MUSIC, POLITICS, AND CULTURE: “Jimmy Dore on Useful Idiots” / Rolling Stone / Matt Taibbi, Katie Halper ☮
Jimmy Dore on Bernie Sanders, his disappointment with the CARES Act, and more . . .
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Cornel West Gives MSNBC a Much-Needed Reality Check” / The Humanist Report / Mike Figueredo ☮
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Busting Copaganda: The Truth Behind Police “Taking a Knee” and “Joining Protests”” / The Grayzone / Anya Parampil, Alec Karakatsanis ☮
Red Lines Host Anya Parampil speaks with Alec Karakatsanis, the founder and executive director of Civil Rights Corps and author of “Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System,” about police efforts to win positive coverage amidst a nationwide uprising against their increased militarization and abuse of power. Alec reveals the shocking record of Chris Swanson, the Sheriff in Flint, Michigan, who won positive coverage for “joining” demonstrations in the city while personally profiting off the imprisonment of poor people of color in his jails. They also analyze the record of Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, who has emerged has a leading voice in mainstream media coverage of the protests.
MARXIAN ECONOMICS & POLITICAL ECONOMY: “Wolff Responds: Looting” / Richard Wolff ☮
PROGRESSIVE NEWS & POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “US Spending MUCH More on Law Enforcement Than Social Welfare” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Homicidal Cops Caught on Police Radio” / The Jimmy Dore Show / Jimmy Dore, Stef Zamorano ☮
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Maniac NYPD Chief “Couldn’t Be Prouder” of Brutal Cops” / The Jimmy Dore Show / Jimmy Dore, Stef Zamorano ☮
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Cops Arrest Store Owners Who Flagged Them Down For Help!?!?” / The Jimmy Dore Show / Jimmy Dore, Stef Zamorano ☮
MINDFULNESS: “Sadhguru: We’re Not Fully Aware of Our Mortality” / RT America / SophieCo. Visionaries ☮
The Covid-19 pandemic caught us off guard – as humanity and as individuals. What are the lessons we can draw from this? We discussed this with Sadhguru, a true spiritual rock star, yogi, poet, mystic, and visionary.