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The most common question asked on this side of the Atlantic is: “Why can’t they see what these weapons are doing to their country?”
Christian Christensen
South Africa, a former apartheid state, has been vocal in its support for the Palestinian cause against the over 50-year-old Israeli occupation.
teleSUR
61 min
The Staging Post follows two Afghan Hazara refugees, Muzafar and Khadim. Stuck in Indonesia after Australia 'stopped the boats' and facing many years in limbo, they built a community and started the school which inspired a refugee education revolution.
33 min
On top of overtly genocidal threats, the Trump Administration has announced new terms: that they "will never accept a nuclear North Korea." But, the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea already has nuclear weapons. Does that mean a war is imminent?
The first pathetic pieces of wreckage from North Korean fishing boats known as “ghost ships” to be found this year are washing up on the coast of northern Japan. These are the storm-battered remains of fragile wooden boats with unreliable engines in which North Korean...
Patrick Cockburn
7 min
I went to the theatre to talk to people who saw the movie, “The Post”. It’s about Daniel Ellsberg’s famous “Pentagon Papers” leak that exposed the US Government’s lies about the war in Vietnam. I was curious now that people consider Daniel Ellsberg a hero, what do they think...
5 min
An inspiring declaration for our times.
120 min
Black Snake Killaz chronicles the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline from April 2016 through March 2017. The film highlights actions taken by water protectors to stop the construction of the oil pipeline and investigates actions taken by law enforcement, military, and...
Donald Trump is the commander-in-chief of the biggest military force on Earth. There's no societal power above him, that's why he can do whatever he wants. What does he want? Or does he, perhaps, not have any own will, and is steered by other powers?
Dr. Dieter Duhm
42 min
When the war broke out in Syria, Abdullah had just enrolled in university to study law. The war intensified, and his home town of Dier Ezzor became a major battleground in the fight between Assad's forces, anti-government rebels, and eventually Daesh. Russian and American-led...
36 min
Adventurmentalism is a 35-minute interpersonal documentary which records a 400-mile kayak expedition from Haines, Alaska to Wrangell, Alaska. This is not a sports film, but rather a personal perspective on suffering from Post Traumatic Stress-Disorder (PTSD) and suicide in...
28 min
Nov. 7, 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the seizure of power by workers and peasants in the Russian Revolution, regarded as the most world-altering event in the history of civilization.
16 min
In this video Dr. Shir Hever talks about the history and evolution of the Israeli military industrial complex from the 1980s onwards until the modern era.
We The People, in general, are a divided people. Pick any topic or issue, and there is bound to be some heated version of "Us and Them"- if not outright conflict over it. We seem to excel at creating staunch support bases for even the most unlikely of viewpoints: White...
On Oct. 15, 2017, the United Nations will withdraw its peacekeeping troops from Haiti, ending its 13-year mission there.
Siobhán Wills, Cahal McLaughlin, and Ilionor Louis
What does it mean to be American? Citizenship, one may think, but the media and court of public opinion would disagree. True patriotism gets interpreted by some as angrily defending (with a religious fervor) statist symbolism and indoctrinated rites of "showing respect". They...
How many times will we rebuild Florida’s cities, Houston, coastal New Jersey, New Orleans and other population centers ravaged by storms lethally intensified by global warming? At what point, surveying the devastation and knowing more is inevitable, will we walk away, leaving...
Chris Hedges
Recent weeks have seen an escalation of violence against the Rohingya in Rakhine, the poorest state of Myanmar. A tide of displaced people are seeking refuge from atrocities – they are fleeing both on foot and by boat to Bangladesh. It is the latest sur
Giuseppe Forino, Jason von Meding, Tom Johnson
Using humor and irony to undermine white supremacy dates back to the days of the Third Reich, from jokes and cartoons employed by Norwegians against the Nazi occupation to “The Great Dictator” speech by Charlie Chaplin.
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
Nazism and white supremacy are forms of violence. Let’s start there.
Kazu Haga
When I penned the book, I was angry and alienated. Today I realize that violence can't be used to prevent violence
William Powell
6 min
A 360° illustrated film by award-winning novelist Khaled Hosseini. Scroll to the right as the story progresses.
