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The corporate media loves to talk about violent protesters, while the biggest forms of violence in our society go unchallenged.
Mickey Z.
Smearing a Progressive Website to Support Israel
Like many other news websites, Common Dreams has been plagued by inflammatory anti-Semitic comments following its stories. But on Common Dreams these posts have been so frequent and intense they have driven away donors from a...
Lance Tapley
Let me start by saying something that sounds controversial but actually isn't:
Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.
Maria Popova
All governments lie, asI.F. Stonepointed out, including Israel and Hamas.
Chris Hedges
Facebook can be depressing because everyone else's lives are better than yours... But are they really?
Interestingly, a scientific study recently backed up excactly what this video illustrates. Not that we really needed any proof. I think just about everyone that spends time...
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Israel claims that it is merely exercising its right to self-defense and that Gaza is no longer occupied. Heres what you need to know about these talking points and more.
Israel has killed upwards of 1500 Palestinians in the past three weeks. The UN estimates that more than...
Noura Erakat
Its been three weeks since Israel launched its bombing campaign and subsequent invasion of the Gaza strip. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, over 1,500 Palestinians have been killed and over 6,500have been wounded in what has become one of the bloodiest offensives...
Abby and Robbie Martin
Comedy series in which Charlie Brooker uses a mix of sketches and jaw-dropping archive footage to explore the gulf between real life and television.
120 min
Do you shape the world or does it shape you? Drawing on leading thinkers from around the world, and with a torrent of mind-expanding ideas and information, THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH will make you think again about what it means to be free.
76 min
Waiting in line to pay for groceries, its hard not to notice all the ridiculous tabloid headlines: So-and-so wore shorts yesterday! Who's cheating on who? People are on diets! As entertaining as it all may be, shouldnt *real* stories get the kind of attention the pointless...
Morgan Shoaff
How commonly is the alleged moral superiority of the Israeli military invoked? So commonly that if you type the most moral army in the world into Google, youll immediately get a bunch of articles discussing the Israeli Defense Forces. Just last week, Slates William...
Omar Baddar
Wednesday (7/16/14) the
Peter Hart
From Colbert and Oliver to Sarah Silverman andLouis CK, comedians are torching anti-science activists with aplomb
In the latest version of Americas long-running culture wars, conservatives (and even some liberals) have zeroed in what once might have seemed like an unlikely...
Sarah Gray
Watch this. Then imagine what it would be like if most of the images you saw of men in every form of media were like this too.
It would be a little weird, right?
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All too often the 'honest brokers' mediating negotiations
Munib al-Masri
Admit it: you dont really read the endless terms and conditions connected to every website you visit, phone call you make or app you download. But every day, billion-dollar corporations are learning more about your interests, your friends and family, your finances, and your...
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Think you aren't being fooled by advertising tricks? Take a look at this so-called expert revealing food marketing's secret weapon. No amount of marketing makes factory farming acceptable. You can stop the spin at http://www.ciwf.org.uk/truth
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Today, six corporations own most of our mediabut we could be poised to take it back.
Symbolia and YES! Magazine
We've been saying this for years. There's no need for formal conspiracies when all of these economic and political elites share the same ideology, which they learned from their environment growing up in similar positions of privilege within the
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A documentary about addiction. Addiction of the digital kind.
13 min
So-called "balanced" climate change coverage usually means a skeptic is put up against a climate expert. Watch HBO funny man John Oliver explain why this set up is so absurd (warning: he likes to swear).
4 min
Modern America has a strong generational divide. Whether its cultural or political, there are a wide-range of topics that can be off limits when talking to the grandparents. On the reverse side, it can be hard to listen to the wisdom of a generation thats had such a hard time...
Everyone should watch this at least once. This short video by Gary Turk is a reminder of the effects of social media on our society. By connecting online, we are disconnecting offline. What are we missing from life as a result? What critical moments do we miss that we didn't...
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Noam Chomsky believes that propaganda is to democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. But he hasnt lost faith in the power of common people to speak up for the truth. He is known around the world for his revolutionary work on the structure of language, studies he has...
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In 2003, the United States pre-emptively attacked Iraq in a war that would last for eight years claiming an estimated 189,000 lives, costing over $2 trillion and causing untold economic and emotional devastation for the
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Media Bias is a serious problem, though probably not in the way you've been told. There is also an easy way to beat it.
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A satirical look at the sort of stereotypical imagry used in many NGO fundraising campaigns.Hunger and poverty calls for action, however we need to create engagement built on knowledge, not stereotypes.
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Renee Thompson is trying to make it as a top fashion model in New York. Shes got the looks, the walk and the drive. But shes a black model in a world where white women represent the standard of beauty. Agencies rarely hire black models. And when they do, they want them to...
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Which one of these is not like the others:
Morgan Shoaff
It's March 2014 and following on from an extremely successful Winter Olympic Games, Russia decides to organise another fun sporting event: and the whole world's invited. Welcome to the Paramilitary Games in the Crimean Peninsula.
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In this update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. Killing Us Softly 4 stands to challenge a new generation of students to take advertising seriously, and...
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Join the movement. Featuring: Jean Kilbourne, Pedro Noguera, Jackson Katz and Rosario Dawson.
