4 min

Pentagon Propaganda Scandal Ignored by Mainstream News

The New York Times has exposed a secret Pentagon campaign to infiltrate the media with pro-war propaganda. The scheme reaches all the way to the Bush White House, where top officials recruited dozens of "military analysts" to spread favorable views of the war via the news...

Free Press · 6,871 views · 75%

2 min

"Dreamland" (trailer)

How much unspoiled nature should we preserve and what do we sacrifice for clean, renewable energy? Dreamland gradually turns into a disturbing picture of corporate power taking over small communities.

6,816 views · 100%

The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic

The moral philosopher Cornel West, if Barack Obama’s ascent to power was a morality play, would be the voice of conscience. Rahm Emanuel, a cynical product of the Chicago political machine, would be Satan. Emanuel in the first scene of the play would dangle power, privilege...

Chris Hedges · 6,713 views · unrated

3 min

Policing for Profit - The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture

The site that put this out is not the greatest orginization, but they hit the nail on the head with this one. It shows the basic concept of civil asset forefiture, a true problem not many speak out against in the U.S. today.

Institute for Justice · 6,632 views · 92%

Flying the Flag, Faking the News

Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During the First World War, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a secret government campaign to persuade reluctant Americans to send an army to the...

John Pilger · 6,490 views · 75%

28 min

Local Living Economies - Protecting What We Love

Judy Wicks’ love of place has made widening ripples on a global scale. She’s the founder of BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies), a national network of sustainable, small businesses. After moving onto a quaint street in Philadelphia, she learned it was slated...

peakmoment · 6,331 views · 100%

6 min

Yes Men Pull Off Chamber Of Commerce Hoax On Climate Change

Political performance artists, The Yes Men, have taken credit for today's prank, in which they posed as Chamber of Commerce officials pushing for comprehensive climate change legislation. In a statement from the group offered hours after a fake press conference was held at...

Bing Bong · 6,180 views · 88%

Propaganda and Language of the State

Language is powerful. Language is deceptive. Propaganda is pumped into U.S. citizens heads daily without question or critical evaluation. The rhetoric is chosen and the connotations as well as the implied half truths are more powerful than what is directly said. We see this...

Punk Johnny Cash · 6,123 views · 100%

47 min

Suspect Nation (2006)

Since Tony Blair's New Labour government came to power in 1997, the UK civil liberties landscape has changed dramatically. ASBOs were introduced by Section 1 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and first used in 1999. The right to remain silent is no longer universal. Our...

6,107 views · 75%

28 min

City Repair - Permaculture for Urban Spaces

What happens when citizens apply permaculture principles to a city grid? They create friendly places within the grid that invite people to come together. Mark Lakeman, co-founder of Portland, Oregon's City Repair Project describes these "creative intervention" projects as...

peakmoment · 6,017 views · 50%

5 min

Going Blackwater

Jeremy Scahill, bestselling author and investigative reporter for The Nation, testified May 10, 2007 before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, on the impact of private military contractors conduct in the Iraq War. June 2009 to September 2009, there was a 40%...

MindCrimesInc · 5,988 views · 88%

20 min

Al Franken Exposes Misinformation On Net Neutrality

Senator Al Franken explains why net neutrality is important to both the American citizen and the American business owner by dispelling the misinformation claiming net neutrality is a government takeover of the internet. Instead, net neutrality is exactly how the internet...

Former U.S. Senator Al Franken · 5,982 views · 50%

The Meaning of 9/11

9/11 remains one of the most misunderstood events in modern history. The first myth is that it came out of the blue on an unsuspecting America. In fact it is known that 11 countries provided advance warnings to the US about the 9/11 attacks, including Russia and Israel...

Michael Meacher MP · 5,949 views · unrated

PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: 'A government takeover of health care'

In the spring of 2009, a Republican strategist settled on a brilliant and powerful attack line for President Barack Obama's ambitious plan to overhaul America's health insurance system. Frank Luntz, a consultant famous for his phraseology, urged GOP leaders to call it a...

Bill Adair, Angie Drobnic Holan · 5,946 views · 100%

Tell Congress: Investigate Egypt's Internet Crackdown

Egypt's Mubarak regime today shut down Internet and cell phone communications before launching a violent crackdown against protesters.

