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Thomas Frank on Why Hillary Clinton Won’t Protect Americans From Wall Street (Video and Transcript)

Clinton "really believes" that "Wall Street banks are in fact run by fine, upstanding individuals who are opening up the doors of possibility for the poor people of the world," the author of "Listen, Liberal" told Truthdig at the Democratic National Convention.
 

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Donald Trump’s Empty Bluster Reveals a Narcissist Who Can’t Fathom Defeat

The candidate's pre-emptive refusal to recognize the election’s outcome is an incendiary mix of personal pathology and magical thinking, racism and xenophobia, facts and legal distortion.
 
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How Power Works

Historian Heather Ann Thompson’s book on the 1971 Attica prison uprising details the government’s brutality, lies and propaganda, demonization of the poor, obstruction of justice and silencing of those who tried to tell the truth. She exposes the American blueprint for social control.
 
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In a 20-minute interview, left-wing activist Tom Hayden, who died Sunday at age 76, tells of his reluctant transformation from journalist to activist following an encounter with Martin Luther King Jr.

In this repost, Truthdig Editor in Chief Scheer interviews the author to discuss his new book, “Listen, Liberal,” about how the Democrat Party abandoned the American working class. (Frank will join Scheer in Los Angeles on Oct. 30 for a public discussion about the upcoming presidential election and Frank’s book. See the jump for more information.) Transcript added.

 
 
 
 
All-American Slaughter: The Youthful Carnage of America’s Gun Culture

The presence of gangs in neighborhoods where many American children are killed with guns daily is used as a way to dismiss serious thinking about why this is happening.

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Big Pharma Prepares to Spend Hundreds of Millions to Keep Drug Prices High

“[Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America’s] decision to hike membership dues 50 percent will increase the trade group’s considerable coffers to more than $300 million per year,” Politico reports.

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Americans Will Face ‘Megadroughts’ and Superstorms

New studies warn that such dangerous weather events could occur regularly in the U.S. if the burning of fossil fuels continues.

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How the Catholic Church Has Snuck Between American Women and Their Reproductive Rights (Video)

“Full Frontal” host Samantha Bee discusses the prevalence of hospitals run by the Catholic Church that refuse to perform certain life-saving procedures on women due to religious dogma.

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The Real Donald Trump Is Not a Populist Crusader but a Threat to Democracy

The Republican presidential candidate could stretch out the election long after Nov. 8 with lawsuits. Tying up the electoral process in the courts would be his greatest case.

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That Time I Was Investigated for Voter Fraud

If you think voter fraud is an unprosecuted crime, tell that to the Maryland investigators who knocked on my front door in 2014.

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‘We’re Not at War’: Indigenous Protesters Call on Feds to Intervene Against Military-Style Crackdown

Water protectors have endured dog attacks, invasive strip searches and military-style checkpoints.

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Why Donald Trump Is (Really) Wrong to Bet Against U.S. Military-Backed Mosul Campaign

Donald Trump’s pronouncement that the Mosul campaign is bound to fail is an affront to the Iraqi and U.S. troops risking their lives against Islamic State.

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Report: Justice Department Is Pushing to Charge Police Officer Who Killed Eric Garner

After more than two years, there may soon be significant movement on the case.

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AT&T’s Secret Surveillance Program Spies on American Customers Without Warrants and for Profit

Here’s yet another reason to be concerned about the implications of AT&T’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner: The Daily Beast has detailed a sophisticated surveillance program created by AT&T that has been covertly providing U.S. law enforcement with consumers’ data. And guess who profits from “Project Hemisphere”?

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Baseball Architect Theo Epstein Continues Tradition of Turning Lovable Losers Into Winners

His first reclamation project was the Boston Red Sox. Now, Epstein, as president of baseball operations for the Chicago Cubs, has made good on his promise to transform the team into a World Series contender.

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Former Death Row Inmate Calls for Rehabilitative Prison Programs

Gary Tyler spent 42 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Now he is speaking out in behalf of America’s prison population.

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Latest Oil Pipeline Leak Underscores Dangers of Dakota Access Pipeline

A major crude-oil pipeline in Oklahoma sprang a leak Sunday night. The company has yet to provide an estimate of volume spilled.

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Tom Hayden: Who Are You Calling an Immigrant?

From the archives: The fundamental issue underlying the attitudes of the May Day protesters is that “either the Mexicans (and other Latinos) are immigrants to a country called the United States or the U.S. is a Machiavellian power that denies occupying one-half of Mexico for 156 years.”

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The Biggest Threat to the Election Isn’t Coming From Russia

Despite all the fearmongering about Russian hackers, there’s a vulnerability closer to home that could compromise the November election; purebreds may not actually fit under the definition of a dog; meanwhile, a pirate party may be taking over Iceland’s government. These discoveries and more after the jump.

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GOP May Seem in Historic Disarray, but It Will Perpetuate Gridlock for Years to Come

Hillary Clinton looks increasingly likely to win the White House, but her party faces a big obstacle to success in congressional races: Democrats are sorting themselves into geographic clusters where many of their votes have been rendered all but superfluous.

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Iraqi Kurdistan Forces Take Bashiqa on the Road to Mosul

Iraqi forces continued their advance on Mosul on Sunday despite the car bombs and sniping tactics of Islamic State.

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Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web-Tracking

Over the summer, the tech giant substituted new language in its privacy policy that says browsing habits “may be” combined with what the company learns from a user’s use of gmail and other tools.

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Big Profits Seen for China’s Wind Energy Companies

The Chinese government is committed to stringing eight new ultra-high-voltage power lines, designed mainly to transmit electricity from wind farms, across the country.

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Hillary Clinton Ready to Flip the Script for Women

Not enough has been made of two obvious facts: Hillary Clinton, if she wins the presidency, would be the first woman elected to the White House. And it will have been the votes of women who put her there.

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