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Cynicism is Corporate America's Greatest Weapon: It's Time to Disarm It
Cynicism is Corporate America's Greatest Weapon: It's Time to Disarm It
September’s coming up fast, and we know what that means. Soon Congress will be back in session and we’ll be inundated with fresh evidence that our democracy is broken. That makes this a good time to reflect on the powerful forces arrayed against the public interest – and to...
Richard Eskow · 2,194 views · 100%
Rap News 31: The EuroDiVision Contest 6 min
Rap News 31: The EuroDiVision Contest
We've all heard of EuroVision. But there's another song that’s being sung across Europe - the peoples' chants of protest against Europe's austerity measures. Today we'll hear some of the leading and loudest voices in this competition, such as Greece, Spain and Ireland, who...
EuroDiVision · 2,109 views · 92%
Why Social Movements Should Ignore the Internet
Why Social Movements Should Ignore the Internet
There are two ways to be wrong about the Internet. One is to embrace cyber-utopianism and treat the Internet as inherently democratizing. Just leave it alone, the argument goes, and the Internet will destroy dictatorships, undermine religious fundamentalism, and make up for...
Evgeny Morozov · 2,014 views · unrated
Ignoring the Cause of Welfare: Not Laziness but Low Wages
Ignoring the Cause of Welfare: Not Laziness but Low Wages
Numerous US media outlets recently uncritically echoed a methodologically flawed report by an anti-immigration organization with ties to white supremacist groups (FAIR.org, 9/4/15). Beyond this serious problem, however, lies a larger and more endemic issue in media: an...
Ben Norton · 1,595 views · unrated
Parliamentary Group Warns That Global Fossil Fuels Could Peak in Less Than 10 Years
Parliamentary Group Warns That Global Fossil Fuels Could Peak in Less Than 10 Years
British MPs launch landmark report on impending environmental ‘limits’ to economic growth
Nafeez Ahmed · 1,514 views · 100%
The Next VW Scandal
The Next VW Scandal
Buried in the minutes of an obscure new quango is evidence of vast corporate capture of the UK government.
Christine Berry · 1,147 views · 100%
Farm to Table in San Francisco is About More than Food | Final Straw (trailer) 2 min
Farm to Table in San Francisco is About More than Food | Final Straw (trailer)
This series of 'Short Take' interviews offer sneak peaks of characters from the upcoming documentary film "Final Straw," a film about food, earth, and happiness. This time around, we talk with Kristyn Leach, the resident farmer for Namu Gaji restaurant in San Francisco. In...
982 views · unrated
HOME FREE Episode One - A Tale of Two Plans 5 min
HOME FREE Episode One - A Tale of Two Plans
This is the first episode of HOME FREE, giving a broad overview of the two plans that have been created to end homelessness through the Suncoast Partnership to End Homelessness and Dr. Robert Marbut. Regardless of the challenges we may face along the way, Sarasota has every...
858 views · unrated
Invisible Chains: Consumerism, Debt, and Consciousness
Invisible Chains: Consumerism, Debt, and Consciousness
Critical analyses regarding the effects of "consumerism" have been a staple of Leftist theory for the past century. The Situationist International, appearing in the 1950s as an extension of Lukacs' unique brand of social analysis from the 20s, famously ridiculed the "western...
Colin Jenkins · 835 views · unrated
Alive in the Sunshine
Alive in the Sunshine
Alive in the Sunshine Issue 13: Alive in the Sunshine Essays by Alyssa Battistoni There’s no way toward a sustainable future without tackling environmentalism’s old
Alyssa Battistoni · 809 views · unrated
The Neglected Mass Shooter and His Need to Be Seen
The Neglected Mass Shooter and His Need to Be Seen
At a vigil to honor the victims of Sandy Hook, I read aloud the piece that Rabbi Lerner wrote on December 14th, 2012, entitled: “Banning All Guns is Necessary but Not Sufficient”, that we also need a fundamental transformation of consciousness both inner and societal. An...
Cheryl Hashman Sheinman · 780 views · 75%
DiCaprio’s Censored UN Thinky-Speech
DiCaprio’s Censored UN Thinky-Speech
[Full 8-minute Transcript, 29 February 2016]
Iggy Swind · 493 views · unrated
Klein Vs. Klein
Klein Vs. Klein
This Changes Everything is a book capacious enough to allow Naomi Klein two positions at once. But a real climate-justice movement will at some point have to make choices.
