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I mean do we want to live in a society or nah: anti-social is the way to go?
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The US government is politically isolated on the world stage. This can be seen in the UN General Assembly votes demanding an end to the USA's embargo of Cuba. Almost all of the world opposes the illegal economic blockade. Ben Norton explains how the CIA has waged a terrorist...
28 min
Whitney Webb traces the Thielverse’s rise and the construction of the bipartisan modern surveillance state that Trump and his benefactors are deploying against dissidents and immigrants today.
45 min
The United States is waging a war on Venezuela. Donald Trump authorized the CIA to carry out "lethal operations" to try to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro. Meanwhile, the US military has killed innocent people in boats in the Caribbean, including citizens of Colombia and...
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Russell Vought is one of the most powerful people in the Trump administration. For almost three decades, he worked in Congress and held prominent roles at conservative think tanks. But he was little known outside of political circles. He’s now the director of the White House...
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For decades, clandestine foreign military and intelligence operations have been the deadly, destabilizing engine of American foreign policy. Today, as exposed by investigative journalist Seth Harp in his new book The Fort Bragg Cartel, 21st-century Special Forces operations...
61 min
The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns.
George Lakey
Uncovering how Israel profits from surveillance technologies using occupied Palestinian territories as a testing ground.
96 min
Is ANTIFAscism a terror movement? History answers clearly.
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2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, a US government-funded far-right coup leader, vowed to privatize Venezuela's oil and give it to US corporations. "We are going to privatize all our industry", she told Donald Trump Jr. "American companies ... are going to...
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The global left must stand up for left thinkers and activists facing persecution in Venezuela, and reject false anti-imperialism that allows an authoritarian drift.
Daniel Chavez
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has once again gone to someone whose moral record stands at sharp odds with the spirit of peace itself—someone who has either openly justified or quietly enabled state violence, occupation, or genocide.
Partha Banerjee
The opposition’s proposed total economic surrender to US corporate interests would doom Venezuela to the same conditions that led to Chavez’s rise to power.
Joseph Bouchard
What really happened.
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This new AI-centric military-industrial complex threatens to become an unaccountable superpower wielding new levels of control at home and abroad.
Nicholas Rabb
Beyond Standing Rock shines a spotlight on tribal sovereignty issues and the tribe's 170-year-long conflict with the U.S. government over independence and control over land and resources.
71 min
The US and China are the world's two most powerful countries, but they have very different visions for the global order. Compare the speeches delivered at the UN General Assembly by Donald Trump and Chinese Premier Li Qiang. The United States wants a unipolar system based on...
44 min
When it comes to selling weapons, the United States is in a league of its own: more than 40 percent of all arms sold worldwide come from US companies.
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They lost the war - but made billions. This doc uncovers how U.S. defense contractors turned global conflict, from Afghanistan to Gaza, into a profit machine.
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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gathered top generals and encouraged the military to commit war crimes and ignore international law. Donald Trump ordered the Department of War to use US cities as "training grounds" to fight the "enemy within". Ben Norton reports on the...
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Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) takes a deep dive into the writing of George Orwell (1984) to explore its potent relevancy to our current times.
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This moment in time, across the world, requires a revolution in human values: An end to the absurdist thinking that war or violence is the solution to any problem.
7 min
Every time someone critiques capitalism, or suggests alternatives like public ownership, workplace democracy, or real economic self-governance, you can count on a predictable response: someone parachutes into the comments with “Mao! Stalin! Pol Pot!” like it’s a mic drop.
Tim Hjersted
Democratic backsliding is when the norms of democracy start to dissolve and the institutions of democracy — the civil service, the courts, the press and the universities come under attack from the regime. There is a linked movement attacking democracy worldwide.
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"This Labor Day is the workers over billionaires day of action. Over a thousand protests are underway right now in support of the people who do the actual work, us. And we're protesting the theft of that work, the profits, the benefits, the whole point of working in the first...
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Jewish journalist Katie Halper exposes the complex and often hidden realities surrounding Israeli policies, Zionism, anti-Semitism, and the lived experience of Jews and Palestinians today. Using personal insights and historical context, Halper challenges mainstream narratives...
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One of the main goals of the US political and economic system is to protect corporate monopolies. Silicon Valley Big Tech corporations fear Chinese competitors, so the US government is trying to ban them. Political economist Ben Norton explains how imperialism works, and what...
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Donald Trump boasted, "I ended Nord Stream", referencing the pipeline connecting Russia to Germany. Now Europe is dependent on buying North American oil and gas, Trump bragged. Political economist Ben Norton shows how the EU has become a "vassal" of the US empire.
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When rulers isolate people to keep control, they also plant the seeds of their own downfall.
George Cassidy Payne
Have I mentioned how important I think Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael is? I reread it recently for the first time in a while, and was again impressed with how many important modernity-challenging ideas are packed into one novel.
Tom Murphy
Economist Michael Hudson describes how the Western powers designed the international financial, legal, and political system in a way that benefits North American corporations at the expense of the countries of the Global South.
52 min
My guest today is Jason Hickel, Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and author of two books: The Divide and Less is More. We discuss why a growth-based capitalist economy is incompatible with a...
