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A story that will change how you think about what kinds of change will *really* make a difference
Charles Eisenstein · 23,866 views · 4.4 stars
The concept of Wellbeing Economies (WE) does not attempt to explain the world through a central foundational economic model, nor does it recommend a particular path for achieving its goals. Rather, it is essentially a very pragmatic approach that begins not with a “system”...
Martin Oetting · 1,290 views · unrated
The fascists and plutocrats are not just coming... they are already here.
Peter Bloom · 6,428 views · unrated
"In disputes upon moral or scientific points, let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.” - Arthur Martine
Tim Hjersted ·
2,771 views · 5 stars
The danger of conspiracy theories is their ability to breed apathy and resignation, offering an easy narrative that makes people susceptible to influence and limits social change. There is another way.
Aragorn Eloff · 6,329 views · unrated
After decades on the defensive, the left has once again started to embrace positive visions of the future.
Corinna Burkhart, Nina Treu, and Matthias Schmelzer · 4,638 views · unrated
Is the old world really dying while the new one struggles to be born? Or does it merely mutate, gorging on technology and the intensification of social fear?
Antoni Aguiló · 3,637 views · 4 stars
By far the most intellectually and politically interesting thing about the recent "exposé" of Spokane, WA, NAACP activist Rachel Dolezal’s racial status is the conundrum it has posed for racial identitarians who are also committed to defense of transgender identity. The...
Adolph Reed Jr. · 864 views · unrated
Waiting for political change to come about once every few years at election time is not only frustrating, but is an almost sure-fire way of ensuring that the changes you really want don’t get delivered within the time frames that are necessary.
If we really want to see...
SHIFT · 17,343 views · 4.8 stars
Hillary Clinton wants American voters to be very afraid of Donald Trump, but there is reason to fear as well what a neoconservative/neoliberal Clinton presidency would mean for the world
Robert Parry · 6,382 views · 5 stars
Cameron resigns, markets roil, and right-wingers cheer as Brexit becomes reality
Nika Knight · 6,084 views · unrated
The following is an email interview with author and activist, Danny Haiphong, regarding the current state of capitalism, US politics, and his new book, American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News-From the Revolutionary War to the War on...
Colin Jenkins ·
1,302 views · 4 stars
"Fascism must be seen as an episodically logical stage in the socio-economic development of capitalism in a state of crisis.”
The rise of Donald Trump has brought talk of fascism to the forefront. While comparing US Presidents to Hitler is certainly nothing new -- both...
Colin Jenkins ·
1,359 views · 4.2 stars
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." This quote, which has often been misattributed to Sinclair Lewis, is wise in recognizing the authoritarian potential of both nationalism and organized religion. In slight contrast, Professor...
Colin Jenkins ·
13,537 views · 4.5 stars
Populists claim to speak for the people, but, as Dinyar Godrej explains, they rarely do. So what are the options for a true politics of the people?
Dinyar Godrej · 3,714 views · unrated
Antiracism is a favorite concept on the American left these days. Of course, all good sorts want to be against racism, but what does the word mean exactly?
Adolph Reed Jr. · 1,231 views · 4.5 stars
The Tories may still be in power at the end of the night, but Jeremy Corbyn won today.
Yes, I know this is shameless spin, but hear me out: the last few weeks have vindicated the approach of the Labour left and its international cothinkers under Corbyn.
This is the first...
Bhaskar Sunkara · 27,381 views · unrated
DETROIT—The abolition of net neutrality and the use of algorithms by Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter to divert readers and viewers from progressive, left-wing and anti-war sites, along with demonizing as foreign agents the journ
Chris Hedges · 21,794 views · 5 stars
Green New Deal advocates in the United States should look to the Nordic countries for inspiration on how to overcome the 1 percent and address climate change.
George Lakey · 3,570 views · unrated
"Voting is a chess move, not a valentine. And here's the joy of being politically engaged all year round every year; you get to work with a whole lot of chess pieces and players and strategies and longterm visions, so you don't agonize over whether this little hop with a pawn...