Out Of The Woods · 451 views · unrated
Hacking the Sustainable Development Discourse
Hacking the Sustainable Development Discourse
A Narrative Strategy for Changing the Story of Global Development
Joe Brewer · 450 views · unrated
Between Berlin and a Hard Place: Greece and the German Strategy to Dominate Europe
Between Berlin and a Hard Place: Greece and the German Strategy to Dominate Europe
"They just wanted to take a bat to them," said former U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, referring to the attitude of European leaders to
Andrew Gavin Marshall · 399 views · unrated
Convincing the Young to Blame the Old, Not the Rich
Convincing the Young to Blame the Old, Not the Rich
The Washington Post‘s Catherine Rampell devoted a column (12/24/15) to a popular Washington pastime: trying to get young people angry at their parents and grandparents so that they are not bothered by the enormous upward redistribution of income taking place in this country.
Dean Baker · 292 views · unrated
The Decimation of the English Working Class
The Decimation of the English Working Class
We are in the way of progress. Again.
Class unity · 247 views · unrated
Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”
Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”
The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival Gathering, in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It is Russell Means's most famous speech.
Russell Means · 730,620 views · 89%
The Great Forgetting: You Probably Haven't Heard About It but It Completely Affects Your Life
The Great Forgetting: You Probably Haven't Heard About It but It Completely Affects Your Life
This article summarizes the ideas of Daniel Quinn, first written about in The Story of B, which was a sequel to Ishmael. The longer, original essay can be read here, and comes highly recommended, especially if you find yourself disagreeing with the summary
Deep Ecology Hub · 544,171 views · 82%
Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?
Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?
"I believe, inherently, that the structures of society are driving us mad. Though most of us believe ourselves to be fairly well-adjusted, healthy individuals, we are all patients in the asylum together now."
Tim Hjersted · 278,594 views · 94%
Profit Is Theft: It Sounds Absurd but Here's Why
Profit Is Theft: It Sounds Absurd but Here's Why
The disparity between what the average worker earns and what CEOs take home is staggering — and it makes clear that the 99% does, in fact, need a raise. But while fighting for a $15 minimum wage is important, we also have to recognize that raising the minimum wage alone...
Tim Hjersted · 224,956 views · 99%
Bertrand Russell & Buckminster Fuller on Why We Should Work Less, and Live & Learn More
Bertrand Russell & Buckminster Fuller on Why We Should Work Less, and Live & Learn More
Why must we all work long hours to earn the right to live? Why must only the wealthy have access to leisure, aesthetic pleasure, self-actualization…?
Josh Jones · 192,981 views · 100%
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
Ever had the feeling that your job might be made up? That the world would keep on turning if you weren’t doing that thing you do 9-5? David Graeber explored the phenomenon of bullshit jobs for Strike Magazine's summer issue – everyone who’s employed should read...
David Graeber · 161,747 views · 98%
Naomi Klein Interview: "A 3-Day Week Will Help to Save Life on Earth"
Naomi Klein Interview: "A 3-Day Week Will Help to Save Life on Earth"
No Logo author Naomi Klein says we must revolutionise our working lives if we are to combat climate change and save the free world...
Naomi Klein · 62,734 views · 88%
How White People Got Made
How White People Got Made
'There’s a perception that whiteness is working for white people. It’s not. Whiteness is one of the biggest and most long-running scams ever perpetrated.'
Quinn Norton · 44,747 views · 72%
For 40 Years, Liberals Have Accepted Defeat and Called It “Incremental Progress.”
For 40 Years, Liberals Have Accepted Defeat and Called It “Incremental Progress.”
Bernie Sanders offers a different way forward.
Matt Karp · 38,090 views · 100%
How a Libertarian Capitalist Became a Libertarian Socialist
How a Libertarian Capitalist Became a Libertarian Socialist
A couple years back when I was working toward a philosophy major in college, I wrote a rebuttal on the section of The Anarchist FAQ that covers anarcho-capitalism. I removed the rebuttal from the web because I didn't have the time or inclination to continue to maintain it or...
