Episode: 2444

Jeff Bezos thinks people don't trust the news because news outlets endorse presidential candidates. Isn't that cute? You can lead a billionaire to water, but he's still an out-of-touch yellow journalism plutocrat. Maybe people do not trust the news because the news is constantly pitting one group of people against the other? Marc Jacobin breaks it down.

This is episode is a response to the article written by Jeff explaining his reason for not endorsing a candidate. 

Episode: 2437

His accomplishments as president were overshadowed by his criminal acts. No, not that guy – Richard Nixon. Learn how a lifetime of foreign policy culminated in actions that are still felt today - and the two-hundred years that precipitated his abandonment of the gold standard in 1971.

Episode: 2401

Series: LHO vs. JFK

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The Warren Report was not well-received by the American public when it was released in 1964. What were some of the problems within and without the Report that caused people to lose faith in their government?

The Warren Report was not well-received by the American public when it was released in 1964. What were some of the problems within and without the Report that caused people to lose faith in their government?

Episode: 1938.1

By 1971, the United States had abandoned the Gold Standard. Calamities attributed to this action range from the vortexian national debt to soybeans being called “edamame”. Can a conclusive argument be made for or against the Gold Standard to lay the issue in its final, albeit gilded, resting place?

Episode: 2442

Once again, civically-challenged Donald has threatened to use the military to quell civil unrest (quite illegally) – but how is that different from the DoD preparing to use the military to quell civil unrest (also quite illegally)?