DVC Political Science 121 - Introduction to United States Government

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Lecture Outlines:

(August 27) Lecture One - Politics in a Changing Society

Readings
  • 1. Instructions for the August 27, 2024 Class
  • 2. Text Reading
  • 3. [Lecture Presentation] Politics in a Changing Society
  • 4. Journal Article Reading: The Undemocratic Reality of Capitalism - Wolff
  • 5. Video Presentation: America's Two-Party Corporate Duopoly
  • 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation
  • Politics in a Changing Society [PowerPoint Presentation]
  • Biden's Victory Was Hardly a Win for "Democracy." It Was Another Win for the 1% - Koundzic
  • Liberal Individualism and the Crisis of Citizenship - Bellah
  • This Land is Your Land - Hightower
  • What is the American Dream? - Hochschild
  • The Market As Prison - Lindblom
  • (September 3) Lecture Two - American Political Ideologies and Parties

    Readings
  • 1. Instructions for the September 3, 2024 Class
  • 2. Text Reading
  • 3. [Lecture Presentation] American Political Ideologies and Parties
  • 4. Journal Article Reading: Fascism Anyone? - Britt
  • 5. Video Presentation: Alt Right: Age of Rage
  • 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation
  • American Political Ideologies and Parties [PowerPoint Presentation]
  • The Political Spectrum
  • Why We Need a New Progressive Party and How We Can Create It - Rall
  • Fascism Anyone? - Britt
  • Fear vs. Fear - Hedges
  • America's Stunted Political Spectrum - Second Thought
  • The Political Compass
  • (September 10) Lecture Three - The Founders and the Constitution

    Readings
  • 1. Instructions for the September 10, 2024 Class
  • 2. Text Reading
  • 3. [Lecture Presentation] The Founders and the Constitution
  • 4. Journal Article Reading: Ditch the Constitution and Start Over: When a Government Becomes Destructive of the Rights of the People - Mazza
  • 5. Video Presentation: United States of Secrets
  • 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation
  • The Founders and the Constitution [Powerpoint Presentation]
  • America's Antiquated Constitution - Howell and Moe
  • The Dark Side of the Constitution - Dolbeare
  • The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the Decline of American Democracy - Lazar
  • Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident - Zinn
  • (September 17) Lecture Four - The Federal System: Structure and Dynamics

    Readings
  • 1. Instructions for the September 17, 2024 Class
  • 2. Text Reading
  • 3. [Lecture Presentation] The Federal System: Structure and Dynamics
  • 4. Journal Article Reading: American Exceptionalism and the Politics of Fragmentation - Cohen / Rogers
  • 5. Video Presentation: The Electoral College is Anti-Democracy
  • 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation
  • Federalism [PowerPoint Presentation]
  • Large Majority of Americans Want to End Electoral College - Corbett
  • Slavery, Democracy and the Racialized Roots of the Electoral College - Petrella
  • States Rights: the Other Side of the Coin - Ochenski
  • The Drive for Domination Puts US Unity at Risk - Mazza
  • Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity - Jensen
  • (September 24) Lecture Five - The Legislative Branch: Institutions and Processes

    Readings
  • 1. Instructions for the September 24, 2024 Class
  • 2. Text Reading
  • 3. [Lecture Presentation] The Legislative Branch: Institutions and Processes
  • 4. Journal Article Reading: License to Profit: Legalized Corruption in the US Congress - Johnson
  • 5. Video Presentation: Money, Power and Wall Street
  • 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation
  • The Legislative Branch [PowerPoint Presentation]
  • Unequal Struggle - Berg
  • Fresh Calls for Stock Trading Ban After US Lawmakers Beat Market in 2023 - Corbett
  • Democracy On Drugs - Common Cause
  • Congress: The Pocketing of Power - Parenti
  • How Corporations Run Congress: A Talk With Ryan Grim - Eskow
  • (October 1) Lecture Six - The Executive Branch