Chris Wilson · 31,212 views · 84%
Why Radical Leftists Should Support Bernie Sanders
Why Radical Leftists Should Support Bernie Sanders
Leftists can fantasize that they are doing a great service to humanity by scoffing at Bernie, but they’re merely isolating themselves from the rest of the country.
William Kaufman · 30,302 views · 95%
Renaissance 2.0 120 min
Renaissance 2.0
Renaissance 2.0 assumes you have a basic understanding of the monetary system and the problem of exponential growth. Lesson 1
Ahijab · 28,920 views · 92%
Marx Was Right
Marx Was Right
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 · 25,914 views · 97%
This is the Definitive Argument Against Drug Prohibition. It's Time We Legalize All Drugs.
This is the Definitive Argument Against Drug Prohibition. It's Time We Legalize All Drugs.
After you've finished reading this, there will be no doubt in your mind. Legalizing all drugs is the best way to lower the incidence of death, disease, crime and addiction. If you already know the drug war has failed, skip to the middle for an alternative policy. You will be...
Jack A. Cole (Retired Narcotics Undercover Officer) · 24,360 views · 100%
The Basic Income 100 min
The Basic Income (2008)
Grundeinkommen - ein Kulturimpuls (The Basic Income - A Cultural Impulse) is a German film with subtitles in 10 languages that makes the case for a basic income for all citizens. Subtitles Note: To make the subtitles easier to read, we highly recommend clicking the "CC"...
22,429 views · 100%
Why Some Anti-Racist Programs Will Fail and Others Will Succeed
Why Some Anti-Racist Programs Will Fail and Others Will Succeed
Editor's note: Thandeka wrote this in 1999, but her analysis and contribution to the discussion on anti-racism remains as relevent to today as ever. She addressed this to Unitarian Universalists, but you can read it as if she's addressing middle-class liberals or...
Thandeka · 22,258 views · 72%
50 Years Later, Edward R. Murrow's Famous Speech Is Still a Damning Critique of The Corporate Media 37 min
50 Years Later, Edward R. Murrow's Famous Speech Is Still a Damning Critique of The Corporate Media
Such a powerful speech by one of our all-time heroes.
K D · 21,358 views · 94%
It's Official -- Bernie Sanders Has Overtaken Hillary Clinton In the Hearts and Minds of Democrats
It's Official -- Bernie Sanders Has Overtaken Hillary Clinton In the Hearts and Minds of Democrats
Bernie Sanders represents a new era in American politics; one where values trump Citizens United cash or cold pragmatism.
H. A. Goodman · 20,071 views · 75%
Anthropology Is so Important, All Children Should Learn it
Anthropology Is so Important, All Children Should Learn it
Anthropology, the study of humankind, should be the first of all the sciences our children encounter, writes Marc Brightman, with its singular capacity to inspire the imagination, broaden the mind and open the heart. Moves to downgrade it in the education system by those who...
Marc Brightman · 19,277 views · 94%
Sandy Hook 'Hoax' Debunked 18 min
Sandy Hook 'Hoax' Debunked
Addressing the countless "Sandy Hook was a hoax" videos that have been spreading, in 3 parts. Our apologies for the swearing and insulting tone of part 1. If you want a more moderate tone see part 3. But it's worth mentioning that part 1's insulting dismissal of "conspiracy...
INTO THE FRAY · 18,732 views · 75%
Greece is the Latest Battleground in the Financial Elite’s War on Democracy
Greece is the Latest Battleground in the Financial Elite’s War on Democracy
From laissez-faire economics in 18th-century India to neoliberalism in today’s Europe the subordination of human welfare to power is a brutal tradition
George Monbiot · 18,079 views · 96%
This Tiny Country Is Going 100 Percent Organic
This Tiny Country Is Going 100 Percent Organic
In 2011, the tiny mountain nation of Bhutan announced a lofty goal: make the country’s agricultural system 100 percent organic by the year 2020. If it succeeded, it would be the first country in the world to achieve the feat. Bhutan — nestled in the Himalayas between India...
Natasha Geiling · 17,724 views · 94%
20 Big Ideas for Creating a Democratized Economy
20 Big Ideas for Creating a Democratized Economy
The economic collapse of 2008 came at the end of three decades of stagnant wages that resulted in record household debt and made it apparent that the economy does not work for most Americans.
