INTERVIEW: “Green Party Presidential Candidate, Dr. Jill Stein: America’s Multi-Organ Failure” / The Empire Files / Abby Martin ☮


Part of the way the U.S. Empire’s elections are rigged is the corporate media’s censorship of third-party candidates, despite their nationwide campaign efforts.

The Green Party, running Dr. Jill Stein for President, has been totally ignored by the establishment.

Abby Martin sits down with Dr. Stein to look at how her career in medicine helped her diagnose America’s “multi-organ failure,” and why her ideas pose such a threat to Empire.

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY: “Noam Chomsky on How the U.S. and British Invasion of Iraq Caused the Syrian Refugee Crisis” ☮


h/t: truthdig

In this video MIT professor, anarchist, political philosopher and renowned linguist, Noam Chomsky, discusses the impacts of arms and weapons exports into Saudi Arabia and Israel. He also talks about the refugee and Syrian crisis that is engulfing neighbouring states as well as the European continent.

How does the military industrial complex of Germany affect the security of the populations of the countries in the Arab world?

Do military and arms exports promote stability in the region?

What are the roots of the refugee crisis that the European Union as well as neighbouring countries to Syria and Iraq are facing?

All of these questions and more are addressed in this video.

HAPPY HITCH DAY! “Christopher Hitchens Tribute” / Great Minds ☮

INTELLECTUALISM: “Donald Trump is Winning Because White America is Dying” / The Huffington Post / Matt Ferner ☮

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky, the renowned scholar and MIT professor emeritus, says that the rise of Donald Trump in American politics is, in part, fueled by deeply rooted fear and hopelessness that may be caused by an alarming spike in mortality rates for a generation of poorly educated whites.

“He’s evidently appealing to deep feelings of anger, fear, frustration, hopelessness, probably among sectors like those that are seeing an increase in mortality, something unheard of apart from war and catastrophe,” Chomsky told The Huffington Post in an interview on Thursday.

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