    Readings
  • 1. Instructions for the October 1, 2024 Class
  • 2. Text Reading
  • 3. [Lecture Presentation] The Executive Branch
  • 4. Journal Article Reading: You're With Her, But Is She With You? - Leon III
  • 5. Video Presentation: The Corporate Coup d'Etat
  • 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation
  • The Executive Branch [PowerPoint Presentation]
  • Biden Out - We Need a New Party, Not a New Democrat - Hubbard
  • George Farah on Presidential Debates - Bill Moyers
  • The Presidential Spectacle - Miroff
  • The President: Guardian of the System - Parenti
  • Our Imperial System: On How Not to Think About the American Presidency - Grover and Peschek
  • The Limits of Presidential Power - Genovese
  • (October 8) Lecture Seven - The Federal Judiciary

    Readings
  • 1. Instructions for the October 8, 2024 Class
  • 2. Text Reading
  • 3. [Lecture Presentation] The Federal Judiciary
  • 4. Journal Article Reading: The Courts v. Democracy - Flory
  • 5. Video Presentation: Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Court
  • 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation
  • The Judicial Branch [PowerPoint Presentation]
  • The Supremely Political Court - Parenti
  • How the 14th Amendment Made Corporations Into 'People' - Pruitt
  • Frontline: Justice for Sale
  • Corporations, the Law, and Democracy - Swidorski
  • (October 15) Lecture Eight - Governmental Bureaucracy

    Readings
  • 1. Instructions for the October 15, 2024 Class
  • 2. Text Reading
  • 3. [Lecture Presentation] Governmental Bureaucracy
  • 4. Journal Article Reading: Bullshit Jobs: Why They Exist and Why You Might Have One - Illig
  • 5. Video Presentation: David Graeber About Bullshit Jobs
  • 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation
  • The Bureaucracy [PowerPoint Presentation]
  • Which is Worse - Government or Corporate Bureaucracy? - Hartmann
  • Bureaucracy - A Documentary by Dr Richard Cole
  • Growing Bureaucracy and Fraud in US Health Care - Geyman
  • No Easy Answers: James Q. Wilson on Bureaucracy, Crime, and Community - Eggers and O'Leary
  • (October 22) Lecture Nine - Public Opinion and the Mass Media

    Readings
  • 1. Instructions for the October 22, 2024 Class
  • 2. Text Reading
  • 3. [Lecture Presentation] Public Opinion and the Mass Media
  • 4. Journal Article Reading: Democracy and a Free Press - Croteau and Hoynes
  • 5. Video Presentation: Project Censored: The Movie
  • 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation
  • Public Opinion and the Mass Media [PowerPoint Presentation]
  • Herman and Chomsky's 5 Filters on the Media - Al Jazeera
  • Shadows of Liberty - Documentary
  • 15 Reasons Why Media Don't Do Journalism - Johnstone
  • News Content and Illusion: Four Information Biases That Matter - Bennett
  • Power of Majority Opinion in America Over Thought - De Tocqueville
  • Post-Fact Politics: Reviewing the History of Fake News and Propaganda - DiMaggio
  • It's the Media, Stupid - McChesney / Nichols
  • (October 29) Lecture Ten - Voting and Elections

    Readings
  • 1. Instructions for the October 29, 2024 Class
  • 2. Text Reading
  • 3. [Lecture Presentation] Voting and Elections
  • 4. Journal Article Reading: How to Fix America's Confusing Voting System - Swaby and Waldman
  • 5. Video Presentation: Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight To Vote
  • 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation
  • Voting and Elections [PowerPoint Presentation]
  • Whose Vote Counts, Explained
  • To Vote or Not to Vote? - Levine
  • After the Deluge: Electoral Reform in the Wake of the Election of 2000 - Guinier
  • Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils: A Vicious Circle - Fayazmanesh
  • Real Choices / New Voices - Amy
  • Finding the Lost Voters - Sifry
  • (November 5) Lecture Eleven - Political Interest Groups

