As another federal Appeals Court rejects trumps muslim band, we spend the hour with the selling writer and author, activist naomi klein host of her new book, no is not enough post of resisting trumps shock politics and winning the world we need. Trump isaying no to not enough. We need a plan for a way forward. Amy today, naomi klein for the hour. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Led coalition is now reportedly killing more civilians in syria than isis, russia, or even the government of syrian president bashar alassad. Thats according to the journalistic Monitoring Group airwars, which based its findings on data from the Syrian Network for human rights. This data says that u. S. Led Coalition Forces reportedly killed at least 273 civilians last month, which is slightly more than the number of civilians reportedly killed by isis. Overall the data says nearly 1000 civilians were killed in syria last month alone. President trumps muslim travel ban has been dealt another legal blow. On monday, the United States court of appeals for the ninth circuit unanimously ruled that President Trump had overstepped his Legal Authority in signing an executive order seeking to ban from entering the United States all refugees and citizens of six majority muslim nations. The court wrote the order does not offer a sufficient justification to suspend the entry of more than 180 Million People on the basis of nationality. National security is not a talismanic incantation that, once invoked, can support any and all exercise of executive power. In its opinion, the court also cited trumps tweets, as well as a white house statement confirming that all of trumps tweets are considered to be official statements by the president. Attorney general Jeff Sessions is slated to testify today before the Senate Intelligence committee, where hes expected to face questioning about his role in the firing of former fbi director james comey, as well as about sessions multiple meetings with russian officials while he was serving as a member of trumps campaign. Sessions has acknowledged meeting with Russian AmbassadorSergey Kislyak twice last year. There are also unsubstantiated rumors based on u. S. Intelligence reports that sessions may have also met with the Russian Ambassador in april at the Mayflower Hotel in washington, d. C. , during a Trump Campaign event. This comes as a close associate of President Trumps says trump may be considering firing special prosecutor robert mueller. This is christopher ruddy, head of the rightwing newsmax media, speaking to pbs newshours Judy Woodruff on monday. Is President Trump prepared to let the special counsel pursue his investigation . I think he is considering perhaps terminating the special counsel. I think he is weighing that option. I think it is pretty clear by what one of his lawyers said on television recently. Amy in response, White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer did not deny the claims, but said only that ruddy had not spoken to the president about this. Though he had been at the white house. Of hismidst controversies, trump pulled together his full cabinet on monday. Pres. Trump never has there been a president , with few exceptions, in a case of fdr he had a major depression, who has passed more legislation, who has done more things than what we have done. We have been about as active as au can possibly be at about recordsetting pace. Amy in fact, President Trump not signed a single piece of major legislation since taking office. His executive orders restricting immigration have been blocked by multiple courts. Last week, former fbi director james comey called him a liar on national television. And during his first 100 days in office, trump has spent twice as many days playing golf as president s obama, george w. Bush, and bill clinton all did combined. During mondays meeting, trumps cabinet members heaped praise on trump in expressing loyalty to him and what appeared to be a publicity stint. This is tom price. What incredible honor it is to lead the department of health and Human Services at this pivotal time under your leadership. I cannot thank you enough for the privilege you have given me in the leadership you have shown. Amy Vice President mike pence said serving for trump was the greatest privilege of his life. President trump is expected to announce friday plans to roll some of the u. S. s new diplomatic and commercial relations with cuba, which were brokered under the obama administration. Trump is expected to make the announcement in miami on friday. Bloomberg news reports the changes may include curbing travel between u. S. And cuba, other changes may include reinstating restrictions on americans visiting cuba and bringing back famous cuba goods like cigars and rum. Officials also say trump might demand the extradition of people who have received political asylum in cuba, like assata shakur. Before becoming president , Donald Trumps businesses violated the u. S. Embargo on cuba, secretly doing business in cuba in the late 1990s and then trying to cover it up. