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“If veterans can unlearn the propaganda, there’s hope for humanity.” Rebecca Roberts joined the Air National Guard thinking she would help her community. Instead she got stationed at a drone base in Djibouti. This is Rebecca’s story about how her deployment to East Africa...
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Glenn Greenwald on how the US Constitution does not confer rights on certain groups of people - but rather constrains the government from acting on persons, regardless of their citizenship.
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Voters are mad and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders is voicing his frustration with Democratic leadership (namely Chuck Schumer) as Schumer and 9 other Democratic senators sided with Donald Trump's Republicans in passing the recent funding bill. But this anger, both from...
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a clear violation of international law. It meets the definition of a war crime under the UN Charter’s prohibition on the use of force, barring cases of self-defense.¹
How a marathon conversation turned into a conspiratorial manifesto—unchecked claims about Democrats, voting, and immigration, fact-checked and debunked.
Jane Prescott
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Are Ivy League sellouts and finance bros ruining America? My video dives deep into how neoliberal elites and American liberals have turned U.S. elite institutions into factories for corporate sellouts, churning out McKinsey consultants, investment bankers, and private equity...
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In this video, we dive deep into the complexities of extremism on both the left and right, challenging the popular "horseshoe theory" that suggests both ideologies are equally dangerous.
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Trump wants to demolish FEMA and says the states will take care of disasters themselves. To test this theory, we talked to the West Virginians who have been slammed by historic flooding in recent weeks.
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We found the waste Elon Musk and DOGE won’t cut: it’s defense contractors. The Department of Defense funnels $450 billion of taxpayer dollars a year to private military contractors. But Musk is too focused on cutting DEI initiatives (0.01% of the size of the defense budget)...
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As our political reality gets increasingly surreal and chaotic, it’s becoming harder and harder to make sense of things. But according to the theory of hypernormalization, the lack of a coherent sense is actually the point. And if we look at how this concept was used in the...
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The United States is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the world’s weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US transferred seven times more than China, and five times more than Russia. Ben Norton explains how the military-industrial complex profits from war.
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Full interview: Part 2.
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The hosts of ‘Pod Save America’ talked about Bernie Sanders’s ‘Fight the Oligarchy’ tour and how effective his politics have proven to be in the latest episode of their podcast. They also pointed out that they were criticized by online leftists after showing support for...
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Freedom means nothing to these extremists. If Texas really believes in "don't tread on anyone," they'll rally against this abuse of state power on principle alone.
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Elon Musk’s attack on empathy is an old reactionary trick. First, he sets it up with a weak disclaimer:
On March 7, 2025 Chris Hedges returned to The Sanctuary for Independent Media to present "Normalizing Genocide and the New World Order," a talk about how the world has changed since the genocide in Gaza began, how we navigate a world without rules or humanitarian law and how...
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This was pulled from my last livestream, which you can watch via Part 2.
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Some thoughts about loneliness. - Fads
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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 short version of Elon Musk’s comment about empathy, from his interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast, has been going around, like this: “empathy is ‘the fundamental weakness of Western civilization.'” That’s both misleading and inadequate given the context.
Philip N. Cohen
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
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been the public face of the Trump administration’s effort to dismantle many government agencies and slash the size of the federal workforce. Last Wednesday, he attended Trump’s first Cabinet meeting, although he is not a Cabinet member.
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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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Over the weekend CPAC speakers reinforced the idea that Trump is above the law. Some of them even did Elon Musk’s “salute” to show support for the administration. Meanwhile, Trump made very alarming moves that could be a sign of what’s to come.
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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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