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Our Way of Life Works AMAZING for Products, But It Works TERRIBLE for People
Our Way of Life Works AMAZING for Products, But It Works TERRIBLE for People
The Human Future - A Problem In Design
Daniel Quinn · 27,942 views · 100%
Noam Chomsky: 'Their' Terrorism versus 'Our' Terrorism
Noam Chomsky: 'Their' Terrorism versus 'Our' Terrorism
After the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, which killed 12 people including the editor and four other cartoonists, and the murder of four Jews at a kosher supermarket shortly after, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared "a war against terrorism, against jihadism...
Noam Chomsky · 22,846 views · 92%
Trump: a Catalyst for the Peace Movement?
Trump: a Catalyst for the Peace Movement?
Donald Trump is the commander-in-chief of the biggest military force on Earth. There's no societal power above him, that's why he can do whatever he wants. What does he want? Or does he, perhaps, not have any own will, and is steered by other powers?
Dr. Dieter Duhm · 18,751 views · 75%
A Burning Question: Propaganda & The Denial Of Climate Change 52 min
A Burning Question: Propaganda & The Denial Of Climate Change (trailer)
Climate change has been hailed as "the biggest challenge to mankind in human history" and has also been called "the biggest swindle". Today many people are confused as to what climate change is and what consequences lie ahead for Ireland in the near and distant future. In...
16,992 views · 96%
The Trouble With Equality: Feminism and the Forgotten Places of Power
The Trouble With Equality: Feminism and the Forgotten Places of Power
"...Patriarchy is not the rule of men over women, it's the rule of the binary - the insistence that there really are sides, and that each is a pre-existing category unto itself, fixed and hallowed, one superior to another."
Adebayo Akomolafe · 16,480 views · 100%
Tears of Gaza 81 min
Tears of Gaza (2010) ($2)
Disturbing, powerful and emotionally devastating, Tears of Gaza is less a conventional documentary than a record–presented with minimal gloss – of the 2008 to 2009 bombing of Gaza by the Israeli military. Photographed by several Palestinian cameramen both during and after the...
15,433 views · 75%
Wanderers 3 min
Wanderers
Wanderers is a short science fiction film by Erik Wernquist - a digital artist and animator from Stockholm, Sweden. The film is a vision of our humanity's future expansion into the Solar System. Although admittedly speculative, the visuals in the film are all based on...
Erik Wernquist · 14,956 views · 88%
Treeline: A Story Written in Rings 41 min
Treeline: A Story Written in Rings (2018)
Throughout history, as entire civilizations have withered and mankind has continued to move at a breathless pace, the trees have remained. For some, these trees harbor the secrets to longevity. For others, they provide clear evidence of our journey across lifetimes and the...
14,228 views · 72%
Six Steps Short of War to Beat ISIS
Six Steps Short of War to Beat ISIS
Weakening ISIS requires eroding the support it relies on from tribal leaders, military figures, and ordinary Iraqi Sunnis. Here's how to do it without bombs.
Phyllis Bennis · 13,898 views · 81%
One Insidious Myth Prevents Peace in Gaza
One Insidious Myth Prevents Peace in Gaza
There’s really only one myth that needs busting and it’s this: “Violence is justifiable” Media frame violent conflict to reinforce certain biases and myths, emphasizing some facts and omitting others to produce compelling, narratives. Good guys and bad guys are crafted and...
Erin Niemela · 11,375 views · 88%
The Creed of Objectivity Killed The News
The Creed of Objectivity Killed The News
The creed of objectivity and balance, formulated at the beginning of the 19th century by newspaper owners to generate greater profits from advertisers, disarms and cripples the press. This abject moral failing has left the growing numbers of Americans shunted aside by our...
Chris Hedges · 11,239 views · 100%
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 · 9,782 views · 81%
How to Overthrow the Illuminati
How to Overthrow the Illuminati
This pamphlet gives an excellent analysis and debunking of conspiracy theories and proposes a practical alternative for emancipation.
