TYT Politics Reporter Jordan Chariton (@JordanChariton) reported from Senator Bernie Sanders Portland, Oregon headquarters on May 15th, 2016.
The artifice of corporate totalitarianism has been exposed. The citizens, disgusted by the lies and manipulation, have turned on the political establishment. But the game is not over. Corporate power has within its arsenal potent forms of control. It will use them. As the pretense of democracy is unmasked, the naked fist of state repression takes its place. America is about—unless we act quickly—to get ugly.
“Our political system is decaying,” said Ralph Nader when I reached him by phone in Washington, D.C. “It’s on the way to gangrene. It’s reaching a critical mass of citizen revolt.”
This moment in American history is what Antonio Gramsci called the “interregnum”—the period when a discredited regime is collapsing but a new one has yet to take its place. There is no guarantee that what comes next will be better. But this space, which will close soon, offers citizens the final chance to embrace a new vision and a new direction.
What is it that makes us most distinctively ourselves? Our bodies, our memories, our values…? Take a tour through the philosophy of personal identity.
Summary and analysis of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, with a focus on the themes of love and pastoral life.
Jonathan Pie wonders whether the Donald actually qualifies as a “human, let alone an American,” based on his skin colour.
Alex Jacobsen, 26, was suffering from mental exhaustion and anxiety. He hadn’t slept for days despite being in a faith-based treatment program. He felt hopeless and when he spotted a box knife he grabbed it and held it against his neck pressing harder as it cut through his skin.
In this video we examine the techniques that the Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius used to help diminish the impact of negative emotions in order to live a more fulfilling life.
A Colorado family has sued a marijuana dispensary alleging that an “unreasonably dangerous” cannabis-infused candy was responsible for the murder of their loved one in a wrongful death suit that experts say may be the first of its kind since legal weed arrived in the US.
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