Tag Archives: election 2016

The Revolution Televised Episode 2: March on the DNC (Video)

Capturing the birth of the political revolution that arose from the ashes of democracy, in the wake of the controversy surrounding the 2016 Democratic Primary.   To learn more about Rise Up Times and support Media for the People! with a donation click here. No Peace! No Justice!  Please share this post. WRITE BRAIN STUDIO Write Brain […]

The Revolution Televised: Episode 1 – Awakening of a Generation (Video)

Capturing the birth of the political revolution that arose from the ashes of democracy, in the wake of the controversy surrounding the 2016 Democratic Primary. Featuring Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, Tim Black, Dr. Cornell West, and many more in episodes to follow. Write Brain Studio’s The Revolution Televised; Narrated by Viggo Mortensen Episode 1: Awakening […]

Evergreene Digest | Urgent to Progressives: Stop Fueling the Anti-Russia Frenzy

Progressives who treat anti-Russia propaganda spin as fact, in order to weaken Trump, are encouraging a kind of McCarthyism. Of all the good reasons to “delegitimate” Trump, alleged Kremlin intervention in the election should rank low. Focus should instead be on his greed, pathological lying, enthusiasm for oligarchy, bigotry, environmental destruction, racism, misogyny, economic injustice, […]

Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media

Marshall McLuhan: “World War III will be a guerrilla information war,” it says. “With no divisions between military and civilian participation.”

Diana Johnstone | France: Another Ghastly Presidential Election Campaign; the Deep State Rises to the Surface

Manufacturing Consent

Jeremy Scahill | Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story

Hersh denounced news organizations as “crazy town” for their uncritical promotion…

DN! Glenn Greenwald: On U.S. Media, Fake News, DNC Emails, WikiLeaks and Russia

“WashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News About Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived.”

DN! Special: Bernie Sanders Interviewed by Amy Goodman (Video)

In a Democracy Now! special, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders sat down with Amy Goodman at the Free Library of Philadelphia …

Greg Palast | The Republican Sabotage of the Vote Recounts in Michigan and Wisconsin

How did Detroit end up with the crap machines?

Noam Chomsky | Those Who Failed to Recognize Trump as the Greater Evil Made ‘a Bad Mistake’

“I didn’t like Clinton at all, but her positions are much better than Trump’s on every issue I can think of…”

Nick Turse | It Did Happen Here. Rebirth of a Nation?

The high-water mark of the American experiment may well have already been reached.

Greg Palast | Here’s what we do now – a personal note

No way around it, this is one frightening moment. Decades of progress created with sweat and determination face destruction.

Glen Ford | None of Them Have Ever Been My President

The Black movement against police terror didn’t need a Donald Trump waiting in the vestibule of the White House to get “mad.”

Trump in the White House: An Interview With Noam Chomsky

The “change” that Trump is likely to bring will be harmful or worse…

Henry A. Giroux | The Authoritarian Politics of Resentment in Trump’s America

The incivility machine Trump resurrected as tool of resistance against establishment politicians played a major role in gaining him the presidency.

Reckoning with a Trump Presidency and the Elite Democrats Who Helped Deliver It

The popular vote showed there’s large support in this country for a politics of tolerance, of progressivism, around culture issues, around gender and race.

Donald Trump Will Be President. This is What We Do Next.

The people who run America have constructed a political system that’s like a glitchy killer robot, one even they can’t control anymore.

Chris Hedges | Trump Will Crush Dissent With Even Greater Violence and Savagery (Video)

The tools of state repression that will end up in the hands of a Trump administration were built by both Republicans and Democrats

Salon| “We are in a revolutionary moment”: Chris Hedges explains why an uprising is coming — and soon

Originally posted on Rise Up Times:
The status quo is doomed but whether the future will be progressive or reactionary is uncertain, Hedges tells Salon. Salon.com  June 4, 2015 Chris Hedges (Credit: Nation Books) In recent years, there’s been a small genre of left-of-center journalism that, following President Obama’s lead, endeavors to prove that things on…

DN! Stories and analyses about the election of Donald Trump

Why did Trump win?