Category Archives: Persons

POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Religious Right Will Support Donald Trump” / RT America / Ed Schultz ☮

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump recently spoke at the Voter Values Summit in Washington, DC. The religious right has a lot of influence on the Republican Party, but will Trump get their vote? Reverend Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church & State joins ‘News with Ed’ and says “they do accept him” and will vote for him in November.

WHITE-WING CONSERVATIVE BIGOTRY: “Yes, Trump Supporters are ‘Deplorable'” / The Ring of Fire / Farron Cousins ☮

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Hillary Clinton has taken heat for calling Donald Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables,” but the data shows that his voters truly are the worst of the worst.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Mark Blyth: The Detrimental Ramifications of Austerity Programs” / RT America / On Contact with Chris Hedges ☮

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On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges sits down with economist Mark Blyth to discuss the detrimental ramifications of austerity programs following the 2008 financial crisis. Professor Blyth, author of Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, addresses the political effects of the spending cuts and considers why the elites will not take responsibility for the fallout, while RT Correspondent Anya Parampil examines the impact austerity measures have had on America’s working class and poor since 2008.

WISDOM: “The Essentials” / Noam Chomsky ☮

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A “best of” compilation of Chomsky’s ideas and analyses.

1. War, State Power, and American Exceptionalism  0:00
2. Capitalism, Neoliberalism, and Corporate Propaganda 31:01
3. Anarchism, Libertarian Socialism, and Classical Liberalism 01:08:51
4. Science, Philosophy, and Language 01:39:16

GREEN PARTY: “PBS and Facebook Censor Dr. Jill Stein’s Criticism of Hillary Clinton” / The Humanist Report / Mike Figueredo ☮

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YouTuber Matt Orfalea discovered that PBS had censored parts of an interview with Jill Stein where she criticizes Hillary Clinton. Matt then uploaded the video exposing said censorship to Facebook, and they later took down the video, alleging it did not comply with their community’s guidelines.