    Readings
  • 1. Instructions for the November 5, 2024 Class
  • 2. Text Reading
  • 3. [Lecture Presentation] Political Interest Groups
  • 4. Journal Article Reading: With Project 2025 and Agenda 47, the USA's Coups Come Home to Roost - Polychroniou
  • 5. Video Presentation: Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics
  • 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation
  • Interest Groups [PowerPoint Presentation]
  • Nothing Less Than a Revolution Can Save Us - Street
  • USA Continues Drive to Plutocracy, Role of Lobbyists, Dismantling of the State - Stanton
  • Why Unions Matter - Bernard
  • Reclaiming the Commons - Klein
  • (November 12) Lecture Twelve - The Public Policy Process

    Readings
  • 1. Instructions for the November 12, 2024 Class
  • 2. Text Reading
  • 3. [Lecture Presentation] The Public Policy Process
  • 4. Journal Article Reading: A Livable Future Is Possible: An Interview With Noam Chomsky - Cox
  • 5. Video Presentation: Requiem for the American Dream
  • 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation
  • Public Policy [PowerPoint Presentation]
  • So Much for 'The Squad': How the Much-Hyped New U.S. Progressive Bloc Has Caved to Corporate Power - Goodman
  • Public Health? Anyone? Twelve Ways to Avoid Talking About Capitalism - Gendrault
  • Public Policymaking - Anderson
  • Closing the Democracy Gap - Nader
  • (November 19) Lecture Thirteen - U.S. Economic Policy

    Readings
  • 1. Instructions for the November 19, 2024 Class
  • 2. Text Reading
  • 3. [Lecture Presentation] U.S. Economic Policy
  • 4. Journal Article Reading: Can Kamala Harris Reach Blue Collar Workers? - Leopold
  • 5. Video Presentation: Crash: The Power of the Fed
  • 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation
  • Economic Policy [PowerPoint Presentation]
  • Wall Street Wins -- Again - Prins
  • US Senator Says Ukraine is 'Gold Mine' with $12 Trillion of Minerals 'We Can't Afford to Lose' - Geopolitical Economy Report
  • Doing It For Ourselves: Can Feminism Survive Class Polarization? - Ehrenreich
  • Interview with Pete Peterson on the Deficit - Charlie Rose
  • Class Inequality and Democracy - Krugman
  • (November 26) Lecture Fourteen - U.S. Foreign Policy

    Readings
  • 1. Instructions for the November 26, 2024 Class
  • 2. Text Reading
  • 3. [Lecture Presentation] U.S. Foreign Policy
  • 4. Journal Article Reading: Shrinking the Pentagon: Will the Biden Administration Dare Cut Military Spending?
  • 5. Video Presentation: Why We Fight
  • 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation
  • Foreign Policy [PowerPoint Presentation]
  • Henry Kissinger Calls for a New Post-Covid World Order - Whitney
  • Wars of Terror - Chomsky
  • The Theology of American Empire - Chernus
  • The Power Principle - Documentary
  • In Whose Interest? - Documentary
  • The Logic of U.S. Intervention - Parenti
  • (December 3) Lecture Fifteen - Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

    Readings
  • 1. Instructions for the December 3, 2024 Class
  • 2. Text Reading
  • 3. [Lecture Presentation] Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
  • 4. Journal Article Reading: Superpredator: The Media Myth That Demonized a Generation of Black Youth - Bogert
  • 5. Video Presentation: Broken on All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration, & New Visions for Criminal Justice in the US
  • 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation
  • Civil Liberties and Rights [PowerPoint Presentation]
  • To End Systemic Racism, Ensure Systemic Equality - Moore and Brooks
  • California Flags Alienated, Idealistic Kids of Color as Potential Violent Extremists - Garrison
  • Neo-Patriarchy and the Anti-Homosexual Agenda - Snyder
  • Letter From a Birmingham Jail - King Jr.
  • Is Free Speech the Enemy of Democracy? - Sunstein
  • Homework Questionaire - The Political Compass Website - Due: October 29, 2024

