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The Revolution Is Acceptance
The Revolution Is Acceptance
"Waiting for some distant point in the future when we're all magically agreeing with one another to begin working together, is like deciding to climb Mount Everest on the condition that we'll help each other only after we've reached the top."
David Heaps · 4,049 views · 88%
Minister No More!
Minister No More!
The referendum of 5th July will stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage.
Yanis Varoufakis · 3,847 views · 99%
Talking Shop with Bernie Sanders and Killer Mike 55 min
Talking Shop with Bernie Sanders and Killer Mike
On November 23rd, 2015, Killer Mike sat down with Senator Bernie Sanders at The SWAG Shop in Atlanta, GA to discuss topics ranging from gun control to democratic socialism.
3,723 views · 100%
The 'Anti-Knowledge' of the Elites
The 'Anti-Knowledge' of the Elites
It’s fairly easy to spot the “anti-knowledge” spouted by the Tea Party and the Religious Right’s favorite candidates, but a more subtle form of reality-deprived “group think” pervades America’s elites though it is rarely noted in the polite circles of the mainstream media.
Mike Lofgren · 3,230 views · unrated
Overworked? Underpaid?
Overworked? Underpaid?
We’re all feeling the squeeze.  What can we do? ORGANIZE!
Workers Power · 3,205 views · unrated
Why Hope Has Power in This Gut-Wrenching Election Year
Why Hope Has Power in This Gut-Wrenching Election Year
Cynicism and despair are among democracy’s worst enemies.
Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen · 2,891 views · 88%
We Can't Transform American Politics Till We Understand the Psychodynamics at Play
We Can't Transform American Politics Till We Understand the Psychodynamics at Play
I’m republishing this article I wrote a few months before the 2016 election because it contains an analysis which is absolutely essential for anyone who wishes to participate in transforming American political, economic, social, cultural and intellectual reality. Some of it...
Rabbi Michael Lerner · 2,863 views · 100%
A Goal and Strategy for Anarchism
A Goal and Strategy for Anarchism
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 · 2,806 views · 100%
The "No Illusions" Guide to Elections: Vote to Choose Your Opponent, Then Organize!
The "No Illusions" Guide to Elections: Vote to Choose Your Opponent, Then Organize!
This guide is for people who are ambivalent about voting in elections. It directly addresses the objections of the "don't vote" position while finding common ground. To summarize the position of this guide: "Year-round activism + voting" is the best strategy for creating the...
Tim Hjersted · 2,791 views · 100%
The "Dark Ads" Election: How Are Political Parties Targeting You on Facebook?
The "Dark Ads" Election: How Are Political Parties Targeting You on Facebook?
The Facebook election battle is in full swing, the Bureau can reveal, with at least 68 different types of political adverts tailored to individual social media users being paid for by the three main parties in the last month. The Bureau has been given access to the first...
Maeve McClenaghan · 2,628 views · unrated
Bernie Sanders Is the Unity Candidate
Bernie Sanders Is the Unity Candidate
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 · 2,469 views · unrated
Riots Work: Wolf Blitzer and the Washington Post Completely Missed the Real Lesson from Baltimore
Riots Work: Wolf Blitzer and the Washington Post Completely Missed the Real Lesson from Baltimore
The police—not to mention capitalism—have done far more to damage Baltimore than any riot could When Oscar Grant was shot by transit cop Johannes Mehserle in Oakland in the early hours of January 1, 2009, a week passed with no institutional response, while videos of Grant’s...
George Ciccariello-Maher · 2,264 views · 88%
Reflections From a Walk With a White Identitarian
Reflections From a Walk With a White Identitarian
In response to past essays I’ve written on identity politics, I’ve been asked to provide a deeper analysis of how identity politics function outside the liberal politics I have so far focused on. For the most part–likely owing to the divisiveness so present in this country–my...
Pat Mosley · 1,943 views · 50%
How the Left Can Stop Arguing and Beat Trump
How the Left Can Stop Arguing and Beat Trump
Progressives need to fight for their values in a smarter, more inclusive way
Emily Crockett · 1,930 views · unrated
The Rising Tide of the Populist Right
The Rising Tide of the Populist Right
In the Americas, the Trump tsunami has swept across both continents and the “pink tide” of progressivism has all but disappeared from the southern half of the hemisphere. In Europe, with the
John Feffer · 1,899 views · 46%
How to Fight Fascism From a Position of Strength
How to Fight Fascism From a Position of Strength
The growth of white supremacy and fascism has been noticeable in a number of countries lately, prompting the question: What can we learn from each other? Each country might find “best practices” elsewhere that could be applied at home, in addition to learning from its own...
