Why I Live the Life of a Modern Hunter-Gatherer

A friend recently said to me, “Kyer, if I were in your financial situation, I’d be freaking out.”

Kyer Wiltshire · 8,041 views · 100%

NGOs - Do They help?

NGOs are no longer seen as the blameless agents of benevolence. Dinyar Godrej inspects the charge-sheet against them.

Dinyar Godrej · 7,841 views · 75%

Organizing in 'Small Town USA'

On March 8, a crowd of over 50 protesters in Geneva, New York, (population 13,261) occupied the office of Republican Congressman Tom Reed. The occupation was part of a women’s strike organized in connection with International Women’s Day by the Geneva Women’s Assembly.

Liberation Staff · 7,798 views · unrated

Progressives and the Ron Paul fallacies

As I’ve written about before, America’s election season degrades mainstream political discourse even beyond its usual lowly state. The worst attributes of our political culture — obsession with trivialities, the dominance of horserace “reporting,” and mindless partisan...

Glenn Greenwald · 7,742 views · 100%

The Real Invasion of Africa and Other Not-Made-for-Hollywood Holy Wars

The "Islamic terrorism" that is an excuse for the enduring theft of Africa's vast store of minerals was all but invented by US, Pakistani and British intelligence agencies, which created the mujahedin of al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

John Pilger · 7,487 views · 100%

A Surprising Strategy to Combat Hateful Ideologies: Offer Them More of What They Truly Want

Lately, I've been interested in exploring how we can apply this strategy to combatting white supremacy and other harmful, extremist and violent ideologies. Obviously, the goal would not be to show them how following us will help them create a white ethnostate; it would be to...

Tim Hjersted · 7,186 views · 100%

Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination and the Coming American Rebellion – We Are Egypt

Editor’s Note: The following report includes adapted excerpts from David DeGraw’s book, “The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III.”

David DeGraw · 6,966 views · 100%

Celebrate Interdependence Day on July 4

What would it mean for us to reclaim July 4th not as a celebration of militarism, but as a celebration of our interdependence?

Michael Lerner · 6,769 views · 100%

The Fossil Fuel Resistance: As the world burns, a new movement to reverse climate change is emerging

It got so hot in Australia in January that the weather service had to add two new colors to its charts. A few weeks later, at the other end of the planet, new data from the CryoSat-2 satellite showed 80 percent of Arctic sea ice has disappeared. We're not breaking records...

Bill McKibben · 6,656 views · 100%

Anarchism: the A word

‘Mindless, violent thugs, hell-bent on sowing chaos.’ That’s the kind of press anarchists often get. Uri Gordon provides a more sympathetic take on a growing yet still little understood political movement.

Uri Gordon · 6,633 views · 100%

Climate change: Time for the Skeptics to Put Up or Shut Up

If climate change sceptics have a coherent explanation for the events we are witnessing, it's time they held an international conference and told us what they believe Say I were to ask you to prove that the dinosaurs were wiped out when an asteroid collided with the Earth...

Henry Porter · 6,005 views · 75%

The Democratic Stockholm Syndrome

New Yorkers voted overwhelmingly for those holding their progress captive

Peter Bloom · 5,958 views · 100%

What Would the Black Panthers Think of Black Lives Matter?

The black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws—racism, poverty, militarism, and materialism. It is exposing evils that are rooted deeply in the whole structure of our society. It reveals...

Paul Street · 5,907 views · 100%

Why Recognizing Our Own Privilege Can Be so Hard

There is a kind of lottery that very rarely is talked about in which every single human being participates.

Chris Agnos · 5,780 views · unrated

The Anthropocene: It's Not All About Us

We need to recognize we share the planet with millions of other life forms Time to celebrate! Woo-hoo! It’s official: we humans have started a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene. Who’d have thought that just one species among millions might be capable of such an...

Richard Heinberg · 5,752 views · 75%

The Age of Social Murder

The ruling elites, despite the accelerating and tangible ecological collapse, mollify us, either by meaningless gestures or denial.

Chris Hedges · 5,520 views · 100%

Can Love Stories Change the World?

Sharing tales of love is good for our souls, and allows us to be vulnerable with each other, writes Matt Hopwood. In his life changing journey of emotional exploration, he traveled over 1,500 miles in search of stories of the heart. He found them in abundance, along with...

