Category: Politics
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News Anchor Brilliantly Loses It Over Congress, Deficit
Dylan Ratigan’s rant from 2011 holds brilliantly true, two years later as we still face a bought Congress and corrupt financial systems. Watch below or read the transcript. Transcript: Dylan: We’ve got a real problem…this is a mathematical fact. Tens…
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50 Years Later: Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
On of the most iconic speeches in American history, given 50 years ago today, August 28, 2013.
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Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure
As Ramadan begins, more than 100 hunger-strikers in Guantánamo Bay continue their protest. More than 40 of them are being force-fed. A leaked document sets out the military instructions, or standard operating procedure, for force-feeding detainees. In this four-minute film…
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(Video): 2013 White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Barack Obama & Conan O’Brien joke at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
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Venezuelan protestors clash with police
After Hugo Chavez’s hand picked replacement won the general election, protestors have shown their displeasure of the outcome.
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Pentagon War Game: U.S. vs. North Korea
: CNN gets an inside look on “what if” a North Korea-like regime crumbled and the U.S. was to invade such a country.
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TED Talk: Lawrence Lessig: Re-examining the remix
Former “young Republican” Larry Lessig talks about what Democrats can learn about copyright from their opposite party, considered more conservative. A surprising lens on remix culture.
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Video: Why Washington is corrupt
“We The People, and the Republic we must reclaim” There is a corruption at the heart of American politics, caused by the dependence of Congressional candidates on funding from the tiniest percentage of citizens. That’s the argument at the core…
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Video: 7 Minutes of Gun Control Smackdown
Virtual President Bill Whittle makes the case for the Second Amendment, by presenting the factual, moral and historical case against gun control. Download the transcript of the speech.
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