11 min

Should the U.S. Build More Public Housing?

Public Housing in the United States became notrious for being underfunded, crime-ridden, and poorly maintained. But with the housing crisis continuing to worsen, is it time to reconsider this housing option?

City Beautiful

8 min

How Zohran Mamdani Can Fix the Housing Crisis

The US housing crisis isn’t natural — it’s the result of decades of policy decisions made to benefit landlords and the wealthy. Today, millions of Americans are being squeezed by rising rents, home prices, and zoning laws designed to limit affordable housing. But it doesn’t...

Jacobin

74 min

How Israel Won the West (2024)

How Israel Won the West examines how Israel has come to occupy such a privileged and protected place in the Western world. It traces the journey of the Jewish people from biblical stories of origin through centuries of persecution and the advent of Zionism, all the way to the...

94 min

Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights | The Ezra Klein Show

President Trump’s actions against transgender Americans have been stunningly wide-ranging. They’ve also been popular. Trump has sought new restrictions on trans people in sports, schools, the military, prisons and medical care, and in government documentation. And a recent...

The Ezra Klein Show

10 min

Why Israel REALLY Attacked Iran

The Chilling Truth Behind Israel's Dark Agenda

12 min

Chris Hedges: The Last Days of Gaza

The genocide is almost complete. When it is concluded it will not only have decimated the Palestinians, but will have exposed the moral bankruptcy of Western civilization.

6 min

Why Do I Feel So Lonely Inside? (trailer)

('Cause all of my society is supporting genocide)

Israel's Strike on Iran Was Terrorism. No More Excuses. We Must Demand an Arms Embargo Now.

Israel's unprovoked attack on Iran Friday has killed not only high-ranking military officials, but also six Iranian scientists, including two prominent nuclear experts. Nearly 80 civilians, including children, were also reported dead and over 300 were injured after Israeli...

Never Forget? Never Forgive? Never Again?

Let’s talk about memory, forgiveness, and the selective outrage that props up the logic of endless war.A commentor told Films For Action on a recent post:

13 min

"The Beginning of Fascism": How Trump's Immigrant Crackdown Is Crushing Democracy

As immigrant rights protests spread to Chicago, we speak with Democratic Congressmember Delia Ramirez, who is the daughter of Guatemalan immigrants and married to a DACA recipient and recently called on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign.

17 min

Chris Hedges: Trump's Useful Idiots

A bankrupt liberal class, by signing on for the Zionist witch hunt against supposed antisemites and refusing to condemn Israel for its genocide, provided the bullets to its executioners.

101 min

Israel & Palestine: The Complete Unbiased History

A one hour and 40 minute overview.

LJ

5 min

Leaked Documents Reveal Trump Admin Plan To Destroy Palestine Movement

New documents show the Trump administration’s plan to destroy the Palestine movement. Written by the architects of Project 2025, it calls for categorizing the movement as a "support network for Hamas" to jail activists and seize their assets. BT's Kei Pritsker explains the...

BreakThrough News

Empire With Decorum: the Complicity of Cory Booker and the Crisis of the Democratic Party

During Cory Booker's 25-hour speech, which many mistook for an act of moral courage, he never once mentioned the atrocities committed by our so-called ally, Israel. No acknowledgment of the white phosphorus dropped on civilian neighborhoods, no mention of the starvation...

11 min

First Western State Says Israel Committing Genocide

Support us as we expand our challenge to our broken media here: https://www.patreon.com/owenjones84

Owen Jones

Toward a Sacred Cosmology of Belonging: to Heal the World, We Don't Need Shame or Blame, We Need to Remember and Reconnect

In our search to understand the immense suffering caused by colonization, racism, and centuries of domination, it’s natural to feel anger, grief, even guilt. These are human responses to the recognition that something sacred has been desecrated—that entire peoples, cultures...

Tim Hjersted

26 min

Why WORKERS Should OWN Companies

I’m Andres Acevedo, and this is The Market Exit. In this essay, I talk about one of the biggest, yet strangely overlooked, problems in modern life: the way we organize work. Today, most of us spend our lives in non-democratic companies, taking orders from managers we did not...

The Market Exit

22 min

How To Erase a People

They did it to Native Americans, to Palestinians like my family in 1948, and now Trump wants to do it again in Gaza. It's called 'forcible transfer,' and it kills something much greater than any individual life.

uncivilized

Dems, Do the Right Thing and Stop Funding Genocide

On April 3, Sen. Bernie Sanders forced votes on the floor of the Senate on two Joint Resolutions of Disapproval, specifically S.J. Res. 33 and 26, each intended to stop the transfer of particular weaponry to Israel.