Films For Action · 5,857 views · 75%

Why Are the Feds Cultivating Their Own "Homegrown Terrorists"?

The FBI caught another homegrown terrorist this week, except like many recent plots the agency has “uncovered,” the attack was a plant, a plan concocted by the FBI itself. It’s the latest in a growing number of terrorism plots that the FBI stirs up by infiltrating...

Seth Freed Wessler · 5,730 views · 100%

You can’t Google it and get it back: Why the death of tribal languages matters

“You say laughter and I say larfter,” sang Louis Armstrong. The difference is subtle. Across the world, however, from the Amazon to the Arctic, tribal peoples say it in 4,000 entirely different ways. Sadly, no one now says “laughter” in Eyak, a language from the Gulf of...

Joanna Eede · 5,687 views · 100%

Become a Policy Changer

The political and economic policies that have shaped our world today systematically favor large, transnational corporations over small local businesses and farmers, ecological health and community well-being. In short, they favor economic growth and corporate profits over the...

International Society for Ecology and Culture · 5,650 views · 88%

Honeywell Bannister Complex in Kansas City Hides Pollutants

Punk Johnny Cash · 5,590 views · 100%

11 min

In Defense of Food

Acclaimed author and journalist Michael Pollan argues that what most Americans are consuming today is not food but "edible foodlike substances." His previous book, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, was named one of 2006's ten best books by the New York...

5,549 views · 50%

8 Easy Projects for Instant Energy Savings

Reducing your home energy use is the best of win-win deals — not only does it reduce your carbon footprint, it also saves you big bucks on your energy bills. That’s especially exciting when you consider that many home energy improvements are fast, easy and inexpensive. Often...

Gary Reysa · 5,510 views · unrated

12 min

Meet Your Meat

A short film showing the torturous lives and deaths of the animals in factory farms.

Alfie A · 5,397 views · 75%

The End of the Animal Kingdom

I wrote this originally in 2010, and, it is based on decades of work by some of our best. Our scientists do not get credence from media. This graph displays the recorded measurements of the O2, or Oxygen, level of our atmosphere. Unlike the countless tens and tens of...

David Cardill · 5,385 views · 100%

Osama bin Laden Won

And he continues to kick our asses posthumously. That’s right, he’s been dead for eleven fucking years and we’re still on orange alert. After years of dialysis and a less than comfortable lifestyle, despite his wealth, in December 2001 Osama bin Laden died in the mountains...

Mike Burrows · 5,166 views · 100%

My experiences stationed in a USMC Public affairs office shaped my criticism of media

When I was in the Marine Corps I learned quickly that media, images and information would be tightly controlled. I worked in a U.S.M.C. Public Affairs office as well as the "Combat Visual Information Center". There were images and footage that was not to be seen by the...

Punk Johnny Cash · 5,160 views · 100%

10 min

Democrats / Republicans: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Both political parties are controlled in America. This is a fact. The so called "Top Tier Candidates" (who are pushed the most through the media) are right behind the military industrial complex. To see candidates that truly represent the people and not corporate interests...

MonsterTri0 · 5,147 views · 92%

Support Real Journalism Over Junk News: Clicks Equal Votes.

The future of the news is upon us! Simply put, the internet has taken over. With newspapers, magazines, television networks, and radio shows distributing their content online, you as a consumer now have a definite voice in the discussion of what content is favored by these...

Matthew Toplikar · 5,117 views · 92%

2 min

An Orange is An Apple

A comparison between what we are told and what we can see with our own eyes. World Trade Center 7 collapsed suddenly at 5:20pm on September 11th, 2001 at nearly free-fall speed after having been damaged by fire and falling debris earlier in the day, but the collapse looks...

goldmemba · 5,100 views · 75%

What is the Carnivalesque Rebellion?

The Carnivalesque Rebellion is about to begin. From November 22nd to the 28th, culture jammers of all kinds – from artists to churchgoers, anarchists to carpenters – will disregard the illegitimate laws of consumer society. For seven nights, they will honor instead the...

Adbusters · 5,092 views · 100%

3 min

Is Junk Media Making You Sick???

Media junk food is mind pollution. As waves of erratic, mindless info-toxins increasingly lay siege to a battered mental landscape, our mental pores become clogged, cluttering our capacity to think and to feel empathy. And so we find today that Junk Media is to our mental...

