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Science all-star team shows how record warm ocean waters made Hurricane Harvey an epic disaster, amped by climate change.
In summer 1988, James Hansen, NASA's Chief Atmospheric expert, testified before the US Senate, that the "greenhouse effect has been detected, and it is changing our climate now." Succeeding decades have borne him out.
The Australien Government has made an ad about the Police State it's creating, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
Welcome to the fake society. The world is dying. This is humanity... - James Scotmore
The New York Times reports special counsel Robert Mueller is scrutinizing President Trump’s tweets as part of Mueller’s expanding probe into Trump’s ties to Russia. This latest revelation in the Mueller investigation is part of a nearly 24-hour stream of headlines about...
This short documentary talks about the process of KBN’s women workers struggle against sexual harassment in the workplace. In the opening, an ex-women labor of KBN told her story about sexual harassment at her factory. Women Workers Committee collect data on sexual harassment...
An evil telemarketing company, a corporation making millions off of slave labor, and one Oakland man at the center of it all who discovers a secret that threatens all of humankind. Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You” is the dystopian social satire being hailed as one of the...
The Other Slavery examines the expansive system of bondage that targeted between 2.5 and 5 million Native Americans throughout the hemisphere in the centuries between the arrival of Columbus and the beginning of the 20th century. In contrast to African slavery, which targeted...
The sanctity of the Second Amendment for all Americans is a myth. It is a myth today and it has been a myth from the beginning. Gun rights in this country were forged on the idea that white people had the right to take native people's land by the barrel of the gun. They were...
Capital flight from Africa, especially the illicit kind, is a far larger drain on the countries of the continent than previously thought and exceeds foreign loans and investment flows. PERI’s Leonce Ndikumana discusses his research findings.
“You shouldn’t have to convince people to go to paradise,” --Shelton Johnson, Ranger, Yosemite National Park
There's a world of opportunity to re-think and re-design the way we make stuff. 'Re-Thinking Progress' explores how through a change in perspective we can re-design the way our economy works - designing products that can be 'made to be made again' and powering the system with...
Green Growth is the big plan to deal with environmental damage while still growing the global economy. Can we trust it? DIY Fact Check >> #PostGrowth
Every day, we are told that global economic growth will save us. But think about it: How is it possible to have infinite growth on a finite planet? #GrowthOrLife
People’s first experience of the system is often profoundly alienating. This is not the fault of their teachers but of the system itself, which assesses us for a particular kind of intelligence. We pass or fail on ridiculously narrow criteria. I was lucky at school because I...
Both sides in any war believe that their side is the just side. The mentality of war says that only when our enemies are defeated can we have peace. Humanity has been fighting an endless war with each other for thousands of years and no side has been able to claim victory...
In this video from Spring 2018 in New Zealand, Charles advocates for expanding our exclusive focus on carbon emissions to see the broader picture beyond our short-sighted and incomplete approach to mitigating climate change. The natural and the material world--the rivers...
Sara Zaltash shares her experience of a transformational process to heal the division between men and women, and what it would like for men to step up into greater responsibility.
In this episode, Alter Ego uses Jordan Peterson's recent conversations with Russell Brand to reveal his major strengths and weaknesses, and how we can build on the gaps in his thinking to develop a vision of progress that integrates personal and collective change.
The 80s movies that left the biggest impression on Pop Culture Detective as a kid weren’t necessarily from the most popular or iconic films. And they aren't referenced in Ready Player One. In this video, PCD discusses 5 of his favorite lesser known movies from the 1980s that...
Cherán is a town of some 20,000 inhabitants in the highlands of Michoacán, one of the Mexican states that’s suffered most in the drug wars of the last decade. Armed men and women — not police, but members of an autonomous militia — guard every entrance to the town, looking...
When we think of a privileged childhood, we often think of swimming pools, nannies and expensive education. In fact, of course, the only childhoods that properly deserve the word 'privileged' are those in which there was an abundance of love.
Economic theorist and author Jeremy Rifkin explains his concept of The Internet of Things. Rifkin's latest book is The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (http://goo.gl/4estV2).
