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War, Propaganda and the Media: A Detailed Primer on the Tactics of Modern War Propaganda
War, Propaganda and the Media: A Detailed Primer on the Tactics of Modern War Propaganda
We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy’s side of the front is always propaganda, and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace. — Walter Lippmann Probably every conflict is...
Anup Shah · 36,941 views · 100%
The Role of Anti-Establishment "Conspiracy Theories"
The Role of Anti-Establishment "Conspiracy Theories"
In recent years, populist explanations for world events have become common and often taken the form of anti-establishment conspiracy theories. The contradiction between how people believe the world should be, according to the mainstream propaganda pertaining to liberty and...
Colin Todhunter · 16,094 views · 100%
Marx Was Right
Marx Was Right
Karl Marx exposed the peculiar dynamics of capitalism, or what he called “the bourgeois mode of production.” He foresaw that capitalism had built within it the seeds of its own destruction. He knew that reigning ideologies—think neoliberalism—were created to serve the...
Chris Hedges · 25,831 views · 97%
The Steps Toward Self Empowerment
The Steps Toward Self Empowerment
How many of you can recall situations in which you felt unjustly treated or taken advantage of and you did not stand up for yourself? Or remember finding yourself in a situation where you felt small and insignificant? Or recall generally feeling overwhelmed? For me, it has...
Krishnananda · 12,917 views · 100%
Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education
Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education
While teaching means different things in different places, seven lessons are universally taught from Harlem to Hollywood Hills.
Meryn Callander · 30,664 views · 100%
Journalism's Next Frontier: Crossing the Threshold From Having to Being
Journalism's Next Frontier: Crossing the Threshold From Having to Being
A personal journey
Nafeez Ahmed · 1,610 views · 100%
Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism
Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism
Neoliberalism transforms freedom for the many into freedom for the few. Its logical result is neofascism.
Chris Hedges · 2,349 views · 75%
44 Reasons Why Capitalism Cannot Be Redeemed
44 Reasons Why Capitalism Cannot Be Redeemed
I have a very friendly relationship with Adam Bendell, who is very deeply involved in the world of impact investment and who has also been very interested in the work I am doing around gift economy. Over the years, he has come to events of mine and we have had some very...
Miki Kashtan · 3,904 views · 100%
This Is the Secret To Understanding US Politics and the New Cold War On China: Monopolies
This Is the Secret To Understanding US Politics and the New Cold War On China: Monopolies
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...
53 min · 363 views · unrated
The Real Ideology Behind Reason Magazine's Anti-Socialist Crusade
The Real Ideology Behind Reason Magazine's Anti-Socialist Crusade
Reason Magazine presents itself as a courageous outsider “pushing back against socialism,” but its real and consistent function is far more familiar: it operates as an ideological shield for concentrated private power while marketing itself as anti-authoritarian.
Tim Hjersted · 145 views · unrated
Understanding Occupy Wall Street -- It's Not What They're for, But What They're Against
Understanding Occupy Wall Street -- It's Not What They're for, But What They're Against
Critics of the growing Occupy Wall Street movement complain that the protesters don’t have a policy agenda and, therefore, don’t stand for anything. They're wrong. The key isn’t what protesters are for but rather what they’re against -- the gaping inequality that has poisoned...
Sally Kohn · 5,665 views · 100%
The Subsidy of History
The Subsidy of History
Carson indicts historically existing capitalism as a betrayal, rather than a manifestation, of free-market libertarian principles. He points out that libertarians have typically focused on the role of state coercion in the present-day capitalist market, neglecting what he...
Kevin Carson · 4,652 views · 88%
Beyond Patriarchy: A Libertarian Model of the Family
Beyond Patriarchy: A Libertarian Model of the Family
The Family: Friend or Foe?
Roderick T. Long · 3,971 views · 38%
World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
Just in case you were beginning to think rich people were deeply misunderstood and that they feel the pain of those who are less fortunate, here's the world's wealthiest woman, Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart, with some helpful advice. "If you're jealous of those...
David Lazarus · 5,781 views · 50%
The Government Shutdown Opportunity: Public Workers Ignore Washington and Reorganize Cooperatively
The Government Shutdown Opportunity: Public Workers Ignore Washington and Reorganize Cooperatively
Cory Doctorow, guest of honor at the upcoming FenCon science fiction convention in Dallas, notes (“During the shutdown, some scientists can’t talk about science,” Boing Boing, October 4) that some of his fellow speakers will be unable to speak if the government shutdown...
Kevin Carson · 3,766 views · 75%
2013: Hope or Despair?
2013: Hope or Despair?