George Lakey · 1,821 views · unrated
What Happens in November
What Happens in November
In the fall of 2009, I interviewed a Holocaust survivor from the Lodz ghetto. As a young girl, she had seen her whole family lined up and executed by a Nazi firing squad in a spray of machine gun fire, alongside hundreds of the people she had grown up with.
Matthew R. Bishop · 1,569 views · 100%
Noam Chomsky: Notion of Elite Guardian Class Dates Back to Founding of US
Noam Chomsky: Notion of Elite Guardian Class Dates Back to Founding of US
Noam Chomsky explores the possibilities for a better human society in What Kind of Creatures Are We?, a collection of lectures bringing together his areas of expertise from language and mind to society and politics. This book serves as both a concise summation of Chomsky's...
Noam Chomsky · 1,554 views · unrated
As Coronavirus Opens the Door to Big Changes, the Left's Most Attractive Vision Faces Pushback
As Coronavirus Opens the Door to Big Changes, the Left's Most Attractive Vision Faces Pushback
For many Americans, it’s time for a system change along the lines of the Nordic model. This has the political establishment deeply worried.
George Lakey · 1,405 views · unrated
Imperialists in Congress Unite! No Gridlock for Sanctions and War
Imperialists in Congress Unite! No Gridlock for Sanctions and War
The U.S. Congress does not suffer from endless gridlock as some of the banal liberal pundits and commentators moan about.
Brian Becker · 1,177 views · unrated
You're Not Voting for Hillary to Protect Me
You're Not Voting for Hillary to Protect Me
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 · 1,055 views · 100%
Radical Hope: Life During the Climate Apocalypse
Radical Hope: Life During the Climate Apocalypse
Global organizer Joshua Kahn Russell on the shifting terrain of climate justice, the need for spiritual perspective in the movement, and learning to love contradiction in the age of Bernie and Trump.
David Olson · 962 views · unrated
Lessons in Resistance From MLK, the 'Conservative Militant'
Lessons in Resistance From MLK, the 'Conservative Militant'
Just days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, activists from Greenpeace climbed up a large construction crane near the White House and unfurled a large banner with the single word: Resist.
Christopher Beem · 910 views · unrated
A Definitive Guide to Exactly What Is Going on in the US Elections! Sort Of.
A Definitive Guide to Exactly What Is Going on in the US Elections! Sort Of.
How Do Bourgeois Democratic Elections in the US Work? A decade and a half into the 21st century, the answer is that they work badly. Very badly. The basic function of the government—what Marx called the general staff of the capitalist class--in bourgeois democracies is to...
Jimmy Higgins · 809 views · unrated
How to Stop Worrying and Enjoy the Show; Or, Holding HRC's Feet to the Fire
How to Stop Worrying and Enjoy the Show; Or, Holding HRC's Feet to the Fire
There's a simple solution: it's called the future.
Liam Miller · 387 views · 75%
The Town Where Everyone Got Free Money
The Town Where Everyone Got Free Money
The motto of Dauphin, Manitoba, a small farming town in the middle of Canada, is “everything you deserve.” What a citizen deserves, and what effects those deserts have, was a question at the heart of a 40-year-old experiment that has lately become a focal point in a debate...
Whitney Mallett · 2,528,916 views · 95%
I'm Arab and Many of Us Are Glad That Trump Won
I'm Arab and Many of Us Are Glad That Trump Won
It’s not that we see Trump any differently. Trump is an egotistical racist misogynist who, in a rational world, shouldn’t be in any position of power. Then again, neither should Hillary Clinton. We watched from afar (as ‘afar’ as the internet allows anyhow) as the 2016...
Omar Kamel · 211,953 views · 82%
A World War Has Begun - Break The Silence
A World War Has Begun - Break The Silence
I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask, "Where is that?" If I offer a clue by referring to "Bikini", they say, "You mean the swimsuit."
John Pilger · 174,923 views · 99%
We Are The People of the Apocalypse
We Are The People of the Apocalypse
As growth-driven consumer culture spurs on planetary destruction, why don’t we spring into action? Psychologist John F Schumaker says a frightening erosion of human personality lies at the heart of the problem.