It's Our Economy · 16,684 views · 100%
Is Greed All That's Wrong with Capitalism?
Is Greed All That's Wrong with Capitalism?
Is greed all that's wrong with capitalism? No. It is not enough to attack capitalists for being greedy, although this is a common tactic. I hope to explain why in this short essay.
James Herod · 16,609 views · 100%
Yanis Varoufakis Speaks Out for First Time Since Resigning as Greek Finance Minister
Yanis Varoufakis Speaks Out for First Time Since Resigning as Greek Finance Minister
In his first interview since resigning, Greece's former Finance Minister says the Eurogroup is “completely and utterly” controlled by Germany, Greece was “set up” and last week’s referendum was wasted.
Harry Lambert · 15,865 views · 98%
Occupy Activists Launch 'Battle of New York' to Counter Media Bias about Sanders and Clinton
Occupy Activists Launch 'Battle of New York' to Counter Media Bias about Sanders and Clinton
With its huge media campaign, Operation Battle of New York is taking on corporate establishment
Ben Norton · 14,506 views · 88%
NY Daily News Claims FDR Unfit to Be President: "No Concrete Plans, Only Platitudes"
NY Daily News Claims FDR Unfit to Be President: "No Concrete Plans, Only Platitudes"
[The following is an imagined 1932 New York Daily News editorial board interview with Franklin Roosevelt during his presidential campaign. The Daily News comments below derive from the editorial board’s interview with Bernie Sanders on April 1, 2016. The Roosevelt statements...
Les Leopold · 14,421 views · 88%
Meet the Activist Who Wants Women Everywhere to 'Free the Nipple' 4 min
Meet the Activist Who Wants Women Everywhere to 'Free the Nipple'
Most American cities are full of breasts. They are everywhere: On billboards. On storefronts. On
Mic · 13,799 views · 88%
In This Epic Moment of Eco-Social Disruption, The World Is Seeing a Revolutionary Transformation
In This Epic Moment of Eco-Social Disruption, The World Is Seeing a Revolutionary Transformation
In this epic moment of radical environmental and social disruption, the world is experiencing the dawn of a revolutionary transformation to becoming an ecologically literate and socially just civilization.
Kenny Ausubel · 13,739 views · 100%
Films For Action: Providing a Go-To Resource for the Best Social Change Videos Free to Watch Online
Films For Action: Providing a Go-To Resource for the Best Social Change Videos Free to Watch Online
With excellent independent media sites like Common Dreams, Truth Out, Grist, and others providing progressive news and perspective in written form, Films For Action has dedicated itself to filling in the progressive video niche.
Films For Action · 13,031 views · 100%
Why I'm Supporting Bernie Sanders in the Primaries, but Am Endorsing the Movement
Why I'm Supporting Bernie Sanders in the Primaries, but Am Endorsing the Movement
And why the 'vote / don't vote' debate has been one of the greatest strategic disasters of our time.
Tim Hjersted · 12,797 views · 100%
10 Reasons That Eco-Conscious People Are Happier and Live More Enjoyable Lives
10 Reasons That Eco-Conscious People Are Happier and Live More Enjoyable Lives
An increasing foundation of scientific research shows a significant linkage between personal well being and environmental knowledge, attitudes and behaviours. This is not coincidence; it is a profound truth of crucial importance in the quest to create sustainable societies...
Matt Mellen · 12,305 views · 100%
Thrive: The Story is Wrong but the Spirit is Right
Thrive: The Story is Wrong but the Spirit is Right
"What is keeping us from thriving?" asks the new movie, Thrive. The answer it gives is "the global elite," the people who control the financial system that in turn controls everything else. Operating through the power institutions of our society, this elite pursues a...
Charles Eisenstein · 11,972 views · 100%
Beware: Someone Is Trying to Convince You That Bernie Can't Win
Beware: Someone Is Trying to Convince You That Bernie Can't Win
Sanders' message, his campaign, and the resounding support he is receiving nationwide has sent chills through those whose primarily loyalty is to the wealthy donors in mansions and corporate suites and the policy architects on Wall Street
RoseAnn DeMoro · 11,796 views · 100%
9 Quotes from John Pilger on Media and Power
9 Quotes from John Pilger on Media and Power
"The whole essence of media is not about information. It’s about power.”   “Today the media is, as the father of propaganda, Edward Bernays described, ‘an invisible government.’ It’s in the government. It’s in the government’s vested interests. The Prime Minister is a PR...
