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Did the Bible predict Christian nationalism's rise and fall? In this video, I dive deep into the Christian nationalist movement with @MonteMader and @JTisby.
23 min
Showing that only 14% of 400,000 people arrested by federal agents have violent criminal records, leaked figures from the Department of Homeland Security have not received the news coverage they deserve.
Robert Reich
We've talked about Jeffrey Epstein in the past, diving mostly into his Intelligence Connections, specifically those within Israeli Intelligence (Mossad). Today, we'll be diving into just about everything of note that has been released in the most recent batch of the Epstein...
88 min
Embark on an intellectual journey into the realm of Sufism. Explore the intricate history, philosophical underpinnings, and mystical practices that have shaped this fascinating tradition. Join me as we delve into the topic of Sufi mysticism, shedding light on its profound...
57 min
Children aren’t exempt from ICE’s violence. And for administration hardliners, that’s the point.
Jordan Liz
In this episode, we finally dive into one of my favorite topics - Sufi Music. We discuss its history, practical uses as well as theoretical, philosophical perspectives on the role and power of music to affect the human soul, all from the perspective of Muslim Sufi writers.
59 min
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9 min
The Epstein files - and the coverup - reveal all we need to know.
5 min
Walmart found a creative, illegal way to make sure they have the lowest prices.
12 min
The left has absorbed right-wing frameworks that undermine our efforts, often making our spaces inaccessible and unwelcoming to new people, writes Chris Crass. Liberation culture encourages us to become and be the leaders we needed, or wish we had, when we were new.
Chris Crass
Novara Media discusses a recent report in The Times regarding Jeffrey Epstein's potential connections to Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency. These reports are based on newly released FBI files, which include an informant's account of a briefing from 2020.
21 min
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are accusing the Justice Department of covering up the names of co-conspirators of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as fallout from the Epstein files grows across the globe. Millions of pages remain unreleased.
24 min
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14 min
A treatise and video essay on tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg and others Silicon Valley Tech guys.
94 min
One year into Donald Trump’s return to office, a wave of hardline actions - from volatile ICE raids to growing concern over political pressure on the media - has raised alarm about the expansion of the president’s power.
25 min
These overlooked offices control the budgets, databases, and cooperation that make the terror possible—or impossible.
Kelly Dietrich
The Trump administration claims that its assault on immigrants will protect American workers. But its masked, armed federal agents are creating hostile environments for all workers, not just immigrants.
Sarah Lazare
The United States is waging medieval economic war. Donald Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran is "designed to collapse its already buckling economy", boasted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Ben Norton explains how the US is trying to suffocate Iran, Venezuela, and...
27 min
"Noam’s overly trusting nature, in this specific case, led to severe poor judgment on both our parts... we express our unrestricted solidarity with the victims," Valéria Chomsky writes.
Aaron Maté
In the end, the question is not whether a single post is offensive—it is whether we allow cycles of warranted outrage to consume the very attention required for collective survival.
Peter Scaramuzzo
Zohran's plan for city-run grocery stores has drawn intense pushback from critics.
16 min
“We need to make sure that we have an ultimate response to that which, I believe, has to be a true national strike,” he said.
Brad Reed
If you want a more progressive Democratic Party, the California governor ain't it.
Norman Solomon
The core right-wing principle is a belief in hierarchy, not the limitation of state power.
9 min
History shows us that once a nation builds a mass detention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. Wake up, people.
Thom Hartmann
In Direct Action 101: Episode 9, we break down the basics of security culture—a set of essential practices that help activists, organizers, and communities stay safe while resisting state power. From COINTELPRO to Stop Cop City, this episode explores how governments surveil...
83 min
The internet has not democratized news in any meaningful way; instead, the media monopoly has simply migrated to digital spaces.
Caitlin Scialla
Double Down News investigates the evidence suggesting Jeffrey Epstein ran blackmail operations for Israeli intelligence, with deep ties to Donald Trump now being erased from public records. The investigation also traces Epstein's connections to former Israeli PM Ehud Barak...
11 min
Donald Trump's attacks on longtime US "allies" have forced Western leaders to admit their warmongering foreign policy was hypocritical. Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney said the truth in his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos: the "rules-based order" was "false"...
30 min
Concrete ways to resist when marching isn’t your role.
Jackie Summers
Nonviolent resistance movements are not only more likely to succeed than their violent counterparts — they also tend to achieve success more quickly.
Stockholm University Communications Office
How to stay alive when the fight arrives at your door.
Jackie Summers
The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario.
Manuel Casal Lodeiro
Minnesota shows what’s possible—here’s how we turn that spark into the kind of disruptive power that can actually stop ICE
Eric Blanc
With few exceptions, the Democratic Party apparatus is coasting, playing “it safe,” and expecting that the Trumpsters will deliver the Congress to it in November.
Ralph Nader
LJ discusses the "Incel to Alt-Right Pipeline," focusing on how online radicalization, particularly within the manosphere and incel movements, spills into real-world behavior and political influence. It highlights a controversial incident in January 2026 where far-right...
