Library
Filter
241-300 of 849 results
An animated look at David Schweickart's proposal for a next system, grounded in democratic worker cooperatives and built around public control of financial capital.
4 min
On Globalization and The Costs of Exporting the American Dream
Helena Norberg-Hodge and Steven Gorelick
Among climate change activists, solutions usually center on a transition to renewable energy. There may be differences over whether this would be best accomplished by a carbon tax, bigger subsidies for wind and solar power, divestment from fossil fuel companies, massive...
Steven Gorelick
Brazil today awoke to stunning news of secret, genuinely shocking conversations involving a key minister in Brazil’s newly installed government, which shine a bright light on the actual motives and participants driving the impeachment of the country’s democratically elected...
Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman and David Miranda
As an Economic Hit Man (EHM) in the 1970s I spent a great deal of time in Panama. I hate to admit it, but I helped forge the system that has now been exposed in the Panama Papers. It is a system of legalized crimes. How else can we describe it?
John Perkins
The following video explores the influence billionaires have had through massive public relations campaigns, fake "grass roots" movements like the Tea Party, and funding of right-libertarian organizations like FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity. Featuring: Noam...
20 min
Are we able to stop fracking and other threats to the environment from coming into our communities? Are we able to protect local farming from sewage sludge or factory farming? Are we able to protect workers and local economies from multi-national corporations?
CELDF
How can we create participatory workplaces that make decision making more democratic and compensation and job assignments more equitable? In this new animation from the Next System Project, building off Robin Hahnel's paper for our New Systems series, we explore the answer...
2 min
Masters of Mankind: American Power and the Challenges of 2016
Noam Chomsky
Anonymous whistleblower says "Panama Papers are, if nothing else, a glaring symptom of our society's progressively diseased and decaying moral fabric."
Deirdre Fulton
Greenpeace have leaked 248 pages of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiating texts, confirming worst fears of environmentalists and social justice activists
Capitalism is having a laugh at our expense. Surely that is the only reasonable explanation for the current shamelessness of Britain’s corporate elite. Having survived the financial crisis without the public, armed with pitchforks, hammering on their doors, perhaps they now...
Owen Jones
While everyone's in a flap over the Panama Papers, we're way more pissed off about the legal and more-or-less out-in-the-open ways that multinational corporations avoid paying tax in the countries from which they generate staggering profits.
7 min
Credit reports play a surprisingly large role in our lives, but even more surprising is how often they contain critical mistakes. John Oliver helps credit agencies see why this is a problem.
18 min
Over the years, I’ve probably received more mail about Mutiny of the Soul than any other essay I’ve written. The idea of the article has been hugely validating for many readers: that depression, ADHD, anxiety, etc. aren’t chemical malfunctions of the brain, nor spiritual...
Charles Eisenstein
Our system of modern capitalism is just one story; it is not the only one there is. It’s not inherent within us. It isn’t some inevitable expression of predefined Human Nature. It was invented by human beings and so human beings can change it. But in order to get there, we...
Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is slated for an up-or-down vote in Congress. Proponents say it’s about free trade. But it looks more like corporate colonization.
David Korten
Far from being a far-fetched pipe dream that human beings could never live under, pockets of anarchistic self-activity are what keep us sane in a profoundly insane world. This video mainly deals with how the capitalist system exerts massive amounts of pressure on individuals...
22 min
Twelve years ago, John Perkins published his book, “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.” Today, he says “things have just gotten so much worse.”
Sarah van Gelder
Strong encryption poses problems for law enforcement, is weakening it worth the risks it presents? It's...complicated.
18 min
In November 2015, 50 million cubic metres of waste was unleashed after a tailings dam collapsed in the Gualaxo River Valley. This report investigates what is being named the biggest disaster in Brazil's mining history.
A horror mudslide swept through the towns and villages...
43 min
Anticapitalism isn’t simply a moral stance against injustice — it’s about building an alternative.
Erik Olin Wright
This week we take a look at the nefarious capitalist mechanism called free trade agreements, with a focus on world wide resistance to the TPP or Trans Pacific Partnership plus an update of anti-fascist resistance in Anaheim California.
22 min
Within conversations on the left, many of us use the term "capitalism," but we aren't all using it to mean the same thing. Among both its champions and opponents, capitalism acquired too many different meanings over the 200 to 300 years of its global ascendancy. I am...
Richard D. Wolff
“The creation of today’s market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.”
– Naomi Klein in The Shock Doctrine
Liberty! Human Rights! Choice! Prosperity! Freedom!
These seemi
Drew Serres
Right now, millions of people are being thrown off their land because large corporations are being given special rights. The World Bank is driving this trend with its Doing Business rankings.
Get involved, take action: http://ourlandourbusiness.org/
2 min
I know, the “b” word is a drag, if not a complete mystery, for most of us. It’s a word few attempt to spell, let alone re-imagine. Yet aside from a number of outliers, most companies today continue to embrace a bureaucratic structure of operation. While it’s hard to dispute...
If ever one wondered about the efficacy of a state government agency imposing officials on local governments, Flint has answered that question forever.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
No matter who wins the Democratic nomination, it is now utterly clear that the Clinton team disastrously misjudged the American electorate. This is not an accident. It derives from the Clintons' gradual evolution from idealists to hardened insiders, America's decline into...