Real Media · 10,960 views · 94%
Why Saturday's Bernie Sanders Rally Left Me Feeling Heartbroken
Why Saturday's Bernie Sanders Rally Left Me Feeling Heartbroken
Washington State Senator Pramila Jayapal (not pictured) was at the Bernie Sanders rally that got interrupted yesterday in Seattle. She offered some thoughts about the event on Facebook, and we're reprinting them in full here.    Many people have been e-mailing and asking...
Pramila Jayapal · 10,756 views · 80%
Are "Anarcho"- Capitalists Really Anarchists?
Are "Anarcho"- Capitalists Really Anarchists?
In a word, no. While "anarcho"-capitalists obviously try to associate themselves with the anarchist tradition by using the word "anarcho" or by calling themselves "anarchists" their ideas are distinctly at odds with those associated with anarchism. As a result, any claims...
Anarchist F.A.Q. · 10,701 views · 75%
The Global Transition Tipping Point Has Arrived - Vive la Révolution
The Global Transition Tipping Point Has Arrived - Vive la Révolution
A new post-carbon era dawns as the old fossil fuel system dies. It's time to step up.   Last Friday, I posted an exclusive report about a new
Nafeez Ahmed · 10,440 views · 100%
Why Sandy Hook and Related Conspiracy Theories Are a Detriment to Alternative Media's Credibility
Why Sandy Hook and Related Conspiracy Theories Are a Detriment to Alternative Media's Credibility
The Sandy Hook conspiracy can no longer claim censorship by the mainstream media as one of its articles of evidence. Sandy Hook 'truthers' can now find their claims mentioned and addressed in dozens of articles online, and in some TV coverage. The best written response I've...
Ecology of Existence · 10,135 views · 100%
Explosive Intervention by Pope Francis Set to Transform Climate Change Debate
Explosive Intervention by Pope Francis Set to Transform Climate Change Debate
The most anticipated papal letter for decades will be published in five languages on Thursday. It will call for an end to the ‘tyrannical’ exploitation of nature by mankind. Could it lead to a step-change in the battle against global warming?
John Vidal · 9,868 views · 94%
Get Apocalyptic: Why Radical is the New Normal
Get Apocalyptic: Why Radical is the New Normal
Feeling anxious about life in a broken economy on a strained planet? Turn despair into action.
Robert Jensen · 9,664 views · 92%
Interview With Paul Mason About How Capitalism Is Going to End
Interview With Paul Mason About How Capitalism Is Going to End
Simon Childs · 9,559 views · 94%
An Invitation to Anarchism
An Invitation to Anarchism
The word “anarchist” is thrown around a lot these days. When discussing their mild disagreements over foreign policy, healthcare, tax rates, gun control, immigration, torture, or the war on drugs, it’s not uncommon for a Republican or Democrat to hurl the word at each other...
Jason Lee Byas · 9,234 views · 70%
Found: Libertarians' "Lying To Liberals" Guide Book
Found: Libertarians' "Lying To Liberals" Guide Book
This Saturday’s "StopWatching.Us" protest in Washington DC promises to be the Mother Of All StrangeBedfellowsPaloozas, the apotheosis of sentimental Boomer politics in which right-wingers hold hands with left-wingers in a righteous People’s Crusade against the government...
Mark Ames · 9,060 views · unrated
Permaculture and the Myth of Scarcity
Permaculture and the Myth of Scarcity
At a conference a couple weeks ago an activist who does work in Africa recounted an encounter she had with the minister of agriculture of a certain African country. The minister spoke with excitement about the high-tech agricultural technologies he was bringing into the...
Charles Eisenstein · 8,947 views · 88%
We Are All Greeks Now
We Are All Greeks Now
The poor and the working class in the United States know what it is to be Greek. They know underemployment and unemployment. They know life without a pension. They know existence on a few dollars a day. They know gas and electricity being turned off because of unpaid bills...
