it could be argued. that we're now in the midst of a could in slow motion. democracy is weakening. conference as it is strengthening. and none of us has chosen this route for our society. in spite of which our elites quite happily continue down that. this is a multi lane highway. the kind of savage laceration. that runs directly over the center of camden new jersey so that commuters in and out of philadelphia never have to see this city this sacrifice.

and that's what we've done we've rendered those trapped in the sacrifice own invisible. these people have been not just rendered invisible through infrastructure but they've been rendered invisible through a media which doesn't report their story at all.

and we should also know that they're completely trapped they can't get loans rents are actually quite high in camden although you're living jaded conditions. and this was one of the major manufacturing centers of the united states. you used to have r.c.a. victor. the famous italian tenor caruso used to come here to. campbell's soup one of the largest companies in the country. this was a major force up until world war 2 a lot of battleships were built here and then just in the port in world war 235000 people were employed.

who. emigrated maher of the canadian intellectual john ralston saul who use the term corporate coup d'etat in his book the unconscious civilization was a very important book for me because it it gave me the vocabulary to understand that corporate d'etat how it was. carried out and how it expressed itself in our

society in 1905 writing something like that felt really risky because i was essentially saying you know mostly won the 2nd world war it was his proposal corporatism that seriously was defeated and war and i was really arguing that was the way of organizing society which he had become more and more powerful please raise your right hand and repeat after me. donald john trump do solemnly swear and i was slightly covering my bad spot saying that it was a coup d'etat in slow motion because i was feeling my way into no one ever said anything like that. when i sign this bill into law america will have the lowest marginal tax rates and the most modern tax code among major industrialized nations . where i guess i was wrong was that it wasn't so most it's really very fast when you think about it's really a matter of

a couple. donald trump to solidly swear i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states also this president of the united states. and there's no question that. we're well into that world we're well into corporatist world but this crisis there were is maybe we want to call it a legitimacy crisis right the status quo or the legitimating framework of capitalism right that has sort of guided us over the past 3 decades in this kind of organizing system has really lost legitimacy the main reason is simply that it's been a project that has benefited elites enormously and despite all of the kind of rhetoric of how much you know market flexibility will help workers how much free trade will . help you know average people become more skilled and get better jobs the reality

is ordinary working families are not doing well in fact they're doing substantially worse than they were doing a few decades ago and i'm getting through to you is to be. there get up on your little 21 inch screen. and how about america and democracy. and. so this kind of. has created. at least in its political. and

that gave rise to. the elites look at. some mean these idiotic he's. competent he's lazy. at least was stupid enough to realize that he had to give the corporate c.e.o.'s wall street what they wanted which was the. temporary. long term for. private equity he gave the military 10 percent. and he deregulated industries like the e.p.a. . and so they. are a number of. hard core economic libertarians particularly.

individuals like the koch brothers. made very clear since the early seventy's that they would like to see a system. democracy that represent those with money those with economic power. we have today because it's been shaped and crafted by. democracy doesn't exist. but instead we have just a constellation of powerful interest groups. it was basically saying individuals cannot be the source of legitimacy in society it has to be done on the basis of self-interest. down on space specialist groups. when you read this stuff and you see the extent to which that idea of group interests versus the responsibility of the citizen has become increasingly are the day.

it is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep that's a famous mussolini quote you're a tweet it was a lead it was was a lady i'd say ok don't go it's a very good quote it's a very interesting quote and i know it's i saw it i saw what i know who said it but what difference does it make whether is was to leave me as somebody else and so certainly a very interesting quote that you want to be associated with a fascist. no i want to be associated with interesting quotes i think this particular time in american history including trump is one of the most important

periods of the history including the revolution and i say that carefully as a historian because they're run out of options and what you see is donald trump is the end of the option of a corporate dominated system it may go to fascism it's not at fascism yet thankfully the possibility of something approaching fascism particularly if there is violence particular system the black community something of a. repression attack on civil liberties is certainly possible and could be very ugly could be very ugly when you have a system of power where a tiny group of people have all of it are messed up that you have 8 people who control half their wealth when you have a tiny group of people who have all the power you have to have some means to make sure the rest of us don't get together and take it back. you can see that the logos been superimposed on to the other fighters face all these 20 to reveal about the

