Monthly Archives: April 2018
CRITICAL THINKING: “On Being Rational” / Mary Wollstonecraft ☮
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Will Legalizing Sex Work Protect Women?” / Newsbroke / Francesca Fiorentini ☮
Sex! It’s what’s for sale. President Trump recently signed a bill aimed at stopping sex trafficking, but the new law could actually make sex work a whole lot more dangerous. Here’s why legalizing or decriminalizing sex work might be the best option.
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “A Hostile Environment” / Jonathan Pie ☮
Pie dissects the government’s immigration policy.
NEW RULE: “Grass Warfare” / Real Time with Bill Maher ☮
In a special “420” edition of New Rules, Bill argues that Democrats should use marijuana legalization as a wedge issue in the upcoming elections.
INTELLECTUALISM: “Why Israel is a Sacred Cow for America” / Noam Chomsky and Lawrence Krauss / MUST WATCH! ☮
Noam Chomsky reveals the truth about conservatives, radical Islam and their support for Israel.
NEW YORK CITY FLASHBACK FOOTAGE: “1911 – A Trip Through New York City” ☮
Old film of New York City in the year 1911. Print has survived in mint condition. Slowed down footage to a natural rate and added in sound for ambiance. This film was taken by the Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern on a trip to America.
WHITE EVANGELICAL CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN CULT: “Is the Trump Presidency a Religious Cult? / Reza Aslan” ☮
Are fundamentalist Christians a dangerous religious cult? Possibly. The controversial author and religious scholar Reza Aslan posits that President Donald Trump has much of his evangelical fan-base believing that he’s somehow been anointed by God to become President. Nevermind the Russian election scandal, his affairs with porn stars and unwarranted sexual acts towards women, or his inability to remember even a single Bible verse when asked. Evangelical Christians are abandoning their core moral beliefs to follow, as Reza suggests, someone who exhibits every trademark of a cult leader.
INTELLECTUALISM: “Why Populism is the Greatest Con in America” / Martin Amis / MUST WATCH ☮
here is no substitute for thinking—although modern-day America may have you believing otherwise. Novelist Martin Amis attributes the recent surge in anti-intellectualism to the populist politics sweeping the United States. “Populism relies on a sentimental and, in fact, very old-fashioned view that the uneducated population knows better in its instincts than the over-refined elite. That leads to anti-intellectualism, which is self-destructive for everyone.” The rejection of rationality and analysis is something politicians can easily capitalize on, and Amis refers to President Trump as a plutocrat in populist’s clothing. “It’s profoundly hypocritical because his policies do not favor the working man… It’s an act, populism. Always an act.” Are the American people being conned, and is a return to elitism the answer? Martin Amis is the author of The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994-2017.
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Jagoff Comedian Two Years Ahead of Establishment Media” / The Jimmy Dore Show / Jimmy Dore ☮