Eric Weinstein: I get asked a lot about the state of capitalism and I think that for those members of society of a certain age we think of capitalism as being locked in an ideological battle with socialism perhaps or even communism.But we never really saw that capitalism...
Ron Paul’s “Cultural Marxism” tweet exposes the term’s deep history of racism. Cenk Uygur, the host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.
The election of Donald J. Trump surprised many, most of all the Democrats. Jeremy Heimans, a political activist and the Founder of the online media company Purpose, explains it simply: Donald Trump won the internet, and thus won the presidency.
Why wasn't Donald Trump's blatant and unashamed misogyny a deal breaker for voters? Pop Culture Detective argues it has a lot to do with the ways pop culture, especially television sitcoms, work to normalize sexist behavior.
Creatures of Place is an insight into the wonderful world of Artist as Family: Meg Ulman, Patrick Jones, and their youngest son, Woody. Living on an urban 1/4 acre section in a small Australian town, Meg and Patrick have designed their property using permaculture principals...
From June 21st-23rd, a group of 50 Israelis, Palestinians and internationals gathered at the “Lighthouse”, between kibbutz Be’eri and the border of Gaza, to envision the possibility of change in the Middle East.
Like a smile owned by its teeth, Like a kiss sold to yourself, This is how your city grows. Like the tender limbs of trees Let our timber lenders breathe in, This is how your city grows. From hand to hand, a relay sport How we shape thought into word,
When television took over from print and radio as the dominant media in the second half of the 20th century, a hierarchy evolved in which the privileged few with TV camera access spoke to the masses. This top-down dissemination of news and opinion not only shaped information...
On this episode of 'MINORITY REPORTS,' Vice met up with Tiago, a white freshman at Morehouse College, an HBCU in Atlanta that counts Martin Luther King, Jr. and Spike Lee as alumni. We sat down with him to hear why he decided to enroll in the school, asked his peers for their...
Colin R. Turner's informal walk-through on the topics discussed in his book Into The Open Economy. The complete four-part mini-series: I. The Problems; II. The Solution; III. The Practicalities; IV. The Transition; Please add comments and questions below.
Alaska's indigenous people have fought against colonization, assimilation and exploitation — this is their story.
Jordan Greenhall seems to have the gift of second sight. And for Greenhall, the election of Donald Trump is merely a bi-product of profound changes in the nature of how we understand the world and how we relate to each other. The underlying mediating structures of society...
American hero, Daniel Ellsberg, celebrated in the movie "The Post", tells the world who his own inspirational hero is.
George Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and social critic. This quote is taken from his last stand up routine, "Life Is Worth Losing" (2005).
In this video we talk to Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff, about the history & political economy behind the legalisation of marijuana.
The week of Venezuela's presidential election, John Oliver dedicated an ENTIRE episode of his HBO show "Last Week Tonight" to the country—full of distortions and highly misleading to progressive-minded people.
The Creativity Delusion is a multi-part video essay on how our misconceptions about ideas and the way brains work impact our views about creation. These also extend to intellectual property.
In this film, we meet Jim Enote, a traditional Zuni elder, farmer, and director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center in Zuni, New Mexico. Enote is working with Zuni artists to provide an alternative way to understand and create maps which offer an indigenous voice...
Colombia’s presidential election could determine the fate of the historic peace deal ending their 53-year civil war. While most in the country want to honor the agreement, Colombia’s right wing has been a fervent opponent.
On the 6th of May 2018, acTVism Munich organized an event with Glenn Greenwald, Jill Stein & Abby Martin under the title “Freedom & Democracy: Global Issues in Context 2.0″.
Retailers around the country are shuttering stores — a list that ranges from Toys R Us, which just announced it’s closing or selling all its U.S. locations, to brands including Footlocker, J. Crew and Macy’s that are shrinking their brick-and-mortar operations. But one...
The Intellectual Dark Web brand claims to be a motley crew of ideologically opposed truth tellers but is instead a group of warriors for the status quo who are unified around scapegoating leftists and specifically Marxists for problems that capitalism itself generates. They...