Will, Chino, Saudade, Mamos · 9,123 views · 88%
Reimagining Feminism
Reimagining Feminism
Every morning I read my one-year-old daughter a fabulous children's alphabet book. When we get to the letter F, it goes "F is for Feminist, Fairness in our Pay." Of course a children's book is limited in its ability to express nuanced layers of analysis, but I often wonder...
Harsha Walia · 8,626 views · 88%
How Black Lives Don't Matter in Israel 25 min
How Black Lives Don't Matter in Israel
While the Israeli state espouses multiculturalism and diversity, it oppresses not just the Palestinian population, but also any Black person within its borders.  From warehousing African asylum seekers in giant prison camps, to criminalizing and carrying out eugenics...
Empire Files · 8,413 views · unrated
Is Television Making Us Stupid?
Is Television Making Us Stupid?
"I wasn't worried about freedom. I was worried about people being turned into morons by TV." -- Ray Bradbury in 2001 talking about his book Fahrenheit 451
Ron Kaufman · 8,292 views · 88%
Barack Obama VS Those Craaaazy Republicans: Is He the Lesser Evil, or the More Effective Evil?
Barack Obama VS Those Craaaazy Republicans: Is He the Lesser Evil, or the More Effective Evil?
The last refuge of Obamaphiles is that no matter how many times the First Black President double-crosses us by cutting Medicare and Medicaid, no matter how completely be betrays his voters by ignoring black unemployment, by deporting one million Latinos, by protecting the...
Bruce A. Dixon · 7,756 views · 100%
A Decolonial Critique of the Concept of White Privilege: Why Injustice Is Not a Privilege
A Decolonial Critique of the Concept of White Privilege: Why Injustice Is Not a Privilege
Introduction Many progressive people use the concept of “white privilege” to analyze racism. Critique is an essential component of decolonial knowledge production. It is a way of improving our theoretical and activist work. A decolonial critique looks at the concept from the...
Sandew Hira · 7,552 views · unrated
How the BBC is re-writing history in its reporting of Israel's assault on Gaza
How the BBC is re-writing history in its reporting of Israel's assault on Gaza
The BBC News, and particularly the reports from Diplomatic Correspondent Jonathan Marcus, on the ongoing Israeli military attacks on the Gaza Strip has presented the violence as little more than a defensive policy manoeuvre by Israel, whose government, in Marcus's view...
The Editors · 7,237 views · 100%
Rupert Murdoch and the Israeli Genie
Rupert Murdoch and the Israeli Genie
Rupert Murdoch and Lord Jacob Rothschild are major shareholders in and members of the Strategic Advisory Board of Genie Energy. Israel has granted Genie oil exploration in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Genie plans to drill 10 exploratory wells over three years there...
Michael Dickinson · 6,910 views · 69%
The Happiness Conspiracy
The Happiness Conspiracy
What does it mean to be happy in a modern consumer society? John F Schumaker argues that our entire socio-economic system is designed to spew out citizens eternally in search of satisfaction.
John Schumaker · 6,256 views · 100%
Decrying "Brutal Operation Taking Place In Our Name," Israeli Military Reservists Refuse to Serve
Decrying "Brutal Operation Taking Place In Our Name," Israeli Military Reservists Refuse to Serve
As Israel pledges to continue the assault on Gaza for "as long as is required," we are joined by two Israelis who have refused to serve in their country’s military reserves.
Amy Goodman · 6,119 views · 88%
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 · 5,773 views · unrated
Exit Through the Gift Shop (trailer) 2 min
Exit Through the Gift Shop (trailer)
This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world's most infamous...
5,069 views · 75%
What Motivates Anti-US 'Terrorism'? The Same Thing Is Cited Over and Over
What Motivates Anti-US 'Terrorism'? The Same Thing Is Cited Over and Over
News reports purporting to describe what Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told US interrogators should, for several reasons, be taken with a huge grain of salt. The sources for this information are anonymous, they work for the US government, the statements were obtained with no lawyer...
