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The ruling elites, despite the accelerating and tangible ecological collapse, mollify us, either by meaningless gestures or denial.
Chris Hedges
9 min
Amidst mass protests against their US-backed dictator, Abby Martin covers how the US Empire has determined the destiny of the Haitian people for generations.
14 min
What is the State's role? How does its theoretical purpose compare to its actions in reality? In this episode, Second Thought considers the role of the modern state and evaluates whether it's fulfilling its stated duty to the people.
489 min
Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World is a six-part series that explores how modern society has arrived to the strange place it is today.
The Democrats and Republicans have legalized a level of greed and fraud that even heirs of the robber barons thought unsustainable.
Chris Hedges
27 min
Abby Martin and Mike Prysner bring you up to date about the DC Capital attack with shocking new details about the seriousness of the operation, the depths of the inside job, and who from the government may land in prison for it (including Trump). Brian Becker, host of The...
32 min
The events of January 6th have gotten plenty of news coverage, but there's been very little actual analysis. In this episode, I do my best to explain the Capitol Hill riot, who was responsible, why it happened, and what it means for the country going forward.
8 min
Who is the better anti-war choice? Abby Martin settles the score.
15 min
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, author and activist Chris Hedges discusses modern-day consumerism, totalitarian corporate power, and living in a culture dominated by pervasive illusion.
119 min
Author, activist and dissident Chris Hedges spoke at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on October 16, 2020. In this talk he examines the cultural and social forces that have given rise to extremism in the United States. He explores the myriad of factors that led...
Is the old world really dying while the new one struggles to be born? Or does it merely mutate, gorging on technology and the intensification of social fear?
Antoni Aguiló
At a time when paramilitary units snatch nonviolent protesters from the streets of big American cities and when even Fox News has finally begun to apply scrutiny on the occupant of the White House, seeing much of the New Age scene convert into the latest constituency for...
37 min
Abby Martin covers the whole truth about the Afghanistan War, from the CIA construct of the 80's through 2020's senseless stalemate. Two decades, three administrations, tens of thousands of lives; it's time to #EndTheForeverWar.
A terrifying new website recently opened up: ArmyForTrump.com
A letter to white people from a white person.
25 min
Marine Corps infantryman turned anti-war activist John Motter tells Abby Martin the hidden reality of the endless Afghanistan War.
20 min
In 2018, the Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific, hosted the Melanesian Arts & Cultural Festival, celebrating the country’s fortieth anniversary of independence.
16 min
Abby Martin breaks down all the hidden acts of US foreign policy aggression under the cover of the COVID19 pandemic.
There is only one choice in this election. The consolidation of oligarchic power under Donald Trump or the consolidation of oligarchic power under Joe Biden.
Chris Hedges
Trump has shown that he understands who his real and most powerful base is—the billionaire class—ever since his election.
Paul Street
The fascists and plutocrats are not just coming... they are already here.
Peter Bloom
The culture wars give the oligarchs, both Democrats and Republicans, the cover to continue the pillage.
Chris Hedges
There is no more daunting and dangerous duo in U.S. politics than the profits-over-people corporate wing of the Democratic Party and the belligerent, bigoted, and brutal Republican Party of Donald Trump.
Roy Eidelson
Capital is coordinated and globalized. Our struggles against injustice and oppression must be the same.
Noam Chomsky, Paul Shannon, Charles Derber and Suren Moodliar
A CEMETERY SEEMED AN ODD PLACE to contemplate the boundaries of being. Sandwiched between the campus and the interstate, this old burial ground is our cherished slice of nearby nature where the long dead are silent companions to college students wandering the hilly paths...
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Divide-and-conquer allows the oligarchy free rein. It makes the rest of us puppets, fighting each other on a made-up stage.
Robert Reich
5 min
As Canada prepares to violently invade our lands, we have no fear. We are peacefully living on our lands and upholding our laws, as we always have.