    Canvas Journal Responses - Due: Subject to Change. Check Canvas Assignments Page for Final Due Date

  • For each of these lectures, please respond to the highlighted question from each lecture from the "Study and Discussion Question" section. Responses should be at least one page in length (approximately 350 words, double-spaced). Most importantly, these journal responses should not just SUMMARIZE the question, but ANALYZE and EVALUATE them!
  • Lecture / Discussion Page (Politics and Society), Question 7 - Due: Posted on Canvas
  • Lecture / Discussion Page (American Political Parties and Ideologies), Question 6 - Due: Posted on Canvas
  • Lecture / Discussion Page (The Constitution), Question 4 - Due: Posted on Canvas
  • Lecture / Discussion Page (Federalism), Question 6 - Due: Posted on Canvas
  • Lecture / Discussion Page (The Congress), Question 3 - Due: Posted on Canvas
  • Lecture / Discussion Page (The Executive), Question 1 - Due: Posted on Canvas
  • Lecture / Discussion Page (The Judicial), Question 9 - Due: Posted on Canvas
  • Lecture / Discussion Page (The Federal Bureaucracy), Question 2 - Due: Posted on Canvas
  • Lecture / Discussion Page (Public Opinion / Mass Media), Question 5 - Due: Posted on Canvas
  • Lecture / Discussion Page (Voting and Elections), Question 7 - Due: Posted on Canvas
  • Lecture / Discussion Page (Interest Groups), Question 4 - Due: Posted on Canvas
  • Lecture / Discussion Page (The Public Policy Process), Question 3 - Due: Posted on Canvas
  • Lecture / Discussion Page (US Economic Policy), Question 8 - Due: Posted on Canvas
  • Lecture / Discussion Page (US Foreign Policy), Question 2 - Due: Posted on Canvas
  • Lecture / Discussion Page (Civil Liberties / Civil Rights), Question 6 - Due: Posted on Canvas
  • Fall 2024 Research Project: Due - Tuesday, November 19, 2024

    The 2024 Presidential Election: Continuity or Change? - POLSC 121 Fall 2024 Research Project