Free Press · 5,044 views · 75%

9/11 Family Group: Media Matters Should Apologize for its Irresponsible Coverage of Building 7

NEW YORK CITY — Today, the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now (NYC CAN), a group of family members of those killed in the 9/11 attacks, issued the following statement:

the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now · 5,002 views · 100%

2 min

Maxed Out (trailer)

Maxed Out takes us on a journey deep inside the American debt-cycle, where everything seems okay as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on time. Sure, most of us may have that sinking feeling that something isn't quite right, but we're told not to worry. After all...

4,970 views · 100%

The Moral Calculus of Mega-Economics

March 14, 2011 (1400 hrs) - Watching scenes of the devastation is emotionally taxing. Bodies continue to be found everywhere. The body count in Miyagi Prefecture alone is now over 10,000. Whole towns completely wiped off the map. Even if people escaped with their lives, those...

Rice Farmer · 4,969 views · 100%

28 min

Making Way for Bikes

City Councilor Scott Walker of Port Townsend, Washington is working to build a walkable, bikeable community where the car is not essential. As a result, the town has designated many undeveloped streets and "connectors" as non-motorized routes. He says, "Build safe, convenient...

peakmoment · 4,907 views · unrated

Analysis of Project Censored: Are We a Left-Leaning, Conspiracy-Oriented Organization?

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”

Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff · 4,876 views · 100%

5 min

Rob Hopkins' Transition Handbook

Founder of the Transition Network spreading throughout the world, Rob Hopkins talks about Transition Town Totnes and moving towards a post-peak oil society. His book The Transition Handbook gives an account of the founding of Transition Town Totnes, and the global spread of...

stephengbooks · 4,862 views · 50%

60 min

Wikileaks: Iraq's Secret War Files (2010)

The only TV documentary to have advance access to the biggest WikiLeaks release ever. This is what really happened during the Iraq war, not what the US PR machine of the time wanted us to believe. The reality behind the civilian death count; al-Qaeda's fictitious presence...

4,845 views · 54%

4 min

Rebel Diaz "A Trillion"- No Bailout For Wall St. Crooks!

Rebel Diaz - the in-your-face trio out of Chicago mix strong political statements with their dynamic flow and character. As a performance group, Rebel Diaz came together in early 2006 when they were invited to perform their revolutionary music at the historic immigrant rights...

Rebel Diaz · 4,824 views · 50%

3 min

The People Speak (trailer)

A documentary based on Howard Zinn's groundbreaking books A People's History of the United States and Voices of a People's History of the United States, featuring music by Eddie Vedder and performances by Viggo Mortensen, Sandra Oh, Sean Penn, Rosario Dawson, Don Cheadle...

4,764 views · 100%

The Inhumane Conditions of Bradley Manning's Detention

Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia for five months -- and...

Glenn Greenwald · 4,740 views · 100%

3 min

Polls Show People Are Concerned About The Truth Of 9/11

Over the years, several polls have been conducted that show a majority of people are concerned about the truth of 9/11. In August 2004, 911Truth.org commissioned Zogby International for a poll that concluded "half (49.3%) of New York City residents and 41% of New York...

Jon Gold · 4,736 views · 50%

1 min

"Uh Oh, It Looks Like You've Got a Case of the Humans."

This was a global student animation awards winner in 2006. Produced by Greg Gunn, Casey Hunt, Reza Rasoli - Otis College of Art & Design. Editor's Note: Of course, it's worth noting this video suffers from "The Great Forgetting," which is common to most of the civilized...

J. Benito Valarezo Loor · 4,735 views · 42%

What Can One Person Do, When 6.8 Billion are Frying the Planet?

Climate change got you down? Don't despair. Here's a visual exploration of what you can do to make a difference, featuring art, video, and dinosaurs.

Franke James · 4,716 views · 100%

2 min

Revenge of the Electric Car (trailer)

In 2006, as many as 5,000 modern electric cars were destroyed by the major car companies that built them. Today, less than 5 years later, the electric car is back... with a vengeance. In Revenge of the Electric Car, director Chris Paine takes his film crew behind the...

