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I must applaud Matt Bruenig's summing up of the inherent conflict between libertarianism and environmental issues
George Monbiot
Scream about the debt and deficit. Then shrink revenue by slashing taxes and spend a ton of money on wars of choice. Repeat.
Ben Schreiner
Futurists warning about the threats of AI are looking in the wrong place. Humanity is already facing an existential threat from an artificial intelligence we created hundreds of years ago. Its called the Corporation.
Jeremy Lent
A new phenomenon has emerged in the United States: 64,000 people died in 2016 of a drug overdosewith 80% from opioidswith levels of addiction nearly 500% higher over the last six years.
22 min
The Illusionistsexamines how global advertising firms, mass media, and the beauty, fashion, and cosmetic-surgery industries have together colonised the way people all around the world define beauty and see themselves. Taking us from Harvard to the halls of the Louvre, from a...
54 min
What the Health is the groundbreaking follow-up film from the creators of the award-winning documentary Cowspiracy. The film exposes the collusion and corruption in government and big business that is costing us trillions of healthcare dollars, and keeping us sick.
91 min
The black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is forcing America to face all its interrelated flawsracism, poverty, militarism, and materialism. It is exposing evils that are rooted deeply in the whole structure of our society. It reveals...
Paul Street
Those who decry the politicization of sports are only mad that its black athletes now.
Travis Waldron
Chuck Keeney interview on the Battle of Blair Mountain, Mine Wars, "The Matewan Massacre,"& the other origin of the term "Rednecks." Watch Plutocracy if you're interested to learn more.
40 min
Before casting the blame for our environmental ills on countries like China, we would do well to reflect on who is truly responsible.
Alex Jensen
A new UN report has found that two billion people around the world do not have access to clean drinking water. However, the report covers just a small part of the global population and fails to address the impact that war and corporate profiteering have had on drinking water...
Whitney Webb
There always another $27 billion or lying around, it seems, when Lockheed Martin needs more money for expensive weapons system
Jon Queally
Tens of thousands descend on Hamburg, challenging policies put forth by Trump-type nationalists and Europe's neoliberals elites
Jessica Corbett
We can't let huge corporations continue to underpay our friends and families! Today, May 23, is the day before their annual shareholder meeting-- where they make the key decisions that will impact workers across the nation for the next year. Make sure McDonald's hears you...
1 min
The European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) are the largestpro-pesticide lobby. This joyous action by EZLN targets their offices in Brussels. We Are Nature Defending Itself!
4 min
Noam Chomsky talks to acTVism Munich about Free Trade Agreements such as TTIP; TPP and NAFTA.
5 min
'Giving workers a seat at the table and their fair share of the profits they help produce is one way to even up the playing field and give hardworking Americans a chance to create an economy that works for everyone'
Lauren McCauley
Public money and public universities boost Big Pharmas profits, so shouldnt the public be able to afford the drugs?
Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz, Clo Copass
Environmental standards do not feature in international regulations governing drug production
Madlen Davies
We the People 2.0 describes the growing peoples revolt against destructive corporate activities in the US to stop toxic dumps, mines, drilling, etc. Communities are seizing back the right to say no through local lawmaking, outlawing oligarchy.
91 min
An example of how the Free Market functions, taken from the book titled 'The New Human Rights Movement,'written by Peter Joseph.
5 min
Award-winning filmmaker Jesse Borkowski delivers a refreshing meditation on how business can be used to create value beyond profit; connecting motivational stories from social entrepreneurs working in agriculture, apparel, insurance, and biofuel, with the captivating science...
70 min
Unilever is regarded as a champion of sustainability. According to CEO Paul Polman, what benefits the company also benefits the earth. But when US competitor Heinz Kraft tried to take over the company, Unilever changed its short-term strategy. Dutch Investigative journalism...
Daphne Dupont-Nivet, Anouk Ruhaak, Marije Schuurs, Emiel Woutersen
Many anarchists oppose in principle such use of the political process for anarchist ends. It is unethical, they say, for anarchists to participate in the political process. Voting entails selecting a representative to exercise coercive force in our name; and appealing to such...
Kevin Carson
Only a clown would serve coffee heated to 190 degrees! Find out what really happened in the infamous Mcdonald'scoffee lawsuit.
5 min
If you don't know this story, you'll never look at the word the same again.
This is just a window into the sometimes shocking, subversive and untold history of the United States, from the filmPlutocracyby Scott Noble. Watch the full documentary online here(free).
15 min
Trump is a disaster, but so was the TPP
Isabel Marlens
We must not let authoritarians co-opt the language of people's movements for their own ends.
Alex Jensen
Bosses don't grow on trees. They don't magically appear at your job. They aren't born into their roles. They are created. They are manufactured to fulfill arbitrary positions of power within organizational hierarchies. They possess no natural or learned talents, and they are...
Official Washingtons rush into an Orwellian future is well underway as political and media bigwigs move to silence Internet voices of independence and dissent, reports Robert Parry.
Robert Parry
We need a president who can stand up to big corporations, not fold to their demands.
Bernie Sanders
The true sharing economy represents the end of the old ways defined by the pursuit of profit and competitive self-interest, while a new age of intergovernmental sharing and cooperation can only begin through the channel of ending hunger in a world that has such an abundance...
