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In this talk, I argue that the non-therapeutic circumcision of infant males is unethical, whether it is performed for reasons of obtaining possible future health benefits, for reasons of cultural transmission, or for reasons of perceived religious obligation.
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Circumcision: The Whole story - is an informational video about the culture of circumcision. It explores the historical origins, the physical function of the foreskin, and commonly believed myths and scientific truths.
United Nations researchers just
Tara Culp-Ressler
The U.S. Air Force is complaining that it cannot find enough drone pilots. Of course, there are plenty of kids with the video gaming skills needed but, for one reason or another, they just won’t sign-up fast enough. The reasons might have to do with less promotional...
Kevin Ryan
It’s not Russia. It’s not al Qaeda. It’s not Bashar al-Assad. The other super power is the people of the world — and the people of, but not by or for, the United States.
David Swanson
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Coming this Fall of 2013 -- A Winner of the 2011 University of Toronto Film Festival, the film examines the academic community's treatment of critical perspectives on 9/11 by exploring the taboo that shields the American government's narrative from scholarly examination.
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Abby Martin speaks with Senator Ron Wyden's former Deputy Chief of Staff, Jennifer Hoelzer, about the newest NSA revelations and the undemocratic process of keeping the government, and society at large in the dark when it comes to surveillance.
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As we approach the 12th anniversary of 9/11, it is time for 9/11 truth to mature as a movement before it stagnates into insignificance. Either the movement will live up to its potential by naming names and identifying suspects in the crime, or it will become another JFK...
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What a beautiful, inspiring story. Photographer Richard Renaldi takes two random strangers on the street and has them pose together in a photograph as if they were intimate family members. Almost
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The Internet Must Go is a video mockumentary which follows the character John Wooley, a market researcher who tries to come up with a plan for how internet service providers can try to market what internet access would look like without network neutrality protections.
The...
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This is a September 7,2013 Peace Rally and March that took place in New York City. Hands off Syria demonstrations took place all over the country to protest the governments proposed unnecessary and immoral bombing of Syria.
Every clear-thinking American knows that education and jobs are needed more than armed guards in poor neighborhoods. But average Americans are led to believe in a terrorist threat that may or may not exist, and that in any case is greatly exaggerated, while the corporate/milit
Paul Buchheit
U.S. Tries to Walk Back Peace Deal
Earlier today, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al-Moualem all agreed to place Syria’s chemical weapons under international contr
Washington's Blog
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If you don't know what ALEC is, please watch this. If you do, watch it anyway. And then let's all get together and do something about it. United, we stand. Divided, ALEC wins. - Melinda Clark
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Abby Martin speaks with UK Parliament Member, George Galloway, about Syria war propaganda and his upcoming film 'The Killing of Tony Blair'. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin
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Truká, in the name of the Enchanteds, is a documentary about the Truká people. They live on islands on the São Francisco river in the north-east of Brazil. And their story is the same as for indigenous people all over the world: a story of colonization and oppression but also...
Australia could achieve nearly 100% renewable power within decades at the same cost as continuing to use fossil fuels, according to a new federal government study.
Modelling from the
TckTckTck
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In just over a century, cars have completely transformed our way of life. In many areas, cars are prioritised over people. 62% of urban space is now devoted to roads or car parks and garages are often larger than children's rooms. Devoting so much public space to the least...
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Immigration policy can devastate the lives of refugees and asylum seekers as the documentary "Wadim" poignantly shows. http://hotspots.co/browse/wadim/
87 min
Directors Tom Simon and Sarah Teale (HBOs Dealing Dogs) tell the story of an animal rights investigator who goes undercover at a hog farm in Ohio to explore a whistle blower's allegations. The evidence he gathers leads to a rare prosecution and trial for animal cruelty, and a...
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Inspired by World Refugee Day and the crises in Syria and Mali, the first HotSpots episode focuses on the global refugee crisis and human trafficking. http://hotspots.co/documentary-review-shows/episode-1-asylum-seekers
Longer school years aren't the answer. The problem is school itself. Compulsory teach-and-test simply doesn't work.
Peter Gray
Many of the legal and diplomatic processes that led to peace in other times of conflict haven't even been tried yet in Syria.
Sarah van Gelder
As U.S. political and media leaders prepare for military strikes against Syria, the parallels to the lead-up to the war with Iraq should give us pause. Weapons of mass destruction, we are told, are being used by a cruel Middle Eastern despot against his own people. A military...
Sarah van Gelder
Our society is living within a massive lie. The lie says, “Everything is fine and we should proceed with business as usual. We are not destroying our climate and, with it, our stability and our civilization. We are not committing passive suicide.”
