Takes a pillaging black tuesday. She joins me today to discuss all the president s banker presie hidden alliances that drives american power. Welcome and congratulations on such a fabulous book. As we take a look into washington, wall street, and the families that have had such an enormous impact on our nations and the world. Guest thank you so much for that lovel the lovely intro. Host my pleasure and it was easily done again, given a fabulous career that you have had to move on wall street and now off wall street in the literary world it is a pleasure to have you. Lets dive right in. This is an incredibly unparalleled in history of the relationship between wall street, the large banks that have dominated the nation in washington. What motivated you to take on such an incredible amount of effort and exercise to produce this book . Guest a slight bit of insanity i guess. But actually, the novel that i had written, black tuesday, which was on the clash of 29 had a scene that i have rese
She joins me today to discuss her most recent work, all the president s bankers the hidden alliances that drive american power. Nomi, welcome. Congratulations on such a fabulous book. Washington wall street and the family that had such a nervous impact. Guest thank you, so much, larry. Both on wall street and now off wall street youre doing very well. Its truly a pleasure to have you. This is truly an incredible history of the relationship between wall street, the large fingers in washington. What motivated you to produce this book . Guest insanity and the intensity. But actually, black tuesday was a historical novel on the crash of 29 had he seen in it that id researched lately. Nothing near the research i did on the spoke about six acres and 23 wall street to decide to try and save the market that were crashing around them in later toe brittany and 29 by themselves and a fellow named tom lamont, acting chair of the morgan bank at the time, his real chair, jack morgan is gallivanting
Legendary journalist William Worthy. At the height of the cold war, he defied u. S. Government by reporting from cuba, china, the soviet union, and iran. He went to north vietnam. The folksinger phil ochs once even wrote a song about him. Went down to cuba am a hes not an american anymore. Somehow it is strange to hear the state department say, youre living in the free world in the free world you must day we will air excerpts of our 1998 interview with William Worthy and speak to three journalists who knew him. Jeremy scahill and former Washington Post reporter Scott Armstrong. He took documents bill worthy brought back from iran and published them in the Washington Post when the New York Times refused. We will also speak with the worthys close associate photographer Randy Goodman who went with him to iran on a number of trips. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Dozens of people have been killed and tens
Them money, but the entire industry. All the president s bankers the hidden alliances that drive american power. We will speak with nomi prins about the 100 year history of collusion between washington and wall street. In shining a light on the nsa black budget. We will go to capitol hill to speak with commerce member peter welch is sponsoring the bill to force the president to include the total dollar amount requested for each of the 16 intelligence agencies. Then, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging u. S. Governments killing of three americans in yemen in drone strikes. We will get reaction from attorney maria lahood. The constitution clearly applies to our awlaki because he is u. S. Citizen, so he is guaranteed due process. If the Us Government can kill a u. S. Citizen in yemen, that not only expands the global war, but also means a u. S. Citizen can be killed anywhere by our government. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the w
Today we remember the life of legendary journalist William Worthy. At the height of the cold war, he defied u. S. Government by reporting from cuba, china, the soviet union, and iran. He went to north vietnam. The folksinger phil ochs once even wrote a song about him. Went down to cuba am a hes not an american anymore. Somehow it is strange to hear the state department say, youre living in the free world in the free world you must day we will air excerpts of our 1998 interview with William Worthy and speak to three journalists who knew him. Jeremy scahill and former Washington Post reporter Scott Armstrong. He took documents bill worthy brought back from iran and published them in the Washington Post when the New York Times refused. We will also speak with the worthys close associate photographer Randy Goodman who went with him to iran on a number of trips. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Dozens of peo