Monthly Archives: July 2016
POLITICAL RESISTANCE: “Resisting What is to Come – The Struggle” / Chris Hedges ☮
REPUBLICAN PARTY: “1956 Republican Party Platform vs. 2016 Republican Party Platform” ☮
CRITICAL THINKING: “When Biology Meets Cosmology” / Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Richard Dawkins ☮
Neil deGrasse Tyson welcomes ethologist, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins at Hayden Planetarium – Sep 2015.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Cornel West: Why I Endorse Green Party’s Dr. Jill Stein Over ‘Neoliberal Disaster’ Hillary Clinton” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
Cornel West is heading to Philadelphia next, where he will serve on the Democratic Platform Drafting Committee, but he has announced he won’t be backing the party’s presumptive nominee. West talks about why he is backing the Green Party’s Jill Stein over Hillary Clinton.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Top U.S. and World Headlines — July 18, 2016” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
MYTHOLOGY: “Myth As the Mirror for the Ego” / Joseph Campbell ☮
BRITISH POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Everything That’s Wrong with the World” / Jonathan Pie ☮
On the day Cameron left Downing Street, JP was outside M&M world!
CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY: “Florida Residents Refuse to Vote in New Polling Place” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur, and Ana Kasparian ☮
Residents of Boca Raton are outraged by a new polling place in their town. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“When told his Islamic Center of Boca Raton would no longer be allowed to be a polling place, President Bassem Alhalabi says he was saddened. “We were very happy to serve the community.”
He says he was especially stunned because of where he votes himself.
“Personally me and my wife and all the kids, we vote at a church. And we made friends there,” Alhalabi says
Alhalabi says Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher called him personally because of the role the Islamic Center already plays in the community.
The mosque also functions as a hurricane shelter, feeds the homeless and even works with the juvenile justice department.”
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Cheri Honkala and Galen Tyler: Protesting the DNC” / RT America / On Contact with Chris Hedges ☮
In this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges discusses the protests planned at the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia with two local organizers. Cheri Honkala, director of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, and Galen Tyler, leader of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, are leading the March for Lives, raising awareness of poverty and homelessness. RT Correspondent Anya Parampil looks at the cost of security at the upcoming national conventions.