4,670 views · 75%

4 min

Income Inequality: We're Off the Rails

Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell discusses America's dramatically changing notions of wealth and income inequality since the mid-20th century. Gladwell notes that top-earning Americans faced a 91% income tax rate during most of the 1950s. "What's amazing is that, if you...

FORA.tv · 4,640 views · 75%

2 min

You Gotta Give 'em Hope

Harvey Milk was the first openly-gay man to be elected to public office in the US in 1977. His most recognized speech, "You Cannot Live On Hope Alone," was given in 1978, shortly before he was assassinated. His words resonate particularly today as Californians debate a...

4,638 views · 94%

2 min

Dove Onslaught(er)

Talk to Dove before they destroy Paradise Forests. Click the website link for more. UPDATE: Thanks to the staggering public support for our international Dove campaign in April 2008, Unilever has now agreed to play their part in saving the Paradise Forests of South East...

Greenpeace International · 4,617 views · 62%

In bin Laden killing, media -- as usual -- regurgitates false Government claims

Virtually every major newspaper account of the killing of Osama bin Laden consists of faithful copying of White House claims. That's not surprising: it's the White House which is in exclusive possession of the facts, but what's also not surprising is that many of the claims...

Glenn Greenwald · 4,602 views · unrated

More for Them, Less for You

What would you say to a family financial adviser who suggested your wisest investment would be to liquidate your own retirement account and empty out your kids' college fund to buy your wealthy cousin a new Bentley? Would you go ahead and gamble with your life savings in...

Carl Gibson · 4,586 views · unrated

The Next Net

The moment the "net neutrality" debate began was the moment the net neutrality debate was lost. For once the fate of a network - its fairness, its rule set, its capacity for social or economic reformation - is in the hands of policymakers and the corporations funding them ...

Douglas Rushkoff · 4,566 views · 100%

27 min

A No-Nonsense Look at Climate Change and Petrocollapse

Former energy analyst Jan Lundberg opens by singing "Have A Global Warming Day" and closes with "The Depaver's Song." In between is an unabashed look at climate distortion, peak oil, and declining ecosystems, all bringing a necessary collapse of our "pigging out" economy. He...

peakmoment · 4,483 views · unrated

New Court Filing Reveals How the 2004 Ohio Presidential Election Was Hacked

A new filing in the King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell case includes a copy of the Ohio Secretary of State election production system configuration that was in use in Ohio's 2004 presidential election when there was a sudden and unexpected shift in votes for George W...

Bob Fitrakis · 4,475 views · unrated

10 min

Censored: Naomi Klein speaks at the National Conference on Media Reform

An incredibly relevant speech now that Obama is our president elect. A must watch, courtesy of subMedia. Interestingly, Naomi Klein's speech at the National Conference for Media Reform was not included on the conference website. subMedia contacted Free Press, the organizer or...

subMedia · 4,459 views · unrated

2% Have 95% of the Wealth!

Redistribution of wealth. These are the three dirtiest words in the English language…to the 2% of Americans holding 95% of the country’s wealth. It’s of small wonder we hear politicians from both sides of the aisle condemning any attempt to even the economic scales. When...

Mike Burrows · 4,449 views · 75%

27 min

Creating a Home Graywater System

Trathen Heckman takes us on a step-by-step tour of how to make a safe, ecological and legal suburban home graywater system. Follow the water as it drains from the bathroom tub (and sink and laundry) through a unique valve leading into the backyard garden. It flows into an...

peakmoment · 4,419 views · unrated

50 min

Flying the Flag - Arming the World

The arms industry is considered so important by the Brittish government that it consumes almost half of all research and development funds. Strangely it produces not consumer goods that people want, but machines that hardly any of us use or want to use. Moreover, for all its'...

4,413 views · unrated

3 min

The Business of Death

Throughout the developed world the business surrounding death has often been an uneasy topic of discussion. Originating in the mid-19th Century, the modern funeral has evolved into an economic and cultural monster, with a vast network of supporting industries and myriad...

GOOD · 4,346 views · 100%

2 min

Dirty Water

Today, it is estimated that 3.6 million people, including 1.5 million children under the age of 5, die every year of diseases borne by unhealthy water, making it the world's leading cause of death.Yet the public isn't aware of it and political leaders do not demonstrate the...