Glenn Greenwald · 4,984 views · 100%
How Can the Crisis of Our Time Be Turned Into a Great Love Story?
How Can the Crisis of Our Time Be Turned Into a Great Love Story?
“The future belongs to the most compelling story.”— Drew DellingerHumans are story-makers — we are continually weaving disparate events into coherent narratives. It gives form and substance to our life journey; it gives us meaning. At any given moment, we are making choices...
Velcrow Ripper · 4,532 views · 88%
The Pimps of War
The Pimps of War
The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a war with Russia.
Chris Hedges · 3,871 views · 88%
In Whose Interest? The Corporate Influence Behind US Foreign Policy 27 min
In Whose Interest? The Corporate Influence Behind US Foreign Policy
America claims to promote freedom and democracy abroad but does history really support this rhetoric? US involvement in places like Vietnam or Guatemala indicate that the main factors motivating American foreign policy are economic concerns.
3,791 views · 100%
The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange
The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange
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 · 3,494 views · unrated
Military “Service” Serves the Ruling Class
Military “Service” Serves the Ruling Class
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 · 3,486 views · 75%
Queer Anti-War Activists Challenge Military Inclusion
Queer Anti-War Activists Challenge Military Inclusion
Is all inclusion good inclusion?
Toshio Meronek · 3,478 views · unrated
Alternatives to War from the Bottom Up
Alternatives to War from the Bottom Up
MORE THAN AT ANY OTHER time in history, a strong case can be made on pragmatic, utilitarian grounds that war is no longer necessary. Nonviolent statecraft need not be the dream of pacifists and dreamy idealists. It is within our reach. Simply opposing war and documenting its...
Stephen Zunes · 3,379 views · unrated
New York Times Rewrites Gaza Headline: Was It Too Accurate?
New York Times Rewrites Gaza Headline: Was It Too Accurate?
Wednesday (7/16/14)  the
Peter Hart · 3,214 views · 100%
The Left Is the New Right, the Right Is the Old Right
The Left Is the New Right, the Right Is the Old Right
I didn’t pay much attention to Jordan Peterson when I first heard about him. The standard line on Peterson among liberals and leftists was that he is yet another right-wing hero of young, white men, but less extreme than those on the full-fledged alt-right. While this may be...
Vincent Kelley · 3,041 views · 94%
Can We Talk About Sustainability Without Talking about Religion and Spirituality?
Can We Talk About Sustainability Without Talking about Religion and Spirituality?
It would seem there are certain strands of thought within many religions that are highly unsustainable, for the health of individuals, society and the planet as a whole.
Tim Hjersted · 3,026 views · 100%
Beyond Violence and Nonviolence
Beyond Violence and Nonviolence
The rise of fascism has injected new venom into an old debate, preventing activists from seeing movement strategy clearly.
Ben Case · 2,693 views · 100%
WALLS 6 min
WALLS
A short film dealing with the energy generated through human confrontations with walls.  The urge for freedom and fulfillment is just as human as the urge to build walls for everyday order.  Three individuals in different countries are struggling under this tension - and...
I AM HERE · 2,603 views · 62%
Which Syrian Chemical Attack Account Is More Credible?
Which Syrian Chemical Attack Account Is More Credible?
Let's compare a couple of accounts of the mass deaths apparently caused by chemical weapons in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta on August 21. One account comes from the U.S. government (
Jim Naureckas · 2,237 views · unrated
A Welcome Democratic Stand on Guns, but Are These the Bills We're Looking For?
A Welcome Democratic Stand on Guns, but Are These the Bills We're Looking For?
The historic sit-in in the House is impressive to behold, but the two proposals the Democrats are demanding a vote on are very problematic
Phyllis Bennis · 2,208 views · unrated
The Market Theocracy
The Market Theocracy
The Handmaid’s Tale is less a dystopian nightmare about Trump’s America than a comforting fiction we tell ourselves.
