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Appearing late last week on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri insisted that Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont “is too liberal to gather enough votes in this country to become president.” Indeed, responding to the fact...
Harvey J. Kaye
Over the years, Exxon spent more than $30m on think-tanks and researchers that promoted climate denial.
Suzanne Goldenberg
"Red Path premiered at the Unmentionables Film Festival in New York, a festival dedicated to breaking taboos and this first year the taboo was menstruation.
I truly believe t
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This short film is so powerful and inspiring. Since watching it I have tried my best to make every second count. - Kasim Khan
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In 1983, 50 corporations controlled a majority of American media. Now that number is six. And Big Media may get even bigger, thanks to the FCC's consideration of ending a rule preventing companies from owning a newspaper and radio and TV stations in the same big city.
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Latin American Artist María María Acha-Kutscher takes photographs from social and feminist movements and turns them into stunning pop art illustrations
María María Acha-Kutscher
Just acknowledge that all that sh*t is f*cking b*llshit — you're here now, in this place, with your inner stillness. Take in a deep breath ... now breathe out. Just feel the f*cking nonsense float away.
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Disappointment reigns as ISDS-lite gets the nod in Strasbourg
Guy Taylor
Is imagining a better economic/political system a necessary step in making it happen?
Gary Engler
Our national conversation on race and crime is based on a fiction. It is the fiction that the organs of internal security, especially the judiciary and the police, can be adjusted, modernized or professionalized to make possible a post-racial America. We discuss issues of...
Chris Hedges
In Fayoush, Yemen on Monday morning, just outside of Aden, “a massive airstrike” hit a marketplace and killed at least 45 civilians, wounding another 50. Officials told the AP that “bodies were strewn about following the strike.” The bombing was carried out by what is...
Glenn Greenwald
In January 2015 Syriza became the first radical left government in modern Europe. In July its people rejected financial regime change with a resounding No! vote in the referendum. Our cameras were there, from the first election rally to the government HQ on referendum night...
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Together with Amnesty International, Forensic Architects from University of London have embarked on an extraordinary and ambitious scientific project - The Gaza Platform. Its the most comprehensive database ever build on what happened during the Gaza conflict 2014. The...
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There are several important variables to the Greek debt crisis that most people aren't talking about.
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The wave of joyous solidarity at the Greek “No” vote still resounds across the world today, revealing millions who identify with the struggle and have had enough of being bullied and controlled.
Michaela Whitton
As Greek voters reject further budget cuts and tax hikes in exchange for a rescue package from European creditors, who is to blame for the debt crisis embroiling Greece? Is Germany trying to crush Greece to set an example? Will Greece leave the eurozone? What does this mean...
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(Acclaimed News) A newly released report has revealed, as many have suspected, that British taxes are currently weighted in such a way that hits the poorest families harder than the richest ones. With the Tories considering tax cuts for the rich, and reducing benefits plus...
As Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande meet to discuss Greece, the banks teeter on the edge of nationalisation. Paul Mason reports from Athens.
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Exctract from Zeitgeist: Addendum featuring "ecomomic hitman" John Perkins.
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Bill Maher calls out deregulators for shielding corporations at the expense of consumers.
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This is a story about clothing. It’s about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. The True Cost...
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The referendum of 5th July will stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage.
Yanis Varoufakis
According to mainstream media, the current economic crisis in Greece is due to the government spending too much money on its people that it went broke. This claim however, is a lie. It was the banks that wrecked the country so oligarchs and international corporations could...
Chris Kanthan
As the referendum results come in, Paul Mason with an update on the very latest from Athens.
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As the UK Government launch their latest round of austerity measures, they admit that disabled people who get finance support will most likely be affected and, in order to lower the number of children in poverty, rather than taking any meaningful steps they are just changing...
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After viewing Mama Hope's video, "Alex Presents Commando," Gabriel, Benard, Brian and Derrik (the Kenyan men in this video) told us they wanted to make one that pokes fun at the way African men are portrayed in Hollywood films. They said, "If people believed only what they...
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A victory for OXI (No) would not just help restore a sense of dignity to Greece; it would strengthen the ground for anti-austerity struggles across Europe.
Jerome Roos
This week we take a look at the 6 plus year student revolt in Chile, plus ballot burning fury in Mexico and an interview with militants from Santiago who tell us about the anarchist scene there.
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This documentary by award-winning film directors Rob Stewart and Jonah Bryson examines this community’s determination to stand together and fight against a development they say will irreparably ruin the natural landscape, destroy the tourism industry forever and wreck...
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The recently published piece titled ‘The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think' gave me a lot of food for thought for how we relate to the phenomena of addiction, and how society goes about treating it.
As a budding cultural ecologist...
Sarah Levine
Perhaps we could look at acts of direct human-level compassion as complements to, not substitutes for, action on a social or political level.
Charles Eisenstein
The best news for a good Anthropocene is that the human brain is a master at learning and relearning and that “rewiring” takes place all the time. Until old age, learning processes can cancel out old habits. Addictive and behavioral pitfalls can be replaced with new ways of...