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The comical geniuses over at College Humor recently released a new short video that is capturing the attention of many across the internet due to its comedy, but even more so due to its factual backing. The 4 minute video takes us through the history of the engagement ring, a...
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Corruption is by far not the main factor behind persisting poverty in the Global South.
Jason Hickel
Meet Nick Hanauer. Hes a very wealthy man, his family owns a lot of things, and hes invested in some big companies that started out small (ahem ... Amazon...). Hes got a few things to say about who the job creatorsreallyare in our country, and it goes totally against the...
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AUGUST 7, 2013 - The Washington Post announced the paper had been sold to Amazon.com founder andCEOJeff Bezos for $250 million. Bezos, one of the worlds wealthiest men, now controls one of the most powerful newspapers in the country. Some critics of the sale have cited Bezos...
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Last week, in the midst of what appears to beinfinite fascination[2]about Lena Dunhams nudity,I saw a fundraiser for the documentary Free the Nipple[3]and also, by coincidence, talked to Facebook spokespeopl
Soraya Chemaly
This is an image of a 19th century wood engraving called "Slaves in Brazil: The Terrible Torture of a Slave", from 'Journal des Voyages'.[3]It depicts a black slave being boiled alive above a huge cauldron.
Chauncey DeVega
"The News". It's the most viral meme of reality on the planet: if it's not on "the News" it didn't happen - right? Welcome back to Season 2 of Juice Rap News, in which intrepid anchorman Robert Foster embarks on a new era of adversarial rap journalism by casting a critical...
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The mainstream corporate-owned media is now essentially a rotting corpse. Welcome to the funeral.
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"I am here today to talk about a lie." That's how politics professor Caroline Heldman opened her Jan. 2013 TEDxYouth San Diego talk on the topic of sexual objectification. "I'd like to talk specifically about the lie, or the idea, that being a sex object is empowering."
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Lately I've heard WAY too many people claim that global warming doesn't exist. It's time to lay down some facts. Take it away, Hank! - Melissa Gilkey
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With all due respect to Lizzie Velasquez, the vast majority of TED and TEDx talks are complete bullshit, and it's high time someone called them out on it.
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Oldie but goodie, Dan and Dan's satirical song about the right-wing British newspaper The Daily Mail.
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The one-hour 1998 documentary film, Project Censored: Is the Press Really Free, in its entirety. The film explores the mechanisms of news censorship in the mainstream media. It focuses on the work of Project Censored, an organization founded after the Watergate scandal by...
57 min
In the insular world of Manhattan media, theresmuch handwringingover the latest blow to print publications
Robert Parry
I'mLina Esco and I'm a filmmakerliving in Los Angeles. Last year I dire
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The first part of this clip gets into the sexism and rape culture around advertising, but what really illustrates the point clearly is the last half.
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Time-lapse video shows the radical effect of photoshop on model's body. The clip, created for GlobalDemocracy.com, shows a girl turned into a bombshell glamor model with the help of a hair and make-up artist and of course, Photoshop.
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Advertising has always aimed to teach us that happiness and fun is something you find and purchase at a store, but usually efforts are made to skirt around the reality of this fantasy facade.
The stubborn reality that advertising will do anything to distract us from is that...
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This is a subtly revised set of remarks given at The Point is to Change It conference on November 1, 2013 at the University of San Francisco. The event was co-sponsored by Project Censored.
James F. Tracy
Its been the thing lately, among certain establishment liberals, to dismiss libertarians as Koch-funded shills. Weve heard a lot of it from Mark Ames and Yasha Levine at NSFWCorp, for example.
Kevin Carson
Kevin Carson dismisses the NWO conspiracy theory narrative of world government, which in many ways resembles a kind of 'cartoon evil' as it is often depicted. There is a more grounded way to look at it.
Kevin Carson
A strange thing happened during the October 2013 battle in the US Congress over a government shutdown and threat of default. The Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, denounced the Republicans as anarchists. So did Elizabeth Warren, one of the most liberal Senators. As did the...
Wayne Price
Still trust the mainstream media to bring you unbiased news? New research shows many so-called experts who appeared on television making the case for U.S. strikes on Syria had undisclosed ties to military contractors. A new report by the Public Accountability Initiative...
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It's really unbelievable what happened to Stella Liebeck. You just have to watch to see how the media turned on this little old lady who lived in Albuquerque. Obviously a villain, right? And at 5:00, prepare to see what the coffee actually did to her. It's not pretty. Well...
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To this day, a philosophical debate rages on as to the true nature of humanity. Is humanity at its core good or evil? Does the human species amount to no more than a parasite on the planet as Agent Smith says in The Matrix, a cancer, intent on devouring every last resource...
Sustainable Man
When Alex Jones receives a call from a listener asking him about the Koch Brothers, his response is pretty interesting! He calls the Koch Brothers "apolitical" and says they're not all that big of a deal. Hmmm.....
For an in-depth review of Alex Jones, see Project...
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The Killing Screens urges us to think about the effects of the media in new and complex ways. In contrast to the relatively simplistic behaviorist model that media violence causes real-world violence, Gerbner encourages us to think about the psychological, political, social...
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