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A short documentary film detailing the process of halal live animal slaughter. An exploration of man-made transformation. Completed for SVA's Social Documentary Film MFA program. Explicit content, viewer discretion advised. Produced, lensed and edited by Lucas P. Smith...
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MISTREATED MINDS is a documentary about the often overwhelming stigma facing those who are challenged with mental health conditions. In 1992, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) and Public Citizen's Health Research Group released a report that "revealed...
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Monthly Economic Update Co-sponsored by Democracy at Work, Left Forum, and Judson Memorial Church Richard D. Wolff Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 7:30pm "The Economics of a New Year" Judson Memorial Church Assembly Hall 239 Thompson Street at Washington Square, Manhattan...
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So one particular night I went on a knowledge binge and spent 9 hours reading about privilege theory. Below you'll find excerpts and links to most of the articles I read.
Feedback from my lecture at the Green Party annual meeting has been trickling in, and it seems that the talk wasn’t as well-received as I thought at the time. The people who walked out in the first five minutes – maybe they didn’t have to go to the bathroom after all, as I’d...
Charles Eisenstein
Last weekend I decided I would get the kids outdoors for a little time in nature. The Susquehanna River was frozen over, with the most remarkable ice formations. Even though the water is not deep in this part of the river, ice somehow piled up several feet. The photograph...
Charles Eisenstein
Today!
UH Maui Hawaiian Studies
If we are to create a society that values black life, we cannot ignore the role of food and land.
In August, five young men showed up at Soul Fire Farm, a sustainable farm near Albany, New York, where I work as educator and food justice coordinator. It was the first day of...
Leah Penniman
In the film Beyond Right and Wrong, a mother who survived the deaths of her five children tries to come to terms with the man who murdered them. Another victim's daughter befriends the bomber who killed her father. And two men, one Israeli, one Palestinian, form an...
Build A Deaf School Palestine
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British journalist Johann Hari about the century-old failed drug war and how much of what we know about addiction is wrong. Over the past four years Hari has traveled to the United States, Mexico, Canada, Uruguay and Portugal to research his new book, "Chasing the Scream: The...
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David Cameron says a second financial crash is imminent. If he's right, it's because politicians bailed out the wrong industry, argues Renegade Economist Ross Ashcroft. He says the last recession was brought on by too much debt. Today private debt is at the greatest level in...
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A Rockefeller & Dickey Center Lecture by Erica Chenoweth, Asst. Professor of Government & Founder, Program on Terrorism & Insurgency Research, Wesleyan University Friday, February 3 4:30--6 pm, Rockefeller Center 003 Professor Erica Chenoweth will discuss her book...
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Do we look like feminists? Shugs & Fats explore the question with strangers.
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Walking Merchandise exposes the tragic story of middle-school-aged, Chinese children trafficked to the United States by smugglers known as “snakeheads.” Sent by their parents to work as low-wage laborers as a source of income, the children embark on a perilous journey that...
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THE WOODCUTTERS is a short documentary that tells the story of three men at the heart of the fight to bring down a tyrannical regime In Niger 2009, the country was on the brink. The President had dissolved the highest courts, torn up the constitution and imprisoned his opponents.
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A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
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This groundbreaking 1997 PBS documentary launched the movement against American Indian mascots to a new level, getting reviewed in the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Chicago Tribune, and even a "person of the week" spot about the film's subject Charlene Teters by the ABC...
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For a magician to fool his audience his deceit must go unseen, and to this end he crafts an illusion to avert attention from reality. While the audience is entranced, the deceptive act is committed, and for the fool, reality then becomes inexplicably built upon on a lie. That...
Sigmund Fraud
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How many of us have a sneaking suspicion that something pretty fundamental is going wrong in the world? We keep hearing about the potentially devastating consequences of climate change but we are pumping more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every single year. We are forced...
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Get up off the couch! The filmmakers of "The Corporation" are raising money to launch a shorter, downloadable and affordable version of the film with a license for unlimited school and community screenings. If they make their goal of $50,000, they will gift the film to 1,000...
The Corporation
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For us to survive as a species we have to understand what money is doing to us, and how we can address these issues. This is the overview video explaining what the problem with money is and to propose the solution.
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What students most need, high schools seem almost designed to thwart.
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Por que será que não parecemos capazes de nos ajustar ao ambiente físico sem o destruir? Por que será que, de certa forma, isso como cultura, representa, de uma forma única, a lei dos retornos decrescentes? Que o nosso sucesso é um fracasso?
