. >> and he is making this case as very neoliberal. there is a dukakis thing to it.this is a platform meets building. i made in new york work and that served the liberal goals of my father and forbearers of the party. how frantically are those democrats scrambling in north carolina. we will find out. >> al hunt joins us now. there is no baseball to launch today. he has plenty of time to wow us with his wit and wisdom. tell us what you think is going on. >> i think the north carolina senate race is one of the great negative races in the country. whether you hate rally more or hate washington more, the center is running against the speaker of the house and what i think she has done fairly and effectively is to say you may not like watching but look what they did and rally. isis and ebola were none the forefront of people's minds. right now a slight edge to kay hagan. >> is the momentum because of circumstances or is he running a better campaign? >> republicans say he has the momentum. it has been a rather steady three-point advantage. i think he has gotten his act toge

. >> and he is making this case as very neoliberal.i believe in government, but government must work for people. the competence and there is a dukakis thing to it. if he runs for president this is the platform he is building. i made in new york work and that served the liberal goals of my father and forbearers of the party. >> exactly. >> coming up, how frantically are those democrats scrambling in north carolina? we dispatched the great al hunt jr. on a boondoggle to the tarheel state to find out. >> al hunt joins us now. there is no baseball, and certainly no nationals baseball to watch today. he has plenty of time to wow us with his wit and wisdom. tell us what you think is going on in that north carolina senate race. >> i think the north carolina senate race is one of the great negative races in the country in a year full of negative races. whether you hate raleigh more or hate washington more. really what i think kay hagan has done fairly effectively, hey, you may not like washington, look what we did in raleigh. the last couple w

abandoning his failed neoliberalism. harvard had a poll millennials are fed up with the feds.hey might prefer the g.o.p. it's what we've been saying on the show all along. those who most expect its help will look for other alternatives. when the state can't succeed, individuals take destiny into their hands. millennials aren't mindless voters despite what people believe. they're an army of independents beholden to no one their search for a better future will hopefully lift our appear they had i can say out of a coma. wh

hillary clinton is a fierce neoliberal who believes in backing up the so-called hidden hand of the freeket with merciless, ironfisted oteri policy. >> let me ask you quickly about blackwater and the trial going on. jurors have been deliberating in a trial of the former operatives allegedly involved in a 2007 massacre. the suspects are charged with the deaths of 14 civilians who died when their unit indiscriminately opened fire. >> this was the worst massacre of iraqi civilians at the hands of private contractors that we know in iraq. i do not know how the verdict will turn out, but i know that the person who should be on trial is erik prince, the founder who ran blackwater when it was essentially murder incorporated in iraq. there was an environment where they were encouraged to view every iraq as the enemy and they committed many massacres beyond that. this is a microcosm of what happens all the time. it is always the people down the chain that face the consequences. i believe these men should be convicted for what they did and should be imprisoned. but the leadership of blackwater sho

is not pathogenic, whether neoliberalism is not pathogenic. clocks leigh phillips, we have to leave it there. leigh phillips is a science writer and eu affairs journalist. we will link to your piece in jacobin is headlined "the political economy of ebola." when we come back, women's health care here at home. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. >> return now to texas where abortion clinics shuttered by court ruling earlier this month had been allowed to reopen. this comes after the supreme court blocked part of an anti-choice law tuesday that would have required abortion clinics to meet the standards of hospital style surgery centers. it was just two weeks ago the fifth circuit court of appeals had allowed the rule to go into effect immediately, essentially gutting access to abortion overnight. urging clinics were forced to close, leaving just eight in all of texas, all of them clustered in four metropolitan areas. the latest move by the suprem

