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Canadian author Naomi Klein is so well known for her blade-sharp commentary that it’s easy to forget that she is, above all, a first-rate reporter. I got a glimpse into her priorities as I was working on this interview. Klein told me she was worried that some of the things...
Occupying Chairlifts 37 min
The President's adviser gets advised by an underachieving old college pal, and a simple rule tweak on inheritance ends up changing the direction and purpose of modern human life!
Syria War Propagandists Debunked 8 min
Abby Martin dissects the establishment propaganda about Syria's chemical weapons and questions the interests driving the call for war.
The Brussels Business: Who Runs the European Union? 90 min
THE BRUSSELS BUSINESS is a docu-thriller that dives into the grey zone underneath European democracy. An expedition into the world of the 15,000 lobbyists in the EU-capital, of the PR-conglomerates, think tanks and their all embracing networks of power and their close ties to...
Clawing Back Our Rights - The Assange Agenda 2 min
Can global citizens claw back some of their rights lost to Government Surveillance of the internet and telecommunications? http://hotspots.co/assangedocumentary
The corporate media has once again become complicit in promoting the propaganda and disinformation put out by the US government. Like all good propaganda, success is defined partly by framing and limiting the debate to questions which, at the outset, prevent the most...
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The U.S. has Repeatedly Violated the “Red Line” on Chemical Weapons The U.S. encouraged Saddam Hussein’s use of chemical weapons against Iran … which was the largest use of chemical weapons in history.&nbs
Syria: to Strike or Not to Strike 13 min
Abby Martin talks to Brian Becker of the ANSWER Coalition and Mouaz Moustafa of the Syrian Emergency Task Force about whether or not the US should militarily intervene in Syria's civil war, citing the rhetoric of chemical weapons, humanitarian intervention and the lack of...
1. Floss. Shut up about blood and it getting stuck in your teeth or a general fear of dentistry and just floss.
A Bunch Of Young Geniuses Just Made A Corrupt Corporation Freak Out Big Time. Time For Round Two. 6 min
When you've got giant energy companies this scared, you must be doing something right. At 3:38, I snorted. Just sayin'. And at 4:43, he explains brilliantly what's in it for you. - Adam Mordecai
The Fighting F--k Toy and Other Disturbing Hollywood Archetypes that Shape Our Perception of Women 10 min
Want to have a pervasive effect on the subconscious attitudes of our culture? Get into the entertainment business.
The Inner Tide 6 min
The Inner Tide is a short experimental documentary that presents the voices of common individuals recorded during informal interviews as responses to questions that mainly reflect the themes: beliefs, vulnerability, courage and regret. The visuals for the film were shot over...
Line in the Sand: The Conflict Surrounding Keystone XL and Tar Sands 15 min
Line In the Sand is an independent documentary about the ongoing resistance to the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil through the U.S. with the risk of damaging land and health. We're drawing a line in the sand through film to say "no" to...
The Top 18 Signs Your Country is a Warmonger 6 min
A hard-hitting, fact-filled, humorous look at U.S. warmongering.
Sending a bunch of $3 million missiles into Syria to blow stuff up will kill a great many men, women, and children
Permaculture, Homesteading, and Compost-Powered Heating in the Vermont Hills 9 min
Throwing conventional environmental wisdom on its head, Ben Falk doesn't want to reduce his impact on the land. He wants to increase it as much as possible. We couldn't agree more.
Growing food with zero heating in Massachusetts' winter 6 min
Jonathan Bates is better known for the food forest him and his colleague Eric Toensmeier planted on their 1/10th of an acre urban lot in Holyoke, Massachusetts. In February, most of the lot and its 200 plant species were still covered with snow, but Jonathan gives us a tour...
Drummondville's front yard vegetable garden 10 min
As they're about to turn 50, and wanting to adopt a more healthy lifestyle, Josée and Michel decide to plant a vegetable garden outside their home in the suburbs of Drummondville, Quebec. Their backyard had little sun exposure, so they decide to set up the garden in the front...
