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Ben Swann explores the origin of ISIS that has already been long forgotten by American media. Swann takes on the central issue of whether or not ISIS was created by "inaction" by the United States government or by "direct" action.
57 min
Chained up at prayer camps, exiled from villages for being cursed, forced on the streets and in some cases even killed, this is the reality for many disabled people in Ghana. Disabled journalist Sophie Morgangoes on an immersive journey to discover if Ghana is the World's...
After a massive oil find in Syria's Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since 1967, Israel is asking President Obama to recognise its annexation of the territory, writes Jonathan Cook. To consolidate its hold, plans are afoot to quadruple Israeli settler numbers to 100,000.
Jonathan Cook
Last night - parallel to the Paris attacks, as I found out this morning - I had a special experience. As I walked home through the dark from Tamera's bar to my sleeping place, I heard fast steps and was suddenly hit by the realization in how many places on Earth, virtually...
After Paris, macho language about 'pitiless war' defines the contours of leadership. Little else is on offer. It is red meat to our emotions.
Vijay Prashad
What’s the difference between Al Qaeda and Fort Benning?
George Monbiot.
"As the Paris climate talks take the global stage, it’s time to draw attention to the military elephant in our room and demand that adaptation to climate change is led by principles of human rights and solidarity, rather than militarism and corporate profits."
Nick Buxton
We must mourn all victims. But until we look honestly at the violence we export, nothing will ever change
Ben Norton
Some of my progressive friends still refuse to support Bernie Sanders. They say he’s sleeping with the enemy by going for the Democratic Party nomination, and that he’s too soft on Israel and guns: he's not a woman; he's not black. They think he should be more pure, that the...
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Loving Leah is a television film that aired on CBS as a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie on January 25, 2009. The film is directed by Jeff Bleckner and stars Adam Kaufman as an unobservant Jewish bachelor who feels compelled to marry his observant rabbi brother's widow, Leah...
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Anti-Muslim protesters tried to disrupt a silent vigil in memory of the victims of the Paris attacks.
We, the West, overthrew Saddam by violence. We overthrew Gaddafi by violence. We are trying to overthrow Assad by violence. Harsh regimes all — but far less draconian than our Saudi allies, and other tyrannies around the world. What has been the result of these interventions?...
Chris Floyd
The word wisdom is used frequently every day, whether it is spoken and heard or written and read. Yet it is debatable, in my opinion, if most of us know what it is. In most dictionaries it is defined as "the quality or state of being wise, sagacious, discerning and...
Joseph M. Marshall III
The rush to fit the horrors of Paris into convenient neo-imperial narratives shows a disturbing lack of empathy
Zoe Samudzi
Dear Secretary Clinton:
Layali Awwad
The attacks that took place at a series of venues in Paris on November 13 are already the deadliest on French soil since 1945. At least 127 people have been killed in six different places. Reports say that another 100 are in “absolute” critical condition. Police have reported...
Aurelien Mondon
As the events from Oslo on July 22, 2011 filtered through, TV news producers began to scramble. Many people had been murdered by a gunman, and they needed experts to give expert opinions. Fast. What followed was one of the the most embarrassing examples of uninformed mass...
Christian Christensen
Complex societies require complex politics, which again require a highly educated public. We have neither. We have simpleton politicians, half of which claim to hate government, and a corporate media news circus that breaks everything down to the lowest common denominator.
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The Madhesis in Nepal have been protesting against the new constitution since mid August.
To pressure the government they have blocked the border between Nepal and India.
Many people have been killed and injured by police.
28 min
A short film taking you through the magic that flows through the islands of Hawaii to the mountain Mauna a Wakea that birthed quite possibly the biggest revolution in the history of the islands, bringing long overdue justice to the light. A movement that set in motion the...
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Barbie: Princess Charm School is a direct-to-DVD, 2011-computer-animated film, directed by Zeke Norton,[1] which was released on September 13, 2011 in the US and on August 28 in the UK. The film debuted on TV on the 22nd October 2011, when it was shown on Nick Jr at 5pm.
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Global Capitalism: Monthly Economic Update Richard D. Wolff Wednesday, November 11th at 7:30pm "Immigration, Unaffordable Cities, and Bernie's 'Democratic Socialism'"
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A film about the Food is Free laneway that was started by Lou Ridsdale in Ballarat. The laneway allows people to drop of excess food for people to take for free.
