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Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet
Just 100 companies are responsible for more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988. The guys who run those companies – and they are mostly guys – have gotten rich on the backs of literally all life on Earth. Their business model relies on the destruction...
The Faux Revolution of Mindfulness
McMindfulness is the new capitalist spirituality.
Omnipotent Amazon
No company stores more data than Amazon, the former online bookseller. Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has become the richest man in the world. Every second Euro in online trading is spent at Amazon. Is the IT giant, with its unabated growth, about to turn our economic system upside...
How Corporations Shifted The Blame For Climate Change
How corporations convinced the public to blame themselves rather than the 100 companies most responsible. 
Controlling 5G: A Course in Obstacles
Across the United States, telecom providers have begun mapping their plans to deploy 5G “small,” microwave-emitting cellular sites throughout neighborhoods. Every person deserves to be informed about what’s happening and what’s within every household’s ability to control.
Is 5G Worth the Risks?
This article was originally published on the Economics of Happiness Blog.
A Real Solution to Money in Politics! with James D'Angelo
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 ▶https://twitter.com/0rf ▶https://medium.com/@0rf...
Growthism: Its Ecological, Economic and Ethical Limits
We have many problems – poverty, unemployment, environmental destruction, climate change, financial instability, etc. – but only one solution for everything, namely economic growth. We believe that growth is the costless, win-win solution to all problems, or at least the...
The Problem Isn't Robots Taking Our Jobs. It's Oligarchs Taking Our Power
Training for the jobs of the future keeps workers trapped as long as workers can't shape how technology is used and who profits from it
The Business Class Wants You to Hate the Government Because It Has a Defect | Noam Chomsky
"Business leaders and elite intellectuals recognized that the public had won enough rights so that they can't be controlled by force, so it would be necessary to turn to control of attitudes and opinions...
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty
Abundant Land is a one-hour documentary about a Hawaiian community on Moloka’i opposing the biotech industry’s use of the island to test genetically engineered seeds. Agrochemical biotech corporations, including Monsanto and Mycogen Seeds, are depleting Moloka’i’s topsoil and...
Education, Jobs and Capitalism
American capitalism has a hate-love relationship with the nation’s schools. On the “hate” side is a stream of complaints from business leaders and organizations about the many students, particularly in city schools, who fail achievement tests, are high school dropouts or, if...
Robert Reich: Why We Must Get Big Money Out of Politics
Robert Reich explains why we must limit the influence of donors and lobbyists on Washington.
Nothing To Hide
NOTHING TO HIDE questions the growing, puzzling and passive public acceptance of massive corporate and governmental incursions into individual and group privacy and rights. People generally agree that mass surveillance regimes are inherently invasive and authoritarian. Yet at...
Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism
Neoliberalism transforms freedom for the many into freedom for the few. Its logical result is neofascism.
The Monsanto Papers
The Monsanto Papers investigates the secret tactics used by global chemical giant #Monsanto to protect its billion-dollar business and its star product, the weed killer, #Roundup.
Trump is a Symptom, Not the Problem
Check out the Jimmy Dore Show.
To Leave or Remain: Dichotomy or Distraction?
Ever since the Brexit referendum was first announced, we have been bombarded by an array of starkly contradictory pronouncements – from the Leave camp’s now infamous claim that withdrawal from the EU would release £350 million a week for the NHS to the former Chancellor...
Our Current Leadership Is Unsustainable
Environmentally, socially and psychologically our society is unsustainable. If consumption continues to increase at current rates, by 2050 we will need 3 Earths to sustain us (United Nations, 2015). Socially, income inequality is at the highest level in 50 years in OECD...
Ceos Vs. Workers
“People in a sense are disposable. We work somebody to the point of no return, and we get rid of them and get somebody else in. It’s not a culture where people are respected, are nourished. We have to ask ourselves if that’s the kind of economic culture we are comfortable...
Dark Money
Coming to theaters this summer. DARK MONEY, a political thriller, examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana—a frontline in the...
7 Reasons Why We Should Have Open Borders
Let’s be honest, most people are already in favour of free movement – at least for themselves. Aisha Dodwell explains why we should extend it to everyone
How Marlboro Changed Advertising Forever
Sell an identity, not a product.
Corporate Jargon - Lying by Obscurity, Obscuring to Hide Corruption
It's not accidental or because they are stupid. Its often confusing and vague on purpose. Some of the greatest corruption scandals in history have happened thanks to jargon.
How Lobbyists Weaponized Transparency
There are 26 registered lobbyists for every elected representative on the Hill, with experts suggesting the true amount is closer to 100,000.
Technology and Its Discontents
Questioning the pro-digital consensus
Class Wars: the Working Class Strikes Back
Neoliberalism is a mature stage of capitalism - a reciprocal process of concentrated wealth taking control of the public agenda via government. Capitalist economists like Milton Friedman were instrumental in paving the way for neoliberalism. The idea gained prominence in...
Up To The Last Drop: The Secret Water War in Europe
As Europe is going through a crisis that is not solely economical but also a crisis of moral values, millions of European citizens demand a response to a crucial question: is water for the European Union a commercial product or a human right? Until today, the European...
Defend the Sacred
Capturing the heart of a movement that is constantly evolving is difficult. How do you capture Spirit?
