POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “John Oliver Debunked by Real Journalist” / Jimmy Dore ☮

John Oliver attacked Jill Stein with reckless unfunny smears that included criticizing her for suggesting quantitative easing could be used to alleviate student debt. Legendary journalist Robert Scheer, who wrote The Great American Stick Up, a book about the banking system, weighs in on the reality of how quantitative easing really works.

WHITE-WING CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN HYPOCRICY: “Why I Am Christian and Pro-Choice” / Charles Clymer ☮

Woman praying with rosary beadsI am pro-autonomy. I am pro-independence. I am pro-choice. I am also of the opinion that my religion — or anyone’s religion— has no place in the affairs of other people. I don’t like Christ being used as a political cudgel, but here we are, in 2016, talking about the very personal decisions women make, and so, I feel compelled to write this.

I realize some of you, my friends, have incredibly strong opinions on life beginning at conception. I respect that this, in part, comes from a place of empathy.

My disconnect with the “pro-life” message, aside from the obvious autonomy issue, is that very rarely have I seen my pro-life friends argue as passionately for children’s healthcare or universal healthcare or refugees or against the death penalty or poverty or for mental health advocacy or homeless advocacy or for VA reform, etc.

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POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Voting for Hillary is a Vote to Drive America off a Cliff” / Jimmy Dore ☮

People who claim to be on the left have been busy wagging their fingers at those who support third party candidates like Jill Stein and Gary Johnson, meanwhile Hillary Clinton is pushing for more war and more disastrous policies that are certain to cause economic ruin.