The Big Picture

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The Coming War On China

Thom talks with author and filmmaker John Pilger about his new documentary “The Coming War On China” and the military escalation that could lead World War III.

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Trump Plots Inauguration Day War on Free Speech

In tonight’s Politics Panel, Thom talks with Co-Founder of The District Sentinel Sam Sacks and Angela Morabito of StandUnited.org about Trump’s controversial Labor Department pick, his EPA nominee who doesn't believe in global warming, and his attack on free speech. Thom then talks with Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the New School for Social Research Cinzia Arruzza about her new piece in Jacobin Magazine.

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Democracy vs Neoliberalism

Big Picture Interview: Professor Cinzia Arruzza, The New School/Eugene Lang College. The mainstream media has decided that Sunday's referendum in Italy was a victory for the populist far-right. But was that really the case? Or was something else going on that corporate media missed?

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Wage Hating Burger Czar As Labor Secretary?

Big Picture Politics Panel: Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel & Angela Morabito, StandUnited.org. One of first rules of government is that you don't put the fox in charge of the chicken coop - but that's exactly what Trump has done. So can we finally stop calling him a populist?

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Is Donald Trump The Master Of BS?

Thom talks with author and the President of the Waterkeeper Alliance Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers decision to block the Dakota Access Pipeline. Then, in the Lone Liberal Rumble, Thom talks with Steve Beaman of the Society to Advance Financial Education (SAFE) and Alex Pfeiffer of The Daily Caller about Trump’s bribing ways, Capitol Hill’s new handout for Big Pharma, and the consequences of repealing Obamacare.

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Wow. Look How Low The Price of Solar Is Now?

Big Picture Fact Of the Day...

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Carrier Is Using Trump’s Bribe To Kill More Jobs! We’re Suckers….

Big Picture Politics Panel: Alex Pfeiffer, The Daily Caller & Steve Beaman, Society To Advance Financial Education(SAFE Financial). While he says he’s the master of the art of the deal, he’s really the master of the art of the BS. The latest example of this is the Carrier deal. Although Trump has celebrated it as an example of just one of the job-saving savvy he’ll bring to the Oval office, it’s not the success he says it is & is far from it. It now turns out that in exchange for $7 million in tax breaks, Carrier will keep just 730 factory jobs in Indiana 550 will still go to Mexico. Meanwhile, Greg Hayes, the CEO of United Technologies, Carrier’s parent company, now says it will use the savings to increase automation in its Indiana facility - in other words, use Trump's bribe money to kill off more American jobs in future years.

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Get Ready For A Climate Denier Heading of the EPA?!

Big Picture Interview: Robert Kennedy Jr., Waterkeeper Alliance. So far, Donald Trump's choice of cabinet members has been - well - deplorable. He’s picked someone who wants to privatize Medicare to oversee Medicare as his secretary of Health and Human Services. He’s picked a bankster who foreclosed on a 90-year-old over a 27 cent underpayment to oversee banksters as his Treasury Secretary. And he's picked guy who thinks the KKK were just fine as long as they don't smoke pot to oversee our Civil Rights and marijuana laws as his Attorney General. But as bad as those picks were - they pale in comparison to Trump's latest choice for a cabinet member - especially if you care about the future of our existence as a species on this planet. Multiple sources now say that Trump has picked Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to regulate fossil fuels as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Not surprisingly, Pruitt is a climate change denier - either totally stupid about science or just happy to take all that petro-billionaire money to keep him in power. So, here were are - Global temperatures are rising faster than ever before - Arctic sea ice is at record lows - all signs point to runaway climate change becoming a reality within the decade - and the man who's now set to head up environmental policy for the next few years thinks there's still a "debate" about whether or not climate change is even real.

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Why the MI Electors Should Not Be Counted On Dec 18th

Big Picture Politics Panel: Anya Parampil, RT America & Siraj Hashmi, Red Alert Politics. With recount efforts now underway in Michigan - election officials have discovered something strange going on in Wayne County, the home of Detroit, and the largest single county in the state. In hundreds of precincts, there appear to be discrepancies between the number of ballots issued on election day and the number of ballots recorded in voting machine printouts, probably caused by electronic vote counting machines not working properly in poor neighborhoods on Election Day. Such widespread problems with electronic machines is a big enough story on its own, but what makes this a bigger deal is a Michigan law that says precincts with discrepancies between issued ballots and recorded ballots are ineligible for a statewide recount. As the Detroit News reports, this means that, “One-third of precincts in Wayne County could [now] be disqualified from an unprecedented statewide recount… Most of those are in heavily Democratic Detroit, where the number of ballots in precinct poll books did not match those of voting machine printout reports in 59 percent of precincts.” Why should anyone accept the results?

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