This video picks apart the right-wing Day for Freedom video, examines how the alt-lite uses the Streisand Effect to spread its message, and points out that Karl Marx was a champion of free speech.
In 2016, more than 50 bills were introduced in Congress targeting Trans people. Since Trump took office, dozens of pieces of landmark legislation have been cancelled, severely rolling back Trans rights.
The steps needed to rapidly decarbonize our economy (the only way to prevent catastrophic climate change) will never be taken in a capitalist system.
Our society has definitely become masters at increasing the amount of things we can measure - more and more money, more and more floor space per capita, more and more GDP, and less and less of the things that we can’t measure - how happy we are, levels of intimacy, the...
Progressive candidate Levi Tillemann met with Congressman Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat in the House of Representatives, to make the case that the party should stay neutral in the Colorado primary and that he had a more plausible path to victory than the same centrism that...
Daryl Davis and BLM activist Kwame Rose discuss their pivotal confrontation moment from Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America.
Discussion of overly excited Youtubers, the loudness wars and sensationalism in media.
Sell an identity, not a product.
It's not accidental or because they are stupid. Its often confusing and vague on purpose. Some of the greatest corruption scandals in history have happened thanks to jargon.
Are fundamentalist Christians a dangerous religious cult? Possibly. The controversial author and religious scholar Reza Aslan posits that President Donald Trump has much of his evangelical fan-base believing that he's somehow been anointed by God to become President...
Dr. Stephen Ilardi is a professor of clinical psychology and the author of The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression Without Drugs.
The network effect is Facebook’s biggest selling point, and the root of many of its problems.
The media's panic about antifa reflects an old bias in the way journalists cover protest movements.
"Together with others, I know I can get much further."
Peter Joseph speaks at The University of Santa Barbara, CA, Nov. 8th 2017, about the themes from his new book: The New Human Rights Movement.
Paul Stamets is a mycologist, author and advocate of bioremediation and medicinal fungi. In this animation he describes the incredible properties of fungi as well as an overview of how mushrooms could have played a massive role in the evolution of human consciousness.
How can we move forward as men and women in the wake of the #metoo campaign? Psychotherapist and relationship expert Louise Mazanti PhD talks to Rebel Wisdom founder and journalist David Fuller. For more details on Louise Mazanti: https://www.mazantilousada.com/ They also...
On the 50th Anniversary of his death, many of MLK’s economic and radical messages are written out of history.
What are the challenges facing men today? Former US Army Ranger and philosopher Michael Robillard looks at the growing sense of alienation felt by men and how to find a sense of belonging.
In his keynote at the Burning Man European Leadership Summit, Ronan Harrington calls for a politics that recognises the one thing that we all have in common: our vulnerability.
For the past two years, Alter Ego has been gathering new cultural and political leaders to rethink politics and our vision of progress. This is a behind the scenes of our first gathering in 2016, where we explored spirituality as a transformative source of political renewal...
The United States and the global status quo are rapidly approaching a breaking point. Viewed from the scale of history we're milliseconds away.
People don't get "woke" overnight. Sometimes we have to be patient and help them get there.
Professor Haidt argues that conflicts arise at many American universities today because they are pursuing two potentially incompatible goals: truth and social justice. While Haidt thinks both goals are important, he maintains that they can come into conflict. According to...
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right, or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most. Jonathan Haidt studies how...
Are nations and capitalism still viable systems or are they nearing their end of life? If so, what comes next? How do we deal with climate change and biodiversity loss? How do we make sense of the world and figure out what's true to inform choices? Is humanity going to get...
While most retrospectives focus on his "I have a dream" speech, everyone deserves to know what he was trying to accomplish when he was killed.
In this interview with the senior editor and founder of The Real News Network, Paul Jay, we examine the threats facing humanity today, Russiagate and what issues independent media outlets should be prioritizing.
"In my 50 years of service, John Bolton is the most dangerous American I've met," says Col. Larry Wilkerson
Peter Joseph gives a "structuralist" perspective on the nature of modern socioeconomic inequality, pointing out failures within the March 19th, 2018 Town Hall discussion held by Bernie Sanders, Michael Moore, Elizabeth Warren, Darrick Hamilton and other guests.
