Robert F Kennedy visited the Dakota Access Pipeline protests and pointed out an ominous truth about why the fossil fuel industry is so desperate to build pipelines.
At an Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday, Senator John McCain attacked reporting by our guest, Aaron Glantz, on the University of Phoenix’s deceptive recruiting practices that prompted the Pentagon to put the for-profit school on probation for deceptive recruiting practices. The move was welcomed by consumer advocates and veterans groups. We air an excerpt of the report for Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and get Glantz’s response.
Following the death of Fidel Castro, Human Rights Watch tweeted about the “abusive tactics” used by the Castro regime, all of which are actively being used by the United States.
Trump is rumored to appoint Sarah Palin to lead a very important government agency. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.
Heavily armed police who have used numerous weapons against peaceful protesters were approached by TYTPolitics’s Jordan Chariton.
Sarah Palin has insisted God intervened in the US election and Donald Trump’s victory was partially prompted by people praying to God that US citizens would “wake up.”
The horrific treatment of protesters at the Dakota Access pipeline is just one of the failings of the Obama administration. He also made permanent the Bush era tax cuts, tortured whistleblowers and removed habeus corpus, among others. The trust liberals still have in him are why he’s gotten away with such abuses.
In Charlotte, North Carolina, people took to the streets Wednesday night to protest the announcement that police officer Brentley Vinson will not face charges for fatally shooting African American father Keith Lamont Scott. We talk to Dr. Cornel West about the Keith Lamont Scott case and the national issue of police brutality.
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory over Hillary Clinton, some progressives are now pushing a shake up of the Democratic Party’s leadership in efforts to reform the party. But Dr. Cornel West says the Democratic Party can’t be reformed. During the Democratic primary, West endorsed Bernie Sanders. Sanders later picked him to serve on the Democratic platform committee. After Hillary Clinton won the nomination, West made headlines when he endorsed Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein.
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