Things are getting better and better and worse and worse faster and faster simultaneously.” – Tom Atlee
Charles Eisenstein · 3,166 views · 100%
After the Chemical Leak in West Virginia, We Have to Ask Ourselves One Very Important Question
After the Chemical Leak in West Virginia, We Have to Ask Ourselves One Very Important Question
On Thursday, January 9 a dangerous toxin, 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, leaked from a busted tank and into the Elk River in West Virginia. It is believed that nearly 7,500 gallons of the toxin made its way from the 40,000-gallon tank into the river. It’s unclear how much...
Grant Mincy · 3,344 views · 75%
Where Right-Libertarianism Goes Wrong
Where Right-Libertarianism Goes Wrong
Libertarianism is, in theory, no defender of the rich and powerful who must always be subject to market competition. As a libertarian who has engaged in countless classroom and online debates, I’ve often asked myself why other people cannot see that. However, I’ve come to...
Andrew Kerr · 2,929 views · 100%
From Mike Brown to Eric Garner, the Specter of Revolt is Haunting NYC
From Mike Brown to Eric Garner, the Specter of Revolt is Haunting NYC
"A riot is the language of the unheard." - MLK
Louise Michel · 3,338 views · 100%
Why Should Anyone "Respect" the Law?
Why Should Anyone "Respect" the Law?
In the wake of the announcement that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted for shooting and killing Mike Brown, protestors across the country took to the streets in mass acts of civil disobedience, and in some cases, property damage. And so, yesterday...
Max Read · 4,541 views · 100%
Why Title II Reclassification for Net Neutrality Is the Biggest Deal Ever
Why Title II Reclassification for Net Neutrality Is the Biggest Deal Ever
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has confirmed that he will base new Net Neutrality rules on Title II of the Communications Act. He described those rules as "the strongest open Internet protection
Free Press · 1,866 views · unrated
Central Banks Nervous as Alternative Currency with David Bowie's Face Goes Viral
Central Banks Nervous as Alternative Currency with David Bowie's Face Goes Viral
One of the best ways for the general public to take power back is to develop alternative currencies — both local and global — that allow people to trade outside of the corporate-government banking systems and central bank notes.
John Vibes · 15,375 views · 97%
Release Kim Davis, Destroy Her Power
Release Kim Davis, Destroy Her Power
It was 1975 when the first same-sex Americans were “permitted” to marry one another. It was Clela Rorex who processed these licenses illegally. This act of sabotage against the state’s marriage monopoly was eventually discovered, and Rorex quit — many calling for her to face...
Ryan Calhoun · 1,870 views · 75%
13 Point Human Rights-Based Revolutionary Agenda
13 Point Human Rights-Based Revolutionary Agenda
REVOLUTION LA is a political discussion group and revolutionary grassroots movement dedicated to building class-consciousness from the bottom-up through community education, outreach and empowerment.As the struggle of disadvantaged populations continues to widen through mass...
REVOLUTION LA · 9,080 views · 100%
Communalism: a Liberatory Alternative to the Present System
Communalism: a Liberatory Alternative to the Present System
The belief that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. - Murray Bookchin
Marcus Amargi and Stephanie Amargi · 24,560 views · 100%
Trump Won Because the Democratic Party Failed, Not Because the White Working Class Revolted
Trump Won Because the Democratic Party Failed, Not Because the White Working Class Revolted
The reckoning is here for progressives and the Democratic Party now that the unthinkable has happened. Most of America, shell-shocked, is asking how Hillary Clinton and the entire Democratic establishment could lose to a woman-bashing, Mexican-deporting, Muslim-hating...
Arun Gupta · 5,121 views · 100%
21St Century Bastards #Faketoys May Be the Best Thing on the Internet
21St Century Bastards #Faketoys May Be the Best Thing on the Internet
In a world where some of the most unimaginable shitheads keep getting elevated to positions of authority and influence, it's gratifying to see them taken down a peg or two... or in this case, shrunk to doll-size and put in a box. 21st Century Bastards are the best satirical...
Andrew Butler · 6,234 views · unrated
Black Worker, White Worker (1972)
Black Worker, White Worker (1972)
In one department of a giant steel mill in northwest Indiana a foreman assigned a white worker to the job of operating a crane. The Black workers in the department felt that on the basis of seniority and job experience, one of them should have been given the job, which...
Noel Ignatin · 1,740 views · unrated
The Important Word in ‘Democratic Socialism’ Is ‘Democratic’
The Important Word in ‘Democratic Socialism’ Is ‘Democratic’
Sen. Bernie Sanders isn’t talking about making America into Cuba or Venezuela. He’s talking about extending social guarantees like those offered in other advanced countries, such as Denmark and Sweden.