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LEAVE IT TO BEAVER -NATURE`S ROLE IN FLOOD DEFENSE Peter Smith - Rewilding Expert: Speaking at The Flood Expo 2015 Beavers, wild horses and even wolves can cut the costs of flood defence and all this can be achieved by saving the taxpayer a fortune
It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then you hear a story about people overcoming all odds to help others and it completely changes your perspective of the world. The story of Jia Haixia and Jia Wenqi is certainly one of these.
Kate Good
After years of legal battles, a Netherlands court orders the industry to shut down.
John R. Platt
If you’ve ever found yourself trapped in a seemingly endless loop of negative thinking, or wondered why you fixate on a stray rude comment but easily forget compliments, you may have a culprit to blame: evolution.
Kathleen Toohill
“Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.” -Carl Jung
Return Yoga
John Jordan writes on the climate justice movement's call for mass disobedience in Paris on 12 December, and beyond
John Jordan
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A Compassion Over Killing investigator worked inside Quality Pork Processors, a USDA-inspected slaughterhouse in Minnesota that exclusively supplies to Hormel, the makers of SPAM. This shocking footage offers a disturbing, close-up view of the suffering endured by pigs as...
Last month, I met Edward Snowden in a hotel in central Moscow, just blocks away from Red Square. It was the first time we’d met in person; he first emailed me nearly two years earlier, and we eventually created an encrypted channel to journalists Laura Poitras and Glenn...
Micah Lee
“We need a real awakening, enlightenment, to change our way of thinking and seeing things. To breathe in and be aware of your body and look deeply into it, realise you are the Earth and your consciousness is also the consciousness of the Earth.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
With all of the unrest that has been occurring at my alma mater, The University of Missouri-Columbia, it has caused me to reflect on my own experiences while on campus.
I completed both my undergraduate as well as my master's degree at Mizzou and while I had the opportunity...
Erica Wright
60 min
Inspired by a contest for Current TV called 60 sec.to save the Environment.
9 min
In the United States more than 130 Native American languages are endangered. Several are on the verge of extinction with only a handful of fluent speakers.
The culpability of big business in colossal environmental disasters is an exasperatingly recurrent theme. In our era of globalized consumer capitalism, environmental degradation is a necessary by-product of the demand for natural resources that fuels the means of mass production.
Ben Morris
Listening to the Republican clowns and Democratic shape-shifters while ignoring the only candidate that represents you
John Atcheson
30 min
"I remember being diagnosed with anorexia in October 2010. And I was like 'what is this? Just girls get that.'" Paul Donald, anorexia survivor
Want more? Go after less....
When billionaire presidential hopeful Donald Trump inexplicably decided this week that boycotting Starbucks over the ‘de-Christmas-ization’ of their ubiquitous red holiday coffee cup was somehow a matter of national importance, the internet exploded — and American mainstream...
Claire Bernish
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What happens when a rigged game of Monopoly makes some players really rich?
(Created in collaboration with AJ+.)
I know why Theresa May has that permanently appalled expression – she’s seen my internet history
Frankie Boyle
57 min
Stacey Dooley returns with a moving and insightful documentary exploring the issue of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where an estimated 5.4 million people have died in the civil war.
76 min
The Pacifier is a 2005 action comedy directed by Adam Shankman and written by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant. It stars Vin Diesel. The film was released in March 2005 by Walt Disney Pictures and earned US$17 million in its first weekend.
"You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole."
Tomas Young
For people in the modern world, there may be nothing more difficult to comprehend than the group calling itself the Islamic State, or ISIS. The beheadings, rapes, and other acts of cruelty seem beyond understanding, as does the wanton destruction of priceless ancient...
Helena Norberg-Hodge
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Russell Howard gives his view on the proposed tax credit cuts and looks at items that are considered essential over tampons.
Socialists, Communists, and Left Bloc unite in 'unprecedented' coalition to end years of punishing cuts
Lauren McCauley
14433 min
Crude is a 2009 American documentary film directed and produced by Joe Berlinger.[1] It fo
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Kenya is fast emerging as one of the world's hottest tourist destinations, with its beautiful beaches, luxury hotels and safaris. More and more Brits flock there every year, and with a week all-inclusive costing as little as 600 pounds it's not hard to see why. But is the...
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It is the 20th anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, who campaigned against oil pollution in the oil rich Niger Delta by Royal Dutch Shell.