Angela Nagle · 2,139 views · unrated
Shut Down Canada Until It Solves Its War, Oil, and Genocide Problem
Shut Down Canada Until It Solves Its War, Oil, and Genocide Problem
Indigenous people in Canada are giving the world a demonstration of the power of nonviolent action. The justness of their cause — defending the land from those who would destroy it for short term profit and the elimination of a habitable climate on earth — combined with their...
David Swanson · 2,083 views · unrated
What a Bernie Sanders Presidency Would Look Like
What a Bernie Sanders Presidency Would Look Like
We have a decade to transform the US economy to stave off climate catastrophe, and Bernie Sanders has the only agenda to do so and the only mobilization strategy to get it done. No plan for a better future is worthwhile if environmental crisis renders our future unimaginably...
Daniel Denvir · 1,996 views · unrated
The Incomprehensible Idea: What Opposing All Wars Means
The Incomprehensible Idea: What Opposing All Wars Means
The world’s two big nuclear militaries are in the same war now in Syria and, if not on opposite sides exactly, certainly not on the same side. A primary, if not the primary, goal of the United States in Syria is overthrowing the Syrian government. A primary, if not the...
David Swanson · 1,865 views · 88%
Eternal Fascism and the Southern Ideology
Eternal Fascism and the Southern Ideology
Umberto Eco's 1995 essay "Ur-Fascism" informally outlines the most striking qualities of fascistic theory and practice. It remains one of the most popular tool-kits for intellectuals in discovering where the barbarity of fascism might once again materialize, for Eco was...
Jeremy Brunger · 1,564 views · 75%
Occupied Pleasures 1 min
Occupied Pleasures
More than four million Palestinians live in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, where the political situation regularly intrudes upon the most mundane of moments. Movement is circumscribed and the threat of violence often hangs overhead. This creates the strongest of...
1,540 views · 50%
Nonviolent Communication with Marshall Rosenberg: A Brief Introduction 11 min
Nonviolent Communication with Marshall Rosenberg: A Brief Introduction
Marshall Rosenberg, PhD effectively mediated conflicts throughout the world for more than 40 years. His method, Nonviolent Communication, has brought together warring factions as diverse as Irish Catholics and Protestants, Rwandan Hutus and Tutsis, Israelis and Palestinians...
morley1tube · 1,508 views · 100%
Learning From Our Elders: Kwame Somburu and Scientific Socialism
Learning From Our Elders: Kwame Somburu and Scientific Socialism
A dear friend of mine passed away in 2016. He was a lifelong revolutionary activist and quite possibly the most interesting man in the world (sorry, Dos Equis guy). His name was Kwame Somburu, formerly Paul Boutelle.
Colin Jenkins · 1,415 views · unrated
Genocidal Onslaught on Gaza Shocks Conscience of the World, w/ Abby Martin 55 min
Genocidal Onslaught on Gaza Shocks Conscience of the World, w/ Abby Martin
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has shocked the conscience of the entire world, with an endless flow of videos and images of Palestinian children cut into pieces by American bombs dropped by Israeli warplanes deliberately intended to destroy a civilian population.
BreakThrough News · 1,334 views · unrated
Friends Don't Let Friends Destroy Themselves
Friends Don't Let Friends Destroy Themselves
In September 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, people gathered by the thousands across the country of Iran in spontaneous demonstrations and candlelight vigils to show support for America in its hour of grief. At one football match in Tehran, sixty thousand...
Charles Eisenstein · 1,331 views · 100%
Tristan Harris - Downgrade 4 min
Tristan Harris - Downgrade
“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.” Edward O. Wilson
The Inspiration Journey · 1,307 views · 58%
Intifada Street Brings You Revolutionary Resistance Art
Intifada Street Brings You Revolutionary Resistance Art
For the last few years Bradford born and based artist Mohammed Hamza has been putting out some of the best revolutionary art around under the Intifada Street banner. As the name of the project would suggest, the struggles of the Palestinian People feature heavily in his work...