In an explosive interview to New Internationalist, the Kurdish female leader Bese Hozat opens up about peace, the party’s view on the region and the independence referendum in South Kurdistan, and accuses Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the West to have incubated Isis.
Karlos Zurutuza.
Protesters are eager to expend extraordinary energy denouncing small-scale racist actors. But what about the large-scale racist actors?
Aviva Chomsky
Will progressives accept the empirical data behind the efficacy of nonviolence?
Trump's "plan" for America's longest war will almost certainly increase terrorism and cause civilian deaths to skyrocket, analysts argued
Jake Johnson
12 min
Dr. Gerald Horne holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations and war...
"I want her death to be a rallying cry for justice and equality and fairness and compassion," says mother of Heather Heyer. "No mother wants to lose a child, but I'm proud of her."
Jon Queally
In the shadow of Santa Monica’s legendary “Chain Reaction” monument, a clear message was sent to the unelected interloper in the White House: RESIGN!!!
Harvey Wasserman
7 min
A short film exploring transitional steps that countries can adopt which could lead to preventing nuclear weapon conflicts.
35 min
A slice of life depiction about a camp in Vashon Island, WA that teaches parents how to parent nonviolently. Directed by: Hanna (Andie) Utkin.
Tim Goulet reviews the third installment of the radical working-class history documentary Plutocracy by filmmaker Scott Noble.
Tim Goulet
The U.S. Congress does not suffer from endless gridlock as some of the banal liberal pundits and commentators moan about.
Brian Becker
Report demands massive expansion of military-industrial complex to maintain global ‘access to resources’
Nafeez Ahmed
Now that there are thousands of films on Films For Action, we realized the very best gems have really become buried all across our library, and for people new to this information, we needed a more guided way to dive in. Spread across 15 core themes, this collection aims to be...
There always another $27 billion or lying around, it seems, when Lockheed Martin needs more money for expensive weapons system
Jon Queally
6 min
Today's Trews reacts to events at the G20 and asks whether anything will actually change as a result.
US military intelligence agencies have influenced over 1,800 movies and TV shows
Tom Secker and Matthew Alford
'Is not nationalism—that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder—one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred?'
Howard Zinn
3 min
The world's largest humanitarian crisis is not in Syria. It's in Yemen.
So says the United Nations, highlighting the grave consequences of a conflict that has left 18.8 million people in need of humanitarian or protection assistance, including 10.3 million who require...
8 min
Gary Oak recently returned from Syrian Kurdistan where he was a volunteer in the International Freedom Battalion. Here he talks about the revolution in Rojava.
4 min
After the Finsbury Park mosque attack, we asked a white person to explain themselves.
There are two dates ingrained in the memory of the Palestinian people.
The first is May 15, 1948, the date which marks the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians and the destruction of their towns and villages by Zionist Jewish militias. A day before, the state of Israel was...
Marwa Fatafta
5 min
It has been 50 years since the 1967 Six-Day War, which resulted in Israel's occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza and the Syrian Golan Heights.
3 min
So far 5 million people have watched as of June 2017. The ad promotes a beautiful message: "Worship your God with love, not terror. Be tender in your faith, tender not harsh. Confront your enemy with peace, not war. Persuade others with leniency, not force."
We couldn't...
Trump called "Opportunist-in-Chief" for using latest violence in the UK to justify travel ban from Muslim countries
Jon Queally
7 min
The worst thing that the British government is doing today is supporting the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen’s civil war. It should be a national scandal, but at the moment, it isn’t even an election issue. David Wearing teaches Middle East politics and international...
Imagine a world where instead of eternally fighting each other in defense of our various cliques, cults, colors, creeds or groups, we began first defending all humans and the planet against our common threats: corruption, war, poverty, nationalism, and other divisive business...
There is a lot of grief and anguish in Portland. The killings of the two men standing up to defend women of color were horrific and jarring to everyone in the city of what their sense of community is. But life and politics go on. Here are some principles you may find useful...