“There’s another word for lesser evilism. It’s called rationality. Lesser evilism is not an illusion, it’s a rational position. But you don’t stop with lesser evilism. You begin with it, to prevent the worst, and then you go on to deal with the fundamental roots of what’s...
Noam Chomsky and Robert Scheer and Natasha Hakimi Zapata
51 min
Abby Martin sits down with Dan Kovalik, human rights attorney and author of the book “The Plot to Attack Iran,” to discuss the context of Trump’s recent attacks, the most common myths about the country, and the history
51 min
Abby Martin is joined by legendary British-Iraqi rapper and political activist Lowkey. They discuss the recent election loss by Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party but go beyond the headlines, discussing the legacy of the British Empire, neoliberal austerity, how the military...
When Hurricane Dorian made landfall on Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas on Sept. 1, 2019, it packed winds of up to 185 miles per hour and a 20-foot storm surge. A day later, it ravaged Grand Bahama for 24 hours.
Jason von Meding, David Prevatt and Ksenia Chmutina
32 min
In this video we compile excerpts of interviews that we conducted from 2018 to 2019 pertaining to the extradition case of Julian Assange and the implications it has on press freedoms and democracy. This compilation includes analyses from Abby Martin, Jill Stein, Yanis...
44 min
In this interview we talk to a former U.S military analyst of the RAND corporation and whistleblower of the Pentagon papers, Daniel Ellsberg, about his personal journey and why he decided to blow the whistle in 1971. Furthermore we delve into his recent book “The Doomsday...
We must organize to replace existing structures of power with ones capable of coping with the crisis before us.
Chris Hedges
40 min
The global expanse of US military bases is well-known; but it's actual territorial empire is largely hidden. The true map of America is not taught in our schools. Abby Martin interviews history Professor Daniel Immerwahr about his new book, 'How To Hide An Empire,' where he...
The following is an email interview with author and activist, Danny Haiphong, regarding the current state of capitalism, US politics, and his new book, American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News-From the Revolutionary War to the War on...
LONDON—On Friday morning I was in a small courtroom at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. Julian Assange, held in Belmarsh Prison and dressed in a pale-blue prison shirt, appeared on a video screen directly in front of me. Assange, his gray hair and beard neatly...
Chris Hedges
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...
Jordan Engel
3 min
Robert Reich explains why American democracy has become an oligarchy.
Tom Friedman and Steve Bannon are, as usual, wrong. Hardship in the United States can’t be blamed on China’s “economic war” on democracy. It’s the fault of American corporations and elites.
Nicole M. Aschoff
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
Where is the clear image of a decolonized society we are to emulate? There isn’t one. Yet if we are to free ourselves, we need practical steps.
Steven Newcomb
39 min
On the eve of another US war for oil, Abby Martin debunks the most repeated myths about Venezuela and uncovers how US sanctions are crimes against humanity with UN Investigator and Human Rights Rapporteur Alfred De Zayas. Transcript and resources available at Media Roots.
28 min
Abby Martin interviews former Technical Director of the National Security Agency, Bill Binney, who blew the whistle on warrantless spying years before Edward Snowden released the evidence. They discuss the US empire's mass surveillance program and dangers of the Intelligence...
“I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world” ― Sukarno, the first President of Indonesia
6 min
George Monbiot on the true and bloody legacy of Christopher Columbus
30 min
Chris Hedges speaks about his new book, "America, the Farewell Tour."
(Excerpts from the keynote speech given by Professor William Robinson at the Nov 18 L.A.
William I. Robinson
One cannot serve both the one percent and the 99 percent as their interests are at odds with each other. Although many join for righteous reasons, actions speak louder than intentions. Actions of the U.S. military has always been death, destruction, anguish of the working...
Will Griffin
Neoliberalism transforms freedom for the many into freedom for the few. Its logical result is neofascism.
Chris Hedges
Allow me to begin by stating an anthropological and genetic fact. Any conversation about so called “American” nationalism must begin with the story of human migration itself, which is a story that started in Africa: the one place where all humanity can affirm a shared genesis...
