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Capitalist Realism, Mental Illness and Societies of Control
Capitalist realism is the ambient all pervasive atmosphere where it's just sort of implied that capitalism is all there is. It conditions how we view the world, how we work, our social relations, even our thoughts and behaviors. When it comes to mental health, capitalist...
Nicholas Christakis - Our Common Humanity
“These wonderful qualities that bind us together, that reflect our common humanity are unbelievably unbelievable and wonderful to see. And so this is one of the reasons I'm optimistic.” Nicholas Christakis
Jane Goodall - Pandemic
“It is our disregard for nature and our disrespect of the animals we should share the planet with that has caused this pandemic.” Jane Goodall
The Problem With Hyper-Individualism
The "hyper-individualist" mindset runs rampant in capitalist nations, especially the US, where it's praised as "hard work" and "common sense." In this episode, Second Thought takes a look at why the individualist mindset is counterproductive and an utterly absurd way to view...
Vampires, They Exist?!
Vampires reveal their existence to human beings. The media reacts. In the first half, this film examines the reaction of two media outlets as well as the reaction of several college students, captured by a film student conducting man on the street interviews. In the second...
America Compared: Why Other Countries Treat Their People So Much Better
We're taught to believe that America is the greatest country on earth and that it couldn't possibly get any better. Let's put that claim to the test. In this episode, we'll compare the US to other wealthy nations using several key metrics: "low-skilled" job compensation...
How Britain Could Become a Failed State | George Monbiot
Don't think it could happen? Think again... Full 24min Interview. 
The Man Who Exposed Amazon
The Gravel Institute is launching a new series to supplement our explainer videos: mini-documentaries on the struggles of workers in our stagnating, highly unequal economy. This video focuses on Chris Smalls, an Amazon warehouse employee who exposed their deeply unsafe...
The Free Market Isn't Free | The GameStop Saga Explained
By popular demand, here's Second Thought's take on the GameStop/Reddit/Robinhood stock market debacle. In this episode, we take a look at the strange and deeply funny spectacle of a bunch of normal people tanking a hedge fund, but more importantly, we analyze what the...
Changing the World is SIMPOL
Ever wondered why governments aren't acting fast enough on climate and other global problems? Ever wondered what you can do? Sign on to the SIMPOL campaign at:
Freedom of Information Under Attack From Secret Government Unit | Mary Fitzgerald
It’s literally a matter of life and death… Protect Freedom of Information, Sign the Petition. 
The Great Reset - Conspiracy or Fact?
Everyone's talking about the Great Reset - the economic proposal unveiled by Prince Charles and the WEF last year - but how significant is it, and how likely are the conspiracy theories that claim it will be used to bring in a New World Order?
Hypocrisy of the Free Speech Warriors | Ronan Burtenshaw
Here's what the free speech warriors never talk about...
The Tiny House Fire Truck That Runs on Waste Vegetable Oil!
Today Happen Films is taking a tour of this incredible tiny house truck that runs on waste vegetable oil! BEV, the biosphere emergency vehicle, is the mobile home for artists Brenna Quinlan and Charlie Mgee when they're on the road traveling in Australia. The house features a...
America's Prescription Drug Cartel
The United States has the most expensive prescription drugs in the world. We often pay ten times the price for the same drug, even though there's no difference at all. Why is American healthcare so expensive? In this episode, we take a brief look at America's prescription...
How Socialists Solved The Housing Crisis
American housing is in crisis. With more luxury housing being built every day while huge numbers of people are stuck with substandard homes or none at all, the U.S. model for housing has proven to be a catastrophe. Zohran Mamdani, New York State assemblyman, talks about how...
J.K. Rowling | ContraPoints
Contrapoints tackles the J.K. Rowling controversy. Clocking in at 90 minutes, it's essentially a feature documentary.
The Minimum Wage Debate Explained
Since the minimum wage is in the news again, I figured it would be a good time to address some things that are never brought up. In this episode we take a look at the minimum wage and why some people are against it being raised, but more importantly, we examine what the whole...
If The Government Can Get Away With 100,000 Covid Deaths, It Can Get Away With Anything | Peter Jukes
“What's been the cost of the pandemic lies? Well, at least 100,000 dead. And yet this government remains at 40 percent in the polls”
Dreaming the Future | Kenny Ausubel
This video is part of a series called "Seeding the Field: 30 Years of Transformative Solutions," which celebrates some of the best moments of the Bioneers conference through the last 30 years. Founders Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons, who organized these brilliant lectures...
