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The way some people answer the problem of evil can be an avenue to atrocity. - DARKMATTER2525▼
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Fatma Hassona, the 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and subject of the upcoming documentary film "Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk," was killed with her family Wednesday by an Israeli missile that targeted her building in northern Gaza. The strike occurred just one...
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A former Palantir employee is sounding the alarm. The tech company, founded by Peter Thiel, claims they can revolutionize government systems with their AI-powered software. They’ve been hired by the Department of Defense, the FBI, ICE, and even Wendy’s. Now DOGE will likely...
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Donald Trump's trade war went nuclear, hitting China with 145% tariffs, aimed at economic decoupling. This is already backfiring on the US economy, which is heavily reliant on Chinese imports. The volatility also fueled a crisis in the bond market, with Treasury yields...
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We tip our hat to any journalist brave enough to speak the truth and expose government lies—especially when they do so on a network that’s typically hostile to reporting on war crimes committed by states our government is allied with. - Films For Action This is a clip from...
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You won’t see this on BBC or CNN.
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The Trump administration’s nationwide roundup of international students accused of holding opinions it dislikes is picking up speed, sowing fear, separating families and driving people to go underground or out of the country. This targeting appeals to President Trump and his...
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
The newly minted Department of Government Efficiency is taking a buzzsaw to red tape. They're promising a leaner, faster and better government. But when are the cost-cutters going to take a hard look at the largest government bureaucracy: the Pentagon.
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When analyzing the ongoing assault on Gaza, it is imperative to begin not with slogans or opinion, but with the clear and unequivocal framework of international law. The UN Genocide Convention of 1948, to which nearly every nation on Earth is a party—including Israel and the...
Tim Hjersted
"Millions of Americans are deeply concerned about what is going on in Gaza today. The Netanyahu government has killed more than 50,000 people and wounded over 112,000. They have destroyed virtually all of Gaza’s infrastructure. And on top of all that destruction, Netanyahu...
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You can learn more about US foreign policy, military operations and geopolitics from this 9 minute clip than you could attending university for 4+ years.
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Neoliberalism is often misunderstood, but it is very important to understand this ideology that has dominated global economics and politics for decades. Ben Norton discusses the history of the neoliberal "Washington consensus", and how it was imposed on the world.
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THE ENCAMPMENTS follows student organizers at elite universities, including the recently detained Mahmoud Khalil, as they take a historic stand against their institutions’ investments in the Gaza genocide. While originally scheduled for later release, we have chosen to bring...
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US Vice President JD Vance gave a speech about globalization that inadvertently revealed the truth about the US empire, the goal behind the new cold war on China, the economics of imperialism, and how the Trump administration is serving billionaire Big Tech oligarchs in...
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Donald Trump has threatened to colonize Greenland and make it a US territory, even though 85% of people there oppose this. Ben Norton explains the geopolitical and economic reasons: the USA wants to block China from the Arctic region and to profit from the territory's natural...
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“If veterans can unlearn the propaganda, there’s hope for humanity.” Rebecca Roberts joined the Air National Guard thinking she would help her community. Instead she got stationed at a drone base in Djibouti. This is Rebecca’s story about how her deployment to East Africa...
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a clear violation of international law. It meets the definition of a war crime under the UN Charter’s prohibition on the use of force, barring cases of self-defense.¹
We found the waste Elon Musk and DOGE won’t cut: it’s defense contractors. The Department of Defense funnels $450 billion of taxpayer dollars a year to private military contractors. But Musk is too focused on cutting DEI initiatives (0.01% of the size of the defense budget)...
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The United States is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the world’s weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US transferred seven times more than China, and five times more than Russia. Ben Norton explains how the military-industrial complex profits from war.
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On March 7, 2025 Chris Hedges returned to The Sanctuary for Independent Media to present "Normalizing Genocide and the New World Order," a talk about how the world has changed since the genocide in Gaza began, how we navigate a world without rules or humanitarian law and how...
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This was pulled from my last livestream, which you can watch via Part 2.
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Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a self-declared “crusader” who believes the USA is in a “holy war” against China, the left, and Islam. “Communist China will fall”, he vowed in his 2020 book “American Crusade”, promising, “Israel and America will form an even...
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In a 21 February speech in the European Parliament, renowned professor Jeffrey Sachs presents a detailed historical and geopolitical analysis of U.S. foreign policy and its consequences, particularly in relation to NATO expansion, the Ukraine war, and European...
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BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, is buying the ports on both sides of the Panama Canal, after Donald Trump threatened the Latin American country and forced it to pressure a Hong Kong company to sell its stake. Ben Norton discusses how the US government is trying...
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This was a talk I gave at the Workers Strike Back conference in Seattle earlier this week.
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Part 2: Full interview.
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For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel's occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.
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Donald Trump's fight with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House reflected how the US treats Ukraine as a colony. Trump is demanding control of the country's rare earths and critical minerals, to weaken China, re-industrialize, and build tech products. Trump...
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John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in Political Science and Co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, assesses the causes of the present Ukraine crisis, the best way to end it, and its...
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The cynical choreography of empire follows a familiar script: first, a nation is shattered by war; next, the vultures descend to divide the spoils.
“It was a blatant f***ing lie.” That’s what Jamie Santiago, a former US Army geospatial engineer, told us her message to prospective recruits was. During her service in the US occupation of Iraq, she met Iraqis who made her realize everything she was told about the war was a lie.