Elizabeth West

26 min

Trump & Deportations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

John Oliver discusses the recent deportations by the Trump administration, the conditions in the facility people are being sent to abroad, and why even Henry Winkler could be in danger of being expelled from the U.S. Yeah, even national treasure Henry Winkler.

LastWeekTonight

20 min

The People's Library: An Economy Beyond Scarcity

In this video, we introduce the People's Library—a parallel economy where resources like housing, food, tools, and transportation are shared instead of hoarded, and where access is based on participation, not profit.

Chris Agnos

13 min

Israeli Settlers Show Louis Theroux Their Full Colours in BBC Documentary

Novara Media discusses the insights from Louis Theroux's new BBC documentary, ‘The Settlers.’Support our work: http://novara.media/support

Novara Media

16 min

Israel’s War on Palestinian Children: 17,000 Killed, No Schools Left in Gaza

Ruweida Amer, a journalist and teacher from Gaza, joins the show to report on Israel's US-backed genocide of Palestinians amid relentless bombardment and the total blockade of the besieged strip.

BreakThrough News

9 min

Instagram SUSPENDED Me Over Gaza - Censorship Spirals Out Of Control

Support us as we expand our challenge to our broken media here: https://www.patreon.com/owenjones84

Owen Jones

Universal Basic Income: Answering The Common Objections

Whenever the idea of a Universal Basic Income comes up, certain objections are raised almost immediately. These concerns deserve real answers. So here’s five of the most common objections, addressed plainly and clearly:

Stop Blaming Immigrants. Start Blaming the Real Criminals.

Let's get something clear: undocumented immigrants commit less crime than U.S. citizens. This isn't speculation. It's not "just one study." It's the consistent finding of virtually every serious analysis over decades. Study after study has shown that immigrants, both...

Tim Hjersted

65 min

Israel’s Eradication of Gaza’s Healthcare System (w/ Dr. Feroze Sidhwa) | The Chris Hedges Report

Support my independent journalism at Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/

American Concentration Camps

Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps — including those in El Salvador — it creates a system of detention that eschews due process and disappears citizens into black holes.

Chris Hedges

The Deportation-Industrial Complex Is The New War on Drugs—And It's Just as Corrupt

Spending hundreds of billions on mass deportation for non-violent civil offenses or misdemeanors is the “war on drugs” rebranded. And it’s true—just like the war on drugs, mass deportation doesn’t solve the root causes of anything. It scapegoats vulnerable people, militarizes...

Tim Hjersted

19 min

How This Legal Immigration Program Became a Human Trafficking Scheme

Corporations are bringing in hundreds of thousands of foreign workers under the H-2A visa program. Workers tell us it’s basically a human trafficking scheme — a way to replace farmworkers who unionize and fight for higher pay. Trump could expand it with little oversight.

More Perfect Union

17 min

"Encouraging & Important": Harvard Rejected Trump Takeover. Will Other Institutions Join the Fight?

Harvard University has pushed back as President Trump ramps up his attacks on higher education. After Harvard rejected demands by the Trump administration to eliminate all DEI initiatives and further crack down on Palestinian rights protests, including reporting international...

17 min

Mohsen Mahdawi's Abduction "Should Terrify" Us, Says VT Rep. Balint

The Trump administration is now seeking to deport Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, who is being held in a prison in northwest Vermont. He was detained by Homeland Security agents when he went to an immigration services center to take a civics test that is the final...

11 min

Expert on Fascism Has a CHILLING Warning About What Comes Next

Timothy Snyder, a historian and author of ‘On Tyranny,’ recently announced his decision to leave America due to rising authoritarianism. He also reacted to Trump’s defiance of the Supreme Court by warning that it marks the beginning of a new era of “state terror” in the...

The Humanist Report

23 min

Trump REFUSES to Free Innocent Immigrant He Sent to a Gulag, Says Americans Are Next

In a joint meeting with Trump and El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, both men refused to release an innocent immigrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from CECOT, a notorious Salvadoran prison. Both Bukele and members of Trump’s administration claimed they don’t have the...

The Humanist Report

9 min

Holocaust Survivor’s Son Chilling Warning from History

You won’t see this on BBC or CNN.

28 min

A War on the First Amendment: David Cole on Trump Targeting Students, Law Firms, Schools & More

An immigration judge has announced she could rule as early as Friday on whether the Trump administration can continue to detain Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University student protest leader incarcerated at an immigrant detention center in Louisiana. Khalil, a legal...

98 min

The Resurrection of Victor Jara (2015) ($5)

This feature length film explores the legacy and cultural resurgence of South American singer-songwriter and activist Victor Jara, who was brutally killed in 1973 following a military coup in Chile.

John Travers

First They Came for Mahmoud Khalil

The Trump administration’s nationwide roundup of international students accused of holding opinions it dislikes is picking up speed, sowing fear, separating families and driving people to go underground or out of the country. This targeting appeals to President Trump and his...

Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan

12 min

Kanye’s Downfall Shows Why “Woke” Was Necessary

Kanye West’s latest spiral—from unhinged rants to losing his last industry allies—shows what happens when social guardrails disappear. Once one of the most influential artists in the world, Kanye is now a case study in how unchecked rhetoric spreads in today’s political and...

TRUTH IS SPEAKING

Yes. It's a Genocide - The Evidence Is Overwhelming

When analyzing the ongoing assault on Gaza, it is imperative to begin not with slogans or opinion, but with the clear and unequivocal framework of international law. The UN Genocide Convention of 1948, to which nearly every nation on Earth is a party—including Israel and the...

Tim Hjersted

44 min

America’s Constitutional Crisis (w/ Katherine Franke) | The Chris Hedges Report

The United States is facing a constitutional crisis, one that if it is not resolved, will cement into place an authoritarian state. The Trump administration has unilaterally revoked birthright citizenship, frozen federal spending, signed executive orders to dismantle over a...

2 min

Free For All: The Public Library (trailer)

From award-winning filmmakers comes the story of how a simple idea shaped a nation, and the quiet revolutionaries who made it happen.

7 min

Do We Really Need a Border Wall?

The US-Mexico border is the most militarized border in the world and it comes at an immense cost: each year American taxpayers spend over 4.8 billion dollars on Border Patrol and another 8.4 billion on Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Is this southern border really worth...

The Gravel Institute

6 min

What They Didn't Teach You About the Civil War

What do you know about the Civil War? Everyone knows the familiar images: soldiers in Union blue versus troops in Confederate gray, the Emancipation Proclamation, the triumphant end of slavery. But there’s something schools don’t teach about the Civil War: it was also...

The Gravel Institute

20 min

Expert on Fascism Explains Why He’s Getting Out of America, Offers Chilling Warning

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.”

The Humanist Report

8 min

"Kidnapped": 1,000+ Protest After Masked ICE Agents Abduct Tufts Ph.D. Student Rumeysa Ozturk

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.

20 min

Jon Stewart on Which Speech Is Free and Which Will Cost You in Trump’s America | The Daily Show

Jon Stewart goes old-school Daily Show on Trump and Republicans who pride themselves on “saving” free speech, all while censoring anybody who doesn’t agree with them.

The Daily Show

6 min

Arun Kundnani: Why Capitalism needs Racism to Function

Borders are not natural—they 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.

Transnational Institute

80 min

The Encampments (2025) ($5)

THE ENCAMPMENTS follows student organizers at elite universities, including the recently detained Mahmoud Khalil, as they take a historic stand against their institutions’ investments in the Gaza genocide. While originally scheduled for later release, we have chosen to bring...

20 min

"Murder the Truth": David Enrich on Right-Wing Campaign to Silence Journalism & Protect the Powerful

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...

5 min

The Truth About the U.S. Border | Robert Reich

The full story about immigration you aren't getting from politicians and the media.

Robert Reich

11 min

Woke Fascism: Trump Aims to Crush Anti-War Protest Under Guise of Antisemitism Crackdown

"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...

Breaking Points

5 min

Does the Constitution Only Apply to Citizens? | Glenn Greenwald

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.

LibertyShorts

13 min

MEDIA BLACKOUT: America’s Poorest Counties Devastated By Catastrophic Flooding

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.

More Perfect Union

9 min

Proposed Texas Bill Makes Being Transgender A FELONY | The Kyle Kulinski Show

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.

Secular Talk

Elon Musk Is Wrong: Without Empathy, Civilization Ceases to Be Anything Worthy of the Name

Elon Musk’s attack on empathy is an old reactionary trick. First, he sets it up with a weak disclaimer:

102 min

Chris Hedges: Normalizing Genocide and the New World Order

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...

mediasanctuary

25 min

ICE Detention: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

John Oliver discusses ICE detention facilities, who’s in them, who runs them, and how immigration has become another for-profit business.

LastWeekTonight

14 min

The Secret Reason Why Right Wing Parties Dislike Trans & LGBTQ+ People

This video discusses why right-wing political parties often focus on anti-LGBTQ+ policies and rhetoric. Mark Cusack, a former political advisor and LGBTQ+ advocate, explains that these parties primarily support the interests of the wealthy and big businesses. They face a...

notdefining

7 min

Rep Zephyr’s Speech Flips 13 Republicans Before Vote, Defeating Anti-Trans Drag Ban Bill in Montana

“Trust the parents to do what's right and stop these crazy bills. They're a waste of time. They're a waste of energy. We should be working on property tax relief and not doing this sort of business,” Rep Sherry Essmann said following Zephyr’s speech.