77 min
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24 min
The invasion of Grenada by US forces in 1983 echoed around the world and put an end to a unique experiment in Caribbean politics. What were the circumstances that led to this extraordinary chain of events?
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The one-sided trade agreement that Donald Trump imposed on the EU illustrates how the US empire exploits its "allies" in Europe as vassals to benefit the American oil/gas industry, Big Tech corporations, and the military-industrial complex. This did not start with Trump, but...
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China and Russia help formerly colonized countries in the Global South defend their sovereignty amid constant US meddling and aggression, argues Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua, a Latin American country that has been invaded and militarily occupied by the USA multiple...
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The myth that “Palestinians always reject peace” has been a pernicious lie used to delegitimize their struggle for decades. In reality, Palestinians have never been offered a just peace—yet they’ve repeatedly chosen to compromise. Still, they’re blamed for the continued...
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Close Donald Trump allies like Steve Bannon say "the president is pissed every time he looks at the BRICS de-dollarization effort". The US government fears the Global South's challenge to the exorbitant privilege of the dollar. Trump is trying to make an example out of...
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The latest United Nations report names hundreds of corporations, banks, technology firms, universities, pension funds and charities that profit from the Israeli occupation and genocide.
Chris Hedges
War on Iran is part of the US empire's larger attempt to re-impose its unipolar dominance on the global political and financial system, argues economist Michael Hudson. Washington wants to preserve dollar hegemony and the petrodollar, while disrupting BRICS and Eurasian...
53 min
They lost the war - but made billions. This doc uncovers how U.S. defense contractors turned global conflict, from Afghanistan to Gaza, into a profit machine. Investigative journalist Abby Martin, host of @empirefiles, helps break down this story.
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The lies told to ignite the war with Iraq have been resurrected to ignite a war with Iran. The assessments of intelligence agencies and international bodies are dismissed, replaced by hallucinations.
Chris Hedges
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The US military will "very likely" fight a three-way war with Iran, Russia, and China, predicted Palantir CEO Alex Karp in 2024. American imperial strategist Zbigniew Brzezinski warned back in the 1990s of this Eurasian "anti-hegemonic coalition" that could challenge US...
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In 1953, Iran is at a crossroads. After decades of interference by foreign powers eager to exploit its oil reserves, the government decides it will throw them out and take control of the country’s wealth. But with the super powers’ Cold War paranoia and thirst for oil, it...
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The US and Trump attacked Iran after being dragged by Israel into another war for regime change in the Middle East. But this war is unleashing a major battle, one in US politics between America First vs Israel First.
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Donald Trump ordered direct US airstrikes on Iran, after helping Israel start a war of aggression. Tehran already said it would retaliate against US targets. There are more than 40,000 US troops in West Asia (the Middle East), and dozens of military bases, which could be hit...
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Everywhere you look, you can see the decline of Western hegemony, as the world is increasingly multipolar. Ben Norton analyzes the rise of China, development of Global South economies, and increasing unity in Asia. A symbol of this was the historic ASEAN-GCC-China Summit held...
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The war on Iran seeks "US global dominance" and to "weaken China", said Donald Trump's former national security advisor, General Michael Flynn. He admitted that the US is giving Israel intelligence, weapons, and training. Ben Norton explains.
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Israel has launched a war against Iran, it claims it seeks to destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities. But that is a lie. In reality Netanyahu and Israel are executing a plan 30 years in the making. Salem breaks it down.
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Donald Trump’s BIGGEST Secret Exposed
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The United States and Israel are waging war on Iran, but why? What are their real goals? Ben Norton explains the imperial strategy to impose US hegemony in West Asia (aka the Middle East), destroy the Axis of Resistance, colonize Palestine, destabilize the revolutionary...
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Let’s talk about memory, forgiveness, and the selective outrage that props up the logic of endless war.A commentor told Films For Action on a recent post:
In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality.
Chris Hedges
A bankrupt liberal class, by signing on for the Zionist witch hunt against supposed antisemites and refusing to condemn Israel for its genocide, provided the bullets to its executioners.
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A former Palantir employee is sounding the alarm. The tech company, founded by Peter Thiel, claims they can revolutionize government systems with their AI-powered software. They’ve been hired by the Department of Defense, the FBI, ICE, and even Wendy’s. Now DOGE will likely...
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A persistent fiction continues to capture the imagination of a significant segment of the American public — the notion that Donald Trump is, or ever was, an “anti-establishment” figure. It is a narrative so easily disproven by evidence and logic that one must ask why it...
Tim Hjersted
For centuries, empires were watching each other, competing with one another, and learning and refining each other's techniques. Looking back, it seems they developed a concrete system - a 5-step process on how to kill a civilization. And it's still in play today.
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During Cory Booker's 25-hour speech, which many mistook for an act of moral courage, he never once mentioned the atrocities committed by our so-called ally, Israel. No acknowledgment of the white phosphorus dropped on civilian neighborhoods, no mention of the starvation...
The Deep State is real and has been around for a long time. Who is the Deep State and how does it function? And why does it support Israel?
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