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders attacked the Democratic Party, calling it an absolute failure and blaming it for the election of President Trump. Sanders was speaking at the peoples summit in chicago over before about 4000 people. Sen. Sanders trumps did not win the election. The Democratic Party lost the election. Very, very clear. Currentent model the model and the current strategy of the Democratic Party is an absolute failure. Amy montana congressmanelect Greg Gianforte has been sentenced to 40 hours of Community Service and 20 hours of anger management after he was accused of body slamming guardian reporter ben jacobs to the ground and breaking his glasses the night before montanas special election. Gianforte won the election, more than 70 of Montana Voters had cast their ballots during early voting before he attacked the reporter. This is gianforte pleading guilty monday to misdemeanor assault. I take full responsibility for my actions. I did not act in a way that is consistent with my behavior in the past. Was pleased to be here and get this done, so we can move forward. Forward to look putting this behind me. I have apologized to mr. Ben jacobs. He has accepted my apology. Im grateful for that. Now look forward to going to work in washington. And ago he attacked ben jacobs after jacobs asked him a question about the Republicans Health care proposal. In russia, thousands of protesters flooded the streets in more than 100 cities across russia in the latest must us demonstration against government corruption. More than 1000 protesters were arrested. The protests were organized by anticorruption activist aleksei navalny. This is one of the protesters monday. Continue in the agricultural state in india, where farmers are demanding Debt Forgiveness after a crash in crop prices has left farmers unable to repay the exorbitant loans. The Indian Government has launched a violent crackdown against the protests, deploying more than 1000 police and paramilitary troops to the region. On thursday, the Indian Police opened fire on protesters, killing five people and setting off a new wave of demonstrations. Last year in india, as many as farmers committed suicide in 1600 Madhya Pradesh as a result of unpayable debts. In california, a group of Asylum Seekers on Hunger Strike in the forprofit Adelanto Detention Center say they were violently attacked by geo group guards monday morning as they waited in the breakfast area for immigration officials to respond to their strike demands. This is one of the Hunger Strikers, isaac lopez castillo. Could notey saw they remove us, they sprayed us with more pepper spray. Once there were able to pull us out, they threw some of us against the wall. In my case am a they threw me up against the glass of the phone book. They pushed my face up into it on the corner. Our skin is covered in rashes and some have gashes from their fingernails and one of the guys had his dental crown knocked out. They knocked it out because they threw him face first against the wall. Amy Delta Airlines and take of america have pulled their sponsorship of the public ofater summer performance Shakespeares Julius Caesar because the play depicts the assassination of a trumplike caesar, complete with blond hair and a gold bathtub. The 2012 Public Theaters staging of Julius Caesar depicted caesar as an obamalike figure. This is Public Theater artistic director oskar eustis, speaking about the lessons of Julius Caesar before the play monday night. The play, on the contrary, warns about what happens when you try to preserve democracy by nondemocratic means. Spoiler alert, it does not end up to good. Amy Julius Caesar is commonly understood as a play against assassination, depicting the widespread upheaval that results from caesars death. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and is peace report. Im amy goodman. Juan and im juan gonzalez. Welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. The attorneys general of maryland and washington, d. C. , have filed an anticorruption lawsuit against President Trump accusing him of unprecedented constitutional violations. The lawsuit alleges trump has flagrantly violated the emoluments clause of the constitution by accepting payments from foreign governments since he became president. Amy the lawsuit cites reports that the embassies of kuwait and saudi arabia, and other countries, have booked expensive rooms and held events at the Trump International hotel on pennsylvania avenue in washington, d. C. , possibly seeking to win favor with the president. D. C. Attorney general karl racine announced the lawsuit on monday. President trumps businesses and his dealings violate the constitutions anticorruption provisions. Known as the emoluments clause is. My Office Window is just a few floor above where were sitting today, and i can tell you that as i look out the window and see the tower of the Trump International hotel, we know exactly what is going on every single day. We know that foreign governments are spending money there in order to curry favor with the president of the United States. Just one example, the kingdom of saudi arabia, whose government has important business and policy before the president of the United States, has already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at the Trump International hotel. Juan resistance against trumps profiteering while in the oval office has taken other shapes, as well. Last month, artists projected the words pay trump bribes here on to the front of Trump International hotel. Meanwhile, in another