Lee Camp isn't as funny as he likes to think he is. But the truth really isn't funny no matter how you put it.

I'm not really a big fan of any news show. Or Newspaper. Or news magazine. Or anything mediawise at all.

But I have to give RT credit where credit is due and without a doubt, RT has the most diversity in view points of any News Channel hands down.

Not that that's a particularly high bar to get over, but in a world where our choices are limited to the insane Fascist Right-Wing propaganda found at any given moment on Fox News, the "both sides" bullshit CNN and CBS have to offer, the mundane unimportant trivial bullshit zombie "family viewing" on ABC, or the Neoliberal Democratic Party Establishment mouthpiece "News" Channel MSNBC; suddenly RT doesn't seem all that bad.

In any case, Redacted Tonight, even with Lee Camp's terrible Left-Wing Jim Carrey-like character, he manages to cover some extremely important issues from a fairly Leftist perspective, at least compared to anything you're going to find in the media anywhere else.

Lee Camp covers issues ranging from the Endless Wars and the horribly obvious cheerleader role the mainstream media plays in advancing the Neocon/Liberal Interventionist Bourgeois Imperialist War Agenda.

He routinely exposes the Democrats for the Corporate Shills they really are. He exposes the absurdity of our "Criminal Justice" System, and in this particular episode above, Lee Camp tells the Story of Texaco, now a part of Chevron, and how it caused one of the largest environmental disasters in history in Ecuador, by dumping toxic waste by the billions of gallons and causing oil spills in the tens of millions of gallons.

Finally, years later, an American Lawyer working on behalf of local Communities in Ecuador that were affected by the toxic waste left behind by Texaco, won a major lawsuit and a judgement of around $9 Billion dollars from Chevron.

Of course, Chevron being the American Fossil Fuel and Chemical manufacturing giant it is, is protected by the US Government no matter what horrific crimes is commits in another country.

So Chevron ditched Ecuador and never paid a dime of the settlement. Instead, Chevron filed a complaint against the lawyer who had represented the Ecuadorian Communities poisoned for decades by Texaco.

The Judge in the case was, because of course he was, a completely corrupt Corporate goon and ruled in Favor of Chevron, had the lawyers license to practice Law suspended, ordered his passport be taken, subpoenaed his computers and devices for his personal and professional records, and forced him to wear an ankle monitor until he complies with the subpoena and turns over his computer records.

If this isn't one of the most sick, twisted abuses of power by the legal system on behalf of a environmentally disasterous Corporation with absolutely no responsibility towards the people, Communities and Countries it's happy to destroy in it's quest for l profits at the expense of out entire planet, than I don't know what is.

And that's the kind of actual news that Lee Camp covers in Redacted Tonight. As silly and really not that funny as he may be, many of the topics he covers you won't find elsewhere in the media, and they're deadly serious issues.

I haven't watched his show very many times, mostly because I found Lee Camp rather annoying, but I've never been disappointed by the topics he covers that no other news shows spend time on, or they just sweep it under the rug, or obfuscate by using CIA and other Govt Agency approved talking points.

Like any decent show, not everything is great, but a majority of the issues that come up, and the perspectives that Lee Camp gives are pretty decent. And you won't really get any higher praise than that out of me for television news. That's for damn sure.

workersolidarity

An excellent breakdown of Socialist politics without getting hung up on all the various Socialist terminology. If you're interested in Socialist, Progressive, or other Left Wing politics, understanding your goals is important for achieving them.

Socialism is such a loaded term that it's almost useless at this point. But understanding the goals you're working toward is far more important. This video nails it.

Proff. Richard Wolff breaks down the three most common goals people have in mind when they say Socialism and makes it much easier to understand for people new to the Left. So I thought this would be good to share with so many young people joining the ranks of American Left in calling for a transformation in the economy and government.

I hope someone out there finds this video helpful. I would've killed to have Richard Wolff's videos at my disposal when I was forming my politics. Instead I had to do endless amounts of research, reading books, magazines, newspapers, manifestos and wikipedia pages for years and years. I wouldn't wish all that wading through political garbage on anyone, lol.

