Globalization's Discontents | Joe Stiglitz

The promise of globalization is built on a lie, designed to spread risk while concentrating reward. Joe Stiglitz digs into why so many economists and policymakers have twisted the facts in support of this form of globalization.

4 min · 986 views · unrated

What is Work? | Nancy Folbre

What counts as work and what doesn't? Nancy Folbre shows how nearly half of all work done in this country is ignored by economists. She argues that we need to create better measures of non-market income, consumption and investment.

4 min · 1,438 views · unrated

Halting Hades: the Moral Imperative (2017) ($3)

Filmmaker, Scott Danville creates a film, Halting Hades: The Moral Imperative, documenting the the science, politics, and economics of the world's most important issue, climate change, and the factors that will lead to a revolution through the intersection of science and...

63 min · 2,960 views · 75%

Living in the Web of Soft Climate Denial

Posted on September 7, 2016

Michael Hoexter, Ph.D. · 200 views · unrated

Politics are Polarized, But Not for the Reason You Think | Robert Reich

In the last 50 years, Robert Reich has moved further to the left of center without changing his political views at all. How? The right has moved dangerously close to fascism.

3 min · 5,938 views · 100%

Socialism Fear-mongering is Bananas | Robert Reich

Medicare for All - “That’s socialism!” Social Security - “That’s socialism!” Debt free education - “That’s socialism!” $886 billion defense budget - “That’s just how it is!”

5 min · 632 views · unrated

Inequality for All Turns 10: Has the Movie’s Warning Come True? | Robert Reich

In the 10 years since we made Inequality for All, inequality has surged. Yet I have hope for the future:

6 min · 997 views · unrated

What If We Stopped Making So Much Stuff?

A growing portion of climate activists and policy makers argue that reducing global economic activity - or degrowth - is the only way to save the planet. But critics say increasing economic growth ensures human well-being. Who’s right?

12 min · 332 views · unrated

The War on Thinking in America (2025)

Why does America distrust experts and celebrate ignorance? From Hofstadter to Postman to Jacoby, this video explores how anti-intellectualism shaped U.S. culture turning politics into entertainment, worshipping technology, and making truth optional. - SPARKUP

58 min · 707 views · unrated

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

People are beginning to understand that something is fundamentally wrong, and that minor tinkering with the current system is not the answer. A critical mass is ready for fundamental change: what they need is a clear explanation of the root cause of the crises we face, and...

Helena Norberg-Hodge · 16,093 views · 100%

Lean Logic: a Dictionary for the Future

Excerpts from the late David Fleming’s 'Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It', chosen by the book’s editor, Shaun Chamberlin.

David Fleming & Shaun Chamberlin · 286 views · unrated

Michael Hoexter: Politically Fashionable Carbon Gradualism Vs. Reality | Naked Capitalism

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Yves Smith

Michael F. Hoexter · 189 views · unrated

Make Earth Great Again: a Manifesto for Ecological Democracy

Make Earth Great Again (MEGA) exists to support and amplify the movements that are actively working towards a just, regenerative, free and egalitarian world. MEGA seeks to reclaim the Earth from corporate globalization and create a society that honors all beings on the...

Films For Action · 852 views · 100%

Life Inc.

In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from a convenient legal fiction to the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of...

9 min · 8,057 views · 92%

Black Gold: Your Coffee Will Never Taste The Same Again (trailer)

Black Gold follows an Ethiopian coffee producer's epic journey around the world as he attempts to get a fair price for his high quality coffee. The film highlights that the solution for Africa is in equitable TRADE and NOT AID.

2 min · 19,668 views · 100%

Why Government is More Afraid of Debt than Depression

University of Missouri Kansas City economics professor Michael Hudson compares the behavior of Wall Street to a parasite on the U.S. economy.

10 min · 5,544 views · unrated

Capital is Powerful, Not Rational

Professor Panitch puts the current economic events into historical context.

14 min · 3,024 views · unrated

16 Corporations or We the People?

Please note that the rapid increase in the national debt started in the 1980's, when we began allowing large corporations to contribute less than their share. With income levels for We the People stagnant — actually, after taxes, our income has decreased during this period —...

3 min · 40,851 views · 92%

Ghetto Physics (trailer)

Ghetto Physics: Will the Real Pimps and Ho's Please Stand Up! examines the interplay between Pimps and Ho's and how that dynamic is the simplest expression of how power is wielded in the world. Through examples culled from the Hood to Wall Street, the film shows how the same...

2 min · 9,672 views · 81%

The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2011

2011 will likely be remembered in America as the year that the nation's youth finally started to wake up - all that bubbling knowledge of the world's problems, all the discontent and disillusion with our broken system finally burst into a flurry of creative action. Our...

Tim Hjersted · 40,768 views · 100%

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