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Robert Reich explains why Donald Trump and Republicans use socialism to scare the American people.
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Weeds are a symptom, not the cause, of a problem. We can observe weeds to read the landscape, deduce what reparative steps need to be taken, and speed up the natural sequence of recovery. Weeds can actually be great friends to gardeners. In any square meter of ground, there...
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A video remix featuring the wisdom of Alan Watts. I hope this video is able to inspire you more than once to be the person you were always meant to become in this life! đ -Â Gabriel Ng
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White Widows portrays the tough and disadvantaged life of Indian cotton farmers in their village Dhanoli located in the region of Vidarbha, well known as the epicentre of farmer suicide.
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Thought Slime explains the Right's war on the individual, in a kind of funny roundabout way.
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Some people in the media want you to believe that Iran is your enemy. Is this really true? In this video we reveal who is the shocking real enemy... the true danger to your freedom. HINT: It is NOT who you think it is. And it has NOTHING to do with nuclear weapons. We reveal...
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Robert Reich explains why American democracy has become an oligarchy.
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How corporations convinced the public to blame themselves rather than the 100 companies most responsible.
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Robert Reich explains why we must tax wealthy estates in order to reduce inequality.
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Briahna Joy Gray is a leading Millennial writer on identity politics, racial justice and economic power. She is a contributing editor at Current Affairs and has been featured in New York Magazine, Rolling Stone and The Guardian. She is the co-host of SWOTI (Someone's Wrong on...
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Mike Nayna: In an attempt to expose academic fields corrupted by postmodern ideology, Helen Pluckrose, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay spent a year submitting intentionally broken papers to academic journals. Their secret project was cut short when an investigative...
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Jordan Peterson is known for propagating the fear of "Cultural Marxism." After a disappointing debate on Marxism with Slavoj ŽiŞek, Abby Martin talks to Marxist economist and professor Richard Wolff about Peterson's theories.
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The Trump administration's illegal economic sanctions against Iran makes it impossible to import essential medicines, says CEPR's Mark Weisbrot.
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Leading spiritual teacher warns that if people cannot save themselves from their own suffering, how can they be expected to worry about the plight of Mother Earth
Jo Confino
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The truth about Russiagate and R. Kelly! (Mostly just Russiagate ;) 0:42 WTF is Russiagate | Trump/Russia Conspiracy Theory 2:55 Russian Hacking Pt.1 14:10 An Act of War? 17:50 "Meme Warfare" 29:05 Russian Hacking Pt.2 - Bill Binneyâs Alternative Theory 39:32 Truth vs...
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Across the United States, telecom providers have begun mapping their plans to deploy 5G âsmall,â microwave-emitting cellular sites throughout neighborhoods. Every person deserves to be informed about whatâs happening and whatâs within every householdâs ability to control.
Katie Singer
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Ep. 1 // Rats in the Hallway // Working class women of color and young white socialists in an East Harlem join forces against a private equity slumlord. Read the story by Georgia Kromrei at indypendent.org/2018/02/rats-in-the-hallway.
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How can we create a worldwide, permanent shift to regenerative culture in every sphere of life?
Ruth Gordon
The word sustainability, were it up to me, would be extinct, wiped out, kaput.
Andrew Nikiforuk
Russia-gate has shed any premise of being about Russian interference, writes Daniel Lazare, but the idea that America may in anyway be responsible for its own fate is of course unthinkable.
Daniel Lazare
Tom Friedman and Steve Bannon are, as usual, wrong. Hardship in the United States canât be blamed on Chinaâs âeconomic warâ on democracy. Itâs the fault of American corporations and elites.
Nicole M. Aschoff
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Dr. Gabor MatĂŠ gives a beautiful speech on human nature and the implications culture has on our ability to maintain it. In this segment of the speech, he discusses four different categories of self-alienation and provides a sentiment of hope to stay in touch with our true...
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Abby Martin sits down with Peter Phillips, former director of Project Censored and professor of Political Sociology at Sonoma State University. His new book âGiants: The Global Power Eliteâ details the 17 transnational investment firms which control over $50 trillion in...
