PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Let’s talk about 14 characteristics, 10 stages, and where you are….” / Beau of the Fifth Column ☮
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Category Archives: Politics
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “50th Anniversary of Stonewall” / The Young Turks / Brooke Thomas, Jayar Jackson, and Ashlee Marie Preston ☮
POLICE PROFILING HARASSMENT: “Cop BUSTED by Hero for Harassing Black Men” / TYT Sports / Rick Strom ☮
Police have a profiling problem. Rick Strom breaks it down. Give us your thoughts in the comments below!
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “When Did You Learn About Juneteenth?” / The Young Turks / Brooke Thomas, Adrienne Lawrence, Jayar Jackson, and David West ☮
U.S. POLITICS: “America is More Radical Than You Think” / Robert Reich ☮
Robert Reich explains where the American people really stand on the issues.
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Trump Visits The Queen” / Jonathan Pie ☮
What does Trump have to do before we stop rolling out the red Carpet?
POLITICAL JOURNALISM: “Society Is In Decay – When the Worst is First and the Best is Last” / Ralph Nader ☮
By Ralph Nader
May 29, 2019
Plutocrats like to control the range of permissible public dialogue. Plutocrats also like to shape what society values. If you want to see where a country’s priorities lie, look at how it allocates its money. While teachers and nurses earn comparatively little for performing critical jobs, corporate bosses including those who pollute our planet and bankrupt defenseless families, make millions more. Wells Fargo executives are cases in point. The vastly overpaid CEO of General Electric left his teetering company in shambles. In 2019, Boeing’s CEO got a bonus (despite the Lion Air Flight 610 737 Max 8 crash in 2018). Just days before a second deadly 737 Max 8 crash in Ethiopia.
This disparity is on full display in my profession. Public interest lawyers and public defenders, who fight daily for a more just and lawful society, are paid modest salaries. On the other hand, the most well compensated lawyers are corporate lawyers who regularly aid and abet corporate crime, fraud, and abuse. Many corporate lawyers line their pockets by shielding the powerful violators from accountability under the rule of law.
PROGRESSIVE NEWS & POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Cenk Uygur Absolutely Torches Nancy Pelosi in Mainstream Publication” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Parents Targeted for Drag Queen Child” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur, Brooke Thomas, and Jordan Klepper ☮
“A New York City family is once again facing calls from child protective services after their son, an 11-year-old drag queen, was featured in a shoe ad.
INDEPENDENT GLOBAL JOURNALISM: “Nixon’s Dark Legacy” / truthdig / Danny Sjursen ☮
He was corrupt. He was petty, angry and resentful. He was also one of the most astute politicians in the annals of the American presidency. Time after time he overcame obstacles and defeats to rise again. His genius, ultimately, was this: He envisioned a new coalition and knew how to channel white resentment over the civil rights and antiwar movements into political triumph. This was his gift, and his legacy. Americans today inhabit the partisan universe that Richard Milhous Nixon crafted. Republican leaders to this very day speak Nixon’s language and employ Nixon’s tactics of fear and anger to win massive white majorities in election upon election. Indeed, though Nixon eventually resigned in disgrace before he could be impeached, the last half-century has been rather kind to the Republican Party. Only three Democrats have been elected president in that period, and Republicans have reigned over the White House for a majority of the post-Nixon era.
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