thinking of the most powerful man in the world and his priorities and some would argue his humanity by now it is obvious that trump is actually a bad negotiator this symbiotic relationship between trump and his so-called adversaries and c.n.n. . b.c. it's kind of phony when you get right down to it i mean c.n.n. made a 1000000000 dollars last year cable news companies will steadily gain and make money during the course of the elections is and then as soon as the election happens their profits will drop off that's would not happen with trump he gets 2 scoops of the no i scream with his chocolate cream pie instead of the single scoop for everyone else they've continued to make money they're making bank like never before and trump is definitely the reason everybody understands this. is the symptom is not the disease the system was already so corrupt and the anger towards the elites

in both the democratic and republican party was so pronounced. that his vote garrity actually gave voice to a large segment of the american public that was sick of being betrayed and lied to we know from 2008 that the segment of the population that has suffered the most economically are african-american households. because they can put forth a black face or a woman in functions as a. that's an obama once obama was a brand and that's why after he won in 2000 eat advertising gave obama its top annual award which was marketer of the year. i don't. mean dish if you're meeting. each.

of. us economy was booming numbers of people with. you can work 40 hours a a week and still not have enough to get. everybody believes america still is the. reality of. financial inequality and the lack of affordable housing living. many people know. the problem with the city. limits on. the most vulnerable abandoned on the streets to become invisible.

you know in a month in which. the 2 party conventions officially nominated. for the democrats the demick election and even more. usual so joining us is greg palast author of many books including. all the. true. 20. 2 corporate state doesn't mind having some you like trump around and sort of embarrassing but they don't really mind providing you bring. providing the. contracts and providing that he does what they want if it gets too annoying to get

rid of it. isn't clear to what extent he understands that he is the sort of. dancing. is so good to be here again sean you're the greatest ratings when i'm on your show about people who spend a lot of time and money getting the supreme court to remove controls on spending elections putting in place laws that have to do with how corporations run those people are watching carefully to see the extent to which is this boy our boy or not can we really get enough use out of him. anymore real. work you don't we have ever seen you get we will make america strong. we will make america will be again we will make america proud and we will make america safe we.

give all we can. get off. that there's no word one. that i want back there. they were strapped down here now. oh we got a house like 9 years ago when i'm going out. but i have been proposed only they hear people close to his backyard. and every night. it seems there's no good news when it comes to the housing market sales of existing homes plunged 8.6 percent in november as compared to october and just 6 months 3 of the 5 biggest independent firms on wall street tough now disappeared 9 years ago

families went downhill broke apart their family their house their. work during the month. i was woken by one day and i was having to pick up here was it was still dark out though the sun had come up came up and i seen a guy just should not there kind of look like he was sleeping or whatever so i just kept walking and the guy was up there and he was overdosed and he was dead he must have sat there on my knee must survive either froze to death already overdosed itself told him. he saw the needle and you know his arm and there were body comes running by like oh

my god where do you get that is everybody wants to go so this was you know i mean it's it's a pretty sad situation going on out here right now i wish you thought i think i'm coming here lucky i see you this my guy that you know they can think a white that we're going to. be. so these are sacrifice ups places that capitalism exploited and destroyed for profit. and left behind misery poverty environmental devastation. are are.

i. what have you seen in terms of patterns like over or let's say the last couple years are is unstable or things getting worse wow would you describe i know within i've been here going on 9 years and over the past couple years b. are feeding more families i am talking about the husband the wife and the children 20 percent might be actually living on the street. the rest of them may be in low income housing or something like. $200.00 people might come in on the 1st day of

the month and $400.00 people might come in on the last day that much but it's the people that are coming in towards the end of the month with the children and they tell us i'm here because i can't pay my electric bill and feed my kids why why do you think that is because they think that despite the fact that the economy has improved for a segment of the population the people that are at the bottom life really hasn't changed and probably even got harder for them. and the rest are you know now you know that everybody calls madam says adam i graduated from our program got how many years ago at actually 2000 where were you in prison i was a southern state southers my son was but it was a right that's where all the erik white area guards are would one go or has leg bibi's hanging from a tree heads and. yes were you doing before you want. i was selling drugs

