronyism Run Rampant -- and Sarah Palin May Be There, Too
AlterNet | Brendan Gauthier / Salon | 11/09/16

President-elect Donald Trump started hinting at his cabinet picks long before he received the Republican nomination. This past weekend, sources gave NBC News a teaser list of potential front-runners. NBC News reported:

Among the names being considered, according to conversations with three campaign advisers who requested anonymity to speak freely: Rudy Giuliani for attorney general, Newt Gingrich for secretary of state, retired Lt. Gen Michael Flynn for defense secretary or national security adviser, Trump finance chairman Steve Mnuchin for Treasury secretary, and Republican National Committee finance chair Lew Eisenberg for commerce secretary. ... Read more

Trump Said To Consider Jamie Dimon For Treasury Secretary; Dimon Not Interested
ZeroHedge | author | 11/10/16

According to CNBC, in addition to former Goldman and Soros employee, Steven Mnuchin, Trump advisors are also considering JPM CEO Jamie Dimon for the Treasury post ... Read more

Rudy Giuliani Addresses Hillary Pardon - "President Obama Should Leave It To The System"
ZeroHedge | author | 11/10/16

"I don't like to see America become a country in which we prosecute people, you know, about politics. On the other hand, there are deep and disturbing issues there in which if you don't investigate them..." ... Read more

TYT | Trump's Victory Speech. (11/09/16) [15:35]

Stunned Global Markets Wake Up To President Trump
ZeroHedge | author | 11/09/16

As it dawned on markets that they had been caught dead wrong for the second time in half a year, first with Brexit and then with the historic election of Donald Trump, their reaction was identical: a slow selloff at first, followed by a furious dump, which led to a limit down halt in NASDAQ and Emini future trading. However, turbulence calmed as investors reassessed the effects of Donald Trump's surprise victory in the U.S. presidential election. ... Read more

Now That Trump Won: 10 Plagues Unearthed by This Election We Need to Face
AlterNet | Don Hazen, Kali Holloway, Steven Rosenfeld, Adele M. Stan, Janet Allon, Jan Frel | 11/09/16

The clash between Trump and Clinton slit open the underbelly of America, out of which has oozed a toxic stew. Old, familiar race hatred and anti-Semitism have reemerged, newly swathed in the cloak of the "alt-right." Misogyny has proved its enduring electoral strength. Anti-immigrant hysteria, ironically, has given validity to anti-American policy proposals. With Trump at the lead, all this has been married with old-fashioned fear-mongering, racial profiling, and contempt and disdain for the "other" -- be they Muslims, people of color, the handicapped or journalists just trying to do their jobs.

The U.S. was a divided and traumatized place before the election, but the coarseness of this campaign has made the environment more polluted. White Christians and working-class white men feel threatened by a world they see as passing them by. Their fear and anger has made them easy pickings for extreme right-wing media outlets including Breitbart, Alex Jones and far worse actors. Trump, whose presidential aspirations were built on the lies of his "birther" claims, embraced a number of their wildest conspiracies. ... Read more

TYT | The Young Turks Election Day Coverage 2016 (LIVE) (11/08/16) []

TYT | Did Trump Target Jewish People In His Last Ad? (11/07/16) [7:25]

50 Far-Right-Wing Proposals from the 2016 GOP Platform That Would Be on Trump's Desk If Elected President
AlterNet | Steven Rosenfeld | 11/06/16

Most voters have heard enough about Donald Trump's plans for the presidency, but what about the rest of the Republican Party?

Before Trump turned the Republican nominating contest into a battle of boasts and bullying, right-wing extremists had dominated the party. Their platform, not surprisingly, goes even further to the right than what's even been heard from Trump as he promises to build a wall along the Mexican border and embrace the religious right's long-held tenets opposing abortion, LGBT rights and more. The GOP 2016 platform would make Christianity the official American religion, English the official American language, replace sex education with abstinence-only advice for teenagers, privatize almost all areas of federal services, cut taxes and regulations for the rich and titans of industry, and impose a belligerent foreign policy and military build-up. ...

