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Right-Wing Psychiatry, Love-Me Liberals and the Anti-Authoritarian Left
In every American community you have varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects, ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them...
The Origins of Venezuela's Economic Crisis
Venezuela has become a popular argument against socialism amongst conservatives because of the deep economic crisis it is currently traversing. Defenders of the Bolivarian project, though, say that US sanctions and economic war are to blame for the crisis. Greg Wilpert...
This Vet Planned to Bomb a Mosque. Now He's a Muslim Leader
Relying partly on his experience as a Marine, Richard McKinney made an improvised explosive device he planned to detonate near a mosque, resulting in massive casualties.
Basic Income - Ensuring a Future for Humanity's Children
There are clever people who make algorithms for the financial services sector. Remember those crumbs that used to fall from the rich mans table? Theyre all accounted for now. Every last one, down to the tiniest minuscule crumb that you cant even see. They get collected by the...
How Much Pro-Israel Money Politicians Attacking Ilhan Omar Received
How Much Money Israel Lobby Gave Politicians Attacking Ilhan Omar I got kind of obsessive and looked up exactly how much $ each politician attacking Omar's comments about the Israel lobby has received from pro-Israel sources. Thanks for watching! Support my work...
How 8 European Cities Turned Waste Into a Resource
The eight UrbanWINS cities are currently implementing pilot actions to prevent and manage waste. These actions are taking into account their urban metabolism data, as well as the discussions and decisions of a wide range of stakeholders who have participated in the online and...
AIPAC Exposed | 5 Times AIPAC Got Caught Controlling American Politics
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Insane Trade!
The way trade works in the global economy can be insane it wastes resources, worsens climate change, and undermines the livelihoods of millions of small-scale producers worldwide. Yet it is an almost unavoidable consequence of de-regulatory free trade agreements and the...
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...
How Bad Is Global Inequality, Really?
Most everyone whos interested in global inequality has come across the famous elephant graph, originally developed by Branko Milanovic and Christoph Lakner using World Bank data (see below). The graph charts the change in income that the worlds population have experienced...
Brilliant Short Film Imagines Parallel Earth Saving Themselves From Fate of Earth
10 yearsafter thepremiere ofTHE AGE OF STUPID, here's Franny Armstrong'snew short film, WHAT IF? In a parallel universe, Fred Miliband, Carolyn Lukas, Zack Harries, Jon Snowflake, Kris Peckham, Jonathan Pie and the President of the Maldives battle to save the people of...
Manila's Zero Waste Neighborhoods
Plastic polluted neighborhoods in Manila are taking things into their own hands by creating systemic zero waste programs that collect all recyclables, compost all organics, and push for corporate accountability.
A Psychologist Explains How People Become Anti-Authoritarians
Lyndon Johnson famously proclaimed his requirements for an appointee: I want him to kiss my ass in Macys window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. Johnson and his ass-kissers were authoritarians.
Criticizing Israel isn’t Anti-Semitic, Here’s What Is
Weeks ago, when the first accusations of anti-semitism were being leveled against Representative Ilhan Omar, I was deeply agitated.
Jennifer Lawrence talks with Trevor Potter at Unrig 2018
Last year at Unrig Summit, Jennifer Lawrence sat down with Trevor Potter, a Republican and the forrmer commissioner of the U.S. Federal Election Commission to learn how to legally bribe politicians.
Saving Japan's seed heritage from “free trade”
I recently had the opportunity to interview Masahiko Yamada, formerly Japans Minister of Agriculture and now one of the countrys foremost food sovereignty activists. We met at an internationalEconomics of Happiness Conferencein Prato, Italy, where Yamada delivered a keynote...
Unbreaking America: A NEW Short Film about Solving the Corruption Crisis
Find out how you can get involved at http://represent.us Our government is broken, and we have to fix it. RepresentUs board member Jennifer Lawrence and Director of RepresentUs Josh Silver, walks through three lines that show what's wrong with legal corruption in our...
Stalking for Love
Stalking For Love is a popular media trope where invasive stalker-like behavior is presented as an endearing or harmless part of romantic courtship. The hero will often go to extraordinary lengths to coerce, trick or otherwise manipulate his way into a woman's life.