and the whole process of neoliberalism it was fit is dish visited on countries like india, the publicvices, funding for public education, all of this was done in the name of the structural program that was brought to these countries by the imf and the world bank. the fact there are now honoring jean went activist and fighters -- genuine activists and fighters, as opposed to obama who won the nobel prize and then carried on, it shows there realizing there's is a shift happening that only in terms of how miserable the conditions have become for the majority of the world's population, but the fact that the people who are at the receiving end aren't going to be quiet. look at the amazing movements that happened all throughout this world, especially in the less developed part of the world. what's we're going to take a break to talk about one of those movements, whole movement about not only increasing the minimum wage and living wage, but looking at the different sect yours of workers and what they make, particularly restaurant workers like waitresses. i would like to ask you to stay with

en un estado como lo ha diseÑado peÑa nieto, neoliberal que quiere fingir como del tercer mundo, esteobrando. >> padre, me parece que estamos hablando como de dos mÉxico: un mÉxico que nos estÁ vendiendo peÑa nieto de progreso y de reformas, y otro mÉxico que nos estÁ describiendo usted, un mÉxico de violencia y de muertos y de total impunidad. >> mÉxico ha presumido en foros internacionales, sobre todo en europa, que mÉxico estÁ a la altura de cualquier paÍs de europa en cuestiÓn de derechos humanos, y esto no ha sido asÍ, porque la comunidad internacional reprobÓ el aÑo pasado en el epu a mÉxico en ginebra diciÉndole: "hay torturas, torturas por parte del ejÉrcito, torturas por parte de corporaciones policÍacas, hay secuestros, hay feminicidios, hay ataques terribles a los migrantes". los migrantes en este paÍs son los peor tratados, jorge. >> padre solalinde, como siempre gracias por hablar con nosotros, y sobre todo gracias por siempre tratar de decir la verdad. >> muchas gracias, amigo jorge. que dios los bendiga a todos. >> gracias, padre. el grito de guerra de los estudiantes m

jazz and to articularly use it in the concepts of international elation demock are atization, neoliberalism, capitalism, all of the terms as a way to how jazz exists. and then i'm working on a book looking at what my colleague and i called disaster impact on and its marginalized communities in the united states. there's actually a lot of good that's come out that really kind of draws the link that hat's happening locally in our communities really is embedded in the macroeconomic changes that are going on. his is one of the issues i think, for example, around egypt it needs to go. and political corruption of that needs to change. ut short of all of that, it's tied to the global economic structure really are the that kind of at this point doesn't matter who's in there. and also those get addressed, the reasons that many people are rebelling that they on't have opportunities, they are getting educated but there are no jobs available, those are a ones that are tied in to great degree to a global structure. working on a book on that. postracial king at blackness in asia. nd looking at kind of th

of neoliberalism. and we all know this stuff.ivatization, deregulation, cuts to government spending, sometimes called austerity, and of course, the free trade deals that lock it all in. association i go through this in the book quite systematically, showing how those free trade deals make many of the things -- many of the climate actions we have to take illegal, how governments are being challenged at the world trade organization when the introduce good climate policies or decide to close off carbon frontiers and ban fracking. they get sued in international trade courts. but we know what we need to do. we need to plan the kinds of economies we want. when i say it challenges growth-doesn't mean that everything has to contract. quite the opposite. it means we have to contract the parts of our economy that are at war with the earth and expand those parts of our economy that are already low carbon, like the care-giving profession, like education, like the arts. we need to expand these parts of our economies not just because they're l

they are pushing a neoliberal agenda. >> in the major democratic cities, this is what it looks like.ow can the same process happen over and over again? is abusingadership us. the democratic party is abusing us. it is the same way in every black community across the country. a life of welfare, we do not want welfare. we want opportunities to go to work. they bailed out the major banks and big investors but left the people starting. there are no tea parties. we do not have those people. we have a major democratic machine. the majority of them look like me. these other the people who make sure we get nothing but then turn around and have us but for them again. they only come around when it is time for the election. they give you a turkey or something and everything is good. ofhundreds of millions dollars are coming from the federal government but the money is going to special-interest groups. my brother's keeper went to his friend. it is a corrupt democratic system that gobbles up all of the dollars and starts people. look around your community, do you see any change that has come about