Black Agenda Report's Glen Ford says a progressive movement can't be built out of the pro-war, pro-CIA, and McCarthyite politics coming from Democratic leadership.

Native groups and environmentalists have called for civil disobedience against Trump's resumption of Keystone and Dakota Access, two of the largest fossil fuel extraction projects in history.

Former CIA analyst Melvin Goodman and whistleblower Coleen Rowley have few kind words for Trump's picks to head intelligence and national security.

Economist Richard Vague says China is acting much like Japan did in the decade before its crisis in the 90's.