Matt Hopwood · 5,461 views · 88%

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Arise (2013) (trailer)

On every continent, women are taking the lead to protect and restore the natural environment, and are empowering others to respect the earth. Arise presents the stories of a diverse group of 13 women in five countries who have initiated solution-oriented environmental...

5,403 views · 83%

The Limits of Capitalism

At this point in human history, the limits of capitalism and the limits of our species’ life on Earth have converged. We have never been here before, and we cannot go back.

Laurie Adkin · 5,310 views · unrated

What Shall We Love?

Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.

Arundhati Roy · 5,123 views · 100%

Hundreds of Thousands March in Day of Rage Against Israel

As Israeli airstrikes continued to rain down on the the Gaza Strip on Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are taking to the streets in an international Day of Rage to condemn the attacks and demand that their governments do their part and boycott Israel.

Lauren McCauley · 5,101 views · 100%

To Reason With a Madman

Someone sent me a video on January 19th in which the host, claiming a secret source among the White Hat power faction, said that final plans are in motion to overthrow the criminal Deep State once and for all. The inauguration of Joe Biden will not take place. The lies and...

Charles Eisenstein · 5,101 views · unrated

Home Is Wherever I’m With You — and Other Modern Calamities

Prologue: this essay is written in support of my new documentary Love School. “Oh, home, let me come home Home is whenever I’m with you.” ~Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes As I pull

Ian Mackenzie · 5,039 views · 62%

Matthew Crawford: 'Distraction Is a Kind of Obesity of the Mind'

Does your phone, the TV and advertising demand your attention everywhere you look? All this stimulation is triggering a social crisis, says writer Matthew Crawford. He talks to Ed Cumming about how to reconnect with reality

Ed Cumming · 5,008 views · 100%

10 Things You Can Do to Resist Hard Brexit

As Article 50 is triggered, here's what you can do to stop Britain's slide to the hard right.

Adam Ramsay · 5,002 views · unrated

8 Ways to Defend Against Terror Nonviolently

One of my most popular courses at Swarthmore College focused on the challenge of how to defend against terrorism, nonviolently. Events now unfolding in France make our course more relevant than ever. (The syllabus was published in “Peace, Justice, and Security Studies: A...

George Lakey · 4,993 views · 75%

The Sham "Terrorism Expert" Industry

Shortly prior to the start of the London Olympics, there was an outburst of hysteria over the failure to provide sufficient security against Terrorism, but as Harvard Professor Stephen Walt noted yesterday in Foreign Policy, this was all driven, as usual, by severe...

Glenn Greenwald · 4,942 views · 75%

Why Sanders Supporters Should Not Let Democratic Primary Demoralize Them

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was expected to do very well in the five primaries on April 26, but after the results, Bernie Sanders and his supporters face a critical moment in the election as the campaign fights for every possible delegate on the way to...

Kevin Gosztola · 4,848 views · 75%

Can We Afford to Ignore What Katie Hopkins Says about Migrants Drowning in the Med?

The Sun columnist's violent words about the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean are indefensible. They should be condemned as hate speech. Refugees in Lampedusa, Italy. Image:

Des Freedman · 4,831 views · 44%

One World 1 - A Survival Strategy for Humanity

"It’s time to design a global society that fits the biological and material constraints of earth and also fits the psychological, cultural, and developmental needs of diverse peoples worldwide."

Armando Davila · 4,590 views · unrated

April 15: Funding the Empire

Tax day, April 15th, is a day of celebration in the United States. On this day we citizens of the great republic take pride in the fact that we can come together in a democratic society and make decisions cooperatively with one another. The fruits of our labor, beholden to...

Grant Mincy · 4,577 views · 75%

Crucifying Julian Assange

What is happening to Assange should terrify the press. And yet his plight is met with indifference and sneering contempt.

Chris Hedges · 4,368 views · 75%

Make the Rich Panic

It does not matter to the corporate rich who wins the presidential election. It does not matter who is elected to Congress. The rich have the power. They throw money at their favorites the way a gambler puts cash on his favorite horse. Money has replaced the vote. The wealthy...

Chris Hedges · 4,355 views · 100%

My (Apparently) Obligatory Response To 'Formation': In List Form

1. I have actively avoided saying anything about Beyoncé's new song and video. I don't think they are interesting, important or deserving of my commentary. That as a Black, queer person I have, in the last week, been expected--and, at moments, obligated--to respond to them is...

