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SCABS NABS | The Nabil Shaban Story (trailer) 4 min
Promo for an interview with Nabil Shaban.
A design for Blind Web Reader or BWR 4 min
This is a design for a product for the benefit of the blind community, that I think seriously needs some investment. I think the idea for a blind persons controller needs to be kept as a an external usb device, simply to allow for a solid and ergonomic gripped design for the...
What the Corporate Media Won't Tell You about MLK | Interview with Drs. Jared Ball & Wilmer Leon 12 min
Abby Martin hosts a discussion on the 'whitewashing' of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking with Howard University Professor Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, and Morgan State University Professor Dr. Jared A. Ball, about the aspects of MLK's life that the corporate media...
The Danger of Ignoring Eisenhower's Warning about the Military Industrial Complex 3 min
Abby Martin remarks on the anniversary of President Eisenhower's farewell address, citing his warning to the American people of the danger of the military industrial complex. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin
Surviving The Future 44 min
What will the future bring - the birth of a new world or the destruction of the old one?
Spirit of MLK Launches Worldwide Wave of Action 5 min
Video transcript: Martin Luther King, Jr.: “We have come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism…. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook...
Gippsland (Australia) is Precious 20 min
For over 100 years, Gippsland has been the beef and dairy heartland of Victoria, producing 23% of Australia's milk as well as some of the best beef in the country. Farming is one of the biggest employers in the region, especially within the food manufacturing industry. Coal...
O World Project: A Chat With Ian MacKenzie, Filmmaker, Media Activist 49 min
O World Project interview with filmmaker Ian Mackenzie. Producer of 'Occupy Love', Director of 'Reactor', 'The Revolution is Love'.... discussing the state of the world today, consciousness and affecting change. https://www.facebook.com/pages/O-World/146613988701032...
Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2013: Evgeny Morozov - The Dark Side of the Internet 58 min
Few people would argue with the wonders of connectivity, communication and access to infinite quantities of information that the Internet has enabled. But our understanding of the digital future is shaped by those who are making it, and they often have a vested commercial...
15 Crucial Facts NEVER Heard On The Mainstream Media 5 min
The mainstream corporate-owned media is now essentially a rotting corpse. Welcome to the funeral.
The Meme Hustler Tim O’Reilly’s crazy talk EVGENY MOROZOV [from The Baffler No. 22, 2013] While the brightest minds of Silicon Valley are “disrupting” whatever industry is too crippled to fend off their advances, something odd is happening to our language. Old, trusted...
Evgeny Morozov wants to convince us that digital technology can’t save the world, and he’s willing to burn every bridge from Cambridge to Silicon Valley to do it By Michael Meyer (Philip Habib)   Depending on whom you ask, Evgeny Morozov is either the most astute...
Evgeny Morozov: How the Internet strengthens dictatorships 12 min
http://www.ted.com TED Fellow and journalist Evgeny Morozov punctures what he calls "iPod liberalism" -- the assumption that tech innovation always promotes freedom, democracy -- with chilling examples of ways the Internet helps oppressive regimes stifle dissent.
Mad As Hell: Rise of the Young Turks 6 min
SYNOPSIS: "Mad as Hell" follows Cenk Uygur's transformation from an unknown conservative talk show host on Public Access TV to a progressive internet sensation with his show "The Young Turks," which has amassed over 800 million views on YouTube. On a self-imposed mission to...
Here it is, on a coat hook in midtown Manhattan: the Army-issue green shirt, with “CBS NEWS” written in white letters on the ID tag, that Dan Rather wore in 1966 while hunkered down in rice paddies along the Cambodian border. It would be one of the legendary network anchor’s...
War on Health - Gary Null's documentary exposing the FDA 97 min
War on Health - Gary Null's documentary exposing the FDA. Posted with permission. A must-see documentary. Learn more from Gary Null at the Progressive Radio Network: www.PRN.fm
Young and Gay in Putin's Russia 31 min
When Russian President Vladimir Putin banned gay "propaganda" in June last year, Russia's LGBT community went from being a stigmatized fringe group to full-blown enemies of the state. Homophobia becoming legislation means it’s now not only accepted in Russia but actively...
One might not expect a website called weedblog.eu to be particularly profound. However, in addition to posts about “the best weed you ever smoked” and “the latest cannabis discoveries that governments don’t want you to know,” the site recently posted a map that elegantly...