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Is the economy recovering, or is the system itself the problem? Economist and philosopher David Harvey on money; which he calls "the great corrupter". Professor David Harvey is one of the world's leading Marxist thinkers and most prolific writers on class warfare, capitalism...
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This 60-minute version of the original 88-minute 2012 documentary 9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out, Final Edition (ESO) was broadcast in 2012 on Colorado Public Television (CPT12) in the USA. It was streamed on PBS national website as a result, and subsequently...
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From Boing Boing with meme-love. You're welcome.
Xeni Jardin
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A glimpse into the mind of a sociopath... who just happened to be the United States Secretary of Defense leading up to and during the country's two longest wars (Iraq and Afghanistan).
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A short documentary about water in Russia. Production and postproduction took about 6 months. Part of the film was shot on remote locations like mountains, deserts, etc. so sometimes it was a challenge to bring all heavy gear there. The part about water shortages was shot 150...
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The NRA has been tremendously successful. It now seems a bit lost. Our video describes the path it can take to best serve itself and the country.
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Howard Zinn reflects upon social activism in an excerpt from the film ReGENERATION.
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How much energy do we use, and how much energy could renewables provide? References: MacKay, D.J.C. (2009). Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air. Cambridge, England: UIT Cambridge Ltd. UCLA Physics and Astronomy Department. (2014). Energy Scales Table. Retrieved from...
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Remember Goodnight Moon, the children’s book about a young rabbit going to bed?
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On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. It killed 11 workers and caused the worst oil spill in American history.
The explosion still haunts the lives of those most intimately affected, though the story has long ago faded from the...
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The secret CIA drone war. People living under the drones and young dronepilots coming to terms with killing through joysticks. DRONE uncovers crucial secrets of the CIA drone program, and shows how drones have changed war and possibly our future. See the documentary that...
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An extract from the 2014 documentary film “Drone” published by The Guardian shows military recruiters scanning video game fairs for the next generation of drone operators for often-lethal military activities in the Middle East and elsewhere.
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Many people talk about Big Ag, but it’s hard to get across just how big “big” can be. This infographic lets you size up some of America’s biggest factory farms against a handful of world-famous landmarks – prepare to be staggered.
CIWF
So what are the super-rich: are they bastards? Are they, as Hemingway put it, just like us, but with "more money”? Are they going to save us? Destroy us? Are they corporate psychopaths who've channelled their murderous impulses into making money, not serial killing? Or are...
Jacques Peretti
The Red Herring of Social Mobility
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Director: Josh Geoghegan
Camera Op: Max Cutting
Music: Arca - Failed, from the album Xen
Speech: Network, 1976
A film looking at mass electronic surveillance, prompted by the Edward Snowden leaks of June, 2013.
http://joshgeoghegan.com/watching
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“The motivation of all my human rights work is love,” says Londoner and political campaigner of 42 years Peter Tatchell.
“I love other people, I love freedom, liberty, justice and equality. What keeps me going through all the ups and downs, gains and setbacks of campaigning...
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“The motivation of all my human rights work is love,” says Londoner and political campaigner of 42 years Peter Tatchell.
Lucy Purdy
Disillusioned with work and feeling a nagging sense of discontent, this Londoner in his late twenties decided to take six months off. Instead of redecorating his flat or learning a new languag
Lucy Purdy
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On our trip to Kew Gardens in episode 3 we went to see Carlos Magdalena who works as a Senior Tropical Horticulturist.
Carlos has been working at Kew for 14 years. He has a unique passion for plants and is featured in Sir David Attenborough's Kingdom of plants on SKY 3D Blu...
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We went to see the team at Positive News, to find out more about the paper and their vision for the future of positive news. Positive News is the world's first positive newspaper. They report on positive developments from across the world and take a solution-focused...
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Credible Likeable Superstar role model & Catherine Bennett Welcome to our very first mini documentary about the brilliant Bryony Kimmings an award winning performance artist. Bryony took time out from her busy schedule and spoke to us about her show Credible Likeable...
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On September 11th, 2013, hundreds of thousands of Chileans somberly marked the 40th anniversary of their nation’s September 11th terrorist event. It was on that date in 1973 that the Chilean military, armed with a generous supply of funds and weapons from the United States...
