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I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask, "Where is that?" If I offer a clue by referring to "Bikini", they say, "You mean the swimsuit."
Frank Barat reflects on today's attacks on his city, and argues that only more understanding can defeat terrorism and its root causes.
Democratic presidential candidate speech praises "everything that is bad about Israeli policy and U.S. imperialism"
America claims to promote freedom and democracy abroad but does history really support this rhetoric? US involvement in places like Vietnam or Guatemala indicate that the main factors motivating American foreign policy are economic concerns.
To understand the dynamics underlying the Clinton-Sanders nomination contest, it's helpful to remember the old adage that Democrats are supposed to be the party of ordinary working people. As the nomination process plays out, the 2016 race might be remembered as the party's...
Vignettes of some of the women, men and children journeying across the Aegean Sea, seeking refuge and lives of less precarity- and the reflections of those working in solidarity with them. Filmed in Lesvos, Greece.
Modern society — industrial civilization — is built on violence.
Most of the pain and killing and suffering comes from the hands of men in my age group. If all of a sudden all the men between 25-35 did half of what was on this list. If all the men in this age group dropped their weapons, ceased to objectify women and were more accepting of...
Flowers In the Rain Cold, wet, and tired from the long morning rally, my eight year-old asks again why we are here. We are standing with about fifty other media people, organizers, and just your ordinary eccentrics, grandmothers and fathers, university professors, musicians...
An excerpt from his book "No Death, No Fear."
Could you feel empathy for someone who has committed an act of terrorism?
She's not the candidate of economic fairness, peace or a genuine progressive agenda. She's also not more electable
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have different views when it comes to foreign policy. (& rebuilding the American middle class)
Americans should know about this period of history. Because the history of racism is also the history of power, and who holds it. And this story continues to this very day.
Why does our empathy seem to have limits? Why can't we extend our compassion to the whole world?
Renowned political theorist Noam Chomsky is often cited for his criticism of the US political system. In the second of a special two-part interview, Chomsky sits down with Mehdi Hasan to discuss the 2016 US presidential election and the rise of Islamophobia.
He was 12, playing with a toy gun, in a locale with open-carry laws. Tamir Rice was executed for being a black boy
U.S. military recruiters are teaching in public school classrooms, making presentations at school career days, coordinating with JROTC units in high schools and middle schools, volunteering as sports coaches and tutors and lunch buddies in high, middle, and elementary...
Super Bowl 50 is the first National Football League championship to happen since it was reported that much of the pro-military hoopla at football games, the honoring of troops and glorifying of wars that most people had assumed was voluntary or part of a marketing scheme for...
In the Rojava region of Syria, despite the difficulties, people are organizing communes and women’s councils. Syria can seem an endless black hole of misery, but in the northern, largely Kurdish region of Rojava, it is also the scene of a profoundly democratic and humanist...
Working in a retail job, you think you’ve become accustomed to bad behavior on the part of children as well as parents. But you are appalled to see a mother use an umbrella to spank a small boy. Will intervening threaten the child or endanger your job?
The arrest of two Spanish puppeteers accused of “promoting terrorism” in a play reveals the violence of the state in a way that satire never could.
The alliances and proxies of the Syrian Front explained. World War III - The New Axis of Evil Sources and transcript: http://stormcloudsgathering.com/world-war-3-new-axis
"Completely mind-blowing documentary about neocon ideologues and their bipartisan destructive influence"- Max Blumenthal [Author of Goliath & The 51 Day War]
Children from Bethlehem's Aida and Beit Jibrin refugee camps talk to Mondoweiss about their life in the camps. Filmmakers Sheren Khalel and Abed al Qaisi wanted to know exactly how much the children understood about the military occupation going on around them, and how normal...
The war in Syria is an unparalleled crisis. Having gone far beyond an internal political struggle, the war is marked by a complex array of forces that the U.S. Empire hopes to command: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Kurdistan, Iran, Lebanon, Iraq and more.
The conflict is really only 100 years old, and it's not really about religion.
Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson
Noam Chomsky discusses his book "9/11" and U.S. foreign policy in the 20th Century in moral terms in this 2002 interview with CBC Hot Type's Evan Solomon.
Brave New Films is taking on the National Rifle Association and the gun manufacturers, the most feared special interest group in the USA. Their reluctance to allow for safe gun policies has helped create a 6 billion dollar a year industry and leaves 80 Americans dead from...
Abby Martin interviews Dr. Deepa Kumar, professor of media studies at Rutgers University and author of *Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire*, about the roots of this alarming situation. From confronting right-wing arguments, to examining the reality behind Donald Trump's...