Let's compare a couple of accounts of the mass deaths apparently caused by chemical weapons in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta on August 21. One account comes from the U.S. government (
Journalists Admit to Not Being Skeptical In Lead-Up to Iraq War 2 min
In this clip from the film "War Made Easy", some of television's most prominent journalists admit that their organizations were not skeptical enough in their reporting during the lead up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Green Connections Summer Fest 2013 1 min
Green Connections is a great green group of like-minded individuals who meet once a month to share sustainable ideas for business and the community. We meet in York Region, and we'd love to have you come out and join us! www.green-connections.com
Extreme Weather 3 min
Extreme Weather is Max Thabiso Edkins' music video submission for the Voices4Climate competition hosted by Connect4Climate. "The world is turning around me Revolving, evolving and all I see Are the changes taking place, Brought about by our race. We know the world is...
$hift 13 min
A global movement is coming together to challenge the fossil fuel industry in a fight for the planet and our future here.
No War On Syria 10 min
No War on Syria, is a video of a rally that took place in Times Sq. on Aug 31, 2013.
Redefining Family | Guruju Sri Vast 4 min
Guruju Sri Vast argues that it's our concept of family that leads to so much conflict and suffering in the world. "By only seeing those inside your house as your family, naturally, you must take from those outside of your house to take care of those inside of your house."...
Alan Watts: What is Wrong With Our Culture 5 min
Thought-provoking 5 minutes on the state of the world from the late, great Alan Watts - a man far ahead of his time.
Labor Day is a complete rip-off. Labor isn't celebrated at all—instead, a single day's break from labor is celebrated. You might think this is a stupid thing to care about, because Labor Day is really just about getting drunk in your yard, again. But that's actually evidence...
Grassroots pressure has forced President Obama to seek approval from Congress for an attack on Syria. But Obama is hell-bent on ordering a missile assault on that country, and he has two very important aces in the hole.
The One Thing All Men Feel, But Never Admit 4 min
Be a man. Stop being such a fag. Grow a pair. You're such a girl. Man up.
The Assange Agenda -- Surveillance, Democracy And You (trailer) 3 min
The Assange Agenda is a documentary about how surveillance by governments and corporations is disrupting democracy and how Julian Assange, Wikileaks and others attempt to turn back the clock on the erosion of civil liberties and individual...
Kunan Poshpora Tragedy 7 min
On February 23, 1991 at approximately 11:00 PM, around 1000 soldiers from the 4th Rajputana Rifles cordoned off the village of Kunan Poshpora to conduct a search operation. The soldiers gang raped a large number of village women overnight till 9:00 AM the next day. Around100...
Obama is the Biggest Pro-War President in 2 Generations 4 min
The Military-Industrial-Complex owns this country. It owns this president. And it will own our future, unless we rise up to stop it. Watch this to get yourself psyched up.
Fun Frack Facts! with Troy McBlur 1 min
Those pesky earthquakes that happen near fracking rigs? Just natural side effects, folks. Nothing to see here... Read about frackquakes at http://bit.ly/frackingquake
How Does 100 Years Smothering Fires Ignite Community? 4 min
A story of public service and volunteering at its best—giving back to the community; families, friends and children in the most genuine and memorable way.
Only The Truth 71 min
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something.  What you know you can't explain, but you feel it.   You've felt it your entire life.  There's something wrong with the world.  You don't know what it is, but it's there. Do you know what I'm...
Wargasm 3 min
A powerful indictment on the sorry condition of the human psyche by Publius, found here: http://rense.com/general96/wargasm.html Video from schwartz23: http://vimeo.com/2221100 Wargasm By Publius 8-29-13 Mesmerized as if by the nastiest pornographic abyss stare into TV news...