Benji Hart · 4,206 views · 100%

Opposition to Iraq War May Save Syria

Evidence of “weapons of mass destruction” is “no slam dunk,” U.S. officials are saying this time around, reversing the claim made about Iraq by then-CIA director George Tenet.

David Swanson · 4,139 views · 88%

The US Government's Protection of Al-Qaeda Terrorists and the US-Saudi Black Hole

For almost two centuries American government, though always imperfect, was also a model for the world of limited government, having evolved a system of restraints on executive power through its constitutional arrangement of checks and balances.

Peter Dale Scott · 4,120 views · 100%

Indigenous Rights and the Fight for Life at Standing Rock

Solidarity and strength has brought victory at Standing Rock, but the water protectors know the struggle to protect their sacred lands is far from over.

Eryn Wise with Frank Barat and Vidal Cuervo · 4,081 views · 100%

This Is What Revolution Looks Like

Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They can steal but they cannot share. They can talk but they cannot speak. They are as dead and useless to...

Chris Hedges · 4,075 views · 100%

Decade Of The Protester? Why The Uprisings Are Far From Over

In 2011, TIME Magazine selected “the protester” as its person of the year. Perhaps “person of the decade” would have been a more accurate depiction. We live in tumultuous times. Since 2011, every year seems to have brought more protests, more rebellions, more uprisings — and...

Jerome Roos · 4,046 views · 88%

Making the World Safe for Banksters: Syria in the Crosshairs

“The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less

Ellen Brown · 3,849 views · unrated

How to Smash Neo-Nazi Events

Organize a fundraiser for a peacebuilding non-profit across the street from their event, or somewhere close by.

Arno Arr Michaelis IV · 3,782 views · unrated

Race Traitors Wanted: Apply Within

A Review of David Gilbert's 'Looking at the U.S. White Working Class Historically'

Colin Jenkins · 3,693 views · 100%

Reveal, Remember and Resist: the Three Rs Remixed

Passivity in the young is an obstacle to social transformation. Let’s teach kids to recognize and use their agency.

Leon Prescod · 3,649 views · unrated

The Problem with Evil

When we confront something we regard as “evil,” it poses a threat to the self-preservation of ego. We are so busy preserving our existence in the face of this threat that we cannot see the thing clearly at all. —Chögyam Trungpa Sometimes in Q&A sessions or internet...

Charles Eisenstein · 3,547 views · unrated

The Silent Military Coup that Took Over Washington

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John Pilger · 3,357 views · unrated

Is Postmodernism Destroying Western Civilization? On Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life

A specter is haunting North America — the specter of postmodernism. Or at least, that’s what Jordan Peterson would have you believe. Peterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, has entered into an unholy alliance with all the powers of the alt-right to...

Shuja Haider · 3,275 views · 88%

The American Spring: United Against Inequality

We don’t have to pick sides in this movement. We are all on the same side. We are all on the side of justice.

Justin Akers · 3,241 views · 100%

Dammed Good Questions about the Green New Deal

Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest issue that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing more energy than solar and wind combined, dams could well become the key backup “renewable” if it otherwise proves impossible to get off of...

Don Fitz · 3,195 views · unrated

Bravery's Edge: Syrians Standing Up Against Extremism and Violence

Thousands of unknown activists have risked their lives to defy extremism and violence. Daniel Adamson interviews some of them.

Daniel Adamson · 3,190 views · 88%

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 church’s brutal history in connection with Native peoples; numerous news reports on the incident have failed to acknowledge it.

Mary Annette Pember · 3,130 views · unrated

Where Right-Libertarianism Goes Wrong

Libertarianism is, in theory, no defender of the rich and powerful who must always be subject to market competition. As a libertarian who has engaged in countless classroom and online debates, I’ve often asked myself why other people cannot see that. However, I’ve come to...

Andrew Kerr · 3,063 views · 100%

Obama's Libya lies and how the United States ambassador really died

Critics of the Libya intervention warned that dropping bombs in a country and killing civilians would produce blowback in the form of those who would then want to attack the US.

Glenn Greenwald · 3,033 views · unrated

NOTES FROM QUARANTINE

Josh Liveright · 2,867 views · 88%

Happidrome: The Kurdish Fight For Anarchy

In the battle for Kobane on the Syrian border everyone talks about the enemy - IS - and the frightening ideas that drive them. No-one talks about the Kurdish defenders and what inspires them. But the moment you look into what the Kurds are fighting for - what you discover is...

