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Oligarch-Approved Election Rules Are The Real Problem

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August 20, 2018

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Money in politics is a much bigger problem than Russian hacking. Jimmy Dore, Steve Oh, Stef Zamorano, and Malcolm Fleschner, hosts of Aggressive Progressives, discuss.

"Veteran activist Noam Chomsky has accused Israel of “brazenly” interfering in US electoral politics in a way that vastly outweighs any efforts that may have been carried out by Russia.

In comments in which he accused much of the media of concentrating on stories he considered marginal and ignoring issues such as the “existential threat” of climate change, the 89-year-old linguist said in much of the world, the US media’s focus with Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 was "a joke".

“First of all, if you’re interested in foreign interference in our elections, whatever the Russians may have done barely counts or weighs in the balance as compared with what another state does, openly, brazenly and with enormous support,” he said."*

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