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Growing evidence is suggesting that too much competition is one of the key causes of the multiple environmental, social and psychological crises we are facing today.
September 30th, 2014 | The Labor and Working-Class History Association
Mark Lause
The Labor and Working-Class History Association | November 27th, 2020
Mark Lause
A little over six years ago now, I received a demand which asked me to use my influence and this publishing platform to help denounce someone.
I read the demand with curiosity and a bit of worry. The message stated in rather vague language that the sender had been asked by...
Rhyd Wildermuth
Prof. Steve Keen joins us to discuss his work on the disastrous economics of climate change, in which he contends numerous errors have been made in calculating the economic effects of climate change. Correcting for these errors makes it feasible that the economic damages from...
76 min
Carbon pricing and carbon taxes are now proposed by international institutions and mainstream economics as the main solutions to ending global warming and destructive climate change. For some time, the IMF has been pushing for carbon pricing as ‘a necessary if not...
Michael Roberts
INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL ROBERTS
ASHLEY SMITH
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN CRITICAL CHINA SCHOLARS AND SPECTRE - CRITICAL CHINA SCHOLARS
CRITICAL CHINA SCHOLARS
A REVIEW OF JONATHAN LEVY'S AGES OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM
JAMES PARISOT
The award-winning film series Desert Apocalypse is back for a second season. In this episode we travel to the Pahrump Valley and up to Beatty, Nevada to look at the landscapes threatened by solar. In the Pahrump Valley at the Yellow Pine Solar project site, we see a few...
15 min
A closer look at the economics of Black pop culture reveals that most Black creators (outside music) come from middle-to-upper middle class backgrounds, while the Black poor are written about but rarely get the chance to speak for themselves.
Bertrand Cooper
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26 min
Earlier this year an Art History student at Concordia University (Montreal) posted a tweet that went viral within the academic community. After watching a pre-recorded lecture given by his professor – François-Marc Gagnon – the undergrad Googled the historian for his...
Peter Fleming
One of the biggest COVID-19 casualties - globally - has been education. But something that many have missed during the pandemic is that the higher education crisis is being ruthlessly exploited.
28 min
How Consumer Marketing Distorts Democracy
Jim Sleeper
Rich people have free speech rights. Do the corporations they run? That question is destroying democracy
PUBLISHED AUGUST 3, 2018
JIM SLEEPER
Published on June 30, 2018
Adam Liptak
The Green New Deal program has enormous potential to generate mass popular support. But absent real leverage from labor, it's likely to be continually watered down into a toothless slogan for NGOs.
Matt Huber
Two years ago, our late friend and comrade Michael Brooks wrote an unpublished piece about his family’s experience with food stamps and Trump’s assault on the SNAP program. We publish it today, the anniversary of Michael’s passing, as a tribute to his memory.
MICHAEL BROOKS
At least 185 people have been killed by floods centered on the Rhineland region. Despite Germany’s supposed green credentials, the weak political response to the disaster shows how unwilling neoliberals are to take real action against corporate polluters.
ALEXANDER BRENTLER
Like many people trying to survive the pandemic, Lydia's income was cut. After being evicted for her inability to pay rent, Lydia attempts to stay with friends but finds that living in her car is her only choice. Lydia struggles to figure out what to do next and stay safe...
17 min
Catapulted to media attention by its stunts, Extinction Rebellion has wasted its platform on a message of individualized guilt and obedience to the powerful. To avert climate disaster, we need economic transformation, not pointless moralism.
MARK MONTEGRIFFO
The primary threat to freedom and justice is not greed, or hatred, or any of the other emotions or human flaws usually blamed for such things. Instead, it is one ubiquitous superstition which infects the minds of people of all races, religions and nationalities, which...
615 min
The anti-racism educator encourages white people to “look inward” and focus on self-improvement. But it would be much better if they looked outward and joined a movement that could actually accomplish something.
Nathan J. Robinson
Twenty years ago the IPCC warned of summer heatwave deaths in unprepared temperate regions like the Pacific Northwest.
DANA NUCCITELLI
America produces more waste per capita than any other country in the world. And recycling, which was once considered the solution to that problem, isn’t really working anymore. Recycling works, but it’s not magic. As America continues to lead the world in per capita waste...
16 min
American police have become yet another battleground in the pointless culture war. In this episode, we'll take a look at some of the characteristics of policing in America, the problems we face, and how we might solve them to the benefit of the whole society - including the...
13 min
How many times have you heard the claim that capitalism is the most efficient system for the production and allocation of goods and services? It's a very common talking point in the "western world," especially in the United States. In this video, Second Thought deconstructs...
16 min
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18 min
Adolph L. Reed Jr. joins NHFPL to discuss race and class in American politics.