Jesse Jackson · 2,690 views · unrated
We Asked Our Community How to Make America Great—Here's What They Said
We Asked Our Community How to Make America Great—Here's What They Said
We recently posed a simple question to our community on Facebook: How can we make America great? We got hundreds of comments.
Films For Action · 943 views · unrated
Why We Need a Workers' Bill of Rights in the Age of Automation
Why We Need a Workers' Bill of Rights in the Age of Automation
There's a basic question hanging over the future of work that almost no one in power is asking out loud:
Tim Hjersted · 493 views · unrated
Chris Hedges: Trumpland
Chris Hedges: Trumpland
The corporate coup d'état and collapse of American democracy began long before Trump. He is simply snuffing out what remains.
16 min · 857 views · unrated
Moral Injury: Murdered In Gaza Disappeared In America
Moral Injury: Murdered In Gaza Disappeared In America
The displaced and bereaved in Gaza, and the disappeared in America, are not the only ones experiencing injury. We who witness and cannot stop it also lose confidence in our ability to effectively support decency and justice.
Abba A. Solomon · 558 views · unrated
The Stalin Card
The Stalin Card
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 · 217 views · unrated
FDR Warned Us about Organized Money. The Threat He Saw Now Dominates Both Political Parties in the US.
FDR Warned Us about Organized Money. The Threat He Saw Now Dominates Both Political Parties in the US.
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know...
Films For Action · 469 views · unrated
Eugene V. Debs, Defender of American Liberty
Eugene V. Debs, Defender of American Liberty
Released from jail on this day 130 years ago, the great socialist and labor leader delivered a speech we would do well to remember in these perilous times.
Jeffrey C. Isaac · 383 views · unrated
A Letter to Conservatives: On Power, Principles, and the Path Forward
A Letter to Conservatives: On Power, Principles, and the Path Forward
Our ask isn't that you become a progressive. It's for both loyal Democrats and loyal Republicans to stop defending their party uncritically and to challenge the rot in both parties, especially the one they think will be more responsive to their opposition.
Tim Hjersted · 327 views · unrated
A New Year of Empire
A New Year of Empire
With its violent military intervention into Venezuela – a country I used to live in – the U.S. has begun this year with entitled and undisguised imperialism.
Tamara Pearson · 803 views · unrated
Flying the Flag, Faking the News
Flying the Flag, Faking the News
Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During the First World War, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a secret government campaign to persuade reluctant Americans to send an army to the...
John Pilger · 6,448 views · 75%
The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling
The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling
Let me speak to you about dumbness because that is what schools teach best. Old-fashioned dumbness used to be simple ignorance: you didn't know something, but there were ways to find out if you wanted to. Government-controlled schooling didn't eliminate dumbness - in fact, we...
John Taylor Gatto · 36,522 views · 100%
The Bottleneck. Peak Everything. The Great Turning. Whatever You Call It, It's the Big Enchilada
The Bottleneck. Peak Everything. The Great Turning. Whatever You Call It, It's the Big Enchilada
In the words of filmmaker Tom Shadyac, "The shift is hitting the fan." We're experiencing the dawn of a revolutionary transformation. This awkward 'tween state marks the end of pre-history - the sunset of an ecologically illiterate civilization. Like a baby being born, a new...
22 min · 10,498 views · 54%
Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
"We encourage every city official, business owner, student, and citizen to read this book. Besides being incredible in terms of seeing the building of "civilization" differently (which relates to city-building and workplace-building), it has some of the most important...
Daniel Quinn · 65,843 views · 97%
Left Progressive Media Inside the Propaganda Model
Left Progressive Media Inside the Propaganda Model
In Manufacturing Consent (1988; and updated in Herman,1996). Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky claim that because media is firmly imbedded in the market system, it reflects the class values and concerns of its owners and advertisers. According to Herman and Chomsky, the media...
Peter Phillips and Project Censored · 9,195 views · 100%
Anonymous Declares War On The Koch Bros.
Anonymous Declares War On The Koch Bros.
Dear Citizens of the United States of America,
Anonymous · 15,679 views · 100%
Mainstream Media: Presstitutes for the Rich and Powerful
Mainstream Media: Presstitutes for the Rich and Powerful
While the Rupert Murdoch scandal is justifiably front-page news, there is a much wider problem with the mainstream media. Purchasing ReportersFamed Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein says the CIA has already b
Washington's Blog · 7,687 views · 100%
Terror in Anaheim
Terror in Anaheim
Last weekend, news cameras zoomed in on a theater in Aurora, where many moviegoers were shot down, apparently by a gunman trying to act out a crazed fantasy. While the mass killing reignited a nationwide debate on gun control, a different, but similar, tragedy unfolded not...