Andrew Butler · 1,299 views · 75%
On July 4: Stop Another US Military Intervention in Iraq
On July 4: Stop Another US Military Intervention in Iraq
This July 4, the fireworks won’t just be in cele
Medea Benjamin · 814 views · 50%
"Mass Assassination Factory": Israel Using AI to Generate Targets in Gaza, Increasing Civilian Toll 19 min
"Mass Assassination Factory": Israel Using AI to Generate Targets in Gaza, Increasing Civilian Toll
We look at a new report that reveals how Israel is using artificial intelligence to draw up targets in its military assault of Gaza. The report's author, journalist Yuval Abraham, has found that the IDF's increasing use of AI is partly a response to previous operations in...
Democracy Now! · 607 views · unrated
Noam Chomsky Has 'Never Seen Anything Like This'
Noam Chomsky Has 'Never Seen Anything Like This'
Noam Chomsky is America’s greatest intellectual. His massive body of work, which includes nearly 100 books, has for decades deflated and exposed the lies of the power elite and the myths they perpetrate. Chomsky has done this despite being blacklisted by the commercial media...
Chris Hedges · 530,364 views · 97%
The Top 100 Documentaries Inspiring the Shift to a Sustainable Paradigm (2012 Edition)
The Top 100 Documentaries Inspiring the Shift to a Sustainable Paradigm (2012 Edition)
Film offers us a powerful tool to shift awareness and inspire action. By hosting community film screenings and sharing them online, they offer a method to break our dependence on the mainstream media and become the media ourselves. We don't need to wait for anyone or anything.
Films For Action · 401,824 views · 100%
Charlie Hebdo: This Attack Was Nothing To Do With Free Speech - It Was About War
Charlie Hebdo: This Attack Was Nothing To Do With Free Speech - It Was About War
In less than an hour of the dreadful shooting of 12 people at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, the politicians had already started to lie to their own public. John Kerry, US Secretary of State,
Asghar Bukhari · 133,791 views · 75%
The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege
The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege
The definitive critique of our economic system since its beginning to the present day.
Kevin A. Carson · 111,565 views · 98%
How the Elite Deal With Sparks of Revolt
How the Elite Deal With Sparks of Revolt
“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half” —Jay Gould Metanoia Films has released a new documentary, Plutocracy: Divide et Impera (Divide and Rule). It’s the first entry of a multi-part series directed by filmmaker Scott Noble. The movie assembles a...
Bill Blunden · 108,982 views · 84%
Don't Let Bernie Endorsing Hillary Distract You From What Matters
Don't Let Bernie Endorsing Hillary Distract You From What Matters
There's been quite a lot of anger, disappointment and attention on Bernie's decision to endorse Clinton the last couple weeks. But I've started to believe this attention on Bernie has become a big distraction from the fact that the work was always going to be up to us. The...
Tim Hjersted · 97,686 views · 100%
Your Life Can Be Different: 11 Things I'd Like to Tell My Younger Self
Your Life Can Be Different: 11 Things I'd Like to Tell My Younger Self
This is a letter to my younger self - both the inner cynic and the idealist that secretly believes a more beautiful world is possible.
Charles Eisenstein · 90,833 views · 75%
Rebel Architecture 150 min
Rebel Architecture (2014)
A six-part documentary series from Al Jazeera profiling architects who are using design as a form of activism and resistance to tackle the world's urban, environmental and social crises. The series follows architects from Vietnam, Nigeria, Spain, Pakistan, Israel/Occupied...
76,979 views · 89%
An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous
An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous
Dear white people, For as long as I can remember, I have always been white. Like you. I just didn’t know it.
