PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “SkyNews Invite Ex-General on to Justify Syria Bombing, Instantly Regret it and Cut Him Off!” / Gordon Dimmack ☮

ky News invited ex-UK forces Commander General Jonathan Shaw to justify bombs being dropped in Syria, but cut him off instantly when he starts dropping truth bombs instead.

PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Syria Gas Attack in Douma is Obviously a False Flag Event – Rebels had Everything to Gain” / Gordon Dimmack ☮

There is no reason Assad would use chemical weapons on his own people when he is on the verge of winning the civil war, and after Trump had said the US were leaving Syria, “Very soon!”

PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “School Shootings: A Good Reason to Lower the Voting Age?” / Newsbroke / Matt Lieb ☮

American libertarians are less a political party and more like a fundamentalist religious group who believe that the free market is their lord and savior. Here’s why their platform might sound charmingly weird in theory, but in practice it’s harmful.

PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “How to Vote When Democrats Shift Right? with Oliver Stone” / The Jimmy Dore Show / Jimmy Dore ☮

n the first part of our three part interview with Oliver Stone we discuss voting strategies, the way the Democrats have been shifting to the right, how this country hasn’t been the same since 1980 and what we can do about it. Spoiler alert: Oliver Stone doesn’t blame Susan Sarandon, or does he?

In Part 2 of our interview with Oliver Stone we discuss RussiaGate, his interviews with Putin, and Oliver responds to directly to some of the backlash he’s received from The Putin Interviews.

In the final part of our interview with Oliver Stone, Oliver shares his personal take aways from the Putin Interviews as well as his experience being blacklisted by other media in regards to these interviews. A filmmaker talked to Vladimir Putin directly! Asked him about supposed election interference directly! And this has been nearly ignored or if anything smeared by the corporate media, why is that?

PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “The Secret Way the NRA Controls Congress” / Empire Files / Abby Martin ☮

Many have called for elected officials like Marco Rubio to stop accepting donations from the gun manufacturing industry—but even if they did, campaign contributions are only one small facet of the NRA’s power in Washington. Harvard congressional researcher James D’Angelo explains how the Gun Lobby really exerts influence on the US government.