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For centuries, world economies have been based on the seizure and processing of natural resources, often called ‘capturing the commons’. These are resources shared by all members of a society, including natural elements such as air, water, and land etc. There was a time when...
George R. Stewart’s ecofictions forecasted today’s calamities
Andrew Schenker
A number of impressive socialist candidates are running in Somerville, MA—and their nitty-gritty approach to municipal power may have broader implications for the left project as a whole.
Max Chapnick
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
17 min
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.
58 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...
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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.
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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.
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
21 min
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
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
2 min
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...
57 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...
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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...
Posted on Thursday, October 17, 2019
Michael Hudson
Published by Sage Journals
Michael Hudson
37 min
Why is the Fed buying corporate junk bonds and debt but won't buy out student debt?
21 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...
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"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...
27 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...
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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.
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!
5 min
The Australien Government has made an ad about how it makes everything good, shit - and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
40 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”.
35 min
"When today's stories of crushing greed and endless growth have come to an end, what, then, will be the new stories?"
57 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...
3 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...
9 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...
10 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.
53 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...
24 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.
97 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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"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...
4 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?
It would be nice if having a Democratic president automatically meant real action on climate change. Sadly, it isn’t true.
David Lapp Jost
8 min
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...
44 min
Daniel Christian Wahl, speaking live from Beyond The Great Reset: The Systems Change Summit, May 2021
49 min
Helena Norberg-Hodge, speaking live from Beyond The Great Reset: The Systems Change Summit, May 2021
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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...
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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...
24 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...
13 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...
75 min
"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 rebuild society at the end of the fossil fuel era.
8 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...
55 min
Freedom isn't free, it costs folks like you and me... And investigation of free speech and the capitalist state.
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
16 min
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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Kamala Harris' KHive Boosted By Fake Twitter Accounts https://link.medium.com/OFwxVWQ4rgb Support on Patreon! ▶https://patreon.com/Orf Follow ▶https://twitter.com/0rf ▶https://www.minds.com/MattOrf ▶https://odysee.com/$/invite/@Orf:b ▶https://www.facebook.com/MattOrfVids Tips...
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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...
96 min
In Killing Gaza, journalists Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal documented Israel’s 2014 war on Gaza.
The long, slow surrender of American liberals
Adolph Reed Jr.
77 min
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 de
12 min
Abby Martin gives 5 points that evaporate Israel's assertion that the civilians it kills in Gaza were "human shields."
A true story about activism, trespass and an iconic ancient site.
84 min
This debut feature film by journalist Abby Martin is a documentary about the historic nonviolent Great March Of Return protests, which occurred every week from March 2018 until December 2019, but covers so much more.
8 min
Abby Martin explains what's behind the cringe ‘Humans of CIA’ recruitment ad promoting themselves as a place of ‘intersectional’ social progress.
154 min
Sam and Emma host Elizabeth Catte, author of Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia to discuss how Virginia's embrace of eugenics allowed the state government to control its poor white population and with it, land rights. We're live at noon ET.
Organizing after Bernie
Brendan O’Connor
54 min
Experience our planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts all living creatures in this ambitious documentary of spectacular scope. In this episode: On the unforgiving frontier of climate change, polar bears, walruses, seals and penguins find their icy...
9 min
On the grounds of the permaculture laboratory Peintnerhof in the middle of Carinthia (Austria), pigs dig through the earth and prepare the formerly compacted soil piece by piece for a new, more diverse planting. For example, classic fruit trees are allowed to flourish next to...
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At times it can be overwhelming to contemplate the challenges we face in the Anthropocene, from the climate crisis to biodiversity loss. The hurdles in the way of a sustainable future can sometimes feel insurmountable - but each of us is capable of making a difference.
11 min
Breaking Boundaries tells the story of the most important scientific discovery of our time - that humanity has pushed Earth beyond the boundaries that have kept Earth stable for 10,000 years, since the dawn of civilization. The 75-minute film takes the audience on a journey...
130 min
Money Puzzles is a documentary film about money and debt and the widespread misunderstanding about what they are and how they function to be found in the media, everyday life and even university economics departments.
Before the 17th century, people did not think of themselves as belonging to something called the white race. But once the idea was invented, it quickly began to reshape the modern world
Robert P Baird
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Seaspiracy examines the global fishing industry, challenging notions of sustainable fishing and showing how human actions cause widespread environmental destruction.
Citations Needed | April 28, 2021 | Transcript
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This is an awful idea, but I’m writing about bloody Bitcoin again. I recently published a long thread about it, in which I tried to debunk the claim that the process of generating new bits of this digital currency is environmentally beneficial (it is not).
