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Cyberpunk once stood out as a vital genre of anti-capitalist fiction. Today, it’s been reduced to a cool retro aesthetic easily appropriated by the world’s second-richest man to market ugly Blade Runner–inspired trucks to nostalgia-driven Gen Xers.
RYAN ZICKGRAF
Cyberpunk’s bleak vision is aesthetically stylish but its diagnoses are shallow and unsatisfying.
Allegra Silcox
Speculators might make money on it, but the arguments for its usefulness fail completely.
Nathan J. Robinson
A master class from Bernie Sanders.
Nathan J. Robinson
As the US Empire makes its major military retreat from Afghanistan, learn about the CIA forces that will be staying behind—and their disturbing 20-year track record of war crimes.
17 min
On May 27th, 2021 the Goethe-Institut Toronto hosted author and academic Adrian Daub in conversation with open Government advocate Bianca Wylie. Adrian recently wrote What Tech Calls Thinking, a playful, insightful account of the ways tech tries to subvert criticism of itself...
58 min
I really enjoyed this book, so I thought I would share my thoughts on it. Have you read What Tech Calls Thinking Yet? Let me know what you thought of it below.
9 min
From Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney comes a documentary about the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar healthcare company founded by Elizabeth Holmes.
3 min
The smartest people on Earth have a surprising lack of curiosity.
Matthew James Seidel
In the 21st century, every life experience is a monetizable data point.
Ben Lee
Big Tech increasingly takes on the role of landlord rather than retailer, spawning an industry of bullshit that begs the question—what is it all for?
Allegra Silcox
An ExxonMobil lobbyist accidentally admitted how they undermine climate science, and which Senators they love giving money to. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/tyt/live
21 min
The company’s own Washington representative admits that we cannot solve the crisis without doing away with Exxon.
Nathan J. Robinson
The Con is a comprehensive docuseries about how corruption and greed led to bankruptcy, homelessness and suicide in 2008
Adrian Horton
An in-depth investigation into the 2008 financial crisis nine years in the making. Through interviews with regulators, former officials, foreclosure victims, industry whistleblowers, and journalists, THE CON connects the dots to what America used to be and where we’re headed...
122 min
Bill Black traces the history of modern American financial fraud starting in this episode with the S&L Banking scandal. Bankers continue to loot their banks, customers, and society to this day. Part One, on theAnalysis.news with Paul Jay. We will release one or two episodes...
57 min
The American Dream Dies Where Power Lies
From writer/director Eric Vaughan, producer Patrick Lovell and executive producer Adam Bronfman, The Con is an in-depth investigation into the 2008 financial crisis nine years in the making, Who did it, why it happened and how our...
3 min
Posted on Thursday, October 17, 2019
Michael Hudson
Published by Sage Journals
Michael Hudson
Why is the Fed buying corporate junk bonds and debt but won't buy out student debt?
37 min
Democracynow.org - Today we spend the hour with David Simon, the man behind "The Wire," what some have described as the best television series ever broadcast. His latest project is titled "Show Me a Hero," a six-part mini-series now airing on HBO. It looks at what happened in...
21 min
"David Simon doesn't like to mince words. The creative genius behind such acclaimed television shows as "The Wire" and "Treme" has never been one to keep his opinions to himself. But the former Baltimore Sun reporter and screenwriter may have outdone himself, however, when he...
5 min
Full Show: America Is a Horror Show
January 31, 2014
This week on Moyers & Company, David Simon, journalist and creator of the TV series The Wire and Treme, talks with Bill about the crisis of capitalism in America. After President Barack Obama’s annual State of the Union...
27 min
In part two of his interview, David Simon, creator of the TV series "The Wire" and "Treme," talks to Bill about the triumph of capital over democracy.
11 min
A decade ago, The Wire series finale aired. The show was a Marxist's idea of what TV drama should be.
HELENA SHEEHAN, SHEAMUS SWEENEY
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Over the past 15 months, the official narrative surrounding the origins of Covid-19 has completely flipped...why is that? This is a complex, controversial, and convoluted topic, but here’s my attempt at a concrete analysis of the situation. I’d love to hear your thoughts in...
17 min
The "Honest Government Ad" series by The Juice Media just celebrated its 5 year anniversary!
17 min
The Australien Government has made an ad about how it makes everything good, shit - and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
5 min
Facebook is censoring the hashtag #Revolution. If you search Facebook for #Revolution, you will be given the following message: “Posts with #Revolution are temporarily hidden here. Some content in those posts goes against our Community Standards”.
40 min
"When today's stories of crushing greed and endless growth have come to an end, what, then, will be the new stories?"
This film was created as an educational tool that can be used to move us beyond disempowerment, in order to enact real change in a changing world.
Chris...
35 min
In 2016, Rabbi Dov Taylor invited a group of Americans to join him on a tour of Israel and Palestine. This 12-day excursion was not planned as a sight-seeing tour, though there were plenty of sights to see. Rather, the purpose was to introduce tour members to Palestinians...