Poverty Of the Spirit 9 min
There are some things in our society.. and some things in our world.. which I am proud to be maladjusted" -Martin Luther King Jr. Mankind's increasing capability is at great contrast with the global state of disparity. We've reached unprecedented levels of technological...
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction 80 min
All over the world species are becoming extinct at an astonishing rate, from 1000 to 10,000 times faster than normal. The loss of biodiversity has become so severe that scientists are calling it a mass extinction event.
The Untold History of Barack Obama and the Democratic Party 113 min
I wish my teachers had shown me documentaries like this when I was in school.
Evidence of “weapons of mass destruction” is “no slam dunk,” U.S. officials are saying this time around, reversing the claim made about Iraq by then-CIA director George Tenet.
Noam Chomsky: How the Business Class Shapes Our Opinions about Democracy and Government 6 min
"Elections are moments when groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state." - Thomas Ferguson This is a clip from Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (2009). It is possibly the definitive documentary explaining the influence of money on politics.
The story is, by now, familiar: A once-powerful newspaper is facing insolvency, and its owners, heirs to the empire-builder of yesteryear, are fighting among themselves, allowing petty concerns about money to split their family and tarnish their legacy. This time, the setting...
Circumcise Me? 64 min
Mischief, is a documentary series for BBC Three. It's aim is to illuminate serious issues in new and unusual ways. It gets to the heart of contemporary domestic issues and turns them upside down and inside out.
Mom, Why Did You Circumcise Me? 35 min
This documentary was made by journalist/filmmaker Michael Schaap. See his latest works by visiting his site:
The View on the Streets: Syria 20 min
As the war continues to escalate in Syria, WORLDbytes took to the streets of London to find out what the public make of the conflict; government policy and Western intervention. This snapshot of public opinion tu
Pan African Express 46 min
The Pan African Express tells the story of six young men from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia
Visibly Invisible 57 min
Africa’s history can be marked by the term “transnational” since its borders were historically transgressed by hungry, indeed insatiable colonizers out of just about every country in Europe.
"Agrarian Reform for Food Sovereignty" 2010 37 min
The arrival of the Dutch in the Cape in 1652 signaled the beginning of a violent and destructive process, which placed their greed for land and possessions before the rights of the original inhabitants of the land. Suddenly, throughout the Cape, and indeed throughout Africa...
Capitalism Will Save the Planet 15 min
Filter-free news & resistance updates via the Stimulator.* This week:
The Prodigal Son 64 min
Kurt Orderson, Rastafarian and young filmmaker, from Mitchell’s Plain on the Cape Flats, came to an understanding of the meaning of Black consciousness and thus sought to retrace his great grandfather’s epic journey and legacy, Joseph Orderson, who came from Barbados to Cape...
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Martin Luther King Jr: Why I Am Opposed to US Military Intervention in Syria 2 min
Different war. Same principles of justice. You can bet that on the 50th year anniversary of MLK Jr.'s "I have a dream speech," while the US is poised to launch yet another war, this time in Syria, King would echo the same words as he does here.  Today, these words are even...
Legendary equality, justice, and peace activist who championed character over the color of one's skin is compared with warmongering corporate servant Obama ... because of the color of his skin.  The differences between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and current US President...
The Unseen Ones 18 min
This experimental musical documentary film centers around Leagan Davids, aka Nico10Long, a Afrikaans hip-hop artist and dispossessed youth from Wesbank, a post apartheid RDP settlement on the Cape Flats in South Africa. The area made world news in 2008 when backyard dwellers...
Before He Was Assassinated, MLK Jr. Was Advocating For An End To Income Inequality 10 min
We can honor MLK Jr. by pursuing the causes he was advocating for before he was killed.  ​​
Shouldn’t We Be Cautious … Given the Repeated Bogus Claims? In 1981, the U.S. accused the Soviets of supplying chemical weapons to Communist states in Vietnam and Laos for use in counterinsurgency warfare. It turned out that the “yellow rain” which the U.S. became...
