Following the death of Fidel Castro, Human Rights Watch tweeted about the “abusive tactics” used by the Castro regime, all of which are actively being used by the United States.
Daily Archives: 12.01.2016
PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Sarah Palin to Lead Largest Government Agency” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur, and Ana Kasparian ☮
Trump is rumored to appoint Sarah Palin to lead a very important government agency. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.
PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Criminal Cops at DAPL Shouted at by a Real Reporter, Their Response? Enraging” / The Jimmy Dore Show / Jimmy Dore ☮
Heavily armed police who have used numerous weapons against peaceful protesters were approached by TYTPolitics’s Jordan Chariton.
PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Sarah Palin Says God Intervened In the Election for Trump” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
Sarah Palin has insisted God intervened in the US election and Donald Trump’s victory was partially prompted by people praying to God that US citizens would “wake up.”
PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Trusting Obama is Worse Than Fearing Trump – Here’s Why” / The Jimmy Dore Show / Jimmy Dore ☮
The horrific treatment of protesters at the Dakota Access pipeline is just one of the failings of the Obama administration. He also made permanent the Bush era tax cuts, tortured whistleblowers and removed habeus corpus, among others. The trust liberals still have in him are why he’s gotten away with such abuses.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Cornel West on Keith Lamont Scott Case: Yet Again An Officer Gets Away With Killing a Black Man”/ Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
In Charlotte, North Carolina, people took to the streets Wednesday night to protest the announcement that police officer Brentley Vinson will not face charges for fatally shooting African American father Keith Lamont Scott. We talk to Dr. Cornel West about the Keith Lamont Scott case and the national issue of police brutality.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Cornel West: Unlike Bernie Sanders, I’m Not Convinced the Democratic Party Can Be Reformed” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory over Hillary Clinton, some progressives are now pushing a shake up of the Democratic Party’s leadership in efforts to reform the party. But Dr. Cornel West says the Democratic Party can’t be reformed. During the Democratic primary, West endorsed Bernie Sanders. Sanders later picked him to serve on the Democratic platform committee. After Hillary Clinton won the nomination, West made headlines when he endorsed Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein.