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We need to recognize we share the planet with millions of other life forms
Time to celebrate! Woo-hoo! It’s official: we humans have started a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene. Who’d have thought that just one species among millions might be capable of such an...
Richard Heinberg
Caleb Duarte and Mia Eve Rollow from EDELO (En Donde Era La UNO / Where the United Nations Used to Be) explore the effects of NAFTA in Chiapas, Mexico’s poorest state and the site of the Zapatista revolution sparked by the agreement.
EDELO
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A portal for conscious media and the Global Paradigm Shift Community.
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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.
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During the 15 years, I lived and worked in Asia as a development professional from 1978 to 1992, I witness a troubling paradox. GDP was growing, incomes were rising, there was an expanding middle class, and a few people were getting fabulously rich. Development seemed to be...
David Korten
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What if our "last act" could be a gift to the planet — a force for regeneration? Musician, folk dancer, and psychiatrist Clark Wang prepares for his own green burial, determined that his final resting place will benefit the earth. A WILL FOR THE WOODS is an immersive...
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The current US oil boom, from hydraulic fracturing of permeable shale formations, may soon be over, while the accompanying environmental damage will be around for years to come: "
Ashley Eady/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
70% of the US shale oil "reserves" are, or were, located in the Monterey Formation in California... but it looks like someone got a bit overoptimistic in their estimates: "Federal energy authorities have slashed by 96% the estimated amount of recoverable oil buried in Ca
Louis Sahagun/Los Angeles Times
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It’s often said a society can be measured by how well it attends to its children – their health and safety, their material security, their education and socialization, and their sense of being loved and valued by their families and communities.
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Wherein the most popular arguments for capitalism are looked at more closely.
Sources:
Worldwide, 13% of workers feel engaged with their work
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Most people – even many of those who support small farms and eat organic food – believe that there’s no way to feed the global population without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, fossil fuels, biotechnology, heavy equipment, and the rest of the agribusiness arse
Steven Gorelick
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This short video is for the awareness of global warming, but also the possibilities that we could explore to help our planet.
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Is 'true' capitalism good and crony capitalism the real problem? This debate has been raging for a long time and finally, we have a definitive answer. This video kindly cuts through all of the divisive rhetoric and misunderstandings and offers a constructive path towards...
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Looking to take charge of your health? Wondering where to begin?
There is so much information out there about what foods to eat or not to eat, about what and how to exercise, about what herbs and supplements to take or not. Social Media has only made the abundance of how...
Ann Armbrecht
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Abby Martin highlights a new report by The Intercept showing that the NSA is collecting and recording virtually every single phone call made on the island nation of the Bahamas and how this dangerous technology is usurping the rights of global citizens.
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This is easily the best comic strip ever made.
John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley
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Abby Martin goes over a round-up of some of the most outrageous recent police stories, including a noise complaint that turned into a SWAT team style raid and the sentencing of Occupy protestor, Cecily McMillan for assaulting a cop after having her breast grabbed.
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This video is on one of the most important benefits that the EU provides to individual European countries. The virtue of size. It is something that Europe needs in the 21st century. This video addresses one of the main arguments of euroskepticism. Neville Chamberlain is one...
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Those the words of my friend and photgrapher Delizia Flaccavento on the events of Soma Turkey.
Despite what many of those who advocate meat-eating would like to believe, humans do not sit at the top of the food chain. In any event, it’s a food web rather than a chain, due to the many complex interactions involved.
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Fight for our Future has launched a "Reset The Net Campaign" for June 5th, 2014.
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Cecily McMillan was sexually assaulted by a New York City Police Officer. She was than beaten, knocked unconscious, falsely arrested, and than convicted of assaulting a police officer. Her sentence was 90 days and 5 years probation,Due to the probation, It will be difficult...
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Sakdiyah is a young Muslim comedian who takes jihadists down several notches with her razor-sharp wit. In the face of rising extremism and violence, she uses her stand-up comedy as a platform to speak up for the rights of women!
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Do you live in a developed nation or a developing nation? If your nation has an extensive system of roads, rail and airports, if it is fully electrified, if it is mostly urban and suburban, if modern medicine is widespread, if literacy and education are near-universal, if...
Charles Eisenstein
Have you ever overheard an insufferable dude at a bar telling some really sexist-sounding story about "tapping that," and wished it would find its glorious happy feminist ending? Well, you're not alone. In fact, there's a meme for that.
