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Thousands of unknown activists have risked their lives to defy extremism and violence. Daniel Adamson interviews some of them.
Daniel Adamson
5 min
Nigerian-born Inua Ellams, a London-based writer, created the story "Dolphins" as part of "The Refugee Tales", works about the journeys of refugees and migrants seeking safety in Britain. Ellams worked with children who have made treacherous journeys across desert and sea...
4 min
The latest in a series of incredicle short films from Matthew Cooke - this edition features Van Jones and focuses on his work to remove killer cops from the police force and cut the US prison population by 50%.
111 min
Inspired by the acclaimed book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, Merchants of Doubt takes audiences on a satirically comedic, yet illuminating ride into the heart of conjuring American spin. Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the curtain on a secretive group of highly charismatic...
2 min
The LPP community have spent $750,000 fighting this madness so far! There are more battles to come before we can save our water and precious Ag land - for more information on how you can add your support, visit: http://www.friendsoftheliverpoolplains.com and help us win this...
The Journal wants to shock and awe voters with big numbers, but Sanders’s proposals would save America big bucks.
Joshua Holland
1 min
Where To Invade Next is the latest film from Michael Moore, who takes a humourous swipe at the United States state of "infinite war" - where they are always looking for the next place to invade. In the film the director tells the Pentagon to "stand down" – he will do the...
"With a swelling slave population, the masters faced the prospect of white freedmen with disappointed hopes joining forces with slaves of desperate hope to mount ever more virulent rebellions. The elites’ race strategy decreased the probability of such class rebellions. The...
Thandeka
15 min
Refugees are fleeing their homes by the thousands, risking their families' lives to try to find a way out of the violence. Most see Europe as a beacon of hope. We've sent a team to Budapest, Hungary, to follow a group of refugees on their journey.
Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debates are being held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California — so you can be sure that each candidate will deliver an effusive homage to Reagan, and then explain why he or she is Reagan’s one true heir.
Jon Schwarz
11 min
In this RSA Animate, celebrated academic David Harvey looks beyond capitalism towards a new social order. Can we find a more responsible, just, and humane economic system? Watch the full lecture here: http://www.thersa.org/eve...
Jeremy Corbyn has won the race for leadership of the Labour party. But Greek and Spanish activists advise against placing too much faith in political parties.
Ludovica Rogers
25 min
In this episode of Days of Revolt, host Chris Hedges sits down with author and professor Leo Panitch to examine the genesis of global imperialism and capitalism. The two discuss how both are upheld by economic and cultural forces, and debate the roles of ignorance,myth, and...
10 min
MintPress founder and editor in chief, Mnar Muhawesh, joins RT America to discuss the misconceptions about the war on terror and the true costs of war. The biggest misconception about the war on terror is that it started in 2003 with the US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.
'This is our sacred duty to those this country harmed in the past, to those suffering needlessly in the present and to all who have a right to a bright and safe future.'
Naomi Klein and David Suzuki and Leonard Cohen and Ellen Page and Donald Sutherland
26 min
This video was made during an evening workshop given in July 2015 by Marion and Clinton Callahan in Munich, Germany. It provides a vivid impression of how Possibility Coaching works for Couples.
90 min
"Class Dismissed shows parents a glimpse into the future of education. Everyone concerned with education would benefit by watching this film." - John Taylor Gatto, Former New York State Teacher of the Year and author
7 min
This is a documentary of the struggle to survive and heal in war while bringing to life a better society. Kobane has had about 80% of its infrastructure destroyed and has been largely cutoff from aid and supplies. While struggling to cope with the military and civilian...
17 min
Sources and transcript: http://stormcloudsgathering.com/ww3-who-will-be-blamed If you want to start a to war, the unwashed masses must be convinced to send their brothers, sons and fathers to die on the front lines. The specter of an external enemy must be etched into their...
6 min
The real story behind the refugee/migrant crisis in Europe is much stranger than fiction.
If you watch the news, you've probably heard about the refugee crisis in Europe (or the "migrant crisis" as some are referring to it). Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers from the...
For normal people, terrorism and wars are tragedies. For our “leaders” they're something very different. Jon Schwarz put together a short awful 9/11 quiz to help explain this.
Jon Schwarz
20 min
As humans, we can perceive less than a ten-trillionth of all light waves. “Our experience of reality,” says neuroscientist David Eagleman, “is constrained by our biology.” He wants to change that. His research into our brain processes has led him to create new interfaces to...
