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Lee Camp, The ‘Threat’ of Peace and Media Dupes: Connecting the Dates on Russia Bounties Bombshell
“I’m referring to is how our military industrial complex (with the help of our ruling elite and our corporate media) have stopped Trump from pushing us toward the brink of peace. …Yes, the brink of peace.”
Chomsky: We Must Not Let Masters of Capital Define the Post-COVID World
“Since January, Trump has escalated…threats to survival. He has continued his project of dismantling the arms control regime that has provided some protection against nuclear disaster.”
Chris Hedges: Seeing Through Faux-Solidarity Performance Stunts Of Police Politicians & Corporations
Julianna welcomes back Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author, Chris Hedges, to discuss how as lawmakers and activists are working together to make real changes in policing that are worth celebrating, it is important to name the statements that are opportunistic and performative, like police officers taking a knee with protesters before proceeding to pepper […]
Maj. Danny Sjursen, Nefarious Nostalgia: Trump’s West Point Address, by the Numbers
“…it’s apparent that getting Trump to truly end most endless wars he laments, topple systemic militarism, address racial injustice, attempt unity, or exude a shred of empathy, would require magic more powerful than even the gay “conversion therapy” ole Mike Pence once championed.
Chris Hedges: Gaslighted by the Ruling Class
“Police unions, often little more than white hate groups, continue to have the unassailable power to brush aside would-be reformers, including community review boards, mayors and police chiefs. These unions generously bankroll the campaigns of elected officials, including public prosecutors, who do their bidding.”
Who’s Really Looting America? with Robert Reich
As hundreds of thousands take to the streets to protest ruthless police killings of Black Americans and centuries of systemic racism, and Donald Trump and his enablers cast the protesters as violent “looters,” former Labor Secretary Robert Reich exposes the real looters in America: Wall Street bankers in designer suits and corporate executives in lofty […]
A Pandemic, the Geopolitical Struggle for Power, and the Urgency of Common Security
“The pandemic teaches that we are a single interdependent species, and that militarism and xenophobic policies threaten our security and survival.”
Henry Giroux: The system has to be stopped: On state terror and collective rebellion.
“The fires burning in our cities are unfortunate, but the real fires go unnoticed. These are the fires burning the spirits of those who suffer daily traumas, fears, police violence, and policy driven hardships are what need to be noticed, addressed, and rouse mass anger. No one talks about the roots of these problems…”
Henry Giroux: Why it is dangerous to use the language of war about COVID-19
“For Trump, saving the economy is more important than saving lives. As ‘warriors’ the American public is being told to support this new battlefield strategy…”
Regime Change and Climate Change: Connecting the Dots
Particular focus on the continuing threats of the U.S. imperialist regime change agenda regarding Venezuela and Iran, with a major objective of seizing control of the biggest (Venezuela) and 4th biggest (Iran) oil reserves in the world. If this imperialist goal is realized, militarized fossil capital will surely extract this oil thereby leading the world […]
Revolution Against Neoliberalism in Chile, by Michael Livingston
“In short, the Chilean masses are demanding a new government and a new social pact. “
WATER PROTECTORS MAKE MINNESOTA’S LINE 3 PIPELINE THE NEXT TARGET OF RESISTANCE
“In Minnesota, there is an emphasis on the fact that white people stand in solidarity with the struggle….”
Disarm and Divest During COVID-19, featuring the Kings Bay Plowshares 7
The Trident is the deadliest weapon on the planet. Disarm and Live! Also featuring Jeremy Scahill, Medea Benjamin and Cornel West Panelists: • Dr. Cornel West • Jeremy Scahill • Medea Benjamin • The Kings Bay Plowshares 7: ◦ Martha Hennessy, Dorothy Day’s granddaughter, Catholic Worker ◦ Steve Kelly, S.J., Catholic priest ◦ Carmen Trotta, Catholic Worker ◦ […]
Some Progressives Are in Denial About Trump’s Fascist Momentum
“Fascist politics exchanges reality for the pronouncements of a single individual, or perhaps a political party. Regular and repeated obvious lying is part of the process by which fascist politics destroys the information space.”
Climate Crisis, the Environment and U.S. Militarism: Making the Connections
The US military is responsible for the most egregious and widespread pollution of the planet, yet this information and accompanying documentation goes almost entirely unreported.
Is American Exceptionalism Shaping Our Scientific Response to the Coronavirus?
“My view, of course, is that once you make science American it’s doomed. It needs to be human to have a chance. American exceptionalism is not just part of basing pandemic predictions on computer models rather than on the other 96% of humanity.”
Henry Giroux: The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Exposing the Plague of Neoliberalism
“Neoliberal capitalism is the underlying pandemic feeding the current global shortage of hospitals, medical supplies, beds and robust social welfare provisions, and increasingly an indifference to human life. The social contract has been all but eliminated while notions of the public good, social obligations and democratic forms of solidarity are under attack.”
Greg Palast: How Trump Stole 2020
“Vote suppression is the key issue to the 2020 Election and Palast is the expert to explain why…”
Noam Chomsky: The Rich Aren’t Waiting To Build a New World. Why Are We?
How corporations are profiting from the COVID-19 and how the Trump administration made it possible.
Voters Are Finally Starting to Notice the Trump Administration’s Botched Response to the Pandemic
“President” Trump and the Corona Virus Voters Are Finally Starting to Notice the Trump Administration’s Botched Response to the Pandemic MOTHER JONES April 4, 2020 As the country was gripped by the coronavirus pandemic in March, President Donald Trump saw some of the best approval numbers of his presidency. Multiple polls showed that a small […]
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