Mosaic
Mosaic's JournalRT, MSNBC and Progressive Ideas
RT puts people like Alex Jones, a rw lunatic, on their news, what a disgrace. The Alyona Show has libertarians on constantly, and she claims to be a liberal. They are obviously part of her target audience, a big disappointment. I exclude one person Thom Hartman, he is the sole consistent patriotic American progressive I have seen on RT. I thought RT was liberal and slightly socialist. I have not seen this, MSNBC is more liberal for sure, with O'Donnell not afraid to say he is a socialist with a small s, but he comes on late at night when I'm nearly asleep. MSNBC in the mornings is a whole different animal, with republican talking points and framing/spin coming from their obnoxious morning hosts. Why the weird political game on that network, and why is RT leaning ultraconservative? I don't know about Current, but I'm not too impressed with what I've seen. Progressives get small bones tossed on MSNBC, and it seems not much else, except Current but Cenk Uygur is the only one left there and he is a bit too business friendly for my taste. Some sad observations on the meager offerings we progressives get on television here in 2012. The internet, as it has been for years, is still the only major way for us to spread our message and change the nation effectively.
May Day - Noam Chomsky
People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning. For example, Ronald Reagan designated what he called "Law Day" -- a day of jingoist fanaticism, like an extra twist of the knife in the labor movement. Today, there is a renewed awareness, energized by the Occupy movement's organizing, around May Day, and its relevance for reform and perhaps eventual revolution.
If you're a serious revolutionary, then you are not looking for an autocratic revolution, but a popular one which will move towards freedom and democracy. That can take place only if a mass of the population is implementing it, carrying it out, and solving problems. They're not going to undertake that commitment, understandably, unless they have discovered for themselves that there are limits to reform.
A sensible revolutionary will try to push reform to the limits, for two good reasons. First, because the reforms can be valuable in themselves. People should have an eight-hour day rather than a twelve-hour day. And in general, we should want to act in accord with decent ethical values.
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/441-occupy/11190-may-day
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