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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
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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
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.
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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
Part 2: Full interview.
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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...
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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...
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...
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"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...
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.
6 min
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
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.
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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.
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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