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    Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Conservative / Republican)
  • The Political Spectrum
  • The Republican Party Home Page
  • Why Major Dissident Figures Now Back Trump - Hunter
  • Project 2025 - The Heritage Foundation
  • How Trump Can Combat the Harris Surge - Continetti
  • The Cult of Kamala - Hunter
  • Review: 'Government Gangsters' Chronicles the Deep State's Plot to Destroy Trump - Mansour
  • Trump Gives Isolated Americans the Chance to Hate Alone Together - York
  • New Poll: 2024 Republican Nomination Appears to Be Trump's for the Taking - Davis
  • Three Weeks into Joining Race, Kamala Harris Has No Policies - Pollak
  • Failure of "Bidenomics" Is Rankling Americans - Antoni
  • Biden the Liar - Cooke
  • Liz Cheney Would Rather See Democrats Win in 2024 - Garrity
  • Poll: Majority Believe Joe Biden Is 'Too Old to Effectively Serve' a Second Term - Bleau
  • Leave Trump Alone - Van Buren
  • CNN Poll: Most Republicans Believe GOP Has Best Chance to Win in 2024 if Donald Trump Is the Nominee - Bleau
  • 'What Happened to Unity?': Rush Limbaugh Says Biden 'Insulted' 75M Trump Voters in Speech - Soellner
  • Bernie Sanders: The Green Mountian Red - Smith
  • American Politics Change, But American Parties Endure - Mandelbaum
  • Trump's 2020 Vision - Antle III
  • (Book) The Rise and Fall of American Political Parties: 1790 - 2000 - Silbey
  • (Book) Free Speech Requires Campaign Money - Smith
  • (Book) Dollars and Votes - Clawson
  • The View From 1787 - Cost
  • Newsmax
  • One America News Network
  • The Continuing Woes of the "Establishment" - Larison
  • Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Liberal / Democrat)
  • The Democratic Party Home Page
  • Kamala Harris is Not Perfect - But We Have To Beat Trump!
  • A New Way Forward - Kamala Harris
  • This Election Isn't About a Perfect Candidate, It's About Our Futures - Parish Moreno
  • Harris Is Pushing Joy. Trump Paints A Darker Picture. Will Mismatched Moods Matter? - Weissert and Price
  • Joe Biden Says He Fulfilled This 'Obligation' By Dropping Out - Vlachou
  • Kamala Harris More Trusted on Economy as Donald Trump Loses Major Advantage - Carbonaro
  • Donald Trump is Stuggling - Brown
  • Happy Warriors Harris and Walz Propose an Antidote to Trump's American Carnage - Collinson
  • Turn Out, Not Polls, Will Determine Who Wins in 2024 - Lawrence
  • Trump Gives Isolated Americans the Chance to Hate Alone Together - Mazzarino
  • Portraying Trump as the Fascist He Is Could Save US Democracy - Green
  • The Garbage of 'Lesser of Two Evils' Discontents - Reich
  • 'Jail' Roger Stone Uproar as Congressmen Assassination Threat Audio Leaks
  • Voting for President Is Not an Exercise in Personal Expression - Zimmerman
  • The Doubtful Future of the American Experiment - Gurtov
  • Former Obama Advisor David Axelrod Says Cornel West's Presidential Candidacy Could Swing the 2024 Election to Trump - Dorman
  • Is Anybody but Trump Excited About the 2024 Election Beginning? - Nolan Brown
  • The Trump Case and the Decline of True American Nationalism - Pillar
  • An Open Letter to the Green Party for 2020 - Chomsky, et. al.
  • Imagine Yourself With Two Abusive Boyfriends... - Brown
  • 'They Let Him Get Away with Murder': Dems Tormented Over How to Stop Bernie - Korecki
  • Fake President - The Ralph Nader Radio Hour
  • How the Little Guy Gets Crunched - Barlett and Steele
  • White Supremacists Are Infiltrating the GOP From the Ground Up - Rivers Pitt
  • (Book) The Presidential Spectacle - Miroff
  • Can Hillary Clinton Convince Voters They're Not Settling? - Brownstein
  • Another Neocon Endorses Clinton, Calling Her '2016's Real Conservative' and 'the Candidate of the Status Quo' - Norton
  • Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright Scold Young Women Backing Bernie Sanders - Rappeport
  • Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Critical / Radical)
  • Radical Change in the USA: Prospects for Domestic Revolution - Tomlinson
  • "It's the System, Stupid!" The Underlying Causes of Trump's Victory - Rubenstein
  • Trump Rally, Washington Post and Michelle Obama Generate Fake Outrage - Kimberly
  • Harris and Trump Debate Maintenance of the Status Quo - Kimberly
  • Catastrophe At the Ballot Box - Kavanagh
  • Kamala Harris - A New Hope Or A Mirage? - Shibabaw
  • Kamala Harris is the New Face Being Put on America's Wars - Urie
  • Will Kamala Make Idealism Great Again? - Bovard
