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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Mar 21, 2020
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to author and associate professor, Erik Nielson, about the criminalization of Rap.
Chris Hedges: The Criminalization of Rap
Music
David Byrne: Once in a Lifetime + Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense (1984)
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Sometimes you just have to dance!
Saturday Night Live on Feb 29, 2020
Musical guest David Byrne performs his Talking Heads hit “Once In a Lifetime” on Saturday Night Live.
Drew Dellinger: It’s 3:23 in the Morning
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Dandelion Salad
Originally posted Sept. 24, 2009
Planetize the Movement
Drew Dellinger on Sept. 18, 2009
it’s 3:23 in the morning
and I’m awake
Continue reading
Zombie Zombie Zombie by David Swanson (#NoWar2019)
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
September 10, 2019
CNN is outraged that Trump was too friendly with Russians, supposedly endangering an honorable spy snooping into the Russian government.
The Dead Letter Office of Capitalist Imperium: a Poverty of Mundus Imaginalis by Phil Rockstroh and Kenn Orphan
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by Phil Rockstroh and Kenn Orphan
Writer, Dandelion Salad
August 23, 2019
PR: What has been of greater service to humanity, the dark vision of humanity, limned in satire, by Jonathan Swift or the positivity-rancid homilies of corporate church of self-actualization? What is more propitious to the psyche, a descent into the underworld by Orphic imagination or the Icarusian dazzle on Instagram or the narcissistic intoxication induced by gazing upon one’s image reproduced by a thousand retweets on Twitter?
Chris Hedges and Lowkey: The Wreckage of Imperialism and Neoliberalism
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Jul 27, 2019
In this week’s On Contact program, Chris Hedges talks to the rapper, Lowkey, about his artistic work and political activism.
Bruce Cockburn: Rumours of Glory, Parts 1-9
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If I Had a Rocket Launcher: RAI with Bruce Cockburn (1/9)
TheRealNews on May 28, 2019
Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn speaks with host Paul Jay about his memoir Rumours of Glory, and how growing up in Cold War-era Canada affected his understanding of community.
Keith Green: Easter Song + The Visual Bible: Matthew
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Happy Easter!
previously posted March 23, 2008
wiredfortravel on Mar 22, 2008
Hallelujah, Jesus is alive! Produced for our Easter Service, 2008, to be a celebration of Jesus’ resurrection. Continue reading
Christmas 1914: When Rank and File Imposed Truce During Imperialist War by Henry Hagins + Balls To War
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by Henry Hagins
Workers World, Dec. 16, 2014
Originally published Dec. 24, 2015
December 23, 2018
The “Christmas Truce of 1914” was a short-lived, unofficial lull in combat between two antagonistic rival forces, determined to exercise military, political and economic supremacy over each other in Europe and in the colonized world, to which these imperial powers lay arrogant false claim. One of the bloodiest episodes in human history, World War I was largely played out on the battle-scarred lands of France and Belgium, starting in August of 1914.
They Went to Jail for Justice by David Swanson
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy, July 9, 2018
December 12, 2018
C.J. Hinke has produced probably the best collection I’ve read of writings by and about conscientious objectors and war refusers behind bars. It’s called Free Radicals: War Resisters in Prison.
A Christmas Journey to Freedom
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Originally posted Dec. 23, 2009
A Christmas journey unlike any you have ever taken before—the first in a series of special holiday presentations with soloist Wintley Phipps, author and professor Dr. Allen Callahan, and actress Gwendolyn Briley-Strand as Harriet Tubman in the dramatic presentation, A Christmas Journey to Freedom.
Remembrance Day: Why I’ll Wear a Dandelion Instead of a Red Poppy + A New Armistice Day by David Swanson
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previously posted on Nov. 10, 2017 and May 30, 2016
Stop the War Coalition on May 24, 2016
“Dandelions” written and sung by Steve O’Donoghue
None of Us are Free if One of Us is Chained by Paul Street
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by Paul Street
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Official Website of Paul Street
July 2, 2018
The road to total tyranny is littered with tests — moments when those atop reigning oppression structures learn how far they can push the boundaries of decency without sparking potent people’s resistance. One such moment was when the demented jackass and imperialist butcher George W. Bush marched down a red carpet to screw up his evil, moronic face to announce the U.S. invasion of Iraq on openly false pretexts including the shamelessly idiotic claim that Saddam Hussein’s government had been involved in the September 11, 2001 jetliner attacks and the equally bogus charge that Iraq possessed a threatening stockpile of “weapons of mass destruction.” The president and his team of Orwellian Neocon war pigs faced two days of mass protest across the country and around the world. Still, they were not deterred from launching a brazenly criminal invasion and occupation that would kill more than a million Iraqis, displace millions more, and devastate Iraq almost beyond recognition.
Capitalism Careens in the Direction of Fascism by Paul Street
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by Paul Street
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Official Website of Paul Street
March 26, 2018
World peace is none of your business
You must not tamper with arrangements
Work hard and simply pay your taxes
Never asking what for
Oh, you poor little fool
Oh, you fool
What Was Verifiably Great About America: Fragments of a Memoir Set to a Musical Soundtrack by Phil Rockstroh
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by Phil Rockstroh
Writer, Dandelion Salad
December 16, 2017
Having been born in a coal and steel company town but destiny delivered, as an adult, to reside, during extended intervals, in the East and West Coast cities of Los Angeles and New York City, and, at present, the continent of Europe, I have come to conclude, people born into situations providing economic advantage, both liberals and conservatives alike, experience difficulty, more often than not, envisaging the lives of those born into a labouring class existence. Worse, a wilful obtuseness, in combination with a supercilious posture is, all too often, evinced, by reflex, towards those scorned as “hillbillies,” “trailer trash,” and “genetic retreads.”