John F. Schumaker · 101,892 views · 97%
How Norway Avoided Becoming a Fascist State
How Norway Avoided Becoming a Fascist State
Instead of falling to the Nazi party, Norway broke through to a social democracy. Their history shows us polarization is nothing to despair over.
George Lakey · 77,249 views · 94%
Sanders Supporters Need to Engage Now More Than Ever
Sanders Supporters Need to Engage Now More Than Ever
Simply put: if Sanders arrives at the convention with more pledged delegates than Clinton, the Democratic Party will be forced to nominate him. Right now, it is clear that neither Bernie Sanders nor Hillary Clinton will get enough pledged delegates to seal up the...
Liam Miller · 72,243 views · 62%
The Elites That Gutted America Now Dare To Ring Alarms About Trump And Cast Themselves as Saviors
The Elites That Gutted America Now Dare To Ring Alarms About Trump And Cast Themselves as Saviors
Both parties ignored workers, spewed hate, enriched themselves, hollowed out democracy. Now the problem's populism?
Anis Shivani · 66,525 views · 88%
Shocking New Report: Bombing People Causes People to Hate You
Shocking New Report: Bombing People Causes People to Hate You
You better sit down for this one because it will blow your mind. You are probably aware that we on a global quest to rid the world of Evil, one smart-bomb at a time. Yet, for some strange reason, every place that we bomb Evil into oblivion seems to become more messed up than...
gjohnsit · 43,764 views · 100%
Sanders Campaign's Commitment to Victory Irritates Media, Offends Clinton Campaign
Sanders Campaign's Commitment to Victory Irritates Media, Offends Clinton Campaign
Once again, for the umpteenth time in the Democratic presidential primary, there is a dominant narrative in the establishment news media that it is over for Bernie Sanders. News outlets have crunched the numbers, again, and after the loss to Hillary Clinton in New York...
Kevin Gosztola · 37,223 views · 100%
The Hopeful Thing About Our Ugly, Painful Polarization
The Hopeful Thing About Our Ugly, Painful Polarization
Look to Norway and Sweden, where cooperative, socially democratic countries emerged after a frightening period of extreme polarization and social fracturing.
George Lakey · 32,489 views · unrated
The Trap of Righteousness
The Trap of Righteousness
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. —Goethe
Charles Eisenstein · 32,262 views · 97%
Bernie Sanders Is Our Last Chance
Bernie Sanders Is Our Last Chance
“We won’t see a presidential candidate like Bernie again in our lifetimes.” As I heard these words, spoken by a woman at a Sanders campaign event recently, I felt a chill go through me. Because I knew she was right. We won’t.
John Sanbonmatsu · 30,325 views · 98%
25 Reasons I Won't Vote for Hillary Because I Don't Vote for Republicans
25 Reasons I Won't Vote for Hillary Because I Don't Vote for Republicans
I've voted Democrat all my life because I hold progressive positions on civil rights, health care, foreign policy, criminal justice and the environment. That gives me plenty of reasons to not vote Republican.
Russ Belville · 30,183 views · 91%
Why We Should Give Free Money to Everyone
Why We Should Give Free Money to Everyone
London, May 2009.  A small experiment involving thirteen homeless men takes off. They are street veterans. Some of them have been sleeping on the cold tiles of The Square Mile, the financial center of the world, for more than forty years. Their presence is far from...
Rutger Bregman · 27,719 views · 95%
9/11 History Timeline: A 25 Page Summary from Verified Mainstream News Reports
9/11 History Timeline: A 25 Page Summary from Verified Mainstream News Reports
The 9/11 attack was one of the most pivotal events in world history. Its impact will be felt for years to come. You owe it to yourself to go beyond the sound bites and the simplified official story. This is an extremely complicated story with numerous players and motives. The...
Paul Thomson · 26,322 views · 100%
Sex, Lies and America's Deplorable Democracy
Sex, Lies and America's Deplorable Democracy
The country’s political system is increasing rotting from the outside in and the inside out—a disintegration exemplified by the respective nomination of these two candidates who represent the worst qualities of modern America.
Peter Bloom · 25,302 views · 100%
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) · 24,382 views · 100%
For Those Who Don't Want to Vote for the Lesser of Two Evils
For Those Who Don't Want to Vote for the Lesser of Two Evils
Ranked-choice voting is catching on, and Maine might become the first state to help citizens vote for candidates they actually want.