Christian Schwägerl
The planet doesn't need saving. We do.
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The Guardian has logged every police killing in America this year, and, as of 1 July 2015, 547 people have been killed by law enforcement. (This video shows the figures up to 29 June 2015, when 545 had been killed.)
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This film explores the practice, the methods and the need for habitat restoration in British Columbia's temperate rainforests. At Central Westcoast Forest Society, we see a clear connection between healthy landscapes and healthy communities. Our coast is one of the most...
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Desiderata poem by Max Ehrmann beautifully illustrated by Gavin Aung Than
Gavin Aung Than
Images circulated, in the aftermath of Dylann Roof’s racially motivated mass shooting at the historically black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, included not only numerous pictures of Roof brandishing the Confederate battle flag but one of him squatting over a rumpled U.S...
Kevin Carson
This knowledge isn't supposed to make us afraid - it's meant to stir our hearts into action - to give us the fire that we can use to save everything we love.
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Does privilege theory offer an adequate lens to challenge oppression and help those it is intended to help?
Both America and the Soviet Union called the Soviet Union a socialist system but for different reasons. America called it a socialist system because it wanted to defame and demonize socialism. The Soviet Union called their government socialist because that was a popular and...
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Is it really surprising that the elite minority would try to convince the majority over which they rule, that democracy = tyranny?
This is a clip taken from the film Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (2009). Watch the full film here.
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This was just awesome. No wonder so many people love Sander's message.
The opening minutes of the July 1st rally was a classic #FeelTheBern moment, delivered to a 10,000 person crowd, the largest of any 2016 presidential rally so far.
Watch the full speech in Part 2.
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"There are no bullets, but it's a war in which people are dying... And the principle weapon, is debt."
This clip is taken from the beginning of the film War By Other Means (1992), by John Pilger. Watch the full documentary online here. It may be over 2 decades old, but it...
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This multi-part video series highlights the impact of systemic racism on our everyday lives. And yeah, it's really a thing.
In each 1 minute video, a different example of systemic racism is covered:
Part 1: Wealth Gap
Part 2: Employment
Part 3: Housing Discrimination
Part...
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In this powerful clip, PolicyLink's Angela Glover Blackwell connects today's unrelenting cases of police violence to systemic causes, underlining the urgency of systemic solutions. "You, as an individual in this society," she concludes, "may not carry personal racism. But...
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In this video we break down in simple terms the only way "those in power" can stay in power. It's not as complex at it may seem. They need us more than we need them.
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The most common words I hear spoken by any environmentalists anywhere are, We’re fucked.
Most of these environmentalists are fighting desperately, using whatever tools they have — or rather whatever legal tools they have, which means whatever tools those in power grant them...
Derrick Jensen
John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, discusses how Greece and other eurozone countries have become the new victims of "economic hit men."
Michael Nevradakis
Ever since Bill Clinton and the World Bank enthusiastically embraced the microfinance concept in the 1990s, we at Local Futures have been skeptical of its benefits, seeing it as part of a whole package of “market solutions” to our social and environmental crises that, in the...
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Ever since the Occupy movement coined the terms “the 1%” and “the 99%” to point out disparities of wealth and power, the gap between rich and poor has received a lot of attention. In his highly-regarded 2014 book, Capital in the Twenty-first Century, for example, Thomas...
Is Canada the global good guy? Let's examine that claim.
MYTH 1) 'Canada is a peacekeeping nation' examines the changes within the Canadian military policies and what has been the agenda of these actions. From the historical beginnings of peacekeeping, to the recent...
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There is an increasing global movement to change colonial place names that refelect changing attitudes toward colonialsim and imperialism and a wish to throw off the schackles of that legacy. In India, the city of Bombay has become Mumbai. In South Africa, the region of...
Syriza’s negotiations with the Troika have fulfilled a pedagogical role : of showing the unwillingness of undemocratic institutions such as the EU and IMF to respect the democratic will of sovereign nation states. Moreover, the unwillingness of the Troika to tie debt...
Joseph Leigh, Lewis Bassett & Michael Walker
It's really not about polar bears any more...
We have a problem. We're flying too much, and it's changing the earth's climate. Aviation is the fastest growing cause of climate change. But instead of doing anything about it, the Government is planning more flights and larger...
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‘Radicalisation’ is our new dirty word in the US and UK, yet radical change is needed. Here’s an idea: stop trying to fix the world with high explosives
Frankie Boyle
This is the truth about the world today: not as it should be, or how it was taught to us in schools, but as it really is.
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Cities are the biggest thing we create. But when we talk about sustainability, there is still surprisingly little discussion about how our cities are designed as a whole.
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MIT's Phil Thompson explains how the struggles against slavery and Jim Crow were not just about reaffirming human rights, but also about transforming the economy.
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What would happen if the United States suddenly stopped building walls and instead flung open its borders, not unlike the European Union has done among the member countries of the common market? Conservatives malign the notion and liberals, even radical ones, haven't exactly...
Roque Planas
Asking this waiter "how the streak comes" meets with an unexpected answer.
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