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If you’ve turned on the news in the last few weeks, you’ve probably seen plenty of coverage of the disastrous situation in Afghanistan. Two decades and over two trillion dollars later, what does the US - or Afghanistan - have to show for our brutal and prolonged occupation?...
Climate-conscious individual choices are good – but not nearly enough to save the planet. More than personal virtue, we need collective action
Rebecca Solnit
17 min
In February of 2021 nationwide demonstrations were held in support of Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama who are fighting to form the first union at an Amazon workplace. This film documents the demonstration held in Philadelphia outside the office of Morgan Lewis...
11 min
On September 9th, 2020 the city of Philadelphia's capitalist government threatened to evict a homeless encampment that occupies a strip of land in one of Philadelphia's posh neighborhoods near the Rodin Museum.
34 min
A story about Johnny Harris, propaganda and misinformation on YouTube. We also very briefly touch upon the notions of "shareholder capitalism" and "stakeholder capitalism" which Harris discusses in his "How China Became So Powerful" before considering what Harris'...
Monthly Review | Feb 01, 2020 | Vol. 71 No. 9
John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Hannah Holleman
8 min
An animated story in rhyme, about these very strange times.
55 min
River of Renewal chronicles the long conflict over the 10 million acre Klamath River Basin, which spans the Oregon-California border. Competing demands for water, food, and energy have pitted farmers, American Indians, and commercial fishermen against each other for decades.
85 min
What if working together for the good of all was the most common business model? Watch as several organizations strive towards building a more cooperative future. By putting humanity before the bottom line, they are finding their place in a new economy no longer dominated by...
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SPOILER: it’s not because it’s bad for you…
12 min
“We would live under their total unmediated control”
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An educational film in which small-scale organic farmer, educator and author Jean-Martin Fortier shares the tools and techniques used on his highly productive 1.5-acre farm. From soil preparation to strategies on dealing with insect pests, discover how this micro-farm manages...
115 min
The Permaculture Orchard : Beyond Organic is a feature-length educational film that will teach you how to set up your own permaculture orchard at any scale. Recognizing the limitations of the organic model as a substitute to conventional fruit growing, this film proposes a...
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@Timbah.On.Toast ’s video on @Tim Pool breaks down why his content is garbage and why Pool deviates so much from facts. The Majority Report crew laughs at Tim Pool’s claim that dating apps are the reason that there is a shortage of economically attractive males. Pool is sure...
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A new documentary by Abby Martin exposing the world's biggest polluter: the US military.
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Double Down News asked DMC from Run DMC about Hip Hop today, and he didn't hold back.
16 min
Amidst Biden's new regime change operation in Cuba, Abby Martin brings you an exclusive interview with the Cuban double agent who infiltrated the CIA and revealed the US plots we are seeing play out today.
74 min
From Executive Producers Jason Momoa and Brian Mendoza comes this new film, which follows the stories of Native Americans on the frontlines of a growing movement to reconnect with spiritual and cultural identities that were devastated by genocide. An Indigenous chef embarks...
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By both surprise and necessity, Modern Monetary Theory is here at our doorstep. And with neither major party remaining as the party of 'fiscal responsibility', it seems there is little standing in the way of MMT becoming the premise for US government spending initiatives...
BY MICHAEL E. MANN | AUGUST 9, 2021 5:00 AM EDT
Michael E. Mann
Posted: 9 Aug 2021
Michael E. Mann
Malte Meinshausen, Zebedee Nicholls, and Piers Forster
Half a dozen takeaways from a first read of the new IPCC AR6 report.
Gavin Schmidt
7 min
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A Warning to Americans and a Demand for Coup Accountability
We need to revise the whitewashed versions of history that have given generations the false impression that fascism was specific to Europe and was defeated for good in World War II.
JACQUELINE LUQMAN
Not all humans are equally culpable in the climate chaos outlined in the latest IPCC report. Identifying the rich and powerful as the principal culprits is key to stopping further destruction.