Tim Hjersted ·
2,719 views · unrated
What we are witnessing is not a passive geological event but extermination by capitalism.
Justin Mcbrien · 7,657 views · unrated
We must reduce carbon emissions by 40% in the next 12 years to have a 50% chance of avoiding catastrophe.
Chris Hedges · 2,722 views · 5 stars
Fear and uncertainty seem to have settled into our societies, not only among citizens, but also political leaders and transnational corporations who see their capitals and centres of power stagger in the face of the combined effects of slowing global economic growth, imminent...
Jenny Gellatly and Marcos Rivero · 7,988 views · unrated
An explanation for why defeating Donald Trump—despite what we know about Hillary Clinton—should be the left's primary national electoral objective this November
Adolph Reed Jr. · 13,114 views · 3.3 stars
Many Americans are rightfully scared shitless of Donald Trump; in particular marginalized people. But for many of us, we do not have the privilege of it being the first time we are truly afraid for our lives.
Morgana Visser · 897 views · 5 stars
Depression and anxiety are rising rapidly among young people: what’s going on?
William Davies · 6,551 views · 4 stars
“What struck me” journalist Christian Parenti said in a recent Truthout interview, referring to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, “was the fact that these local towns and states around the region were sending the only resources they had to New Orleans: weapons and...
Robert C. Koehler · 3,570 views · 5 stars
Occupiers from occupations all over the United States are headed to Washington, DC, for three days of action that are being organized under the banner, “Take Back the Capitol.” They are driving from Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh and other cities to the...
Kevin Gosztola · 3,090 views · unrated
That didn't take long. The public interest in the state of the natural world stimulated by the winter floods receded almost as quickly as the waters did.
George Monbiot · 3,464 views · 4 stars
Wait. Patience. Stay Calm. “This is a country that allows everybody to express their views,” said the first Black president, “allows them to peacefully assemble, to protest actions that they think are unjust.” Don’t disrupt, express. Justice will be served. We respect the...
Robin D.G. Kelley · 3,839 views · 4.5 stars
Counteracting corporate media consolidation, the Progressive International has launched the Wire, to disseminate critical perspectives around the world.
Michael Galant · 1,929 views · unrated
Anticapitalism isn’t simply a moral stance against injustice — it’s about building an alternative.
Erik Olin Wright · 12,299 views · 5 stars
The Commons is maturing politically, its methods and principles becoming more visible and its participants winning municipal elections in a variety of European cities. How did this happen, and what happens next? First, a look at our present political context, and then some...
Stacco Troncoso & Ann Marie Utratel · 8,460 views · 5 stars
It should be quite obvious, but apparently it’s not, that we can’t devise an anarchist revolutionary strategy until we have a clear idea of what it is we’re trying to achieve.
James Herod · 2,564 views · 5 stars
This essay originated as a kind of stump speech, an effort to spell out and update an argument about the uses of anti-racism and anti-discrimination that I’ve been making for some time to audiences that might or might not be familiar with it. The idea of publishing some...
Walter Benn Michaels · 994 views · unrated
“There’s another word for lesser evilism. It’s called rationality. Lesser evilism is not an illusion, it’s a rational position. But you don’t stop with lesser evilism. You begin with it, to prevent the worst, and then you go on to deal with the fundamental roots of what’s...
Noam Chomsky and Robert Scheer and Natasha Hakimi Zapata · 5,871 views · 5 stars
Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian
Paul Mason · 43,444 views · 4.9 stars
When freedoms clash, some must take priority over others. In the economy, the mechanism that determines which freedoms are prioritised is the property rights system. Property rights bestow the freedom to control and profit from what is owned. They determine who has...
Raoul Martinez · 680 views · unrated
The pandemic is very quickly teaching us what’s important: health, love, food, a safe and comfortable home, creativity and learning, connectedness, and being able to get out into nature. Shouldn’t those things be the pillars around which our societies are organised? The virus...