Peter White · 24,328 views · 75%
Post-Brexit, The Far Right Could Easily Ascend to Power, But There's One Way We Can Prevent That
Post-Brexit, The Far Right Could Easily Ascend to Power, But There's One Way We Can Prevent That
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 · 24,170 views · 75%
Obama's Hidden Role in Worsening Climate Change
Obama's Hidden Role in Worsening Climate Change
It should be a scandal that leftists-liberals paint Trump as a special threat, a war mongerer – not Obama who is the first president to be at war everyday of his eight years, who is waging seven wars at present, who dropped three bombs an hour, 24 hours a day, the entire...
Stansfield Smith · 23,402 views · 88%
Bernie Vs. Hillary: What's a Feminist to Do?
Bernie Vs. Hillary: What's a Feminist to Do?
America's Only Elected Female Socialist on Women and the Presidential Race
Kshama Sawant · 21,397 views · 100%
Lawrence Lessig Keynote at the National Conference on Media Reform 28 min
Lawrence Lessig Keynote at the National Conference on Media Reform
Keynote by Lawrence Lessig at the NCMR on June 6, 2008, framing the argument for CHANGE CONGRESS. One of our favorite speeches from the conference. Change Congress is a national movement to end corruption in America's congress. The initiative is organizing citizens to push...
lessig · 21,005 views · unrated
On Trump: an Open Letter to the Brokenhearted
On Trump: an Open Letter to the Brokenhearted
"To those of you that care about diversity, about the environment, about the beauty of queer sexual orientations, about indigenous lands and their right to thrive, and about policing practices that have led to the deaths of many black men and women...I write." How do we...
Adebayo Akomolafe · 18,512 views · 100%
It's Time to Admit That Toxic Masculinity Drives Gun Violence
It's Time to Admit That Toxic Masculinity Drives Gun Violence
Our national attachment to dominance models of manhood is a major reason why we have so much violence.
Amanda Marcotte · 18,189 views · -12%
Speak Up: How to Respond to Everyday Bigotry
Speak Up: How to Respond to Everyday Bigotry
The Southern Poverty Law Center gathered hundreds of stories of everyday bigotry from people across the United States. They told their stories through e-mail, personal interviews and at roundtable discussions in four cities. People spoke about encounters in stores and...
SPLC · 16,487 views · unrated
How a Trump Presidency Would Unleash a Torrent of Racist Violence-And Devastate the Left
How a Trump Presidency Would Unleash a Torrent of Racist Violence-And Devastate the Left
The Left should take the Trump threat very seriously.
Arun Gupta · 16,477 views · 100%
Ideological Hegemony: How Our Own Thoughts Became the Greatest Weapon of the Ruling Class
Ideological Hegemony: How Our Own Thoughts Became the Greatest Weapon of the Ruling Class
"Ideological hegemony is the process by which the exploited come to view the world through a conceptual framework provided to them by their exploiters." - Kevin A. Carson
Tim Hjersted · 16,070 views · 83%
Anonymous Declares War On The Koch Bros.
Anonymous Declares War On The Koch Bros.
Dear Citizens of the United States of America,
Anonymous · 15,719 views · 100%
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 · 14,518 views · 88%
A Timeline of Climate Change Denial and the Special Interests that Have Funded It
A Timeline of Climate Change Denial and the Special Interests that Have Funded It
HistoryCommons.org has compiled an incredible historic resource that documents the rise and escalation of the climate denial industry over the last 15 years. Without editorializing the content, these articles summarize 178 headlines (often with multiple news article sources...
HistoryCommons.org · 14,075 views · 100%
Americanism Personified: Why Fascism Has Always Been an Inevitable Outcome of the American Project
Americanism Personified: Why Fascism Has Always Been an Inevitable Outcome of the American Project
"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 · 13,938 views · 88%
The Anarchist Revolt Against the Ideology of Not Voting Is Finally Taking Shape
The Anarchist Revolt Against the Ideology of Not Voting Is Finally Taking Shape
Anarchists have traditionally opposed voting for a variety of ideological reasons. For many, not voting is held as a badge of honor - a way of signaling one's commitment to anarchist theory. I've often thought that this belief in not voting almost represents a sort of relig
Tim Hjersted · 13,772 views · 100%
Erased by False Victory: Obama Hasn't Stopped DAPL
Erased by False Victory: Obama Hasn't Stopped DAPL
All Native struggles in the United States are a struggle against erasure. The poisoning of our land, the theft of our children, the state violence committed against us — we are forced to not only live in opposition to thes
Kelly Hayes · 13,306 views · 100%
We Want a Political Revolution. First We Must Defeat Fascism.
