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Pay Your Taxes, Murdoch
Pay Your Taxes, Murdoch
If you had only paid a 6% tax rate over a 4-year period, accumulated $7 billion in offshore profits not subject to US taxes, had over 150 accounts in tax-haven countries like the Cayman Islands and Bermuda, and used the money from your tax dodging to
Carl Gibson · 5,468 views · 5 stars
Carl Gustav Jung - the Three Births of the Human Spirit
Carl Gustav Jung - the Three Births of the Human Spirit
C. G. Jung believes that we need to go through three births in our lifetime. The first is our physical birth, then the birth of our Ego, and spiritual birth of Consciousness. In accordance with that fact, we also undergo three phases of development in our life. In the first...
Frank M. Wanderer Ph.D · 6,098 views · 5 stars
Anti-Racist Engagement in the Kansas Free State Struggle
Anti-Racist Engagement in the Kansas Free State Struggle
1854-64: Horace Greeley, German 48-Ers, and the Civil War Journalism of Karl Marx, 1861-62
Charles Reitz · 50 views · unrated
This Is Water (Or Is It Neoliberalism?)
This Is Water (Or Is It Neoliberalism?)
A meditation on Vercelli, Vernengo and Levitt & Seccareccia
Philip E. Mirowski · 82 views · unrated
Planet of the Humans Is the Media Literacy Exercise of the Year
Planet of the Humans Is the Media Literacy Exercise of the Year
"In disputes upon moral or scientific points, let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.” - Arthur Martine
Tim Hjersted · 2,755 views · 5 stars
Searching for the Anti-Virus | Covid-19 as Quantum Phenomenon
Searching for the Anti-Virus | Covid-19 as Quantum Phenomenon
I've struggled to make sense of what is going on. My suspicious mind wandered around restlessly, examining all theories and possible explanations, yet I must admit: I don’t know what is happening. I do know this is a crucial moment of choice for humanity. In this essay, I...
Martin Winiecki · 8,140 views · unrated
Planet of the Humans
Planet of the Humans (2019)
A Note from Films For Action (Last Updated 5/26/2020):  While we believe the film is worthy of a good critique, we don't support the campaign to have the film removed from Youtube. Please join us in promoting critical engagement with the f
100 min · 144,968 views · 3.6 stars
Films for Action's Statement on Planet of the Humans
Films For Action's Statement on Planet of the Humans
Why we took it down. Why we ultimately decided to put it back up (including this note). Plus our critiques and thoughts on the film.
Films For Action · 37,889 views · 3.8 stars
Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition
Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition
What if we told you that humanity is being driven to the brink of extinction by an illness? That all the poverty, the climate devastation, the perpetual war, and consumption fetishism we see all around us have roots in a mass psychological infection?
Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk · 74,020 views · 5 stars
Mainstream Media: Presstitutes for the Rich and Powerful
Mainstream Media: Presstitutes for the Rich and Powerful
While the Rupert Murdoch scandal is justifiably front-page news, there is a much wider problem with the mainstream media. Purchasing ReportersFamed Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein says the CIA has already
Washington's Blog · 7,505 views · 5 stars
Pentagon Report into the Drugging of Guantánamo Prisoners Is Released
Pentagon Report into the Drugging of Guantánamo Prisoners Is Released
Ten and a half years into the Guantánamo experiment, as it becomes ever harder for those who are still appalled by the prison’s existence, and by the failures of all three branches of the US government—
Andy Worthington · 2,840 views · unrated
A History of Beliefs about the New World Order in Popular Culture
A History of Beliefs about the New World Order in Popular Culture
As a conspiracy theory, the term New World Order or NWO refers to the emergence of a totalitarian one-world government.
various writers · 9,544 views · unrated
'This Is the Story of Power in This Country'
'This Is the Story of Power in This Country'
Institutionalized Racism and the Militarization of Police in Ferguson, MO Last week, after days of violent police rampages in Ferguson, Missouri, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Michigan) said the Senate will "review" the Defense Department program...
Nadia Prupis · 2,880 views · unrated
If Your House Is On Fire: Kathleen Dean Moore On The Moral Urgency Of Climate Change
If Your House Is On Fire: Kathleen Dean Moore On The Moral Urgency Of Climate Change
I  first met nature writer and philosophy professor Kathleen Dean Moore in 2004. I had already dog-eared my copy of her first collection of essays,Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water, when she came through town to read from her next book, Holdfast: At Home in the...
Mary DeMocker · 2,972 views · unrated
Truth or Consequences
Truth or Consequences
Here it is, on a coat hook in midtown Manhattan: the Army-issue green shirt, with “CBS NEWS” written in white letters on the ID tag, that Dan Rather wore in 1966 while hunkered down in rice paddies along the Cambodian border. It would be one of the legendary network anchor’s...
Joe Hagan · 2,692 views · unrated
It's Not Climate Change  -  It's Everything Change
It's Not Climate Change  -  It's Everything Change
Oil! Our secret god, our secret sharer, our magic wand, fulfiller of our every desire, our co-conspirator, the sine qua non in all we do! Can’t live with it, can’t — right at this moment — live without it. But it’s on everyone’s mind.
Margaret E. Atwood · 32,760 views · 5 stars
Expropriation or Bust: on the Illegitimacy of Wealth and Why It Must Be Recuperated
Expropriation or Bust: on the Illegitimacy of Wealth and Why It Must Be Recuperated
Election seasons bring with them a renewed interest in politics. For most that couldn't care less about such concerns, election season becomes, for at least a moment, a time to reflect on deeper issues. For those of us who spend a large portion of our lives thinking, writing...
Colin Jenkins · 7,582 views · 4.5 stars
Take Me to Your Leader: the Rot of the American Ruling Class
Take Me to Your Leader: the Rot of the American Ruling Class
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 · 33 views · unrated
9/11 History Timeline: A 25 Page Summary from Verified Mainstream News Reports
9/11 History Timeline: A 25 Page Summary from Verified Mainstream News Reports
The 9/11 attack was one of the most pivotal events in world history. Its impact will be felt for years to come. You owe it to yourself to go beyond the sound bites and the simplified official story. This is an extremely complicated story with numerous players and motives. The...
Paul Thomson · 25,788 views · 5 stars
A Final Response to "Tell Me Why Trump Is a Fascist?"
A Final Response to "Tell Me Why Trump Is a Fascist?"
This is the incredible list of links compiled by redditor marisam7 on r/EnoughTrumpSpam maks the case that Donal Trump is indeed a fascist
marisam7 · 78,954 views · 4.2 stars
Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
"We know it's too much to ask, but if we could encourage every city official, business owner, student, and citizen to read this book, it'd be amazing. Besides being incredible in terms of seeing the building of "civilization" differently (which relates to city-building and...
Daniel Quinn · 63,832 views · 4.9 stars