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On this Thanksgiving weekend, I thought you may find of value a short (less than 5 minutes) collection of my favorite 5 clips from President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address at the end of his presidency, as he peacefully handed the reins of American power over to President John F. Kennedy. Although it was given a few months after Thanksgiving, it carries a concern, a warning, a call to protect future generations, and ends with a prayer for peace, understanding, and — from this old warrior

Economist Professor Richard Wolff joined the Thom Hartmann Program to discuss how the rich are making the poor, poorer.Here is a transcript of that interview.==Thom Hartmann:Lynn Parramore is writing over at the Institute for New Economic Thinking about economic despair, and how it affects humans and societies. She points out that in 2015 this is long before the pandemic. In 2015, life expectancy in America dropped for the first time in 100 years. It dropped again in 2016, life expectancy dropped