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Is breathtaking Iran your next Tourist Destination?

By Frud Bezhan | ( RFE/RL) | - - Stunning landscapes, famous hospitality, and numerous World Heritage sites. Iran’s potential as a holiday destination is vast, but foreign tourists have largely avoided…

Ariana Grande One Love Manchester Benefit: Response to Terror

Ariana Grande One Love Concert | Manchester | (Video Clip) | - - Ariana Grande returned to Manchester with some special guests to remember the victims of the attack which took place…

Hassan Minhaj was told not to Roast Trump, But did Anyway (WH Correspondents)

Hassan Minhaj | (White House Correspondents Dinner) | (Video Clip) | - - "Daily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj took full advantage of Donald Trump's absence by taking aim at the president and…

Video of Day: Kitten tempted by Iran New Year Goldfish

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | (Video Clip) | - - March 21 was the Persian New Year (Now Ruz), marking also the first day of spring (the vernal equinox). In…

N. Korea Interview interrupted by Unbearable Cuteness

BBC | (Video News Clip) | - - "There was an unexpected distraction for Professor Robert Kelly when he was being interviewed live on BBC News about South Korea. But he managed…

SNL Spicey on ‘Extreme Vetting’: The Blondes Get In

NBC | Saturday Night Live Cold Open Skit | - - "Sean Spicer (Melissa McCarthy) and Jeff Sessions (Kate McKinnon) take questions from the press (Bobby Moynihan, Mikey Day, Vanessa Bayer, Sasheer…

The Superbowl of American Values: Kaepernick and the Touchdown of Dissent

By Robert Lipsyte | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - The Super Bowl is superfluous this year. Who needs a reality show about violence, domination, and sexism, not to mention brain damage, now that…

The Dutch to Trump: We have the Second best Words

VPRO zondag met lubach | (Video Satire> | - - "The whole world was watching for the inauguration of the 45th president of the United States: Donald J. Trump. Because we realize…

Trump and the Pee-Pee Party: Alec Baldwin at SNL

NBC's Saturday Night Live | (Video Skit) | - - "President-elect Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) holds his first press conference since getting elected." Donald Trump Press Conference Cold Open - SNL

Meryl Streep calls out Trump: Having Bully-in-Chief Coarsens whole Culture

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Occasionally entertainment and politics intersect, often hitting a false note. You never want your screenplay to be, as they say in Hollywood, "on…

6 Reasons Feminist Carrie Fisher Was Ahead of Her Time

TeleSur | - - While all Star Wars (male) fans only remember Carrie Fisher in her sex-slave golden bikini, the late actress had a feminist conception of her role way ahead of…

SNL Cold Open: Trump as Manchurian Candidate

NBC's Saturday Night Live | (Satiric Video Clip) "President-elect Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) receives a surprise visit from Vladimir Putin (Beck Bennett) and Rex Tillerson (John Goodman)." SNL "Donald Trump Christmas Cold…

Hasan Minhaj on New Brown America and His Superpowers

Hari Kondabolu and W. Kamau Bell interview Daily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj on their podcast Politically Re-Active. The interview begins at 31:49:

Hillary Clinton Roasts Donald Trump At 2016 Al Smith Dinner

Fox 10 Phoenix | (Video) | - - "Hillary Clinton isn't holding back against Donald Trump at the annual Al Smith dinner in New York. Clinton joked that if Trump didn't like…

President Trump’s Extreme Vetting of Immigrants (Satire Skit)

Maz Jobrani | (Video skit) | - - "Donald Trump has said that if he wins he will do EXTREME VETTING of all immigrants. He hasn't said how that would work, but…

Sarah Silverman to Bernie or Bust folks at DNC 2016: You are being ridiculous

NJ.com | (News Video Clip) | - - "Comedian and Bernie Sanders supporter Sarah Silverman took the stage along side of Al Franken to tell the crowd to unite and support Hillary…

GOP Convention Roundup: Jon Stewart Resurfaces on Colbert’s Late Show

Jon Stewart/ Stephen Colbert | (The Late Show video Clip) | - - "Some stories, like the ouster of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, are too big for one late night host…

Erdogan loses appeal against German media re: Comedian who Satirized him

By EurActiv.com with AFP Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan lost a German court battle against a top media boss when his appeal in a bitter row over free speech was thrown out.…

Tired of living in fear of the Muslims next door? Easy Breathalyzer Fix (Bassem Youssef Satire)

Dr. Bassem Youssef | (Fusion Comedy Satire Video) | - - "Tired of living in fear of the Muslims next door? Bassem Youssef has a solution! SUBSCRIBE for more Democracy Handbook (Bassem's…