Monthly Archives: June 2016
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Janeane Garofalo Sits Down with Lee Camp, and Lawsuit May Prove Election Fraud” / RT America / Redacted Tonight ☮
Lee Camp interviews the comedy legend and all around amazing person, Janeane Garofalo. They get right into it about the manipulation of the corporate mainstream media. In fact, back in 2003 during the build up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, the “Fox and Friends” show on the Fox news network had her as a guest and ambushed her about her objection to the war. She had four people screaming at her. And she shut them all down with poise, grace and legit information.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Tariq Ali: Global Revolt Against Corporate Capitalism and Inequality” / RT America / On Contact with Chris Hedges ☮
In the first episode of ‘On Contact’, host Chris Hedges discusses the global revolt against corporate capitalism with radical intellectual and author Tariq Ali. Ali talks about how the world banking system got Greece and other European countries in trouble, and how big capital may be behind the impeachment of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff. RT Correspondent Anya Parampil joins the show with a report on global inequality.
BRITISH POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “The Business News: It’s all Bollocks” / Jonathan Pie ☮
Reporter Jonathan Pie describes big business as if he’s narrating a nature documentary; and he swears a bit too.
FINE ARTS – PAINTING: “The Power of Art: Caravaggio” / BBC Documentary ☮
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Will the Zika Virus Renew the Abortion Debate?” / Thom Hartmann ☮
Thom talks about the Zika virus, and considers whether the illness will restart the Roe v. Wade debate in America.
MUSIC – BAROQUE: Johann Sebastian Bach / “Air on the G String” / Featuring Joy Waters Fowler, and Vic Robertson ☮
IN MEMORIAM: “Dave Zirin on the Whitewashing of Muhammad Ali: He Wasn’t Against Just War, But Empire” / Amy Goodman ☮
Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation magazine, joins us from Muhammad Ali’s hometown, Louisville, Kentucky, where he will attend Ali’s funeral. Zirin recounts Ali’s activism against racism in the city and says, “[T]his funeral is, in so many respects, Muhammad Ali’s last act of resistance, because what he is doing is pushing the country to come together to honor the most famous Muslim in the world at a time when a presidential candidate is running on a program of abject bigotry against the Muslim people, and the other presidential candidate is somebody who has proudly stood with the wars in the Middle East.” Zirin’s recent article in The Nation is called “‘I Just Wanted to Be Free’: The Radical Reverberations of Muhammad Ali.” He’s the author of the Ali-themed book, “What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States.”
INTERVIEW: “‘On Contact’ Premier with Chris Hedges” / Watching the Hawks RT / Tabetha Wallace, Tyrel Ventura, and Sean Stone ☮
Chris Hedges joins us in the Hawk’s Nest to promote the new RT show “On Contact.”
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “AP’s Story Declaring Clinton the Nominee ‘Part of a Pattern'” / RT America / Alex Mihailovich, and Chris Hedges ☮
Did the mainstream media jump the gun when they declared Hillary Clinton the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee the day before six states held primary elections? Chris Hedges, host of the new show ‘On Contact’ joins RT’s Alex Mihailovich and says that the announcement had a “negative effect on the democratic process” and it was an attempt by the mainstream media to “marginalize and ridicule” the Bernie Sanders campaign.