Les Présidents · 4,333 views · 92%

28 min

Changing the World One Bike Rider at a Time

A weekly free bike coop where you can use mechanics’ tools and expertise to fix your bike? Free clinics where schoolkids or neighbors learn to maintain or build their own bikes from used parts? Chauncey and Dash Tudhope-Locklear make a living repairing bicycles, but...

peakmoment · 4,300 views · 75%

The omnipotence of Al Qaeda and meaninglessness of "Terrorism"

For much of the day yesterday, the featured headline on The New York Times online front page strongly suggested that Muslims were responsible for the attacks on Oslo; that led to definitive statements on the BBC and elsewhere that Muslims were the culprits. Th

Glenn Greenwald · 4,247 views · unrated

Does 9/11 Truth Have A Chance?

In the US on September 11, 2011, the tenth anniversary of 9/11, politicians and their presstitute media presented Americans with "A Day of Remembrance," a propaganda exercise that hardened the 9/11 lies into dogma. Meanwhile, in Toronto, Canada, at Ryerson University the...

Paul Craig Roberts · 4,226 views · 88%

28 min

Brookside Farm - Growing Food, Growing Energy

Take a whirlwind tour of the one-acre Brookside Energy Farm with Jason Bradford and Christoffer Hansen at planting time. Along with perennials, annuals, a food forest, and dryland crops (grains), they're growing Jerusalem artichoke and dale sorghum to produce both food and...

peakmoment · 4,162 views · unrated

11 min

Michael Moore slams CNN for False Criticism of SICKO

Moore speaks truth to power, arguing that CNN has such a lousy track record of reporting the truth about the war in Iraq and asking tough questions, that Americans should be skeptical of their reporting on health care. But that's putting it lightly. In simpler terms, Wolf...

Michael Moore · 4,112 views · 100%

28 min

San Francisco Takes Action on Climate Change

Cal Broomhead and Melissa Capria of the Energy & Climate Program discuss the rationale, aggressive plans, and activities for city-wide energy self-reliance and greenhouse gas reduction. Tools include energy efficiency in buildings, transit alternatives, alternative vehicle...

peakmoment · 4,106 views · unrated

2 min

When Will Americans Have Had Enough?

"The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live and fear breeds repression. Too often, sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-Communism." Today, it's the cloak of anti-terrorism. Stevenson...

helpfreespeech · 4,085 views · 88%

9 min

Propeller Sustainability Series: "SHELTER, Part 5"

In this final installment of the "Shelter" segment of the Sustainability Series, we meet Dr. Eugene Tsui, a non-traditional architect whose design inspiration comes from nature and all the brilliant systems and methods found therein. Dr. Tsui shows us city designs inspired by...

José Vicente Araújo · 4,082 views · unrated

The New Website is Live!

Oo-de-lally!! After twelve months in development, the site has finally gone live!

Tim Hjersted · 4,067 views · unrated

4 min

Lifelong Republican and WWII Veteran Speaks Out in Favor of Gay Rights

A touching testimony given by an 86 year-old for Maine's marriage equality bill on April 22, 2009.

EqualityMaine · 4,050 views · 75%

2 min

The Most Dangerous Man in America (trailer)

1971--Daniel Ellsberg, a top-level Vietnam War strategist, concludes the war is based on a decade of lies. He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to the The New York Times, a daring act of conscience that leads directly to Watergate, President Nixon's resignation and...

3,997 views · 75%

Egypt Turns Off Internet Amidst Protests

Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes...

James Cowie · 3,957 views · 100%

4 min

Save the Internet!

From its beginnings, the Internet has leveled the playing field for all. Everyday people can have their voices heard by thousands, even millions of people. The SavetheInternet.com Coalition -- representing millions of Americans from all walks of life -- is working together to...

SaveTheInternet · 3,832 views · 75%

Tribecca Film Institute Creates $1 Million Grant for Social Documentaries

Tribeca Film Institute and Ford Foundation's JustFilms have partnered to create an annual grant supporting non-fiction transmedia projects centering on social justice and equality, with this year's $750,000 award total stepping up to $1 million per annum for the following...

Gordon Cox · 3,812 views · 100%

Cancun, Climate Change and WikiLeaks

CANCUN, Mexico—Critical negotiations are under way here in Cancun, under the auspices of the United Nations, to reverse human-induced global warming. This is the first major meeting since the failed Copenhagen summit last year, and it is happening at the end of the...