Hope someone finds this helpful

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justforsmiles

Do you stay up to date with current events and news on a national level? International/global? Why/Why not? If so, how?

workersolidarity

I read news and politics constantly because I want to watch and learn how to cause the downfall of Neoliberal Capitalism, Private Property and Copyright Law

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workersolidarity

Liberals need to learn that there is no satisfying the rich and still helping the lower classes. A "rising tide" does not lift all boats, not in a world of Climate Change and Neoliberal economic policies. GDP growth means nothing if working class wages aren't keeping up with, let alone exceeding inflation. You can't raise taxes 2 percent on the rich and expect change. Change will come when the lower classes of all races, genders, and sexual orientations unite in solidarity against the top 10% of richest classes worldwide. Otherwise the rich will always slowly erode wages, progressive policies and programs, and slowly erode liberal democracies the world over

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probablyasocialecologist

“‘Surveillance capitalism’ was the term coined in 2015 by Harvard academic Shoshanna Zuboff to describe this large-scale surveillance and modification of human behaviour for profit. It involves predictive analysis of big datasets describing the lives and behaviours of tens or hundreds of millions of people, allowing correlations and patters to be identified, information about individuals inferred, and future behaviour to be predicted. Attempts are then made to influence this behaviour through personalised and dynamic targeted advertising. This is refined by testing numerous variations of adverts on different demographics to see what works best. Every time you use the internet you are likely the unwitting subject of dozens of experiments trying to figure out how to most effectively extract money from you. Surveillance capitalism monetises our lives for their profit, turning everything that we do into data points to be packaged together as a profile describing us in great detail. Access to that data profile is sold on the advertising market. But it isn’t just access to our data profile that is being sold – it’s access to the powerful behavioural modification tools developed by these corporations, to their knowledge about our psychological vulnerabilities, honed through experimentation over many years. In effect, through their pervasive surveillance apparatus they build up intricate knowledge of the daily lives and behaviours of hundreds of millions of people and then charge other companies to use this knowledge against us for their benefit.”

— Jennifer Cobbe, The problem isn’t just Cambridge Analytica or Facebook – it’s “surveillance capitalism”

workersolidarity

Ha! The jokes on them. I'm broke af!!!

(Thanks to Neoliberal economic policies that have steadily eroded the value of the minimum wage which hasn't kept up with inflation for the last 40 years)

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theconcealedweapon

People will honestly ask “Does that poor person deserve food?” but never ask “Does that CEO deserve ten cars, three houses, and two yachts?”

And before you respond with “the poor person is buying that food with someone else’s money”, the CEO bought those luxuries with money earned from other people’s hard work.

abadbadman

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workersolidarity

Nancy Pelosi Promises That Democrats Will Handcuff the Democratic Agenda If They Retake the House

House Democrats promise to handcuff their own agenda.

The Intercept

Nancy Pelosi is already planning to stop progressives from passing a left wing agenda...

Time to kick this Republican light Democratic "leader" to the curb

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berniesrevolution

The Real News | she is a Progressive and Could be the First Native American Woman in Congress

workersolidarity

Pass this one around, it’s important you lazy leftist fucks

#politics #the left #the real news #deb haaland #native american rights #Justice Democrats #progressive #progressive movement #youtube #video

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In Honor of Earth Day 2017: PBS Nature’s Ask Box is now open for the next round of Tumblr’s IssueTime on Conservation and Climate Change!

NATURE is so excited to work with Tumblr and the wonderful scientists, biologists and filmmakers who’ve agreed to be on our panel so that you can learn more about the environmental issues we’re currently facing. Dig deeper into the issues with full episodes of NATURE, now streaming!

The Panelists:

Arnaud Desbiez is a conservation biologist who has been conducting research in the Brazilian Pantanal since 2002. He has worked on topics ranging from sustainable use of resources to species ecological research and community development programs. In the Brazilian Pantanal, his work focused on the interaction between native and alien species, the sustainable use of forage resources and the ecology of several mammal species. In 2010 he started and now coordinates the Pantanal Giant Armadillo Project. Arnaud is featured in our most recent episode, Hotel Armadillo.

Patrick Gonzalez is Principal Climate Change Scientist of the U.S. National Park Service and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. A forest ecologist, he conducts applied research on climate change and works with national parks to adapt resource management to climate change. Patrick has conducted and published field research on climate change in Africa, Latin America, and the United States and has served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the organization awarded a share of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Watch our recent episode about the challenges facing Yosemite, now streaming!

Chris Morgan is an ecologist, conservationist, educator, TV host/narrator and film producer specializing in international bear research and conservation. For more than 20 years, he has worked as a wildlife researcher, wilderness guide and environmental educator on every continent where bears exist. Chris has narrated 13 films for Nature and was host and narrator for Siberian Tiger Quest as well as being the featured character in Nature’s three-part series ‘Bears of the Last Frontier.’ In 2015, he was also host and narrator for Nature’s Three-part ‘Animal Homes’ series and was featured in ‘The Last Orangutan Eden.’ Learn more about Chris’ story with this interview we conducted with him.