  • Democrats Deploy Bernie Sanders to Con Workers and Youth Into Supporting Harris-Walz Campaign - Crosse
  • Black Left Critique of Kamala Harris - Black Agenda Report
  • The USA Is An Oligarchy - Geopolitical Economy Report
  • Capitalism, Mass Anger and the 2024 Elections - Wolff
  • Biden Out - We Need a New Party, Not a New Democrat - Hubbard
  • The Biden-Trump Debate and the Crisis of the American Political System - Mackaman
  • The Lesser Evil Gambit - Koehler
  • Harris vs Trump: The End of American Dominance? - The Chris Hedges Report
  • Why Socialists Don't Vote for Our Enemies - Mark J.
  • The Sad Spectacle of Lesser-Evil Elections - Systemic Disorder
  • Can Democracy and Billionaires Coexist? - Pizzigati
  • An Election for the Billionaires - Martin
  • The Democracy Election - Parry
  • American Oligarchy - Mother Jones Investigation
  • America's Stunted Political Spectrum - Second Thought
  • The Political Compass
  • These Statistics Show Why the Status Quo is Failing Most Americans - Poole
  • Wall Street or the Working Class: The Democrats Must Choose - Leopold
  • Third Party? America Doesn't Even Have a Second Party - Knapp
  • Ralph Nader: Democrats Ushered in an Era of Corporate Fascism - Scheer
  • The Deep State's Stealthy, Subversive, Silent Coup to Ensure Nothing Changes - Whitehead
  • U.S. Ruling Class Wins Again - Mackler
  • Two Capitalist Parties Compete, Humanity Loses - Urie
  • Affluent Authoritarianism: New Evidence on Public Opinion and Policy - Ferguson
  • America After the Election: A Few Hard Truths About the Things That Won't Change - Whitehead
  • Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget - Hedges
  • How Capitalism's Structural and Ideological Crisis Gives Rise to Neo-Fascism - The Real News Network
  • Neither Democrats Nor Republicans Will Admit the Problem Is Capitalism Itself - Wolff
  • Billionaires and American Politics - Wittner
  • Vowing Not to 'Demonize' the Rich, Biden Tells Billionaires 'Nothing Would Fundamentally Change' If He Was Elected - Higgins
  • Elections and the Illusion of Political Control - Urie
  • (Book) The Limits of Presidential Power - Genovese
  • (Book) Democracy for the Few - Parenti
  • (Book) Is That A Politician In Your Pocket? Washington on $2 Million a Day - Sifry and Watzman
  • (Book) Dynasties: How Their Wealth and Power Threaten Democracy - Phillips
  • The Rise of American Authoritarianism - Taub
  • Overwhelming Majority of Americans Believe that Both Parties Are Too Corrupt to Change Anything - Washington's Blog
  • Ordinary Americans Fought Big Money and Won in 2015 - Mason
  • Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Third Party)
  • Claudia and Karina 2024!
  • The Chris Hedges Report: Campaigning Against Genocide (w/ Dr. Jill Stein & Butch Ware)
  • Instead of Trashing Cornel West, Here's What Democrats Could Do If They Actually Cared About Social and Economic Justice - McCarley
  • Project 2025 Is No Match for MAGA Dysfunction - Slade
  • Presidential Candidate Jill Stein On Gaza, The Two-Party System and US Militarism - Interview with Mnar Adley
  • The Democrats' "All-Out War" on Third Parties and Independent Candidates - Crosse
  • Black Media Misleaders Do the Democrats' Dirty Work - Kimberly
  • Breaking Down Cornel West's Campaign So Far (w/ Sabby Sabs) - Journalists for Sale (Jones and Ramos)
  • Cornel West Runs for President: You Can't Be a Spoiler if the System Is Already Rotten - Harris
  • We Should Not Disregard or Disrespect Cornel West's Candidacy for President of the United States - Griffen
  • Cornel West and the Campaign to End Political Apartheid - Hedges
  • Could Cornel West Help the Greens Win Ballot Access in 50 States? - Garrison
  • Cornel West's Candidacy is 'For The Least of These' - The Chris Hedges Report
  • Cornel West on Running for President, Ending Ukraine War & Taking on "Corporate Duopoly" of Dems & GOP - Democracy Now!
  • Why We Need a New Progressive Party and How We Can Create It - Rall
  • You Can Trust 'Left Liberals' to be Liberals First (and Left Last): A Reply to Chomsky & Friends' Open Letter - Rasmus
  • Bossing Grown Folks Around: The Open Letter to the Greens - Moser
  • Sorry Chomsky and Friends, the Green Party Isn't the Problem - Pemberton
  • Why the Green Party Isn't the Problem - Hoenig
  • (Book) Spoiling for a Fight: Third Party Politics in America - Sifry
  • Truth + Justice = Green Party's Trailblazing World Peace Platform - Smith
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    Readings, Documentaries, and Websites of Interest for Political Science 121 Students!

