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Scenes of Reason host Charlotte Jacobs, sits down with the ex-chair of Liberal Youth Kavya Kaushik and asks the very simple yet unanswered questions; Who actually are the Liberal Democrats? What does that even mean? Why should we vote for them in the 2015 General Election.
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First shown at the Curzon Soho as part of the Latin American Film Festival, this 2006 documentary explores the common struggles of the indigenous peoples of Latin America for land, civil liberties and true democratic representation, and finds inspiration in the successes of...
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What was life really like in Saddam’s Iraq? Filmed just before the first Gulf war, it depicts a prosperous and sophisticated society in which every aspect of life is coloured by ‘love’ for the ‘Great Leader’. Darkly ironic, this film captures the surreal and Orwellian nature...
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Thousands of private soldiers operate in Iraq alone... and many more around the world. These individuals, known as private security contractors, are changing the face of modern warfare everyday while their world has remained mystery to those at home. Shadow Company is the...
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Anthropology, the study of humankind, should be the first of all the sciences our children encounter, writes Marc Brightman, with its singular capacity to inspire the imagination, broaden the mind and open the heart. Moves to downgrade it in the education system by those who...
Marc Brightman
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Robert Reich breaks down the 3 biggest economic myths.
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"Reefer Madness" (originally made as Tell Your Children and sometimes titled as The Burning Question, Dope Addict, Doped Youth and Love Madness) is a 1936-1939 American propaganda exploitation film revolving around the melodramatic events that ensue when high school students...
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Following the tragic assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, there was widespread turmoil throughout the nation's urban centers. On the night of April 5th, James Brown brought the city of Boston together and kept the riots at bay. But it wasn't easy.
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On April 5, 1968, soul legend James Brown performed a concert in Boston that many say shielded that city from the kinds of devastating riots that ripped other cities apart after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Rising Up are a collective of individuals and organisations working together in response to the threat faced by MetroBus road development at Stapleton Allotments and small holdings, including Feed Bristol. This prime agricultural land is under imminent threat of being...
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In response to graffiti artist Banksy's Gaza tourist video, the Gaza Parkour team show us what real life is like there and their dreams beyond the border. To the sounds of Palestine's biggest female hip-hop artist, Shadia Mansour, join Abdallah AlQassab and the rest of the...
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We cannot know what the future will bring, but we can use the idea of the future to look at the present in new light.
I hope that one day I might have grandchildren. If I am really lucky I might even live long enough to get to talk to my grandchildren when they are adults...
Danny Dorling
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The world's amazing white-sand beaches are made from coral reefs that parrot fish chew off and excrete, and the beautiful tiny star-shaped shells of discoaster plankton. Coral and sea shells are calcium carbonate CaCO3. They sequester carbon. Scientists report that half the...
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Rebellion is spreading across the UK’s “gulag archipelago” of migration prisons.
Hunger strikes and yard occupations and other prote
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Trailer for This Way of Life - www.thiswayoflifemovie.com (See second tab for a 12 min clip from the film.)
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Soaring with the Boy Who Flies: Godfrey Masauli, the one and only paraglider pilot in his native Malawi, visits Oregon to sharpen his skills both in the air, and on the ground as a messenger of poss
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A mentally ill man who was beaten by guards and sent to the hospital details his abuse in a private immigration detention facility. SUBSCRIBE
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A documentary about the Gregory Witman murder case and about two heart-broken parents. Their 13-year-old son, Gregory, was murdered on Oct. 2, 1998. They've lost friends who could not understand their unwavering belief that their older son, Zachary, did not kill his brother...
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Iraq may seem like an insoluble mess, but there is a simple step the US government can take to make everything much easier. In this video we use the Austro-Hungarian Empire to demonstrate how.
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CHAPTER ONE
Major General Smedley Butler
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Does calling out your friends take moral courage? You bet it does.
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The coalition was given trusteeship of nearly 20 billion dollars of Iraq's money, nearly all of it was spent with no accountability and records. Fraud and corruption rampantly consumed much of these funds. Paul Bremer who headed the Coalition Provisional Authority made...
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"I know what it is like to lose your liberty, to lose control, to have to submit to the will of your captors," says journalist Yvonne Ridley about her experience as a captive of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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More than 51 million Americans are likely invested in guns, and don't even realize it. Talk to your financial advisor about how to divest your retirement savings from the gun industry. In the 15 years since the Columbine shooting, more than 1.4 million Americans have been...
