Friday Nite Videos -- September 11, 2015

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Odetta: Long Ago, Far Away. How Many Trees Are There in the World? Mexican Donald Trump with George Lopez. New Human Species Discovered: Homo naledi. Bernie Sanders: Why 'Socialism' Isn't a Dirty Word.

How Many Trees Are There in the World?

The answer required 421,529 measurements from fifty countries on six continents. Now this data has been combined to produce a stunning new visualisation of our planet.

The answer required 421,529 measurements from fifty countries on six continents. Now this data has been combined to produce a stunning new visualisation of our planet.

New Human Species Discovered: Homo naledi

Homo naledi adds a new human relative that was primitive but shared physical characteristics with modern humans. The location of the fossil bones suggests that they were deliberately disposed of underground.

Fourteen Years Later, Improbable World

Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch
The 9/11 attacks and the thousands of innocents killed were an international crime of the first order. But 14 years later, no one in Washington has yet taken the slightest responsibility for blowing a hole through the Middle East, loosing mayhem across significant swathes of the planet, or helping release the forces that would create the first true terrorist state of modern history.

What the Trump Phenomenon Says About America

Adele M. Stan The American Prospect
To ask if the rogue Republican’s surge is good for Democrats is the wrong question. The most important question that should be asked about the Trump candidacy is: What is wrong with America that this racist, misogynist, money-cheating clown should be the frontrunner for the presidential nomination of one of its two major parties?

Look Back

Tanya Hyonhye Ko Cultural Weekly
Tanya (Hyonhye) Ko, a Korean-born Los Angeles poet, reveals the complications of immigration to the US from the point of view of a child, now an adult, who must sort out fiction from fact.

Anti-gay KY Clerk's Case a New Twist on 'Right to Work'

Kathy Wilkes Portside
There's a difference between 'right-to-work', which limits agreements between workers' unions and employers, and First Amendment restrictions on government in matters of religion, speech, expression, association and so on. For conservatives, though, rights are rolled up into one, giant "freedom" ball aimed at imposing individual beliefs at the expense of democracy right down to the duties of a job. Who then are the prisoners of conscience?