Category Archives: Critical Thinking
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Al Gore Warns of 3rd Party “Dangers”, Ignores Democrats’ Lack of Climate Action” / Ring of Fire / Farron Cousins ☮
Al Gore understands just how dangerous 3rd party candidates can be in a tight election, but you can’t justify that by claiming the Democrats are any better on issues like climate change. There’s little indication that the Democrats currently in power – and the ones who could be in power in just a few months – have any real intentions of acting on climate change. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Top U.S. and World Headlines — August 23, 2016” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Rob Urie: Inside the Capitalist Labyrinth” / RT America / On Contact with Chris Hedges ☮
On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges enters the capitalist labyrinth with Rob Urie, author of Zen Economics. Urie says the destructive way capitalism has harnessed natural resources and the political system makes it time to reimagine the way we understand and relate to the world around us, while RT correspondent Anya Parampil explores wealth disparities across the United States.
CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY: “Anti-Gay Hate Group Leader Tony Perkins Learns About Irony… the Hard Way” / The Humanist Report / Mike Figueredo ☮
CLIMATE SCIENCE: “Climate Change Still Happening; Republicans Still Scientifically Illiterate” / Vox ☮
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Top U.S. and World Headlines — August 22, 2016” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
ABRAHAMIC METAPHYSICS: “History Lesson: Religion’s Portrayal of ‘Hell’ is Totally Misunderstood” / Big Think / Rob Bell ☮
A lot of us are banking on heaven for ourselves and hell for certain others, but spiritual teacher Rob Bell urges us to think about those concepts as states of consciousness, and rethink the nature of the afterlife.
AMERICAN NATIONALISM: “What’s More American?” ☮
h/t: Friendly Atheist
BRITISH POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Progressive Pie” / Jonathan Pie ☮
Theresa May is not a progressive politician just because she’s a woman.