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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...
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Produced by Pulse Films, XY Chelsea tells the historic story of whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, whose 35-year sentence in an all-male maximum security prison was commuted by President Obama in 2017.
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In Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth, we see that markets are inefficient and growth is not the holy grail. It's time for a new economic model: doughnut economics.
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As the trade war between the U.S. and China escalates, FRONTLINE and NPR take a look at what led to the rising tensions and whats at stake.
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Problem: Privatisation. Solution: Public ownership.
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What is wrong with the EU and why does the EU need a new vision? Is the EU new vision to become a republic? Or what can we still expect from the EU?
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Hou Xueying, a mother from Shanghai, was tired of food safety scares and of a city life disconnected from the land. So she moved her family to the country to learn about sustainable farming. Her parents disapproved; they had struggled to give her a comfortable life in the...
Isabel Marlens
With so much misinformation about climate change about, New Internationalist co-editor Hazel Healy debunks 5 myths about the climate crisis that are doing the rounds. These myths are a dangerous distraction from the task at hand.
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Jack Harmsworth from We Own It makes the case for why the UK must learn from its European neighbours and take back control of privatised industries.
Jack Harmsworth
A stunning sensory experience and cinematic meditation on humanitys massive reengineering of the planet, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is a years-in-the-making feature documentary from the award-winning team behind Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and Watermark (2013) and...
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Robert Reich explains why Donald Trump and Republicans use socialism to scare the American people.
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Weeds are a symptom, not the cause, of a problem. We can observe weeds to read the landscape, deduce what reparative steps need to be taken, and speed up the natural sequence of recovery. Weeds can actually be great friends to gardeners. In any square meter of ground, there...
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A video remix featuring the wisdom of Alan Watts. I hope this video is able to inspire you more than once to be the person you were always meant to become in this life! -Gabriel Ng
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White Widows portrays the tough and disadvantaged life of Indian cotton farmers in their village Dhanoli located in the region of Vidarbha, well known as the epicentre of farmer suicide.
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Thought Slimeexplains the Right's war on the individual, in a kind of funny roundabout way.
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Some people in the media want you to believe that Iran is your enemy. Is this really true? In this video we reveal who is the shocking real enemy... the true danger to your freedom. HINT: It is NOT who you think it is. And it has NOTHING to do with nuclear weapons. We reveal...
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Robert Reich explains why American democracy has become an oligarchy.
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How corporations convinced the public to blame themselves rather than the100 companies most responsible.
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Robert Reich explains why we must tax wealthy estates in order to reduce inequality.
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Briahna Joy Gray is a leading Millennial writer on identity politics, racial justice and economic power. She is a contributing editor at Current Affairs and has been featured in New York Magazine, Rolling Stone and The Guardian. She is the co-host of SWOTI (Someone's Wrong on...
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Mike Nayna: In an attempt to expose academic fields corrupted by postmodern ideology, Helen Pluckrose, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay spent a year submitting intentionally broken papers to academic journals. Their secret project was cut short when an investigative...
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Jordan Peterson is known for propagating the fear of "Cultural Marxism." After a disappointing debate on Marxism with Slavoj iek, Abby Martin talks to Marxist economist and professor Richard Wolff about Peterson's theories.
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The Trump administration's illegal economic sanctions against Iran makes it impossible to import essential medicines, says CEPR's Mark Weisbrot.
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Leading spiritual teacher warns that if people cannot save themselves from their own suffering, how can they be expected to worry about the plight of Mother Earth
Jo Confino
The truth about Russiagate and R. Kelly! (Mostly just Russiagate ;) 0:42 WTF is Russiagate | Trump/Russia Conspiracy Theory 2:55 Russian Hacking Pt.1 14:10 An Act of War? 17:50 "Meme Warfare" 29:05 Russian Hacking Pt.2 - Bill Binneys Alternative Theory 39:32 Truth vs...
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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 whats happening and whats within every households ability to control.
Katie Singer
Ep. 1 // Rats in the Hallway // Working class women of color and young white socialists in an East Harlem join forces against a private equity slumlord. Read the story by Georgia Kromrei atindypendent.org/2018/02/rats-in-the-hallway.
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How can we create a worldwide, permanent shift to regenerative culture in every sphere of life?
Ruth Gordon
The word sustainability, were it up to me, would be extinct, wiped out, kaput.
Andrew Nikiforuk
Russia-gate has shed any premise of being about Russian interference, writes Daniel Lazare, but the idea that America may in anyway be responsible for its own fate is of course unthinkable.
Daniel Lazare
Tom Friedman and Steve Bannon are, as usual, wrong. Hardship in the United States cant be blamed on Chinas economic war on democracy. Its the fault of American corporations and elites.
Nicole M. Aschoff
Dr. Gabor Mat gives a beautiful speech on human nature and the implications culture has on our ability to maintain it. In this segment of the speech, he discusses four different categories of self-alienation and provides a sentiment of hope to stay in touch with our true...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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?
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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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