Teaching the middle class to hate their government was an essential part of the plan to implement Corporate Feudalism.
Those Condemning Syria Have Themselves Recently Used Chemical Weapons We condemn all use of chemical weapons. But the U.S. used chemical weapons against civilians in Iraq in 2004. Evidence here,
If she's twerking on it, maybe we'll pay attention.
Did the West's Proxy Forces Gas Thousands to Rescue Failed Syrian War?  As far back as 2007, it was a documented fact that the West, including the United States and its allies Saudi Arabia and Israel, conspired to use terrorists drawn from the ranks of the Muslim...
The military buildup in the Mediterranean indicates that Assad’s opponents intend to militarily intervene in Syria under cover of ‘humanitarian intervention’, a disingenuous narrative that could not be further from the truth.
Days before Bradley - now Chelsea - Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for helping expose U.S. war crimes in Iraq, the Obama Department of Justice filed a
Cathy Nesbitt is a Worm Advocate and Founder of Cathy’s Crawly Composters. Cathy has been sprouting for more than 10 years and considers sprouts an essential part of her health plan. www.cathyssprouters.com   Are you concerned that your food is lacking in essential...
CasaSito 24 min
A short documentary about the CasaSito Organization - a changemaker based in Antigua, Guatemala that works to sustain and improve education opportunities for local Guatemalans in surrounding villages. This video was produced on location by an Actuality Media student crew and...
Seed is Life - A Message to Monsanto 4 min
Worldwide March Against Monsanto - 12th October 2013
Disney Princesses Sing for Equal Pay for Women 3 min
Disney Princesses believe in equal pay for all humans (and mermaids).
The Lord is Not on Trial Here Today 56 min
"The Lord is Not On Trial Here Today" is a Peabody Award-winning documentary by Jay Rosenstein that tells the compelling personal story of Vashti McCollum, and how her efforts to protect her ten-year-old son led to one of the most important and landmark First Amendment cases...
Freedom Riders 117 min
This is the story of more than four hundred Americans who participated in a bold and dangerous experiment designed to awaken the conscience of a complacent nation. These self-proclaimed, 'Freedom Riders' challenged the mores of a racially segregated society by performing a...
Social activism has always been a popular subject for documentarians because it presents stories of both cause and characters. The 10 powerful films below are not a complete list of films about social activists, but certainly proof enough that social change is possible, even...
We can cultivate empathy throughout our lives, says Roman Krznaric—and use it as a radical force for social transformation.
When the Ben Swann team has conference calls we certainly do not discuss pop culture. However, after watching the Miley Cyrus video pop up in my Facebook news-feed multiple times I said to myself, “What the hell, watch it.” After regaining composure from the visceral...
Washington and its British and French puppet governments are poised to yet again reveal their criminality. The image of the West as War Criminal is not a propaganda image created by the West’s enemies, but the portrait that the West has painted of itself.
Over the years, CNN.com has become a news website that many people turn to for top-notch reporting. Every day it is visited by millions of people, all of whom rely on “The Worldwide Leader in News”—that’s our slogan—for the most crucial, up-to-date information on current...
All things die and all things live forever; But our task is to die, To die making roads, Roads over the sea. – Antonio Machado Recently a reader of my website asked me to clarify the difference between resignation and surrender. When faced with catastrophic...
Julian Assange Sings in the Latest Rap News. And It's More Awesome Than You Could Even Imagine. 7 min
The sheer awesomeness is just a little unbelievable. Only in the internet age could we ever expect to see a man the United States would like to have hung from the gallows singing... well.. just watch. Thank you, Rap News, for this little moment of humor amongst the...
For the first time in history, the U.S. government has ordered that flow of Colorado River water from the 50-year-old Glen Canyon Dam be slashed, due to a water crisis brought about by the region's historic 14-year drought. On Friday, the Federal Bureau of Reclamation--a...
