Our so-called “war” in A f g h a n i s t a n is really a prolonged occupation, the main motivation for which is competition between the U.S., R u s s i a and C h i n a for control of o i l and n a t u r a l g a s resources. And as long as lawmakers continue to be influenced by organizations like ALEC, the future of any good decision-making on behalf of Americans seems less likely than Rex T i l l e r s o n promoting r...
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Every day, corporations tighten their grasp on this country, chipping away at the wealth + rights of the working class, while telling us the problem is something else. They control all branches of government, control our mass media, and do everything possible to stop us from realizing we have more in common than not. Let’s take our country back. Immigrants are not dangerous. Gay people do not threaten your way of life. People on food stamps don’t lower your standard of living. Our enemy is the CORPORATE CABAL that has seized total control of this country. THIS is the...
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The Supreme Court opens its heavy caseload with a worker’s rights to sue as a collective against his or her employer. At question is the legality of mandatory arbitration clauses in workers’ contracts which force workers to privately settle grievances with their employer under their employer’s’ terms. The courthouse doors to workers in many high profile cases like UBER drivers’ struggle for minimum wage, women facing sexual harassment at UBER and FOX news, and customers have been unable to sue Wells Fargo and Equifax for their data breaches. While, 80% of the US top 100 employers use have them...
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Lee Camp speaks with John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman and one of his favorite writers about how our so-called humanitarian interventions in the War on T e r r o r are a giant facade for protecting c o r p o r a t e interests. They also discuss how c o r p o r a t e media has become the p r o p a g a n d a arm of the w a r machine. Then, Lee explains how the traits many love to hate about President Trump are...
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Thanks to the latest foolhardy attempt to repeal Obamacare, the healthcare of 9 million kids is in limbo. That’s because lawmakers were too wrapped up in the latest repeal effort to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program to families ineligible for Medicaid and too poor for private insurance. However, both sides already agreed before the Graham-Cassidy debacle that CHIP would have less money than before. Natalie McGill joins Lee at the desk to lament that lawmakers have to reach an agreement every few years that poor kids need health care when it should be a...
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