Wes Clark Jr. of The Young Turks interviews environmental activists and filmmakers Josh Fox and Deia Schlosberg. Josh’s Oscar-nominated documentary Gasland brought the dangers of fracking to a worldwide audience while Deia has been all over the news lately after she was arrested while filming an anti-fracking #NoDAPL protest in North Dakota. The two of them collaborated on the …
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Can Dave Spencer Save The Republican Party From Itself? (Interview w/ Cenk Uygur)
Dave Spencer is a “Rockefeller Republican” in two senses: first, in that he believes the GOP should be more open to compromise, evidence-based and reasonable and second, because his great-great-grandfather was actually John D. Rockefeller.
Ex-BPD Cop Joe Crystal Blew The Whistle On Corrupt Police & Paid The Price (Interview w/ Cenk Uygur)
On October 27, 2011, Baltimore police officer Joe Crystal witnessed two fellow cops beating up a drug suspect after the suspect, fleeing from the officers, kicked in the door of a home belonging to another officer’s girlfriend. Faced with the difficult decision of whether to turn in his fellow officers, Crystal felt he had to do the right thing, and reported the officers’ actions to the State’s Attorney’s Office.
Can Lawrence Lessig Win The Presidency AND Get Money Out Of Politics? (Interview w/ Cenk Uygur)
Harvard Law Professor and longtime political activist Lawrence Lessig wants to win the presidency of the United States to accomplish one critical objective: ending the corrupting influence of money on politics. With that done, he says he’ll step down and let someone else take over the Oval Office. It’s a radical notion, the single-issue presidential candidacy, but as he points out, only a radical solution can wrest back control of our democracy from the monied interests who have steadily come to dominate American political life.
Ex-Cop Joe Crystal Blew The Whistle On Corrupt Police & Paid The Price (Interview w/ Cenk Uygur)
On October 27, 2011, Baltimore police officer Joe Crystal witnessed two fellow cops beating up a drug suspect after the suspect, fleeing from the officers, kicked in the door of a home belonging to another officer’s girlfriend. Faced with the difficult decision of whether to turn in his fellow officers, Crystal felt he had to do the right thing, and reported the officers’ actions to the State’s Attorney’s Office.
Satirist Barry Crimmins Dishes On Political Comedy, Reagan & Pope Francis (Interview w/ Jimmy Dore)
For decades Barry Crimmins has been one of the nation’s most potent social and political satirists. Now his work is being exposed to a wider audience thanks to a new documentary about his life titled “Call Me Lucky,” directed by fellow comic and admirer Bobcat Goldthwait.