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ADDED Sep 6, 2026
Nobody Ever Said Changing the World Would Be Easy: Resources for Making Positive Change
Nobody Ever Said Changing the World Would Be Easy: Resources for Making Positive Change
Drawing on the insights of more than 1,000 groups worldwide, here is a compilation of stories, guides, webinars and an ongoing discussion course to help communities drive long-term change.
ADDED Sep 6, 2026
A Socialist Defense of the DSA 21 min
A Socialist Defense of the DSA
Is DSA building a mass socialist movement, or are they just a bunch of bourgeois sellouts? I answer this question based on my experience with different parts of the left over the years...
ADDED Sep 5, 2026
The Furious Defense of a Hollow "Center"
The Furious Defense of a Hollow "Center"
Corporate Democrats are waging war on socialism because progressive candidates threaten the donors, oligarchs, and party professionals who profit from the status quo.
ADDED Sep 4, 2026
The Liberal Media Establishment Uses "Far Left" Against Progressives to Protect the Status Quo
The Liberal Media Establishment Uses "Far Left" Against Progressives to Protect the Status Quo
The real political divide is not between left and right, but between institutions that manage injustice and movements working to build solidarity, democracy and Beloved Community.
ADDED Sep 4, 2026
The Data Center Rebellion
The Data Center Rebellion
The threats presented by hyperscale data centers are galvanizing resistance in hundreds of communities around the country. How are those movements developing? What is their significance?...
ADDED Sep 3, 2026
Apocalypse Now Tried to Warn Us 36 min
Apocalypse Now Tried to Warn Us
Nearly fifty years later, Apocalypse Now still functions less like a war film and more like a myth, a symbolic map for making sense of exactly the kind of global chaos playing out right...
ADDED Sep 3, 2026
The Left Has an AI Problem 43 min
The Left Has an AI Problem
Harper O'Connor opens with an unlikely starting point: Salvador Allende's Cybersyn project, a 1970s Chilean attempt to use computing for democratic economic planning. It's a reminder...
ADDED Sep 3, 2026
How to Make Leftist Propaganda (Full Guide) 63 min
How to Make Leftist Propaganda (Full Guide)
The right has built an enormous online media ecosystem, and the left is still figuring out how to compete with it. Harper O'Connor's guide is an attempt to close that gap, breaking the...
ADDED Sep 3, 2026
Scientists Studied Doomscrolling. Here’s What They Found. 10 min
Scientists Studied Doomscrolling. Here’s What They Found.
In this episode, Katty Kay speaks with journalist Joss Fong about what scientific studies have actually been done into these fears over dwindling attention spans — and what they found.
ADDED Sep 3, 2026
We Uncovered Amazon’s Scheme to Inflate Prices Everywhere 14 min
We Uncovered Amazon’s Scheme to Inflate Prices Everywhere
Amazon has a scheme to offer the lowest prices – by raising prices everywhere else.
ADDED Sep 3, 2026
Ground News and the War on Reality 54 min
Ground News and the War on Reality
Ground News bills itself as a way to evaluate bias in the news, but the way it does so plays into the hands of those who have a reason to make you think all news bias falls into a simple...
ADDED Sep 3, 2026
Authoritarian Leftism Only Achieves Capitalism 135 min
Authoritarian Leftism Only Achieves Capitalism
A little while back I published a livestream clip criticizing Marxism-Leninism and numerous channels made responses. Here I respond to @SocialismForAll and @BadEmpanada.
ADDED Sep 3, 2026
Woke 1: What Happened to the Left? 38 min
Woke 1: What Happened to the Left?
What AOC laughed off as “Woke One” is a symptom of a much deeper problem with what the left has become. This is a video is about why The Left became out of touch with the working class &...
ADDED Sep 3, 2026
Pro-Billionaire Propaganda Is Getting Weird 43 min
Pro-Billionaire Propaganda Is Getting Weird
JimmyTheGiant breaks down how billionaire wealth gets defended in public discourse, and the pattern he finds is more layered than simple propaganda. It's a hierarchy, deployed in...
ADDED Sep 3, 2026
Abby Martin Infiltrated the US Military. It's Worse Than You Think 16 min
Abby Martin Infiltrated the US Military. It's Worse Than You Think
The US military has been exempt from reporting its greenhouse gas emissions since the Kyoto conference in 1997, a fact that rarely enters conversations about climate change even though...
ADDED Sep 3, 2026
The Arguments Against AI Art Generators Are Bad Arguments 16 min
The Arguments Against AI Art Generators Are Bad Arguments
Many of the arguments against AI art generators are bad. They usually fall into two categories; lack of consent and flooding the market. Neither of these arguments will actually stop...
ADDED Sep 3, 2026
Dear Artists, Stop Complaining About AI (Sincerely...a Fellow Artist) 10 min
Dear Artists, Stop Complaining About AI (Sincerely...a Fellow Artist)
just some of my thoughts on the current state of AI art.
ADDED Sep 3, 2026
How Corporations Capture the State, Part 1: The Origins of the State-corporate Double Act
How Corporations Capture the State, Part 1: The Origins of the State-corporate Double Act
Enclosures, factories and state-chartered mega-corporations
ADDED Sep 3, 2026
The Most Interesting Hack in History Just Got Weirder 7 min
The Most Interesting Hack in History Just Got Weirder
OpenAI finally published the postmortem on the Hugging Face hack and it turns out it's way more interesting than we first thought. Let's dive in.