Things Straight Men Aren't Allowed to Do (According to Wiz Khalifa and Others)
Professional skinny person Wiz Khalifa said straight men should not eat bananas in public. Here's a running list of things straight black men "can't" do because #masculinitysofragile.
Sexual Assault of Men Played for Laughs
Its hard to overstate just how common jokes about men being sexually assaulted are in entertainment media. Most popular comedic actors engage in this type of humor. Jokes are typically designed to demean, humiliate, control, or emasculate a male character for being the...
The White Saviour: Imperialism's ‘Last Bitter Struggle for Life’
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
A Korean Forest Gets its own Art Exhibition
What does it mean when we say "nature" is the artist?
The Green New Deal Can Work – Here's How
18 concrete ways to make the urgently needed climate mobilization a reality
The Swedish Schoolgirl That Took Davos To Task On Climate Change
Greta and the Snowman: From Greta Thunberg to the man who's measured the weather every day for nearly half a century, it is private citizens leading the charge on climate change prevention. This report profiles these two extraordinary characters.
The Scourge of Self-Flagellating Politics
When politics becomes about tallying sins, it ceases to accomplish meaningful change
The Market Theocracy
The Handmaids Tale is less a dystopian nightmare about Trumps America than a comforting fiction we tell ourselves.
Robert Reich: A Bold New Idea to Boost Wages
Robert Reich explains how expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit would boost wages for millions of working Americans.
Tosepan: Resistance and Renewal in Mexico
Since the mid-1980s, Mexico has been a poster child for globalization. Through free trade treaties and structural adjustment policies imposed by international financial institutions, the country has been liberalized opened up to unfettered corporate investment and imports to...
Why the “Anthropocene” is not “Climate Change”
Anthropocene is a widely proposed name for the geological epoch that covers human impact on our planet. But it is not synonymous with climate change, nor can it covered by environmental problems. Bigger and more shocking, the Anthropocene encapsulates the evidence that human...
5 Reasons Why Milton Friedman Supported Guaranteed Income
The latest video by Matt Orfalea.
Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning in Response to the Legacy of Patriarchy
"So what can I do, as an individual?"
The Indian System
Until recently, historians have failed to uncover the truth behind the war of 1862 in Minnesota. In this movie, filmmaker Sheldon Wolfchild portrays his grandfather, Medicine Bottle. He tells a Dakota oral history of the 1862 war, the hangings of the Dakota 38 Plus 2, and the...
Build a Border Wall? Here's What Border Communities Say They Want Instead
For many of us who actually live along the U.S.-Mexico border, the Mesquite Manifesto addresses economic and climate problems by building up industry around the native tree.
How to Fight Fascism From a Position of Strength
The growth of white supremacy and fascism has been noticeable in a number of countries lately, prompting the question: What can we learn from each other? Each country might find best practices elsewhere that could be applied at home, in addition to learning from its own past...
Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture
The Plummery is a suburban home where a backyard permaculture garden measuring only 100sq/m (1076 sq feet) produces over 400kg/900 pounds of food year-round. Kat Lavers describes her approach to gardening, including vertical and biointensive growing, and how important it is...
It's Climate Change That's Scary - Not Transforming the Economy
Its very clear that conservatives have one plan for dealing with the popularity of the Green New Deal: scaring the hell out of people.
The Pregnancy to Prison Pipeline: Media Matters
As the President sounds off about holy babies born and unborn, we talk about the ongoing criminalization of women who happen to get pregnant. What has been the medias role and have they done enough to make amends? Well talk to Lynn Paltrow, one of the lawyers representing...
PACHAKUTEC - Time of Change
A Pilgrimage for the healing of the Heart of the Earth. With love and gratitude, the film isdedicated to Mother Earth,Father Sunandthe ancestors The PACHAKTEC signifies in the prophecies of the Inca a time of major, fundamental changes that will lead us into a new era...
Fact Sheet: Global Species Decline
The world is facing a mass extinction of species. All species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, arthropods (insects and arachnids), fish, crustaceans, corals and other cnidarians, and plants have declined, in many cases, severely. Human civilization has had a negative...
Making Art Without Money (Nature Mandala)
Ecological artists Patrick M. Lydon (USA) and Suhee Kang (Korea) infiltrate the world's largest MUJI store () near Osaka, Japan. Inside they ask shoppers to stop shopping, slow down, and re-connect with nature. Together with shoppers, they build an interactive 'Nature...
