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As tensions remain high in the Middle East, prepare to hear the phrase "only democracy in the region" regarding Israel's presence. Israel's attack on Lebanon has left nearly a million people displaced. Their continued bombardment of Gaza now boasts a death toll of over 41,000...
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"Socialism Always Fails" is a claim I hear frequently. More often than not, when someone deploys this quip, it's meant to end any further conversation about socialism so they don't have to contend with some hard facts. Instead of asking "Does socialism fail?", we should ask...
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Maine could rein in super PACs and put limits on donations for the first time. Unlimited billionaire and corporate spending on elections has been crushing our democracy.
81 min
This feature length investigation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year long conflict.
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It isn't even subtle. -Owen Jones
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Chomsky on conservatives focusing all their anger on the government, while ignoring private power.
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Israel is once again rejecting global calls for a ceasefire. But this time, they’re not for Gaza. They’re for Lebanon – where Israel has now launched a violent and reckless escalation in their almost year-long cross-fire battle with Hezbollah.
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This video essay looks at the destruction of Gaza as an ecocide and genocide perpetrated by settler colonial Zionism. More broadly, the video dives into how oil and gas have fueled conflict in West Asia, and how Israel has acted as an anchor for United States imperialist...
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It's always the people you most medium suspect.
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How The US Hides Its Global Empire – Second Thought
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If you’re looking for more information on what we could accomplish with the next climate-focused US Presidential term, check out the new and improved Evergreen Action Plan 2.0: https://evergreenaction.com/initiatives/a-bold-climate-plan-evergreen-action-plan-2
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The "real" US Government has made an ad about the 2024 election and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅
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Oftentimes the idea of “wokeness” or “woke” ideology, whether calling it as such or acknowledging its existence, can be thought of as coinage of the right wing. Christian Parenti, professor at John Jay College, journalist and author, joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of...
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Israel is bombing Lebanon, with staunch US support. An Israeli minister vowed that "Lebanon will be annihilated". Ben Norton analyzes the colonial war, explains the origins of Hezbollah, and provides historical context.
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Israel killed many people in Lebanon by putting explosives in pagers and walkie-talkies, in what was condemned internationally as a terrorist attack. This is already backfiring, hurting Western technology companies. Ben Norton discusses how this act of war will fragment...
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Since Hamas militants killed around 1,200 people in Israel on 7 October 2023, extremist Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank are increasingly using violence to seize land and property which is forcing many Palestinians from their homes.
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As the US election looms, Elon Musk’s erratic and sometimes dangerous posts have made him one of the biggest purveyors of disinformation on his platform. How is the world’s richest man using his influence to shape the American political debate?
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The US push to create seats for Africa on the UN Security Council – without veto power – is “an insult to 1.4 billion Africans,” argues the former African Union ambassador to the US, Arikana Chihombori-Quao.
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The Heritage Foundation is the organization spearheading Project 2025. Heritage's president, Kevin Roberts, wrote the Foreword for Project 2025. JD Vance, wrote the Foreword for Roberts's upcoming book, which was delayed due to the election. JD Vance's Foreword, however, has...
It would really warm my heart if these concepts were more popular in the left:
Jonathan Matthew Smucker
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Drawing on his intimate knowledge of resistance and repression, Hedges detailed the methods we need to adopt to defeat the powerful interests, including the fossil fuel industry and the animal agriculture industry, which have placed their profits above the protection of our...
Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative (SA) party have, for nearly a decade, waged one of the most effective battles against the city’s moneyed elites. She and the SA have adopted a series of unorthodox methods to fight the ruling oligarchs...
Chris Hedges
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Jonathan Smucker explains How to Not Be an Activist. Keynote talk from Personal Democracy Forum 2017
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BlackRock and other asset managers are profiting off of every aspect of your life. It's not a conspiracy — it's an open restructuring of society.
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The vast majority of the world voted at the UN General Assembly to demand an end to Israel's unlawful occupation of Palestinian territory within 12 months, with 124 countries (64%) in favor, 14 (7%) against, and 43 (22%) abstentions.
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When it comes to the question of how we organise the land we inhabit and the resources therein, we’re presented with two paths: privatisation or nationalisation. The capitalist or the State. But an alternative exists in the commons, and it is no tragedy.
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We need a social revolution to build a better future. But how is that process carried out? What tactics and strategies are needed to fundamentally transform the socioeconomic and political order?
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Imagine if such an attack had been launched on Israel. Imagine the response.
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Donald Trump left office with the lowest approval rating of any president ever. But some people now seem to be suffering from amnesia. Let me jog your memory. -Robert Reich
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As the climate crisis continues to accelerate, wealthy governments in the West are clamping down on climate protest. According to a new report from Climate Rights International, demonstrators around the world are being arrested, charged, prosecuted and silenced, simply for...