ADDED Sep 2, 2026
The Biggest Theft in History 50 min
The Biggest Theft in History
What is property—and why did Proudhon call it theft?
ADDED Aug 28, 2026
Why We Need Degrowth in 2026 25 min
Why We Need Degrowth in 2026
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I explore why we need degrowth this year, the next year, and many years into the future. Specifically, I ask questions like what...
ADDED Aug 28, 2026
The Most Important Political Scandal You Haven't Heard Of 48 min
The Most Important Political Scandal You Haven't Heard Of
An enormous scandal is unfolding in Latin America, which says everything about politics in the 21st century. Far-right Argentine election meddling specialist Fernando Cerimedo was...
ADDED Aug 27, 2026
The Documentary That Drops You Into a Class War 14 min
The Documentary That Drops You Into a Class War
In Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple’s camera doesn’t just film a coal miners’ strike, it becomes part of the fight.
ADDED Aug 20, 2026
AI’s Newest Buildings Are Already Obsolete 12 min
AI’s Newest Buildings Are Already Obsolete
Meta’s Hyperion AI data center in Louisiana is projected to consume five gigawatts of power and cost more than $50 billion. It is one of the largest construction projects on Earth—built...
ADDED Aug 19, 2026
The Internet Is Dying Faster Than We Thought (Here's How) 29 min
The Internet Is Dying Faster Than We Thought (Here's How)
The first clickable banner ad appeared in 1994, courtesy of AT&T, and click-through rates started collapsing almost immediately. Art Chad traces the entire arc from there: banner...
ADDED Aug 17, 2026
AI Populism Could Redeem the AI Transition
AI Populism Could Redeem the AI Transition
The political vehicle for a redemptive AI transition does not exist yet, but it is the only version of this story in which ordinary people come out ahead.
ADDED Aug 17, 2026
The Wealth Tax Is Hiding the Real Crisis - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau 47 min
The Wealth Tax Is Hiding the Real Crisis - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk dominant economic orthodoxies surrounding wealth taxes as a quick-fix silver bullet for inequality...
ADDED Aug 15, 2026
Who Is Benjamin Netanyahu? 27 min
Who Is Benjamin Netanyahu?
Who is Benjamin Netanyahu — and what made him the man he is today?
ADDED Aug 14, 2026
This New Startup Can Query Anywhere You've Been... 6 min
This New Startup Can Query Anywhere You've Been...
How Flock Safety turned cheap edge ML cameras into a warrantless tracking network and the open source project trying to stop them.
ADDED Aug 13, 2026
The Cult of MAGA 33 min
The Cult of MAGA
This sharp, data-driven analysis traces the pipeline from mainstream conservative media to domestic extremism — and the answer is more direct than most people want to admit.
ADDED Aug 12, 2026
Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres 4 min
Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres
The Government™ made an ad about Ai Data Centres, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
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The Army Gave Soldiers LSD For an Experiment. The Result Was Pretty Hilarious.
The Army Gave Soldiers LSD For an Experiment. The Result Was Pretty Hilarious.
As part of a 1963 military experiment, a crew of British soldiers were each given LSD while in the field.  This hilarious video will show you what the military soon figured out -  LSD...
ADDED Aug 12, 2026
How Brain Rot Changed Gen Z Forever 62 min
How Brain Rot Changed Gen Z Forever
We live in an age of infinite stimulation, and it’s changing us permanently. Brain rot became the defining psychological condition of Gen Z: endless scrolling, short-form addiction...
ADDED Aug 11, 2026
Why AI Is the Next Psychedelic Revolution 32 min
Why AI Is the Next Psychedelic Revolution
Artificial intelligence is changing more than jobs, software, and productivity. It's changing consciousness. The rabbit hole goes deep into the psychology, philosophy, and cultural...
ADDED Aug 11, 2026
Anthropic's Model Attacked Two Strangers on GitHub. Nobody Asked It To. 29 min
Anthropic's Model Attacked Two Strangers on GitHub. Nobody Asked It To.
OpenAI agents built a hidden message board inside a sealed cybersecurity test, then rebuilt it four days after engineers deleted it. Here's what that means if you're running AI agents at...
ADDED Aug 4, 2026
Why the 2026 Iran War Will Be the End of Donald Trump & the American Empire 13 min
Why the 2026 Iran War Will Be the End of Donald Trump & the American Empire
For decades, the Western war machine assumed its high-tech hegemony was untouchable. Not anymore...
ADDED Aug 3, 2026
China Quietly Saved the World Last Month 32 min
China Quietly Saved the World Last Month
Xi Jinping pulled off something no one thought was possible.
ADDED Aug 1, 2026
Trump Is Desperate as Iran War Spirals Out of Control 33 min
Trump Is Desperate as Iran War Spirals Out of Control
The US war on Iran keeps expanding into a regional conflict, as more countries get involved. Reports show that Donald Trump is getting desperate, and he is frantically seeking an...
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The Universal Christ | Richard Rohr
The Universal Christ | Richard Rohr
This hour-long video provides a deeper exploration into the Universal Christ. Father Richard Rohr delivers a framework for reading Scripture and understanding church history that...
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Surviving Progress
Surviving Progress
Humanity's ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards, towards collapse? Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, A Short History...
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