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According to the theory of Privilege, everybody is born into different circumstances, and those circumstances make certain outcomes in life more likely relative to those born into different circumstances. Circumstances that render a higher likelihood of a fulfilling life are...
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Robert Reich explains why we must the War on Drugs, and legalize cannabis.
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On Wednesday, the day it was announced that the U.S. birthrate fell for the fourth straight year, signaling the lowest number of births in 32 years, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law the most draconian anti-abortion law in the country. That the two developments came at the
Chris Hedges
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In the Oak-dotted countryside of Southern Portugal lies the Tamera Healing Biotope, one of Earthâs most radical social experiments in human futurism. Tamera began in the âfree loveâ utopian movements of the 1960sâ and 70âs, building upon the insight that the liberation of...
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If you have had a spiritual practice or have experience with personal growth workshops, you have no doubt heard many times that letting go of attachment increases happiness and well-being. The principle is simple, but exactly what does it mean to let go of attachment, and...
Miki Kashtan
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Back in 2015 the RnB artist Akon grabbed headlines when he claimed that he doesnât think charities âin Africa workâ. But was he right?
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In the Americas, the Trump tsunami has swept across both continents and the âpink tideâ of progressivism has all but disappeared from the southern half of the hemisphere. In Europe, with the
John Feffer
Over the years I have often been asked how I became an activist. The question of how individuals as individuals become involved in social change movements, fascinating as it may seem, can carry equally fascinating assumptions about activism itself. It may imply a voluntary...
Jonathan Matthew Smucker
What we must do is incorporate the other peopleâŚthe creeping people, and the standing people, and the flying people and the swimming peopleâŚinto the councils of government. - Gary Snyder
Roger S. Gottlieb
What goes through the mind of a riot cop as he's beating you senseless? Spanish situationist Luis Navarro on policing, violence and the imposition of order.
Luis Navarro
Despite years of effort and sacrifice by millions, there has not been a mass shift toward nonviolence. Perhaps what's needed is a better understanding of the dark side of the human species.
Brian Martin
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âModern slavery.â It sounds like a paradox. Hasnât humanity progressed? Didnât we leave slavery dead on the battlefields of the American Civil War? Didnât social reformers like Lincoln and Wilberforce legislate against such cruelty over a hundred years ago? So we had thought...
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The corporate capitalists who hold real power view Trump as an embarrassment. They would prefer to put a more dignified face on the American empire. But for the corporate elites it is far preferable than to deal with a Bernie Sanders or an Elizabeth Warren.
Chris Hedges
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Jamie Wheal documented the new psychedelic renaissance in his bestselling book 'Stealing Fire', where he talked about the transformative potential of flow states and psychedelics. Since then he has become increasingly concerned and disillusioned with the direction of the...
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This riveting and inspiring study of race and class in the age of Trump argues that an emphasis on identity should lead to one on solidarity
Ben Tarnoff
There are two undeclared wars on the vast majority of the world's population, the destitute popular classes and the impoverished middle classes. Such double war requires a vast, ideological-mental industrial complex sprawled across the planet.
Boaventura De Sousa Santos
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With the Green New Deal sparking a national conversation about all the ways to combat climate change, John Oliver looks at a few potential solutions.
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In episode two of The Guardian's series on modern masculinity, Iman Amrani met Neil Smedley, a barber shop owner in Leeds. In the interview they did together Neil spoke about a range of issues, some of them very personal, and they felt that they couldn't do his story justice...
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Denver became the first city in the country to decriminalize the use and possession of psilocybin mushrooms, after a ballot initiative squeaked through with 50.6% of the vote, according to election officials. The unofficial final results -- which are not expected to change...
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STRANGERS IN TOWN tells the story of how global migration unexpectedly transformed and enriched Garden City, Kansas. It brought great challenges to the community, including demands for housing, social services, education, and infrustucture. For the current students at Garden...
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Damaging the earth is a crime, right? That is what earth´s lawyer Polly Higgins thinks. Why earth destruction should be seen as a crime and what is it that brings earth lawyers Polly Higgins and Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón to fight for ecocide?
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China has the worldâs fastest and largest high-speed rail network â more than 19,000 miles, the vast majority of which was built in the past decade. Japanâs bullet trains can reach nearly 200 miles per hour and date to the 1960s. They have moved more than 9 billion people...