Learn More about Chris

Joe Pontecorvo is an award-winning producer, writer, and cinematographer. For the past two decades, he has traveled the globe; tracking Siberian tigers in the Russian Far East, living among grizzlies in the wilds of Alaska, and following orangutans through Indonesia’s peat swamp forest. All told, he has produced 14 broadcast documentaries for multiple networks, including National Geographic, Discovery Channel, and PBS. For his most recent project before ‘Yosemite,’ PBS Nature’s ‘Snow Monkeys,’ Joe and his wife, Nim Pontecorvo, spent nearly two years filming a troop of Japanese macaques in Japan’s Shiga Highlands. Go behind-the-scenes into the making of that film here.

Learn More about Joe

Happy Earth Day! Check back Saturday for answers!

workersolidarity

Fantastic opportunity to have an educated conversation about Climate Change and the role Capiltism plays in the continued usage of fossil fuels by governments across the world despite the decades of warnings issued by the scientific community!

workersolidarity

Progressive Agenda Worth Fighting For: 2017 Edition

1.) Single-Payer Healthcare For All 2.) Federal Jobs Guarentee: bring back the 1974 Humphrey-Hawkins Full-Employement Act 3.) Federal Protections FOR ALL LGBTQ PEOPLES 4.) A REAL path for citizenship for ALL Dreamers and illegal immigrants who work and pay taxes. 5.) Expand Social Security: there are currently multiple bills in Congress to expand and strengthen Social Security for future generations, while guaranteeing the wealthy pay their fair share into the program like all the rest of us! 6.) Eliminate ALL subsidies for Big Oil & Gas industries and begin FULLY subsidizing and supporting Renewable Energy sources for a FULL conversion to a Carbon-free Economy 7.) Make ALL PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES TUITION FREE and FORGIVE ALL CURRENT OUTSTANDING STUDENT LOAN DEBT!!!! 8.) Pass a new Voting Rights Act for the 21st Century that GUARENTEES the right to vote for ALL citizens regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, class or social status! NO MORE VOTER ID LAWS!!! 9.) Federally Guaranteed Public Transportation & Job Training: in a world where the economy and jobs can shift rapidly in various fields to various locations, a Federal Guarantee to modern Public Transportation and Job Training isn't just a luxury, it's a necessity. Give the workforce the tools they need to find new work and sources of income for their families so another "Great Recession" can never again destroy the livelihoods of so many families for so long a time 10.) TRUELY PROGRESSIVE TAX REFORM: since the 1980's when Reagan and his "Supply-Siders" cut taxes on the wealthy while cutting back Federal Aid to the states, taxes have become more and more regressive. High Property taxes in the states made up for the Federal Aid that used to be paid for by high end marginal tax rates on the wealthy, but this means the Working & Middle Classes bear the brunt of the tax load while virtually guaranteeing an unequal education system dependant on wealthier tax payers who sequester themselves into small patches of neighborhoods throughout the country while Working & Middle Class neighborhood's schools get gutted. We can change this system be raising Marginal Tax-Rates on the wealthy back to their Post WWII highs of 70-95%, using the money to support local Public Schools and Libraries with money that no longer has to be dredged from the lowest income homeowners. This will also have the added benefit of greatly reducing Inequality over time through better educations for Working and Middle Class students while re-establishing an effective cap on incomes earned by the top 1% of earners. ALL OF THESE IDEAS ARE DOABLE AND MANY WERE IDEAS PREVIOUSLY IMPLEMENTED IN THE POST WWII YEARS RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA. THESE PROGRESSIVE POLICIES HELPED CONTRIBUTE TO THE MASSIVE BOOM IN THE ECONOMY SEEN THROUGHOUT THE POST WAR YEARS FROM THE 1940's-1970's AND ONLY WHEN SUCH POLICIES WERE ABANDONED DOD INEQUALITY GROW OUT OF CONTROL. IT'S TIME AMERICAN CITIZENS ORGANIZED AND STAND UP IN SOLIDARITY TO CHALLENGE THE POLTICAL ELITE IN BOTH PARTIES AND THE CORPORATE MASTERS THEY SO HAPPILY OBLIGE. IT'S TIME TO STAND UP TO THE WEALTHIEST CLASS OF MODERN SLAVE DRIVERS WHO WOULD HAPPILY SEE US ALL IN CHAINS LABORING TO INCREASE THEIR WEALTH. STAND UP! ORGANIZE! TIME TO SAY 'ENOUGH'S ENOUGH' AND TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK FOR THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS, NOT JUST THE TOP 1%!!!!