We Want a Political Revolution. First We Must Defeat Fascism.
The insurgent Bernie Sanders campaign was a big step forward in building the progressive populist political alignment we need. We have to figure out how to keep building after this election cycle. But first we must mobilize to defeat hate, bigotry, and the growing threat of...
Jonathan Matthew Smucker · 13,054 views · 100%
Why Trump Voters Are Not "Complete Idiots"
Why Trump Voters Are Not "Complete Idiots"
A common trope when trying to understand voters who vote differently from you is to simply call them idiots. This is particularly true this year, when discussing Trump voters. The most aggressive (and IMO offensive example of this) is by Jon
Chris Arnade · 12,781 views · 83%
Another Neocon Endorses Clinton, Calling Her "2016's Real Conservative" and "The Candidate of the Status Quo"
Another Neocon Endorses Clinton, Calling Her "2016's Real Conservative" and "The Candidate of the Status Quo"
Wall Street has thrown its weight behind Hillary Clinton. Some of the biggest names in the U.S. right-wing establishment have also
Ben Norton · 12,485 views · unrated
Once People Feel the Bern... The Fire Will Not Go Out
Once People Feel the Bern... The Fire Will Not Go Out
Exactly how will the wealthy and powerful who are the political establishment in this country put out the fire that this campaign has ignited?
Donna Smith · 12,056 views · 50%
Getting Free: Creating an Association of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods
Getting Free: Creating an Association of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods
The main purpose of this book is to try to persuade revolutionaries to shift the sites of the anticapitalist struggle and to select new battlefields. I identify three strategic sites for fighting - neighborhoods, workplaces, and households - that I believe will not only...
James Herod · 11,921 views · 75%
Seize The Moment: This Is Our Chance to Corbynize This Trumped Up World
Seize The Moment: This Is Our Chance to Corbynize This Trumped Up World
The world needs an actual popular elected response to US aggression against the world’s poor and the earth’s climate.
David Swanson · 11,870 views · unrated
Bernie Sanders & Cornel West: The Radical Alliance That Could Change Everything
Bernie Sanders & Cornel West: The Radical Alliance That Could Change Everything
As the democratic socialist from Vermont tries to do the impossible, the firebrand academic could help.
Matthew Pulver · 11,579 views · 100%
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. · 10,792 views · 75%
History Doesn't Go In a Straight Line
History Doesn't Go In a Straight Line
Noam Chomsky on Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, and the potential for ordinary people to make radical change.
Noam Chomsky · 10,453 views · 94%
It's Official! You're On Your Own
It's Official! You're On Your Own
Some of us have known this for a long time.  Some of us just found out and some will find out very soon.  There are few, if any,  elected officials who really care about our interests unless we're one of the few thousand ultra rich who control  Congress and the White House.
Michael Collins · 10,145 views · unrated
Understanding Trump's Game Plan in Portland Could Be the Key to Preventing a Coup in November
Understanding Trump's Game Plan in Portland Could Be the Key to Preventing a Coup in November
Defeating Trump’s “law and order” strategy will mean creating a plan to win based on our strengths and his weaknesses.
George Lakey · 9,895 views · unrated
The Political Revolution Doesn't End Today. It Is Merely Entering a New Phase.
The Political Revolution Doesn't End Today. It Is Merely Entering a New Phase.
People for Bernie’s statement on Bernie Sanders endorsement
People For Bernie · 9,885 views · 62%
Ending Racism by Creating a Society Where Humiliation is Replaced by Empathy, Love, Generosity and Mutual-Recognition
Ending Racism by Creating a Society Where Humiliation is Replaced by Empathy, Love, Generosity and Mutual-Recognition
Racism is the demeaning of an entire group of people and refusing to see them as fully human in the way we see ourselves and those we deem to be “like” us. When we fail to see the “other’s” humanity, we ascribe to all of them ugly characteristics that somehow justify treating...
Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis · 9,785 views · 81%
Trump Is the Symptom, Not the Disease
Trump Is the Symptom, Not the Disease
The persecution of Mumia Abu-Jamal, MOVE members and all the radicals of four decades ago is not ancient history. It is the genesis of the present.
