POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Janeane Garofalo Sits Down with Lee Camp, and Lawsuit May Prove Election Fraud” / RT America / Redacted Tonight ☮

Lee Camp interviews the comedy legend and all around amazing person, Janeane Garofalo. They get right into it about the manipulation of the corporate mainstream media. In fact, back in 2003 during the build up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, the “Fox and Friends” show on the Fox news network had her as a guest and ambushed her about her objection to the war. She had four people screaming at her. And she shut them all down with poise, grace and legit information.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Tariq Ali: Global Revolt Against Corporate Capitalism and Inequality” / RT America / On Contact with Chris Hedges ☮

In the first episode of ‘On Contact’, host Chris Hedges discusses the global revolt against corporate capitalism with radical intellectual and author Tariq Ali. Ali talks about how the world banking system got Greece and other European countries in trouble, and how big capital may be behind the impeachment of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff. RT Correspondent Anya Parampil joins the show with a report on global inequality.

IN MEMORIAM: “Dave Zirin on the Whitewashing of Muhammad Ali: He Wasn’t Against Just War, But Empire” / Amy Goodman ☮

Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation magazine, joins us from Muhammad Ali’s hometown, Louisville, Kentucky, where he will attend Ali’s funeral. Zirin recounts Ali’s activism against racism in the city and says, “[T]his funeral is, in so many respects, Muhammad Ali’s last act of resistance, because what he is doing is pushing the country to come together to honor the most famous Muslim in the world at a time when a presidential candidate is running on a program of abject bigotry against the Muslim people, and the other presidential candidate is somebody who has proudly stood with the wars in the Middle East.” Zirin’s recent article in The Nation is called “‘I Just Wanted to Be Free’: The Radical Reverberations of Muhammad Ali.” He’s the author of the Ali-themed book, “What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States.”

FINE ARTS – ROMANTIC POETRY: William Blake / “London” / 1794

William BlakeLONDON
1794

I wander thro’ each charter’d street,
Near where the charter’d Thames does flow.
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg’d manacles I hear

How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every black’ning Church appalls,
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls

But most thro’ midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

Reference: SparkNotes