Hillary Clinton is calling for Donald Trump to release his tax returns – and he should. But she completely misses the irony and hypocrisy of calling on Trump to release information when she still hasn’t released the transcripts of her Wall Street speeches. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
Michael Winship, Writers Guild of America East/BillMoyers.com joins Thom. A lot of people haven’t seen a candidate like Donald Trump in their lifetimes. But if you’re old enough to remember the election of 1968 – you probably remember one third party candidate who sounded eerily like Donald Trump.
America Needs To Steal Back the Nordic Model… If you want to live the American dream – or at least FDR’s version of it – you’ll have to move to Scandinavia.
After his win in West Virginia, Fox News decided to spread lies about Bernie Sanders’ policies and alleged that he would implement a 98% tax rate. Additionally, Geraldo Rivera was caught on hot mic and called him “annoying.” We break down the segment in this video.
Question: Do you believe “mainstream” media will continue to be allowed to pretend there are only two candidates, or will the Green Party and Libertarian Party candidates be included in polling, debates and the vast amount of free publicity provided by news outlets?
We speak with world-renowned political dissident Noam Chomsky about the Republican party, the rightward shift in U.S. politics and the 2016 election. “If we were honest, we would say something that sounds utterly shocking and no doubt will be taken out of context and lead to hysteria on the part of the usual suspects,” Chomsky says, “but the fact of the matter is that today’s Republican Party qualify as candidates for the most dangerous organization in human history. Literally.”
Dr. Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research (C.E.P.R.)/Just Foreign Policy/FAILED: What the “Experts” Got Wrong about the Global Economy joins Thom. Just months before the Summer Olympics are set to begin in Brazil – the country is in the midst of a serious political crisis. So why doesn’t the United States seem more concerned?
Los Angeles meteorologist Liberté Chan was taken aback when one of her colleagues suggested that she wear a sweater by holding it up on screen during a segment. Apparently the station was “getting a lot of emails” about her attire.
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