Stephen Colbert | Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for a timely reminder of the importance of casting your vote (11/07/16) [11:25]

Stephen Colbert | Cartoon Donald Trump Can No Longer Tweet (11/08/16) [1:11]

Samantha Bee | Sam traveled to Russia to see the future of American journalism. (11/07/16) [7:05]

Trevor Noah | ELECTION DAY 2016: FEEL THE RUSH (11/07/16) [1:01]

Trump Vs. Clinton: A Review Of The Latest Polls Heading Into Election Day
ZeroHedge | author | 11/07/16

With voting set to get underway in less than 24 hours, we thought it appropriate to provide a recap of where the final polls stand nationally and in the key swing states across the country. While it's unclear what impact Comey's latest announcement to clear Hillary, yet again, will have on the election results, here's what the latest polls predict prior to factoring in the latest FBI news which, if anything, would provide a positive impact for Hillary. The latest national polls are mixed with the ABC / Washington Post poll showing a 4-point lead for Hillary. Read more

TYT | "It's Time to Grab America by the Pussy and Make it Great Again" (11/05/16) [3:38]

*TYT | The REAL Reason For War In Syria (11/06/16) [6:05]

Syria: Another Pipeline War
EcoWatch | Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | older 02/25/16)

A Pipeline War !

... In their view, our war against Bashar Assad did not begin with the peaceful civil protests of the Arab Spring in 2011. Instead it began in 2000 when Qatar proposed to construct a $10 billion, 1,500km pipeline through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Turkey. ...

... Of course, the Russians, who sell 70 percent of their gas exports to Europe, viewed the Qatar/Turkey pipeline as an existential threat. In Putin's view, the Qatar pipeline is a NATO plot to change the status quo, deprive Russia of its only foothold in the Middle East, strangle the Russian economy and end Russian leverage in the European energy market. In 2009, Assad announced that he would refuse to sign the agreement to allow the pipeline to run through Syria "to protect the interests of our Russian ally." ... Read more
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*TYT | Are the critics right, is Goldman Sachs actually evil? (11/06/16) [9:17]

CNN Anderson Cooper | Anderson Cooper interviews Kellyanne Conway, Calls her AND Trump out on Hypocrisy (11/06/16) [13:46]

Peak Propaganda: Fox News Creates an Alternate Reality, Then CNN Perpetuates It
Salon | Chauncey DeVega / Salon |11/04/16

Sean Hannity & Co. will not abandon the upside-down zone of disinformation, which the mainstream media amplifies.

In the United States, the right-wing news-entertainment complex has constructed an alternate reality for conservatives that functions like a political version of the Upside-Down from the hit Netflix show "Stranger Things."

Fox News sits at its center. New Suffolk University polling data shows how Fox News viewers (and those respondents who identify as "conservative" and "very conservative") are much more critical of President Barack Obama, are afraid of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and have a much more negative attitude about the future of the United States than the general public. Fox News viewers are also much more likely to believe that the presidential election will somehow be manipulated or subjected to fraud and that the American news media is conspiring against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. ... Read more

*TYT | How Bad Is It For Hillary Clinton? (11/03/16) [6:51]

*Jeremy Scahill on 2016 Presidential Politics (10/16/16) [34:34]

Obama's Pentagon Is Using a 'War on Terror' Slush Fund to Bankroll Dangerous Military Buildup Near Russian Border
AlterNet | Sarah Lazare | 11/01/16

The Overseas Contingency Operations fund allows the military to sidestep budget caps and political debate.

The Pentagon is planning to pull billions of dollars from a slush fund earmarked for the war on terror to finance a major mobilization of tanks, troops and arms near the Russian border, as part of NATO's largest military buildup in eastern Europe since the Cold War. ...

... The U.S. is not acting alone. Britain also announced that it plans to mobilize fighter planes to Romania, with Germany, Canada and other countries that are members of NATO also promising forces. "From early 2017, NATO will have four multinational battalions in the eastern part of the Alliance," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said last week. "This is credible deterrence. Not to provoke a conflict, but to prevent conflict. Concrete proof that NATO can and will deploy thousands of forces to support our Allies." ... Read more

US Warns Of Possible Al-Qaeda Terrorist Attack On Monday Targeting NY, Texas And Virginia
ZeroHedge | author | 11/04/16

CBS reports that U.S. intelligence has alerted joint terrorism task forces that al-Qeada could be planning attacks in three states for Monday. According to sources, it is believed New York, Texas and Virginia are all possible targets, though no specific locations are mentioned. ... Read more

*TYT | Reporter Eric Byler spoke to attendees of Donald Trump rally in Grand Rapids, MI. (11/02/16) [2:59]

The Dakota Access Pipeline Map Everyone Should See
HP | Carl Sack | 11/01/16

When I decided to become a cartographer, I didn't just want to make pretty and useful maps. I became a cartographer to make maps that change the world for the better. Right now, no situation needs this kind of map more than the current drama unfolding around the Dakota Access Oil Pipeline's crossing of the Missouri River.