Five Signs a Man Is Connected to His Heart
Many men think our power is in our brains or our balls.
100 Short Stories
Withtypical irreverence, director Neal Livingston interweaves tales of predatory capitalism, eco-activism, and contemporary life in Atlantic Canada, engaging in an offbeat and often humorous exploration of energy policy, governance, and regional culture, in a diaristic...
Crisis, Hope, And Permaculture
Join Geoff Lawton as heexploressomeof the most pressing issues of our time,soil erosion, climate change, pollutionand food security.Learnhow we can apply permaculture'sethical design science, to solve these issues whilst meeting all our human needs.
What Covington Catholic Students Should Know About the Church's History With Indigenous People
Leaders at Covington diocese and Catholics in general are likely unfamiliar with the churchs brutal history in connection with Native peoples; numerous news reports on the incident have failed to acknowledge it.
How I Unlearned Dangerous Lessons about Masculinity | Eldra Jackson
In a powerful talk, educator Eldra Jackson III shares how he unlearned dangerous lessons about masculinity through Inside Circle, an organization that leads group therapy for incarcerated men. Now he's helping others heal by creating a new image of what it means to be a...
Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News
I grew up believing that following the news makes you a better citizen. Eight years after having quit, that idea now seems ridiculousthat consuming a particularly unimaginative information product on a daily basis somehow makes you thoughtful and informed in a way that...
Fighting with Non-Violence | Scilla Elworthy
How do you deal with a bully without becoming a thug in return? In this wise and soulful talk, peace activist Scilla Elworthy maps out the skills we need -- as nations and individuals -- to fight extreme force without using force in return. To answer the question of why and...
No Impact Man's Guide to Activism
So many of us have good ideas for helping the world. But we tuck away our ideas. I did. Id tell myself that if the idea were any good someone else would have already done it. That Im not capable of making a difference. Id sit on my ideas, get on with my life, and then feel...
Copyright is Brain Damage | Nina Paley
Ideas aren't good or bad because of what licenses people slap on them. Just relate to the ideas themselves.
Glitch in the Matrix II, The Origin of the Intellectual Dark Web
The phrase 'Intellectual Dark Web' was first coined by mathematician Eric Weinstein in early 2018, it quickly spread. Was this just a chance remark, or was there a plan? This film explains how the creation of the Intellectual Dark Web was part of a long term strategy, and...
Public Shaming
Public shamingis an old phenomenongiven new life by social media.
Creating Freedom: Raoul Martinez at TEDxWhitechapel
Much about who we are is determined by the lottery of our birth. We inherit genes we didn't ask for, and are faced with a world we played no part in creating. In short, we are shaped by forces over which we have no control. Raoul Martinez examines the radical implications...
5 Shareable Excerpts From Douglas Rushkoff's New Book 'Team Human'
Douglas Rushkoff's just released book "Team Human" is a passionately argued manifesto "for human dignity and prosperity in a digital age."Released this week, the manifesto's 100 points outline the many reasons and ways to"reassert the human agenda."In true Shareable style...
“Basic Training” for Spiritual Warriors
Joanna Macy talks about three tasks needed to bring in a world of spiritual progress: create new institutions, change the culture, and stop the worst of the damage. At Metta we feel that the worst of the damage has been to the human image who are we and what can we become...
Unist'ot'en and 150 Years of Resistance
150 years ago, the architects of Canadian confederation dreamed of a Canada united from coast to coast. They dreamed, also, of unfettered access to Indigenous lands, of the elimination of the Indian problem standing in the way of a white settler future.
Seder-Masochism
Seder-Masochism, an animated musical, loosely follows the Passover Seder story, with events from the Book of Exodus retold by Moses, Aharon, the Angel of Death, Jesus and the directors father.The film puts a twist on the traditional Biblical story by including a female deity...
God Is Male
Goddess x Patriarchy = Mary
What the Left Gets Wrong About Jordan Peterson
One might think that by now progressives would figure out that vilifying Peterson almost always redounds to his advantage. One would be wrong
The Wall Is Not Beautiful
Donald Trump insists that the border wall he wants built will be nothing less than beautiful. He has assured us that the latest version, a series of steel slats topped by triangular spikes, will fulfill the non plus ultra of architectural design: it will be totally effective...