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By Allan Nairn As many, including some corporations, have pointed out, Trump, Republicans and the right incited violence. They should be punished. But it should also be pointed out that violence is at the core of how the US and world system --and much of business -- works. As the bard of US and corporatist violence, Thomas L. Friedman, memorably put it in the New York Times : "The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist -- McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the bui

Link to DN! video and transcript World leaders reacted in horror over the storming of the U.S. Capitol, with the U.N. secretary-general calling on political leaders to demand their followers refrain from violence. Leaders of the U.K., New Zealand, Australia, Canada, India, Japan, France, Germany, NATO and the European Council called for a peaceful transfer of power to Joe Biden. Investigative journalist Allan Nairn looks at what steps Trump may take next, and says despite protestations from President-elect

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