MICHELLE CHEN · 3,083 views · unrated
The Unofficial History of America™
The Unofficial History of America™
The history of America is the one story every kid knows. It's a story of fierce individualism and heroic personal sacrifice in the service of a dream. A story of early settlers, hungry and cold, carving a home out of the wilderness. Of visionary leaders fighting for...
Kalle Lasn · 7,456 views · 100%
An Outline of Benefits from a Lower Energy Civilization
An Outline of Benefits from a Lower Energy Civilization
The universe ultimately runs on an energy economy, not a market economy as the dominant economic ideology claims. Ecological damage is tied to energy use of any kind in our peculiar type of economy where the operating rules of the system require maximization of profits at any...
Karl North · 2,779 views · unrated
The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan. It Was Not to End the War or Save Lives.
The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan. It Was Not to End the War or Save Lives.
Like all Americans, I was taught that the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end WWII and save both American and Japanese lives.
Washington's Blog · 590,119 views · 77%
The Conflation Trap: How the Left & the Right Are Fooled Into Supporting the Same Elite Interests
The Conflation Trap: How the Left & the Right Are Fooled Into Supporting the Same Elite Interests
Left-libertarians differ from the (current) libertarian mainstream both in terms of what outcomes they regard as desirable, and in terms of what outcomes they think a freed market is likely to produce.
Roderick Long · 27,927 views · 100%
What is Left Libertarianism?
What is Left Libertarianism?
Although it's pretty safe to say that no canonical definition of left libertarianism exists, there is a growing consensus around a certain body of concepts, priorities, and attitudes towards the State. Here is a collection of different perspectives from individuals who...
leftlibertarian.org · 4,856 views · 100%
20 Big Ideas for Creating a Democratized Economy
20 Big Ideas for Creating a Democratized Economy
The economic collapse of 2008 came at the end of three decades of stagnant wages that resulted in record household debt and made it apparent that the economy does not work for most Americans.
It's Our Economy · 16,642 views · 100%
The Boston Bombings Gave Americans a Taste of the Terrorism the U.S. Inflicts Abroad Every Day
The Boston Bombings Gave Americans a Taste of the Terrorism the U.S. Inflicts Abroad Every Day
April is usually a cheerful month in New England, with the first signs of spring, and the harsh winter at last receding. Not this year. There are few in Boston who were not touched in some way by the marathon bombings on April 15 and the tense week that followed. Several...
Noam Chomsky · 7,388 views · 75%
What Republicans and Conservative Libertarians Really Stand For, As Explained by an Anarchist
What Republicans and Conservative Libertarians Really Stand For, As Explained by an Anarchist
A strange thing happened during the October 2013 battle in the US Congress over a government shutdown and threat of default. The Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, denounced the Republicans as “anarchists.” So did Elizabeth Warren, one of the most liberal Senators. As did...
Wayne Price · 6,758 views · 100%
'World Government' Is a Real Thing, But There Is No 'New World Order' Conspiracy Behind It
'World Government' Is a Real Thing, But There Is No 'New World Order' Conspiracy Behind It
Kevin Carson dismisses the NWO conspiracy theory narrative of world government, which in many ways resembles a kind of 'cartoon evil' as it is often depicted. There is a more grounded way to look at it.
Kevin Carson · 8,343 views · 94%
To Do Justice to Mandela's life, the Struggle Must Continue
To Do Justice to Mandela's life, the Struggle Must Continue
Brian Ashley of South Africa's Amandla magazine says that in the battle to overcome inequality and achieve social justice, we will need many more Nelson Mandelas. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Amandla magazine...
Brian Ashley, Red Pepper/Amandla · 2,143 views · 75%
How 'Hygge' Can Help You Get Through Winter
How 'Hygge' Can Help You Get Through Winter
The vague cultural concept doesn't translate easily into English, but it has helped Denmark become the 'happiest country on Earth' despite long, dark winters.
Russell McLendon · 19,221 views · 100%
Green Capitalism: The God That Failed
Green Capitalism: The God That Failed
The results are in: No amount of "green capitalism" will be able to ensure the profound changes we must urgently make to prevent the collapse of civilization from the catastrophic impacts of global warming.
Richard Smith · 8,862 views · 100%
How to Create Abundant Cities
How to Create Abundant Cities
Is it enough for our lives, our economy, our cities to become “sustainable”? If being sustainable means no more than being able to maintain the status quo of strife and never having enough, of contests over who gets the most of the scarce resources available, then aiming for...
Wolfgang Hoeschele · 3,553 views · 100%
Ukraine Crisis is about Great Power Oil & Gas Pipeline Rivalry
Ukraine Crisis is about Great Power Oil & Gas Pipeline Rivalry
Resource scarcity and competition to dominate the Eurasian energy corridors are behind Russian militarism and US interference
Nafeez Ahmed · 4,985 views · 88%
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