Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses the enormous amount of money the United States puts into military spending every year.
On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges is joined by journalist and author Adam Hochschild to remember the rebels in history whose moral conviction drove them to battle. Hochschild chronicles rebels who joined the fight against fascism in his latest book “Spain in Our Hearts: Americans and the Spanish Civil War”. RT Correspondent Anya Parampil provides a brief history on why the idealists from the U.S. and Europe made the journey in the 1930s to join the civil war.
“A federal appeals court has ruled that an existing federal ban on the sale of guns to holders of medical marijuana cards does not violate the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits infringement of the right to keep and bear arms. The ruling pertains to the nine states under the jurisdiction of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. Of those nine, only Idaho hasn’t legalized medical marijuana, which, as far as the federal government is concerned, remains illegal everywhere in the U.S. regardless of state laws.
The specific case was a lawsuit brought by a Nevada plaintiff, S. Rowan Wilson, who said a gun store refused to sell her a weapon after she obtained a medical marijuana card in 2011. At issue was the assumption that possession of such a card is reasonable cause to presume that the holder actually uses the drug (Wilson claims she doesn’t). The appeals court ruled that it is, in fact, an “eminently reasonable” assumption.
Hillary Clinton recently railed against the rightwing movement known as the “alt-right.” Chris Hedges, host of RT’s ‘On Contact’ joins RT America’s Anya Parampil to discuss this fringe ideology and whether Clinton’s attack on the movement will have any impact. He says that the alt-right movement has “overt characteristics of racism” and that it is “utterly impervious to anything Hillary Clinton says.”
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A new study reveals that states led by Republicans, and those who appear to hate President Obama the most, are actually the ones more dependent on government money to stay afloat.
Another new study has been released that confirms what previous studies had found – that conservative voters are likely to have much lower IQs than their Progressive counterparts, and they are also much more likely to hold racists attitudes.
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