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Is It Possible to Love All Humanity?
Is It Possible to Love All Humanity?
Juliana Breines Qualities like gender, ethnicity, and nationality tend to define us more than being human. What happens when we try to identify with all of humanity?
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Profit Is Theft: It Sounds Absurd but Here's Why
Profit Is Theft: It Sounds Absurd but Here's Why
Tim Hjersted Take a look at this info-graphic. The disparity is absurd. Though personally I don't think raising the minimum wage is the ultimate solution, as it doesn't get anywhere close to solving the root problem.  Profit is theft, in our current economy. That is the profound
The Real Reason You're Circumcised
The Real Reason You're Circumcised
4 min If you're not Jewish, and you're circumcised, you need to watch this video.
This Stunning Animation Beautifully Illustrates the Secret Life of Flowers
This Stunning Animation Beautifully Illustrates the Secret Life of Flowers
4 min Many different flowers are growing beautifully and strongly in this world. Taking their roots in the earth, sprouting, blooming, pollinated by birds and insects, living on in...
Poverty Is a Business
Poverty Is a Business
13 min The poor pay more for everything, and such transactions are highly profitable for those selling goods and services to the poor. Profits are made on the labor of the poor, the...
Can We Do It Ourselves? (2015)
Can We Do It Ourselves? (2015)
59 min Within modern life exists a paradox: we celebrate democracy as a political system, but not as an economic system, even though our workplaces have a far greater impact on our...
Amtssprache: The Most Dangerous Language in the World
Amtssprache: The Most Dangerous Language in the World
2 min When Adolph Eichmann was asked, "Was it hard for you to send these tens of thousands of people to their death?" Eichmann replied, "To tell you the truth, it was easy. Our...
One Veteran Spoke The Truth And Totally Stunned The Crowd, Then He Brought Them To Their Feet
One Veteran Spoke The Truth And Totally Stunned The Crowd, Then He Brought Them To Their Feet
5 min This clip starting making the rounds while the Iraq War was still going on, and it was so interesting to me because I'd never seen a veteran address these things in such a...
The Myth of Positivity: Why Your Pain Holds a Mighty Purpose
The Myth of Positivity: Why Your Pain Holds a Mighty Purpose
umair haque Of all the great myths of contemporary life, one of the most toxic is positivity. It says: there are negative and positive emotions, and only the positive ones are worth...
How Not to Fight the 1%
How Not to Fight the 1%
Kevin Carson In an article that will no doubt make “progressive” hearts go pitty-pat (“The 1% May Be Richer Than You Think, Research Shows,” Bloomberg, August 7), Jeanna Smialek suggests...
We Need an International Minimum Wage
We Need an International Minimum Wage
Hamilton Nolan The deadly collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh has sparked calls for better worker treatment. The revelation that Apple manages to
How Whales Change Climate
How Whales Change Climate
5 min When whales were at their historic populations, before their numbers were reduced, it seems that whales might have been responsible for removing tens of millions of tonnes of...
Capitalism Will Eat Democracy Unless We Speak Up
Capitalism Will Eat Democracy Unless We Speak Up
20 min Have you wondered why politicians aren't what they used to be, why governments seem unable to solve real problems? Economist Yanis Varoufakis, the former Minister of Finance...
The Story of How This Man Learned What Love Is - and Isn't - Is Heartbreaking
The Story of How This Man Learned What Love Is - and Isn't - Is Heartbreaking
3 min This is a clip from the beginning of the 3-part film HUMAN, which was released for free online in 2015. You can watch the series here. 
How Did Hitler Rise to Power?
How Did Hitler Rise to Power?
5 min Decades after the fall of the Third Reich, it feels impossible to understand how Adolf Hitler, the tyrant who orchestrated one of the largest genocides in human history, could...
The Tax Free Tour (2013)
The Tax Free Tour (2013)
53 min "Where do multinationals pay taxes and how much?" Gaining insight from international tax experts, Backlight director Marije Meerman ('Quants' & 'Money & Speed'), takes a look...
Why Are Taxes So High? Because the Profits from Creating New Money Goes to Private Banks
Why Are Taxes So High? Because the Profits from Creating New Money Goes to Private Banks
Positive Money UK When banks are allowed to create a nation’s money supply, we all end up paying higher taxes. This is because the profits from creating new money go to the banks rather than the...
Why Does Everyone Have to Work?
Why Does Everyone Have to Work?
8 min It's the 21st century -- why are we working so much? And is there a solution that would have radically positive effects for all aspects of society and the economy? In Part 2...
After Living in Norway, America Feels Backward. Here's Why.
After Living in Norway, America Feels Backward. Here's Why.
Ann Jones A crash course in social democracy.
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