Those of you familiar with the Scriptonite Daily blog will know that coverage here is done, mostly, with a wry smile at best. But events of the last few days have reached such hyste
Scriptonite
The politics of Jeremy Corbyn, elected by a landslide Saturday to lead Britain’s Labour Party after its defeat at the polls last May, are part of the global revolt against corporate tyranny. He had spent his long career as a pariah within his country’s political...
Chris Hedges
1 min
Mashup artists Cassetteboy take on David Cameron after the Conservative party released a video attacking Jeremy Corbyn. The Tory scare movie took the new Labour leader’s words on the death of Osama bin Laden out of context. So what does David Cameron think about fairness, the...
Trump, the fly in the Republican ointment
Tom Tomorrow
The number of people displaced by wars fuelled by the west and its allies has reached a staggering new high.
Ben Norton
3 min
Yanis Varoufakis talks to Paul Mason about Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, the media and capitalism.
5 min
Let's just say, just purely hypothetically of course, I know it's completely ridiculous but what if we had, only ONE planet, just one. One planet to live on. One planet to breathe and eat from. One planet to make our day upon, make our way upon, make our cities upon, to sink...
The web is turning writing into a conversation. Twenty years ago, writers wrote and readers read. The web lets readers respond, and increasingly they do—in comment threads, on forums, and in their own blog posts.
Many who respond to something disagree with it. That's to be...
Paul Graham
92 min
Global Capitalism: Monthly Economic Update Richard D. Wolff Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 7:30pm Market Chaos and Capitalism's Instability Judson Memorial Church Assembly Hall.
From The Whiting of Euro-Americans: A Divide and Conquer Strategy:
Will Shetterly and Thandeka
6 min
The top 25 hedge fund managers make more than all kindergarten teachers in the country combined. These investors make millions - sometimes billions - of dollars investing borrowed money in hopes of realizing large capital gains. But what is most absurd is that these...
6 min
Watch the full film free: http://www.bravenewfilms.org/iraqforsale On May 10th, 2007, this video was banned in Congress SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/1JUX3Xv Robert Greenwald, the director of IRAQ FOR SALE, was invited to testify before Congress by Rep. Jim Moran. He prepared four...
1 min
Dick Cheney was Wrong on Iraq, and he's Wrong on Iran. The framework agreement the U.S. and its international partners reached with Iran that blocks Tehran's pathways to building a nuclear bomb is barely a week old and yet the usual suspects have already denounced it as a...
6 min
24 hours in Leyte, Philippines in Tacloban, epicenter of the typhoon. Embedded with the Gawad Kalinga organization. by Steven De Castro
22 min
America is "treating" mental illness through incarceration - and the price we are paying both in dollars and human capital is enormous. This is Crazy: Criminalizing Mental Health focuses on the problems with criminalizing mental health told through first-hand accounts.
Does popularity entail populism? What would it mean for the left to be truly popular? Here Jeremy Gilbert offers nine things the left needs to do if progressive ideas are to occupy the mainstream.
Jeremy Gilbert
3 min
The oven gloves are coming off! - the people of Britain are uniting in the ‘War on Fracking’, with ordinary people organising more than 400 local anti-fracking residents groups, fighting planning applications at local councils.
Cameron accused foreign leaders such as Colonel...
2 min
The London Arms Fair comes to the ExCel centre this week. You'll find guns, tanks and killer drones - and you may also find offers of illegal torture equipment. Want to know more? Visit Torture on Your Doorstep.
The Conservatives have got a comprehensive plan of attack that will shape political discussion for the next five years. It is about security and it relies on Labour doing as much of the work as the Tories and the media.
@RealMediaGB
15 min
The Miranda warning includes the right to a public defender. It doesn't include the fact that public defenders are highly overworked and grossly underpaid. Connect with Last Week Tonight online...
Corbyn has said that his campaign is about turning the Labour Party into a social movement. That’s the only chance he has.
Richard Seymour
Ivan Illich’s groundbreaking book Deschooling Society (1971) offers a radical critique of the institutionalization of education within modern societies. Illich believed that we wrongly identify education with schooling, since most of our education happens outside of the...
Daniel Lattier
4 min
Everyone produces waste, and the Swedes are no different. It’s what they do with it that is unusual. Sweden recycles and sorts its waste so efficiently that less than 1 percent ends up in landfills. But perhaps even more interesting, and somewhat controversial (read why here...
25 min
In September 11th's episode of The Empire Files on TeleSUR, Abby Martin examines the two major wars launched under the "Global War on Terror"--their historical development and their aftermath. Featuring former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, this episode digs into the...
5 min
Twenty years ago, brave indigenous land defenders in so called British Columbia, squared off with the Royal Colonial Mounted Police, in the Secwepemc territory of Ts'Peten, colonially known as Gustafson Lake. Comic book artist and indigenous historian Gord Hill, recounts...
