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Friday Nite Videos -- March 21, 2014
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The Myth of the American Dream. Turn! Turn! Turn! Big Bang Gravitational Waves Discovered. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The House Rent Boogie.
The Myth of the American Dream
Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz explains how income inequality killed the "American Dream" and he puts to death the notion that everyone has the same opportunity to achieve it.
Turn! Turn! Turn!
Pete Seeger created this complex song simply by adding a title, concluding line and music to verses from the biblical Book of Ecclesiates. Here is the the Byrd's (most popular) version.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
These two previews of John Oliver's upcoming (April 27) HBO program Last Week Tonight With John Oliver parody the GOP's recent ads intended to appeal to millenials.
The House Rent Boogie
John Lee Hooker's House Rent Boogie dates to the late 1950s, but it speaks to today's housing crisis.
Enough Recrimination. Let’s Build a Populist Movement.
OurFuture.org
Even under a progressive hero like FDR, we needed an independent left. Imagine how much more one is needed today.
The Truth About Venezuela: A Revolt of the Well-Off, Not a 'Terror Campaign'
The Guardian
John Kerry’s rhetoric is divorced from the reality on the ground, where life goes on – even at the barricades
The NCAA-Killing Lawsuit Might Finally Be Here
Deadspin
This lawsuit does not seek damages. It wants to tear down the NCAA.
Telescope Captures Peek at 'The Beginning of Everything'
Nature
Images of the infant Universe reveal evidence for rapid inflation after the Big Bang.
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