George Cassidy Payne
53 min
Since October 2017, America experienced three of the deadliest mass shootings in modern history. This epidemic coincides with a frightening resurgence of white nationalism. Sometimes the two trends overlap. But why here? Both phenomena can be explained by a common historical...
23 min
Watch the entire TED Talk with Julian Assange in Part 2.
79 min
At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secret jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and...
4 min
The American fairytale is far from enchanted. Power and wealth are concentrated in an anxious aristocracy, comprised of 10% of the population, that reigns by dividing the lower classes and pitting them against each other so that the poor turn against the poor. It’s how most...
70 min
The Other Slavery examines the expansive system of bondage that targeted between 2.5 and 5 million Native Americans throughout the hemisphere in the centuries between the arrival of Columbus and the beginning of the 20th century. In contrast to African slavery, which targeted...
10 min
The sanctity of the Second Amendment for all Americans is a myth. It is a myth today and it has been a myth from the beginning. Gun rights in this country were forged on the idea that white people had the right to take native people's land by the barrel of the gun. They were...
Babies in cages were no ‘mistake’ by Trump but test-marketing for barbarism
Fintan O’Toole
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
Aisha Dodwell
The persecution of Julian Assange must end. Or it will end in tragedy.
John Pilger
29 min
On the 6th of May 2018, acTVism Munich organized an event with Glenn Greenwald, Jill Stein & Abby Martin under the title “Freedom & Democracy: Global Issues in Context 2.0″.
How the U.S. military takes the world through the Gates of Hell
Tom Engelhardt
Let me present five signs of a hypocrisy, a fraud-in-the-making:
Sasha Abramsky
In my Situational Assessment: 2017, I quoted a post from Reddit:
“The Blue Church is panicking because they’ve just witnessed the birth of a new Red Religion. Not
Jordan Hall
Randomly shooting into crowds is more than just threatening people with death. It is a means of terrorizing the dissidents.
Juan Cole
Beware the architects of our neofeudalism calling on the government to pay a guaranteed basic income
Chris Hedges
Nonrepresentative Democracy at the Dark Heart of Globalization
Brent Cooper
18 min
This Zero Books video looks at Mark Fisher's book Capitalist Realism, but is mostly a response to Jordan Peterson's lecture on Political Correctness for The Speakers Action Group.
10 min
This video will ask the question “Do we live in a patriarchy?” In order to answer the question we examine the ideas of three different cultural critics: Angela Nagle, Jordan Peterson, and Nina Power.
In 2015, I took a swing at assessing the shape and state of our global challenges. Looking back, that essay is still well worth a read, but it is high time for an update.
While many things have changed in the world in t
Jordan Hall
26 min
There are 26 registered lobbyists for every elected representative on the Hill, with experts suggesting the true amount is closer to 100,000.
There was indeed a foreigner responsible for the election of Donald J. Trump in 2016. This is not an “allegation” or a supposition or any kind of “conspiracy theory;” it is a confirmed fact, backed up by reams and reams of documented evidence. The culpable foreigner was not...
Chris Floyd
The wealthy have taken everything from us, and continue to find ways to take even more. It is never enough for them. And, year after year, their political puppets in both capitalist parties ensure that their rivers and avenues of unfathomable, flowing wealth never dry up or...
The problem with Donald Trump is not that he is imbecilic and inept—it is that he has surrendered total power to the oligarchic and military elites. They get what they want. They do what they want. Although the president is a one-man wrecking crew aimed at democratic norms...
Chris Hedges
Scream about the debt and deficit. Then shrink revenue by slashing taxes and spend a ton of money on wars of choice. Repeat.
Ben Schreiner
26 min
Learn what fascism is, how fascists think, and what arguments motivate fascists to action. Based on the works of Robert Paxton, including "The Anatomy of Fascism" and "The Five Stages of Fascism." Once you know the mobilizing passions, the prevalence of fascist rhetoric and...