The Media Created a Monster. Now They Want to Wash Their Hands | George Monbiot
"How did this reality TV star Donald Trump become President of the United States?"
Jan. 6 Was An Inside Job
Abby Martin and Mike Prysner bring you up to date about the DC Capital attack with shocking new details about the seriousness of the operation, the depths of the inside job, and who from the government may land in prison for it (including Trump). Brian Becker, host of The...
How Childhood Trauma Leads to Addiction | Gabor Maté
Gabor Maté CM (born January 6, 1944) is a Hungarian-born Canadian physician. He has a background in family practice and a special interest in childhood development and trauma, and in their potential lifelong impacts on physical and mental health, including on autoimmune...
Does Capitalism Mean Freedom? | Zephyr Teachout
According to the standard account, capitalism—whatever your criticisms of it—is synonymous with freedom. Zephyr Teachout explains how we are told other systems necessitate central planning by undemocratic bureaucracies. But what if that’s not true? capitalism puts us at the...
Is "Big Government" Really the Problem? | Briahna Joy Gray
Conservatives like to complain about "Big Government," but despite lower government spending than many peer nations, America is less prosperous and less free. Briahna Joy Gray explains how the government isn't bad because it's big: it's bad because it's bought.
How 100% Clean Energy Could Power Our Cities and Towns
Grist built this tiny model town to show what it would look like if we tried to transition to 100% clean energy. In the real world, it’s even more difficult. Staff reporter Shannon Osaka wrote about what it really means when cities say they’re going ‘100 percent renewable.’
Does Capitalism Actually Reduce Poverty? | Richard Wolff
You’ve probably heard that “capitalism has reduced global poverty by 90 percent.” It’s a line frequently parroted by capitalism’s most enthusiastic promoters. But there’s a problem with those claims: they’re either misleading or outright false. Professor Richard Wolff breaks...
The Capitol Riot Explained
The events of January 6th have gotten plenty of news coverage, but there's been very little actual analysis. In this episode, I do my best to explain the Capitol Hill riot, who was responsible, why it happened, and what it means for the country going forward.
MSNBC Suddenly Realizes Bernie Was Right
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How China Broke the World's Already Broken Recycling Paradigm
Plastic recycling was a public relations scam invented to keep the plastics industry alive amid mounting political scrutiny. This shifted responsibility for their polluting, unsustainable products away from them and onto consumers while masking how broken the recycling...
Why The US Prison System Is The Worst In The Developed World
The US incarcerates more people - both per capita and by sheer numbers - than any other nation on earth. Our prisons are inhumane hellholes, and private prisons are making a killing. Let's talk about our horrendous prison system and look at some much better justice systems in...
Standing in Solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux
Mid-November, 2016, thousands of water protectors gather as a singular family on the campgrounds surrounding the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. This is the story of the grassroots movement known as Standing Rock, calling people across the world to stand together to protect...
The Writings of an Earth Lover
This video is dedicated to the memory of Vivienne Elanta. She was an Australian environmental activist. With her partner John Croft, she co-founded the Gaia Foundation of Australia, with the objectives of developing projects which are engaging towards personal growth...
Tamera: An Ecovillage for a New Humanity
Tamera is an ecovillage situated in the south of Portugal. It is a holistic peace research and education center exploring different ways of being and living on this planet. With two hundred people currently residing there, Tamera has become an iconic space of experimentation...
PROJECT CYBERSYN
Project Cybersyn tells the story of applied cybernetics in early 1970s Chile during the Allende Presidency and evaluates its legacy, value and potential. Translations of this video are welcome.
The Blackwater Pardons, PMCs, And US Imperialism
The recent pardoning of war criminals is reprehensible, but the action fits perfectly into the US imperialist framework. Come learn about how Primate Military Companies have changed the face of war and imperialism.  
Chain Reactions
Is it possible to get into college if you’ve never been through the traditional k-12 school system? That’s one of the questions I explore in my new film Self-Taught. 