Study Confirms What We Already Knew -- Men And Women Aren't All That Different 3 min
Finally science has produce evidence that supports what we already knew -- the whole "men are from Mars, women are from Venus" trope is false. According to a new study from the University of Rochester, men and women don't have such distinct psychological characteristics after...
How would you like to increase your spending power by 10 times (or more), relieve student debt by more than 90 percent, increase Social Security benefits, lower taxes, increase pay for teachers, and lower loan amounts for homes and small business to 1-2 percent?
Child of Rage 27 min
Shocking, Horrifying, Fascinating. A very interesting half-hour documentary about child abuse and how it leads to heartless, emotionless children that can even kill their own parents in cold blood, and how they can be helped.
Roses On My Table 19 min
An intimate and upbeat portrayal of anarchism in action and a creative critique of capitalism, the film begins by documenting the house, residents, projects and principles of the Richmond VA based Wingnut Anarchist Collective.
The 'Sexy Lie' We Should Be Talking About 12 min
"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."
Sacred Voices 11 min
Sacred Voices is a short film which shares the messages of eight traditional Sacred Natural Site Custodians from Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa and Uganda. They share an ancient birthright and duty to protect the Sacred Natural Sites found within their territories.
Awake from your slumber of cynicism! Awake from your slumber of despair!
Nestle Chocolate Brought to You by Child Slavery 4 min
Abby Martin calls out Nestle once again, this time over the company's commissioning of cocoa famers in Ivory Coast who force thousands of underage workers to harvest under conditions best described as child slavery.
The People Guarding US Nukes Will Shock You 2 min
Abby Martin calls attention to thirty four officers at Malstrom Airforce Base in Montana who were caught cheating on a proficiency exam related to nuclear launch procedures. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin
Top Four Mysterious DC Deaths 8 min
Abby Martin speaks with BTS producer, Manuel Rapalo, about a few of the most mysterious unexplained deaths in DC's history, including the case of Bruce Ivins who was linked to the 2001 anthrax attacks and Deborah Jean Palfrey, the infamous Madam of DC.
Abby Martin Rips Corporate Media over Justin Bieber's Eggs 4 min
Abby Martin calls out the corporate media for their incessant coverage of Biebergate, whilst ignoring important stories such as Congress' attempt to implement new Iran sanctions amidst promising diplomatic negotiations, as well as new photographs emerging of a 2004 incident...
How the Washington Post is Backed by the CIA | Interview with Norman Solomon 9 min
Abby Martin speaks with Norman Solomon, founder of RootsAction.org and Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, about the potential conflict of interest between the new Washington Post owner, Jeff Bezos and a recent $600 million CIA contract with his other company, Amazon.
Deadly Monopolies: Medical Ethicist Harriet Washington on How Firms are Taking Over Life Itself 41 min
Harriet Washington, medical ethicist and author. Her new book is called Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself-And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future. She is also author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical...
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present 21 min
Interview with Harriet Washington M.D. author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. "The book reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and the roots of the African American health...
They operate in the green glow of night vision in Southwest Asia and stalk through the jungles of South America.  They snatch men from their homes in the Maghreb and
Listen As This Nerd Shuts Down The Global Warming 'Debate' In Less Than 4 Minutes 4 min
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
On Thursday, January 9 a dangerous toxin, 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, leaked from a busted tank and into the Elk River in West Virginia. It is believed that nearly 7,500 gallons of the toxin made its way from the 40,000-gallon tank into the river. It’s unclear how much...
Wake Up Call: End the Nightmare of Consumption 6 min
Hidden beneath sleek, space-age screens and shining metal, the true cost of our gadgets lurks unseen… Have you ever felt like we're living through a nightmare of consumption? That you wish you could un-hook yourself and reconnect with a life that is somehow more real and...
The internet as we know it is dead.
How many of us seek out a relationship, want to find companionship with someone because we are afraid of loneliness? How many of us think that we could be with anyone we want but are, in moments of doubt, afraid that no one will love us?
Is Facebook flirting with fascism? The question might prove difficult to answer with a resounding “yes or no,” but, to those who have been keeping track of its recent censorship practices, the answer appears to lean heavily toward the affirmative.