Arun Gupta
6 min
Between the Tomahawk strike on Syria and the MOAB in Afghanistan, cable news under Trump has been saturated by images of American firepower. But the media's obsession with American weapons sanitizes violence and makes it harder to think critically about why we use deadly force.
Politics isn’t something that can actually be put on hold
Abi Wilkinson
The attack was the day that we had been warned about by security services. The day we hoped wouldn’t happen. But it happened here. In Manchester, at the Manchester Arena where young girls, known as “
Caroline Cheetham
In the event of a major ISIS-inspired action in Britain, what principles do far-sighted – and brave – politicians need to observe? First published on 20 January 2017.
Paul Rogers
3 min
To coincide with Chelsea Manning’s release from Fort Leavenworth military prison, Guardian US chief reporter Ed Pilkington and Manning’s attorney, Nancy Hollander, explain the significance of her release and the impact of her legacy for the transgender community.
Doing the 'right thing' in life is super important. Miss a few car payments at eighteen, and those rates will jump. Overdraft by two dollars, a barely-working monthly budget becomes screwed by bank fees. Drive your car without affording proper maintenance, and your life (or...
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.[1]
We live on the Earth as part...
Paul Kivel
How Americans remember (and forget) their wars
John Dower
I was around 14 when I heard about Concentration Camps for the first time.
Dieter Duhm
“Cryptography is the ultimate form of nonviolent direct action.” - Julian Assange
Sophie Toupin
5 min
Last week, the Trump administration reportedly prepared an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department was seeking to put Assange in jail. Amy Goodman asked world-renowned linguist and dissident Noam...
80 min
A discussion between Noam Chomsky, MIT's Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, and Amy Goodman, host of the award-winning independent news program Democracy Now!
Critics of nonviolence say that option is the prerogative of the privileged. But actually it’s the other way around.
Colin Beavan
The fight for Standing Rock is over, at least for now. With the help of Donald Trump and the banks, the oil industry has imposed its agenda. The construction of the pipeline has been completed. Our prayers are with that handful of people who are still there, still standing...
Dieter Duhm
12 min
Clip taken from A Very Heavy Agenda Part 3: Maintaining the World Order
The New York Times and other major media have ruled out any further skepticism toward the U.S. government’s claim that Syrian President Assad dropped a sarin bomb on a town in Idlib province, reports Robert Parry.
Robert Parry
8 min
Steve Bannon is one of Trump's closest advisors. But he's also a filmmaker. And if you watch his movies closely, they reveal a unique vision for America's future.
65 min
In May of 2016, six American Veterans with PTSD went to the Amazon in search of healing. What they found was another war...for the soul of humanity.
Bogota, Colombia – At the end of last year, the world celebrated what seemed to be the end one of history's longest standing internal wars. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who had brokered a peace deal with the guerrillas of the FARC-Ep received the Nobel Peace Prize...
War opens a Pandora’s box of evils that once unleashed are beyond anyone’s control. The invasion of Afghanistan set out to defeat al-Qaida, and nearly 16 years later, we are embroiled in a losing fight with the Taliban. We believed we could invade Iraq and create a...
Chris Hedges
9 min
This short video is intended to provide key information important to understanding the basic conflicts of the war in Syria. The video maker has intended the video to be as neutral and informative as possible. The war is very complex and there is much more to say, but the...
8 min
It's time to formulate an asymmetrical response. #StandDownMrTrump
A Morning Consult poll winks at me from my inbox: 57 percent of Americans support more airstrikes in Syria.
Robert C. Koehler
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) said the "unprecedented use of an MOAB...marks a new front in the almost 16 year war in Afghanistan."
Lauren McCauley
The Kurds’ democratic resistance to ISIS demonstrates that anti-fascism cannot be separated from the wider struggle against capitalism, patriarchy and the state.
Dilar Dirik
2 min
Historian and academic Yuval Noah Harari says overreacting to terrorism is a bigger threat to peace than terrorism itself.
It’s an argument I’ve seen time and again, as a justification for American military interventionism. It appears in the news, and it is parroted in conversations. Sometimes it is followed with a proclamation that we have to do “something”. A specific and very timely example...
