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Louis Theroux: The Settlers (2025)

For The Next 7 Generations (2009)

Earth Days (2009)

The War You Don't See (2010)

The Settlers (2016)

Hope in a Changing Climate (2009)

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

Israelism (2023)

Slavery by Another Name (2012)

HyperNormalisation (2016)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)

The Corporation (2003)

13TH (2016)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Weapons of Mass Deception (2004)

The New American Century (2009)

Schooling the World (2010)

Childhood 2.0: The Living Experiment (2020)

Water is Love (2024)

Recently Added

How This Legal Immigration Program Became a Human Trafficking Scheme

How Democrats Destroyed Civic Advocacy & Gave us Trump (w/ Ralph Nader)

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What's REALLY Happening in Gaza is SHOCKING & No One’s Allowed to Talk About it

Jon Stewart on Which Speech Is Free and Which Will Cost You in Trump’s America | The Daily Show

Our Coming Cyberpunk Dictatorship (Snow Crash)

Extremist US Defense Secretary Declared 'Holy War' on China, Left & Islam: Pete Hegseth's 'Crusade'

Trump's Nuclear Trade War Targets China - But Will Blow Back on USA

China Has Already Won Trump's Trade War

Elon Musk Wants to Cut Waste & Fraud. He Should Start Here

"Murder the Truth": David Enrich on Right-Wing Campaign to Silence Journalism & Protect the Powerful

America’s Constitutional Crisis (w/ Katherine Franke) | The Chris Hedges Report

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The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine Crisis | John Mearsheimer (2015)

Does the Constitution Only Apply to Citizens? | Glenn Greenwald

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Chris Hedges: Normalizing Genocide and the New World Order

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A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)

A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)

The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)

Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)

Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)

The Wisdom To Survive (2014)

The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)

Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)

The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)

The Nature of Cities (2010)

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)

The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)

Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)

Paradise with Side Effects (2004)

Redefining Prosperity (2018)

We Are Many (2020)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)

The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)

Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

Blood and Oil (2008)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)

Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)

Affluenza (1997)

Advertising & The End of The World (1997)

Accidental Anarchist (2017)

The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)

Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)

The Great Disconnect (2020)

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)

Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)

The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)

Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)

Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)

GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)

Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)

Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)

Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)

Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)

To The Ends of the Earth (2016)

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)

Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)

Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)

How the "Mainstream" Media Misleads

5 Short Films, 5 Profound Lessons in Media Literacy

Incredible Animation Summarises Noam Chomsky's 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

Digital Prophecies: The Medium Is the Message

Stuart Hall: Race, Gender, Class: The Politics of News

Framed: The Politics of Stereotypes in News

How to Read the Signs in the News

Propaganda: How Western Citizens are Turned Into Compliant Slaves (2012)

PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind (2010)

Developing Skills of the Heart

Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy

3 Essential Strategies for Integrating Life Experiences

What It Really Means to Hold Space for Someone

The Four Qualities of True Love

Increasing Our Capacity to Feel Is Essential to Living Our Best Life and Connecting with Our Kids. Here's How.

Nonviolent Communication Basics

The Myth of Positivity: Why Your Pain Holds a Mighty Purpose

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness

What Is My Activism Really About? to Love, Serve and Remember

Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success

The Ultimate Romance Begins From the Love We Show Our Selves

The Steps Toward Self Empowerment

Harnessing Pain and Burning It as Fuel for the Revolution

The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered Activism

Core Nonviolence Commitments

Toxic Love VS Healthy Love: 14 Core Differences

6 Toxic Relationship Habits Most People Think Are Normal

Do You Have Time to Love?

Why Self-Compassion Trumps Self-Esteem

The Demand to be Safe in a Relationship Inevitably Breeds Sorrow and Fear

Wanted: Men Who Love

6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises

What It Means To Communicate

The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication

Radical Kindness Is Liberating

Wanting Fully Without Attachment

Control is a Trap

The Privilege of Not Caring Cannot Exist When True Love Is There

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8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

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Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”

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The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves

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How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’

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A Decolonial Critique of Intersectionality

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The Miseducation of the American Boy

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The Self-Defeating Politics of the American Left

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Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

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Rediscovering Our Sacred Wholeness

Reconciliation at the Intersection of the Sacred Masculine/Feminine and Activism

Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings

I Am Not Black. You Are Not White: We Are Not the Racial Labels Elites Invented to Divide Us

A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves

Dangerous Foundations: an Argument Against the "Identity" in Identity Politics

3 Principles to End the Polarization of Society and Create a Healthy Culture

Dear White People. An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous

What Happened When 235 Incarcerated Men Stepped Into The Circle and Humanized Their Trauma Together

All I Ask Is That You See My Humanity, Which Means Seeing the Humanity in All People

The Greening of the Self: the Most Important Development of Modern Times

The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine

"I Love Being a Woman" - What Will It Take to Create a World Where Every Woman Can Say This?

Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde

The Love We Deserve

When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them

Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul

Human (2015)

Return Political Conversation to Principles, Not Identities

The Mask You Live In: An Exploration Of American Masculinity (2015) ($4)

Is It Time to Say Goodbye to the Non-Binary in Gender?

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

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Ode to Great Mother

Our Culture's Unhealthy Ideas Surrounding Masculinity Is Killing Men: On The Roots of Men and Trauma

The Four Qualities of True Love

"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Suppress Multi-Racial Rebellions & Divide the Working Class. It's Time to Give It Up.

We Are Not Black

Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine

Identity: In & Beyond The Binary (2015)

Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly

Healing Our Collective Trauma: The Key to Creating a Society Based on Trust Rather Than Fear

The Left's Problem Isn't Politics—It's Metaphysics

A Woman Who Makes This Statement Today Needs Revolutionary Courage

Whiteness Is Blackness, and Blackness Is Whiteness

Five Ways of Being That Can Change the World

Healing the Divine Masculine

The Revolution Is Acceptance

What Could Save This Planet, If Not Love?

The Transformative Power of Trustbuilding: Towards a Culture of Shared Responsibility

Identity & Empathy | Ayishat Akanbi

Reading Library

Stop Blaming Immigrants. Start Blaming the Real Criminals.

The Left Needs to Learn the Difference Between Imperfect Allies and Our True Opponents

Universal Basic Income: Answering the Common Objections

American Concentration Camps

The Deportation-Industrial Complex Is the New War on Drugs—And It's Just as Corrupt

Musk and Rogan's Three-Hour Echo Chamber: Unpacking the Unfounded Claims

The Next Person in a Cell With No Charges Could Be You

The Right's Wokeness Problem

Our Philosophy on Movement Strategy: One No, Many Yeses

Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History

First They Came for Mahmoud Khalil

Attacking Trump Without a Positive Alternative Is a Losing Game

The Illegality of Russia's War Does Not Justify Perpetual War

Why Working People Need a Political Movement of Their Own

Our 2 Choices: Join the Democratic Party to Transform It, or Acquiesce to Fascism

Behind Trump's Antiwar Bluster, His Goal Is to Turn Ukraine Into a Resource Colony for US Corporations

10 Lessons for Stronger Movements

Pentagon Contractors Don’t Save Lives or Money — Medicaid Does

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Tashi And The Monk (2014)

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New Member Submissions

Louis Theroux: The Settlers (2025)

Instagram SUSPENDED Me Over Gaza - Censorship Spirals Out Of Control

The Video Netanyahu Doesn't Want You To See

Universal Basic Income: Answering the Common Objections

Why We Need a Workers' Bill of Rights in the Age of Automation

Stop Blaming Immigrants. Start Blaming the Real Criminals.

10 Lessons for Stronger Movements

American Concentration Camps

The Deportation-Industrial Complex Is the New War on Drugs—And It's Just as Corrupt

The Barn is Burning

Murmurings of the Land | Stephen Jenkinson & Nathalie Roy of the Orphan Wisdom Farm (2025)

In Defense of Che Guevara (How the Media Lies to You)

The Next Person in a Cell With No Charges Could Be You

'WE WOULD LOSE' War with Iran (w/ Col. Lawrence Wilkerson)

The Self-Defeating Politics of the American Left

The Liberalism to Fascism Pipeline (Neoliberalism Explained)

The Real Sheepdogs of the Left

Aris Mining's Violations

Columbia Professor Is Secret Israeli Spy And She's At The Heart of Mahmoud Khalil Scandal

The Right's Wokeness Problem

Pentagon Contractors Don’t Save Lives or Money — Medicaid Does

How Fascism WON in America

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Military Vet: ‘If Veterans Can Unlearn the Propaganda, There’s Hope for Humanity’

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