Elizabeth Plank
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Jeremy Rifkin, one of the world's most popular public thinkers and political advisors, argues that capitalism will no longer be the dominant paradigm in the second half of the 21st century.
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This is the movie the food industry doesn't want you to see. FED UP blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S.
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Police the Police The APD Killings Protest. The Albuquerque Police Department is under federal investigation for over 20 shooting deaths as well as many non lethal shootings and the practice of paying bounties for killing suspects. Is there something very wrong with the...
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Abby Martin speaks to Keane Bhatt, journalist and activist about a recent open letter he and many prominent figures signed calling for the non-profit organization Human Rights Watch to close its revolving door with the U.S. government. LIKE Breaking the Set @...
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ZDay 2014, Los Angeles, Q&A March 29th 2014. Thanks to TZM Los Angeles.
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Single Coin Dancer is one of my songs (rather terrible outbursts). Im a monetary accuser - a competition refuser - no one ever win nothing - nothing is ever lost - Is the core lyric and thats the truth. No one ever win and nothing is really lost. Its just f¤€ed up. And by...
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It's official: The FCC is moving ahead with their plan to replace its discarded open Internet rules with new ones that will allow Internet companies to pay for fast lanes, voting 3-2 in favor of the ISP-favored plan.
Tom McKay
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Abby Martin talks about the media's obsession with LA Clipper's owner Donald Sterling's new comments regarding Magic Johnson, AIDS and racism while ignoring reports that Syrian rebels are blocking water supplies in the city of Aleppo. LIKE Breaking the Set @...
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Abby goes over a new Amnesty International report that finds that 141 countries in the world practice torture methods, including everything from severe beatings to waterboarding, while the top ten recipients of US foreign aid are all members of that list.
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Abby Martin goes over the top 5 most ridiculous patents in the US, citing everything from Amazon's patent of white background photography to Apple's patent of the shape of a rectangle all leading to the rise of patent trolling and a complete abuse of the system.
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Documental realizado por estudiantes de la Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, Departamento de Comunicación, en 1987. Luego se añadió noticia sobre el centenario (1991). DIVEDCO Director: Carlos Raffols Investigación: Jenny Suárez Investigación: Yolanda Santiago Locución...
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From Glasgow to Brighton the streets of the UK look a little different this week. In 10 cities guerrilla install crews have been swapping 365 ads with art works, creating the largest advertising takeover in world history.
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At 92, Robina Asti, a WWII veteran and pilot, tells her story of living as a transgender woman since 1976 and her fight to be treated like any other widow. Learn more about Lambda Legal's resources for trans people and advocates at www.lambdalegal.org/kyr/trans Music...
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Is the Plastic Trash Island floating in the Pacific Ocean a myth? Are we getting poisoned? How long do we have before a worldwide disaster happens?
This documentary includes interviews from Capt. Moore (Algalita Marine Research Institute), Anna Cummins (5 gyres Institute)...
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Concerned Internet users want to make sure that the FCC and Congress hear them when it comes to keeping the Internet open and free.
Digital-rights advocacy group Free Pr
Marguerite Reardon
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The taming of Europe is one of the most extraordinary facts of modern life. European peace, and the EU's role in that peace is rarely noted, let alone celebrated. This is our attempt to deal with that oversight.
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Help us reach our target of 8,000 names
Sign our petition to Wu Aiying, China's Justice Minister...
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These X Factor contestants aren't the only ones for whom singing can mean everything - you'll see them in a different way after this. You can find out more and take action here: http://freetibet.org/singers
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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).
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As tuition rates spiral beyond reach and student loan debt passes $1 trillion (more than credit card debt), IVORY TOWER asks: Is college worth the cost? From the halls of Harvard, to public colleges in financial crisis, to Silicon Valley, filmmaker Andrew Rossi (PAGE ONE...
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Two leaders in the climate change divestment campaign on breaking ties with the fossil fuel industry.
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The Internet’s Own Boy follows the story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz's help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartz's...
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It has been one year since my last shower. Yes, I know that sounds crazy and a year ago I would have agreed with you. I was a regular showering guy for the first 26 years of my life. Well, maybe not every single day, but just about.
Rob Greenfield
Across the planet, new technologies and business models are decentralizing power and placing it in the hands of communities and individuals.