The Youth, the dreaded Youth. Pissing on our chrysanthemums, loitering with menace, eating crisps with their mouths open, thinking for themselves.
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Today 60 million human beings are displaced from war and extreme poverty. Many European countries are responding to the crisis with racist hysteria, polices and police state measures. Abby Martin exposes the facts that are left out of the mainstream reporting: the role of...
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In this episode of teleSUR's The Empire Files, Abby Martin interviews world-renowned philosopher and linguist Professor Noam Chomsky. Prof. Chomsky comments on the presidential primary "extravaganza," the movement for Bernie Sanders, the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal, the bombing of...
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The Empire has a range of weapons to maintain its power: from its courts to its military. But it also has effective ideological weapons. Everyone in the United States knows that "socialist" or "communist" is considered a bad word. How did things get that way?
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The Trans Pacific Partnership is being criticized by many, but nobody is taking the macro view. When looked at in terms of the history of Trade Negotiations, there is no denying that the TPP is Super Racist, and a massive mistake.
Because structural problems need structural solutions.
Dorcas R. Gilmore
Whenever public protests ignite into violent behaviour, the mainstream media are often quick to refer to “anarchy” and to “anarchists”. Those who are referred to as anarchists are protesters who burn tyres or engage in battles with the police. In this narrative, anarchists...
Andreas Wittel
There have been five mass extinction events, the most famous of which was the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. However, there is evidence that we are currently experiencing a sixth. This time, however, the extinctions are happening at a much faster rate – and they are mainly...
Louise Gentle
Birdman director says no one is illegal, calls for compassion when talking about immigration
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Many people think money makes the world go around, or the global economy at least. They consider it in a s
Steve Rushton
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Climate change continues to have a disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable communities around the globe, including migrants and communities of color -- people who are typically marginalized in our society. CultureStrike, in collaboration withJustseeds Artists’...
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Stacey is travels to one of our favourite holiday destinations, Thailand, to explore the darker side of tourism that the average holiday maker doesn't see. Hundreds of thousands of us flock to Thailand every year, where for just a few hundred pounds you can enjoy beautiful...
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Former offenders face enormous obstacles once they leave prison. John Oliver sits down with Bilal Chatman, an ex-prisoner, to discuss the challenges of reentering society.
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Our Earth is a living planet, it is a self healing system if we give the earth time. What if every country donates 7% of their surface to a United Nations Ecological Network. Keeping in mind the routes animals migrate. Connecting nature reservations with each other. A network...
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Nearly 300 foreign nationals were killed in South Africa between 2008 and 2015 in a wave of xenophobic violence. Two refugees, Congolese Alex and Burundian Emile, describe the trauma that led them to come to South Africa, their rejection by the community in KwaZulu Natal, and...
For our Debt Issue, we explored ways we could turn the tables on the bankers, rethink the soul-crushing nature of debt, and find routes to get out of it. Because the shame and powerlessness of debt can overwhelm our senses and perceptions, we decided to ask our favorite...
Yes! Magazine
Private companies are encouraged to latch onto every potentially-profitable public investment. What’s new or good about that?
Keston K. Perry
25 min
A crisis in Palestine is again all over the headlines. From stabbings and molotov cocktails, to killing of protesters and anti-Arab lynch mobs--how much of the mass media coverage can we really trust?
Abby Martin takes a look at how the so-called "Israel-Palestine conflict"...
Stress kills Mindfulness. Here are Ten Things you can do to avoid it.
Captain Paul Watson
Critics of foreign aid often argue that it's ineffective at generating sustainable economic development or truly helping the world's poor. But as this great map from the cost information website HowMuch.net reveals, one reason for that is that promoting development and...
Matthew Yglesias
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This Land Belongs to the Army is a 2014 documentary film by Maga.Tamizh Prabhagaran, a young journalist and film maker. This film exposes the genocidal war waged by the Sri Lankan Army and shows for the first time, the current uncensored reality in post war Sri Lanka.
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Video introducing Dr Geoffrey Berry in his debut documentary presentation for City Living, Nature Calling; an ecomythic documentary for our times. This proposed doco is up for crowd funding until 19th November at startsomegood.com/clnc The trailer shows how modern myths, such...
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Watch the video to find out the answer to that question for some.
And did you feel it, in your heart, how it
pertained to everything?
And have you too finally figured out what
beauty is for?
And have you changed your life?
