Chris Hedges and Paul Street: The Problem is Not Trump. It is a Political System Dominated by Corporate Power and The Mandarins of the Two Major Political Parties

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with Paul Street
Writer, Dandelion Salad
November 9, 2019

RT America on Nov 9, 2019

Journalist Chris Hedges talks to Paul Street, author and political commentator, about the failure of the American Left, new forms of resistance, democracy, and the deep roots of America’s ruling oligarchy.

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Paul Street is an independent radical-democratic policy researcher, journalist, historian, author and speaker based in Iowa City, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of seven books to date: Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004); Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (New York: Routledge, 2005); Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: a Living Black Chicago History (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007); Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008); The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (Paradigm, 2010); (with Anthony DiMaggio) Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics (Paradigm, 2011); and They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy (Paradigm, 2014). Paul writes regularly for Telesur English, Counterpunch, Black Agenda Report, Z Magazine and Dandelion Salad.

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From the archives:

Trumpeachment — He’s Getting Off Easy by Paul Street

The Age of Constitutional Coups by Paul Street

Notes on Inauthenticity in a Creeping Fascist Nuthouse by Paul Street

Starve Out the DNC– Boycott The Democratic Party! by Michael Hudson

Only Revolution Can Save Us by Paul Street

Bodies on the Ground and the Rise and Rise of the Economic Elite by Phil Rockstroh

Socialism Curiously Trumps Fascism in U.S. Political Threat Reporting by Paul Street

American Liberal Delusions on Trump by Finian Cunningham

Creeping Fascism by Paul Street

Paul Street, Glen Ford, Chris Hedges, Bruce Dixon: Imagining an Authentic 21st Century U.S. Left (Left Forum 2018)