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[Milos Uzelac]

Empire Files is also a good source for critical stage green politics and an overview of the hidden negative aspects of American politics and history and some other contemporary developed countries that the U.S. has a relationship with. It comes with its slight Marxist biases here and there of being not too critical of previous 20th-century socialist, anarchists and self-proclaimed 'communist' movements and projects but overall it in the episodes I have seen it mostly hosts highly conscious individuals green to even some yellow individuals (the sociologist Peter Philips and Naom Chomsky come to mind) and other great thinkers. With its interviews, documentaries, and heroic reporting from Abby Martin you'll likely get if consumed consciously and correctly with parallelly reading some literature (which I admit haven't done and binged on it sometimes) a solid basis for systematic political thinking and education and also a lot of new information. 

Chris Hedges is also an excellent Marxist and anarchistic systemic thinker and also a badass and heroic truth to power journalist, the only complaint I have is maybe sometimes his overly pessimistic outlook on the current world and world history but one which is regardless backed up by facts, knowledge, logic and deep empathy and real-world experiences (I am slightly positively ethnocentrically biased towards him I will admit since he did excellent reporting about the wars in the former Yugoslavia at the start of his career and since I currently live in one of the former republics, Serbia, I got overdrawn to his comparative analysis of the collapse of Yugoslavia and the trends which may cause something similar to that in the current U.S., though I think this hypothesis must be taken with a slight grain of salt and skepticism and I am also positively biased towards his personality and his rich intellectual rhetorical style of interacting and giving talks to other people) his show on RT On Contact also features great thinkers, important current world issues and topics and intellectuals, journalists with also here and their slight stage green Marxist biases.

 

[Bno]

Chris Hedges is really good and he spoke truth about the Iraq War before it was popular and he got fired for it.

It's important to separate the stage yellow analytical progressives and the healthy green progressives who show the least amount of partisanship blindness from the unhealthy green progressives (and sometimes stage orange pretending to be progressives) whose emotional reactions without well thought out analysis leads to them working against the best interest of the progressive movement.

Stage yellow/healthy green:

Kyle Kulinski (Secular Talk)

Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show)

Niko House (MCSC Network)

Fiorella Isabel (MCSC Network)

Craig Pasta Jardula (MCSC Network)

Ron Placone

Graham Elwood 

Lee Camp (Redacted Tonight)

Primo Nutmeg

Max Blumenthal (The Grayzone)

Aaron Mate (The Grayzone)

Ben Norton (The Grayzone)

Anya Parampil (The Grayzone)

Kim Iversen

Jamarl Thomas

Krystal Ball (The Hill's Rising)

Sagaar Enjeti (The Hill's Rising)

Matt Taibi (Rollingstone's Useful Idiots)

Katie Halper (Rollingstone's Useful Idiots)

Glenn Greenwald (The Intercept)

Chris Hedges

Michael Tracy

The main hosts at Hard Lens Media

 

Unhealthy Stage Green/Orange:

Everyone still in TYT

Mike Figeuredo (The Humanist Report)

Sam Sedar (The Majority Report)

Michael Brooks (The Michael Brooks Show)

Tim Black 

David Packman

Amy Goodman (Democracy Now)

David Doel (Rational National)

Everyone at Vox; very neoliberal