24 min
On the streets of Jerusalem, Abby Martin interviews Jewish Israeli citizens from all walks of life. In several candid interviews, disturbing comments reveal commonly-held views about Palestinians and their future in the region.
How many times will we rebuild Florida’s cities, Houston, coastal New Jersey, New Orleans and other population centers ravaged by storms lethally intensified by global warming? At what point, surveying the devastation and knowing more is inevitable, will we walk away, leaving...
Chris Hedges
90 min
For the past 150 years, the relationship between Tuhoe and the New Zealand government has been defined by longstanding grievances over severe colonization experiences such as illegal land confiscations and the devastating consequences of scorched earth policies. Then, in 2014...
4 min
40 performers in donald trump masks unveil a new australian flag and hold a mock press conference to wipe out the PARIS AGREEMENT on climate change. Complete footage including aerials of this extraordinary public art performance. At Australia's coal capital, Newcastle, 4th...
One of the most emotional and difficult topics in contemporary discourse is the history of slavery and its lingering legacy. A common proposal for addressing slavery is reparations, compensatory payments to the descendants of Africans who had been enslaved as part of the...
Vishal Wilde
In an explosive interview to New Internationalist, the Kurdish female leader Bese Hozat opens up about peace, the party’s view on the region and the independence referendum in South Kurdistan, and accuses Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the West to have incubated Isis.
Karlos Zurutuza.
Just another clicktivist petition pushed by corporate NGOs with no connection to grassroots struggle? Not this time – West Papuans are risking beatings, arrest, and even death to sign a petition for their right to self-determination, coordinated with international support...
Connor Woodman
Trump's "plan" for America's longest war will almost certainly increase terrorism and cause civilian deaths to skyrocket, analysts argued
Jake Johnson
12 min
Dr. Gerald Horne holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations and war...
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...
Whitney Webb
22 min
Abby Martin talks to Venezuelans on the streets of Caracas and investigates the main claim that there's no free press, and that there is no food in the supermarkets.
Using hidden cameras, she takes you through local grocery stores and the underground black market currency...
By directly challenging white supremacy, racism and imperialism, Colin Kaepernick is making himself a household name for all the right reasons. And the NFL, its billionaire owners and the corporate errand boys of sports journalism simply cannot stand it.
Eric Draitser
“It was almost as if the earth was opening up and swallowing Black farmers.”
Julian Cola
6 min
How did he do it? And what led to this incredible victory for humanity? It's a story for the ages...
Intrigued? This clip is just an excerpt from the full movie. If you want to take things back to the very beginning, you can watch the full 30 minute movie here.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.[1]
We live on the Earth as part...
Paul Kivel
How Americans remember (and forget) their wars
John Dower
But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no reason to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves, like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose, they could blow the party to pieces tomorrow morning. ...
Joe Carpenter
27 min
Out of the periphery of most online users, there’s a vast, hidden space used by people who want to remain anonymous, which filmmaker Alex Winter explores in his documentary Deep Web. The film focuses on the Silk Road, a black market hosted on the Darknet using bitcoin...
33 min
This fantastic and entertaining documentary (full of biting satirical commentary) imagines what would happen if decades of neoliberal austerity in the UK was reversed by the democratic socialist programs of Jeremy Corbyn, who in an alternate timeline became the greatest Prime...
“When you left London the East India Company was a trading company,” Tom Hardy’s troubled anti-hero James Delaney is warned in the second episode of the BBC’s prime-time drama Taboo. “Now it is God Almighty.” Discussing the show before it aired, writer Stephen Knight referred...
Andrea Major
New research shows that developing countries send trillions of dollars more to the west than the other way around. Why?
Jason Hickel
27 min
With all the discussion of the contentious 2016 election, the most shocking fact is often ignored: that millions of people had their votes stolen through malicious means. The Republican Party is currently working to purge millions more voters leading up to the 2018...
23 min
Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is an internationally-recognized human rights crime—but those being impacted are harshly punished for not only acts of resistance, but even mere advocacy for their rights.
Getting detailed facts about Israel’s imposition of Military Law...