When We Fight, We Win
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
Why Libertarians Must Deny Climate Change, in One Short Take
I must applaud Matt Bruenig's summing up of the inherent conflict between libertarianism and environmental issues
The 10 Step Scheme for One-Sided Class War
Scream about the debt and deficit. Then shrink revenue by slashing taxes and spend a ton of money on wars of choice. Repeat.
AI Has Already Taken Over - It's Called the Corporation
Futurists warning about the threats of AI are looking in the wrong place. Humanity is already facing an existential threat from an artificial intelligence we created hundreds of years ago. It’s called the Corporation.
Death & Biostitutes - The US Opioid Crisis
A new phenomenon has emerged in the United States: 64,000 people died in 2016 of a drug overdose—with 80% from opioids—with levels of addiction nearly 500% higher over the last six years.
The Illusionists
The Illusionists examines how global advertising firms, mass media, and the beauty, fashion, and cosmetic-surgery industries have together colonised the way people all around the world define beauty and see themselves. Taking us from Harvard to the halls of the Louvre, from a...
What The Health
What the Health is the groundbreaking follow-up film from the creators of the award-winning documentary Cowspiracy. The film exposes the collusion and corruption in government and big business that is costing us trillions of healthcare dollars, and keeping us sick.
What Would the Black Panthers Think of Black Lives Matter?
The black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws—racism, poverty, militarism, and materialism. It is exposing evils that are rooted deeply in the whole structure of our society. It reveals...
The NFL Has Always Been Political
Those who decry the “politicization of sports” are only mad that it’s black athletes now.
Violent American History You Didn't Learn in School
Chuck Keeney interview on the Battle of Blair Mountain, Mine Wars, "The Matewan Massacre," & the other origin of the term "Rednecks." Watch Plutocracy if you're interested to learn more. 
Globalization's Blowback
Before casting the blame for our environmental ills on countries like China, we would do well to reflect on who is truly responsible.
War, Profiteering Push Over 2 Billion to Lack Safe Drinking Water
A new UN report has found that two billion people around the world do not have access to clean drinking water. However, the report covers just a small part of the global population and fails to address the impact that war and corporate profiteering have had on drinking water...
Nation "Too Broke" for Universal Healthcare to Spend $406 Billion on F-35
There always another $27 billion or lying around, it seems, when Lockheed Martin needs more money for expensive weapons system
Beneath Dramatic G20 Clashes, a Deep Demand for a Better World
Tens of thousands descend on Hamburg, challenging policies put forth by Trump-type nationalists and Europe's neoliberals elites
Stop the Greedy Clown!
We can't let huge corporations continue to underpay our friends and families! Today, May 23, is the day before their annual shareholder meeting-- where they make the key decisions that will impact workers across the nation for the next year. Make sure McDonald's hears you...
Nature Verses the Pesticide Industry
The European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) are the largest pro-pesticide lobby. This joyous action by EZLN targets their offices in Brussels. We Are Nature Defending Itself!
Noam Chomsky: "Every Word in the Phrase 'Free Trade Agreement' Is Just False"
Noam Chomsky talks to acTVism Munich about Free Trade Agreements such as TTIP; TPP and NAFTA. 
'An Idea Whose Time Has Come': Lawmakers Roll Out Plan to Expand Worker Ownership
'Giving workers a seat at the table and their fair share of the profits they help produce is one way to even up the playing field and give hardworking Americans a chance to create an economy that works for everyone'
How Taxpayer Money Provides the Research for Big Pharma
Public money and public universities boost Big Pharma’s profits, so shouldn’t the public be able to afford the drugs?
Big Pharma's Pollution Is Creating Deadly Superbugs While the World Looks the Other Way
Environmental standards do not feature in international regulations governing drug production
We the People 2.0
We the People is a visual essay about the loss of democracy in the United States. The film utillizes both original footage as well as found footage to describe a profound change in thinking at the grassroots level. The story unfolds through the eyes of rural people who have...
How The Free Market Really Works
An example of how the Free Market functions, taken from the book titled 'The New Human Rights Movement,' written by Peter Joseph. 
Real Value
Award-winning filmmaker Jesse Borkowski delivers a refreshing meditation on how business can be used to create value beyond profit; connecting motivational stories from social entrepreneurs working in agriculture, apparel, insurance, and biofuel, with the captivating science...
Inside Unilever's Sustainability Myth
Unilever is regarded as a champion of sustainability. According to CEO Paul Polman, what benefits the company also benefits the earth. But when US competitor Heinz Kraft tried to take over the company, Unilever changed its short-term strategy. Dutch Investigative journalism...
A “Political” Program for Anarchists
Many anarchists oppose in principle such use of the political process for anarchist ends. It is unethical, they say, for anarchists to participate in the political process. Voting entails selecting a representative to exercise coercive force in our name; and appealing to such...
The Truth About the Mcdonald's Coffee Lawsuit
Only a clown would serve coffee heated to 190 degrees! Find out what really happened in the infamous Mcdonald's coffee lawsuit.
Where the Term "Redneck" Came From
If you don't know this story, you'll never look at the word the same again.  This is just a window into the sometimes shocking, subversive and untold history of the United States, from the film Plutocracy by Scott Noble. Watch the full documentary online here (free).
Why Are My Highly Educated Friends So Ignorant About Trade?
Trump is a disaster, but so was the TPP
Trump's Populist Deceit
We must not let authoritarians co-opt the language of people's movements for their own ends.