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From Brasília to Budapest, a global network of far-right forces has grown to include parties and politicians, judges and journalists, foundations and financiers, academics and oligarchs. This is the Reactionary International — far more powerful, and far more insidious, than...
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The US government's talks with Russia are more about China than Ukraine. Donald Trump admitted he wants to "un-unite" Russia and China, in a reverse of the divide-and-conquer strategy used by Nixon and Kissinger in the 1970s. Will Trump succeed? Ben Norton explains why the...
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"The Democratic Socialists of America condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and demands immediate diplomacy and de-escalation to resolve this crisis. We stand in solidarity with the working classes of Ukraine and Russia who will undoubtedly bear the brunt of this war, and...
There's nothing that Israel won't do in the name of revenge and the relentless pursuit of Zionism. Let’s be crystal clear: when a state cloaks its brutality as self-defense, it's not safeguarding Jews—it's endangering us all by weaponizing our history. The narrative that...
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Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear blast the notion that Donald Trump is "anti-war," exposing both his call for the US to "take over the Gaza Strip" and the real motives behind his and Elon Musk’s defunding of USAID. They explain how Israel failed to seize control of Gaza, yet...
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Before the war, Hamada Shaqoura was a food blogger. Now, he spends his days cooking to feed children and displaced people in Gaza. And he figured out a way to reach millions on social media without saying a word. His intense stare at the camera as he cooks various dishes has...
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For decades, U.S. imperialism has operated not just through military force but through a vast system of economic coercion, media manipulation, and covert operations. The World Bank, IMF, and USAID present themselves as tools of development, but in reality, they enforce...
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Donald Trump plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians, saying, "The US will take over the Gaza Strip... We'll own it". His son-in-law Jared Kushner has invested in Israeli companies that profit from expanding illegal settlements. Trump and Kushner floated building luxury real...
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The genocide in Gaza portends the emergence of a dystopian world where the industrialized violence of the Global North is used to sustain its hoarding of diminishing resources and wealth.
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Trump and Netanyahu, with the full backing of billionaire war profiteers and far-right ideologues, are openly orchestrating the ethnic cleansing of Gaza—framing mass displacement, destruction, and annexation as “peace.”
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"We have created our myth. The myth is a faith, a passion. It is not necessary for it to be a reality. . . . Our myth is the nation, our myth is the greatness of the nation! And to this myth, this greatness, which we want to translate into a total reality, we subordinate...
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Belki Sibe is a volunteer soldier's film. It unfolds an 18 month journey through war and revolution, in Rojava Kurdistan NE Syria, during the advance and victory of the Syrian Democratic Forces against ISIS, including the story of the International Freedom Battalion, where...
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“I saw in Auschwitz that if a dominant group wants to dehumanize others (as the Nazis wanted to dehumanize me), the dominant group must first be dehumanized in a way themselves, by diminishing their empathy due to propaganda and indoctrination, in order to be able to be as...
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Smedley Butler was the most decorated marine in US history. By the time he left, he said that he spent most of his time as a "gangster for capitalism" and called all wars a racket. BT's Kei Pritsker goes through the life of the infamous Marine Corps general turned...
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From Executive Producer Michael Moore and Palestine's Official Submission for the 2025 Academy Awards, From Ground Zero, is a collection of revealing stories from 22 Palestinian filmmakers living through war, who capture their lives in Gaza amidst war.
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Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza strip. Watch this video to understand how Amnesty International arrived at this conclusion.
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Capitalism thrives on profiting from crisis—it sold us lies about cigarettes, sugar, and opioids, and now it's doing the same with climate change. Fake solutions and disinformation aren't accidents; they're the business model.
Tim Hjersted
The Western alliance is divided over Israel, after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, charging him with crimes against humanity in Gaza. The United States is threatening sanctions. Ben Norton discusses the...
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A United Nations report, published in October, lays out in chilling detail the advances made by Israel in Gaza as it seeks to eradicate “the very existence of the Palestinian people in Palestine.” This genocidal project, the report ominously warns, “is now metastasizing to...
Chris Hedges
Do you like Star Wars? Ok, how about Star Wars but then . . . you sprinkle in a lil bit of the 2024 US Presidential Elections madness?! Don't let General Grievous bully you into calling you a 'fool'. Because you won't want to miss this EPIC Thriller. Not only will you be...
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In the aftermath of the 2024 American presidential election, we have seen a lot of finger-pointing and misplaced blame. The fact that Donald Trump's brand of far-right populism beat the liberal centrism of Kamala Harris and the Democrats is not surprising.
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Donald Trump has nominated warmongering neoconservatives to run his foreign policy, including Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor, Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary, John Ratcliffe as CIA Director, and Elise Stefanik as UN Ambassador.
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Donald Trump won the 2024 US presidential election in a landslide. Why did Kamala Harris lose so badly? Ben Norton explains the failure of the billionaire-funded Democratic Party to provide an economic alternative to the billionaire-funded Republicans' pseudo "populism", as...
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"In this video essay, I look at the environmental and social cost of the military and militarism. I narrow in on the United States military-industrial complex because it is by far the biggest military machine in the world. I look at how the military and the...
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“Capitalism, militarism and imperialism are disastrously intertwined with the fossil fuel economy….A globalized economy predicated on growth at any social or environmental costs, carbon dependent international trade, the limitless extraction of natural resources, and a view...
Richard Moser
It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what the Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.
Chris Hedges