Chris Hedges · 9,607 views · 100%
Six Principles for Resisting the Presidency of Donald Trump
Six Principles for Resisting the Presidency of Donald Trump
Drawing from the Beautiful Trouble and Beautiful Rising toolboxes, here are six key concepts that may prove useful to movements preparing to resist Donald Trump’s presidency.
The Beautiful Trouble Team · 9,524 views · unrated
How to Take on Fascism Without Getting Played
How to Take on Fascism Without Getting Played
The smartest thing the Swedish and Norwegian left did was to avoid getting baited by their Nazi antagonists into street-fighting and mounting chaos. Instead, they modeled self-discipline and used the disruptive, nonviolent power of noncooperation to force a power shift.
George Lakey · 9,326 views · 75%
Coronavirus and Climate Activism: Five Common Lessons
Coronavirus and Climate Activism: Five Common Lessons
The pandemic is a testing ground for how to address the climate crisis, and vice-versa.
Nadia Colburn · 8,130 views · unrated
Clinton's F-You to Progressives: This Is How Trump Could Become President
Clinton's F-You to Progressives: This Is How Trump Could Become President
Nominating a political clone like Sen. Tim Kaine is exactly the wrong thing to do if you want a higher turnout
John Atcheson · 7,862 views · unrated
Some Forbidden Thoughts on Marathon Bombing
Some Forbidden Thoughts on Marathon Bombing
The Boston Marathon bombing’s cruel use of a second bomb, designed to harm anyone assisting those injured by the first, reminded me of the “Collateral Murder” video, which depicted U.S. military helicopters first gunning down a group of mostly unarmed men (including two...
Ken Klippenstein · 7,848 views · 88%
How Seattle Voted to Tax the Rich
How Seattle Voted to Tax the Rich
Seattle further cemented its reputation as one of the most progressive cities in the U.S. last week, when its City Council passed a law to tax the rich, sponsored by socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant along with Councilmember Lisa Herbold. The law places a 2.25% tax...
Adam Ziemkowski and Rebekah Liebermann · 7,458 views · unrated
The Senate Corporate Bailout Package Is a 'Robbery in Progress' Warn Critics
The Senate Corporate Bailout Package Is a 'Robbery in Progress' Warn Critics
"We can call it a bailout. But this is so big it is more like Congress is creating a new government for our economy, replacing our old government. And this one doesn't have any meaningful democratic protections. A pandemic coup." —Zephyr Teachout, Fordham Law
Jake Johnson · 7,223 views · unrated
We Are All Human: 10 Labels We Need to Stop Using to Describe People
We Are All Human: 10 Labels We Need to Stop Using to Describe People
Humans have an innate desire to place labels on everything. Labels give people a sense of order, and a way of distinguishing things.
John Haltiwanger · 7,126 views · 88%
Bernie Sanders Has a Secret Weapon, and the Media Elites Just Don't Get It
Bernie Sanders Has a Secret Weapon, and the Media Elites Just Don't Get It
Americans are a people for whom ideology matters a lot less than speaking plainly and sticking by your beliefs.
Mark Hertsgaard · 7,079 views · 94%
Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination and the Coming American Rebellion – We Are Egypt
Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination and the Coming American Rebellion – We Are Egypt
Editor’s Note: The following report includes adapted excerpts from David DeGraw’s book, “The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III.”
David DeGraw · 6,966 views · 100%
The New 'Black Codes'
The New 'Black Codes'
The elites are acutely aware that without police terror and the U.S. prison system, which holds 25% of the world’s prison population, there would be intense social unrest.
Chris Hedges · 6,881 views · 38%
Why Climate Change Science Is So Threatening to Right-Wing Ideologues
Why Climate Change Science Is So Threatening to Right-Wing Ideologues
Unless we come up with some better solutions Klein says, "this crisis will be exploited to militarize our societies, to create fortress continents." AMY GOODMAN: Our guest for the hour is Naomi Klein, journalist and author. Her latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of...
Naomi Klein · 6,837 views · unrated
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 · 6,648 views · 81%
Top 25 Protest Albums of the 2010S (So Far)
Top 25 Protest Albums of the 2010S (So Far)
The following list is aimed at putting to rest the notion that there is an absence of protest music or a lack of protest bands or singers. Many of the bands and singers are largely unknown and mostly do independent work. It is our hope that we might be introducing you to...