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In this lengthy video essay, I outline why I feel that the MAGA movement (and the alt-right) is a neo-fascist political movement at its core. - AJ Rodriguez
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"Cancel culture" and "political correctness" are right-wing phenomena which today are dressed up in left wing language and symbols, and which serve to reinforce relationships of power and dominance between managers and workers.
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The terms "cancel culture" and "political correctness" are used to delegitimize ideas like gender equality and racial equality by conflating them with toxic dominance behaviour practiced by up-and-coming elites dressing up their power seeking goals in egalitarian social...
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If Donald Trump gets back into office, every part of the government will be turned into an arm of his MAGA agenda. How? Project 2025.
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Most journalists and academics don't even know what left and right really mean, or why it's so important to get it right - but you will after you listen to this.
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How can people who don't have official decision-making power exert their influence over those who do?
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Politics is the only practical discipline where none of the basic concepts have clear consensus definitions. This is why everything is so dumb.
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The song that could save America. Share widely.
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The inside story of 2020. The HBO Original Documentary #StoppingTheSteal premieres September 17 on @StreamOnMax.
A Kamala Harris presidency will not fundamentally change the neo-liberal status quo, but what wins can we get?
Vincent Pagliaccio
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In the latest episode of ‘Mehdi Unfiltered,’ Mehdi breaks down one of Donald Trump’s most fascistic plans: using the U.S. military to crush dissent. He discusses Trump’s plan to invoke the Insurrection Act to crack down on protesters with former Obama Defense Department...
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The same week France arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, the "President of the Rich" Emmanuel Macron stole the 2024 election, refusing to allow the left-wing New Popular Front that won to form a government, instead appointing a prime minister from a right-wing party that got...
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"Trump did try and start new wars, expanded old wars, increased drone strikes, and helped do a genocide in the Middle East."
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Krystal and Saagar are joined by Jeremy Scahill to discuss Bibi sabotaging ceasefire proposals with Hamas.
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This is a bombshell warning. - Owen Jones
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Krystal Ball discusses Israel self destructing their economy amid the escalating tensions with Iran.
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Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez replied to a question on Instagram asking about the Green Party, and had some things to say.
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Unlike the Uncommitted movement which seeks compromise with the DNC on Gaza, the Abandon Harris movement believes Democrats must be defeated in November in order to exercise any real leverage. “Do not be deceived by the rhetoric that there is a lesser evil when it comes to...
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For decades, world leaders have said that the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is simple: two states – Israel and Palestine – next to each other. But if the answer is so simple, what’s stopping it from happening? And is it even the right solution?
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Elliott County, Kentucky voted for Democrats for 144 years straight. Then, the county flipped to Trump…while simultaneously voting for Democratic Governor Andy Beshear. So what does this county have to tell us about this political moment?
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A secretive, high-tech gerrymandering initiative launched 10 years ago threatens to undermine our democracy. SLAY THE DRAGON follows everyday people as they fight to make their votes matter.
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With the recent surprise win for the left in the French elections, some may be tempted to think fascism is on the back foot. Unfortunately, that's not the case. Let's take a look at the state of rising fascism in Europe.
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"Everyone should be hoping for his downfall."
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Narrated by Rosario Dawson. Produced by Martin Sheen and Maria Florio (Oscar, Best Documentary).
"It was a journey into an alternative universe of political guile from a president who just six days earlier had approved sending $20 billion worth of more weapons to Israel. Yet the Biden delegates in the convention hall responded with a crescendo of roaring admiration."
Norman Solomon
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This year, the Democratic National Convention held its first-ever panel on Palestinian human rights. The panel came after persistent grassroots organizing against U.S. support for Israel’s assault on Gaza.
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On October 22nd, 2023, James Talarico spoke at his home church in Texas about the dangers of Christian Nationalism.
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Kamala Harris announced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate! This is the best possible pick—and it’s a decision that’s been applauded by conservative and progressive Democrats. In this video Mike reacts to the announcement and explains why Tim Walz has crossover...
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In this clip from Mike's Twitch stream we talk about potential VP options for Kamala Harris, and Mike makes the case for Tim Walz and against Josh Shapiro.
We need a human rights movement that challenges the orthodoxy of market capitalism, writes Peter Joseph.
Peter Joseph
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The US is once again facilitating a far right coup of the Venezuelan government. BreakThrough News breaks down everything you need to know.
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz represents a midwest state, has charisma, great politics, and has accomplished a lot with just a 1-seat majority. He'd be the perfect running mate for Kamala Harris.
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"They scream socialism? We just build roads, and we build schools. and we build prosperity into this. Their whole plan is go backwards to give tax cuts to the wealthy." - Tim WalzSupport The Show On Patreon!: https://www.patreon.com/seculartalk
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John Oliver discusses the wave of people claiming there’s a wave of “migrant crime,” where the term came from, and what we can do next.
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Trump says if Christians vote for him in 2024 they won't have to vote ever again.
Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.~Matthew Desmond[1]The issue of housing is of fundamental importance that has a direct connection, among other basic rights, to democratic participation. Despite that (or because...