Andy Piascik
BOSTON, Jul 7, 2014 —On Saturday I went to one of the massive temples across the country where we celebrate our state religion. The temple I visited was Boston’s Fenway Park. I was inspired to go by reading
Chris Hedges
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Henry Rollins profiles Prison Profiteers -six powerful institutions benefiting from locking up too many people for too long. There is a profit incentive to incarcerating people.
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A severe water crisis is facing Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. In this film, local people and experts try to tackle this growing water problem. There are solutions, but the government and the people need to act quickly.
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I've known Adam Curtis for nearly 20 years. We're friends. We see movies together, and once even went to Romania on a mini-break to attend an auction of Nicolae Ceausescu's belongings. But it would be wrong to characterise our friendship as frivolous. Most of th
Writte by Jon Ronson, Illustrated by Krent Able
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A brief interview/news report between WHDT's Gary Franchi & Sherman Institute Co-Founder, Aaron Bolinger about the status of education today, and what Sherman Institute is doing that is so outside-the-box of mainstream academia.
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On Wednesday, February 1. 2006, Dr. Steven Jones gave the following presentation at Utah Valley State College on 9/11 and the physics of falling bodies and how it was physically impossible for these structures to have collapsed based on the conclusion that our government has...
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This round-up features Films For Action's picks for best activist film of 2014, most of which can be watched for free online. Our favorites for the year are at the top of the list.
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The legendary performance artist and activist Benny Zable speaks candidly about his art and philosophy.
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Karen O'Brien is a tourism operator on the frontline of invasive gasfields in the beautiful Gloucester Valley of NSW Australia. The encroaching industry has turned her into an accidental activist. This is her story.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership, now headed to Congress, is a product of big corporations and Wall Street, seeking to circumvent regulations protecting workers, consumers, and the environment. Watch this video, and say "no" to fast-tracking this bad deal for the vast majority...
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Music video from 'Songs of the Bentley Blockade' CD with Luke Vassella and choir led by Peter Lehner. Featuring many of the heroes of the Northern Rivers NSW (Australia) gasfield-free movement. Camera/edit/direction: David Lowe, additional cameras: Brendan Shoebridge, Ondy...
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92 year old Bill Ryan fought to save Australia on the Kokoda Track in WW2. Now he's fighting to save Australia from extreme mining and climate change. Here he is at beautiful Gloucester in NSW, which is threatened by coal mining and unconventional gas.
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Atheist Stephen Fry on Irish television show The Meaning of Life with Gay Byrne is asked, suposing he existed, what he would say to god - whom he describes as a capricious, mean-minded maniac.
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Dear Our New Favourite Newspaper, The Daily Mail:
A thousand thanks for your tireless support for the much-abused Calais migrants! (Or, as they’re also known, “Fellow Human Beings”.)
Some freeloading scroungers might have cynically used your festive promotional offer with...
David Charles
Martin Luther King Jr. exemplifies real bravery in "Selma."
Well, you can beat on your chest / Hell, any monkey can. —Bruce Springsteen, “Real Man”
In an essay on Theodore Roosevelt, Gore Vidal classified the former president and known tough guy as an “American sissy.” He...
David Masciotra
The public relations disaster known as Just IN would have been galling for any governor. But especially so for Mike Pence, who's worked hard for years to cultivate good working relationships with journalists on the state and national levels.
Tim Swarens
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Syriza had 22 days to make history. This is how they did it. We followed Syriza's activists, candidates and leadership from the waterfront, to remote mountain villages, to the nail biting final days.
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Gang stalking is a form of community mobbing and organized stalking combined. Just like you have workplace mobbing, and online mobbing, which are both fully recognized as legitimate, this is the community form.
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"I wrote this song in August for the people in Ferguson, Gaza and elsewhere rising up against horrific racial injustice, and for those that continue to grieve, rage and rise. As an artist I'd like to make it clear that the tragedies in Ferguson and Gaza are not isolated nor...
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VIDEO BILINGUE / A discussion of the systemic problem of police abuse of power threatening both freedom of expression and of the press based on the events of April 3 2014 in Montreal.
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So many 9/11 witnesses or people who would seem to have knowledge of the cover up, and who were standing their ground for seeking out the truth under the lies and deception they were told all of a sudden decided to commit suicide or were found dead, in some cases crushed by...
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The most remarkable untold narrow escape and rescue story of 9/11-from the 14 guests and staff of the Marriott Hotel which stood between the twin towers and was crushed when they fell...
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Video evidence that PMC’s (private military contractors) are supplying Kiev with Lethal aid. This, less then a week after German claims of 500 Blackwater contractors operating on behalf of Kiev. The man holds a carbine in his hand and is wearing a tactical vest. As the...
