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Russell Brand on Revolution, Fighting Inequality, Addiction, Militarized Policing & Noam Chomsky [a bit too much for Amy Goodman :-)  Hats off to you, Russell] snippet: But in recent years, Russell Brand has emerged as one of the most prominent voices of the British left. He has taken part in anti-austerity protests, spoken at Occupy Wall Street and marched with the hacker collective Anonymous. A recovering addict himself, Russell Brand has also become a leading critic of Britain’s drug laws. Last year, he guest-edited the New Statesman, a political and current affairs magazine here in Britain. The issue included cover art by Shepard Fairey and articles by Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, among many others. He then appeared on BBC Newsnight in an interview with the well-known BBC host Jeremy Paxman. The video became a YouTube sensation. JEREMY PAXMAN: Is it true you don’t even vote? RUSSELL BRAND: Yeah, no, I don’t vote. JEREMY PAXMAN: Well, how do you have any authority to talk about politics then? RUSSELL BRAND: Well, I don’t get my authority from this pre-existing paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity. Alternative means alternative political systems. ... [it gets better and better]