What is important is the relationship 4 min
Here is the portrait of a man who faced with the difficult life, uprooting, leaving his village and the harsh life of poverty in the city. Step by step Jean Diene fought, first for himself, then for others. In the suburbs of Dakar he will show, with the support of others as...
September’s coming up fast, and we know what that means. Soon Congress will be back in session and we’ll be inundated with fresh evidence that our democracy is broken. That makes this a good time to reflect on the powerful forces arrayed against the public interest – and to...
This morning's big news story/pounding headache is courtesy of convicted spy Bradley Manning's announcement that she wishes to live the rest of her life as a woman/the internet's predictably shitty response to that announcement, respectively. First, the news: Manning...
Free Brad: 35 Years In Prison for Telling the Truth IS the Crime 22 min
Free Brad is a video of a Rally that took place on Aug. 21, 2013, in Times Square on the day that Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for exposing the short comings and war crimes of our government.
Could a Wordless 1 Minute Film with the Music of Radiohead Change How You See This Animal? 1 min
This video is so simple, but the impression it left on me, looking into the eyes of this being left an indelible impression on me. What you are seeing is from the state of Pará, Brazil, where animals await their fates fearing any human approach. In Brazil, an ox is killed...
Hunza Story (trailer) 2 min
A young traveler, a beginner photographer and a bored student on vacations is out on a trip to explore the culture, the sights and people of the famous, Hunza. This travel log shows the land from the travelers perspective and how he deciphers the different cultural norms and...
'Every aspect of this case sets a dangerous precedent for future prosecutions of whistleblowers'
Ubah / Change 7 min
Ubah (means CHANGE in the malay language) is a short film/musical about a man who lives in the kampung (village) of Malaysia, he gets sacked from his job and is forced to leave his village for the city (Kuala Lumpur) to survive, where he then loses all his money and tries to...
Sixty years ago this week, on Aug. 19, 1953, the United States, in collaboration with Britain, successfully staged a coup in Iran to overthrow democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh that a newly declassified CIA document reveals was designed to preserve the...
How to open a marijuana delivery in Los Angeles 2 min
Are you wondering how to open a marijuana delivery in Los Angeles?? 420 College has the answer, call them today!!! http://420college.org
Rules For Selling Weed in Seattle 2 min
So the rules for selling weed in Seattle are out. It looks like the city of Seattle is welcoming cannabis business. go to http://washingtonmarijuanaschool.com
Ecowar: Lectures on Natural Resources and Conflict 12 min
All wars are fought over natural resources", a local permaculture enthusiast told me as we were driving home from a visit to a community gardening project. By growing his own potatoes he was in his own small way promoting world peace. A bit over-simplified I thought to myself.
Divided 2 min
A political short produced for the Post Production Module at Ravensbourne. Massive thank you to all involved! A Film by Jamie Hillier Starring Ross Williams Second Camera Harry Morgan Score "Stormfront" Kevin Macleod Sound Recordist Aidan Lavery
Cairokee ft Aida El Ayouby: Ya El Medan (English Subs) 5 min
Egyptian anthem about Tahrir Square by Egypt's leading revolutionary band, Cairokee featuring Egyptian singer/songwriter Aida El Ayouby. English subtitles by MID Foundation http://www.midfoundation.com
Comment bâcher les panneaux publicitaires 3 min
You don't have to speak french to understand this how to  on how to cover unsightly billboards with art.
Tired of Billboards Invading the Public Mind Space? Cover Them Up with Art Like These People Did 2 min
People love to come to France to enjoy the lovely countryside and the quaint towns - but beware, billboards are invading.  Here is a short film of how a merry band of anti-pubs spent a saturday morning covering billboards.  And take a look at the how to film by LilyMaieLang
The supramental state – a key to superior understanding Often we are confronted with life situations and dilemmas that we cannot solve from the mental perspective for the
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