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The Most Dangerous Bill You've Never Heard Of Just Passed The House

Last, week, under the cover of a media bliss-out except among Koch funded right-wing channels, the House of Representatives

www.huffingtonpost.com

workersolidarity

THIS IS QUITE POSSIBLY MORE TERRIFYING AND MORE DAMAGING THAN THE OBAMACARE REPEAL BILL THAT ONLY 17% AMERICANS APPROVED OF WOULD'VE BEEN HAD IT PASSED!!!!

If the REINS ACT passes, ALL FUTURE REGULATIONS involving you and your family's work safety, environmental safety, labor rights, and more will get hung up in Congress where far-right "Conservative" Republicans will be sure to doom them!

DON'T LET CONGRESS AND TRUMP DESTROY OUR FUTURE SAFETY AND RIGHTS IN A SINGLE ACT!!!!

CALL OR EMAIL YOUR STATE SENATORS AND THE WHITE HOUSE TO SHOW YOUR FURY WITH THE REINS ACT AND MAKE SURE THEY BURY THIS BILL PERMANENTLY LIKE THEY DID TRUMPCARE/RYANCARE BEFORE IT!!!!!

DOOM THE REINS ACT!!!!

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Do Republicans Have Amnesia Over How They Treated Merrick Garland?

“We don’t conduct partisan filibusters of Supreme Court nominees,” one GOP senator said.

www.huffingtonpost.com

freedomjusticewarrior

No, they are just assholes.

Everyone knows that they are hypocrites, they know that everyone knows, but they also know that their constituents don’t care, so there are no consequences to their actions.

workersolidarity

This was obviously the plan the whole time. Republicans said so much on the campaign trail when so-called "Moderates" and "Independant Thinkers" in the GOP like John McCain and Lindsey Graham were telling their constituents that they planned on blocking anyone nominated to the Supreme Court by Hillary Clinton had she won for her full term as President. Republicans have NEVER cared about Democracy and the sure as hell don't care about the Constitution let alone preserving Senate tradtions. They will lie, cheat, steal and scam their way into getting what they want, and until Democrats become a truly disciplined opposition party, willing to do any and everything possible to counter Republican scam artists, the GOP and their Corporate overlords will continue winning these and many other major battles in future years.

At some point, somethings got to give. We must begin primarying any Corporate and squishy moderate establishment Democrats who aren't willing to take risks and fight back against the fascists in the GOP by any and all means! We need to be willing to lose seats kicking out Republican-light Democrats like Joe Manchin and Clair McCakaskill and any other Centrist/Conservative Democrats who aren't willing to sign on to a Progressive Agenda to fight Corporate control of government and our Nation's economy. Enough's ENOUGH!!!!

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Opponents of single payer are moral monsters on par with AHCA proponents

medium.com|Matt Bruenig

The Republican health care plan, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), was unveiled recently. Its major provisions include changing the refundable tax credits of Obamacare so that they are more generous to younger people and less generous to older people and so that they are more generous to higher income people and less generous to lower income people. On top of that, the AHCA also cuts Medicaid substantially.

As a result of these changes, the CBO estimates that by 2026, 24 million more people would be uninsured relative to current law. The liberal reaction to this proposal has been rightly horrified.

Here’s Ezra Klein’s reaction, which was typical of the liberal thinksphere in general:

The Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the GOP’s American Health Care Act is one of the most singularly devastating documents I’ve seen in American politics. For a thorough explanation of the findings, read Sarah Kliff’s explainer. But here is the one-sentence summary: Under the GOP’s bill, the more help you need, the less you get.

The choice between the Obamacare status quo and the AHCA future, if CBO is believed, is a choice between having 24 million people with health insurance or 24 million people without health insurance. When confronted with that choice, those that would choose AHCA over Obamacare are moral monsters. They are selecting a society with greater misery, greater suffering, and greater death.

What if the choice was different though? What if the choice was between Obamacare and single-payer health insurance? How would the moral situation change?

For Waldman, the change from Obamacare to single-payer health care is akin to remodeling your kitchen: a mostly cosmetic change that is better, but not strictly necessary. This too seems to be a widespread liberal sentiment, especially during the primary campaign of 2016 where single-payer was widely rejected by the conservative wing of the Democratic party and voted down (in favor of Obamacare) when it was proposed for the Democratic party platform.

But in reality, the choice between single-payer and Obamacare is on par with the choice between Obamacare and AHCA. That is, a decision to favor AHCA over Obamacare is at least as horrific as the decision to favor Obamacare over single-payer.

But don’t take my word for it. Just look in the very same CBO report that shows how bad AHCA is:

In 2026, an estimated 52 million people would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under current law.

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