Kevin Gosztola · 6,639 views · 100%
20 Supporters of Universal Basic Income Throughout History
20 Supporters of Universal Basic Income Throughout History
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 · 6,636 views · 75%
So This Is What It Looks Like When the Corporate Media Opposes a War
So This Is What It Looks Like When the Corporate Media Opposes a War
Major American media outlets oppose military aggression... unless the United States is doing it.
Jeff Cohen · 6,506 views · unrated
Legalize Local Investing
Legalize Local Investing
I personally support the spirit of Occupy Wall Street, especially the spotlight it has cast on the shocking level of inequality in our country. But the movement oddly conveys a very mainstream message that Wall Street can and should be fixed. Just clean up our existing...
Michael Shuman · 6,423 views · 100%
Black Thinkers Like Bernie Sanders. They've Studied the Clintons' True Cost.
Black Thinkers Like Bernie Sanders. They've Studied the Clintons' True Cost.
The director Spike Lee endorsed the Vermont senator on Tuesday. He’s the latest in a series of black intellectuals to recognise Sanders’ superiority over Clinton
Steven W Thrasher · 6,342 views · 88%
Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy: “To Destroy This Invisible Government”
Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy: “To Destroy This Invisible Government”
“To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We must think beyond those who have gone before us, and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways to act in...
Zunguzungu · 6,181 views · 100%
The Speech Racists Didn't Want You to Hear
The Speech Racists Didn't Want You to Hear
Fox News tried to intimidate Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor from speaking. Now we're printing her words in full.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · 6,090 views · unrated
Paris Is Being Used to Justify Agendas That Had Nothing to Do With the Attack
Paris Is Being Used to Justify Agendas That Had Nothing to Do With the Attack
The Paris attackers weren’t Syrian, and they didn’t use encryption, but the US government is still using the carnage to justify attempts to ban them both
Trevor Timm · 5,947 views · 81%
What If Gun Laws Were Like Abortion Laws?
What If Gun Laws Were Like Abortion Laws?
What would gun rights look like in America if we treated them like abortion rights? The Supreme Court has ruled that owning guns and getting abortions are both rights granted to Americans, but the laws governing each are remarkably different. Republicans are the primary...
William Hamby · 5,893 views · 96%
Fake News: Sensibly Navigating the Information Highway
Fake News: Sensibly Navigating the Information Highway
Many people are telling us who to believe and who not to believe using lists of “fake news” outlets that  inevitably encourage censorship, yet there is a much more sensible way to approach the issue. Humans live their lives based on stories, we make choices based on beliefs...
Jacob Devaney · 5,854 views · 94%
The Day After
The Day After
Or, how to stop worrying and love staving off the dystopian nightmare that threatens.
Liam Miller · 5,811 views · 88%
The Radical Left Has Bernie Sanders All Wrong
The Radical Left Has Bernie Sanders All Wrong
While mainstream Dems debate realism vs. idealism, another set of the left is having an entirely different debate
Josh Fattal · 5,606 views · 100%
The American Anti-Corruption Act is Historic Legislation that will Finally Get Money Out of Politics
The American Anti-Corruption Act is Historic Legislation that will Finally Get Money Out of Politics
The American Anti-Corruption Act was just unveiled. It's a gamechanging law that gets money out of politics, for good. In order to pass it, we need a million people to add their names as "Citizen Co-Sponsors." Will you add your name now to help put the pressure on Congress?
Represent Us · 5,589 views · 100%
Our Kills are Clean and Secular; Theirs are Messy and Religious.
Our Kills are Clean and Secular; Theirs are Messy and Religious.
Our kills are clean and secular; theirs are messy and religious. “In their effort to create a caliphate across parts of Iraq and Syria,” CNN tells us, “ISIS fighters have slaughtered civilians as they take over cities in both countries. “In Syria, the group put some of its...
Robert Koehler · 5,521 views · 100%
Breaking With Consensus Reality: From the Politics of Consent to the Seduction of Revolution
Breaking With Consensus Reality: From the Politics of Consent to the Seduction of Revolution
We who fight to create a freer world face a fundamental contradiction. On one hand, we don’t want to become a vanguard, “leading” or imposing our will on others, as that would run counter to our anti-authoritarian values. On the other hand, we believe with good justification...
Terror Incognita · 5,514 views · 88%
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