    For United States Rulers - Not Just for the Military Industrial Complex - Being AT War is Far More Important than Winning a War - Spritzler

    American Oligarchy - Mother Jones Investigation

    World's First Trillionaire Just 10 Years Away as Richest Men Double Their Wealth - Johnson

    How to Unf*ck America - Dean Baker and The Institute for New Economic Thinking

    American Exception: Hegemony and the Dissimulation of the State - Good

    Essay: Anatomy of the Deep State - Lofgren

    The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight - Moyers and Company

    Trump Against Empire: Is That Why They Hate Him? - Parenti

    The CIA, NATO and the US Empire with Aaron Good - Mint Press News

    The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange

    The UBER Files - International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

    State of Insecurity: The Cost of Militarization Since 9/11 - National Priorities Project / Institute for Policy Studies

    A Message From the Future II: "Years of Repair"

    The World in Economic Depression: A Marxist Analysis of Crisis - Tricontinental

    Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens - Gilens and Page

    Measuring Rates of Return for Lobbying Expenditures: An Empirical Analysis Under the American Jobs Creation Act - Alexander, Scholz, and Mazza

    The Crisis of Democracy - The Trilateral Commission (1973)

    The Powell Memo (also known as the Powell Manifesto) - Reclaim Democracy!

    A Century of War - RT Documentary

    The Collapse of the American Empire? - The Agenda with Steve Paikin

    Corruption is Legal in America - Represent.Us

    Unbreaking America: A NEW Short Film about Solving the Corruption Crisis - Represent.Us

    The Lie We Live [Smart Kid - A Nice Wake-Up Call] - Spencer Cathcart

    Understanding Marxism and Socialism with Richard Wolff

    War Is A Racket - Major General Smedley Butler

    Four Horsemen - Documentary (Great Stuff! Check This Out!)

    Empire Files: Peter Joseph & Abby Martin on Abolishing Capitalism

    Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism - The Real News Network

    Tipping Point: The End of Oil - Documentary

    The Propaganda Multiplier:How Global News Agencies and Western Media Report on Geopolitics - Swiss Propaganda Research

    Capitalism Never Solves Its Crises; It Moves Them Around Geographically - RSAnimate

    Two American Families - Frontline Documentary

    Global Wealth Inequality: What You Never Knew You Never Knew - therules.org

    Wealth Inequality in America - therules.org

    Billionaire Bonanza: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us - Institute for Policy Studies

    Park Ave: Wealth, Poverty, and the American Dream - Documentary

    Shadows of Liberty - Documentary (Mass Media)

    Plutocracy in America - Brenner

    The Progressive Movement is a PR Front for Rich Democrats - Stauber

    Consent Without Consent: Reflections on the Theory and Practice of Democracy - Chomsky

    Obamacare: A Deception - Roberts

    The Purchase of Our Republic - Falkson

    The Crisis of Civilization - Documentary

    Let Your Life Be A Friction That Stops The Machine - Class War Films

    Political Fraud - Class War Films

    Financial Crime - Class War Films

    Military Cancer - Class War Films

    Imperial Decay - Class War Films

    Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis - Documentary

    What Democracy? The Case for Abolishing the United States Senate - Rosenfeld

    Making Every Vote Count: The Case for Proportional Representation - Amy

    Ignoble Liars: Leo Strauss, George Bush, and the Philosophy of Mass Deception - Shorris

    Barack Hoover Obama: The Best and the Brightest Blow It Again - Baker

    The Great American Bubble Machine - Taibbi

    Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? - Taibbi

    Empire Under Obama: Counterinsurgency, Death Squads, and the Population as the Target - Marshall

    Smash the Control Machine - Otep Rocks!

    Rise Rebel Resist - Otep Rocks!

    The World is Coming to an End - Prince Ea

    The Final Word from My Two Favorite Comedians of All Time on "The Big Question"