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Profit-driven approaches to our energy supply are not working. Emissions continue to rise and our climate is rapidly changing. How can we move toward “energy democracy,” shifting to a more sustainable, equitable energy system? And what’s the role of trade unions in getting us...
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Residents of a housing estate in Barnet have held a further day of protest over plans to redevelop the area. Many of those living on the Sweets Way Estate have been moved out ahead of work to build new luxury flats on the site. Protesters have called the evictions “social...
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A set of Supreme Court decisions made over 100 years ago has left U.S. territories without meaningful representation. That's weird, right?
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After more than two and a half years of war, Syria is destroyed by the agony of bombs. The revolution, borned with democracy and freedom’s aims, has slowly turned into an islamist war for the land’s control. The Free Syrian Army has crumbled and, day after day, the jihadist...
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For three weeks now, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has been shaken by a wave of student protests against the neoliberalization of higher education and the lack of democratic account
Jerome Roos
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This is an edited excerpt the feature length documentary This Changes Everything.
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On February 22, 2015, three months after the murder of 12 year old Tamir Rice by a police officer, New Yorkers gathered at Nicholas Heyward, Jr, Park in Brooklyn to hold a candlelight vigil for unarmed children killed by police. Join the fight for our #StolenChildren.
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A modern-day Grapes of Wrath, award-winning documentary The Overnighters is an intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota. With the town lacking the infrastructure to house the overflow...
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Across the globe, countless women are standing up to the ravages of climate change – and to the governments and big businesses who are allowing it to destroy the world
"I give you a message from my heart," she says, "let's move forward and work together for the benefit of...
Jon Queally
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Es gibt eine Insel, so weitab der Zivilisation, dass sie es verdient, vor dem Ruin verschont zu werden. Jedoch wird das Leben auf dieser Insel und in dem sie umgebenden Meer durch die Ignoranz und Habgier der modernen Kultur so offensichtlich vernichtet, dass es nicht mehr...
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Love chocolate? Then you might want to give this clip a miss... Making a chocolate bar (and many other things like clothes, electronics and footballs) involves an unpleasant little secret that may make you think twice next time you're looking for a snack...
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The following is largely extracted from two articles:
A superstition is an easy-to-understand concept that has no basis in reality. Believing a superstition blocks the perception of more useful possibilities. But superstitions are not called superstitions until they are recognized as superstitions. Before then they are regarded...
Humanity’s Visible and Ambiguous Maze
“I am tired, every day I must believe and hope, there is a moment where you say, I am tired” Jury, local biological produce market owner of Tierra Una, expresses with her voice and eyes.
Jury, is one of the many business owners...
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Painting with Chris Dyer from Positive Creations click here: http://youtu.be/SZKPxRob62c Brendon McKeon.........................Permaculture Designer Chris Dyer....................................Artist Stephen Orth................................Video Production Painting...
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Every morning I read my one-year-old daughter a fabulous children's alphabet book. When we get to the letter F, it goes "F is for Feminist, Fairness in our Pay." Of course a children's book is limited in its ability to express nuanced layers of analysis, but I often wonder...
Harsha Walia
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Harry is worried about what's happening in the world. His candidness inspires Samantha to get radically honest about the effects of using outdated thoughtware. A film from www.nextculture.org
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A six-part documentary series from Al Jazeera profiling architects who are using design as a form of activism and resistance to tackle the world's urban, environmental and social crises. The series follows architects from Vietnam, Nigeria, Spain, Pakistan, Israel/Occupied...
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Meet Matthew Fogg, a former U.S. Marshal whose exploits led him to be nicknamed "Batman." When he noticed that all of his team's drug raids were in black areas, he suggested doing the same in the suburbs. His boss didn't take kindly to the idea.
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WATCH THE FULL MOVIE AT http://igg.me/at/journeytolucidity - Visit the Crowd Funding to Help Support the Ongoing Saga - The next chapter in the ongoing visceral consciousness shifting documentary saga through the experience and adventure of the Lucidity Festival, interwoven...
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Forget the so-called ‘pause’ in global warming—new research says we might be in for an era of deeply accelerated heating.
While the rate of atmospheric warming in recent years has, indeed, slowed due to various natural weather cycles—hence the skeptics’ droning on about...
Nafeez Ahmed
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Synopsis: The story of the most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet, and the people who tried to stop it. In 1937 HG Wells predicted the creation of the "World Brain", a giant global library that contained all human knowledge which would lead to a new form of...