Amy Goodman · 3,794 views · 100%

6 min

Sen. Sanders: Break up the Banks!

More than a year has gone by since Congress passed the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. The Federal Reserve has committed trillions of additional dollars in virtually zero-interest loans and other assistance to large financial institutions resulting in the largest...

Brave New Films · 3,743 views · 50%

7 min

9/12 Protest: Here's What Fox News Didn't Broadcast

While Fox News cameras covering the so-called 9.12 Project on the National Mall lurched away from signs morphing President Barack Obama's face into Adolph Hitler's, I zoomed in. Histrionics and manufactured paranoia were hard to avoid at the massive September 12 anti-Obama...

Max Blumenthal · 3,726 views · 38%

5 min

Sen. Al Franken Takes on the Bigoted "Defense of Marriage" Act

U.S. Sen. Al Franken proves Focus on the Family's Tom Minery gave false testimony in a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing investigating the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a law that prevents federal recognition of same-sex marriages and allows states to refuse to acknowledge...

Former U.S. Senator Al Franken · 3,701 views · 50%

1 min

Oakland Police Fracture Skull of Iraq Veteran at Peaceful Occupy Protest

Scott Olsen, an Iraq veteran who served two tours of duty, has been critically injured in the confrontation between Occupy Oakland protesters and police on Tuesday night in downtown Oakland. Olsen, a systems administrator living in Daly City who is originally from Wisconsin...

Matt Kresling · 3,685 views · 50%

2 min

Van Jones Destroys Glenn Beck with Love

Despite the best efforts of Glenn Beck to ruin Van Jones, Jones is back, standing tall, a righteous man vindicated. While receiving a prestigious award Friday night from the NAACP, Jones refused to lower himself to Beck’s level. Rather than giving Beck the tongue lashing he...

Clips 6 · 3,641 views · 75%

6 min

Who cares if the world drowns?

Afsan Chowdhury is a journalist and communications development expert based in Dhaka, Bangladesh and Toronto, Canada. Director of the film "Climate Change - Does Anybody Care if Bangladesh Drowns?," he is also Director of Advocacy and Human Rights at The Bangladesh Rural...

The Real News Network · 3,630 views · 50%

Why Assange and Wikileaks Have Won this Round

The odd thing about Wikileaks is that their success has been assured, not by what they leaked, though there is some important information there, but by their enemies.

Ian Welsh · 3,518 views · 100%

5 min

Michael Moore Calls Out ABC Labor Practices On "Good Morning America"

Michael Moore called out ABC on "Good Morning America" Wednesday for employing "permalancers," permanent freelancers who are effectively full-time employees but hired on a contract basis, and thus not extended any benefits. "I'm talking to employees, people backstage here...

mmflint2 · 3,504 views · 88%

21 min

GRITtv: The Future of Independent Media

Independent media is almost a household name these days. But in 1986 when Fairness And Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) launched most people hadn't heard of anything like it. So what's changed in the last two decades? Has the stranglehold of corporate media been loosened? Today...

Laura Flanders & Friends · 3,500 views · 100%

10 min

Vancouver Media Co-op's Round Up of G20 Resistance

Canadian police have arrested over 900 people in Toronto in a police crackdown on protests at the G20 summit. Riot police used batons, plastic bullets and tear gas for the first time in the city's history. More than 19,000 security personnel were deployed in Toronto, and a...

vancouvermediacoop · 3,494 views · 50%

PirateBox: an "Artistic Provocation" in Lunchbox Form

Nate Anderson · 3,470 views · unrated

What's Happening in Wisconsin Explained

If you need to know the basics of what's going on in Wisconsin, read on. If you're already up to speed, you can follow the action on Twitter or jump straight to the latest updates from our reporter on the ground in Madison.

Andy Kroll · 3,330 views · unrated

6 min

Sick For Profit: Fight Back Against Health Insurance Lies

What does United Healthcare CEO Stephen Hemsley have to lose if Congress passes real healthcare reform this year? Well, for starters, his nearly three quarters of a billion dollars in unexercised stock options might lose a few pennies on the dollar. What does Isabella, a...