38 min
Michae Burns explores how American Christianity, particularly in its dominant evangelical form, has become deeply intertwined with capitalism, creating a "money cult" where economic success is seen as a sign of God's blessing. He argues that this fusion prioritizes the...
38 min
Nepal has emerged as the blueprint for Gen Z activism worldwide. While covering youth movements, AJ+’s Anna Kook noticed that from Madagascar to Indonesia, organizers are looking to Nepal for inspiration on how to use social platforms to challenge power and mobilize their...
8 min
A forgotten network of radicals helped teach King how to organize—and how to link civil rights to economic redistribution for all
Eric Blanc
Americans can learn from the anti-Nazi leaflet “10 Commandments for Danes” by denying ICE everything it needs to function.
Rivera Sun
Values keep movements honest, while a material approach gets results, and there’s a time and place for both.
Mehran Khalili
As Minneapolis leads a heroic fightback against ICE, our national unions must follow their example by organizing toward a general strike.
Mike Pappas, Daniel Nath
What would it take for you to call this a crisis?In Minnesota, federal agents have killed civilians - and outside the United States, much of the world’s media is calling it what it is: state violence against citizens.But inside America, it’s being softened. Downplayed...
17 min
Not only is the president's policy cruel and inhumane, it’s also not what the American people, including the white working-class, want.
Les Leopold
Despite the specious swapping out of fascist ICE leaders seeking to quell public fury, the gutted, steadfast denizens of Minneapolis continue to show up in frigid weather to demand "ICE Out" and "Stop Killing Us." Honoring their righteous struggle, Friday sees the city...
Abby Zimet
“You Said You Wanted a Fight” is built around a simple idea: one of the most effective tools of power is making people forget how often collective struggle and solidarity have already worked.
4 min
This happens when times start getting tough. People hunt for solutions. People hunt for blame. Inevitably someone takes advantage of our vulnerability and sells us poison as the cure, sells us the idea that if we drink the poison, our enemies will suffer. It has happened...
48 min
Reel by Black Power Manifestation /A.A.N/ Bpppgh with Eric Garland
8 min
Power anywhere where there’s people. Power anywhere where there’s people. Let me give you an example of teaching people. Basically, the way they learn is observation and participation. You know a lot of us go around and joke ourselves and believe that the masses have PhD’s...
Fred Hampton
The first battle is the battle of the spirit.
Tim Hjersted
This call is very much in the history of how general strikes have emerged in this country since the mid 19th century.
Eugene Puryear
Dear American Citizens,
Grans-United
The money fueling ICE’s abuses comes directly out of the pockets of working Americans who are already struggling.
Sonali Kolhatkar
Today we explore the phenomena of "Vice signalling" & performative cruelty, how it arouse as a reactionary rejection of "Woke-washing" - and what we can do stop it
40 min
This letter is a result of a joint effort between myself and the "Grans United", a working group within the "Omas Gegen Rechts" (Grannies Against the Far Right) movement.
8 min
Trump’s Board of Peace serves as a multidimensional attempt to maintain international dominance in the face of China’s rise — but is there anything "new" about Trump's colonialism?
48 min
The Donald Trump administration is waging a war against all multilateral institutions and international law itself. He withdrew the US from most global organizations and created a "Board of Peace" as an alternative to the UN that is entirely controlled by the USA. Ben Norton...
20 min
Today, free markets are championed as the foundation of capitalism, while socialists argue that free markets cause growing inequality and exploitation of the working classes, and thus need to be constrained by the state, or else abolished entirely.
29 min
“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez.
Sharon Zhang
Firearms may feel like instruments of resistance, but they do not create the collective capacity required to confront either state or corporate power. Organized labor—strikes, boycotts, mass noncompliance, & withdrawal of labor—by contrast, operates at the level Friedrich...
Rachel Hoopsick
The problem wasn't the method of resistance. It was the near-total absence of sustained, mass-scale resistance of any kind.
Tim Hjersted
Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.
Sarah van Gelder
A study published in the Lancet Planetary Health highlights how humanity's continued reliance on plastics—which are primarily derived from planet-heating fossil fuels—is expected to harm global health over the next couple of decades.
Jessica Corbett
"How many more people have to die, how many more lies have to be told, and how many more children must be used as bait and abducted?"
Jake Johnson
Robin Williams talks about depression and the addiction to substances that ruined his life. Robin opens up about mental health struggles and how alcohol made him go to rehab. Talking to many interviewers Robin Williams expresses his comedy to get him through sadness.
9 min
F.D Signifier discusses the "masculine urge to join a fascist death squad" by exploring the complex relationship men are socialized to have with violence in American society. Signifier, a gun owner who has used a firearm in self-defense, shares his personal experience of...
14 min
This is me thinking out loud, carefully and practically, about how real political change actually happens — based on history, organising in Brixton since I was imprisoned, and a lot of experience inside movements that worked… and some that didn’t.
