81971. A white house out more, a revolt in the streets and the untold history. That event is this thursday the 24th. You can find information about it and all of our happenings and events at twitter, facebook an instagram as well as powells. Co powells. Com. Tonight we are very excited to welcome hes an attorney political activist and antitrust and collections expert. A rising star on the left, her campaign for the near attorney general in 2018 was endorsed by bernie sanders, the New York Times and others. She was part of the team of lawyers that sued donald trump for allegedly violated the clause of the constitution. She sits on the board of the directors of the open markets institute and teaches law. In her new book, break them up recovering freedom from big gag, big tech and big money, she offers a call for liberals looking to find a common cause. She makes a compelling case that monopolies of the root cause of many of the issues that todays progressives care about. They derive econ
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Over foro pay half 1 billion contributing to the states Opioid Crisis. This marks the first time a drug company has been held responsible for the crisis, which has led to more than 400,000 Overdose Deaths since 1999. We will get the latest. Then to kochland the secret history of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in america. Is theland in one sense history of one corporation, and it happens to be one of the largest corporations in the industries. S, coke this company hasevenues every year that are laer than that of facebook, Goldman Sachs, nus beall combed. It touches on most every aspect of modern life from energy to the food system to Building Materials. Amy following the death of billionaire rightwing donor david koch, we look at how he and his brother charles koch transformed the American Economy and political system from funding Climate Change deniers to fighting organized labor. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report.
A fire broke out 5 00 on arcade street and firefighters on the scene had to first retreat because flames were so intense. Four people were hospitalized and two family pets died in the story and a boy and no word on what caused the plays. Caught on camera dramatic body camera video from the d. C. Department showing several officers pulling a man out of a burning car in northeast d. C. Monday night the driver veered off the road his car hit a light pole and went into flames. Officers acted fast and smashed the drivers window and pulled the man out. Driver suffered minor injuries and was treated at a local hospital and then later released. Turning to metro rights now a grim outlook for financial future for agency general manager. After he admits hes running out of places to close the budget gap. Meling good morning. Good morning, steve, yes we are talking about slightly higher fares for parnls and possibly service cuts as well. And general manager Paul Wiedefeld calling this budget a real
Across power, etc. , and what is interesting about this story is they had to take this 6 billion writedown based on the business you could describe as something that people dont often associated with the company, and that is Building Nuclear reactors. Across the southern United States, power plants have been beset by problems, not finishing on time, a contractor not well equipped to carry out the building of this. It has really hurt the company. It lost 7 billion of its market cap before this was announced. It is a company in trouble right now. Oliver was this specifically a bad bet by toshiba or are they suffering from that sea change in the industry of Nuclear Power, which is slowing . Megan they went with an outside Contractor Building this that did not have a lot of experience in that area, and that hurt them in getting this done and meeting deadlines. We have to remember this move into Nuclear Power was 20082009 when the u. S. Government was offering incentives for this. Since the