57 min
A filmmaker tries to cope with the aftermath of her own sexual assault while filming first-hand testimonies ––ranging from a nurse that performed her own rape kit to a pedophile molested as a child. Hold Me Right follows both survivors and perpetrators through the harrowing...
3 min
In the Land of My Ancestors celebrates the living legacy of Ann Marie Sayers, an indigenous Ohlone elder. Ohlone people are not federally recognized as indigenous nations in the San Francisco Bay Area. This documentary short reveals the resilience and tenacity of Ann Marie as...
9 min
How the World Went Mad is a five-part animated docuseries that combines satire and science to explore the wave of political insanity sweeping the globe.
10 min
Grading is a scam and motivation is a myth. Those sound like bold words, but today we're going to dive down the rabbit hole and prove, once and for all, that our current state of schooling (and of...well..._everything_) is rotten to its core. ...that's all a little dramatic...
53 min
Abby Martin introduces the first installment of a new Empire Files series about the CIA explaining why the agency was created, and how it became the most nefarious criminal organization in the world, with CIA expert Douglas Valentine.
24 min
A presentation and roundtable discussion on class struggle and union organizing at Amazon warehouses with Alessandro Delfanti, Amazonians United workers and organizers Ira and Fathia, Paul Gray, Jessica Ireland, and Tanner Mirrlees.
0:00 Introduction w/ Tanner Mirrlees
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97 min
"In this video essay, I look at why capitalism is killing us (and the planet) by causing climate change. Specifically, I look at how capitalism's multinationals like ExxonMobil and BP are responsible for increased emissions and ultimately the climate crisis we are living...
14 min
We live on a finite planet. What happens to yesterday's shiny new thing that is today's cast-off? What happens to "throw away", when there is no away?
4 min
It would be nice if having a Democratic president automatically meant real action on climate change. Sadly, it isn’t true.
David Lapp Jost
In the middle of a pandemic, YouTube censored expert Senate testimony, highlighting a possible solution. A solution that countries around the world have deployed with overwhelmingly positive results. Studies: https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/ YOUTUBE...
8 min
Daniel Christian Wahl, speaking live from Beyond The Great Reset: The Systems Change Summit, May 2021
44 min
Helena Norberg-Hodge, speaking live from Beyond The Great Reset: The Systems Change Summit, May 2021
49 min
This follow-up to Valentin Thurn’s documentary, Taste the Waste, spotlights the people and companies throughout Europe who are working to salvage usable food. It is estimated that European households throw away 100 billion Euros worth of food each year. Thurn asks why is it...
4 min
Everything changes and yet everything stays the same. 1844: Friedrich Engels writes his book The Condition of the Working Class in England, a classic denunciation of the appalling living conditions for working people living at the heart of the industrial revolution in...
3 min
Hidden in the fantastic otherwordly narrative of Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away is an allegory about society’s toxic obsession with work. The Studio Ghibli classic was released in 2001 and commented on Japan’s losing its soul to capitalism in the context of the country’s...
24 min
One of the most common misconceptions about US society is that we live under a perfectly fair, egalitarian system which rewards those who have intelligence and a strong work ethic. This is the myth of American meritocracy. In this episode, Second Thought explores why the US...
13 min
"Wonderfully in touch with this historical moment". - Mark Achbar, The Corporation
"To the Ends of the Earth" follows concerned citizens living at the frontiers of extreme oil and gas extraction, bearing witness to a global crossroads. They call for human ingenuity to...
75 min
If we live in a city with little or no 'ecology' around us, where on earth do we start to make an 'ecological' lifestyle? This very short film brings us into the minds of natural farmers in Japan and the United States, discovering how city dwellers can begin to live with more...
8 min
Freedom isn't free, it costs folks like you and me... And investigation of free speech and the capitalist state.
55 min
The new film Nomadland is a heartfelt look at the lives of itinerant Americans cast aside by the Great Recession. But it ignores how employers like Amazon are raking in profits off this new class of worker.
Paris Marx
Jason Myles presents a critique of Jessica Bruder's 2020 film "Nomadland." From the video: "About 10 minutes in I thought I was watching Amazon the movie. I’ve seen Cold War propaganda, and if we’re in a new “Cold War” it’s the war against labor rights and this is the “Red...
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One of the more common arguments for capitalism asserts that there would be no innovation without it. Given how prevalent this talking point is, one would assume that it's difficult to debunk. That's not the case. In this episode, Second Thought takes a look at why capitalism...
13 min
In Killing Gaza, journalists Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal documented Israel’s 2014 war on Gaza.
96 min
The long, slow surrender of American liberals
Adolph Reed Jr.
La humanidad se encuentra en una de las crisis socio-ambientales más duras jamás vista. Los diagnósticos son certeros, entonces ¿Cuál es el camino para esos problemáticas ?. Cada dos años, un grupo d
77 min
Abby Martin gives 5 points that evaporate Israel's assertion that the civilians it kills in Gaza were "human shields."
12 min
A true story about activism, trespass and an iconic ancient site.