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Abby Martin sits down with Peter Phillips, former director of Project Censored and professor of Political Sociology at Sonoma State University. His new book Giants: The Global Power Elite details the 17 transnational investment firms which control over $50 trillion in...
23 min
According to the theory of Privilege, everybody is born into different circumstances, and those circumstances make certain outcomes in life more likely relative to those born into different circumstances. Circumstances that render a higher likelihood of a fulfilling life are...
22 min
Robert Reich explains why we must the War on Drugs, and legalize cannabis.
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On Wednesday, the day it was announced that theU.S. birthrate fellfor the fourth straight year, signaling the lowest number of births in 32 years, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law the most draconiananti-abortion lawin the country. That the two developments came at th
Chris Hedges
In the Oak-dotted countryside of Southern Portugal lies the Tamera Healing Biotope, one of Earths most radical social experiments in human futurism. Tamera began in the free love utopian movements of the 1960s and 70s, building upon the insight that the liberation of love is...
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If you have had a spiritual practice or have experience with personal growth workshops, you have no doubt heard many times that letting go of attachment increases happiness and well-being. The principle is simple, but exactly what does it mean to let go of attachment, and...
Miki Kashtan
Back in 2015 the RnB artist Akon grabbed headlines when he claimed that he doesnt think charities in Africa work. But was he right?
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In the Americas, the Trump tsunami has swept across both continents and the pink tide of progressivism hasall but disappearedfrom the southern half of the hemisphere. In Europe, with the
John Feffer
Over the years I have often been asked how I became anactivist. The question of how individualsas individualsbecome involved in social change movements, fascinating as it may seem, can carry equally fascinating assumptions aboutactivismitself. It may imply a voluntary and...
Jonathan Matthew Smucker
What we must do is incorporate the other peoplethe creeping people, and the standing people, and the flying people and the swimming peopleinto the councils of government. - Gary Snyder
Roger S. Gottlieb
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
Despite years of effort and sacrifice by millions, there has not been a mass shift toward nonviolence. Perhaps what's needed is a better understanding of the dark side of the human species.
Brian Martin
Modern slavery. It sounds like a paradox. Hasnt humanity progressed? Didnt we leave slavery dead on the battlefields of the American Civil War? Didnt social reformers like Lincoln and Wilberforce legislate against such cruelty over a hundred years ago? So we had thought. But...
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Capitalists, throughout history, have backed fascism to thwart even the most tepid forms of socialism
Chris Hedges
Jamie Wheal documented the new psychedelic renaissance in his bestselling book 'Stealing Fire', where he talked about the transformative potential of flow states and psychedelics. Since then he has become increasingly concerned and disillusioned with the direction of the...
45 min
This riveting and inspiring study of race and class in the age of Trump argues that an emphasis on identity should lead to one on solidarity
Ben Tarnoff
There are two undeclared wars on the vast majority of the world's population, the destitute popular classes and the impoverished middle classes. Such double war requires a vast, ideological-mental industrial complex sprawled across the planet.
Boaventura De Sousa Santos
With the Green New Deal sparking a national conversation about all the ways to combat climate change, John Oliver looks at a few potential solutions.
20 min
In episode two of The Guardian's series on modern masculinity, Iman Amrani met Neil Smedley, a barber shop owner in Leeds. In the interview they did together Neil spoke about a range of issues, some of them very personal, and they felt that they couldn't do his story justice...
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Denver became the first city in the country to decriminalize the use and possession of psilocybin mushrooms, after a ballot initiative squeaked through with 50.6% of the vote, according to election officials. The unofficial final results -- which are not expected to change...
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STRANGERS IN TOWN tells the story of how global migration unexpectedly transformed and enriched Garden City, Kansas. It brought great challenges to the community, including demands for housing, social services, education, and infrustucture. For the current students at Garden...
33 min
Damaging the earth is a crime, right? That is what earths lawyer Polly Higgins thinks. Why earth destruction should be seen as a crime and what is it that brings earth lawyers Polly Higgins and Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzn to fight for ecocide?
47 min
China has the worlds fastest and largest high-speed rail network more than 19,000 miles, the vast majority of which was built in the past decade. Japans bullet trains can reach nearly 200 miles per hour and date to the 1960s. They have moved more than 9 billion people...
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Sixty years after the Little Rock Nine faced violent resistance when they desegregated Central High, America's schools continue to represent the key battleground of the Civil Rights Movement. Contemporary Little Rock, New York City, and Los Angeles present a microcosm of the...
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From Fire in the Belly Productions, 100 Years documents the David vs. Goliath story of Elouise Cobell's courageous fight for justice for hundreds of thousands of Native Americans who were cheated out of billions of dollars by the United States Government.
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Over the past decade Ive watched with alarm the widening polarization of the body politic across Western societies (and to some extent globally). As commonly recognized, the public is split into irreconcilable political factions who disagree not only on the interpretation of...