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What is man allowed to? (Click the CC icon for English Subtitles)
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A characteristic of Greek tragedies is that someone who has risen to a great height fails to understand why they are falling from grace. And a typical reason why many fall from grace is down to the company they keep.
Lester Holloway
Dutch Surinamese photographer Rohan Radheya has spent two years photographing West Papuans in exile...
Rohan Radheya
This is an excerpt from The One Idea That Saves the World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action by Laurence Overmire.
Laurence Overmire
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you: it’s a well known phrase and few could argue that disagreeing with those that support you is ill-advised if you want that support to continue. It’s a power game all too familiar in the non-profit sector – those with their hands on the purse...
Joseph Blake and Sophie Pritchard
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Abby Martin interviews Margaret Heffernan, author of 'Willful Blindness' and 'A Bigger Prize', about the destructive impact of competition and alternative models of incentivizing people to work together for the greater good.
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Abby Martin remarks on the way that US police deal with mentally unstable people holding knives compared to other developed countries.
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Belgish workers on strike - 6.11.2014
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French Rag - Riots in November 2014 (Nantes, Rennes, Paris...)
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Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change
Derrick Jensen
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Documental de 30 minutos, seleccionado en mas de 20 festivales alrededor del mundo grabado en la profundidad de la selva Amazónica Colombiana. Cuenta la verdadera historia de la planta de la coca y su diferencia con la cocaína.
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After 134 days of resistance, the Kurdish forces of the YPG/YPJ have finally pushed IS out of Kobani. While the battle is won, the struggle continues.
Today, the resisting Kurds and their comrades in Kobani achieved the unimaginable: they managed to expel the fighters of the...
Joris Leverink
Following the release of Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper,the masses of America have been chomping at the bit to slaughter Muslims. The film, which portrays the deadliest sniper in United States history, is a hit among the sect of Americans that tends to demonize Hollywood...
Carey Wedler
Gov. Mike Pence is starting a state-run taxpayer-funded news outlet that will make pre-written news stories available to Indiana media, as well as sometimes break news about his administration, according to documents obtained by The Indianapolis Star.
Tom LoBianco
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Since 2000, more than 27,000 migrants and refugees have died attempting the perilous journey to Europe. With an unprecedented number of people breaking through its heavily barricaded borders in 2014, the EU continues to fortify its frontiers.
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Editor's note: Thandeka wrote this in 1999, but her analysis and contribution to the discussion on anti-racism remains as relevent to today as ever. She addressed this to Unitarian Universalists, but you can read it as if she's addressing middle-class liberals or...
Thandeka
“American Sniper” lionizes the most despicable aspects of U.S. society—the gun culture, the blind adoration of the military, the belief that we have an innate right as a “Christian” nation to exterminate the “lesser breeds” of the earth, a grotesque hypermasculinity that...
Chris Hedges
The Greeks have voted for SYRIZA in order to be able to breathe, but deeper aspirations for freedom, social justice and radical democracy are very high.
Welcome to Greece.
This is the first time since the Spanish revolution of 1936 that a left
Antonis Broumas
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Although there are many challenges in the World, Satish Kumar reminds us that, in the big picture, it is Love that sustains us. That's why all activism must come from optimism!
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Abby Martin speaks with Ali al-Ahmed, Director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs about the death of Saudi Arabian monarch, King Abdullah, and why the media is covering him as a 'reformer'.
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At Syriza’s HQ, the cigarette smoke in the cafe swirls into shapes. If those could reflect the images in the minds of the men hunched over their black coffees, they would probably be the faces of Che Guevara, or
Paul Mason
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Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated.
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James Conway, retired Superintendent from Attica Correctional Facility in New York, visits four Nordic Prisons. What methods are used in the correctional facilities of the Nordic countries? How do they differ compared to the US? English subtitles. Host: Joakim Rundt. Read...
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This is a tailer for the first film of a 3 pat documentary entitled; Monsanto's Chemical Genocide. You can watch it for free Here.
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Within Integral Art there are many levels and layers to be observed. At a basic level the Love & Evolve sculpture may seem static, but take a closer look. It is interactive. It changes as you move around it. It changes when you change your perspective.
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Hugo Chávez was elected President of Venezuela four times from 1998 through 2012 and was admired and supported by a large majority of that country’s citizens, largely due to his
Glenn Greenwald