Why American History Whitewashes Radical Figures
This week's video is about the imperialist practice of whitewashing and revising the histories of radical figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Thomas Paine. Why do American history books leave out so much of King's activism? Come find out!
Censorship and the Future of the Internet
This week's video is about the limits of the first amendment, corporate control of the internet, and what a future non-corporate online world could look like.
Eco-Warrior Sleeper Cell Awakening with Joanna Macy and the Shambala Warrior Prophecy
Deep ecologist Joanna Macy describes the Shambala Warrior Prophecy from Buddhist Tibet, expressed as a metaphor for inspiration into environmental and humanitarian activism.
What Greed has Done | Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges talks to Bill Moyers about the destruction of America's manufacturing base by American corporations as well as the effect that unfettered and unregulated capitalism has had on the poor and vulnerable. Hedges calls them "sacrifice zones."
The CIA is a Terrorist Organization
The CIA is responsible for some of the worst crimes in modern history. The death toll from the wars and unrest caused by the CIA, not to mention their many outright murders, is staggering. In this episode, we'll take a look at just a few of the many examples of CIA terrorism...
Cult 45 | Chris Hedges
This is a clip from the forthcoming documentary Ecosophia, featuring Chris Hedges and many others.
Battlestar Climatica
"The consumer society - it's hyperindividualism - and hyperindividualism is a form of disempowerment, and they know it. So you get to express your personal identity, while you are being stripped of collective power. And the elites are not going to go without a fight. Look at...
Net Zero Climate Plans, Explained
The past year has seen an explosion in the number of companies announcing they are now “net-zero” or “carbon neutral,” or at least plan to be in the next 30 years. Unilever, Uber, and Facebook are just a few of the recent additions to the club, and even major oil companies...
The Key to Happiness in a Distracted World
What could ancient Greek philosophers tell us about how to live our lives today?
Noam Chomksy "Calls Out" Cancel Culture
Noam Chomsky on what makes Cancel Culture at all unique and why it's a mistake in principle and tactic.
The Taoist Story of Robber Zhi and Confucius | SHORT FILM
Equal to the Tao Te Ching is the great Taoist text known as the Zhuangzi, attributed the great sage Zhuangzi. One of the chapters in the Zhuangzi text is the story of Robber Zhi and Confucius. This passage tests our spiritual understanding of Taoism and essentially reveals...
You're Probably Already A Socialist
If you turn on the news today, odds are you'll hear someone use the term "socialism" incorrectly to try to scare you. In this video, I hope to correct the record and explain what socialism really means. - Second Thought
Our Democracy No Longer Represents the People. Here's How We Fix It
Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig makes the case that our democracy has become corrupt with money, leading to inequality that means only 0.02% of the United States population actually determines who's in power.
On Compassion
Would I have done things differently if I were in your shoes? If I were in the totality of your circumstances? When we look into the eyes of "the other" - without looking away - the labels start to come off. The question "What's it like to be you?" is a powerful starting...
People Didn't Win The Election... Wall $treet Did | Ryan Knight
"The new battle in the country & the world is no longer Conservative vs Liberal, it's People vs Oligarchy"
Oligarchs Are Gaming Democracy | George Monbiot
"The oligarchs have discovered the formula for persuading the poor to vote for the interests of the very rich” - George Monbiot
Ten Things You Need to Know to Stop a Coup
We have a president who has openly said he might not respect the outcome of our election. We have to be ready if he claims victory before votes are counted, tries to stop counting, or refuses to accept a loss. Choose Democracy is preparing people for the possibility of a coup...
Biden vs. Trump on Foreign Policy
Who is the better anti-war choice? Abby Martin settles the score. 
Honest Government Ad | Q
The US Government has made an ad about QAnon and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
How Ranked Choice Voting Can Save American Politics
Tired of voting for the lesser of two evils? Our current election system is broken, and it yields worse and worse candidates every cycle. Ranked Choice Voting can help solve that problem. 
How America Can Leave Fossil Fuels Behind, In One Chart
VOX talked to physicist and engineer Saul Griffith, who takes us through his incredibly detailed road map for how the US could actually walk away from fossil fuels in the next 30 years.
George Monbiot Exposes Coronavirus Corruption at the Heart of Government
Covid Corruption, Privileged Parasites & the Gilded Circle: Watch the full 18min interview with Monbiot on Corruption.