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We need an economy that finally cements the most fundamental freedom: to decide how we live our lives. One simple policy can deliver that.
Samuel Miller McDonald
I was always going to move to Portland. For years, that was my escape plan.
Sarah Kobos
Politics is about bringing people together and taking democratic control of the spaces where we live
Aaron Vansintjan
Human Fractals and Decentralized Alternatives to a UBI (DISCs)
Max Borders
In this episode, Alter Ego uses Jordan Peterson's recent conversations with Russell Brand to reveal his major strengths and weaknesses, and how we can build on the gaps in his thinking to develop a vision of progress that integrates personal and collective change.
6 min
Weaving Healthy Values Together Beyond Political In-Groups
Max Borders
Babies in cages were no ‘mistake’ by Trump but test-marketing for barbarism
Fintan O’Toole
Coming to theaters this summer. DARK MONEY, a political thriller, examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana—a frontline in the...
3 min
Jacob Goodwin, a self-proclaimed white nationalist, was charged with injuring a black counterprotester in the wake of the August Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. As Goodwin awaits trial, his parents become increasingly more involved in Goodwin’s extremist...
31 min
Abolishing ICE is not about lawlessness or open borders but about upholding our constitutional principles of defending people’s freedom from big government, government overreach and racial discrimination
Cesar Vargas and Yesenia Mata
Let’s be honest, most people are already in favour of free movement – at least for themselves. Aisha Dodwell explains why we should extend it to everyone
Aisha Dodwell
Cherán is a town of some 20,000 inhabitants in the highlands of Michoacán, one of the Mexican states that’s suffered most in the drug wars of the last decade. Armed men and women — not police, but members of an autonomous militia — guard every entrance to the town, looking...
6 min
Eric Weinstein: I get asked a lot about the state of capitalism and I think that for those members of society of a certain age we think of capitalism as being locked in an ideological battle with socialism perhaps or even communism.But we never really saw that capitalism...
12 min
Ron Paul’s “Cultural Marxism” tweet exposes the term’s deep history of racism. Cenk Uygur, the host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.
22 min
The election of Donald J. Trump surprised many, most of all the Democrats. Jeremy Heimans, a political activist and the Founder of the online media company Purpose, explains it simply: Donald Trump won the internet, and thus won the presidency.
7 min
"It was never about crime. Never about MS-13. Always just about hurting less privileged people of color. All at the expense of actually protecting America."
Julia Conley
Incidents of violence and discrimination against Muslim Americans are on the rise. Inflamed by fears, misinformation and bald-faced prejudice, anti-Islamic organizations have tripled their membership just in the past three years. How did this disturbing trend begin, where is...
49 min
It was about 3:30 a.m. on the morning of Monday, June 25 when armed Federal Protective Service officers returned to the Portland, Oregon office for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE personnel had not been back since June 19, when protesters began disallowing easy...
Shane Burley
Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful...
140 min
Don Lash, author of When the Welfare People Came: Race and Class in the US Child Protection System, looks at the many U.S. policies — past and present — that have separated children from their parents.
Don Lash
You have the right to live where you choose.
You have the right to work where you choose.
You have the right to travel where you choose.
You have the right to associate with whom you choose.
You have the right to speak any language you choose.
You have the right to...
Scott of the Insurgency Culture Collective
Jordan Greenhall seems to have the gift of second sight. And for Greenhall, the election of Donald Trump is merely a bi-product of profound changes in the nature of how we understand the world and how we relate to each other. The underlying mediating structures of society...
19 min
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
Liberation psychology doesn’t equate a lack of adjustment with mental illness, but instead promotes constructive rebellion against dehumanizing institutions, and which also provides strategies to build a genuinely democratic society.
Bruce E. Levine
The persecution of Julian Assange must end. Or it will end in tragedy.
John Pilger
George Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and social critic. This quote is taken from his last stand up routine, "Life Is Worth Losing" (2005).
3 min
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
The shifts in consciousness brought about by psychedelics could help to dissolve our fear of the other.
Vikram Zutshi
The week of Venezuela's presidential election, John Oliver dedicated an ENTIRE episode of his HBO show "Last Week Tonight" to the country—full of distortions and highly misleading to progressive-minded people.
47 min
In this film, we meet Jim Enote, a traditional Zuni elder, farmer, and director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center in Zuni, New Mexico. Enote is working with Zuni artists to provide an alternative way to understand and create maps which offer an indigenous voice...
10 min
Colombia’s presidential election could determine the fate of the historic peace deal ending their 53-year civil war. While most in the country want to honor the agreement, Colombia’s right wing has been a fervent opponent.
