Author: Michael Brooks

Trump SHOCKINGLY Uninterested In Ethics: ‘The President Can’t Have a Conflict of Interest’ – The Majority Report

Michael Brooks is filling in for Sam Seder on the Majority Report today. In this clip, “Wall Street Journal” White House Correspondent Carol Lee discusses what Donald Trump seems to be planning on doing about the conflicts of interest his businesses present now that he’s the president-elect. Shocker: He doesn’t plan on doing...

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Former POW McCain Denounces Use Of Waterboarding: ‘I Don’t Give a Damn What [Trump] Wants To Do’ – The Majority Report

Michael Brooks is filling in for Sam Seder on the Majority Report today. In this clip, John McCain appears at a Halifax International Security Forum and denounces the use of waterboarding as an interrogation technique, calling it ineffectual torture. The Trump administration has said that they aren’t opposed to...

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Why Authoritarianism Is On the Rise Globally: Mark Blyth NAILS Why Trump’s Rise Was Predictable – The Majority Report

Michael Brooks is filling in for Sam Seder on the Majority Report today. In this clip, Mark Blyth, Scottish political scientist and a professor of international political economy at Brown University, speaks at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown about why Trump’s victory and the rise of support for fascistic rule in the U.S. fits neatly with global...

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