Nina Misuraca Ignaczak
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Scientists predict that Kiribati - a remote Island Republic in the Central Pacific - could be lost to rising sea levels in the next 50 years. As a result a whole nation faces an uncertain future. 'Tinau' is an intimate family portrait of a Kiribatese mother now settled in the...
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Back in in the day, an activist colleague of mine liked to wisecrack that whenever corporations talked about environmental solutions everyone could live with, what they meant were "solutions" only a politically acceptable number of people would die from. That is so 1980s...
Annie Leonard
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This film, produced by the Center for Media and Democracy, debunks the claims of proponents of the Keystone XL pipeline regarding jobs, energy security, gas prices, safety, and climate change. More information about this film and research project, "Keystone PipeLIES Exposed,"...
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That didn't take long. The public interest in the state of the natural world stimulated by the winter floods receded almost as quickly as the waters did.
George Monbiot
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Vihart: Comprehensive info. Time is of the essence, so forgive my inevitable errors. We've stopped things like this before! You have power if you bother to take it.
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The economic crisis in Ireland is actually a political crisis, with trust in leaders at its lowest ebb. The young have resumed their exodus from the land of their birth in search of work. But it need not have been like that.
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One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment in life (Maslow)
In order to discern what a/the human purpose is/ought to be, lets recap what a human is. A human being is: a complex, ambiguous, meaning-making,
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What if roads and parking lots were solar, fueling enough energy from the sun to power nearby communities as well as electric vehicles? Scott and Julie Brusaw, the inventors/creators have the answer.
They have a IndieGoGo funding campaign active through May 31st, 2014.
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From bomb threats sent to campaigners for more females on banknotes to sexually explicit pop videos. From extreme laddism at universities to rape jokes in the school yard... Kirsty Wark explores whether there's a new culture abroad in which it's acceptable to write about...
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Rediscovering Past Newtown is the first installment of a two part documentary project. The next 38 minutes aims to unravel the past of a once thriving mid Wales market town. With some old photography shared by Frank Moore and some myths and facts shared by Rory Evans.
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Tasmanian beekeepers, Bob Davey and Hedley Hoskinson, speak out about protecting precious honey producing leatherwood in Australia's World Heritage listed rainforests.
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There are millions of hearts, who lived their life through books, and when they died, they became one." With love and support of literature enthusiasts in Ahmedabad, SATORI has been able to live up to its name. Ahmedabad National Book Fair - 2013 brought the moment when every...
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Letter from top companies comes amid growing public protest and internal dissent among Democratic commissioners
Jon Queally
Modern America has a strong generational divide. Whether it’s 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 that’s had such a...
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Abby Martin speaks with Brendan Fischer, Staff Council of the Center for Media and Democracy, on American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALEC) leaked internal documents revealing its plans to hijack the EPA's authority and undermine environmental standards in the US. LIKE...
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Two years ago in Seattle, on May 1st, 2012, roughly four to five hundred people engaged in the largest riot the city had seen in more than a decade. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of property were destroyed[i], a minor state of emergency was declared, and the next day’s...
Phil A. Neel
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Bill Moyers speaks with Theodore Olson and David Boise – the two lawyers who would later win the case proving that California's Proposition 8 Law (banning same-sex marriage) was unconstitutional. Their reasoned arguments prove not only why they ended up winning the case, but...
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The target of jokes and indifference, sexual assault has become part of the American prison experience
The Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, a maximum-security prison in Wetumpka, Ala., was built in 1942 to house 400 inmates. Today the facility houses more than 900 women and...
Arjun Sethi
The peoples of earlier times prospered from the guidance of simple stories that offered answers to their deepest questions. We need those now more than ever.
David Korten
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No Shoes, No Service... But Why?
Social norms influence us to cover our feet for a variety of reasons, but we pay a heavy price for this cultural obsession with shoes. Poorly designed footwear has contributed to widespread health issues, and a growing body of evidence...
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Stop calling this TV's golden age. It's still the Idiot Box, even if you like "Girls," Jon Stewart and "The Wire"
I think it happened around Season 3 of “The Wire.” Maybe it was “The Sopranos.” “Curb Your Enthusiasm”? “Lost”? I can’t say. I just know I woke up one day...
