It's always the people you most medium suspect.

30 min

How Elon Musk Muscled His Way Into the US Election Debate | The Listening Post

As the US election looms, Elon Musk’s erratic and sometimes dangerous posts have made him one of the biggest purveyors of disinformation on his platform. How is the world’s richest man using his influence to shape the American political debate?

26 min

Schoolhouse Rock's "Elbow Room" Interrupted

"Schoolhouse Rock" was an American series of animated "educational" short films. They were shown during Saturday morning "children's programming" on the ABC television network from1973-1985.

8 min

The Top 250 Documentaries We Can Use to Change The World

Hungry for change? These documentaries light the way by showing examples of people fighting against the status quo, creating alternatives and living a more beautiful world into being.

Tim Hjersted

Praying for Armageddon (2024)

Praying for Armageddon goes inside the evangelical Christian movement to explore its influence on US democracy and foreign policy. Preparing for the "end times", a grassroots pastor gathers an army of veterans in the heartland of the United States, and megachurch ministers...

94 min

Noam Chomsky: The Media's Role in Genocide

This is a clip from Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky & The Media (1992), more relevant today than ever.

5 min

Julian Assange and the Dark Secrets of War (2024)

On June 25, 2024, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was able to walk free following a deal with the US government. Does this surprising end to the publisher’s many years of criminal prosecution and imprisonment signal a positive outcome for press freedom?

56 min

Honest Government Ad | AI

The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative

4 min

What This Jewish Professor At Columbia Wants You To Know

For over seven months, a dominant conversation in the U.S. news media has been about alleged and increased antisemitism on American campuses - culminating in the coverage around student encampments. The “Gaza solidarity encampment” at Columbia University, in particular, has...

7 min

Israel's Atrocities Exposed By CNN - A Network Defined By Pro-Israeli Bias

The fact even CNN is reporting this is significant. - Owen Jones

14 min

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

“We think these things that are happening across college campuses are a sideshow. No, they are the show. If we lose the intellectual debate, you will not be able to deploy any army in the West, ever.” - CEO Alex Karp

Caitlin Johnstone

John Oliver, Macklemore & Chris Hayes Defend Student Protesters From Media Smears

Mainstream media is beginning to lose the propaganda war they’ve been waging on student protesters. Notable figures like John Oliver, Chris Hayes and Macklemore have defended the college protesters and debunked mainstream media’s lies about them.

15 min

How The Media Controls The Masses | Second Thought

From FOX to MSNBC, the corporate media is united in promoting elite economic and government interests.

22 min

Social Media Capitalism is DESTROYING Your Mind

“We are not medieval peasants begging at the court of King Zuckerberg. We are the free citizens of democracy."

10 min

Pro-Israel Lobbyists Are Pushing the TikTok Ban

The problem isn't Tiktok. The problem is Israel is committing a genocide for all the world to see and the truth is getting out on every social media platform.

5 min

'No Evidence' For Israel's Claims Against UN Palestinian Agency, UNRWA

Remember how Israel's claims that staff at UNRWA - Gaza's main humanitarian agency - were involved in 7th October attacks drove the ICJ ruling from the headlines, and led to Western countries cancelling funds? Those claims are falling apart. Journalists who've seen Israel's...

14 min

CNN's Pro-Israel Bias EXPOSED In Devastating Report

A new devastating report - based on interviews with CNN journalists and staff and internal emails and memos - has exposed CNN's raging pro-Israeli bias. This matters - a lot. - Owen Jones

14 min

How The Internet Destroyed Critical Thinking Forever

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19 min

The Greatest Misinformation Campaign in History

Big Oil has known for more than 50 years that fossil fuels pose a huge danger to the climate. They covered it up to keep raking in profits. It's one of the biggest corporate crimes in history.

16 min

The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?

In 2022 nearly half of Americans expected a civil war in the next few years, one in five now believes political violence is justified. And it is not just the US but around the world. People increasingly see themselves as part of opposing teams. There are many different...