Chris Hedges · 8,898 views · 83%
Mondragon: The Loving Society That Is Our Inevitable Future
Mondragon: The Loving Society That Is Our Inevitable Future
My first visit to Mondragon was in 1979. I had been searching the globe for years for a Relationship Age society which was also fully integrated into the modern world. My initial reaction to Mondragon was utter amazement. I had never expected to find such a mature and...
Terry Mollner · 8,343 views · 92%
Against Conspiracy Theories - Why Our Activism Must Be Based in Reality
Against Conspiracy Theories - Why Our Activism Must Be Based in Reality
A talk given at Occupy Wellington, New Zealand, to counter the prevalence of conspiracy theories amongst the local wing of the Occupy movement.
Asher · 7,879 views · 100%
Films for Action's Recommended Independent Media
Films For Action's Recommended Independent Media
Our Recommended Independent Media Links: Adbusters Aljazeera AlterNet Black Agenda Report Boiling Frogs Post
Films For Action · 7,694 views · 100%
"The Awakening That's Happening": Local, Sustainable Food
"The Awakening That's Happening": Local, Sustainable Food
“People are realizing that we can’t rely on the industrial food system much longer. The awakening that’s happening is our greatest opportunity,” says New Mexican farmer and activist Miguel Santistevan. This awakening has sparked the revival of local, sustainable food systems.
Tory Field and Beverly Bell · 7,562 views · 88%
Truth Hurts: The Science Behind Why People Don't Care About The Death Of Our Planet And Democracy
Truth Hurts: The Science Behind Why People Don't Care About The Death Of Our Planet And Democracy
Activists and environmentalists take note. In this special essay, Dr Lissa Johnson explains how to make people give a damn.
Dr Lissa Johnson · 6,921 views · unrated
"This Ain't Capitalism" They Say. No, Actually, It Is.
"This Ain't Capitalism" They Say. No, Actually, It Is.
It’s a recurring theme lately that whenever one will point out suffering and generally bad stuff happening because of Capitalism, right-wing libertarian apologists will pop-up from the woodwork to point out that “This ain’t Capitalism”. They will claim that the gover
A Division by Zer0 · 6,676 views · 75%
The Problem of Greece Is Not Only a Tragedy. It Is a lie.
The Problem of Greece Is Not Only a Tragedy. It Is a lie.
An historic betrayal has consumed Greece. Having set aside the mandate of the Greek electorate, the Syriza government has willfully ignored last week's landslide "No" vote and secretly agreed a raft of repressive, impoverishing measures in return for a "bailout" that means...
John Pilger · 6,642 views · 81%
An Anti-Capitalist Woman Invented Monopoly and a Man Got All the Credit
An Anti-Capitalist Woman Invented Monopoly and a Man Got All the Credit
The surprising origins of a beloved board game In March of 1903, a single woman in her late thirties walked into the U.S. Patent Office to secure her claim to a board game she had been diligently designing in the hours she stole from her day job as a stenographer. Lizzie...
Jen Doll · 6,325 views · 100%
The Premises of Endgame
The Premises of Endgame
These premises appear at the beginning of Endgame, Derrick Jensen's seminal critique of civilization.
Derrick Jensen · 6,244 views · 58%
The Democratic Stockholm Syndrome
The Democratic Stockholm Syndrome
New Yorkers voted overwhelmingly for those holding their progress captive
Peter Bloom · 5,942 views · 100%
Things That Anarchists Say to Me in Private But Never Repeat Publicly
Things That Anarchists Say to Me in Private But Never Repeat Publicly
1) “Call-out culture was developed to allow activist groups to confront leaders who abused their privilege, but now it is being used to settle petty scores on the level of interpersonal politics. I now have a hard time believing some people when they make call-outs because I...
Anonymous Anarchist · 5,913 views · 100%
David Graeber, the Anti-Leader of Occupy Wall Street
David Graeber, the Anti-Leader of Occupy Wall Street
Meet the anthropologist, activist, and anarchist who helped transform a hapless rally into a global protest movement
Drake Bennett · 5,718 views · unrated
The Oceans Are Not Worth $24 trillion
The Oceans Are Not Worth $24 trillion
Some things are beyond measure and beyond price. No amount of money is enough to compensate for the loss of the sacred.