Syrian families in the besieged town of Madaya say they are starving to death. Al Jazeera's Jamal El Shayyal's reports.
These undercover videos supposedly showed Al-Qaeda in the drug trade. What they actually showed was more shocking. Produced in collaboration with ProPublica. For the full story, read more here.
Shaker Aamer was the last British resident of Guantanamo Bay. Speaking to the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme, he describes what it was like to be held without trial for nearly 14 years.
A series of airstrikes in Syria from December 13-14 reportedly killed dozens of people and left hundreds wounded in the Ghouta district in the suburbs of Damascus, Syria. Some residents say the strike targeted a school, killing 10 children.
Seven hundred and fifty thousand people have fled for their lives to Europe this year. (At least three thousand four hundred and six people died in the Mediterranean sea.) Of that great mass of people, a few thousand have washed up Calais, France, trying to attempt the...
Sources and transcript: http://stormcloudsgathering.com/paris-attacks
We can make peace, with our energy sources, the planet and with each other if we end our addiction to oil
On November 22, thousands gathered at the gates of Fort Benning, GA at the 25th annual protest of the School of the Americas to memorialize the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives at the hands of the U.S. Empire’s brutally repressive juntas it used to rule Latin...
Traditionally the climate talks have been a lot of talk and very little action... We sat down with world renowned environmentalist Dr. Vandana Shiva to discuss what she thinks, you'll be surprised what that is...
Nicolas Henin is a French Journalist who was held hostage by Isis for 10 months. One of his jailers was Mohammed Emwazi, known as “Jihadi John”. Listen to what Nicolas has to say about Isis, our treatment of refugees and most importantly: what it’ll take to defeat them.
All available evidence suggests that extending British bombing operations against ISIS will increase the danger we face, not diminish it.
US, British, French, Israeli and other energy interests could be prime beneficiaries of military operations in Iraq and Syria designed to rollback the power of the ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS) and, potentially, the Bashar al-Assad regime. A study for a global oil services company...
I have heard and read different opinions about the wave of Syrian refugees who try to make their way in to the EU. Then I went to Lesvos. 7 days on the Greek Island gave me a healthier, human perspective on the situation.  Seeing the people behind the headlines with my own...
From Paris to Beirut, the Islamic State's latest atrocities are a calculated effort to bring the war in Syria home to the countries participating in it.
In the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, the world has woken up to the threat that the ‘self-proclaimed Islamic State’ poses to the Western world. Among other things, it has sp
From authoritarian power grabs to Andrew Neil’s nonsensical eulogy, the reaction to the Paris attacks proves that we haven’t learned from our past mistakes
ISIS has a pretty black-and-white view of the world. Either you're with them, or you're with people they consider infidels. But what about people in the middle? ISIS has a plan for them.
It is nearly certain that we will endure, sooner rather than later, another catastrophic terrorist attack on American soil. The blundering of our military into the Middle East; the failed states that have risen out of the mismanagement and chaos of Iraq and Afghanistan; the...
Ashraf Fayadh was sentenced to death for apostasy, joining a long list of dissidents facing capital punishment
The Paris attackers weren’t Syrian, and they didn’t use encryption, but the US government is still using the carnage to justify attempts to ban them both
Among the issues tackled in the new documentary film "Drone" is the connection between video games and military recruitment. We air a clip from the film and speak to its director, Tonje Hessen Schei, as well as drone war whistleblower Brandon Bryant.
Jingoists conveniently forget the West's Cold War strategy was to arm the Islamic extremists that became al-Qaida
Why France’s brave new war on ISIS is a sick joke, and an insult to the victims of the Paris attacks
A reflection on religion, spirituality, connection and destruction.
It's easy to see Isis as an irrational death cult, argues Charlie Winter - but its motives in the Paris attack were strategic. The group is trying to achieve polarisation in the west, spread fear, spark military action against it and improve its image.
Air Force whistleblowers say US drone program "is one of the most devastating driving forces for terrorism and destabilization around the world."
Arabic translator Alice Guthrie investigates 'Daesh', the new name for ISIS recently adopted by several world leaders because it delegitimises the group's activities. But how can a new name undermine a terrorist organisation? And why do the English-speaking media find the...
In Syria I learned that Islamic State longs to provoke retaliation. We should not fall into the trap
Shutting down borders and blaming Muslim immigrants for the Paris attacks would give ISIS precisely the type of “civilizational conflict” it craves.
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