Bayo Akomolafe · 64,036 views · 100%
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
I’m sipping a scummy pint of cloudy beer in the back of a trendy dive bar turned nightclub in the heart of the city’s heroin district. In front of me stand a gang of hippiesh grunge-punk types, who crowd around each other and collectively scoff at the smoking laws by sneaking...
Douglas Haddow · 53,093 views · 81%
Trump in the White House: an Interview With Noam Chomsky
Trump in the White House: an Interview With Noam Chomsky
On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump managed to pull the biggest upset in US politics by tapping successfully into the anger of white voters and appealing to the lowest inclinations of people in a manner that would have probably impressed Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels...
C.J. Polychroniou · 50,427 views · 92%
Decoding Daesh: Why Is the New Name for ISIS so Hard to Understand?
Decoding Daesh: Why Is the New Name for ISIS so Hard to Understand?
Arabic translator Alice Guthrie investigates 'Daesh', the new name for ISIS recently adopted by several world leaders because it delegitimises the group's activities. But how can a new name undermine a terrorist organisation? And why do the English-speaking media find the...
Alice Guthrie · 45,835 views · 88%
Six Habits of Highly Empathic People
Six Habits of Highly Empathic People
We can cultivate empathy throughout our lives, says Roman Krznaric—and use it as a radical force for social transformation.
Roman Krznaric · 37,499 views · 88%
An Open Letter From Assata Shakur: "I Am a 20th Century Escaped Slave"
An Open Letter From Assata Shakur: "I Am a 20th Century Escaped Slave"
My name is Assata Shakur, and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US government’s policy towards people of color. I am an...
Assata Shakur · 33,139 views · 84%
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%
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 · 30,311 views · 95%
Looking Forward to the Day That Nationalism Is as Reviled as Racism
Looking Forward to the Day That Nationalism Is as Reviled as Racism
Nationalism is a form of geographical racism that makes some lives matter more than others, and explicitly justifies that logic without apology. While today, not even lying corrupt politicians will outright say that racism is acceptable, nationalism is promoted and accepted...
Tim Hjersted · 26,488 views · 88%
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%
A Pakistani Response to the Boston Marathon Bombing
A Pakistani Response to the Boston Marathon Bombing
Late last night I saw on Twitter news reports coming in about the twin bombings at the Boston Marathon. I saw the photographs of bloodied runners on the ground, read the stories about how people had their legs and ankles blown off. I heard that an 8 year old boy died from the...
Bina Shah · 22,318 views · 92%
Thought Police for the 21st Century: Google, Facebook Suppress Left Media Under the Guise of Combating "Fake News"
Thought Police for the 21st Century: Google, Facebook Suppress Left Media Under the Guise of Combating "Fake News"
DETROIT—The abolition of net neutrality and the use of algorithms by Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter to divert readers and viewers from progressive, left-wing and anti-war sites, along with demonizing as foreign agents the journa
Chris Hedges · 21,987 views · 100%
Why the British Said No to Europe
Why the British Said No to Europe
The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking...
John Pilger · 21,776 views · 67%
The Cost of Being Socialized White
The Cost of Being Socialized White
Most white Americans believe they were born white. Yet their own stories of early racial experiences describe persons who were bred white. Which is it-nature or nurture? Neither. The social process that creates whites produces persons who must think of their whiteness as a...
Thandeka · 21,036 views · 80%
After Empowering the 1% and Impoverishing Millions, IMF Admits Neoliberalism a Failure
After Empowering the 1% and Impoverishing Millions, IMF Admits Neoliberalism a Failure
Last week a research wing of the International Monetary Fund came out with a report admitting that neoliberalism has been a failure. The report, entitled, “Neoliberalism: Oversold?” is hopefully a sign of the ideology's death. They were only about 40 years late. As Naomi...
