Politics has been called a rigged game, with elites using money and
organizational resources to pull the puppet strings of most candidates
for high office. However, the entrance into the race for US president of
candidates Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump who both reject funding from
Wall Street threatens to challenge that truism.
This week’s Global Research News Hour attempts to cut through the
propaganda and jargon and assess what real options are out there for
making substantive and humane political change.
William Blum is a long-time critic of US foreign policy. He has authored five books including his most recent, America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy – The Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else. He also publishes the “Anti-Empire Report” on his site www dot williamblum dot org.
In this interview, Blum outlines his reservations about Hillary Clinton
and Bernie Sanders, the problematic media coverage of the campaign, and
the astonishing view that Trump may actually be the less objectionable
in certain respects than both Sanders and Clinton.
Mark Robinowitz is publisher of oilempire dot us,
a political map to connect the dots. He has been a writer, political
activist, ecological campaigner and permaculture practitioner for over
three decades. He is also author of the forthcoming Peak Choice:
cooperation or collapse, an uncensored guide to Earth, energy and money.
In this interview, Robinowitz equates the choice between the Democrats
and the Republicans to one between death by lethal injection and death
by the electric chair. He outlines the mechanisms employed to stop any
threat to the establishment from ever becoming elected president. He
also explains how the energy and economic decline is becoming reflected
in the politics of the Trump campaign.
