Via NY Daily News: “George Clooney says he has more clout as a heartthrob-turned-activist than he’d ever have as an a politician. Clooney made the rounds on the Sunday talk shows after being arrested for protesting outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington last week. He is calling on the U.S. …
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Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen?
Via Jeremy Scahill of The Nation: “On February 2, 2011, President Obama called Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The two discussed counterterrorism cooperation and the battle against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. At the end of the call, according to a White House read-out, Obama “expressed concern” over the …
Read More »Kony 2012: Jason Russell Naked Meltdown
Via The Los Angeles Times: “Invisible Children filmmaker Jason Russell, who created the viral “Kony 2012″ video, is seen nude yelling and slapping the ground in a new video that emerged Sunday of his bizarre behavior last week…”.* Cenk Uygur, Misty Kingma and former prosecutor Steve Oh break down the …
Read More »Shocking Chart: The 99% Screwed
Via Think Progress: “In 2010, as the nation slowly ground its way from Great Recession to recovery, 93 percent of national income gains went to the richest 1 percent of Americans. As Reuters’s David Cay Johnston pointed out today, this makes the 2010 recovery quite different from the recovery that …
Read More »Trayvon Martin 911 Call
“Now that 911 recordings show how a white Florida man continued to follow a 17-year-old black boy even after police advised him not to — and captured the sound of the man killing the unarmed youth with a shot to the chest — Trayvon Martin’s family wants the FBI to …
Read More »War On Porn – Santorum Rips Obama
Via The Huffington Post: “Rick Santorum on Sunday defended his assertion that “the Obama Department of Justice seems to favor pornographers over children and families,” arguing on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the department’s insufficient prosecution of the industry proves his point…”.* The Young Turks host breaks down Santorum’s …
Read More »Progressive Waters Vs Bank-Friendly Maloney For FSC
Via Naked Capitalism: ” An effort is afoot to push aside the Democratic heir presumptive of the powerful House Financial Services leadership, Maxine Waters, and install the representative from the Upper East Side’s Silk Stocking district, Carolyn Maloney…”.* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur predicted the bank-friendly Maloney would be …
Read More »Jobs Bill = Great Depression 2.0?
The U.S. Senate is about to vote on the so-called JOBS bill which was passed with bipartisan support in the House. Will this Republican plan create jobs or ultimately result in another economic crash due to removal of various protections and safeguards put into place after the Great Depression? An …
Read More »Peyton Manning’s Impact in Denver
Mile High Report’s John Bena weighs in on Peyton Manning’s decision to sign with the Broncos, and discusses the changes that Denver will undergo with Manning running the offense. Subscribe to our channel for more sports videos! Click here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=sbnation Check us out on Facebook (Facebook.com/SBNation) and follow us on …
Read More »Why Women Moan During Sex
Why do women moan during sex? Are they faking an orgasm? What about men? Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur break down a new survey on these issues on The Young Turks. http://www.thefrisky.com/2012-03-12/loud-moaners-are-usually-big-fakers/#more-1968712 Subscribe to The Young Turks: http://bit.ly/eWuu5i The Largest Online New Show in the World. Google+: http://www.gplus.to/TheYoungTurks Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks …
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