Chris Saltmarsh
I started reading newspapers and magazines when I was 12 years old when my family lived in Tanzania and even at that age I was appalled by the way Africans were portrayed as “tribal” people in U.S. publications like The New York Times, Newsweek, and Time magazine. Some years...
MILTON ALLIMADI
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http://www.ProgressCollab.org
109 min
Starting at the surface with celebrity gossip, then spiraling into the inferno of the human psyche. Virgil, get me out of here.
7 min
Sam Seder watched @Aamon Animations' mind-bending journey into @StevenCrowder's adventures in debating so many times that it actually caused him to be late for today's #MRlive. Aamon's video even has a cameo from @PowerfulJRE PLUS another trippy short film about @Tim Pool and...
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Deep in slumber, Steven Crowder has a nightmare about encountering his greatest enemy.
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See more at https://www.thecon.tv/.
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We are still here. This is our story, the story of the bison, who inhabit the Northern Hemisphere. You might also know us as buffalo, tatanka, zubr, wisent, basha, Inii, ethanon, tatanga, Wisent... It is a comical story, because sometimes we are caught in politics...
8 min
I am Nature. You are human nature, nature in human form.
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Hier de allereerste aflevering van Groene Verhalen, waarin een interview met Alowieke van Beusekom, gewortelde nomade in Friesland.
Michael Hudson | Friday, April 10, 2020
Michael Hudson, Dirk Bezemer, Steve Keen and T.Sabri Öncü
21 min
On The Jacobin Show, Adolph Reed and Walter Benn Michaels discuss the trouble with disparity and how antiracism has come to play a role in upholding capitalism in the twenty-first century.
27 min
Brandon Sonju breaks down how video games — and, in particular, first-person shooters like Call of Duty — function as propaganda for American empire, and discusses how people can enjoy entertainment while also recognizing the parts of it that reflect what's wrong with the...
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America has been the world's largest economy for nearly a century, with one of the largest working classes on Earth. So how come socialism never took hold in America as much as it did in Europe and Asia? Why is there no “labor party” in the United States? And what exactly is...
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Why (and how) Planned Obsolescence and Capitalism make terrible products.
12 min
How we end consumerism, explained.
58 min
Christian fundamentalist nationalists in the senior ranks of the military, see Trump as an instrument of God’s plan to create an authoritarian Christian state. The military allows active proselytizing and recruitment of soldiers, contrary to the constitutional separation of...
Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2012
Michael Hudson
With the help of U.S. defense contractors, China is building the prototype for a high-tech police state. It is ready for export. | Published in Rolling Stone on May 14th, 2008
Naomi Klein
Do you hold the belief that if you work hard, you’ll be able to buy more of what you want and then you’ll be happy? It’s not going to happen. You’re just going to get stuck on what is called the Hedonic Treadmill.
We need to begin with the recognition that the United States has been more responsible for the climate catastrophe than anyone else. We have inflicted costs on the rest of the world that they rightly resent us for.
Nathan J. Robinson
15 min
Eight Senate Democrats joined Republicans to block adding a minimum wage increase to the covid relief bill. Koa Beck, John Iadarola, and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Sign our petition here: https://tyt.com/petitions/thehatefuleight Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET and...
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On Reality Asserts Itself, Thomas Frank author of "What's the Matter with Kansas" and "Listen LIberal", tells host Paul Jay that the Democratic Party serves the professional class and the top 10% and no longer cares about the poor or working class
8 min
Listen Liberal by Thomas Frank goes into the recent history of the Democratic Party of the United States, and how we got to this moment, and how we move forward.
Bill Clinton gutted welfare and criminalized the poor, all while funneling more money into the carceral state. | 02.09.2016
PREMILLA NADASEN
Running against “defund the police” is both cowardly and wrong. Democratic leaders find that irresistible.