Mohammed Mesbahi
More than a hundred animals invaded the office of Bayer in Brussels to protest its intensive lobbying for TTIP and denounce their corporate power consolidation in acquiringMonsanto for $66 billion.
3 min
For many years, Ive seen more and more of my rural and tribal neighbors pack their children off to school. Now, every morning between 8:00 and 9:00 am in this upwardly-mobile-yet-backward district, the country roads are full of children commuting to school, hoisting bags...
Suprabha Seshan
Sure there are differences between Trump & Hillary. But don't you see all the similarities?
3 min
While it's not entirely clear who coined the phrase "socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the rest," its ability to provoke and, more importantly, to describe is beyond question.
Jake Johnson
Donald Trump is actually the corporate triceratops, Mr. Richfield, from the 90's TV show sitcom, "Dinosaurs".
8 min
Water for Gold tells the alarming story of how international trade law is leading us to trade our most basic rights to clean, safe water for access to gold.
3 min
As momentum continues to grow against the colossal U.S. imprisonment system, the need for strategic targets is crucial, yet we are seeing an overbearing focus on private prisons. We are in a moment when reforms that appear to be progressive can actually entrench the violence...
Critical Resistance
Study comes after reporting revealed fentanyl-maker pouring money into Arizona's anti-legalization effort
Lauren McCauley
The complete version of Abby Martin's three-part series covering Chevron's disaster in Ecuador, on teleSUR's The Empire Files.
Abby launches a deep investigation into Chevron Texaco's intentional spilling of 19 billion gallons of oil and waste in Ecuador's pristine Amazon...
67 min
What does it mean toearn a profitin an extractive economy? Simply put, it means to behave like a parasite. All you need do is attach yourself to a nutrient-rich host and suck the value out of it. When the host dies, move on to the next market opportunity and never look...
Joe Brewer
"Absolutely brilliant on numerous levels. While there have been many other important documentaries about individual strikes and/or strike movements, Plutocracy has succeeded at generalizing the political lessons of an entire era in U.S. Labor history from a working-class...
120 min
One of my followers (Martin Bishop) recently shared an album of screenshots he took of a survey that was generated when he shared one of my videos to his FB wall (video linked below). It, of course, was highly political in nature and talked about Bernie Sanders forming an...
16 min
Protecting our planet has become big business with companies promoting new environmental markets. This involves species banking, where investors buy up vast swathes of land, full of endangered species, to enable them to sell nature credits. Companies whose actions destroy the...
87 min
Seeding Fear is a short documentary Executive Produced by Neil Young that tells the story of Michael White, a fourth generation farmer, who went toe to toe with Monsanto.
10 min
My mother died of cancer five years ago. While most of the cells in her body grew and reproduced at a rate that merely kept her alive, there were a few rogue cells that mutated and changed reprogramming themselves as greedy individuals who cared about nothing except rapid...
Joe Brewer
What those striking are now bravely confronting in Atlantic City should resonate deeply with American workers, their unions, and beyond
Adolph Reed Jr.
Among the many terrible features of the Trans Pacific Partnership, twelve countries are crafting something that would give corporations unprecedented power: a secret court for capitalist enterprises to sue any country that infringes on profits.As it stands, with investment...
23 min
If you buy products or services from any of the 50 companies listed below (and you likely do), you are supporting modern American slavery
Sara Burrows
Every year, supermarkets in the UK throw away an estimated 40million tonnes of perfectly edible food, often for perplexing reasons. FareShare is a charity that diverts some of this waste, redistributing it to organisations that work with vulnerable people.
27 min
Within the last 30 years, while weve chased bogeymen overseas and here at home, our Democracy has fallen. We have been taken over; defeated; our voices neutered; our freedoms trampled; our democracy vanquished.
No invading force accomplished this; no jackboots echoed across...
John Atcheson
Election seasons bring with them a renewed interest in politics. For most that couldn't care less about such concerns, election season becomes, for at least a moment, a time to reflect on deeper issues. For those of us who spend a large portion of our lives thinking, writing...
The facile and indiscriminate use of the term fascism has led to a widespread misunderstanding and misuse of its meaning. Asked to define fascism, most people would respond in terms such as dictatorship, anti-Semitism, mass hysteria, efficient propaganda machine, mesmerizing...
Ismael Hossein-zadeh
Last month, the University of San Francisco made an alarming discovery, that 93% of Americans tested had traces of a chemical called glyphosate in their urine. Last year, the World Health Organization deemed glyphosate a possible carcinogen.
24 min
The Children's Fire is part of the Earth teachings of the elders of ancient America. Over time the elders came to understand that all human-created institutions needed to reflect the balance and wisdom observed in nature. The Children's Fire was a reminder of the first...
14 min
While the leadership of the Leave and Remain camps portray their positions as fundamentally different, neither side is challenging the stranglehold of corporations that run the global economy. Their econometric, growth-based arguments focus primarily on which alternative will...
Helena Norberg-Hodge & Rupert Read and Thomas Wallgren
Wall Street continues to back the most polluting fossil fuel industries "at the expense of some of the most vulnerable communities on the planet," states new report
Lauren McCauley
A short film critiquing the military industrial complex.
3 min
From farm to pharmaceutical, diesel truck to dinner plate, pipeline to plastic product, it is impossible to think of an area of our modern-day lives that is not affected by the oil industry. The story of oil is the story of the modern world. And this is the story of those who...
71 min