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Minds can change. This was proven during a lengthy hearing in the Wisconsin State Assembly about a bill that would criminalize life saving, medically necessary gender-affirming healthcare for transgender and non-binary youth. An elderly man showed up to testify in support of...
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In this video Hasan talks about AOC and Bernie.
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Alvaro Bedoya was investigating Amazon, X, and Walmart as an FTC commissioner. He’s also been a key ally of former FTC Chair Lina Khan. Donald Trump just illegally fired him and the only Democratic commissioner, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter.
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THE ENCAMPMENTS follows student organizers at elite universities, including the recently detained Mahmoud Khalil, as they take a historic stand against their institutions’ investments in the Gaza genocide. While originally scheduled for later release, we have chosen to bring...
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Stoicism is the most misunderstood school of philosophy. Right down to the way we use it in the English language. This beautiful school of thought, designed to help us live a virtuous life in service of others has been bastardized and corrupted by marketers.
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US Vice President JD Vance gave a speech about globalization that inadvertently revealed the truth about the US empire, the goal behind the new cold war on China, the economics of imperialism, and how the Trump administration is serving billionaire Big Tech oligarchs in...
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What astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever – here’s what it taught him.
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The new book Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful by The New York Times business investigations editor David Enrich chronicles an ongoing campaign by the wealthy and powerful to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision...
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The full story about immigration you aren't getting from politicians and the media.
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Usually the reason given for austerity, or lack of government spending on services and infrastructure is that there simply isn’t enough money - we must simply tighten our belts. The typical leftist response to this is that we should just tax the rich in order to generate the...
We recently posed a simple question to our community on Facebook: How can we make America great? We got hundreds of comments.
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Donald Trump has threatened to colonize Greenland and make it a US territory, even though 85% of people there oppose this. Ben Norton explains the geopolitical and economic reasons: the USA wants to block China from the Arctic region and to profit from the territory's natural...
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"At the core of their current illiberal power grab is the weaponization of the liberal value of anti-bigotry and specifically anti-Semitism. They are stripping the rights of all freedom loving people - citizen and non - in the US in the name of targeting anti-Semitism...
Paul Graham’s recent essay on “wokeness” is useful—not because it offers an entirely sound analysis, but because it provides a fascinating case study in ideological blind spots.
Tim Hjersted
Cutting life-saving services to further enrich billionaires and Pentagon contractors is the worst possible option.
Hanna Homestead
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This video unpacks how decades of economic inequality, racial division and propaganda conditioned Americans to accept authoritarianism. From Reaganomics to Trump 2.0, we explore the rise of corporate fascism and the forces behind it.- TRUTH IS SPEAKING
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Two-thirds of people in California’s 22nd Congressional district rely on Medicaid. But the majority of the district also voted to elect President Trump in 2024. We went to talk to residents to see what they think about Trump’s proposed cuts to Medicaid. One Trump voter told...
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“If veterans can unlearn the propaganda, there’s hope for humanity.” Rebecca Roberts joined the Air National Guard thinking she would help her community. Instead she got stationed at a drone base in Djibouti. This is Rebecca’s story about how her deployment to East Africa...
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Glenn Greenwald on how the US Constitution does not confer rights on certain groups of people - but rather constrains the government from acting on persons, regardless of their citizenship.
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Voters are mad and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders is voicing his frustration with Democratic leadership (namely Chuck Schumer) as Schumer and 9 other Democratic senators sided with Donald Trump's Republicans in passing the recent funding bill. But this anger, both from...
The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a clear violation of international law. It meets the definition of a war crime under the UN Charter’s prohibition on the use of force, barring cases of self-defense.¹
How a marathon conversation turned into a conspiratorial manifesto—unchecked claims about Democrats, voting, and immigration, fact-checked and debunked.
Jane Prescott
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Are Ivy League sellouts and finance bros ruining America? My video dives deep into how neoliberal elites and American liberals have turned U.S. elite institutions into factories for corporate sellouts, churning out McKinsey consultants, investment bankers, and private equity...