Margaret Klein
I recently wrote about geoengineering as a strategy to deal with climate change and carbon dioxide emissions. That drew comments from people who confuse this scientific process with the unscientific theory of “chemtrails.” Some also claimed the column supported
David Suzuki
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After watching this video, I just wanted to make the most of my free time. I also wanted some candy, so we will call that a 2 for 1. - Rafael Casal
Some smart people thought, and perhaps some still think, that the 2003-2011 war on Iraq was unique in that it was promoted with the use of blatant lies. When I’d researched dozens of other wars and failed to find one that wasn’t based on a foundation of similar lies, I wrote...
David Swanson
Just in time for back to school: In Massachusetts this week, a venerable classroom tradition is facing a high court challenge. The state’s Supreme Judicial Court is currently weighing an atheist couple’s argument that the words “under God” be struck from the Pledge of...
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Here's a preliminary draft of what the United States Congress could pass this week if it were sincerely interested in human rights, international norms, the rule of law, and peace in Syria. You are welcome to suggest it to your Congress members, who are more than welcome to...
David Swanson
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This is a tale of two worlds: The first exploring the current trends that just may lead us all into vast new levels of decline; The second showing what the world could be...if anyone actually gave a damn to make it happen. ;)
With Syria back in the news due to the horrific chemical weapons attack last week that killed hundreds and threats from the US to engage in military strikes, below are some do’s and don’ts for progressive/radical anti-war organizations/activists in the US as you figure out a...
Ramah Kudaimi
The Syrian revolution is a revolution that began as a struggle for self-determination. The Syrian people demanded to determine their own destiny. And, for more than two years, against all odds, and in the face of massive repression and destruction from the Assad regime, they per
Darth Nader
2 min
Emerging from the echoes and end-game of a dualistic ego-driven world, we find ourselves once again with the opportunity to reflect on the past and change our planetary future into a whole new positive, conscious and peaceful paradigm.
The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of...
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Abby Martin comments on the scope of lavish expenditures sponsored by lobbyists to sway congressional opinion despite laws in the books that ban this practice.
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Abby Martin speaks to journalist, Chris Hedges about all updates about the lawsuit against the federal government regarding the National Defense Authorization Act's indefinite detention clause, remarking on the California Senate's rejection of the measure. They also discuss...
Something remarkable has happened. The New York Times, the most influential newspaper in the United States, has published a photo on its front pa
Freeman
The New York Times has an article today (
Jim Naureckas
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Taking completely trashed cars, artist Felipe Carrelli, with friends Tobias Rodil and Thiago Carvalhaes, turns them around by making them part of is old car art series that livens up the streets around urban neighborhoods.
Local residents want to take part in the project...
“The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less
Ellen Brown
As the US intensifies its push for military intervention in Syria, virtually the only narrative available swings from the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad to the role of Islamist elements within the resistance. Further, where dissent with the US positi
Joshua Stephens
Yes We Scan. Yes We Drone. And Yes We Bomb. The White House's propaganda blitzkrieg to sell the Tomahawking of Syria to the US Congress is already reaching pre-bombing maximum spin - gleefully reproduced by US corporate media.
And yes, all parallels to Iraq 2.0 duly came...
Pepe Escobar
Americans have been repeatedly told that Al Qaeda under the helm of the late Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Military Is Opposed to Syria War
Many current and former military officers are highly skepti
Washington's Blog
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...
Jason Mark
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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!
8 min
Abby Martin dissects the establishment propaganda about Syria's chemical weapons and questions the interests driving the call for war.
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...
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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...
NBC News' report, "'
Tony Cartalucci
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
Washington's Blog
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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.
Ben Branstetter
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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
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Want to have a pervasive effect on the subconscious attitudes of our culture? Get into the entertainment business.
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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...
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...
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 directly. It will also kill a great many people indirectly, as violence escalates in response -- an established pattern recognized even by the war-promoting
David Swanson
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.
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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...
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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 (
Jim Naureckas
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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.
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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
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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...
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A global movement is coming together to challenge the fossil fuel industry in a fight for the planet and our future here.
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No War on Syria, is a video of a rally that took place in Times Sq. on Aug 31, 2013.
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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."...
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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...
Ken Layne
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.
Norman Solomon
4 min
Be a man. Stop being such a fag. Grow a pair. You're such a girl. Man up.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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I wish my teachers had shown me documentaries like this when I was in school.
U.S. Is Isolated
Britain, France, C
Washington's Blog
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.
David Swanson
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...
Steve Friess
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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.
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This documentary was made by journalist/filmmaker Michael Schaap. See his latest works by visiting his site:
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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
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The Pan African Express tells the story of six young men from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia
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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.
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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...
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Filter-free news & resistance updates via the Stimulator.* This week:
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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...
The U.S. is about to attack Syria. Here’s what you need to know:
Washington's Blog
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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...