Benjamin Dangl · 20,242 views · 88%
We Created Islamic Extremism: Those Blaming Islam for ISIS Would Have Supported Osama Bin Laden in the '80s
We Created Islamic Extremism: Those Blaming Islam for ISIS Would Have Supported Osama Bin Laden in the '80s
Jingoists conveniently forget the West's Cold War strategy was to arm the Islamic extremists that became al-Qaida
Ben Norton · 20,168 views · 83%
Why I Am Not Charlie
Why I Am Not Charlie
There is no “but” about what happened at Charlie Hebdo. Some people published some cartoons, and some other people killed them for it.  Words and pictures can be beautiful or vile, pleasing or enraging, inspiring or offensive; but they exist on a different plane from physical...
Scott Long · 20,100 views · 98%
Countries around World Are Revoking Freedom of Assembly
Countries around World Are Revoking Freedom of Assembly
On March 26, without much fanfare or attention from U.S. media, the Spanish government ended freedom of assembly. In the face of popular opposition (80 percent of Spaniards oppose it), the upper house passed the Citizens’ Security Law. Under the provision, which goes into...
Willie Osterweil · 17,935 views · 83%
Aid in Reverse: How Poor Countries Develop Rich Countries
Aid in Reverse: How Poor Countries Develop Rich Countries
New research shows that developing countries send trillions of dollars more to the west than the other way around. Why?
Jason Hickel · 16,198 views · 100%
Why Are London's Police Travelling to Israel?
Why Are London's Police Travelling to Israel?
In the six month period from 1st March 2014 to 31st August 2014, Eighty of London’s Metropolitan Police staff travelled to Israel. This period coincides with Operation Protective Edge, the recent bombardment and massacre of of over 2000 Palestinians in Gaza.
Wake Up · 16,111 views · 100%
Charles Eisenstein on The Challenge of Communicating Beyond the Boundaries of Consensus Reality
Charles Eisenstein on The Challenge of Communicating Beyond the Boundaries of Consensus Reality
Last week I had two brushes with the mainstream of American culture and politics. The first was an appearance on a PBS television show, the Tavis Smiley show. As far as I can remember, this was only the second time I’ve been on a national TV program. The other time was in...
Charles Eisenstein · 15,489 views · 96%
How America Made ISIS: Their Videos and Ours, Their “Caliphate” and Ours
How America Made ISIS: Their Videos and Ours, Their “Caliphate” and Ours
Whatever your politics, you’re not likely to feel great about America right now.  After all, there’s Ferguson (the whole world was watching!), an increasingly unpopular president, a Congress whose
Tom Engelhardt · 15,414 views · 83%
Hiding in Plain Sight: Why We Cannot See the System Destroying Us
Hiding in Plain Sight: Why We Cannot See the System Destroying Us
I rarely tell readers what to believe. Rather I try to indicate why it might be wise to distrust, at least without very good evidence, what those in power tell us we should believe.
Jonathan Cook · 14,578 views · 75%
Let the (R)Evolution Come from Wisdom: 3 Insights to Help Create a World Free From Violence
Let the (R)Evolution Come from Wisdom: 3 Insights to Help Create a World Free From Violence
What is this world we’ve created for our youth? 7,000 dead to gun violence since 2012?! What is that? The weight that we are leaving for our youth is unbearable to bear witness to, but if we don’t… what kind of world will we have created?
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan · 13,254 views · 100%
F-Ck Hamas. F-Ck Israel: the Gazan Youth Manifesto (2011)
F-Ck Hamas. F-Ck Israel: the Gazan Youth Manifesto (2011)
An anonymous group of Gazan students wrote this in 2011. It sadly remains as relevant today as before.   "Fuck Hamas. Fuck Israel. Fuck Fatah. Fuck UN. Fuck UNWRA. Fuck USA! We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human...
Gaza Youth Breaks Out · 12,092 views · 100%
The Allure of Societal Breakdown: Admit It - The Thought Kind of Excites You
The Allure of Societal Breakdown: Admit It - The Thought Kind of Excites You
It is frightening, this transition between worlds, but it is also alluring. Have you ever gotten addicted to doom-and-gloom websites, logging on every day to read the latest evidence that collapse is coming soon, feeling almost let down when Peak Oil didn’t start in 2005, or...