90 min
Skull and Bones (2002): They only accept 15 members each year and the group is so secretive that, when asked, members must leave the room in case they betray any secrets. George Bush and his father were members. Subscribe to Journeyman here...
108 min
The Black Biz Ball (www.BlackBizBall.com) is a virtual award show/ceremony honoring Black Business worldwide!
The BBB represents the beginning of a new day and era for Black businesses and resilence. The Ball is a value statement, recognition, and a bold acknowledgement...
107 min
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered today as an American hero: a bridge-builder, a shrewd political tactician, and a moral leader. Yet throughout his history-altering political career, he was often treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies like an enemy...
45 min
Climate Change Babies is an inspiring film for trailblazing parents around the world. During the Covid-19 pandemic, courageous and articulate moms, parents and grandparents from British Columbia , Canada are organizing and exchanging profound information about climate change...
21 min
This is a short documentary about everything that we care about. It is important that you share this documentary because it has no other promotion or advertisement. Credits: Videos: All videos have been downloaded from youtube and were under the Creative Commons license...
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Bohiragoto - Joesjoint x National Animal
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Abby Martin explores what's missing from coverage of Biden's announcement of the Afghanistan withdrawal.
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Short documentary on Uganda's US-backed dictatorship, the country's freedom struggle from colonialism until today, and the geo-strategic role the regime plays for US Imperialism.
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Sinopsis: Lxs seres que habitan las cercanías del único Santuario de la Naturaleza de Chiloé se encuentran en inminente peligro debido a que se está depositando basura en la cuenca del río que le da vida. Debido a la mala gestión municipal ha quedado al descubierto el...
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Tormented by disease in a merciless solitude, the cantankerous and sullen Fausto, who goes leaving traces of bitterness behind himself, understands that never changes the final destination: return eventually to the nothingness from which we came.
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We live in a world with a rapidly growing population. Some people would have you believe that food insecurity is caused by overpopulation, or that we've reached the earth's carrying capacity. Is that really the case? In this episode, Second Thought takes a brief look at the...
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"Jimmy Dore Goes to Washington" by Academy Award winning director, Frank Capra. Starring Jimmy Dore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok13iv6jh6o Help me make more videos! ▶https://www.patreon.com/Orf ▶https://twitter.com/0rf ▶https://youtube.com/Orf ▶https://medium.com/@0rf...
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Identity politics: How the left sets itself up to lose Help me make more videos! ▶https://patreon.com/Orf ▶https://twitter.com/0rf ▶https://facebook.com/MattOrfVids PayPal: https://bit.ly/34OWemi Bitcoin: bc1q790393uytug432dyens6c2samyn7dgwa79g69u
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What a vaccine's "efficacy rate" actually means.
31 min
Digital Predators As the world went online with the COVID-19 pandemic, police reported a huge increase in the number of people viewing and sharing images of child sex abuse online. In the 1990s, some 10,000 images of child abuse were in circulation; now there are more than 47...
19 min
For decades the United States has been a bastion of free market ideology and extreme individualism, but in the last few years we've seen a major resurgence of socialist ideas. In this episode, Second Thought takes a look at why so many young people are attracted to socialism...
9 min
If you want to understand The System, if you want to plan for a world without Capitalism, you need to know what money is.
8 min
Killer Mike delivered a powerful speech at a rally for Alabama Amazon warehouse workers who are fighting to unionize. If their efforts succeed, it could be the spark that ignites successful Amazon union drives across the country.
36 min
This 36-minute documentary follows the lives of 5 young explorers on their journey through the 5-week Ecovillage Design Education program in Switzerland, which navigates today's challenges as opportunities to build a regenerative future for all.
8 min
However old we might be, none of us is ever quite emotionally mature - but having a list to hand of what maturity consists of might be a way of keeping score and nudging ourselves in the right direction. Here is a comprehensive list of what maturity might comprise.
8 min
It could transform politics.
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Schizophrenia, I have for a long time studied the visual work of the mentally ill. I heard that the painter Picasso did this and used some of the imagery in his own work. Their is a distinct similarity in the art work of people who are mentally ill. Ordinary people can also...
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Cops Say You're Not Allowed to Look at Government Building Support me on Patreon! ▶https://www.patreon.com/Orf ▶https://twitter.com/0rf ▶https://youtube.com/Orf ▶https://medium.com/@0rf ▶https://www.minds.com/MattOrf ▶https://facebook.com/matt.orfalea PayPal...
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For socialists time and its meaning and organization have always been a central concern, if only because capitalism has placed such a premium on controlling time and subordinating it to its imperatives. At the current conjuncture, time has become the challenge for socialists...