Adam Curtis · 2,576 views · 100%

7 Reasons to Keep the Faith in 2019

Boost your morale with unexpected good news you won’t find in the mainstream media

EcoHustler · 2,434 views · 75%

No Planet for Optimists: Coastal Flooding May Come Sooner and Bigger Than We Think

Of all the impacts of climate change, one stands out for its inexorable menace, writes Pete Dolack: rising oceans. And it's not just for distant future generations to deal with: new scientific studies show that people alive today may face 6-9 metres of sea level rise flooding...

Pete Dolack · 2,397 views · 88%

Tribute to Aaron Bushnell by Iraq Veteran Mike Prysner

The US military is presented as an institution that does protecting; defending; “saving.” But fundamentally, it is an institution of killing. Of mass killing. Throughout our country’s entire history there have been service members who could not grapple with that fact; who...

Mike Prysner · 2,341 views · 100%

The Climate Solution Right Under Our Feet

The ideas behind regenerative farming are simple and ancient.

Michaela Haas · 2,333 views · unrated

The End of the "End of History"

In China and beyond, liberalized markets aren't fostering democracy — they're undermining it.

Eli Friedman and Andi Kao · 2,317 views · unrated

To Deal with Trump We Must First Face the Trump Inside Ourselves

“The power of Fannie Lou Hamer compels you!”

Max S. Gordon · 2,285 views · unrated

Eric Garner, American Occupation, and the Decline of Empire

The nascent movement against racist police brutality in the US received a boost of energy from the non-indictment of Eric Garner's murderers in blue. Thousands filled the streets from New York City to Berkeley, California to protest racist injustice and declare #BlackLivesMatter.

Danny Haiphong · 2,221 views · 100%

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh: Only Love Can Save Us From Climate Change

Leading spiritual teacher warns that if people cannot save themselves from their own suffering, how can they be expected to worry about the plight of Mother Earth

Jo Confino · 2,158 views · unrated

An Ideal Blueprint: The Original Black Panther Party Model and Why It Should Be Duplicated

The following is a list of attributes, both tangible and conceptual, that made the BPP an effective model for true liberty and self-determination; and, consequently, a substantial threat to the status quo.

Colin Jenkins · 2,138 views · 88%

Israel Hit Gaza Strip With the Equivalent of Two Nuclear Bombs

Geneva - Israel has dropped more than 25,000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip since the start of its large-scale war on 7 October, equivalent to two nuclear bombs, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a press release issued today.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor · 2,131 views · unrated

The Turn Towards a Global Police State is Structurally Rooted in Capitalism’s Achilles Heel

(Excerpts from the keynote speech given by Professor William Robinson at the Nov 18 L.A.

William I. Robinson · 2,089 views · unrated

Charleston and Ending White Supremacy

Dear friends, We don't need more conversations about race, we need conversations about white supremacy and how to end it.

Clare Bayard · 2,085 views · unrated

Best Evidence Yet Supports We Are Undergoing a Mass Extinction

The latest evidence shows with a high degree of confidence that we are currently undergoing Earth’s 6th Mass Extinction Event.

Bob Novella · 2,033 views · 81%

Mistaken Identity by Asad Haider Review – The Best Criticism of Identity Politics

This riveting and inspiring study of race and class in the age of Trump argues that an emphasis on identity should lead to one on solidarity

Ben Tarnoff · 1,976 views · 62%

9 Out of 10 Seabirds Have Eaten Plastic

Ocean plastic has been ingested by 90 percent of all seabirds alive today, a new study finds, and the problem is still getting worse. But it's not too late to intervene, researchers say.

Russell McLendon · 1,961 views · 75%

If Israel Reacts to Its 9/11 Like the Americans Responded to Theirs, Innocent Civilians Will Pay the Heaviest Price

The US achieved nothing in the Middle East, but millions of civilians paid the price – the same will be true now

Paul Rogers · 1,950 views · unrated

Do's and Don'ts for Progressives Discussing Syria

With Syria back in the news due to the horrific chemical weapons attack last week that killed hundreds and threats from the US to engage in military strikes, below are some do’s and don’ts for progressive/radical anti-war organizations/activists in the US as you figure out a...

Ramah Kudaimi · 1,886 views · 50%

The Wars Come Home: A Five-Step Guide to the Police Repression of Protest from Ferguson to Baltimore and Beyond

Last week, as Baltimore braced for renewed protests over the death of Freddie Gray, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) prepared for battle. With state-of-the-art surveillance of local teenagers’ Twitter feeds, law enforcement had learned that a group of high school...