Daniel Martin
"Perhaps our whole fucked up attitude to war comes from only ever seeing our missiles taking off, only ever seeing our soldiers setting out."
Frankie Boyle
Rally against US imperial intervention, but remember Assad’s crimes and be in solidarity with his victims.
Bashir Abu-Manneh
1 min
Comedian Steve Hughes explains why the 'War on Terror' is a joke.
'The impetuousness of this bombing campaign - its impulsiveness - is stunning even by US war-loving standards'
Jon Queally
Four years ago, massive citizen opposition and mobilization stopped a possible U.S. military attack on the Assad government of Syria that many predicted would have made the terrible conflict even worse. Once again, we need to stop an escalation of that dreadful war and...
Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright
Just two and a half months into his presidency, Donald Trump has already distinguished himself as a war criminal. His administration is killing unusually large numbers of civilians, in violation of US and international law.
Marjorie Cohn
5 min
After visiting Jordan last year I interviewed a Syrian Refugee who fled across the border from Syria with her two children. I asked her young children to draw pictures of their journey. This animation takes inspiration from the children's drawings and uses the voice-over of...
40 people injured. 4 dead.
An attack likely inspired by ‘international terrorism’ and Islamist-motivated.
We kn
Nafeez Ahmed
3 min
This powerful spoken word by Hussam Ahmad urges people to look beyond the narratives being spun by the media and politicians.
Pablo Picasso was feeling uninspired. The world’s most famous artistic genius had been commissioned to do a painting for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris World’s Fair in 1937, but all he had come up with in three months were some preliminary sketches that he didn’t like very...
Gavin Aung Than
16 min
In January 2014 a brutal new Jihadist group swept through Syria and set up its capital in Raqqa in the east of the country.
4 min
Humans and birds are having a difficult time co-existing, as a confrontation in an open field spirals out of control.
28 min
In a rare, candid conversation, Abby Martin interviews a former Israeli Army combat soldier who served as an occupier in Palestine’s Hebron City.
Eran Efrati spent years as a sergeant and combat soldier in the Israeli military, but has since become an outspoken critic of the...
22 min
In our interview with NSA-whistleblower, activist and human rights advocate, Edward Snowden, we talk to him about the history of intelligence agencies, notable whistleblowers, the role of politicians and whether he thinks that Donald Trump will misuse the power of the...
12 min
It's billed as the hotel with "the worst view in the world". The Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem has opened its doors, packed with art works by Banksy.
6 min
In Last Monologue, Israeli Comedy Show Host Implores Israelis to Wake Up and Smell the Apartheid. Asaf Harel's scathing indictment of Israeli society has gone viral. You can read more here.
9 min
A look at Lindsay Lohan's recent appearance on Good Morning Britain and how she was quizzed about her faith.
6 min
There is no denying that interventionist wars that were propagated as necessary to relieve human suffering, have actually increased human suffering in those countries — many times over. We must understand the consequences of this destructive policy, end our counterproductive...
It's 3:23 in the morning
and I'm awake
because my great great grandchildren
won't let me sleep
my great great grandchildren
ask me in dreams
what did you do while the planet was plundered?
what did you do when the earth was unraveling?
—
Dahr Jamail
5 min
This is a short excerpt from Peacemaking.
Empirical historical evidence combined with a little common-sense are enough to tell us the type of future options that Israel has in store for the Palestinian people: perpetual Apartheid or ethnic cleansing, or a mix of both.
The passing of the 'Regularization Bill' on...
Ramzy Baroud
No one can say we don’t live in interesting times. But amidst the tumult and frenzy of domestic politics and global events one thing is for certain: the age of passivity is unquestionably over. The age of watching it all unfold on a TV screen or in between the pages of a...
I admit, I laughed a little too. When I first saw videos of white nationalist Richard Spencer getting punched by a protester, I thought it was funny. And even now, I’m not exactly shedding a tear for him. I certainly pray that the attempts to find and target the person who...
Kazu Haga
A systemic crisis in the global Deep System has driven the violent radicalization of a Deep State faction
Nafeez Ahmed