The rich, we speak to former labor secretary robert reich. If our democracy are working as it should, the rules of the market would help most of us. Instead, as income and wealth is concentrated at the top of the last 40 years, so has the power to make the rules of the market, influencing the politicians, regulatory heads, and even the courts and the lawyers who appear before them. With a result the market is rigged the benefit of the few. Amy robert reich on his new book. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In afghanistan, the u. S. Military has carried out two airstrikes in efforts to bolster the Afghan Governments attempts to retake the Northern City of kunduz. It became the first major city to be taken over by Taliban Forces since 2001 on monday. The Afghan Government counteroffensive appears to be faltering. The u. S. Strikes come despite president obamas declaration of an official end to the u. S. Co
Terry thanks. Three billion dollars in sales. Sales. Thats how much online sales experts believe companies will be making this cyber monday. Monday. In cedar rapids, for example, hands in harmony offered discounted rates on their massage packages. Its their third year to have specials. Customers could book a seventy five minute massage for t price of an hour. Owner wahnita dimmer says her staff stayed busy trying to keep up with all the purchases. People get pretty excited about cyber monday specials. Every year we have more and more response to the online spspials that we do. Do. A trip advisor survey says 31 percent of people shopped two years ago during the heigig of the Holiday Shopping season, target discovered hackers accessed names, phone numbers and other personal information on 70 million of its customers. Customers. Its happened other places since then and Cyber Security eeerts say its an important reminderthat Online Shopping is incredibly convenient, but not perfect. Perfec
It is still chilly by the delta and concord and livermore, a little bit of wind out there and here is a look on the peninsula, sfo, today you can expect temperatures in the upper 50s for the most part, but 60 in oakland. Chris. Developing news now. All lanes of northbound 880 through fremont are back open this morning after a fatal crash. It happened at around 2 00 near the auto mall parkway exit. The chp says a car was stalled in the far left lane when another car slammed into the back of t investigators still dont know if the man who died was inside the stalled vehicle or outside of it prior to the accident. More developing news out of San Francisco. One person is dead after a car hit a pedestrian on interstate 280 this morning. It happened just before 2 00 at the ocean avenue on ramp heading north chp has since reopened all lanes in that area. Hundreds of babies may have been exposed to tuberculosis in the south bay putting them at risk of the severe illness, a nurse at Santa Clara
Would be an outrageous attack on the freedom of our parliament and against our Democratic Institutions overall. In german accuses the u. S. Of being behind a new spying scandal. We begin in iraq where the elusive leader has reportedly reportedly reportedly made his first online experience. It appears to show him giving a sermon yesterday. The Iraqi Government calls the images fake. Imran khan has the latest from baghdad. If this video in mosul is confirmed, it be sounds ute a strong message. The first message it sends out is that the is will say that the kalif of the Islamic State is able to travel within his own territories and not get harassed and not get hit by the security forces. He is clearly, they say, come from syria, across the border, into northwestern iraq and and in a public place. Is a big message. What did he actually say in his friday sermon . Its consistent with what we heard from the audiotapes delivered by him. Once again, he says to muslims, please come to the islami
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