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Trump wants to demolish FEMA and says the states will take care of disasters themselves. To test this theory, we talked to the West Virginians who have been slammed by historic flooding in recent weeks.
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We found the waste Elon Musk and DOGE won’t cut: it’s defense contractors. The Department of Defense funnels $450 billion of taxpayer dollars a year to private military contractors. But Musk is too focused on cutting DEI initiatives (0.01% of the size of the defense budget)...
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As our political reality gets increasingly surreal and chaotic, it’s becoming harder and harder to make sense of things. But according to the theory of hypernormalization, the lack of a coherent sense is actually the point. And if we look at how this concept was used in the...
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The United States is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the world’s weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US transferred seven times more than China, and five times more than Russia. Ben Norton explains how the military-industrial complex profits from war.
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The hosts of ‘Pod Save America’ talked about Bernie Sanders’s ‘Fight the Oligarchy’ tour and how effective his politics have proven to be in the latest episode of their podcast. They also pointed out that they were criticized by online leftists after showing support for...
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Freedom means nothing to these extremists. If Texas really believes in "don't tread on anyone," they'll rally against this abuse of state power on principle alone.
Elon Musk’s attack on empathy is an old reactionary trick. First, he sets it up with a weak disclaimer:
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On March 7, 2025 Chris Hedges returned to The Sanctuary for Independent Media to present "Normalizing Genocide and the New World Order," a talk about how the world has changed since the genocide in Gaza began, how we navigate a world without rules or humanitarian law and how...
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This was pulled from my last livestream, which you can watch via Part 2.
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Some thoughts about loneliness. - Fads
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Yapping about return-to-office movements, work from home policies, remote + hybrid work and all sorts lol
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John Oliver discusses ICE detention facilities, who’s in them, who runs them, and how immigration has become another for-profit business.
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Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a self-declared “crusader” who believes the USA is in a “holy war” against China, the left, and Islam. “Communist China will fall”, he vowed in his 2020 book “American Crusade”, promising, “Israel and America will form an even...
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In a 21 February speech in the European Parliament, renowned professor Jeffrey Sachs presents a detailed historical and geopolitical analysis of U.S. foreign policy and its consequences, particularly in relation to NATO expansion, the Ukraine war, and European...
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The Document that Created our Modern Oligarchy
Alright folks. Real talk. We’ve reached a point where the top 1% owns more than the bottom 90% combined. That’s not a bug in the system—it’s the system working exactly as designed.
Tim Hjersted
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This video discusses why right-wing political parties often focus on anti-LGBTQ+ policies and rhetoric. Mark Cusack, a former political advisor and LGBTQ+ advocate, explains that these parties primarily support the interests of the wealthy and big businesses. They face a...
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WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Thursday spoke on the U.S. Senate floor to expose the unprecedented corruption of the Trump administration’s first six weeks in office. Murphy condemned Trump’s normalization of pay-to-play politics, where billionaire donors...
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Nvidia’s CEO is dodging $8 billion in taxes — legally. He's using estate tax loopholes. Closing them, and taxing the ultra-wealthy, is the only thing that will stop a new American oligarchy. But Trump wants to eliminate the estate tax altogether.
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“Trust the parents to do what's right and stop these crazy bills. They're a waste of time. They're a waste of energy. We should be working on property tax relief and not doing this sort of business,” Rep Sherry Essmann said following Zephyr’s speech.
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Yapping about wealth inequality cause it's my roman empire.
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Since the rise of the MAGA movement, people have consistently called Trump and the movement fascist. But are they? In this video, we use the frameworks of the three leading scholars of fascism; Umberto Eco, Robert Paxton, and Roger Griffin, to determine whether Trump and the...
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Revolution or Death is a three-part collaboration between Peter Gelderloos and subMedia. Part 1, 'Short Term Investments,’ examines the official response to the climate crisis and how it's failing.
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Have you ever asked yourself why the right talks the way it talks? George Lakoff may have the answer. - Metaphorical Matters
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BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, is buying the ports on both sides of the Panama Canal, after Donald Trump threatened the Latin American country and forced it to pressure a Hong Kong company to sell its stake. Ben Norton discusses how the US government is trying...