Laura Basu · 11,519 views · unrated
The Democrats and Republicans have legalized a level of greed and fraud that even heirs of the robber barons thought unsustainable.
Chris Hedges · 7,575 views · unrated
Despite the desperate smears from center-right opponents claiming he is "divisive," the reality is that Bernie Sanders’ policies are all about unity: common needs, mutual care, and a shared future.
Christopher D. Cook · 2,363 views · unrated
The resulting credibility vacuum has enabled unscrupulous politicians, agents of chaos, and other charlatans to position themselves as experts.
Steven Singer · 2,530 views · unrated
Karl Marx exposed the peculiar dynamics of capitalism, or what he called “the bourgeois mode of production.”
He foresaw that capitalism had built within it the seeds of its own destruction. He knew that reigning ideologies—think neoliberalism—were created to serve the...
Chris Hedges · 25,600 views · 4.9 stars
Despite being continents apart, the struggles of the Kurds and Zapatistas share a similar purpose: to resist capitalism, liberate women and build autonomy.
Petar Stanchev · 6,767 views · 5 stars
Bottom up? Top down? Improvisation is the key to a middle way.
Keith Harrington · 4,089 views · 4.5 stars
Noam Chomsky on Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, and the potential for ordinary people to make radical change.
Noam Chomsky · 10,266 views · 4.8 stars
Since the June 6 California primary, the historic upheaval that coalesced around Bernie Sanders’ campaign has continued to defy the demands of the political establishment, but has also increasingly turned into a search for the way forward. After a powerful, year-long mass...
Kshama Sawant · 4,979 views · 5 stars
There is no such thing as the dignity of work. It is not the right to employment but a guaranteed material existence that gives dignity to human life.
Daniel Raventós and Julie Wark · 8,416 views · 5 stars
Every day, we’re treated to another barrage of outright falsehoods from the White House: Trump won the election by a landslide, Sweden is the crime capital of Europe, corpses are piling up in Bowling Green, anarchists are on George Soros’s payroll, nobody loves women or black...
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective · 4,529 views · unrated
A Q&A with Asad Haider, founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine, on an ideology fracturing the left.
Kelton Sears · 7,649 views · 5 stars
The basic guaranteed income is one of those ideas, like land value taxation or the Tobin tax, that circles endlessly around. There are times when it’s obscure, and times when it’s being talked about again. It’s currently in the ascendant, and I suspect that it won’t be long...
Jeremy Williams · 6,073 views · 4 stars
In this interview with Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts) and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff talks about bankruptcy protection, debt jubilee, students debt and the function that a credit system serves in our society today.
14 min · 11,523 views · 4.5 stars
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We’ve come a long way together, thanks to your donations and the commitment of our dedicated volunteers. We’ve built a truly independent non-profit & bilingual media network, which does not rely on advertisements and state or corporate...
9 min · 1,859 views · 4 stars
Former US President Barack Obama admitted that the neoliberal capitalist policies he and his predecessors supported fostered the rise of the far-right and grossly exacerbated inequality.
8 min · 3,471 views · 4 stars
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.
10 min · 943 views · 4 stars
Great Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has wiped out many bankers and global speculators. They will turn, as they did in 2008, to governments to rescue them from default. Most governments, including ours, will probably comply.
Chris Hedges · 23,988 views · 4 stars
It's very common in the West, especially in the US, for people to assume that propaganda doesn't really exist in our society. Sure, those other countries brainwash their citizens, but not us! No, all our media is completely unbiased. Let's explore the idea of propaganda, and...
21 min · 912 views · unrated
Murder, Torture & the Hustle that Pretends to be a Philosophy
26 min · 2,805 views · unrated
Welcome to Oligarch Island
11 min · 2,653 views · unrated
In this video the economist and co-founder of DiEM25 Yanis Varoufakis, examines the socio-economic implications of the Coronavirus. This video was originally produced by DiEM25 and republished by acTVism Munich in order to create awareness on this issue.
19 min · 5,763 views · 4.8 stars