setback to the trump agenda, the u. S. Court of appeals for the ninth circuit unanimously ruled monday that President Trump had overstepped his Legal Authority in signing an executive order seeking to ban all refugees and citizens of six majority muslim nations from entering the United States. Amy well, today, we spend the rest of the hour with someone who has been closely following the various forms of resistance against the trump presidency, the bestselling author, journalist, activist naomi klein, author of the shock doctrine and this changes everything. She is out today with a new book, no is not enough resisting trumps shock politics and winning the world we need. In the book, klein writes this is one attempt to uncover how we got to this surreal political moment. It is also an attempt to predict how, under cover of shocks and crises, it could get a lot worse. And its a plan for how, if we keep our heads, we might just be able to flip the script and arrive at a radically better future. Naomi klein, welcome to democracy now it is great to have you with us. You are beginning your tour across the United States. The book is called no is not enough. What do you mean . As you know, i have been covering crises in major shock to countries for a long time. Honest with you, when i wrote the shock doctrine and it came out 10 years ago, i actually kind of thought no was enough in a sense thought if we understood this particular tactic what i mean by the shock doctrine, is the ways in which largescale shock to societies, largescale crises, economic crises, wars, coups, natural disasters, has systematically been used a rightwing governments using the disorientation and the panic in society to push through a very radical procorporate agenda. I have been on the show many times talking about examples of this like Hurricane Katrina and how that tragedy and the dislocation of the residents of that city was used to privatize the school system, attack public housing, introduced a taxfree free to pride zone under george bushs administration. But after that book came out it came out in 2007 we had the 2008 financial crisis. All around the world, people did say people knew they were being forced to pay for the crisis of the bankers. They took to the streets. They occupied plazas. They said no more. But they did not, in so many cases, have a plan for what to do instead. Want thest, we dont austerity, we dont want the attacks. There wasnt a credible plan put forward in many cases for how we could have a different and better economy. Responded to the underlying reasons why we are seeing these shocks. So i think in this moment where trump is the rolling shock, every day there is some shocking news we just heard a few examples in the headlights behind the scenes were seeing the same agenda advanced very quickly. I am concerned about what is going to happen if they have even larger shocks to exploit, not the shock of just trump himself and what he is doing and various investigations and dramas and the rest of it, but i think it is really crucial that in preparing for that, we understand that there has to be a yes, what we want instead of the shock doctrine. That is why i called it no is not enough. Instance, the work you had done long ago on branding and how the Trump Administration has become the bread the branding of the presidency and how he was able to understand that back during his the apprentice program. You analyze that show and its impact on the american continents. I think we need to understand that trump is not playing by the rules of politics. He is playing by the rules of branding. There have been president ial, looks of interest before. There have been president s with business interests before. There is never been a fully commercialized global brand as a sitting u. S. President. That is unprecedented. The reason it is unprecedented, this is a really relatively new Business Model. It is the Business Model that has been adopted by the Trump Organization. It is really not one that existed before the 1990s. It is what i called and my first book no logo, the hollow brand model. The model comes out of the fact history of original branding is you have a product, maybe it was rice or beans or shoes. You are a manufacturer first, but you want people to buy your product so you brand it. You put a logo on it. You identify it with some sort of iconic image like uncle bens or whatever it is. You give it a kind of personality. That stopped working in the 1980s. Customers got savvy to it. I have probably the most anorded quote of mine from executive who said consumers are like roaches. You spray them and spread them and they become immune after a while. Marketing started to get more ambitious. You started to see these companies that position themselves as lifestyle brands. They said, no, were not productbased companies. We are in the business of selling ideas and identity. Nike was the ultimate example of this. They said, we are not a sneaker or shoe company, we are about the idea of transcendence through sports. Starbucks wasnt a copy, a, it was the idea of community in a thirdplace coffee company, it was the idea of community and other place. Disney was a family. Changed manufacturing dramatically. Once you decide youre in the business of selling an idea as a poster product, it does not matter who ma