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b'Politics has been called a rigged game, with elites using money and \\norganizational resources to pull the puppet strings of most candidates \\nfor high office. However, the entrance into the race for US president of\\n candidates Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump who both reject funding from\\n Wall Street threatens to challenge that truism.\\n\\nThis week\\u2019s Global Research News Hour attempts to cut through the \\npropaganda and jargon and assess what real options are out there for \\nmaking substantive and humane political change.\\n\\nWilliam Blum is a long-time critic of US foreign policy. He has authored five books including his most recent, America\\u2019s Deadliest Export: Democracy \\u2013 The Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else. He also publishes the \\u201cAnti-Empire Report\\u201d on his site www dot williamblum dot org.\\n In this interview, Blum outlines his reservations about Hillary Clinton\\n and Bernie Sanders, the problematic media coverage of the campaign, and\\n the astonishing view that Trump may actually be the less objectionable \\nin certain respects than both Sanders and Clinton.\\n\\nMark Robinowitz is publisher of oilempire dot us,\\n a political map to connect the dots.\\xa0 He has been a writer, political \\nactivist, ecological campaigner and permaculture practitioner for over \\nthree decades.\\xa0 He is also author of the forthcoming Peak Choice: \\ncooperation or collapse, an uncensored guide to Earth, energy and money.\\n In this interview, Robinowitz equates the choice between the Democrats \\nand the Republicans to one between death by lethal injection and death \\nby the electric chair. He outlines the mechanisms employed to stop any \\nthreat to the establishment from ever becoming elected president. He \\nalso explains how the energy and economic decline is becoming reflected \\nin the politics of the Trump campaign.'