It’s time to stop the conservative's war on working people in America.

Since the birth of our nation, conservatives have always been wary of average working-class Americans having too much political or economic power. John Adams, the second President of the United States and a Federalist (precursor to today’s Republicans), was very wary of the working class, which he referred to as “the rabble.”

Adams believed that if a country or society wanted to be stable, then it must have a governing elite that must be separate in both power and privilege from “the rabble.” Many Federalists of the era didn’t even want working class non-landowners to be able to vote.

In the era from the 1940’s through the 70’s, “the rabble” gained a lot of power in America, both economically and politically. They formed unions and led protests, and made life absolutely miserable for Conservatives.

This strong working class and its support for Democrats like FDR led to Ronald Reagan leading the charge in the 1980’s to take the working class down a notch. Now, that 34-year-old conservative campaign to destroy the American working class, and strip it of its wealth and power is bearing fruit – and claiming lives.

Read more here.

-Thom

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... ISIS executes another American (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

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Need to Know: ISIS executes another American
- Tom Hayden, Peace & Justice Resource Center / Inspiring Participatory Democracy

Big Picture Politics Panel:
- Scott Greer, The Daily Caller
- Ben Cohen, Daily Banter
- David Hogberg PhD, National Center for Public Policy Research

Detroit...bankruptcy on trial
- Pastor D. Alexander Bullock, Change Agent Consortium

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Tuesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: What is a 'Libertarian?'
- Austin Petersen, The Libertarian Republic

Article: "Pew Poll: Libertarians Don’t Know What ‘Libertarian’ Means" by DeWyn.

Article: "What Do the Koch Brothers Want?" (1980 Libertarian Party platform) by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Police Arrest Young Black Politician For Distributing Voting Rights Leaflets" by Alice Ollstein.

Article: "Eric Cantor cashes in for $3.4 million" by Laura Clawson.

Article: "Republicans redefine chutzpah with equal pay tweet" by Laura Clawson.

Article: "After 13 Years Of Fighting For Wall Street, Eric Cantor Will Make Millions At An Investment Bank" by Josh Israel.

Plus, Is there an Iraq strategy?
- Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA, 13th District)

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution".

Book: Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-right Alliance To Dismantle The Corporate State by Ralph Nader.

Article: "We need to tell the truth about what Russia is doing in Ukraine" by Wesley Clark.

Article: "Merkel says she's against arming Ukraine, but sanctions are coming" by Kyiv Post.

Article: "Ukraine signs $10 billion shale gas deal with Chevron" by Pavel Polityuk and Richard Balmforth.

Clip: "Iraq sits on top of 10 percent of the world’s oil reserves, very significant reserves, second only to Saudi Arabia." Vice President Dick Cheney, Meet the Press, September 14, 2003.

Article: "'Thank God for the Saudis': ISIS, Iraq, and the Lessons of Blowback" by Steve Clemons.

Article: "Saudis Must Stop Exporting Extremism: ISIS Atrocities Started With Saudi Support for Salafi Hate" by Ed Husain.

Article: "Georgia Police Used Taser Like A Cattle Prod To Force Black Man To Walk Until He Died" by MrScorpio.

Article: "Caught on Tape: What Mitch McConnell Complained About to a Roomful of Billionaires (Exclusive)" by Lauren Windsor.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Article: "German minister calls for anti-stress law ban on emails out of office hours" by Keith Stuart.

Law: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014.

Article: "Wealthy political donors seize on new latitude to give to unlimited candidates" by Matea Gold.

Article: "Steven Sotloff: Islamic State 'kills US hostage'" by BBC.

Article: "Iran–Contra affair" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bin Laden: Goal is to bankrupt U.S." by CNN, November 2, 2004.

Article: "Full transcript of bin Ladin's speech ", 01 Nov 2004.

Bible: "Exodus 21:22".

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones

Article: "ISIS Video Shows Purported Execution Of American Journalist" by Nicholas Salazar.

Article: "Assad Policies Aided Rise of Islamic State Militant Group" by Maria Abi-Habib.

Article: "Pentagon: U.S. Military Forces Conducted Operation In Somalia" by William McDonald.

Article: "Ukraine: Russian military forces spotted in rebel-held cities" by AP.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 9/2/14" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: Sea level rise...what's the plan?
- Dr. Sally Brown, University of Southampton U.K.

Article: "Adapting to Sea Level Rise and Climate Change: What Coasts Need to Do" by Catherine Griffin.

Movie: "Watermelon Man".

Article: "E-Verify" by USCIS.

Documentary: Beneath The Veil.

Article: "Ecologists Just Saved Miles Of Texas Coastline Using BP Oil Spill Money" by Ari Phillips.

Site: Green World Rising.

Video: Carbon.

Article: "Inspector: California nuclear power plant vulnerable to earthquakes" by Barani Krishnan.

Article: "States with legalized medical marijuana had 25 percent fewer prescription OD deaths: study" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Food Crops Pushed To The Side As Oil Trains Sail Through" by Tom Kenworthy.

Article: "Why do humans grow up so slowly? Blame the brain" by Priyanka Pulla.

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