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Chomsky on conservatives focusing all their anger on the government, while ignoring private power.
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Israel is once again rejecting global calls for a ceasefire. But this time, they’re not for Gaza. They’re for Lebanon – where Israel has now launched a violent and reckless escalation in their almost year-long cross-fire battle with Hezbollah.
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This video essay looks at the destruction of Gaza as an ecocide and genocide perpetrated by settler colonial Zionism. More broadly, the video dives into how oil and gas have fueled conflict in West Asia, and how Israel has acted as an anchor for United States imperialist...
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It's always the people you most medium suspect.
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How The US Hides Its Global Empire – Second Thought
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If you’re looking for more information on what we could accomplish with the next climate-focused US Presidential term, check out the new and improved Evergreen Action Plan 2.0: https://evergreenaction.com/initiatives/a-bold-climate-plan-evergreen-action-plan-2
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The "real" US Government has made an ad about the 2024 election and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅
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Oftentimes the idea of “wokeness” or “woke” ideology, whether calling it as such or acknowledging its existence, can be thought of as coinage of the right wing. Christian Parenti, professor at John Jay College, journalist and author, joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of...
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Israel is bombing Lebanon, with staunch US support. An Israeli minister vowed that "Lebanon will be annihilated". Ben Norton analyzes the colonial war, explains the origins of Hezbollah, and provides historical context.
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Israel killed many people in Lebanon by putting explosives in pagers and walkie-talkies, in what was condemned internationally as a terrorist attack. This is already backfiring, hurting Western technology companies. Ben Norton discusses how this act of war will fragment...
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As the US election looms, Elon Musk’s erratic and sometimes dangerous posts have made him one of the biggest purveyors of disinformation on his platform. How is the world’s richest man using his influence to shape the American political debate?
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The US push to create seats for Africa on the UN Security Council – without veto power – is “an insult to 1.4 billion Africans,” argues the former African Union ambassador to the US, Arikana Chihombori-Quao.
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The Heritage Foundation is the organization spearheading Project 2025. Heritage's president, Kevin Roberts, wrote the Foreword for Project 2025. JD Vance, wrote the Foreword for Roberts's upcoming book, which was delayed due to the election. JD Vance's Foreword, however, has...
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Drawing on his intimate knowledge of resistance and repression, Hedges detailed the methods we need to adopt to defeat the powerful interests, including the fossil fuel industry and the animal agriculture industry, which have placed their profits above the protection of our...
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The system is broken—so where do we start building a new one? Faced with interlocking ecological, economic, and political crises, local innovators are organizing at the city level to develop real foundations for systemic alternatives.
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Jonathan Smucker explains How to Not Be an Activist. Keynote talk from Personal Democracy Forum 2017
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BlackRock and other asset managers are profiting off of every aspect of your life. It's not a conspiracy — it's an open restructuring of society.
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The vast majority of the world voted at the UN General Assembly to demand an end to Israel's unlawful occupation of Palestinian territory within 12 months, with 124 countries (64%) in favor, 14 (7%) against, and 43 (22%) abstentions.
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Watch as several organizations move towards a more cooperative future by experimenting with open and non-traditional business models. Among them are a small craft-brew coop, a peer-to-peer open hardware lab and an urban agricultural social enterprise.
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When it comes to the question of how we organise the land we inhabit and the resources therein, we’re presented with two paths: privatisation or nationalisation. The capitalist or the State. But an alternative exists in the commons, and it is no tragedy.
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We need a social revolution to build a better future. But how is that process carried out? What tactics and strategies are needed to fundamentally transform the socioeconomic and political order?
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*click-baity headline*, but read Capitalist Realism! We need to encourage ourselves to go further than we have gone before and push beyond vague, passive anti-capitalism towards the values and praxis that build towards liberation.
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Imagine if such an attack had been launched on Israel. Imagine the response.
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Donald Trump left office with the lowest approval rating of any president ever. But some people now seem to be suffering from amnesia. Let me jog your memory. -Robert Reich
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As the climate crisis continues to accelerate, wealthy governments in the West are clamping down on climate protest. According to a new report from Climate Rights International, demonstrators around the world are being arrested, charged, prosecuted and silenced, simply for...
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As commerce transforms around the new rent-extracting digital fiefdoms, algorithms and AI become a way to transform skilled labor into machine-learning piecework. In Severance, technology is used to "sever" people's working selves from their actual selves, creating the...
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In this lengthy video essay, I outline why I feel that the MAGA movement (and the alt-right) is a neo-fascist political movement at its core. - AJ Rodriguez
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"Cancel culture" and "political correctness" are right-wing phenomena which today are dressed up in left wing language and symbols, and which serve to reinforce relationships of power and dominance between managers and workers.
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The terms "cancel culture" and "political correctness" are used to delegitimize ideas like gender equality and racial equality by conflating them with toxic dominance behaviour practiced by up-and-coming elites dressing up their power seeking goals in egalitarian social...