Charles Eisenstein · 11,803 views · 88%
A Last Chance for Resistance
A Last Chance for Resistance
The crawl toward despotism within a failed democracy is always incremental. No regime planning to utterly extinguish civil liberties advertises its intentions in advance. It pays lip service to liberty and justice while obliterating the institutions and laws that make them...
Chris Hedges · 11,566 views · 100%
Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine
Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine
My new home of West Asheville is in the news. A local coffee shop, Waking Life Espresso, closed its doors after its owners Jared Rutledge and Jacob Owens were outed for hosting a misogynistic blog. In addition to repulsive and degrading comments about women and details of...
Charles Eisenstein · 10,895 views · 91%
Europe Is Harbouring the Islamic State's Backers
Europe Is Harbouring the Islamic State's Backers
Why France’s brave new war on ISIS is a sick joke, and an insult to the victims of the Paris attacks
Nafeez Ahmed · 10,633 views · 100%
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 7: A Little More Inspiration 36 min
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 7: A Little More Inspiration
As we’ve seen, the food system is broken.
Spencer MacDonald · 10,228 views · unrated
The Burden of the New Story
The Burden of the New Story
The 'new story' - that longed for milieu when all is right with the world and things are set straight - seems to be taking its sweet time coming. Why?
Adebayo Akomolafe · 10,168 views · 96%
Thinking Strategically About Free Speech and Violence
Thinking Strategically About Free Speech and Violence
We should be careful before embracing ideas that might lead to catastrophe…
Nathan J. Robinson · 9,576 views · 100%
A User's Guide for Evolutionary Well-Being
A User's Guide for Evolutionary Well-Being
The sacred naturalist’s guide to well-being
Alice Andrews · 9,251 views · 100%
"We Are In a Revolutionary Moment": Chris Hedges Explains Why An Uprising Is Coming, And Soon
"We Are In a Revolutionary Moment": Chris Hedges Explains Why An Uprising Is Coming, And Soon
The status quo is doomed but whether the future will be progressive or reactionary is uncertain, Hedges tells Salon
Chris Hedges · 9,178 views · 38%
Racism Is About Power, Not Unpleasant Sentiments
Racism Is About Power, Not Unpleasant Sentiments
In September of 2011, the state of Georgia executed Troy Davis— a man who the best evidence suggested was innocent. On February 26, 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was murdered by self-appointed community ‘guardian’ George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Then Michael Brown...
Rob Urie · 8,974 views · unrated
Policing Is a Dirty Job, but Nobody's Gotta Do It: 6 Ideas for a Cop-Free World
Policing Is a Dirty Job, but Nobody's Gotta Do It: 6 Ideas for a Cop-Free World
It's time to start imagining a society that isn't dominated by police
José Martín · 8,764 views · unrated
Preventing Dissent - How Britain’s new police state will radicalise us all
Preventing Dissent - How Britain’s new police state will radicalise us all
In the UK, an insidious secret network of violent extremists is plotting to subvert democracy. The members of this network detest our way of life, and hate our freedoms. Walking amongst us, this dangerous fifth column is exploiting the very laws we hold dear to campaign for...
Nafeez Ahmed · 8,666 views · 88%
The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline
The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline
Three attributes can make the difference between success and failure for nonviolent movements around the world: unity, planning, and nonviolent discipline.
Hardy Merriman · 8,279 views · unrated
A Non-Exhaustive List of All the Things I Used to Do to Try to Become More Beautiful
A Non-Exhaustive List of All the Things I Used to Do to Try to Become More Beautiful
I used to get made fun of for my big front teeth. Once, when I got home from school, I found my mom’s nail file and tried to file them down. The edge of the nail file caught on my lip after I sawed away for a few minutes and punctured a hole in my cheek. I sat there, crying...
Rosemary Donahue · 8,220 views · 88%
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