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This was a talk I gave at the Workers Strike Back conference in Seattle earlier this week.
Over a million federal workers refused to comply with Musk’s email ultimatum last week, offering a glimpse of what mass noncooperation can look like.
Daniel Hunter
Because of the structure of American society and politics, the Democratic Party is the only institution positioned to challenge, defeat, and reverse the Trump administration’s ongoing destruction of our constitutional order.
Alan Minsky
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“When we get back, which we will – we'll fight – I’ll tell you what people are going to expect is they're not going to expect us to tinker around the edge with the ACA [Affordable Care Act.] They're going to expect universal health care," Walz said.
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For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel's occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.
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Donald Trump's fight with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House reflected how the US treats Ukraine as a colony. Trump is demanding control of the country's rare earths and critical minerals, to weaken China, re-industrialize, and build tech products. Trump...
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John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in Political Science and Co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, assesses the causes of the present Ukraine crisis, the best way to end it, and its...
The cynical choreography of empire follows a familiar script: first, a nation is shattered by war; next, the vultures descend to divide the spoils.
Make Earth Great Again (MEGA) exists to support and amplify the movements that are actively working towards a just, regenerative, free and egalitarian world. MEGA seeks to reclaim the Earth from corporate globalization and create a society that honors all beings on the...
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Dear Democrats, Do not move to the center! Sincerely, Someone who has watched you do this after every election loss the past 50 years. - Robert Reich
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“It was a blatant f***ing lie.” That’s what Jamie Santiago, a former US Army geospatial engineer, told us her message to prospective recruits was. During her service in the US occupation of Iraq, she met Iraqis who made her realize everything she was told about the war was a lie.
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From Brasília to Budapest, a global network of far-right forces has grown to include parties and politicians, judges and journalists, foundations and financiers, academics and oligarchs. This is the Reactionary International — far more powerful, and far more insidious, than...
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First we got a mafia economy. Then we got a mafia state. We must rid ourselves of the ruling criminal class or become its victims.
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The US government's talks with Russia are more about China than Ukraine. Donald Trump admitted he wants to "un-unite" Russia and China, in a reverse of the divide-and-conquer strategy used by Nixon and Kissinger in the 1970s. Will Trump succeed? Ben Norton explains why the...
"The Democratic Socialists of America condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and demands immediate diplomacy and de-escalation to resolve this crisis. We stand in solidarity with the working classes of Ukraine and Russia who will undoubtedly bear the brunt of this war, and...
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Donald Trump’s dismantling of the deep state presages the formation of something far worse.
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The Australien Government has made an ad to announce the 2025 election, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
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Black feminist and reproductive justice organizer Loretta J. Ross has spent decades dealing with people she fundamentally disagrees with, starting with an encounter she had as a young sexual assault survivor. She was working as a rape counselor when she received a letter from...
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The war in Ukraine has exposed the double standards of European migration laws applied to women, children and men of different nationalities, mainly non-European.
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Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich debunks the three big myths that trickle-down economics is based on.
Trump winning twice is not an accident. It’s the result of the abject failure of a [liberal] political strategy that ignores financial reform and attempts to nudge the Democratic Party forward based more on identity than class.
Les Leopold
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In this important webinar, we share how to create a strategy for storytelling that rapidly scales to regenerate the Earth.
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Argentina's President Javier Milei, a self-declared libertarian and "anarcho-capitalist", is promoting crypto scams and overseeing rapid deindustrialization. Manufacturing and construction are collapsing, while the financial sector, mining, and agriculture grow.
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There's nothing that Israel won't do in the name of revenge and the relentless pursuit of Zionism. Let’s be crystal clear: when a state cloaks its brutality as self-defense, it's not safeguarding Jews—it's endangering us all by weaponizing our history. The narrative that...
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In this video we look at Italy's longest running factory occupation, of the GKN automotive plant in Florence / Firenze Italy, which is now in its third year. After all 422 workers were laid off by email in 2021 during the pandemic, the workers have occupied the space and...