Charles Eisenstein · 5,658 views · 88%
Boston Truth: The "Chechen Connection," Al Qaeda and the Boston Marathon Bombings
Boston Truth: The "Chechen Connection," Al Qaeda and the Boston Marathon Bombings
Nine thousand heavily armed police including SWAT teams were deployed in a manhunt to capture a 19 year old student at U-Mass, after his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the alleged Boston Marathon terror mastermind was shot dead by police allegedly  after a car chase and shoot out...
Prof Michel Chossudovsky · 5,293 views · 75%
It's a Movement, Stupid: Why Bernie Can Deliver on Promises of Change, While the Sensible Centrists Can't
It's a Movement, Stupid: Why Bernie Can Deliver on Promises of Change, While the Sensible Centrists Can't
The Democratic Party is engaged in an epic battle about how change happens.  On one side is the establishment who are backing Hillary’s cautious, pragmatic, and incremental approach.  On the other are the Sanders supporters who are calling for a revolution. There’s an irony...
John Atcheson · 5,239 views · 100%
How Talk Of Income Inequality is Scaring the Upper Class
How Talk Of Income Inequality is Scaring the Upper Class
NEW YORK — The co-founder of one the nation’s oldest venture capital firms fears a possible genocide against the wealthy. Residents of Manhattan’s tony Upper East Side say the progressive mayor didn’t plow their streets as a form of frosty revenge. And the co-founder of Home...
Ben White · 5,223 views · unrated
American Theocracy: Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money 60 min
American Theocracy: Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money
Kevin Phillips talks about his 2006 book, American Theocracy: the peril and politics of radical religion, oil, and borrowed money in the 21st century.
University of California Television (UCTV) · 5,217 views · 75%
The Sham "Terrorism Expert" Industry
The Sham "Terrorism Expert" Industry
Shortly prior to the start of the London Olympics, there was an outburst of hysteria over the failure to provide sufficient security against Terrorism, but as Harvard Professor Stephen Walt noted yesterday in Foreign Policy, this was all driven, as usual, by severe...
Glenn Greenwald · 4,933 views · 75%
Feminism Is Incompatible With Capitalism
Feminism Is Incompatible With Capitalism
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been getting some pretty bad press after his rather strange comments on equal pay. Nadella remarked that women shouldn’t ask for a raise but should just wait for the system to reward them with ‘good karma’. Nadella has since backtracked but the...
Amit Singh · 4,461 views · 19%
16 Reasons Why Opening Our Borders Makes More Sense Than Militarizing Them
16 Reasons Why Opening Our Borders Makes More Sense Than Militarizing Them
What would happen if the United States suddenly stopped building walls and instead flung open its borders, not unlike the European Union has done among the member countries of the common market? Conservatives malign the notion and liberals, even radical ones, haven't exactly...
Roque Planas · 4,387 views · 88%
Noam Chomsky's Roadmap to a Just World: People Reanimating Democracy
Noam Chomsky's Roadmap to a Just World: People Reanimating Democracy
Noam ChomskyI'd like to comment on topics that I think should regularly be on the front pages but are not - and in many crucial cases are scarcely mentioned at all or are presented in ways that seem to me deceptive because they're framed almost reflexively in terms of...
Noam Chomsky · 4,370 views · 75%
Make the Rich Panic
Make the Rich Panic
It does not matter to the corporate rich who wins the presidential election. It does not matter who is elected to Congress. The rich have the power. They throw money at their favorites the way a gambler puts cash on his favorite horse. Money has replaced the vote. The wealthy...
Chris Hedges · 4,341 views · 100%
7 Immigration Myths Busted by The UK Humanitarian Intervention Party (UKHIP)
7 Immigration Myths Busted by The UK Humanitarian Intervention Party (UKHIP)
They’re stealing our benefits! Let's make this absolutely clear with a quote from the House of Commons: "Asylum seekers are not eligible for mainstream welfare benefits whilst waiting for a decision on their asylum application." Asylum seekers can apply f
UKHIP · 4,275 views · unrated
Realize Your Potential: Occupy is a Consciousness-Expanding Phenomenon
Realize Your Potential: Occupy is a Consciousness-Expanding Phenomenon
The global Occupy movement is much more than an economic or political movement. Occupy is a consciousness-expanding phenomenon.
David DeGraw · 4,240 views · 100%
Does 9/11 Truth Have A Chance?