In restorative justice, those who commit crimes have to face the consequences of their actions. After this Colorado policeman tried it out, he came to believe it's part of the answer to America's prison problem.
US Military Dictatorship Owns 20% of Okinawa | Interview with Peter Kuznick 10 min
Abby Martin speaks with Peter Kuznick, historian and co-author of the 'Untold History of the United States' about the growing outrage against the construction of another US military base on the Japanese island of Okinawa, as well as the effect the occupation by US forces has...
Go Green, Go Vegan 4 min
Go Green, Go Vegan is a short clip about a movement of volunteers promoting the vegan lifestyle in Taiwan. They offer vegan lunch boxes to the younger generation in different schools and universities to offer sustainable solutions to inspire teenagers for green actions.
Farm to Table in San Francisco is About More than Food | Final Straw (trailer) 2 min
This series of 'Short Take' interviews offer sneak peaks of characters from the upcoming documentary film "Final Straw," a film about food, earth, and happiness. This time around, we talk with Kristyn Leach, the resident farmer for Namu Gaji restaurant in San Francisco. In...
PHILADELPHIA — The perfect crime is far easier to pull off when nobody is watching.
It Was Time to Do More Than Protest: Activists Admit to 1971 FBI Burglary That Exposed COINTELPRO 45 min
One of the great mysteries of the Vietnam War era has been solved. On March 8, 1971, a group of activists — including a cabdriver, a day care director and two professors — broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania. They stole every document they found and then leaked...
Abby Martin Censored on Wikipedia: Editing Truth by Mob Rule 6 min
Abby Martin goes over the editing practices of the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and calls out the websites editors for their lack of all-encompassing points of view.
Citizen Watchdog: Why a Surfer Went to the White House 5 min
Justin Auciello grew up in Seaside Park, NJ loving the ocean, beach and surfing. But, that wasn't the only thing he loved. When he heard fire alarms go off, he'd hop on his bike and chase fire trucks because he "always wanted to be in the know," sharing information with...
Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me 3 min
Documentary made by a young South African filmmaker before Nelson Mandela's death which raises important questions about the iconic leader's legacy. Khalo Matabane spent two years making the film, interviewing those who knew and loved Mandela, and also those...
Leading A New Response: The Victim Rights Law Center 15 min
Leading A New Response profiles one of the oldest not-for-profit legal resources in New England: The Victim Rights Law Center of Boston. Using one-on-one interviews and archival footage, this film provides insight on how this organization helps sexual assault and rape victims...
Shatter The Silence 20 min
Shatter the Silence focuses on the processes that occur after one has been raped or sexually assaulted. The film provides a concise look at the legal process: filing formal charges, court appearances, arraignments, etc. It also examines the emotional and physical effects the...
Slutwalk: A Day In Her Heels 17 min
Slutwalk. After a local police chief accused college women of dressing like sluts, the students created a demonstration movement called Slutwalk. It is growing and getting attention. Slutwalk was made by students at Rowan University in the documentary production class taught...
Cuts to food stamps and jobless benefits predictable result of 'neoliberal assault' on American people As Congress decides this week whether to re-institute emergency jobless benefits for millions of Americans and closes in on negotiations for a Farm Bill that could see...
Earthships are 100% sustainable homes that are both cheap to build and awesome to live in. They offer amenities like no other sustainable building style you have come across.
Red Blooded Men 23 min
Red Blooded Men is a documentary that covers multiple aspects of college life through a male's perspective. Through various interviews, from Northern Illinois University to the University of Iowa, and other schools across the country, we hope to enlighten audiences about...
1000 Times No: Students Giving Voice to a Silent Epidemic 11 min
1,000 Times No. This documentary follows a group of college students taking action against the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses by educating and raising awareness. This short documentary helps students understand the risks of the dangerous behavior that...
At first glance, Quiet Time - a stress reduction strategy used in several San Francisco middle and high schools, as well as in scattered schools around the Bay Area - looks like something out of the om-chanting 1960s. Twice daily, a gong sounds in the classroom and rowdy...
Perspectives 13 min
Perspectives asks the question: Given all that we know, why does sexual assault happen? "Perspectives" looks at different levels of knowledge (and experience) with sexual assault and rape on college and university campuses in the greater Boston area.