12 min

Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End (trailer)

We find Mr. Fish, once successful outrageous editorial cartoonist, as his profession is dying out. Can he support his family and maintain his unique defiant voice in a world where biting satiric humor has an ever-diminishing market value?

2 min

Israeli Intelligence Admits Vilest Lie

It wasn't just the Israelis who peddled this lie - so did Western politicians and journalists. But Israeli intelligence has privately admitted the truth.

14 min

BBC's Racism Over Gaza Exposed By Shocking Study

From 7th October 2023, it's been clear that media coverage about Palestinians has been defined by racism: that their lives are considered to have little value. That's not simply an assertion. A detailed study has gone through the BBC's coverage in depth - and it has exposed...

16 min

Is This Why TalkTV is So Aggressively Pro-Israel?

Lowkey goes deep.

4 min

Tech Leader Reveals Industry's Terrifying Pro-Israel Bias

Tech leader Paul Biggar calls out the pro-Israel bias of the industry (and how wrong it feels to go about business as usual while our government is funding a genocide).

21 min

CNN Discovers Israeli Settlers Are Ethnically Cleansing West Bank

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18 min

I'm Being CENSORED By Facebook Over Palestine | Owen Jones

Human Rights Watch have just done an in-depth report about how Meta is censoring pro-Palestinian voices on Facebook and Instagram. Here I show that I've been 'shadowbanned' on Facebook - and why this is part of a general attempt to silence the few pro-Palestinian voices with...

11 min

The Images from Gaza are Getting Worse | The Listening Post

Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza is being witnessed in real time, with Palestinian civilians broadcasting their own bombardment; Israeli soldiers streaming sadistic acts of humiliation - proof of an historic crime. The question Palestinians are asking - urgently - is whether...

26 min

On Israel-Gaza & the Corrupting Media Dynamic of “Audience Capture” | Glenn Greenwald

This is a clip from our show SYSTEM UPDATE, now airing every weeknight at 7pm ET on Rumble. You can watch the full episode for FREE here: N

11 min

SolarPunk Cities: Our Last Hope?

In a world where the dark, dystopian visions of Cyberpunk have long dominated our sci-fi imaginations, a new genre emerges as a beacon of hope: Solarpunk Support Dami Lee on Ko-Fi

19 min

Separated Interbeings | Volume 1 (2023)

"One of the best things you'll (n)ever see." Separated Interbeings is a film collage of our diverse and complex world caught on camera, creatively put together to open deeper perspectives and insights on the world we live in.

1020 min

Why Finding Purpose Is SO HARD Today

"So it seems to me like more and more people are starting to try to figure out, like, what are we doing here on this planet? What's the purpose of life?"

25 min

Independent Media Need You to Get the Word Out on Social Media

“Liking” a post on social media might not seem like a high-impact action. But nonprofit media groups actually depend a great deal on their readers’ online engagement.

Luca Goldmansour

How Your Attention is Stolen

This video is a masterpiece.

28 min

Does Superman Have To Be White? | Angel Eduardo

"All I’ve ever wanted was to be Superman. Growing up, I did what all kids do: I ran around wearing a cape, I dressed up for Halloween, I played with the action figures, I watched the movies and TV shows. But I also picked up on more important things.

6 min

Why Americans Can't Debate Politics Anymore | The Chris Hedges Report

Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff join The Chris Hedges Report to discuss their new book, Let's Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy.

32 min

Frederick Douglass: “To Suppress Free Speech Is a Double Wrong."

“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.” - Frederick Douglass

1 min

Why Is US Media Becoming More Right-Wing?

Something very interesting is happening to mainstream US media, and they're openly admitting it. Why is the news becoming more right-wing? – Second Thought

18 min

The News Media Is Selling You Out

The news media is in the pocket of a major industry.

25 min

Indict Us Too: Daniel Ellsberg & Cryptome's John Young Demand US Drop Charges Against Julian Assange

As supporters of Julian Assange fear his extradition to the United States could be just weeks away, and President Biden faces growing pressure to drop espionage charges against Assange, we are joined for an exclusive joint interview with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel...

