My thoughts on the ongoing tragedy in Texas and those who think natural disasters are an indicator of God’s displeasure.
ANTI-THEISM: “WOTM Quickey: When it Rains, it Scores” / Mr. Deity ☮
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Monthly Archives: August 2017
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Trump’s Afghanistan Escalation is a Political Prop” / TYT Politics / Dylan Ratigan ☮
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Agenda of Hate with Ajamu Baraka” / RT America / On Contact with Chris Hedges ☮
On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges examines the rise of white, right-wing hate groups with Ajamu Baraka, Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and the Green Party’s nominee for Vice President in the 2016 election. RT Correspondent Anya Parampil looks at the profusion of white supremacist groups in America.
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Festival Pie” / Jonathan Pie ☮
How to solve the worlds problems? Get stoned!
ANTITHEISM: “The Month in Religious Bullshit! – August – 2017” / Cult of Dusty / Dusty Smith ☮
In this episode we all work together to solve a mystery!
SECULAR HUMANISM: “What Makes Something Right or Wrong? – That’s Humanism!” / Humanists UK / Stephen Fry ☮
Written & produced by the British Humanist Association, and narrated by Stephen Fry.
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Joy Reid and Joan Walsh FINALLY Get Called on Their Bullsh!t” / The Humanist Report / Mike Figueredo ☮
Joan Walsh and Joy Reid are credited for coining the term, “alt left.” What does it mean? Nothing. It’s simply a smear used to equate the overtly racist “alt right” with anti-racist, pro-equality progressives. Recently, to their dismay, President Trump appropriated their “alt left” term, which prompted another pundit, David Shuster, to call on them to apologize for giving Trump a word to use to perpetuate the false equivalence between two diametrically opposing sides. Instead, they refused to apologize and implied Shuster was racist and sexist for suggesting they should, and he subsequently put them in their place… and it was glorious.
IN REMEMBRANCE: “Happy Birthday! Howard Zinn: Terrorism, What Americans Don’t Want to Hear” ☮
Howard Zinn would have turned 94 today if his seemingly boundless energy and youthfulness had not been cut short in January 2010.
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It’s worth remembering that A People’s History of the United States first came out in 1980 as a tide of reaction was seeking to bury the social movements that inspired Howard’s book and which he saw as the hope for the future.
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Howard challenged these ideas in a terrific speech he gave in 1970: “If you don’t think, if you just listen to TV and read scholarly things, you actually begin to think that things are not so bad, or that just little things are wrong. But you have to get a little detached, and then come back and look at the world, and you are horrified. So we have to start from that supposition—that things are really topsy-turvy.”
Howard had that rare ability to step back and help us understand our topsy-turvy world primarily because he approached politics and history from the standpoint of someone who thought it was possible to turn our world right side up — to put people before profit, the environment before the interests of mining companies.
¡Howard Zinn presente!
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PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Cost of US Empire – $1 TRILLION a Year” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
POLITICAL THEORY: “Debunked: ‘Socialism Has Never Worked'” / David Pakman Show / David Pakman ☮
Our long form deep dive debunking the false notion that “socialism has never worked.”
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