HAMILTON NOLAN
Posted on September 28, 2016
Brian Becker
42 min
Class description: The first class in our course on Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital provides an introduction to the structure of the course and the book overall. We discuss the various prefaces and afterwords, focusing in particular on Marx’s method of abstraction. Finally, we...
24 min
We join the ‘Open Arms’ crew as they embark on the most dangerous migrant route in the world — and one of their deadliest missions to date. An estimated 19,000 people have been reported dead or missing in the Mediterranean Sea since 2014 as they attempt the treacherous boat...
Humans have never lived on a planet this hot, and we’re totally unprepared for what’s to come | Aug 27, 2019
Jeff Goodell
58 min
Full Interview - Christian fundamentalist nationalists in the senior ranks of the military, see Trump as an instrument of God’s plan to create an authoritarian Christian state. The military allows active proselytizing and recruitment of soldiers, contrary to the...
78 min
What did Daniel Hale reveal about the secret drone program? What is his fate? These documents detailed a secret, unaccountable process for targeting and killing people around the world, including U.S. citizens.
Growing evidence is suggesting that too much competition is one of the key causes of the multiple environmental, social and psychological crises we are facing today.
September 30th, 2014 | The Labor and Working-Class History Association
Mark Lause
The Labor and Working-Class History Association | November 27th, 2020
Mark Lause
A little over six years ago now, I received a demand which asked me to use my influence and this publishing platform to help denounce someone.
I read the demand with curiosity and a bit of worry. The message stated in rather vague language that the sender had been asked by...
Rhyd Wildermuth
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Prof. Steve Keen joins us to discuss his work on the disastrous economics of climate change, in which he contends numerous errors have been made in calculating the economic effects of climate change. Correcting for these errors makes it feasible that the economic damages from...
Carbon pricing and carbon taxes are now proposed by international institutions and mainstream economics as the main solutions to ending global warming and destructive climate change. For some time, the IMF has been pushing for carbon pricing as ‘a necessary if not...
Michael Roberts
INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL ROBERTS
ASHLEY SMITH
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN CRITICAL CHINA SCHOLARS AND SPECTRE - CRITICAL CHINA SCHOLARS
CRITICAL CHINA SCHOLARS
A REVIEW OF JONATHAN LEVY'S AGES OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM
JAMES PARISOT
15 min
The award-winning film series Desert Apocalypse is back for a second season. In this episode we travel to the Pahrump Valley and up to Beatty, Nevada to look at the landscapes threatened by solar. In the Pahrump Valley at the Yellow Pine Solar project site, we see a few...
A closer look at the economics of Black pop culture reveals that most Black creators (outside music) come from middle-to-upper middle class backgrounds, while the Black poor are written about but rarely get the chance to speak for themselves.
Bertrand Cooper
26 min
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Earlier this year an Art History student at Concordia University (Montreal) posted a tweet that went viral within the academic community. After watching a pre-recorded lecture given by his professor – François-Marc Gagnon – the undergrad Googled the historian for his contact...
Peter Fleming
28 min
One of the biggest COVID-19 casualties - globally - has been education. But something that many have missed during the pandemic is that the higher education crisis is being ruthlessly exploited.
How Consumer Marketing Distorts Democracy
Jim Sleeper
Rich people have free speech rights. Do the corporations they run? That question is destroying democracy
PUBLISHED AUGUST 3, 2018
JIM SLEEPER
Published on June 30, 2018
Adam Liptak
The Green New Deal program has enormous potential to generate mass popular support. But absent real leverage from labor, it's likely to be continually watered down into a toothless slogan for NGOs.
Matt Huber
Two years ago, our late friend and comrade Michael Brooks wrote an unpublished piece about his family’s experience with food stamps and Trump’s assault on the SNAP program. We publish it today, the anniversary of Michael’s passing, as a tribute to his memory.