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Sixty years after the Little Rock Nine faced violent resistance when they desegregated Central High, America's schools continue to represent the key battleground of the Civil Rights Movement. Contemporary Little Rock, New York City, and Los Angeles present a microcosm of the...
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From Fire in the Belly Productions, 100 Years documents the David vs. Goliath story of Elouise Cobell's courageous fight for justice for hundreds of thousands of Native Americans who were cheated out of billions of dollars by the United States Government.
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Over the past decade Iâve watched with alarm the widening polarization of the body politic across Western societies (and to some extent globally). As commonly recognized, the public is split into irreconcilable political factions who disagree not only on the interpretation of...
Charles Eisenstein
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Humanity has lost the battle against climate change. That is what Paul Kingsnorth thinks. The former environmental activist believes that we can´t stop climate change anymore. How should we live on knowing that climate change is a fact that can´t be denied anymore? A...
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Robots are already changing jobs as an endless array of robots enter our everyday lives. From trucking to service work to high-end jobs like doctors and lawyers, this documentary explores how robotics and artificial intelligence are changing the workplace.
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Fully Charged spent an amazing day at the Sustainable City, a housing development in Dubai with 3,500 people already living there and it's still not quite finished. This truly is a remarkable achievement, a stark lesson to building contractors the world over. It's not more...
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I was in my early teens when I accompanied my grandmother on a Christmas errand to deliver boxes of biscuits to each of her surviving maternal cousins. Although our extended family was big we were also close, so I was surprised when the last box was for an aunty Iâd never...
Che Ramsden
A left wing and a right wing belong to the same bird. The moment we see that we are all related, we start to see solutions.
Satish Kumar
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The Australien Government just released this ad about how it doesn't like us satirically impersonating the Australian Government, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
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Prof. Richard Wolff presents an in-depth analysis of UBI, showing its advantages over most welfare, safety net systems. An even better alternative would avoid capitalism's unnecessary production of unemployment because it utilizes technical progress (rising productivity) for...
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Where is the clear image of a decolonized society we are to emulate? There isnât one. Yet if we are to free ourselves, we need practical steps.
Steven Newcomb
What do the Australianâs columnist Nick Cater, video game hate group #Gamergate, Norwegian mass shooter
Jason Wilson
Within some parts of the activist movement the concept of White Privilege is quite popular. Let us take a decolonial look at the concept.
Sandew Hira
This article was originally published on the Economics of Happiness Blog.
Iishana Artra, PhD
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Hi everyone, Iâm pleased to announce a new online short course Iâve created called Unlearning: For Change Agents.
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Spaniards threw their weight behind a Green New Deal programme by re-electing the pro-climate Spanish Socialist party (PSOE).
Natalie Sauer
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A Real Solution to Money in Politics with James D'Angelo How to end the corrupting influence of money in politics. America's founding fathers had an effective solution, but is it worth it? Matt Orfalea âśhttps://twitter.com/0rf âśhttps://medium.com/@0rf...
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Our way of being â the intentions, attitudes, and quality of the energy that we bring to an interaction â is more important than the particular words we choose to speak. The heart of Nonviolent Communication is not about speaking using a particular recipe. Rather it is about...
Bob Wentworth
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The latest research is clear: the state of our attention determines the state of our lives. So how do we harness our attention to focus deeper, get distracted less, and even become more creative? Chris Bailey, author of the recent book Hyperfocus, talks about how our ability...
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How the new movement for ecological justice is reimagining the world by reimagining the art of protest, protection and healing.
A farmer in the Midwest, a Donald Trump supporter in 2016, complained last week that his farm was in danger of going bankrupt owing to the combined effects of climate change and the tariff-wars, initiated by Trump, that have caused corn and soybean prices to collapse while...
Peter Gabel
The economic system is incompatible with the survival of life on Earth. It is time to design a new one.
George Monbiot
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Noam Chomsky puts RussiaGate in its proper perspective.
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Three attributes can make the difference between success and failure for nonviolent movements around the world: unity, planning, and nonviolent discipline.
Hardy Merriman
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My meeting with Charles Eisenstein.
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Peter Joseph addresses the opening arguments put forward by Jordan B. Peterson, from Peterson's debate with Slavoj Zizek called "Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism" - April 19th 2019 (Sorry for the typos. Mostly min. 46-48)
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It took the Earth 10 million years to recover from the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs.
Aylin Woodward
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'Just as we have a need for wild nature, along with that comes a need for ancient wisdom, ancient traditions with wise elders, who live close to the earth, and understand it. A need to return to those basic truths.' - Hermien de Vos
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In 2015, while the far right was gaining ground around the world, socialist MP Jeremy Corbyn was elected as leader of the UK Labour Party in a landslide victory. Accusations of antisemitism within the party immediately began to circulate. Well-known anti-racists and left-wing...
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Microfibers, used to make things like yoga pants, are the oceanâs tiniest problem.
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Confronting the Truth shows how countries which have experienced massive human rights violations have created official, independent bodies known as truth commissions.
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For thirty years, President Hosni Mubarak had ruled Egypt by manipulating elections, crushing dissent, and jailing and torturing his opponents.
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14-year-old filmmaker Dylan D'Haeze explores how communities can develop zero waste strategies and looks at building a sustainable lifestyle for today and for future generations.
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Robert Reich explains how Trump has become isolated politically.
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Cat Hobbs interviews activist and author George Monbiot on the potential of the commons, the idea of public luxury and more.
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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
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Maslow's Hierarchy, (or Pyramid), of Needs is one of the central ideas in modern economics and sociology. The work of a once little-known American psychologist, it has grown into an indispensable guide to understanding the modern world. This film explains who Maslow was, what...
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Successful social movements combine resistance to injustice with the affirmation of alternatives.
Greg Frey
In the face of climate breakdown and ecological overshoot, alluring promises of âgreen growthâ are no more than magical thinking. We need to restructure the fundamentals of our global cultural/economic system to cultivate an âecological civilizationâ: one that prioritizes the...
Jeremy Lent
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"Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert," begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's happening to about two-thirds of the world's grasslands, accelerating climate change and causing traditional grazing societies to...
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Democratic Presidential candidate Andrew Yang says we need a U.S. economy with qualities of both capitalism and socialism.
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Thanks to the filmmakers we've partnered with, our $5/mo+ supporters can instantly watch the 12 pay-per-view films below for free, and we plan to add more to this support tier over time. Check out the video below to watch the trailers for 5 of the 12 films back-to-back.
Nurses in New York City are pushing back against hospital systems that put profits over patients and threaten their efforts to strike for safer staffing ratios. While nurses are fighting, physicians, so far, have remained on the sidelines of this struggle.
Mike Pappas
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What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like? The Intercept presents a film narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and illustrated by Molly Crabapple. Set a couple of decades from now, the film is a flat-out rejection of the idea that a...
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Robert Reich debunks 12 misconceptions about tax policy in America.
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Climate change denial draws headlines. But is it actually an obstacle to climate action?
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"Avatar: The Last Airbender" is a masterpiece of animation. It's an incredible story with amazing characters and worthwhile themes that might just be more relevant today than ever before. As more and more people around the world seem to support the idea that group identities...
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"Parks and Recreation" star Rashida Jones has established a lovable reputation for herself through roles in hit comedies like "The Office" and "I Love You Man". Over the past few years, she's also ventured into writing and producing films, currently tackling projects like...
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"We do not live in a post-truth world and never have. On the contrary, we live in a pre-truth world where the truth has yet to arrive."
Henry A. Giroux
The ideas behind regenerative farming are simple and ancient.
Michaela Haas
Faced with climate change and mass extinction there is only one thing to do. Stop trying to save the world.
Facing oncoming climate disaster, some argue for âDeep Adaptation.â What we really need is âDeep Transformation.â
Jeremy Lent
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Farmworker Realities vs Immigrant Fear Mongering in the Days of Trump and Beyond.
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The short film invites us on an intimate journey through the liberated territory of the Zad of Notre-dames-des-landes, a community in France who resisted an airport, and in doing so created a beautiful way of living with hope in these tempestuous times.
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Robert Reich examines Trump's dark vision for America, and how to create a progressive message for the future.
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