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Why do so many Americans see Donald Trump as a necessary evil? What does The Dark Knight reveal about the myth of the anti-heroand the failure of democratic institutions?
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Jason Stanley, a Yale University professor with expertise on fascism, has announced his plans to move to Canada, and warns that The United States is on a clear path towards a fascist dictatorship.
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Bernie Sanders has always been more flawed than many on the left would like. His refusal to call Israels actions in Gaza a genocide, along with several of his foreign policy votes over the years, have been disappointing. Bernie's latest mistake was at a "
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a billionaire hedge fund manager who worked for George Soros, insists, Access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American dream.
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The term "Neoliberalism" is often used in political discourse, but rarely is its rise to prominence examined. In this video, we will do just that. We will look at Keynesian Liberalism and Social Democracy, Neoliberalism, The Chile Project and how decades of milquetoast...
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Trumps 2024 win should have unified the global populist right. Instead, it's exposing the contradictions at its core. I look at the ideas that once connected this global movement, and why theyre now collapsing. -Brendan Miller
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In response to Bernie Sanders and AOC's "Fight Oligarchy" tour, the same chorus of voices rings out: Dont be fooled by these so-called progressives! Theyre just sheepdogging for the Democrats! They say it's just another trap designed to herd our revolutionary energies into...
Empires dont fall overnight. They rot from withinslowly, silentlyuntil the collapse feels inevitable. In this video, we explore how Donald Trumps second presidency is accelerating the unraveling of Americas global dominance. From economic isolation to rising debt and the...
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Over a thousand protesters gathered near Tufts University on Wednesday after masked plainclothes immigration agents snatched Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar, from the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts.
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Elon Musk was born in 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and raised in a wealthy family under the country's racist apartheid laws. Musk's family history reveals ties to apartheid and neo-Nazi politics.
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Ryan and Saagar discuss the full signal chats exposing Trump admin lies.
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Is Curtis Yarvin secretly shaping government policy? In this deep dive, we explore the political philosopher and controversial thinker behind the "neoreactionary" movement and his potential connections to power. From his writings on monarchy to his rumored influence in elite...
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Jason Stanley, author, American philosopher and Yale professor, joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to give proper context to what fascism means and how the Trump administrations second term could really mean the completion of the American...
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Ronny Chieng tackles Republicans' desperate attempts to defend Trump administration officials accidentally adding a journalist to their Signal group chat for planning missile strikes on Yemen.
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Donald Trump is portrayed as a "populist" committed to average working-class people, but his policies benefit wealthy elites at the expense of everyone else. His administration includes 13 billionaires -- including Elon Musk, the world's richest oligarch -- and he is cutting...
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Jon Stewart goes old-school Daily Show on Trump and Republicans who pride themselves on saving free speech, all while censoring anybody who doesnt agree with them.
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The Majority Report with Sam Seder https://www.majorityreportradio.com
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Borders are not naturalthey are political constructs designed to serve economic interests. As Arun Kundnani explains, while capital and goods move freely across borders, labor is heavily restricted, often through violent means.
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Neoliberalism is often misunderstood, but it is very important to understand this ideology that has dominated global economics and politics for decades. Ben Norton discusses the history of the neoliberal "Washington consensus", and how it was imposed on the world.
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Minds can change. This was proven during a lengthy hearing in the Wisconsin State Assembly about a bill that would criminalize life saving, medically necessary gender-affirming healthcare for transgender and non-binary youth. An elderly man showed up to testify in support of...
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In this video Hasan talks about AOC and Bernie.
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Alvaro Bedoya was investigating Amazon, X, and Walmart as an FTC commissioner. Hes also been a key ally of former FTC Chair Lina Khan. Donald Trump just illegally fired him and the only Democratic commissioner, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter.
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Watermelon Pictures, Macklemore and BreakThrough Media proudly present: THE ENCAMPMENTS, only in theaters.
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Stoicism is the most misunderstood school of philosophy. Right down to the way we use it in the English language. This beautiful school of thought, designed to help us live a virtuous life in service of others has been bastardized and corrupted by marketers.
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US Vice President JD Vance gave a speech about globalization that inadvertently revealed the truth about the US empire, the goal behind the new cold war on China, the economics of imperialism, and how the Trump administration is serving billionaire Big Tech oligarchs in...
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What astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever heres what it taught him.
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The new book Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful by The New York Times business investigations editor David Enrich chronicles an ongoing campaign by the wealthy and powerful to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision...
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The full story about immigration you aren't getting from politicians and the media.
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Usually the reason given for austerity, or lack of government spending on services and infrastructure is that there simply isnt enough money - we must simply tighten our belts. The typical leftist response to this is that we should just tax the rich in order to generate the...