The Holy Land Foundation Five are Palestinian political prisoners sentenced up to upwards of 65 years in US prison for providing aid to refugees.
Classical liberals and the alt-right share common grievances with the left, use similar terminology and agree on common narratives. This makes moderate classical liberals susceptible to being radicalized by the ideas of the far right. While this is far from inevitable and...
Debunking the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory once and for all.
What's the antidote to rising nationalism, polarization and hate? In this inspiring, poetic talk, Valarie Kaur asks us to reclaim love as a revolutionary act. As she journeys from the birthing room to tragic sites of bloodshed, Kaur shows us how the choice to love can be a...
Karl Marx remains deeply important today not as the man who told us what to replace capitalism with, but as someone who brilliantly pointed out its problems. The School of Life, a pro-Capitalist institution, takes a look.
Political correctness aims for some very nice results, but its means have a habit of upsetting a lot of people. Might there be an alternative to it? We think there is, and it’s called Politeness.
On March 16. 1968 American troops murdered over 500 innocent women, old men, and children in the Vietnamese village of My Lai. But it could have been much worse if not for one very brave helicopter pilot: Hugh Thompson Jr.
Jordan Peterson offers incredibly important advice on the appropriate way to respond to tense situations with disruptive protestors - advice that was quite literally lost in the noise of the nonstop protest that shut down an event focused (ironically) on the subject of...
So you want to fight prejudice and change people’s minds? Step 1: Don’t insult them. Step 2: Have a real conversation.
Is “the Left” eating itself? Watch the Unsafe Space Tour panel discussion at New York Law School, featuring Professors Bret Weinstein, Laura Kipnis, Angus Johnston, and author Brendan O'Neill. Moderated by Tom Slater (of Spiked Magazine).
Nationality feels powerful, especially today. But the idea of identifying with millions of strangers just based on borders is relatively new. The Interpreter explains why it was invented — and how it changed the world.
A very objective, scientific, rational inquiry, by ContraPoints.
This is a critical and educational video about the deceptive strategies used by the American Alt-Right to appeal to centrists. All clips of Alt-Right media are used under fair use for purposes of education, critique, and peaceful resistance. - ContraPoints
“A specter is haunting Youtube — the specter of Cultural Marxism!"
This video answers the question "Did Political Correctness Cause Fascism in the US?" and considers how Mark Fisher's critique of capitalism might inform our understanding of the reactionary right.
This video takes a look at the alt-right through the lens of Angela Nagle's new book "Kill All Normies" and calls for the end of the culture war.
This Zero Books video looks at Mark Fisher's book Capitalist Realism, but is mostly a response to Jordan Peterson's lecture on Political Correctness for The Speakers Action Group.
Slavoj Žižek doesn't buy into political correctness. In fact, it frightens him. The famed philosopher and social critic describes political correctness as a tacit form of totalitarianism, an act of coercion built upon the premise that "I know better than you what you really...
Jordan Peterson: "I was invited to Queen's University March 5 to give the inaugural lecture/discussion of the Liberty Lecture series, funded by Faculty of Law alumnus, Gregory Piasetzki (LLB 1980). Dr. Bruce Pardy (https://law.queensu.ca/faculty-re
A new in-depth study on the consequences of canceling all student debt in the US shows that it would help the economy far more than it would cost. We talk to Stephanie Kelton, one of the study's co-authors.
Too often the left fails to engage with conservative critics of modernity and this failure allows right-wing tropes and concepts to go unchallenged. For instance, if only the right will address the way social alienation creates a sense of meaninglessness and instability, then...
In this video, Zero Books looks at Nina Power’s 2009 feminist Tract “One Dimensional Woman” to find out how the book is holding up seven years later. Was Power right when she suggested that feminists should be perhaps a bit less concerned about representation and more...
Robert Sapolsky is an American neuroendocrinologist and author. He is currently a professor of biology, and professor of neurology and neurological sciences and, by courtesy, neurosurgery, at Stanford University. Recorded: May 2017
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