Erin In The Morning

96 min

No Other Land (2024) ($5)

For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel's occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.

11 min

Trump’s GLOBAL Far Right Network Is Growing

From Brasília to Budapest, a global network of far-right forces has grown to include parties and politicians, judges and journalists, foundations and financiers, academics and oligarchs. This is the Reactionary International — far more powerful, and far more insidious, than...

Jacobin

How a Progressive Government Would End the War in Ukraine

"The Democratic Socialists of America condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and demands immediate diplomacy and de-escalation to resolve this crisis. We stand in solidarity with the working classes of Ukraine and Russia who will undoubtedly bear the brunt of this war, and...

Films For Action

97 min

No One Is Illegal: Every Day Tomorrow (trailer)

The war in Ukraine has exposed the double standards of European migration laws applied to women, children and men of different nationalities, mainly non-European.

Samaruc Productions

10 min

Jewish Journalist EXPOSES Israel

There's nothing that Israel won't do in the name of revenge and the relentless pursuit of Zionism. Let’s be crystal clear: when a state cloaks its brutality as self-defense, it's not safeguarding Jews—it's endangering us all by weaponizing our history. The narrative that...

Geopolitical Economy Report

19 min

Why the US Government Murdered Fred Hampton

What we aren't taught about the Black Panther Party.

Vox

113 min

American Coup: Wilmington 1898 (2025)

Stoking fears of “Negro Rule,” self-described white supremacists used intimidation and violence to destroy Black political and economic power and overthrow Wilmington, North Carolina’s democratically-elected government in 1898. Black residents were murdered and thousands were...

23 min

Trump Plans to 'Take Over' Gaza, Expel Palestinians & Build Real Estate His Family Could Profit From

Donald Trump plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians, saying, "The US will take over the Gaza Strip... We'll own it". His son-in-law Jared Kushner has invested in Israeli companies that profit from expanding illegal settlements. Trump and Kushner floated building luxury real...

17 min

The Truth about Mass Migration

I'm Andres Acevedo and this is The Market Exit. During the migration crisis of 2015, the small country of Sweden admitted a very large number of refugees. What effects did this surge of migrants to Swedish have on the Swedish economy? To find out, I met professor Peo Hansen...

The Market Exit

19 min

Trump’s Shocking Plan for Greater Israel Exposed

Trump and Netanyahu, with the full backing of billionaire war profiteers and far-right ideologues, are openly orchestrating the ethnic cleansing of Gaza—framing mass displacement, destruction, and annexation as “peace.”

25 min

What If We Ran The Economy?

Can you imagine libraries of tools, clothing, and even housing? The library economy can be the bridge to an entirely new world of human flourishing. Let's explore what the library economy is, what may or may not be included, and what it might take to bring it to life.

Andrewism

The Phantom Menace of “Equality of Outcome”

The right’s fixation on “equality of outcome” as a specter haunting the Western world is not merely a misunderstanding. It is a deliberate fabrication, a straw man conjured to divert attention from the real issue: inequality.

Ethical Journalism Network

37 min

Democracy Doesn’t Exist in the United States | Chris Hedges

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, many are raising concerns about the possible decline of liberal democracy. What then would a second Trump term mean for the next four years for the United States? And what impact will the president's foreign policy have on the...

Al Jazeera English

3 min

The 5 Core Values of Journalism

The EJN Director describes the five values which are the foundation of ethical journalism: 1. accuracy; 2. independence; 3. impartiality; 4. humanity; 5. accountability.

8 min

The Power of Worker Bees: Why We Organize the South

Honeybees – small but mighty creatures that make life possible. They work together, each with a role, ensuring the survival of their hive. Just like honeybees, workers keep the world running – from transportation to caregiving, from cooking to serving food.

Union of Southern Service Workers

3 min

Belkî Sibê: A Journey Through the Syrian War and The Rojava Revolution

Belki Sibe is a volunteer soldier's film. It unfolds an 18 month journey through war and revolution, in Rojava Kurdistan NE Syria, during the advance and victory of the Syrian Democratic Forces against ISIS, including the story of the International Freedom Battalion, where...

Alexis Daloumis

Trump's Neofascism Is Here Now. Here Are 10 Things You Can Do to Resist

America has deep problems, which is why we can’t give up. Protect the vulnerable, organize boycotts and keep fighting

Robert Reich

3 min

The Death of Empathy: Holocaust Survivor Hajo Meyer on Dehumanization from Auschwitz to Palestine

“I saw in Auschwitz that if a dominant group wants to dehumanize others (as the Nazis wanted to dehumanize me), the dominant group must first be dehumanized in a way themselves, by diminishing their empathy due to propaganda and indoctrination, in order to be able to be as...