i was using drugs made game that was my lifestyle and suddenly using drugs you go to prison you're going to come out there you might come out better you might come out crazier yeah certainly come out was enough but you're going to change this place is. based because you see the people call me and some of these people would come a hey used to do. teach is buy a few things they had good trade there but just between mental health and drugs yeah they grabbed him put him in the says. i. how many kids i have 66 kids in my work and yet it's where he worked up plus the

guard but can't do it people do what you saw how many hours a day do you work a week why was that were you in prison and what where which one on the south if you're going to get my own place i'm trying to get my own way but it's been a hard you know nobody want to help you i mean. you see cities that have been sacrificed youngstown ohio one of the steel capitals of the world. what these capitalists have done in cities like camden in cities. youngstown in

southern west virginia they're doing everywhere reconfiguring the global economy into an incredibly wealthy global oligarchy class don't take this the wrong way but you sound like a left wing nut bar i don't usually go on people defend the character assassination if you want to discuss issues that's fine but i mean the found by fox news and i don't go on look you have had very eloquent writers people on crown royal can call in canada who laid this out. with you know incredible lucidity and to come on how attack the bike on someone. engages in the kind of trash talk and alluding to corporate airways all right well thank you so much for joining us here i'm going to it will be well. thank you all for being here this very incredible group of world class business leaders that's what you are these c.e.o.'s are in some cases pulling compensations packages in the billions of dollars often defrauding

their own shareholders so this is the bill right here that i consider this very much a bill for the middle class and a bill for jobs and jobs are produced through companies and corporations and you see that happening corporations are literally go it wild over this these corporations and banks what do they do with the tax cuts will be bought back their own stock $170800000000.00 that's how much in buybacks this year that is the most seen this far into a calendar year ever why because if the stock goes up the compensation packages for the managers of these corporations goes up. it's not good for the economy it's not even good for their company.

bridges are literally go it wild over the years. there's a business trying to harvest their harvesting themselves. the 62 year old wall street tycoon raked in nearly a half $1000000000.00 between 200-2007 the start of old school free markets low taxes low everything government doesn't provide anything for anybody kind of conservatism that is the policy preferences of the tiny 8 rich doods who own half the wealth and the you know layer of rich people underneath and it is not popular so you have to get it by other me and so you see things like

voter suppression building more prisons and disenfranchising people who have spent time in you see gerrymandering you see all sorts of undemocratic practices that are used to make sure that people who might vote their own interests can't vote aren't represented when they do vote and then you just see people running like trump promising to bring jobs back to their states and then what they do once in office is a big old bait and switch and it's this kind of insane attitude where they're just looting and stealing as fast as they can as everything collapses. this used to be. just like losing a good friend. in

florida i remember grandpa worked here all his life back in the sixty's i was a kid he used to tell me that one day this week this mill would close down his belly would cry i said there is no way it's too big it's huge it goes from miles this way to one way miles an hour it's never going to close and by golly is word for true this could be the pride of the nation it's gone it's gone along with this and hundreds of other mills just like it but this one right here is with this was a proud nation. that illustrates but it splits this time not just at it but the style of speech that. he. first you know it's going to shift local.

post but. did. he push too much he gets more some. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race is on all sides here. dramatic development only personally

i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. an entire village in alaska. if another country trying to wipe out an american. we do everything in our power to protect. water they escaping climate change is the same threat right now alaska has seem some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world we lost about 30 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. is fast paced the river is $35.00 closer than how. was your or were a part of america 1st for.

better or starts releasing people who took to the streets of to sunday's disputed presidential election made claims of widespread police brutality towards detainees coming up this half hour we hear from adoptive who was jailed. since there was somebody my girls were lying there and boys were in the next out constantly beaten so badly that the guys just how it was a terrible how. also in the headlines for you palestine denounces a u.s. brokered peace deal between israel and the united arab emirates under which tell of eve will shelve for now its west bank and they say should plan.