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Super Bowl 50 is the first National Football League championship to happen since it was reported that much of the pro-military hoopla at football games, the honoring of troops and glorifying of wars that most people had assumed was voluntary or part of a marketing scheme for...
David Swanson
In most of the liberal discussions of the recent police killings of unarmed black men, there is an underlying assumption that the police are supposed to protect and serve the population. That is, after all, what they were created to do. If only the normal, decent relations...
Sam Mitrani
You are in an imaginary hot air balloon. It’s just you and all of your belongings in the wicker basket. Something went wrong and you are losing altitude fast. You will hit the ground in less than ten minutes if you don’t come up with something quick.
Gilbert Ross
“Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest—thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.” ...
Rae Swersey
Loving-kindness meditation is also known as metta meditation.
Elyane Youssef
I understand it hurts, and it hurts really badly. No one deserves to be treated the way you were. No one deserves to feel emotional pain tearing through their body or bringing them to their knees. You did nothing to deserve this and it is not your fault.
Kristen Brown
A long, long time ago, an idea was born.
1. I have actively avoided saying anything about Beyoncé's new song and video. I don't think they are interesting, important or deserving of my commentary. That as a Black, queer person I have, in the last week, been expected--and, at moments, obligated--to respond to them is...
Benji Hart
In the search for a way to fight against discrimination and oppression, many young people in particular embrace identity politics. It can be an important first step towards the development of socialist consciousness – if it leads on to an understanding of the class nature of...
Hannah Sell
Spectres, Joylessness, and the contours of ressentiment
Lupus Dragonowl
Bhutan is a living example that it is possible to develop in a different way, and is creating a caring economy based on the values of altruism, compassion and collaboration.
It is clear to the billions still living in poverty today that the globalized capitalist economy is...
3 min
We may have many answers...but do we ask the right questions? My name is Spencer Cathcart and this is the first short film I have released since "The Lie We Live" in 2015. In this video I question our relationship with life on this planet.
5 min
Every American deserves an equal vote. But in some states, access to voting is becoming less and less equal.
14 min
Speaking ahead of the network televition premier of The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Tuesday, February 16 at 9 pm on PBS Independent Lens) former Black Panther Ericka Huggins talks about activist selfcare, intersectionality and the importance of the Black Lives...
3 min
A crash course in social democracy.
Ann Jones
“Wherever you are, be all there.” — Jim Elliot
Evelyn Rennich
9/11. It was to have been the end of irony, remember? Superficial celebrity culture was over; a new age of seriousness was upon us. Of course, the way media celebrities focused on their own mood as the consequence of September 11 was in itself an irony so marvelous you knew...
Thomas de Zengotita
It is clear that the rig-the-vote wing of the Democratic Party, from Deborah Wasserman Schultz to the “liberal” commentators and regular pundits on MSNBC, PBS, and the most of the other mainstream media, is seriously weakening the party’s chances in November. Wasserman...
Gerald Sussman
My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over...
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The Life of Death is a touching handdrawn animation about the day Death fell in love with Life.
5 min
The debate around privilege has spilled over the boundaries of the academic left and is slowly starting to emerge in wider discussions about inequality. Yet, despite its increasing popularity, the lexicon of privilege seems to find itself awkwardly aligned with the very...
Nishin Nathwani
The fundamental aim of black voters should be to put a smile on Martin Luther King, Jr's face from the grave.
Dr. Cornel West
Remember the black presidential discussion in 2007 and 2008?
Bruce A. Dixon
In deliberating on what to write about for this latest edition of the Hair of Samson, it was suggested that I write about Bernie Sanders. I was initially somewhat skeptical of this endeavor. After all, it is quite obvious that Sanders is not a socialist but a social democrat...
Thomas Estabrook
In the Rojava region of Syria, despite the difficulties, people are organizing communes and women’s councils.
Syria can seem an endless black hole of misery, but in the northern, largely Kurdish region of Rojava, it is also the scene of a profoundly democratic and humanist...
Tony Iltis & Stuart Munckton
Immersed in middle class American life, I am the mother of a teenage son and daughter, and I live in a medium sized town outside of Philadelphia. If that conjures images of navigating complex social media relationships, painful negotiating sessions around cash, google...
This week, a huge portion of the Jungle refugee camp in Calais is due to be bulldozed. We can not sit back at let this happen...
3 min
We hear a lot of talk about the oppression of women, but do we really hear any talk about the oppression of men? Quite frankly, I never have. At least not in the way I'm about to explain. As a life coach and hairstylist for 25 years, I have had my share of up close and...
Kristen Brown
Working in a retail job, you think you’ve become accustomed to bad behavior on the part of children as well as parents. But you are appalled to see a mother use an umbrella to spank a small boy. Will intervening threaten the child or endanger your job?
Laura Grace Weldon
I witnessed this bumper sticker, decked out in bright red, white, and blue lettering, attached to the post holding my neighbors’ mailbox this week as I walked my dogs during unseasonably high temperatures. For my neighbors to display this placard proudly in their front yard...
Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld
If ever one wondered about the efficacy of a state government agency imposing officials on local governments, Flint has answered that question forever.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
No matter who wins the Democratic nomination, it is now utterly clear that the Clinton team disastrously misjudged the American electorate. This is not an accident. It derives from the Clintons' gradual evolution from idealists to hardened insiders, America's decline into...
Charles Ferguson
I confess, I am a culturally alienated, old, disconnected 1960s and ‘70s radical trying to live and struggle for revolutionary change in a world that might have passed me by, because I cannot for the life of me understand how Beyonce’s commodified caricature of black...
Ajamu Baraka
A few days after Paris Terrorist attacks, I’m in the pub with some friends and colleagues and I’m in conversation with someone about the attacks. Her response was very much aligned to mine, a sense of: more love/ less aggression = good response to the situation. Control...
Julie Drybrough
Join Abby Martin as she investigates why there are thousands of bodies on the US Mexico border--and uncovers a hidden war--in this full-length documentary, originally aired as a two-part series.
Discover what is not only a shockingly high body count, but a humanitarian...
50 min
The arrest of two Spanish puppeteers accused of “promoting terrorism” in a play reveals the violence of the state in a way that satire never could.
Peter Gelderloos
Human Family -
I note the obvious differences
in the human family.
Some of us are serious,
some thrive on comedy.
Some declare their lives are lived
as true profundity,
and others claim they really live
the real reality.
The variety of our skin tones
can confuse, bemuse...
2 min
We are what we buy at the mall, see at the multiplex, and hear on our iPods. Author Thomas De Zengotita discusses our new "Mediated" life.
James Westcott
Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 seeks to find 'common solutions to common problems,' says former Greek finance minister
Nadia Prupis
After hundreds of years of isolation, here’s how the indigenous heroes are fighting to reclaim their cultural identity — and their health.
9 min
(Warning: Graphic content) A compilation of Larken Rose audio clips taken from various radio interviews. Edited by Harvey Lester ( http://www.facebook.com/harveylester84) If you appreciate videos like this, and would like to see more, please consider donating. Thanks!
6 min
'Women all over the country can write about the damage done to their lives by the rigged economy and the special place in hell they work to escape daily when trying to fight back.'
Donna Smith
"The next few decades offer a brief window of opportunity to minimize large-scale and potentially catastrophic climate change that will extend longer than the entire history of human civilization thus far."
Lauren McCauley
In the mounting, panicky attempts of elites to derail the Sanders candidacy, one strand dominates.
Bill McKibben
This clip from upcoming feature documentary "The World Is My Country" introduces the origins of and need for a World Passport.
8 min
Activists in custody, protests shut down, warrantless house arrests, and the COP21 strangled by anti-terrorist measures, a look back on the first months of the state of emergency in Paris.
20 min
Poet, teacher, activist and more-pay tribute to Dr. Maya Angelou and listen to her read her unforgettable poem "Phenomenal Woman."
2 min
A dystopian warning from the future
There's nothing more American than Football. There's also nothing more socialist. Brian Dunkleman Takes On the Stigma of Socialism.
3 min
'War Horse' author Michael Morpurgo and actors Jeremy Irons and Maxine Peake have joined forces to make a powerful new 5 minute film especially for you. Please watch and share.
5 min
"From conflict to collaboration, we now celebrate the protection of areas of cultural and ecological importance while ensuring economic opportunities for the communities exist long into the future."
Nadia Prupis
The crack in your being that pain inflicts is a sacred gift where openness, love, compassion, vulnerability and new inner wisdom can emerge and connect with the world.
William Timothy Walker
Stress isn’t always a bad thing; it can be handy for a burst of extra energy and focus, like when you’re playing a competitive sport or have to speak in public. But when it’s continuous, it actually begins to change your brain. Madhumita Murgia shows how chronic stress can...
4 min
Samurai Sound X People's Army Present : I'm Not An Alien We value music as a powerful tool to bring people together, raise spirits and hope around the world. We look at the world in 2016 and see ongoing suffering due to war and poverty. Global events continue to separate and...
3 min
Today I read for maybe the 10,000th time an assertion that supporters of Bernie Sanders are unrealistic, that Bernie Sanders supporters will all be disappointed if they elect him because he won’t be able to bring the change he’s promising, that Bernie Sanders’ policies will...
Cody Gough
Robert Smalls began life as a slave in Beaufort, South Carolina. Born on April 5, 1839, he taught himself to read, and was later briefly allowed to attend school. In his early 20s he was assigned to work as a deckhand on a small cargo ship, and within two years he was the...
3 min
The story of one of the most complex organisations in the world, told through the voices of those on the frontline.
3 min
Wow, the price of oil is still low as hell. Oil company earnings are terrible. Consumer prices at the pump are super cheap. Oh, that remind me, you know what we could use right now?
Hamilton Nolan
While mainstream Dems debate realism vs. idealism, another set of the left is having an entirely different debate
Josh Fattal
In 2008, when then-Senator Barack Obama promised progressive change if elected President, his primary opponent, then-Senator Hillary Clinton, derided him.
Robert Reich