MICHAEL BROOKS
At least 185 people have been killed by floods centered on the Rhineland region. Despite Germany’s supposed green credentials, the weak political response to the disaster shows how unwilling neoliberals are to take real action against corporate polluters.
ALEXANDER BRENTLER
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Like many people trying to survive the pandemic, Lydia's income was cut. After being evicted for her inability to pay rent, Lydia attempts to stay with friends but finds that living in her car is her only choice. Lydia struggles to figure out what to do next and stay safe...
Catapulted to media attention by its stunts, Extinction Rebellion has wasted its platform on a message of individualized guilt and obedience to the powerful. To avert climate disaster, we need economic transformation, not pointless moralism.
MARK MONTEGRIFFO
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The primary threat to freedom and justice is not greed, or hatred, or any of the other emotions or human flaws usually blamed for such things. Instead, it is one ubiquitous superstition which infects the minds of people of all races, religions and nationalities, which...
The anti-racism educator encourages white people to “look inward” and focus on self-improvement. But it would be much better if they looked outward and joined a movement that could actually accomplish something.
Nathan J. Robinson
Twenty years ago the IPCC warned of summer heatwave deaths in unprepared temperate regions like the Pacific Northwest.
DANA NUCCITELLI
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America produces more waste per capita than any other country in the world. And recycling, which was once considered the solution to that problem, isn’t really working anymore. Recycling works, but it’s not magic. As America continues to lead the world in per capita waste...
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American police have become yet another battleground in the pointless culture war. In this episode, we'll take a look at some of the characteristics of policing in America, the problems we face, and how we might solve them to the benefit of the whole society - including the...
16 min
How many times have you heard the claim that capitalism is the most efficient system for the production and allocation of goods and services? It's a very common talking point in the "western world," especially in the United States. In this video, Second Thought deconstructs...
18 min
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Adolph L. Reed Jr. joins NHFPL to discuss race and class in American politics.
How the myth of the genius director has erased the careers of some very talented women, and why it’s time for the “auteur” to be tossed out entirely.
Amanda Hanna-McLeer
Meet the Censored: Matt Orfalea
Yes, the government is helping crack down on text messages and Facebook posts, but not to worry. At least your private thoughts are safe, right? Not so fast, found filmmaker Matt Orfalea
Matt Taibbi
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Matt Taibbi
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Matt Orfalea is still fighting YouTube over the stream we did on his channel about my suspension. Robert Barnes joined us to talk about the lawsuits against Big Tech, government pressure to remove speech, and whether a lot of this recent escalation is dictated by AI. BONNER...
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Albena Azmanova will join the Rhodes Center to discuss her new book, "Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia."
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Start speaking a new language in 3 weeks with Babbel 🚀 Get 6 months FREE when you sign up for 6 months ⏩ Click here: https://go.babbel.com/6plus6-flags-youtube-thetake-june-2021/default This script was written by Anya Formozova. You can see more of her work here...
The ruination of a once-thriving area of Ethiopia is the result of war and its associated crimes. The world needs to wake up.
George Monbiot
Academic publishers charge vast fees to access research paid for by us. Down with the knowledge monopoly racketeers
George Monbiot
Joe Biden is likely to continue the shadow wars that Barack Obama honed and Donald Trump preserved. Relying on air power and local surrogates, this strategy has inflicted a heavy toll in some of the world’s poorest countries while reducing US casualties, enshrining massive...
Jason Brownlee
For more than three centuries, something has been going horribly wrong at the top of our society, and we’re all suffering for it.
DOUG HENWOOD
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"Plastic pollution, explained. In this Our Changing Climate video essay, I look at an aspect of plastic pollution that often is ignored in the face of plastic pollution in the ocean. While ocean plastic pollution is an important issue, plastic is actually a fossil fuel...
Centuries ago, we collectively experienced nature as a living and spiritual presence. Today, nature is in danger of becoming merely a utilitarian means to an end. Believing nature to be psychologically dead allows industry to freely consume and destroy it. We no longer feel...