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Teenager and local community activist Luke Holland takes on an officer from West Midlands Police after over five officers are sent to McDonald's in Birmingham's Cherry Street to remove an allgedly homeless man who was reportedly sleeping in the restaurant. The 17-year-old...
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While the vast majority of Americans consider themselves unprejudiced, many of us unintentionally make snap judgments about people based on what we see—whether it’s race, age, gender, religion, sexuality, or disability. This may be a significant reason many people in the U.S...
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Spencer Cathcart raises all the right questions, exposes collective lies and stories we tell ourselves all the while retaining a sense of hope for humanity. This video will challenge your views, values and beliefs in a very direct and unforgiving manner, but it will also...
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A perfect storm is brewing as agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler races against time to protect the future of our food. Gene banks of the world are crumbling, crop failures are producing starvation inspired rioting, and the accelerating effects of climate change are already...
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The intersection of Central and Lowry Avenues in northeast Minneapolis is bustling. On the northwest corner is a trifecta of local businesses: A bike shop, a cooperative brewery, and a bakery, in buildings with eye-catching exteriors of rough-hewn wood and silvery porcelain...
Olivia LaVecchia
Many people have little trouble confessing to being hard on themselves, to being “my own worst critic” or to being a perfectionist. They are, after all, merely confessing to something that our culture upholds as a virtue: the struggle against the self. People are generally...
Charles Eisenstein
Modern industrial capitalism is based on a simple premise, writes Derrick Jensen: our mother Earth is a great store of raw materials for us to pillage, and a vast trashcan for our endless volumes of waste, no matter how long-lived and deadly. How can this be changed? First we...
Derrick Jensen
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FACING AND HEALING GRIEF
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Teen Dads - Portland's Squires program, OnTrack Addiction Treatment's "Dads" program
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** BREAKING NEWS ON THIS STORY 22 May 2015**
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Food Banks rise to the challenge:
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Investment for the people: Community Public Offerings - Watch full episode here: http://www.immensepossibilities.org/archives/
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Two decades after Apartheid was apolished, Some Children are More Equal than Others focuses on how the educational system in South Africa relates to the flagrant inequalities in the country and its still growing wealth-gap.
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The Big Idea: upstream solutions in education. What to do about low high school graduation rates? Mobilize your whole community — neighbors who will mentor individual kids through the rough spots, professionals from all kinds of disciplines, people excited to share their...
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Want some good news about the future of water? Tune in to sample the kind of projects that young people are launching and expanding these days. They’re revved up about keeping our rivers and streams clean, and bringing potable water to villages in the developing world that...
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The World is our Community III: International Aid Show airs on Friday, February 20th, 2015. Watch full episode here: http://www.immensepossibilities.org/ipr-podcasts/the-world-is-still-our-community/
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Art Builds Community: Creative projects and events for creative people - Watch full episode here: http://www.immensepossibilities.org/ipr-podcasts/how-do-arts-build-community/ Painting, sculpting, dancing, music, performing and spoken-word arts-they engage and inspire a lot...
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Community Members: Native Americans today. They were and are vital residents of Oregon and the Northwest. But many of us know almost nothing-unless you count worn-out cardboard stereotypes - about Native Americans and their culture today. Who are they, and what possibilities...
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Pacific Rubliales Energy socio oficial de la selección Colombia, paga publirreportajes, ha invertido más de 15 millones de dólares en publicidad, con acciones en el diario el Tiempo y Cable Noticias, e incluso intento comprar Caracol; el periodista Héctor Rodríguez Director...
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Ta'Kaiya Blaney, Sliammon First Nation from B.C., Canada, shares on the face of change. #IndigenousRising
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Imagine, tucked away in business parks not far from you, suburban Guantanamo Bays. Immigrant detention centres where faceless civil servants can, with no need of a judge, incarcerate people indefinitely.
A UK parliamentary inquiry into the dete
Ben Gelblum
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Ground-breaking discoveries about early childhood and the human brain have offered vital clues about the roots of human violence and social disharmony. Our brains’ empathy centres grow – or fail to grow – according to how we are nurtured.
Robin Grille cites several examples...
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To save the world—or really to even just make our personal lives better—we will need to work less.
Michael J. Coren
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“Right now, for humanity and many other living creatures, there is Too Much carbon in the air and Too Little carbon in the soil.”
– John Wick, Co-founder of The Global Compost Project.