Alexander Zaitchik
This is a 'testament to how working people can push back against the status quo of poverty, inequality, and injustice'
'We made this progress possible... but it is neither strong enough nor fast enough.'
That's the summarized reaction by progressive activists in Seattle...
Jon Queally
My English friend Paul Kingsnorth was the subject of a long article two weeks ago in The New York Times magazine, “It’s the End of the World as We Know It ... and He Feels Fine.”
Jim Shultz
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While the Reject and Protect tipis were up on the National Mall in Washington DC they were seen by thousands of people from across the world.
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If the new U.S. National Climate Assessment hasn't convinced you that we're surrounded by way too much carbon dioxide, maybe this jaw-dropping data visualization can help put things in perspective.
"Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved...
Russell McLendon
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Pay 2 Play shows how our elections encourage extortion, and how to stop it. Coming August 2014.
In part 2, Lawrence Lessig outlines a strategy for taking action. Vist http://mayone.us/ for more.
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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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Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee that will hold hearings on the proposed merger by Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Franken discusses the problems with the proposed merger and online privacy.
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What 3 words would you use to describe your home town? This is a small taster of the larger documentary yet to come which tries to summarise what the final production will be. This is a documentary concerning Newtown. (Y Drenewydd) A documentary about Newtown and the...
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In an unprecedented move to reshape the NJ Supreme Court, Gov. Christie has refused the reappointments of two sitting justices, making him the only governor in NJ history to do so. Following the Court's Oct. 2013 decision that was instrumental in providing the freedom for...
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Half of all Canadians want it. The Swiss have had a referendum on it. The idea's not as far-fetched as it sounds
What if you could receive a guaranteed basic yearly income with no strings attached? Didn’t matter how much money you made now, or in the future. Nobody would ask...
Lynn Stuart Parramore
Community is not just for extroverts. For thousands of years, our ancestors lived in barrios, hamlets, neighborhoods, and villages. Yet in the time since our parents and grandparents were young, privacy has become so valued that many neighborhoods are not much more than...
Ross Chapin
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Noam Chomsky believes that propaganda is to democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. But he hasn’t 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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With extraordinary access, FRONTLINE takes you to the epicenter of the raging debate about prison reform. "Prison State" follows the lives of four individuals in Kentucky's criminal justice system, as the state tries to interrupt the cycle of mass incarceration.
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With extraordinary access, award-winning producer and director Dan Edge takes you to the epicenter of the raging debate about prison reform. "Solitary Nation" offers an up-close, graphic look at a solitary confinement unit in Maine's maximum-security prison with firsthand...
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A short, animated video explaining net neutrality.
Tell the FCC to reclassify broadband internet as a title II common carrier telecommunications service: http://goo.gl/xHnB4n Discuss this video: http://www.reddit.com/r/CGPGre...
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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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The Senate Intelligence Committee and the Obama administration agree on this: the American people should not know the number of people killed by U.S. drone attacks overseas, nor should they hope to understand the circumstances under which such lethal killings are authorized...
Jon Queally
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said, "It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally...It's a game we play...I see nothing wrong with playing the game because we set it up to be a game."
It's not a game for Americans who need jobs and education and public transportation...
Paul Buchheit
Young people across the United States are suing the federal government en masse for destroying their futures. They're claiming the feds' bungling of a crucial issue is a violation of their constitutional rights.
Tom McKay
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Can you imagine how you'd feel if a government actually did this?
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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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Governments need not tax people to fund public services, because infrastructure like mass transit systems pay for themselves -- they create sufficient value to cover their capital costs. But because that value is privatised, earned incomes have to be taxed.
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He was a classic American muckraker -- which is why he fell foul of Senator Joe McCarthy's witch-hunt. But for Carey McWilliams, championing the Little Guys against the land barons of California was a duty of honour. The result was a courageous critique of American politics...
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Fred Harrison describes how the reckless activities of bankers and property developers have left Ireland in a state of economic collapse with no hope of recovery.
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Fred Harrison describes how the reckless activities of property developers have left Spain in a state of economic collapse with growing poverty and no hope of recovery. Link to google maps http://g.co/maps/gbq3n
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Clusters of vacant dwellings across America reveal the reasons why the banking system exploded in the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Fred Harrison exposes the financial logic that drove the boom/bust, and identifies the tax reform that would stave off the next cyclical economic...
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