PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Larry Hamm: History is the Present” / RT America / On Contact with Chris Hedges ☮

On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges is joined by Larry Hamm, Chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress. They discuss the history of oppression of African Americans in the U.S. and the relentless struggle for racial equality.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Midnight in Paris (on the Damn Doomsday Clock)” / Liberal Redneck / Comedian, Trae Crowder ☮

We done screwed the pooch with this Paris Climate shit yall. I would say Trump’s fiddlin while the world burns but it ain’t no way he can work a fiddle with those stupid tiny baby hands. Anyway we all gone die. Love ye.

RATIONALISM: “Isaac Asimov Talks About Superstition, Religion, and Why He Teaches Rationality” ☮

This was recorded in 1988. He also explains why some people who think that we should abandon science are wrong and how scientific worldview is the best.

DOMESTIC ECONOMICS: “Trump’s Infrastructure Scam” / Robert Reich, and MoveOn.org ☮

Trump vows to privatize the nation’s air traffic control system and spur $1 trillion in new investment in roads, waterways and other infrastructure. How? By charging us DOUBLE: Once for giving tax breaks to private investors in infrastructure, and then for paying the tolls and fees they’ll charge. It’s another of Trump’s giant scams. Don’t fall for it.

CRITICAL THINKING: “Seven Times Carl Sagan Went Intellectual Beast Mode” / ScienceNET ☮

Carl Sagan was ahead of his time – many of the statements in this video are still extremely relevant today. Please enjoy these seven intellectual “beast mode” worthy moments with Carl Sagan.

PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Bill Nye, Neil DeGrasse Tyson Bash Trump for Leaving Paris Agreement” / Ring of Fire / Farron Cousins ☮

Some of the US’s most famous faces in the scientific community are lashing out at Donald Trump for pulling the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement.  Could this move by the president finally be the motivation scientists need to run for public office?