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Listen, buddy, you’ve been pissing me off all night. I don’t know who you think you are, but I’m getting sick of your shit. So enough talk. Let’s do this. Let’s go outside and settle this like emotionally stunted men.
Forget the bouncers. Forget our friends. It’s just gonna...
Brett Bradley
There is a huge political divide between the Democrat Party’s leadership and its local voters. There is an equally huge political divide between the Republican Party’s leadership and its local voters. In a nutshell, the divide can be summed up like this. Voters from across...
Paul Cienfuegos
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You wouldn’t go to a gun lobbyist or a Smith and Wesson executive for advice about your health. But that’s who is controlling our nation’s response to one of the deadliest epidemics of our time: the public health crisis of gun violence. Thanks to gun-maker money, the NRA has...
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What's the first thing that comes to mind when someone says Islam/Muslims?
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Do you ever remember asking your parents where things come from? This film was made in response to a compeition brief set out by Wateraid and WorldView to create a film that explores what water means to us.
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We are here to stay! is a new LaMCA-EJOLT documentary where scholars, activists and people suffering environmental injustices provide their views and testimonies. Featuring small communities from Argentina, Colombia, Kenya, Mexico, the Tibetan plateau, and also big cities in...
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Call-out culture refers to the tendency among progressives, radicals, activists, and community organizers to publicly name instances or patterns of oppressive behaviour and language use by others. People can be called out for statements and actions that are sexist, racist...
Asam Ahmad
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Promotional trailer for the Belfast Palestine Arts Festival 2015
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WAGING PEACE - Confronting the military industrial surveillance complex
Latest documentary by multi-award winning Australian filmmaker, David Bradbury. A window into the passions and politics of the modern Australian peace movement.
Responding to the perfect storm of wars...
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The US government has announced that we will be helping the Kurdish Peshmerga and the Shia Iraqi government re-take Mosul. This attack will be a disaster. This video lays out why.
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'Chemerical' explores the life cycle of everyday household cleaners and hygiene products to prove that, thanks to our clean obsession, we are drowning in a sea of toxicity. An average North American family try to turn a new leaf by creating and living in a toxic free home...
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Dear American Patriot,
Tom Engelhardt
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Frankie Boyle in conversation with fellow comedian Sara Pascoe was created for We Stand With Shaker, the campaign launched in November 2014, which calls for the immediate release from Guantanamo of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, who is still held...
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Luther Standing Bear was an Oglala Lakota Sioux Chief who, among a few rare others such as Charles Eastman, Black Elk and Gertrude Bonnin occupied the rift between the way of life of the Indigenous people of the Great Plains before, and during, the arrival and subsequent...
Wisdom Pills
Shifting away from an emphasis on global economic growth toward local economies provides a means to increase meaningful employment, shrink the gap between rich and poor, and tackle climate change.
Helena Norberg-Hodge
People are beginning to understand that something is fundamentally wrong, and that minor tinkering with the current system is not the answer. A critical mass is ready for fundamental change: what they need is a clear explanation of the root cause of the crises we face, and...
Helena Norberg-Hodge
When we talk about saving the world, what world are we talking about? Not the globe itself, obviously. But also not the biological world—the world of life. The world of life, strangely enough, is not in danger (though thousands and perhaps even millions of species are). Even...
Daniel Quinn
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Robert Fransham had a question for the Montreal police. He was never given his chance to ask them directly. / Robert Fransham avait une question pour le Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal, qu'il n'a jamais pu poser directement.
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People have lived many different ways on this planet, but about ten thousand years ago there appeared one people who believed everyone in the world should live a single way—their way, which they considered the only "right" way.
Daniel Quinn
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America's crumbling infrastructure: It's not a sexy problem, but it is a scary one.
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Charles Eisenstein explains how the real power we have to create change comes from stepping into a new story he calls The Story of Interbeing.
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"At first I thought… The most powerful thing that you can do for your people, your future, your land, your air, your water is to fight and die for what you believe in. But it’s not true… you have to LIVE for what you believe in." - Ta’Kaiya Blaney
Jacob Devaney
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THAT SUGAR FILM is one man’s journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as ‘healthy’. Through this entertaining...
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PRINCETON, N.J.—Tariq Ali is part of the royalty of the left. His more than 20 books on politics and history, his seven novels, his screenplays and plays and his journalism in the Black Dwarf newspaper, the New Left Review and other publications have made him one of the most...
Chris Hedges
The FBI and major media outlets recently trumpeted the agenc
Glenn Greenwald