Charles Ferguson
In 2008, when then-Senator Barack Obama promised progressive change if elected President, his primary opponent, then-Senator Hillary Clinton, derided him.
Robert Reich
Forty years ago, the legendary actor Robert Redford starred in one of the most celebrated journalism films of all time: "All The President's Men." Redford and Dustin Hoffman portrayed Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein investigating the Watergate...
8 min
In this episode of Days of Revolt, host Chris Hedges speaks with two esteemed labor activists from Detroit: Darryl "Waistline" Mitchell and Roshaun Harris. They speak of the desperation caused by industrial decline and deregulation in Detroit, especially among Black people...
25 min
It’s an all-too-easy event to mock. It’s hard to keep a straight face when the world’s rich arrive annually in their private jets to the luxury ski-resort of Davos to express their deep concern about growing poverty, inequality and climate change. US comedian Jon Stewart has...
Nick Buxton
Check out Sir-Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back," remixed and rewritten to be about the shadiest kind of campaign funding. "I like super PACs and I cannot lie!"
3 min
Brave New Films is taking on the National Rifle Association and the gun manufacturers, the most feared special interest group in the USA. Their reluctance to allow for safe gun policies has helped create a 6 billion dollar a year industry and leaves 80 Americans dead from...
3 min
The seizure of political and economic power by corporations is unassailable. Who funds and manages our elections? Who writes our legislation and laws? Who determines our defense policies and vast military expenditures? Who is in charge of the Department of the Interior? The...
Chris Hedges
On this week's episode of The Empire Files, Abby Martin interviews American political figure Ralph Nader about the 2016 presidential race-from the "Brown Shirt" Trump movement to "corporate criminal" Hillary Clinton-and the reality of who has power in America. Known for his...
25 min
It's not good enough to say the money comes from the XYZ Fund for Swell Americans; we need to know the wealthy individuals and corporate interests that are secretly pulling the levers.
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
Global Capitalism: December 2015 Monthly Economic Update Richard D. Wolff Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 7:30pm "Saving Capitalism from Itself or Saving Us from It?
85 min
Shrimp peeled in forced-labor factories in Thailand gets mixed into the global supply chain and sold in the U.S.
2 min
Advertisers are using several psychological tactics to get us to buy a lot more this holiday season.
3 min
Seeds of Justice follows Ethiopian plant geneticist Dr Melaku Worede’s inspirational work to re-valorise farmers’ knowledge and protect their position as guardians of seed diversity. Treading in Melaku’s footsteps from his youth to the present day through his pivotal...
36 min
Insurge Intelligence recruited Scenes of Reason to create a video teaser for an exclusive exploration of how the media is run in the UK and the USA under the title "How mainstream media became a neo-Stalinist propaganda regime for wealthy neocons. "
The Media Reform Coalition,
4 min
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at FreedomFest on July 11 in Las Vegas. (John Locher / AP
Chris Hedges
Everyone hates online ads. But you don’t have to see them anymore. In fact you don’t have to see ads on any website ever. All of you have to do is download AdBlock.
I’m a Youtuber. I don’t make ad revenue when people use Adblock so people are often shocked when I recommend...
1 min
The US patent act clause 102 says that nothing can be patented if it is prior public knowledge. If the public has been aware of the material and its benefits, then it is not possible to patent. Clause 102 then goes on to define ‘public knowledge’ as only that of Americans’...
8 min
More than a dozen are feared dead, with scores missing, after a tailings owned by some of the biggest mining companies in the world burst
Sarah Lazare
A Compassion Over Killing investigator worked inside Quality Pork Processors, a USDA-inspected slaughterhouse in Minnesota that exclusively supplies to Hormel, the makers of SPAM. This shocking footage offers a disturbing, close-up view of the suffering endured by pigs as...
3 min
It is the 20th anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, who campaigned against oil pollution in the oil rich Niger Delta by Royal Dutch Shell.
3 min
WOW! We knew the system was bad, but this is just twisted beyond comprehension! Thank you Represent.Us for making this. More info:
6 min
The European Commission’s ruling is the result of years of sustained activism from anti-austerity groups like UK Uncut.
Steven Johnson
Buried in the minutes of an obscure new quango is evidence of vast corporate capture of the UK government.
Christine Berry
The Trans Pacific Partnership has been approved and this secret agreement between the government and corporations will herald in the New World Order! Get set to pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of Walmart, or whichever corporation is running your country...
6 min
TTIP, activists fear, would erode labor and environmental standards.
Common Dreams
Lies you've been told about work.
3 min
The NRA has contributed $20.7 million dollars to politicians since 1990 - it is no coincidence that congress has failed to DO ANYTHING in that time.
Common-sense gun laws like:
Passing universal background checks
Requiring a license for each and every firearm
Stopp
2 min
Twelve nations have signed a trade agreement that puts corporate profits before the needs and rights of citizens
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is the largest--and worst--trade deal you've never heard of and Republicans in Congress want to work with the Obama administration to "fast track" its passage.
2 min
Capitalism is a coercive economic system that creates persistent patterns of economic deprivation.
Matt Bruenig
Organizations are often run according to “the superchicken model,” where the value is placed on star employees who outperform others. And yet, this isn’t what drives the most high-achieving teams. Business leader Margaret Heffernan observes that it is social cohesion — built...
15 min