FINE ARTS – PAINTING: “The Power of Art: Caravaggio” / BBC Documentary ☮
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POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Will the Zika Virus Renew the Abortion Debate?” / Thom Hartmann ☮
Thom talks about the Zika virus, and considers whether the illness will restart the Roe v. Wade debate in America.
MUSIC – BAROQUE: Johann Sebastian Bach / “Air on the G String” / Featuring Joy Waters Fowler, and Vic Robertson ☮
IN MEMORIAM: “Dave Zirin on the Whitewashing of Muhammad Ali: He Wasn’t Against Just War, But Empire” / Amy Goodman ☮
Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation magazine, joins us from Muhammad Ali’s hometown, Louisville, Kentucky, where he will attend Ali’s funeral. Zirin recounts Ali’s activism against racism in the city and says, “[T]his funeral is, in so many respects, Muhammad Ali’s last act of resistance, because what he is doing is pushing the country to come together to honor the most famous Muslim in the world at a time when a presidential candidate is running on a program of abject bigotry against the Muslim people, and the other presidential candidate is somebody who has proudly stood with the wars in the Middle East.” Zirin’s recent article in The Nation is called “‘I Just Wanted to Be Free’: The Radical Reverberations of Muhammad Ali.” He’s the author of the Ali-themed book, “What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States.”
INTERVIEW: “‘On Contact’ Premier with Chris Hedges” / Watching the Hawks RT / Tabetha Wallace, Tyrel Ventura, and Sean Stone ☮
Chris Hedges joins us in the Hawk’s Nest to promote the new RT show “On Contact.”
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “AP’s Story Declaring Clinton the Nominee ‘Part of a Pattern'” / RT America / Alex Mihailovich, and Chris Hedges ☮
Did the mainstream media jump the gun when they declared Hillary Clinton the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee the day before six states held primary elections? Chris Hedges, host of the new show ‘On Contact’ joins RT’s Alex Mihailovich and says that the announcement had a “negative effect on the democratic process” and it was an attempt by the mainstream media to “marginalize and ridicule” the Bernie Sanders campaign.
CORPORATE MEDIA: “William Gayley Simpson: On Television” / The Rugged Pyrrhus ☮
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Top U.S. and World Headlines — June 9, 2016” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
DEMOCRATIC VOTER SUPPRESSION: “The DNC Willfully Ignored Election Fraud in Chicago” / The Ring of Fire / Farron Cousins, and Lee Camp
There have been too many discrepancies between exit polls and voting results, some of which have been more than 10% off from one another. These exit polls are actually very reliable and they’re used to determine the validity of elections. For more on this, let’s go to Lee Camp, the host of Redacted Tonight on RT America – Lee has been covering the issue of election integrity and has uncovered some pretty shocking information.
MUST READ: “Capitalists of the World, Unite!” / truthdig / Mike Krauss ☮
The other night I watched The Greatest Cable News Program That Absolutely Ever Was. The host was extolling the virtues of capitalism, repeating the claims you can read in The Economist or Wall Street Journal; that capitalism has lifted many millions out of poverty worldwide.
The same broadcast also reported that most Americans “could not lay their hands on $1,000” in an emergency. That figure may be on the high side. Other published reports put it at $400, including what may be available on a credit card.
The program host missed the contradiction. You can’t be a capitalist without capital. The overwhelming majority of Americans don’t have any, and are completely excluded from the “benefits” of the capitalist system he extolled.
Capitalism is not a form of government. It is a system of wealth management. It does not create wealth, but only allocates it. It is indifferent to the welfare of people. It has no social purpose. Private profit is everything.
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