POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Top U.S. and World Headlines — July 28, 2016” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
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POLITICAL RESISTANCE: “The 1 Percent’s Useful Idiots” / Chris Hedges 07.26.2016 ☮
PHILADELPHIA—The parade of useful idiots, the bankrupt liberal class that long ago sold its soul to corporate power, is now led by Sen. Bernie Sanders. His final capitulation, symbolized by his pathetic motion to suspend the roll call, giving Hillary Clinton the Democratic nomination by acclamation, is an abject betrayal of millions of his supporters and his call for a political revolution.
No doubt the Democrats will continue to let Sanders be a member of the Democratic Caucus. No doubt the Democrats will continue to agree not to run a serious candidate against him in Vermont. No doubt Sanders will be given an ample platform and media opportunities to shill for Clinton and the corporate machine. No doubt he will remain a member of the political establishment.
Sanders squandered his most important historical moment. He had a chance, one chance, to take the energy, anger and momentum, walk out the doors of the Wells Fargo Center and into the streets to help build a third-party movement. His call to his delegates to face “reality” and support Clinton was an insulting repudiation of the reality his supporters, mostly young men and young women, had overcome by lifting him from an obscure candidate polling at 12 percent into a serious contender for the nomination. Sanders not only sold out his base, he mocked it. This was a spiritual wound, not a political one. For this he must ask forgiveness.
Whatever resistance happens will happen without him. Whatever political revolution happens will happen without him. Whatever hope we have for a sustainable future will happen without him. Sanders, who once lifted up the yearnings of millions, has become an impediment to change. He took his 30 pieces of silver and joined with a bankrupt liberal establishment on behalf of a candidate who is a tool of Wall Street, a proponent of endless war and an enemy of the working class.
Sanders, like all of the self-identified liberals who are whoring themselves out for the Democrats, will use fear as the primary reason to remain enslaved by the neoliberal assault. And, in return, the corporate state will allow him and the other useful idiots among the 1 percent to have their careers and construct pathetic monuments to themselves.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Will the Authoritarian Vision for America Prevail in November?” / Thom Hartmann ☮
Thom talks about Donald Trump’s convention speech and asks which vision will prevail in our nation.
POLICE BRUTALITY AND EXECUTIONS: “Is Blue Lives Matter a Hate Group?” / The Big Picture RT / Thom Hartmann ☮
Max Blumenthal, Grayzone Project-Alternet/The 51 Day War joins Thom. When Black Lives Matter protests first made their appearance on the national scene – the line from conservatives was “No, black lives don’t matter – ALL lives matter.” Right-wingers have kept up this kind of thinking for most of the past year – but lately they’ve come out with a new slogan to demonize anti-police violence protesters. You might have heard Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke say it at the Republican National Convention. Here’s the thing – though – Blue Lives Matter is more than just a slogan. It’s a hate movement.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Who Should Bernie Voters Support Now? Robert Reich vs. Chris Hedges on Tackling the Neoliberal Order” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
The day after Senator Bernie Sanders spoke at the Democratic National Convention and urged his supporters to work to ensure his former rival wins the presidential race, we host a debate between Clinton supporter Robert Reich, who served as labor secretary under President Clinton, and Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who backs Sanders.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Dr. Jill Stein vs. Ben Jealous: Should Progressives Reject Hillary Clinton and Vote Green?” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
After a tension-filled opening day of the Democratic National Convention that saw Senator Bernie Sanders endorse his former rival Hillary Clinton, we host a debate between Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein and Ben Jealous, former NAACP president and CEO and a Bernie Sanders surrogate.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Top U.S. and World Headlines — July 26, 2016” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Cornel West Reacts to Dr. Jill Stein’s Speech During a Rally Outside the #DemsinPhilly Convention” ☮
Public intellectual and DNC platform committee member Cornel West talks about why he’s now supporting Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein instead of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton outside the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “‘Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!’ Chants Mark First Day of DNC” / RT America / FishTank / Lindsay France ☮
In the wake of a damaging email leak, Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was forced out of her position and onto the sidelines of the nominating convention. RT America’s Lindsay France reports there is a definite “lack of unity” on display at the Democratic National Convention so far. France also speaks with Bernie Sanders delegate Jonathan Tasini, who says that the DNC was “clearly was trying to elect Hillary Clinton.” Then, John Nichols, correspondent for The Nation magazine, joins France and says the Bernie Sanders camp “wasn’t surprised.”
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Top U.S. and World Headlines — July 25, 2016” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
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