Brave New Films · 3,316 views · unrated

28 min

People-Centered Developments for Reduced-Energy Living

Developer Steven Ribeiro is re-creating traditional towns, that put "waste" resources to good use. A mixed-use three-story building augments power from its solar panels (which provide shade and collect rainwater) with a tugboat engine (running on local biodiesel), using...

peakmoment · 3,306 views · unrated

The Data Behind Occupy Wall Street

Data and charts show a dramatic shift in wealth inequality (towards the top 1%).In the presentation, charts indicate that policy changes changed the distribution of wealth towards a plutocratic society. Beginning in the 1980's, the tax for highest earners began to decrease...

Precipice · 3,211 views · 100%

2 min

Gerrymandering (trailer)

Right now, across the country, our two major political parties are gearing up for a once-a-decade war whose winner will control Congress for the next ten years, and possibly more. There will be battles in every state, and each will be kept carefully hidden from the prying...

3,192 views · 75%

Evidence for Informed Trading on the Attacks of September 11

Just after September 11th 2001, many governments began investigations into possible insider trading related to the terrorist attacks of that day. Such investigations were initiated by the governments of Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Monte...

Kevin Ryan · 3,190 views · unrated

28 min

Peak Oil, Peak Coal, and Beyond

Hot topics from Richard Heinberg: record-high U.S. fuel prices; the ethanol big-business boondoggle; coal projected to peak about a hundred years early (around 2020); what the climate change discussion is missing; and enjoying ourselves as we "go local."

peakmoment · 3,181 views · unrated

7 min

Colin Powell Rebukes Republican Party for Veiled Racism Against Muslims

Sunday former Secretary of State and Republican Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama for President of the United States. It was a stunning blow to the McCain campaign, and a repudiation of the failed politics and ideology of a Republican Party that has fundamentally lost its...

EternalMedia · 3,146 views · 38%

3 min

What do Starbucks and Wal-Mart have in common?

Both corporate giants have long track records of harassing their workers when it comes to joining unions. Harassment and intimidation are illegal under Federal law, and we won't stand for it. Tell Howard Schultz, Starbucks' billionaire owner, to respect the people who work...

Brave New Films · 3,056 views · 100%

2 min

Whirl-Mart

Whirlmart: A Classic Buy Nothing Day Jam. What happens when a few people get together to buy nothing at all?

2,992 views · 25%

28 min

Singing Minstrels - Teaching Kids about Climate Change

Enjoy toe-tapping tunes as environmental educators Sharon Abreu and Michael Hurwicz regale us with songs like "Penguins on Thin Ice." Their shared goal is for education to be fun and entertaining. Their catchy lyrics bid "Goodbye, Oil" and ask "How do we find the balance?"...

peakmoment · 2,866 views · unrated

The Mystery of Science

John Todd's work is something of a mystery, even to himself. He and his colleagues build mini-ecosystems that turn sewage into irrigation water, restore dying lakes and streams, filter polluted canals, and process sludge. They call them living machines. They can assemble...

Olive Dempsey · 2,789 views · 100%

Ideas and the Culpability for Violence

The violence perpetuated by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway unleashed the usual torrent of blaming anyone who might have influenced the murderer's thought. He was first described as a right-wing Christian -- a description designed to put a certain community on notice. As...

Lew Rockwell · 2,752 views · unrated

#OCCUPYWALLSTREET

#OCCUPYWALLSTREET started last Saturday, when 5,000 Americans descended on to the financial district of Lower Manhattan, held a people's assembly and set up an encampment in Zuccotti Park on Liberty Street, a stone's throw from Wall Street and a block from the Federal Reserve...

Adbusters · 2,719 views · 88%

Panache! Why We Must Fight

My three-year-old son’s favorite book is Out of the Blue. It has large color photographs of sea animals, from plankton to clownfish to orcas. I often find my son, dressed in his pajamas, on the floor of his bedroom in the morning carefully turning the pages of the book. And...

Chris Hedges · 2,684 views · unrated

3 min

General McChrystal Defines "Success" in Afghanistan and Fails

Gen. Stanley McChrystal told Congress that the measure of success in Afghanistan should be "the number of Afghans shielded from violence." If that's the case, then his strategy is clearly failing. Learn more at http://RethinkAfghanistan.com. Warning: Some graphic images.

DerrickCCrowe · 2,600 views · unrated

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