186 min
Far from a peaceful tool, these measures weaponise hunger and deprivation to enforce Western dominance.
Jason Hickel, Dylan Sullivan, Omer Tayyab
When we let algorithms and politicians decide what's true, the internet isn't the biggest casualty.... our humanity is.
405 min
ICE executed Alex Pretti on the street, in cold blood.
13 min
From televangelism to Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and today’s internet trolls, this video essay unpacks how alt-right media and the internet age have monetized fascism—often in more ways than one. And what does it mean when edgelords are in office, and Trump fascism means that...
33 min
LJ explores how Christian identity in the United States has been weaponized for political power, racism, and social hierarchy. He clarifies that the video is not an attack on Christianity itself but rather on a specific political ideology that uses Christian symbols and...
33 min
Here are 5 calls to action you can take now to help protect our neighbors.
Qasim Rashid
The mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that can bring them down — strikes.
Chris Hedges
The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all. Trump is no exception.
Chris Hedges
The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province.
Chris Hedges
In moments like this, fear pushes people toward anger, and anger pushes nations toward mistakes they can’t undo.
15 min
We need to examine nonviolent resistance critically. But dismissing it based on misconceptions about how it functions, or romanticizing armed struggle while ignoring its failures, leaves movements unprepared for the work ahead.
Tim Hjersted
The history of social strikes demonstrate that, no matter what tyrants may do, ultimately the people have the means to defeat them.
Jeremy Brecher, Alex Caputo-Pearl & Jackson Potter
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under siege, and dissent is increasingly met with repression in the streets. In this moment, questions of power —...
6 min
Ryan Grim, Meghnad Bose, and Rana Roudi discuss the killing of Alex Pretti. The Drop Site team analyzes the available footage and examines the implications of what it shows.
18 min
If nonviolence required tyrants to grow a heart, we'd be finished, because violence is exactly what they're begging for. History shows we beat them by withdrawing pillars of support until they're forced to concede.
Tim Hjersted
Heater Cox Richardson discusses the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis, providing a detailed account of the incident and its broader implications for American democracy. Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, was shot and killed by what appear to be Customs and...
37 min
This video discusses how to approach life's inevitable difficulties through the lens of Stoicism, emphasizing that pain and suffering are unavoidable and have always been a part of the human experience. Focusing on what is within one's control is crucial for navigating...
16 min
So-called "peace president" Donald Trump has bombed 10 countries, more than any other US leader. He attacked 7 countries in 2025 alone. Now he wants to raise the USA's military budget to $1.5 trillion. Ben Norton explains how the self-declared "peacemaker" is waging war...
19 min
Trump's domestic army continues its rampage. We must fight back.
Robert Reich
We uploaded everything. Now AI is remixing it all.
11 min
Jordan Peterson was once one of the most influential public intellectuals in the world. Millions turned to him for guidance in an increasingly chaotic cultural moment. But over time, something shifted in his message, and in how that message was received. The climate of the...
56 min
Ryan Holiday shares his strategies for effective reading, emphasizing quality over quantity and deep engagement with texts. He reads hundreds of books annually while managing multiple businesses, writing, and being a father, without using speed-reading or summaries (0:00-0:22).
17 min
Michigan is taking on Big Oil in a groundbreaking lawsuit, accusing companies of operating as a "cartel" to impede the transition to clean power and transportation.
Jessica Corbett
Never in American history have we had a police force that routinely conceals agents’ names and identities – until now. We dug into government documents, court filings, and hundreds of on-the-ground videos to understand not only why ICE wears masks, but the deeper agenda...
43 min
Federal agent in Maine labels legal observer a "domestic terrorist" for recording, sparking outrage.
Brad Reed
DHS is instructing ICE cops to break down doors without obtaining a warrant, a blatant violation of the 4th Amendment
19 min
Trump thought Minnesotans would be pushovers and great “performance fodder” as televised victims of his version of macho violence. He was wrong.
Mary Papenfuss
Norm Finkelstein discusses the dire situation in Gaza, highlighting the seizure of territory by Israel, the blocking of reconstruction aid, and the severe lack of humanitarian aid, clean water, and medical facilities.
13 min
Refusal to join will be an act of national self-respect. The UN-based international order, however flawed, should be repaired through law and cooperation, not replaced by a gilded caricature.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
In days like these, information is hazardous.
John Pavlovitz
Martin Luther King Jr. was more than a civil rights leader. He was a Christian witness who understood the true cost of following Christ in a world ruled by injustice, violence, and corrupt power.
24 min
The conversation about masculinity has long been poisoned by those who mistake dominance for strength and conquest for achievement. This corruption is not new—it is the logic of tyrants and slavemasters that men of conscience have resisted throughout history.
Tim Hjersted
Progressives vote for Democrats because they make better opponents, are less opposed to our goals, and do less harm than Republicans, but we also see that they are beholden to corporate and imperial power just like Republicans and both parties must ultimately be confronted.
Tim Hjersted