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If Donald Trump gets back into office, every part of the government will be turned into an arm of his MAGA agenda. How? Project 2025.
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Most journalists and academics don't even know what left and right really mean, or why it's so important to get it right - but you will after you listen to this.
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How can people who don't have official decision-making power exert their influence over those who do?
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Politics is the only practical discipline where none of the basic concepts have clear consensus definitions. This is why everything is so dumb.
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The song that could save America. Share widely.
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This short animation tells the story of the importance of our cultural values and their role in meaningful, durable systemic change. Join us on a journey that demonstrates the need to shift our mainstream cultural values to intrinsic values such as care, equality, creativity...
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In the latest episode of ‘Mehdi Unfiltered,’ Mehdi breaks down one of Donald Trump’s most fascistic plans: using the U.S. military to crush dissent. He discusses Trump’s plan to invoke the Insurrection Act to crack down on protesters with former Obama Defense Department...
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The same week France arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, the "President of the Rich" Emmanuel Macron stole the 2024 election, refusing to allow the left-wing New Popular Front that won to form a government, instead appointing a prime minister from a right-wing party that got...
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"Trump did try and start new wars, expanded old wars, increased drone strikes, and helped do a genocide in the Middle East."
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Krystal and Saagar are joined by Jeremy Scahill to discuss Bibi sabotaging ceasefire proposals with Hamas.
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This is a bombshell warning. - Owen Jones
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Krystal Ball discusses Israel self destructing their economy amid the escalating tensions with Iran.
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Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez replied to a question on Instagram asking about the Green Party, and had some things to say.
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"You can find examples of really big environmental problems that we've already solved.” Climate change is solvable, argues Hannah Ritchie.
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“I’m an American citizen and I was shot by the IDF. Biden, what will you do?” Amado Sison was on a volunteer mission in the West Bank, when the Israeli army opened fire. He tells BT his story from the town of Beita.
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Unlike the Uncommitted movement which seeks compromise with the DNC on Gaza, the Abandon Harris movement believes Democrats must be defeated in November in order to exercise any real leverage. “Do not be deceived by the rhetoric that there is a lesser evil when it comes to...
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For decades, world leaders have said that the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is simple: two states – Israel and Palestine – next to each other. But if the answer is so simple, what’s stopping it from happening? And is it even the right solution?
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Elliott County, Kentucky voted for Democrats for 144 years straight. Then, the county flipped to Trump…while simultaneously voting for Democratic Governor Andy Beshear. So what does this county have to tell us about this political moment?
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With the recent surprise win for the left in the French elections, some may be tempted to think fascism is on the back foot. Unfortunately, that's not the case. Let's take a look at the state of rising fascism in Europe.
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"Everyone should be hoping for his downfall."
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This year, the Democratic National Convention held its first-ever panel on Palestinian human rights. The panel came after persistent grassroots organizing against U.S. support for Israel’s assault on Gaza.
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On October 22nd, 2023, James Talarico spoke at his home church in Texas about the dangers of Christian Nationalism.
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Kamala Harris announced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate! This is the best possible pick—and it’s a decision that’s been applauded by conservative and progressive Democrats. In this video Mike reacts to the announcement and explains why Tim Walz has crossover...
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In this clip from Mike's Twitch stream we talk about potential VP options for Kamala Harris, and Mike makes the case for Tim Walz and against Josh Shapiro.
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Racist pseudo-science is making a comeback thanks to Elon Musk. Recently, the tech billionaire has been retweeting prominent race scientist adherents on his platform X (formally known as Twitter), spreading misinformation about racial minorities’ intelligence and physiology...
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"Schoolhouse Rock" was an American series of animated "educational" short films. They were shown during Saturday morning "children's programming" on the ABC television network from1973-1985.
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The US is once again facilitating a far right coup of the Venezuelan government. BreakThrough News breaks down everything you need to know.
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz represents a midwest state, has charisma, great politics, and has accomplished a lot with just a 1-seat majority. He'd be the perfect running mate for Kamala Harris.
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"They scream socialism? We just build roads, and we build schools. and we build prosperity into this. Their whole plan is go backwards to give tax cuts to the wealthy." - Tim WalzSupport The Show On Patreon!: https://www.patreon.com/seculartalk
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John Oliver discusses the wave of people claiming there’s a wave of “migrant crime,” where the term came from, and what we can do next.
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Trump says if Christians vote for him in 2024 they won't have to vote ever again.
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The Earth’s continued existence is an obstacle in the way of achieving 4% GDP growth every year. It has to go. - @tombombaddie
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Donald Trump keeps comparing himself to Jesus. Whether he actually has a messiah complex or is just conning his supporters, he's playing to a growing GOP faction that wants America to be a white Christian Nationalist state, with Donald Trump as a divine ruler. Be Warned.