Thousands of Native Americans and their allies have gathered on unceded Sioux land delimited by the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie to try and stand in the way of the "black snake" that could poison the Standing Rock Reservation's water supply. Many have noted that the pipeline corridor was repositioned from its original route north of Bismarck after white citizens spoke up against the threat a spill would pose to their drinking water ? a threat duly recognized by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Yet the Corps failed its federal mandate for meaningful consultation with the Standing Rock Tribe before signing off on a route that moved the pipeline to their doorstep. ... Read more
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*TYT | Dakota Access was told by the federal government not to drill close to the Missouri River. Well guess where they're drilling. Will the Obama administration step in? (11/02/16) [19:06]

TRNN | Prof. Michael Hudson on Hillary Clinton and the US Elections (11/02/16) [13:18]

Mitch McConnell Breaks His Silence On Donald Trump
magazine | Marina Fang | 11/02/16

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday finally broke his silence on Donald Trump after months of trying to distance himself from his party's presidential nominee.

Addressing a rally in Georgetown, Kentucky, McConnell urged the crowd that "we need a new president, Donald Trump, to be the most powerful Republican in America," ...

... McConnell, like House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and other GOP leaders, has walked a tightrope between condemning their party's presidential nominee for his litany of offensive remarks and controversies, and continuing to endorse him. ... Read more

Julian Assange Ends The Suspense: "The Source Of Hacked Emails Is Not Russia"
ZeroHedge | author | 11/03/16

With countless hours of media accusations that the source of hacked Wikileaks Democratic emails including the Podesta files, is none other than Russian president Vladimir Putin, Julian Assange has decided to settle this particular loose end once and for all, and as RT reports, the Wikileaks founder "has categorically denied that the troves of US Democratic Party and Clinton emails released this year have come from the Russian government." ... Read more

Adelson pours $25 million into White House race, more may be coming
magazine | Ed Henry | 10/31/16

Billionaire Sheldon Adelson just committed $25 million to an anti-Hillary Clinton Super PAC to try and help tilt the presidential race and down ballot House and Senate races to Republicans, Fox News learned Monday. There are indications the casino magnate will pony up even more by the end of the week.

Two senior Republican sources familiar with the donation described it to Fox News as a "massive" amount of money to be spent during the final week of the presidential race and a sign that Adelson, who has largely been on the sidelines after initially suggesting he would give $100 million to help Donald Trump, is now going all in on the Republican nominee. ... Read more
TYT | Guess Which Religion Trump Is Coming After Now? (11/01/16) [14:06]

TYT | Why People Don't Trust Hillary Clinton (11/01/16) [12:00]

TYT | Hillary Clinton Should Be Very Worried (11/01/16) [6:53]

*Halloween's Over, But Record-Breaking Heat Horror Continues
HP | Dominique Mosbergen | 11/02/16

Trick-or-treating was a steamier-than-usual affair for millions of Americans this Halloween. Forecasters say the heatwave will not let up this week.

Several cities across the country saw record-high Halloween temperatures on Monday. Among them: New Orleans, Louisiana, (89 degrees), Dodge City, Kansas, (90 degrees), Asheville, North Carolina, (81 degrees), Hunstville, Alabama, (88 degrees), Tallahassee, Florida, (90 degrees), Fort Smith, Arkansas, (89 degrees) and Colorado Springs, Colorado, (80 degrees). Atlanta, Georgia, also set a new heat record at 86 degrees, a temperature nearly 20 degrees above average, WTVM.com reports. It was the latest day in the year that the city has ever been that warm. ... Read more
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Inside 'Bill Clinton Inc.': Hacked memo reveals intersection of charity and personal income
WashingtonPost | Rosalind S. Helderman | older 10/23/16

When top Bill Clinton aide Douglas Band wrote the memo, he was a central player at the Clinton Foundation and president of his own corporate consulting firm. Over the course of 13 pages, he made a case that his multiple roles had served the interests of the Clinton family and its charity.