72 min
How the myth of the genius director has erased the careers of some very talented women, and why it’s time for the “auteur” to be tossed out entirely.
Amanda Hanna-McLeer
Meet the Censored: Matt Orfalea
Yes, the government is helping crack down on text messages and Facebook posts, but not to worry. At least your private thoughts are safe, right? Not so fast, found filmmaker Matt Orfalea
Matt Taibbi
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Matt Taibbi
Matt Orfalea is still fighting YouTube over the stream we did on his channel about my suspension. Robert Barnes joined us to talk about the lawsuits against Big Tech, government pressure to remove speech, and whether a lot of this recent escalation is dictated by AI. BONNER...
42 min
Albena Azmanova will join the Rhodes Center to discuss her new book, "Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia."
58 min
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Start speaking a new language in 3 weeks with Babbel 🚀 Get 6 months FREE when you sign up for 6 months ⏩ Click here: https://go.babbel.com/6plus6-flags-youtube-thetake-june-2021/default This script was written by Anya Formozova. You can see more of her work here...
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The ruination of a once-thriving area of Ethiopia is the result of war and its associated crimes. The world needs to wake up
George Monbiot
Academic publishers charge vast fees to access research paid for by us. Down with the knowledge monopoly racketeers
George Monbiot
Joe Biden is likely to continue the shadow wars that Barack Obama honed and Donald Trump preserved. Relying on air power and local surrogates, this strategy has inflicted a heavy toll in some of the world’s poorest countries while reducing US casualties, enshrining massive...
Jason Brownlee
For more than three centuries, something has been going horribly wrong at the top of our society, and we’re all suffering for it.
DOUG HENWOOD
"Plastic pollution, explained. In this Our Changing Climate video essay, I look at an aspect of plastic pollution that often is ignored in the face of plastic pollution in the ocean. While ocean plastic pollution is an important issue, plastic is actually a fossil fuel...
13 min
Centuries ago, we collectively experienced nature as a living and spiritual presence. Today, nature is in danger of becoming merely a utilitarian means to an end. Believing nature to be psychologically dead allows industry to freely consume and destroy it. We no longer feel...
For centuries, world economies have been based on the seizure and processing of natural resources, often called ‘capturing the commons’. These are resources shared by all members of a society, including natural elements such as air, water, and land etc. There was a time when...
George R. Stewart’s ecofictions forecasted today’s calamities
Andrew Schenker
A number of impressive socialist candidates are running in Somerville, MA—and their nitty-gritty approach to municipal power may have broader implications for the left project as a whole.
Max Chapnick
Cyberpunk once stood out as a vital genre of anti-capitalist fiction. Today, it’s been reduced to a cool retro aesthetic easily appropriated by the world’s second-richest man to market ugly Blade Runner–inspired trucks to nostalgia-driven Gen Xers.
RYAN ZICKGRAF
Cyberpunk’s bleak vision is aesthetically stylish but its diagnoses are shallow and unsatisfying.
Allegra Silcox
Speculators might make money on it, but the arguments for its usefulness fail completely.
Nathan J. Robinson
A master class from Bernie Sanders.
Nathan J. Robinson
As the US Empire makes its major military retreat from Afghanistan, learn about the CIA forces that will be staying behind—and their disturbing 20-year track record of war crimes.
17 min
On May 27th, 2021 the Goethe-Institut Toronto hosted author and academic Adrian Daub in conversation with open Government advocate Bianca Wylie. Adrian recently wrote What Tech Calls Thinking, a playful, insightful account of the ways tech tries to subvert criticism of itself...
58 min
I really enjoyed this book, so I thought I would share my thoughts on it. Have you read What Tech Calls Thinking Yet? Let me know what you thought of it below.
9 min
From Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney comes a documentary about the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar healthcare company founded by Elizabeth Holmes.
3 min
The smartest people on Earth have a surprising lack of curiosity.
Matthew James Seidel
In the 21st century, every life experience is a monetizable data point.
Ben Lee
Big Tech increasingly takes on the role of landlord rather than retailer, spawning an industry of bullshit that begs the question—what is it all for?
Allegra Silcox
An ExxonMobil lobbyist accidentally admitted how they undermine climate science, and which Senators they love giving money to. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/tyt/live
21 min
The company’s own Washington representative admits that we cannot solve the crisis without doing away with Exxon.
Nathan J. Robinson
The Con is a comprehensive docuseries about how corruption and greed led to bankruptcy, homelessness and suicide in 2008
Adrian Horton
An in-depth investigation into the 2008 financial crisis nine years in the making. Through interviews with regulators, former officials, foreclosure victims, industry whistleblowers, and journalists, THE CON connects the dots to what America used to be and where we’re headed...
122 min