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We recently posed a simple question to our community on Facebook: How can we make America great? We got hundreds of comments.
Donald Trump has threatened to colonize Greenland and make it a US territory, even though 85% of people there oppose this. Ben Norton explains the geopolitical and economic reasons: the USA wants to block China from the Arctic region and to profit from the territory's natural...
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"At the core of their current illiberal power grab is the weaponization of the liberal value of anti-bigotry and specifically anti-Semitism. They are stripping the rights of all freedom loving people - citizen and non - in the US in the name of targeting anti-Semitism...
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Paul Grahams recent essay on wokeness is usefulnot because it offers an entirely sound analysis, but because it provides a fascinating case study in ideological blind spots.
Cutting life-saving services to further enrich billionaires and Pentagon contractors is the worst possible option.
Hanna Homestead
This video unpacks how decades of economic inequality, racial division and propaganda conditioned Americans to accept authoritarianism. From Reaganomics to Trump 2.0, we explore the rise of corporate fascism and the forces behind it.- TRUTH IS SPEAKING
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Two-thirds of people in Californias 22nd Congressional district rely on Medicaid. But the majority of the district also voted to elect President Trump in 2024. We went to talk to residents to see what they think about Trumps proposed cuts to Medicaid. One Trump voter told us...
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If veterans can unlearn the propaganda, theres hope for humanity. Rebecca Roberts joined the Air National Guard thinking she would help her community. Instead she got stationed at a drone base in Djibouti. This is Rebeccas story about how her deployment to East Africa made...
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Glenn Greenwald on how the US Constitution does not confer rights on certain groups of people - but rather constrains the government from acting on persons, regardless of their citizenship.
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Voters are mad and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders is voicing his frustration with Democratic leadership (namely Chuck Schumer) as Schumer and 9 other Democratic senators sided with Donald Trump's Republicans in passing the recent funding bill. But this anger, both from...
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a clear violation of international law. It meets the definition of a war crime under the UN Charters prohibition on the use of force, barring cases of self-defense.
How a marathon conversation turned into a conspiratorial manifestounchecked claims about Democrats, voting, and immigration, fact-checked and debunked.
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Are Ivy League sellouts and finance bros ruining America? My video dives deep into how neoliberal elites and American liberals have turned U.S. elite institutions into factories for corporate sellouts, churning out McKinsey consultants, investment bankers, and private equity...
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Trump wants to demolish FEMA and says the states will take care of disasters themselves. To test this theory, we talked to the West Virginians who have been slammed by historic flooding in recent weeks.
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We found the waste Elon Musk and DOGE wont cut: its defense contractors. The Department of Defense funnels $450 billion of taxpayer dollars a year to private military contractors. But Musk is too focused on cutting DEI initiatives (0.01% of the size of the defense budget) to...
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As our political reality gets increasingly surreal and chaotic, its becoming harder and harder to make sense of things. But according to the theory of hypernormalization, the lack of a coherent sense is actually the point. And if we look at how this concept was used in the...
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The United States is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the worlds weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US transferred seven times more than China, and five times more than Russia. Ben Norton explains how the military-industrial complex profits from war.
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Full interview: Part 2.
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The hosts of Pod Save America talked about Bernie Sanderss Fight the Oligarchy tour and how effective his politics have proven to be in the latest episode of their podcast. They also pointed out that they were criticized by online leftists after showing support for Bernie on...
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Freedom means nothing to these extremists. If Texas really believes in "don't tread on anyone," they'll rally against this abuse of state power on principle alone.
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Elon Musks attack on empathy is an old reactionary trick. First, he sets it up with a weak disclaimer:
On March 7, 2025 Chris Hedges returned to The Sanctuary for Independent Media to present "Normalizing Genocide and the New World Order," a talk about how the world has changed since the genocide in Gaza began, how we navigate a world without rules or humanitarian law and how...
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This was pulled from my last livestream, which you can watch via Part 2.
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Some thoughts about loneliness. - Fads
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Yapping about return-to-office movements, work from home policies, remote + hybrid work and all sorts lol
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John Oliver discusses ICE detention facilities, whos in them, who runs them, and how immigration has become another for-profit business.
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Donald Trumps Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a self-declared crusader who believes the USA is in a holy war against China, the left, and Islam. Communist China will fall, he vowed in his 2020 book American Crusade, promising, Israel and America will form an even tighter...
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In a 21 February speech in the European Parliament, renowned professor Jeffrey Sachs presents a detailed historical and geopolitical analysis of U.S. foreign policy and its consequences, particularly in relation to NATO expansion, the Ukraine war, and European...
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The Document that Created our Modern Oligarchy
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