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4 min
POC21 is an innovation camp for open-source sustainability taking place at Chateau de Millemont (Paris) in 2015. 100+ makers, designers, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and geeks join forces to prototype the collaborative, circular economy. Their ultimate goal: Overcome...
In early September, a huge delegation of the Buddhist teacher and author Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's monks and nuns will arrive in New York City to lead retreats, book launches, and outdoor meditations and I will be driving from Baltimore to join them. In more than 20 years...
Marisela B. Gomez, MD, PhD
The 9/11 attack was just the beginning of the bloodletting and the wanton abuse of law to extend unaccountable state authority
Nafeez Ahmed
124 min
On the tenth anniversary of the Attacks of September 11th, 2001, expert witnesses gathered at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada to provide evidence-based research that called into question the official story of 9/11. This was known as The Toronto Hearings on 9/11.
340 min
"The End of eating Everything" is an excerpt of artist Wangechi Mutu's first animated video, created in collaboration with recording artist Santigold and co-released by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and MOCAtv on YouTube. The 8-minute video, "The End of eating...
3 min
In his upcoming October cover story, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how mass incarceration has affected African American families. "There's a long history in this country of dealing with problems in the African American community through the criminal justice system," he says in...
2 min
In this animated interview, the sociologist Bruce Western explains the current inevitability of prison for certain demographics of young black men and how it's become a normal life event. "We've chosen the response of the deprivation of liberty for a historically aggrieved...
2 min
The Last Pig journeys into the life of a pig farmer as he grapples with death, searches for compassion, and finally finds the courage to change.
It’s easier than you think to attract this offensive, sexist label – all you have to do is dare speak out against gender inequality
Laura Bates
We've drained our planet's stored energy, scientists say, with no rechargeable plug in sight.
Andrew Nikiforuk
As part of Israel's ongoing and desperate PR campaign to counter opposition and prove it has justice on its side, The Yesha Council, a settlers' organization in the West Bank, has released a new booklet to teach young people "the right facts" -
Abby Zimet
2 min
An Alchemy Musical Production - Aylan Kurdi A video that portrays the pain of war victims. Stop War. Please do subscribe to our channel for more awareness videos. Lets get engaged and do our part as a citizen of this sphere.
Rupert Murdoch and Lord Jacob Rothschild are major shareholders in and members of the Strategic Advisory Board of Genie Energy. Israel has granted Genie oil exploration in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Genie plans to drill 10 exploratory wells over three years there...
Michael Dickinson
Leftists can fantasize that they are doing a great service to humanity by scoffing at Bernie, but they’re merely isolating themselves from the rest of the country.
William Kaufman
A Cal State Sacramento University professor who allegedly told his United States History class he did not like the term ‘genocide’ in relation to Native Americans in history, told a Native American student who disagreed with him that she was disenrolled and expelled from his...
Vincent Schilling
12 min
Mondulkiri is the largest and most sparsely populated province in Cambodia. Education is neither accessible nor a priority for many of the youths in Mondulkiri. The province is still recovering from the detrimental impact the Khmer Rouge Regime brought to the education sector...
With bows, arrows, GPS trackers and camera traps, an indigenous community in northern Brazil is fighting to achieve what the government has long failed to do: halt illegal logging in their corner of the Amazon.
The Ka&
Jonathan Watts
The streets of Mexico City in the early 1900s were buzzing with bohemian visions of a new world. The famous Mexican critic Carlos Monsiváis once described the capital as "an apocalyptic city, populated with radical optimists". He forgot that, for three years at least, there...
Krish Raghav
Cartoonist Matt Lubchansky cuts through all the political grandstanding to tell us what we all know but try to forget around election time.
Matt Lubchansky
27 min
Voluntourism, the intersection of volunteering and tourism, is often criticised as doing more harm than good to local communities. In this documentary we ask volunteers why they decided to volunteer, how their experience is going and if they think they are having an impact on...
47 min
Ever taken a sexy selfie? Beware: revenge porn is on the rise. Anna Richardson goes to extraordinary lengths to investigate what happens when someone maliciously shares your most intimate photos.
Publication that gives grants to scientists goes from non-profit to for-profit under Fox umbrella.
Xeni Jardin
Learn how to turn any business into a worker-owned cooperative with this checklist.
Cat Johnson
The Turkish state is deploying the word “terrorist” to mask its brutal repression of the Kurds.
Belén Fernández
5 min
In 2013, 11,600 asylum seekers, most of them Syrians, arrived in Bulgaria, one of the poorest countries of the European Union. The Swiss filmmaker Eileen Hofer brought food and useful items (donated by friends and family) to refugees in Sofia. This is how she briefly met...