In Motion 17 min
In Motion tells a sobering story. After a sexual assault, a college aged woman is faced with difficult decisions regarding her health and her future. This short narrative film engages with the question of consent and the quick response of friends who, perhaps unintentionally...
Alive in the Sunshine Issue 13: Alive in the Sunshine Essays by Alyssa Battistoni There’s no way toward a sustainable future without tackling environmentalism’s old
Katalyst 23 min
Katalyst follows Katya, an amateur artist and survivor of sexual assault, as she goes on a journey of healing. She comes into contact with other survivors and takes steps with them to overcome the trauma caused by her sexual assault years earlier.
Invisible Fight 14 min
Invisible Fight is part documentary and part fictional film, with the focus on highlighting the stupidity and injustice of victim blaming. First-person testimonials of actual survivors of sexual assault are combined with vignettes depicting real world scenarios of assault...
$5 For Guys, Girls Free 16 min
$5 for Guys. Girls Free is a re-enacted close-up of the college generation and how quickly a typical night out can go wrong. The story is led by a Spoken Word artist and complemented by a sexual assault Psychologist. We took an interesting twist on the form of documentary and...
Game of Drones: The President and the White House Fly 46 min
A brilliant poem by Heathcote Williams, narration and montage by Alan Cox. This poem is about the horrors and psychopathy of drone warfare headed by Obama.
Considerations such as 'what do you really care about' and 'who do you serve' should be drivers of sustainability, not profit.
Last fall, Alex Gibney, a documentary filmmaker who won an Academy Award in 2008 for an exposé of torture at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, completed a film called “Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream.” It was scheduled to air on PBS on November 12th. The...
Broke. 77 min
A cinema verite masterpiece...brilliantly captured... about an inner city pawnshop and a banker of last resort. The documentary from Gemini-award-winning filmmaker Rosie Dransfeld is set in a pawnshop. Its owner, David Woolfson, a bone-hard Jewish merchant from South Africa...
My recent presentation “Risk Management, Insurance and the Climate Crisis” focussed on the increase in likelihood and consequences of extreme weather events resulting from climate change. Here’s a sample of points from that presentation and elsewhere, including points...
It's a new year, but one thing hasn't changed: The economy still blows. Five years after Wall Street crashed, America's banker-gamblers have only gotten richer, while huge swaths of the country are still drowning in personal debt, tens of millions of Americans remain...
"The Job Guarantee" featuring Pavlina Tcherneva 14 min
The reaction to Jesse Myerson’s Rolling Stone piece “Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For” went beyond anyone’s expectation. Many conservative commentators
The Write Reason 25 min
The WRITE reason is a documentary that explores the work of three published authors writing about their mental health experiences. The film shows how writing helps three ordinary, but very different people cope with their problems and dispels common misconceptions about...
The results are in: No amount of "green capitalism" will be able to ensure the profound changes we must urgently make to prevent the collapse of civilization from the catastrophic impacts of global warming.
When It Comes To Food Security, The Question Is, Where Do We Want To Go From Here? 6 min
Short film where a British Columbia farmer discusses where the sustainability movement is going and what needs to change to foster greater local and global resilience.
TEDx Speaker Gives Priceless Talk About How TED Talks Are Worthless 11 min
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.
Pine Ridge Reservation: From Broken Treaties to Future Sustainability 28 min
Abby Martin discusses the history of the Black Hills in South Dakota, the US governments seizure of the land and subsequent offer of $1 Billion to the Sioux tribe, which they refuse to accept.
Theft By Deception: Deciphering The Federal Income Tax 88 min
The misrepresentation and misapplication of the United States federal income tax constitutes the largest acquisition of wealth by way of deception in history.
Money, Banking And The Federal Reserve 42 min
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood "The Monster". But to most Americans today, Federal Reserve is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their own economic lives; of how and why it was founded and...
Monopoly Men 47 min
The Federal Reserve, or the Fed as it is lovingly called, may be one of the most mysterious entities in modern American government. Created during Wilson's presidency to protect the economy in times of financial turmoil, its real business remains to be discovered.
The Media Consortium annual meeting 11 min
The Media Consortium had its annual meeting in Baltimore this past February. Here are some of the highlights from the presentations
StopWatching.Us: Rally Against Mass Surveillance 10/26/13 3 min
Thousands came together in Washington, DC on October 26, 2013 to protest the NSA's mass surveillance programs.