In doing so, Band also detailed a circle of enrichment in which he raised money for the Clinton Foundation from top-tier corporations such as Dow Chemical and Coca-Cola that were clients of his firm, Teneo, while pressing many of those same donors to provide personal income to the former president. ... Read more
TYT | Wikileaks BOMBSHELL Exposes Extent Of Clinton Corruption (11/01/16) [18:46]

Don’t Sweat The Election. The Next Crisis Is Already Baked Into The Cake
ZeroHedge | author | 11/01/16

From here on out politics are only relevant at the extremes - major war, corruption scandal, martial law etc. Short of that, the fiat currency/fractional reserve banking world has such institutional momentum that it really won’t matter whether Trump is picking on bankers and building his wall or Clinton is protecting Wall Street and raising taxes. Debt will keep soaring as it has under every president since Reagan and jobs will disappear as machines replace people, thus bringing the end of the current system inexorably closer. ...

... These three things – soaring Chinese debt, disruptions in the money market, and the end of the auto loan bubble -- matter vastly more than which party runs what part of the government. ... Read more

TRNN | The Doubt Machine: Inside The Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science (full) (11/01/16) [30:00]

All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power by Nomi Prins

All the Presidents' Bankers is a groundbreaking narrative of how an elite group of men transformed the American economy and government, dictated foreign and domestic policy, and shaped world history.

Culled from original presidential archival documents, All the Presidents' Bankers delivers an explosive account of the hundred-year interdependence between the White House and Wall Street that transcends a simple analysis of money driving politics -- or greed driving bankers.

Prins ushers us into the intimate world of exclusive clubs, vacation spots, and Ivy League universities that binds presidents and financiers. She unravels the multi-generational blood, intermarriage, and protégé relationships that have confined national influence to a privileged cluster of people. These families and individuals recycle their power through elected office and private channels in Washington, DC.

All the Presidents' Bankers sheds new light on pivotal historic events--such as why, after the Panic of 1907, America's dominant bankers convened to fashion the Federal Reserve System; how J. P. Morgan's ambitions motivated President Wilson during World War I; how Chase and National City Bank chairmen worked secretly with President Roosevelt to rescue capitalism during the Great Depression while J.P. Morgan Jr. invited Roosevelt's son yachting; and how American financiers collaborated with President Truman to construct the World Bank and IMF after World War II.

Prins divulges how, through the Cold War and Vietnam era, presidents and bankers pushed America's superpower status and expansion abroad, while promoting broadly democratic values and social welfare at home. But from the 1970s, Wall Street's rush to secure Middle East oil profits altered the nature of political-financial alliances. Bankers' profit motive trumped heritage and allegiance to public service, while presidents lost control over the economy -- as was dramatically evident in the financial crisis of 2008.

This unprecedented history of American power illuminates how the same financiers retained their authoritative position through history, swaying presidents regardless of party affiliation. All the Presidents' Bankers explores the alarming global repercussions of a system lacking barriers between public office and private power. Prins leaves us with an ominous choice: either we break the alliances of the power elite, or they will break us.

Trump Raises Specter Of Crisis If Clinton Wins The White House
Reuters & HP | author | 10/31/16

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called Democratic rival Hillary Clinton a threat to the country on Monday, saying that if she is elected a probe into her emails could shadow her entire term in office, as the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Clinton's lead narrowing slightly.

"The investigation will last for years. The trial will probably start," Trump told a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan. "Nothing will get done. I can tell you, your jobs will continue to leave Michigan. Nothing's going to get done." ... Read more

All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power by Nomi Prins

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There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income in the United States in the last four decades. In his most recent book, Baker shows that this upward redistribution was not the result of globalization and the natural workings of the market. Rather it was the result of conscious policies that were designed to put downward pressure on the wages of ordinary workers while protecting and enhancing the incomes of those at the top. Baker explains how rules on trade, patents, copyrights, corporate governance, and macroeconomic policy were rigged to make income flow upward.

"With clarity, facts, and force, Dean Baker explains how the U.S. economy is rigged and how the privileged class convinced majorities that this is just the way things have to be. Baker then thoroughly debunks such inevitability, providing what amounts to a powerful de-rigging manual to the growing number of us who want a global economy that works for everyone."
-- Jared Bernstein, Former Chief Economic Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden

"This is an important and compelling book about how the rules governing the American economy have been rigged in favor of those with the wealth and political clout to rig them. Baker shows why and how the nation's staggering inequality has been the consequence of staggeringly unequal political influence."
-- Robert B. Reich, Former Secretary of Labor

Aljazeera | Inside Story - Where do the two US presidential candidates stand on the Middle East? (11/01/16) [24:50]