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What makes a fascist? -Rejecting democracy for a strongman -Stoking rage against cultural elites -Nationalism based on “superior” race -Glorifying strength and warriors -Disdain of women and LGBTQ+ people
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Marvel's Loki shows us what fascism looks like, and how it comes to take root within innocuous conservatism.
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Following a shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump's supporters have portrayed him as a so-called "threat to the US deep state". But in reality, Trump was a warmonger as president, and appointed top CIA officials and neoconservatives to run his foreign policy. Ben...
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To understand the current war in Gaza, you have learn about the founding of the state of Israel and what that meant for the Palestinians who had been living there. Before Benjamin Netanyahu or Hamas, there was Zionism, the Balfour Declaration and the Nakba. This is how Israel...
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Once upon a time, the GOP stood for limited government. But now it stands only for Trump and his authoritarian neofascism. It demands total loyalty to him. The party’s demise is on full display at this week’s Republican National Convention.
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“Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it" - J.D. VanceBrian Tyler Cohen's new book is called SHAMELESS: https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/shameless
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This is a clip from Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky & The Media (1992), more relevant today than ever.
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In this episode, Peter discusses the anti-democratic roots of market capitalism and the dynamics therein.
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An overview of the evidence surrounding worker democracy. In summary: it's good, but far from perfect. Hope you enjoy the video and the new animations. - Unlearning Economics
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Lowkey releases his new track 'Genocide Joe' featuring Mai Khalil.
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The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative
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In less than a month, Republicans will meet in Milwaukee to crown Donald Trump as their Emperor King and Sun God. But the real powers behind the GOP — the billionaires and their institutions that created Project 2025 as a how-to manual to convert American democracy into...
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Could Trump actually turn America into a fascist state? Yes. Here's how, in five steps.
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Trump will cut taxes for billionaires and stick you with the bill. Here are five things you need to know about Trumponomics.
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"The thing that stands out for me the most when watching the deeply moving footage of Julian Assange arriving home to Australia is how impossible this all felt… until it happened." - Caitlin Johnstone
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Written as a letter to a child in Gaza by Chris Hedges, the film takes the audience on a haunting & realistic journey through Gaza today from a child’s perspective imbued with guilt of a foreign journalist. Stylish, artistic, horrifying, yet hopeful that we can do better. We...
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In Mehdi Hasan's latest monologue, he unpacks how and why AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, one of the most powerful lobbying group in the US, is spending record amounts of money to topple - not for the first time - a pro-Palestinian Congressman.
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The impact of war is so much more than just the emissions from tanks, ships and warplanes - modern warfare has a devastating effect on people and the planet. So, what is the scale of planetary destruction wrought by militaries? And in a world where nations justify war on the...
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Everything we warned about has come to pass. - Owen Jones
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Grace Blakeley is a writer, commentator and economist whose new book Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom is out now. She came by JOE Towers to chat to us about neoliberal capitalism, the destruction of working-class power and how...
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Protestant minister, social activist, and Yale Divinity School professor Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss his latest book, “White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy.”
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John Oliver discusses the financial and environmental impact of corn in the US.
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EXPOSED: Britain's Secret Role in Gaza
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If you are not sure, why the vote this year will be important, take a listen to this video. The animation has been done in OpenToonz The reading has been done with help of Voicemaker.in
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Israel is behaving like this because it knows its Western protectors will let it get away with everything and anything. - Owen Jones
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U.S. media and politicians have spoken out ad nauseam about the alleged anti-semitism on display at ceasefire protests. Not only do they fail to distinguish between antizionism (which is not antisemitism) and antisemitism, but they refuse to cover the the violence and hate...
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Seven and half months on, and Israel is staring a catastrophic defeat. - Owen Jones
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While all eyes are on Gaza...
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Stephen Kapos is an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor from Budapest, and here he tells me about the horrors he survived - and why Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. He's such an inspiring voice, full of moral clarity, and it was a privilege to listen to him. - Owen Jones
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US Presidential candidate Dr Cornel West is a philosopher and prominent advocate for social and racial justice. He’s taught at some of the top universities in the US including Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, but has one major plan if he becomes President: to “dismantle the...
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The ways of war are changing. Artificial intelligence is used to bomb families in Gaza. Flying drones are deployed to track down refugees on the US-Mexico border. But the biggest change is the one we talk about the least: the privatization of war.
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Dr. Gabor Mate talks about his path away from zionism.
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For over seven months, a dominant conversation in the U.S. news media has been about alleged and increased antisemitism on American campuses - culminating in the coverage around student encampments. The “Gaza solidarity encampment” at Columbia University, in particular, has...
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Actor, playwright and essayist Wallace Shawn shares his thoughts on the "misbegotten" state of Israel, condemns its "insanity," defends the protests, and expresses skepticism about the antisemitism of college campuses.
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“Israel intends to destroy an entire people”