A bitter dose of heartfelt rationality in a field muddied by conspiracy industry dimwits.
Nafeez Ahmed
When Congressman Thomas Massie first arrived in Washington, DC as a freshman from Kentucky, a long-tenured North Carolinian, Walter Jones, asked him an intriguing question.
28pages.org
The long-suppressed 'Trump: What’s the Deal?' is now available to be streamed online.
Sola Agustsson
23 min
Ted Rall is an award-winning nationally syndicated political cartoonist who goes after the powers that be. Unfortunately when you go after the powerful, they come after you. Ted was recently fired by the LA Times after the LAPD got sick of being criticized by him. Join the...
5 min
Have you heard of high frequency trading? It's an insane form of trading stocks that involves super fast computers and super complex algorithms. You won't believe the insane corruption it's allowing Wall Street to get away with. Join the 'Redactivist' movement online...
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Find out how anchor institutions like hospitals and universities can help worker cooperatives create green jobs in the neighborhoods that need them most.
Extracted from Royal Babylon: the Criminal Record of the British Monarchy. An investigative poem by Heathcote Williams.
Heathcote Williams
Lauded as important development, major fast-food chain commits to sourcing only 'cage-free' eggs within ten years
Jon Queally
Black radical imaginings of abolition as a relation provide a way to think about how the caging and mass killing of animal life, the caging and mass killing of Black life, and the racial capitalism that propels premature death are connected in a deadlock.
Che Gossett
14 min
“The Right to be Rescued” is a short documentary that tells the stories of people with disabilities affected by Hurricane Katrina. Released days before the 10th anniversary of the storm, our goal is to make emergency planners aware of the specific needs of people with...
To any thinking person, it must be obvious there is something terribly wrong with relations between human beings and the animals they rely on for food. It must also be obvious that in the past 100 or 150 years, whatever is wrong has become wrong on a huge scale, as...
J.M. Coetzee
Something is changing. Desperate people are still arriving on Europe’s borders and on its shores, as they have been for months and years. But the tone of the public’s reaction is shifting fast.
We’re starting to hear less about the “threat&rdquo
Hannah Jones
To protect their neighborhoods against police violence, Cop Watch groups in the U.S. patrol and document police activity, hoping to abate the harassment.
Jelle Bruinsma
Where does legitimate business end and organised crime begin?
George Monbiot
47 min
It is estimated that by the year 2050, the world population will reach nine billion. Digital Food asks how we will feed this future population, and what steps can be taken today to prepare for those sustenance needs. The filmmakers speak to authors, chefs, farmers and...
60 min
Since the naturalization of gender violence, two options are proposed: on th
It was 1975 when the first same-sex Americans were “permitted” to marry one another. It was Clela Rorex who processed these licenses illegally. This act of sabotage against the state’s marriage monopoly was eventually discovered, and Rorex quit — many calling for her to face...
Ryan Calhoun
5 min
Congo, maybe someone has already brought you back some stories, some sounds, some travel diaries. But what if there were more?
If you live amongst society today it’s nearly a guarantee that you are causing some amount of environmental harm via your transportation. How much is largely up to you. There is no one size fits all solution to environmental destruction caused by getting yourself around so...
Rob Greenfield
There are no quick fixes. I know this as a social science junkie, who’s read endless books and blogs on the subject, and tried out much of the advice — mostly to no avail. So I do not entitle this post lightly. And I write it only having become convinced, after several months...
Robyn Scott
69 min
Climate Deadline is an ambitious documentary in the making, taking us from the UN climate talks in Durban in 2011 (COP17) to COP21 in Paris this December, where this project will be finalised and the nations will adopt the next universal climate treaty. That treaty is being...
2 min
"The artists task is to save the soul of mankind and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns." - Terrence McKenna
The feature documentary film follows the journey of a writer, compelled to make sense of the mysterious and powerful energy she felt at her aunt's...
Author and humourist PG Wodehouse once wrote that “it is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine”. He was absolutely right when it came to American presidential hopeful and property mogul Donald Trump’s attempts to insinuate...
Gavin Foster
2 min
Does it feel like every day you're being told to "call people out" for more and more things? While acknowledging that some people do deserve to be called out for their actions, Brooke Sopelsa talks about an alternative for those who might not deserve it.
Slavery made America wealthy, and racist policies since have blocked African American wealth-building. Can we calculate the economic damage?
Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn anJeff Neumann
The recent debate over word choice has taken turns that undermine humanitarian principles and cloud the view of how migration is u
Jørgen Carling