Eleanor Young
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Dr. Salvatore Cerchio of the New England Aquarium and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and an international team of whale biologists have just released images and detailed descriptions on the first scientific observations in the wild ever of Omura's whales, one of...
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"Adventures of a Happy Hobo" is a self-documented video of me, an artist/ clown/ musician, creating my dream cabin on wheels and traveling the country to spread happy... It's an amazing feeling when you don't have a schedule; nowhere to be and no responsibilities.
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Officer Lisa Mearkle pulled David Kassick, 59, over for an expired inspection and emission tag. When he fled the scene, Mearkle tased Kassick twice to the ground and then shot him twice in the back. He was unarmed. Mearkle was just found not guilty.
A complete corporate coup d’etat. A takeover of the state and a reemergence of divine power only rivaling that of long dead kings and popes. And the verdict? It’s worse than we imagined.
"You grew up wanting so bad to be Luke Skywalker, but you realize that you were basically a Stormtrooper, a faceless, nameless rifleman, carrying a spear for empire, and you start to accept the startlingly obvious truth that these are people like you."
Sophie McAdam
From slavery to genocide, society has shown a terrifying ability to disregard the personhood of others. Here's why.
Nicholas Epley
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We live in tumultuous times. Our world is wracked by a convergence of destabilizing and devastating wars, soaring levels of inequality, and mass waves of human displacement. Battered by increasingly erratic weather patterns, we are haunted by the terrifying spectre of...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama killed a Canadian energy giant's application to build the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, declaring the proposed project wouldn't serve U.S. national interests and would have undercut America's global leadership on climate change. The...
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Something's wrong with media coverage of female athletes.
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A year ago, Stacey Dooley went to India with the BBC to film the acclaimed documentary Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts. She was one of a group but she stood out a mile, so refreshing was she in comparison to the bland, spoiled whiners that surrounded her. Now she's back for more...
On Saturday 31st October 2015, at 1.30am, my 22-year-old eldest daughter Polly was killed when she lost control of the car she was driving and hit a tree. She was alone in her VW Beetle, no one else was hurt and, I am told, it was instant.
John Darvall
8 min
People are becoming increasingly irritated by the mainstream media, and here are 6 reasons why.
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There is no safety code for some fireworks. Children in war don't have a safe distance to stand from bombs and missiles.
This video takes the audio from a traditional UK public information film from the 1970's and mashes it up with footage of bombs, missiles and the...
I have been struggling with “how” to do the work so many of us call social justice. I understand the “why,” or I at least think I do. I am on a journey to understand my role in changing the world, which is no doubt a privilege. It has taken me quite a while to get over the...
Cody Charles
7 min
It has been said that 'Men are afraid women will laugh at them, and women are afraid men will kill them.' How do you feel about this statement? In this episode our men discuss how they relate to women, adding a much needed male point of view to the discussion surrounding...
'President Obama has sold the American people a false bill of goods,' says Friends of the Earth
Deirdre Fulton
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Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges sits down with Ben Makuch at the Toronto VICE office to discuss what it takes to be a rebel in modern times. Hedges discusses his new book Wages of Rebellion, an investigation of the social and psychological factors...
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World Trade Center is a collection of photographs and video of the World Trade Center sight. It contains images from before 9/11 to pictures from the observation deck of the new building which has just been opened. There is older footage of the1992 ticker tape parade cheering...
6 min
Harry Patch had no time for, 'Thieving politicians lies'.
Poem: Heathcote Williams
Narration: Alan Cox
Montage: Alan Cox and Margaret Cox
George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian society casts a dark shadow over the United States. As American society has moved from a welfare to a warfare state, the institutions that were once meant to further justice and limit human suffering and misfortune and...
Henry A. Giroux
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More than a dozen hospitals have been bombed in Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen in recent weeks. Mistakes or war crimes?
5 min
MadagaSCARS is a poignant five minute flash animation created by Camille Wainer (www.camillewainer.com) in collaboration with the Lemur Conservation Foundation (www.lemurreserve.org) that captures the urgent environmental and social issues that threaten the future of wildlife...
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Time and time again on the campaign trail, Donald Trump has called for building "the great wall of Trump" on the U.S./Mexico border. This would require the construction of almost 2,000 miles of wall in hostile desert terrain. And Trump is not alone in his calls for ramping up...
Whilst donating to charities is seen as a positive solution to food waste, it does very little to tackle the causes of excess production.
Catie Jarman, Marianna Musset and Sam Joseph