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Hi. Donald Trump's relentless executive orders and illegal slashing of federal funding are already hurting Americans, including his own voters. - Cody Johnston
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Bernie Sanders has some harsh truths for the American people: there may be no going back after Trump’s second term. He argues that the only way to save democracy at this point is for “millions” of Americans to stand up to Donald Trump by taking to the streets.
Tearing down the few allies we have in power is a gift to the establishment. The problem isn't their imperfections. It's that there's only a few of them instead of hundreds.
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Harper O’Connor’s video tackles one of the biggest challenges for leftist discourse: persuasion. Many on the left are well-read and thoughtful, yet they struggle to communicate their ideas effectively. O’Connor argues that no matter how strong an argument is, if it isn’t...
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John Oliver discusses the first four weeks of Donald Trump’s second term as president, the strategy behind some of the choices his administration has made and why it is indeed fuck time. You heard us: It’s fuck time.
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What we aren't taught about the Black Panther Party.
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For months, Democrats insisted the economy was thriving—unemployment was low, GDP was growing, and stock prices were soaring. Meanwhile, Republicans painted a picture of crisis—rampant inflation, unaffordable housing, and a middle class struggling to survive. Two sides, two...
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What does a rain jacket or a pan have to do with our health and environment? A lot. They can contain "forever chemicals” or PFAS, which are seriously harmful and never degrade. We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way.
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"A masterpiece! By far the most inspiring economics film I have ever seen. This film is a gift to humanity. Everyone should watch it." - Prof. Jason HickelAn intrepid group of economists is on a mission to flip our understanding of the national debt upside down.FINDING THE...
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Christian Picciolini, a former leader of the American white-supremacist skinhead movement, explores how so many young people are recruited into violent extremist ideologies and how he now works to pull people out of hate movements.
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There is a direct connection between the way the right wing is using the term "DEI" and the way bigots have used the n-word for 200 years. In this video, I trace the history of the most notorious slur in American history to the way "DEI" and "CRT" and other words are being...
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Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear blast the notion that Donald Trump is "anti-war," exposing both his call for the US to "take over the Gaza Strip" and the real motives behind his and Elon Musk’s defunding of USAID. They explain how Israel failed to seize control of Gaza, yet...
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Trump and the billionaires are using the attack on DEI and “woke” policies as a Trojan horse for all-out war against Black America. They’re targeting the achievements and reforms of the civil rights movement, which expanded democracy for all U.S. residents. The stage is now...
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For generations, Monopoly has been America’s favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and — for better or worse — the impulses that make our free-market society tick. But behind the myth of the game’s creation is an untold tale of theft, obsession and...
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Stoking fears of “Negro Rule,” self-described white supremacists used intimidation and violence to destroy Black political and economic power and overthrow Wilmington, North Carolina’s democratically-elected government in 1898. Black residents were murdered and thousands were...
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Billionaire CEOs and political donors want to get Lina Khan fired. As chair of the FTC, she’s taken on Amazon, Kroger, Microsoft, Meta, Airbnb, and more. She’s challenging powerful corporations like never before — and they’re terrified.
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Before the war, Hamada Shaqoura was a food blogger. Now, he spends his days cooking to feed children and displaced people in Gaza. And he figured out a way to reach millions on social media without saying a word. His intense stare at the camera as he cooks various dishes has...
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Some of the wealthiest Americans use a strategy called Buy, Borrow, Die to dramatically reduce their tax bills while their fortunes continue to grow. This video is part of ProPublica’s series, “The Secret IRS Files” which reveals, using a trove of never-before-seen records...
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For decades, U.S. imperialism has operated not just through military force but through a vast system of economic coercion, media manipulation, and covert operations. The World Bank, IMF, and USAID present themselves as tools of development, but in reality, they enforce...
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Credit card companies are robbing us. In the last decade, they have nearly doubled their interest rates — and last year, Americans paid $170 billion in credit card interest. A former employee told us the companies operate like “loan sharks."
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In the last year, there were over 500 near-misses by major commercial airlines. We talked to air traffic controllers and found out the reason is simple: controllers are working 10 hour shifts, 6 days a week, with mandatory overtime.