19 min
It’s time to reclaim the mantle of “Progress” for progressives. By falsely tethering the concept of progress to free market economics and centrist values, Steven Pinker has tried to appropriate a great idea for which he has no rightful claim.
Jeremy Lent
No words can describe the anger and anguish I feel as a Palestinian in America watching this unfold.
Razan Azzarkani
Trump is a big problem. But he's not the cause of our problems.
John Atcheson
It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion.
Chris Hedges
To characterize Israeli violence as a “response” is to wrongly imply that Palestinian actions warranted Israel unleashing its firing squads.
Gregory Shupak
The Intellectual Dark Web brand claims to be a motley crew of ideologically opposed truth tellers but is instead a group of warriors for the status quo who are unified around scapegoating leftists and specifically Marxists for problems that capitalism itself generates. They...
10 min
This video picks apart the right-wing Day for Freedom video, examines how the alt-lite uses the Streisand Effect to spread its message, and points out that Karl Marx was a champion of free speech.
9 min
The only legitimate struggle for Palestinians, it seems, is keeping quiet, allowing their lands to be plundered and their children to be starved.
Jonathan Cook
In contrast to White House refusal to condemn Israel, the U.N. Human Rights Council denounced the massacre and slammed Israel for repeatedly violating international law
Jake Johnson
How the U.S. military takes the world through the Gates of Hell
Tom Engelhardt
“Certainly there are some people in the Democratic Party who want to maintain the status quo. They would rather go down with the Titanic so long as they have first-class seats.”
Norman Solomon
In March, Richard Spencer, a prominent white supremacist, cancelled his speaking engagements at U.S. universities, saying he was deterred by “antifa,” a loose international network of radical anti-fascist groups that aims to shut down far-right talks and rallies. For antifa...
Sue Curry Jansen and Brian Martin
Progressive candidate Levi Tillemann met with Congressman Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat in the House of Representatives, to make the case that the party should stay neutral in the Colorado primary and that he had a more plausible path to victory than the same centrism that...
5 min
We need a new economics for the 21st century. Here are five potential pillars.
Sam Cossar-Gilbert
We need to practice economic disobedience so that radical alternatives can flourish.
Niki Seth-Smith
Announcing his presidency in 2016, Donald Trump promised the nation that he’d become “the greatest job president God ever created.” His plan to accomplish this rested on a retrograde economic vision that would “make America great again,” by restoring waning coal and...
Sarah Aziza
The Weather Underground, a clandestine revolutionary organization that advocated violence, was seen by my father and other clergy members who were involved in Vietnam anti-war protests as one of the most self-destructive forces on the left. These members of the clergy, many...
Chris Hedges
Are fundamentalist Christians a dangerous religious cult? Possibly. The controversial author and religious scholar Reza Aslan posits that President Donald Trump has much of his evangelical fan-base believing that he's somehow been anointed by God to become President...
9 min
Contrary to the assumptions of left-liberal commentators, neoliberalism is not merely a bad policy adopted by “greedy” elites. It is in fact a fundamental systemic rejection of the post-laissez-faire settlement put in place in just about all of the developed capitalist...
Alan Nasser
Let me present five signs of a hypocrisy, a fraud-in-the-making:
Sasha Abramsky
Eric K. Ward is currently the executive director of Western States Center. Western States Center’s mission is to connect and build the power of community organizations to challenge and transform individuals, organizations and systems to achieve racial, gender and economic...
Eric Ward
In the park today I saw a teenager watching two little kids, one of whom apparently stole a piece of candy from the other. The teenager rushed up to the two of them, reprimanded one of them, and stole both of their bicycles. I felt like it was my turn to step in at that...
David Swanson
"The latest U.S. air attack on Russia’s close ally Syria was as much politically aimed at Moscow as at Damascus."
Norman Solomon
"Strikes against the Syrian regime – without congressional input or authorization – shows a contempt for the U.S Constitution and is without legal justification."
Jon Queally
In this memo to the White House, the Veteran Intelligence Professions for Sanity urge President Trump to get the evidence first before deciding to strike Syria.
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Do you know what literally repulses me these days? Hearing about the first so and so to get accepted into the exclusive club of the aristocracy. Frankly, I don’t give a damn about the latest first black president or first woman CEO. Who cares! I don’t know how we have arrived...
Teodrose Fikre
Donald Trump's inauguration as US president a year ago reinvigorated many right-wing groups, including white supremacists. Now the militant left is fighting back with some shock tactics of its own.
29 min
These documentaries expose the ugly truth about war and the governments who wage them. The US government is focused on in this collection because I am based in the US, and it is every citizen's duty to call out and name the crimes of their government.
Tim Hjersted
"The Democrats talk about the middle class. The Republicans talk about the military. No one's talking about the poor."
Jake Johnson