23 min

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)

This critically acclaimed look at American war propaganda exhumes five decades of remarkable archival footage to show how presidents from both parties have relied on fear-driven political spin and craven media complicity to sell a succession of wars to the American people...

72 min

CIA Officer Frank Snepp Discusses Planting Stories In Major Newspapers

"The most important video of the year was filmed in 1983." - Edward Snowden "Please watch this detailed explanation from former CIA analyst Frank Snepp about how the newspapers and magazines you were taught to regard as mainstream and reliable have always eagerly served as...

17 min

The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)

Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world -- except the United States. The Occupation of the...

85 min

The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)

If you think U.S. news has a liberal bias, this assumption-shattering film from Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, and Justin Lewis will have you thinking again. Making the common-sense case that mainstream news media are more committed to their bottom-line interests as large...

60 min

The Crisis of the Cultural Environment: Media & Democracy in the 21st Century (1997)

Turning to issues of media policy, George Gerbner delivers a stinging indictment of the way the so-called "information superhighway" is being constructed. By examining the logic of globalization he shows the ineffectual nature of our present responses to deal with the urgent...

25 min

Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...

80 min

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)

Hijacking Catastrophe places the Bush Administration's original justifications for war in Iraq within the larger context of a two-decade struggle by neo-conservatives to dramatically increase military spending while projecting American power and influence globally by means of...

76 min

Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)

In 1998, university professor Kembrew McLeod (Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa) made headlines when he successfully trademarked the phrase "freedom of expression" to call attention to the extremes of intellectual property law. But in the...

52 min

Framing An Execution: The Media & Mumia Abu-Jamal (2001)

The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist on Pennsylvania's death row in connection with the death of a police officer, had become by the late 1990s a global symbol of inequities in the U.S. judicial system. The mainstream media could no longer ignore it, but how would they...

50 min

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food to bogus educational products and the family car.

66 min

Twenty Media Education Foundation Documentaries Are Coming to Films For Action!

Hi all. I'm thrilled to announce a new partnership with the legendary nonprofit film studio, the Media Education Foundation.

Tim Hjersted and Films For Action

What Activists Can Too Easily Forget

Activism today, call it engaged citizenship, ought to have more humility than it often does, and perhaps a bit more compassion and curiosity, too. No matter how great our understanding, we'll always have something valuable to teach and something valuable to learn.

Tim Hjersted

Noam Chomsky Explains the Beauty of Concision

How corporate news inherently supports the status quo and prevents dissident perspectives through 'concision'.

6 min

Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)

The media regularly use public opinion polls in their reporting of important news stories. But how exactly do they report them and to what end? In this insightful and accessible interview, Professor Justin Lewis demonstrates the way in which polling data are themselves used...

32 min

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)

For marketers who wish to reach the lucrative youth market, the relatively uncluttered medium of the school environment represents the final frontier -- access to a captive audience of millions of students. Meanwhile dwindling federal, state, and local funding for education...

45 min

Blood and Oil (2008)

Blood and Oil offers a riveting look at how U.S. efforts to control the global flow of fossil fuels has led to endless war, alliances with authoritarian regimes like Saudi Arabia, and the undermining of democratic movements around the world.

52 min

Advertising & The End of The World (1997)

Advertising & the End of the World features an illustrated presentation by Sut Jhally of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

47 min

How To Make Communist Propaganda

Ever wonder how I make my videos? Here's a good starting point! – Second Thought

18 min

The Wikipedia Promise (trailer)

Can the world's most widely accessed collection of information be trusted? And if not, is it possible to change it for the better?

2 min

The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange (2020)

Journalists are under attack globally for doing their jobs. Julian Assange is facing a 175 year sentence for publishing if extradited to the United States. The Trump administration has gone from denigrating journalists as 'enemies of the people' to now criminalizing common...

39 min

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