It wasn't until late last night that I heard about the Mark Duggan verdict, in a distressed text from a friend: "...how can a shooting of an unarmed man be lawful?" Is it strange that we should both be so deeply consumed with rage and grief at the killing of a...
Five Steps To Tyranny 60 min
This film analyzes the movement of a society from freedom to tyranny in five steps. It clearly shows how those in positions of power may cultivate the conditions of tyranny in any population by demonstrating how easily ordinary people may be manipulated into compliance with...
Wrestling With Manhood: Boys, Bullying & Battering 5 min
Wrestling with Manhood is the first educational program to pay attention to the enormous popularity of professional wrestling among male youth, addressing its relationship to real-life violence and probing the social values that sustain it as a powerful cultural force. Richly...
Toxic Heavy Metals In Your food? Natural News Forensic Food Lab Documentary Series Is Here! 37 min
This mini-documentary describes the launch of the Natural News Forensic Food Lab and its mission to publicly document analytical research on the heavy metals, toxic elements and radioactive isotopes found in everyday foods. See published results at Labs.NaturalNews.com
Why the Elite are Living In an Economic Fantasy (with Stephanie Kelton) 32 min
Professor Stephanie Kelton explained the origins of the Bretton Woods system, why US policy makers still make policy as if we were in a gold standard world, why we will not become like Greece, what really creates hyper inflation, why the US can easily reach full employment...
Why Poverty? Join the global debate. (trailer) 2 min
Join a global debate! Watch amazing films! Ask questions about poverty! Why Poverty? is a ground breaking, cross-media event, online and on TV, using films to get people talking about poverty, wealth and inequality. With 70 broadcasaters working together to create the first...
June 8, 2011   |    This article appeared in the June 27, 2011 edition of The Nation. There is no economic policy more important than job creation. The private sector plays an invaluable and dynamic role in providing employment, but it cannot ensure enough jobs to keep up...
Free Hugs Ahmedabad: Music Video 4 min
1 Day, 10 People, 100 Minutes, 1000 Hugs | Free Hugs Campaign organized in Ahmedabad for the first ever time, on 4th February to celebrate universal love and acceptance. Shot & Edited by Jayrajsinh Chavda 'Aazad' (One Man Army)
5. TREASURY BONDS—Are they really what we think they are?
Reality Asserts Itself - Chris Hedges 17 min
Reality Asserts Itself - Chris Hedges
Urban Poverty in America Made Me Question Everything - Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself (1/7) 17 min
Real News Network's Full 2013 Interview With Ralph Nader 25 min
Paul Jay from The Real News Network sits down with Ralph Nader for a fantastic interview.  This December, 2013 interview is in three segments and covers a range of topics.
Why Leonard Peltier is Still in Prison 37 Years Later | Brainwash Update 3 min
Abby remarks on the legacy of Leonard Peltier, a Lakota activist given two life sentences for the murder of two federal agents, despite the lack of evidence connecting him to the crime. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @...
State of Conflict: North Carolina 56 min
This week on Moyers & Company, State of Conflict: North Carolina, offers a documentary report from the state that votes both blue and red and sometimes purple. Now, however, Republicans are steering North Carolina far to the right: slashing taxes on corporations and the...
[300] Pine Ridge Reservation Part I: Where Despair Meets Hope 26 min
Abby Martin Breaks the Set with exclusive coverage of Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin FOLLOW Cody Snell @ https://twitter.com/codysnell EPISODE BREAKDOWN: On this...
The Absurdity of Right-Wing Media Madness in a Catchy Song 3 min
Oldie but goodie, Dan and Dan's satirical song about the right-wing British newspaper The Daily Mail.
Time and time again, US presidents have been impeached or forced to resign for all the wrong reasons.
Deciding to offer Web Design in a Gift Economy changed my life. Here’s how.
Your Life is a Gift - Inspiring Profound Gratitude Through Nature: Louie Schwartzberg at TEDx 10 min
Nature's beauty can be easily missed - but not through Louie Schwartzberg's lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, serves as a meditation on being grateful for every day.
Freedom Culture 4 min
A movement about building the world we know is possible in our hearts today.
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