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Donald Trump keeps comparing himself to Jesus. Whether he actually has a messiah complex or is just conning his supporters, he's playing to a growing GOP faction that wants America to be a white Christian Nationalist state, with Donald Trump as a divine ruler. Be Warned.
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What makes a fascist? -Rejecting democracy for a strongman -Stoking rage against cultural elites -Nationalism based on “superior” race -Glorifying strength and warriors -Disdain of women and LGBTQ+ people
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Praying for Armageddon goes inside the evangelical Christian movement to explore its influence on US democracy and foreign policy. Preparing for the "end times", a grassroots pastor gathers an army of veterans in the heartland of the United States, and megachurch ministers...
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Marvel's Loki shows us what fascism looks like, and how it comes to take root within innocuous conservatism.
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To understand the current war in Gaza, you have learn about the founding of the state of Israel and what that meant for the Palestinians who had been living there. Before Benjamin Netanyahu or Hamas, there was Zionism, the Balfour Declaration and the Nakba. This is how Israel...
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There has never been a US president like Donald Trump — and now he’s back, this time with a detailed plan for his second coming. Nearly four years after he was cast out by voters and accused of encouraging the American people to assault their own democracy with the attack on...
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Once upon a time, the GOP stood for limited government. But now it stands only for Trump and his authoritarian neofascism. It demands total loyalty to him. The party’s demise is on full display at this week’s Republican National Convention.
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“Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it" - J.D. VanceBrian Tyler Cohen's new book is called SHAMELESS: https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/shameless
Yesterday's assassination attempt on Donald Trump points to a profound sickness in American political life, whose threats don't discriminate by party or ideology.
Branko Marcetic
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On June 25, 2024, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was able to walk free following a deal with the US government. Does this surprising end to the publisher’s many years of criminal prosecution and imprisonment signal a positive outcome for press freedom?
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Lowkey releases his new track 'Genocide Joe' featuring Mai Khalil.
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From air strikes to field executions, Fault Lines investigates the killings of civilians by the Israeli military in Gaza and the role of the United States in the war.
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The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative
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In less than a month, Republicans will meet in Milwaukee to crown Donald Trump as their Emperor King and Sun God. But the real powers behind the GOP — the billionaires and their institutions that created Project 2025 as a how-to manual to convert American democracy into...
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Could Trump actually turn America into a fascist state? Yes. Here's how, in five steps.
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Trump will cut taxes for billionaires and stick you with the bill. Here are five things you need to know about Trumponomics.
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Bush's Texas Solution: Tough on Crime Policies and Their Impact
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"The thing that stands out for me the most when watching the deeply moving footage of Julian Assange arriving home to Australia is how impossible this all felt… until it happened." - Caitlin Johnstone
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In Mehdi Hasan's latest monologue, he unpacks how and why AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, one of the most powerful lobbying group in the US, is spending record amounts of money to topple - not for the first time - a pro-Palestinian Congressman.
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The impact of war is so much more than just the emissions from tanks, ships and warplanes - modern warfare has a devastating effect on people and the planet. So, what is the scale of planetary destruction wrought by militaries? And in a world where nations justify war on the...
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Everything we warned about has come to pass. - Owen Jones
I gave this talk in Blackburn, England during a campaign event for my friend Craig Murray who is running for parliament. Like George Galloway, who was recently elected to parliament, Craig’s central campaign issue is the genocide in Gaza. He calls for a permanent ceasefire...
Chris Hedges
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A battle for the future of democracy is raging in Greg Abbott's Texas. In the summer of 2023, amid a deadly, record-breaking global heatwave, Republican Governor Abbott signed a bill that eliminated mandated water breaks for outdoor workers. When TRNN's Marc Steiner traveled...
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Protestant minister, social activist, and Yale Divinity School professor Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss his latest book, “White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy.”
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This 1Dime documentary is about the history and evolution of US Democracy, based on the political theory of Sheldon Wolin and his book “Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism” and the Expanded Edition of his book “Politics and...
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EXPOSED: Britain's Secret Role in Gaza
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If you are not sure, why the vote this year will be important, take a listen to this video. The animation has been done in OpenToonz The reading has been done with help of Voicemaker.in
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U.S. media and politicians have spoken out ad nauseam about the alleged anti-semitism on display at ceasefire protests. Not only do they fail to distinguish between antizionism (which is not antisemitism) and antisemitism, but they refuse to cover the the violence and hate...
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Seven and half months on, and Israel is staring a catastrophic defeat. - Owen Jones
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While all eyes are on Gaza...
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US Presidential candidate Dr Cornel West is a philosopher and prominent advocate for social and racial justice. He’s taught at some of the top universities in the US including Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, but has one major plan if he becomes President: to “dismantle the...
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The ways of war are changing. Artificial intelligence is used to bomb families in Gaza. Flying drones are deployed to track down refugees on the US-Mexico border. But the biggest change is the one we talk about the least: the privatization of war.