Category Archives: Politics
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 ☮
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.
CORPORATE CAPITALISM: “Why Walmarts are Becoming Hotbeds of Crime” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur, and Ana Kasparian ☮
Crime is on the rise at Walmarts across the country.
POLITICAL JOURNALISM: “Hillary’s Hubris: Only Tell the Rich for $5000 a Minute!” / Ralph Nader ☮
There is a growing asymmetry between the media’s mounting demands for Donald Trump to release his tax returns (Hillary has done so) and their diminishing demands that Hillary Clinton release the secret transcripts of her $5000 per minute speeches before closed-door banking conferences and other business conventions.
The Washington Post, an endorser of Clinton, in its August 18 issue devoted another round of surmising as to why Trump doesn’t want to release his tax returns—speculating that he isn’t as rich as he brags he is, that he pays little or no taxes, and that he gives little to charity. Other media outlets endorsing Hillary have been less than vociferous in demanding that she release what she told business leaders in these pay-to-play venues.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Top U.S. and World Headlines — August 19, 2016” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