Does 9/11 Truth Have A Chance?
In the US on September 11, 2011, the tenth anniversary of 9/11, politicians and their presstitute media presented Americans with "A Day of Remembrance," a propaganda exercise that hardened the 9/11 lies into dogma. Meanwhile, in Toronto, Canada, at Ryerson University the...
Paul Craig Roberts · 4,225 views · 88%
How Science Is Telling Us All To Revolt
How Science Is Telling Us All To Revolt
In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held annually in San Francisco. This year’s conference had some big-name...
Naomi Klein · 4,203 views · 100%
Decentralize Big-Retail: How to Uproot Walmart & Bring Jobs Back Home
Decentralize Big-Retail: How to Uproot Walmart & Bring Jobs Back Home
In many towns across America, Walmart, or a similar mega-retailer, is the only option you have when you need (almost) anything. Big-retail is a monopoly in its truest form and it has become so, not through "free market" economics, technological innovation, supply and demand...
LocalOrg · 4,148 views · 75%
A Circle of Gifts
A Circle of Gifts
Wherever I go and ask people what is missing from their lives, the most common answer (if they are not impoverished or seriously ill) is “community.” What happened to community, and why don’t we have it any more? There are many reasons – the layout of suburbia, the...
Charles Eisenstein · 4,134 views · unrated
How Mainstream Is Bernie Sanders?
How Mainstream Is Bernie Sanders?
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the presidential candidate for the Democratic nomination, has trouble being taken seriously by the corporate media, what with him being a democratic socialist and all. If you go to Google News and put in his name, you get headlines about him being...
Juan Cole · 4,112 views · 100%
Gentrification's Insidious Violence: The Truth about American cities
Gentrification's Insidious Violence: The Truth about American cities
Too many claim white people are at risk in communities of color. Really, it's those communities that are threatened. A few years back, when I was still a paramedic, we picked up a white guy who had been pistol whipped during a home invasion in Williamsburg. “I can’t believe...
Daniel José Older · 4,053 views · unrated
Clone of Blood Brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West
Clone of Blood Brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West
The Saudi regime; a champion human rights violator; provides much of the world’s oil and a booming market for arms trading nations. It also supplies the ideology (and more?) that fuels al-Qaeda and ISIS. But the kingdom’s rich cloak of immunity may be wearing thin.
The New Internationalist Team · 4,051 views · unrated
We Know Nature Makes Us Happier. Now Science Says It Makes Us Kinder Too
We Know Nature Makes Us Happier. Now Science Says It Makes Us Kinder Too
New studies show being in nature may increase your willingness to be generous, trusting, and helpful toward others.
Jill Suttie · 4,048 views · 100%
Paul Watson: If the Ocean Dies, We Die!
Paul Watson: If the Ocean Dies, We Die!
If the ocean dies, we all die. Why?
Paul Watson · 4,022 views · 75%
Pentagon Papers Whistleblowers, 9/11 Commissioners Themselves Call for a New 9/11 Investigation
Pentagon Papers Whistleblowers, 9/11 Commissioners Themselves Call for a New 9/11 Investigation
The two main players in releasing the Pentagon Papers were Daniel Ellsberg and United States Senator Mike Gravel.
Washington's Blog · 3,996 views · 100%
How the "Just World" Hypothesis Explains the Perpetuation of Victim-Blaming by Elites and Regular People
How the "Just World" Hypothesis Explains the Perpetuation of Victim-Blaming by Elites and Regular People
Victim-blaming is rife in today’s world. Claiming benefits? You’re called a scrounger. Fleeing war? You’ll be criticised for spoiling someone’s holiday. Suffer from mental health problems? Maybe
George West · 3,933 views · 100%
US Diplomacy and America's "Enablers of Terror"
US Diplomacy and America's "Enablers of Terror"
“Indeed, I asked myself, how could this happen, how could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction.” – Hilary Clinton, US Secretary of State [1] The recent armed attack on a lightly defe
Nile Bowie · 3,860 views · 75%
Causes, Deep Causes, and Solutions to the Economic and Environmental Crisis of Our Time
Causes, Deep Causes, and Solutions to the Economic and Environmental Crisis of Our Time
I. The Real Cause of the Present Crisis
David Schweickart · 3,815 views · unrated
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