Charles Eisenstein
Humanity has lost the battle against climate change. That is what Paul Kingsnorth thinks. The former environmental activist believes that we cant stop climate change anymore. How should we live on knowing that climate change is a fact that cant be denied anymore? A...
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Robots are already changing jobs as an endless array of robots enter our everyday lives. From trucking to service work to high-end jobs like doctors and lawyers, this documentary explores how robotics and artificial intelligence are changing the workplace.
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Fully Charged spent an amazing day at the Sustainable City, a housing development in Dubai with 3,500 people already living there and it's still not quite finished. This truly is a remarkable achievement, a stark lesson to building contractors the world over. It's not more...
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I was in my early teens when I accompanied my grandmother on a Christmas errand to deliver boxes of biscuits to each of her surviving maternal cousins. Although our extended family was big we were also close, so I was surprised when the last box was for an aunty Id never met...
Che Ramsden
A left wing and a right wing belong to the same bird. The moment we see that we are all related, we start to see solutions.
Satish Kumar
The Australien Government just released this ad about how it doesn't like us satirically impersonating the Australian Government, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
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Prof. Richard Wolff presents an in-depth analysis of UBI, showing its advantages over most welfare, safety net systems. An even better alternative would avoid capitalism's unnecessary production of unemployment because it utilizes technical progress (rising productivity) for...
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Where is the clear image of a decolonized society we are to emulate? There isnt one. Yet if we are to free ourselves, we need practical steps.
Steven Newcomb
What dothe Australians columnist Nick Cater, video game hate group #Gamergate, Norwegian mass shooter
Jason Wilson
Within some parts of the activist movement the concept of White Privilege is quite popular. Let us take a decolonial look at the concept.
Sandew Hira
This article was originally published on the Economics of Happiness Blog.
Iishana Artra, PhD
Hi everyone, Im pleased to announce a new online short course Ive created called Unlearning: For Change Agents.
28 min
Spaniards threw their weight behind a Green New Deal programme by re-electing the pro-climate Spanish Socialist party (PSOE).
Natalie Sauer
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...
59 min
Our way of being -- the intentions, attitudes, and quality of the energy that we bring to an interaction -- is more important than the particular words we choose to speak. The heart of Nonviolent Communication is not about speaking using a particular recipe. Rather it is...
Bob Wentworth
The latest research is clear: the state of our attention determines the state of our lives. So how do we harness our attention to focus deeper, get distracted less, and even become more creative? Chris Bailey, author of the recent book Hyperfocus, talks about how our ability...
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How the new movement for ecological justice is reimagining the world by reimagining the art of protest, protection and healing.
A farmer in the Midwest, a Donald Trump supporter in 2016, complained last week that his farm was in danger of going bankrupt owing to the combined effects of climate change and the tariff-wars, initiated by Trump, that have caused corn and soybean prices to collapse while...
Peter Gabel
The economic system is incompatible with the survival of life on Earth. It is time to design a new one.
George Monbiot
Noam Chomsky puts RussiaGate in its proper perspective.
16 min
Three attributes can make the difference between success and failure for nonviolent movements around the world: unity, planning, and nonviolent discipline.
Hardy Merriman
My meeting with Charles Eisenstein.
20 min
Peter Joseph addresses the opening arguments put forward by Jordan B. Peterson, from Peterson's debate with Slavoj Zizek called "Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism" - April 19th 2019 (Sorry for the typos. Mostly min. 46-48)
54 min
It took the Earth 10 million years to recover from the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs.
Aylin Woodward
'Just as we have a need for wild nature, along with that comes a need for ancient wisdom, ancient traditions with wise elders, who live close to the earth, and understand it. A need to return to those basic truths.' - Hermien de Vos
5 min
In 2015, while the far right was gaining ground around the world, socialist MP Jeremy Corbyn was elected as leader of the UK Labour Party in a landslide victory. Accusations of antisemitism within the party immediately began to circulate. Well-known anti-racists and left-wing...
60 min
Microfibers, used to make things like yoga pants, are the oceans tiniest problem.
5 min
Confronting the Truthshows how countries which have experienced massive human rights violations have created official, independent bodies known as truth commissions.
73 min
For thirty years, President Hosni Mubarak had ruled Egypt by manipulating elections, crushing dissent, and jailing and torturing his opponents.
80 min
14-year-old filmmaker Dylan D'Haeze explores how communities can develop zero waste strategies and looks at building a sustainable lifestyle for today and for future generations.
2 min
Robert Reich explains how Trump has become isolated politically.
3 min
Cat Hobbs interviews activist and author George Monbiot on the potential of the commons, the idea of public luxury and more.
21 min
Green New Deal advocates in the United States should look to the Nordic countries for inspiration on how to overcome the 1 percent and address climate change.
George Lakey
Maslow's Hierarchy, (or Pyramid), of Needs is one of the central ideas in modern economics and sociology. The work of a once little-known American psychologist, it has grown into an indispensable guide to understanding the modern world. This film explains who Maslow was, what...
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