Michael Gould-Wartofsky · 1,856 views · 94%

Connecting the Dots: Insane Trade and Climate Chaos

Imagine a world where food routinely gets shipped thousands of miles away to be processed, then shipped back to be sold right where it started. Imagine cows from Mexico being fed corn imported from the United States, then being exported to the United States for butchering...

Local Futures · 1,807 views · unrated

The Important Debate Planet of the Humans Misses

Instead of lambasting yesteryear’s renewable energy, the movie could have taken up current, more relevant questions.

Kate Aronoff · 1,680 views · unrated

Why Independent Journalism Is Challenging the Mass media

The battle for our votes has commenced. Political parties are turning their attention from Westminster to the people that grant them a mandate. But as the political propaganda is ramped-up we would do well to remember Thomas Carlyle's words about parliament in 1841: "In the...

Drew Rose · 1,667 views · 75%

Against the Climate March Cynics

Paul D'Amato answers the objections of several left-wing writers who critiqued the People's Climate March. HUNDREDS OF thousands of people--some estimates ranged above 300,000--gathered in New York City September 21 to protest government inaction on climate change, ahead of...

Paul D'Amato · 1,667 views · 88%

The Staying Power of Racism After Charlottesville

Many of us spiritual progressives have been in deep grief for the loss of life of Heather Heyer, the woman killed by a Nazi fanatic who also wounded 19 other anti-racist activists. We are also in grief about the ways racism continues to flourish on so many levels in the U.S....

Rabbi Michael Lerner · 1,512 views · unrated

Building a Beloved Community in a Time of War

Sermon for MLK Day from All Souls UU Kansas City

Tai Amri Spann-Ryan · 1,422 views · 100%

Let's Make Earth Day about Earth, Not us

Earth Day is one of the most confused and misguided celebratory days of the year. The UN refers to this day as the ”International Mother Earth Day,” but what is it we’re supposed to celebrate?

Shahid Naeem · 1,421 views · 75%

Front-Lines Communities Rising Up: Dispatches from People's Climate

As heads of state, corporate leaders, and token civil society organizations meet behind the UN Climate Summit's closed doors Tuesday, the streets continue to resound with the messages of the 400,000 people who marched on Sunday, the thousands who flooded Wall Street, the

Nadia Prupis and Sarah Lazare · 1,415 views · 100%

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...

Bruce E. Levine · 1,408 views · 75%

Rising for a Global Feminist Future With the Movement to Elect Bernie Sanders.

We are a coalition of feminists contending with both our differences and our commonality in age, race, class, religion, labor, and sexual orientation. We meet at the intersection of our fluid identities. Though our experiences are different, we share a vision of a feminist...

A Feminist Future · 1,378 views · unrated

How to Counter Recruitment and De-Militarize Schools

U.S. military recruiters are teaching in public school classrooms, making presentations at school career days, coordinating with JROTC units in high schools and middle schools, volunteering as sports coaches and tutors and lunch buddies in high, middle, and elementary...

David Swanson · 1,377 views · 100%

Why You Should Take a Chance on the Socialist

The media is trying very hard to send a certain presidential campaign down the memory hole. They omit it from infographics. They decline to report its policy announcements (like the excellent Thurgood Marshall Plan for public education,

Paul Waters-Smith · 1,360 views · unrated

It's Climate Change That's Scary - Not Transforming the Economy

It’s very clear that conservatives have one plan for dealing with the popularity of the Green New Deal: scaring the hell out of people.

Bill McKibben · 1,356 views · unrated

This Feminist Is #Still Sanders

I write as a feminist, a well-seasoned historian of American women, and a die-hard supporter of Bernie Sanders. Long-time colleagues disparage my loyalty to the Sanders campaign and chastise me, along with him, for not celebrating Hillary Clinton’s landmark achievement as the...

Mari Jo Buhle · 1,289 views · unrated

A Real Solution to Environmental Sustainability

Only a sweeping Constitutional amendment can save us from a global environmental disaster beyond our imagination.

Michael Lerner · 1,288 views · 88%

Trump Says Go Back, We Say Fight Back

“I am not suggesting that white racism alone explains Trump’s victory. Nor am I dismissing the white working class’s very real economic grievances. It is not a matter of disaffection versus racism or sexism versus fear. Rather, racism, class anxieties, and prevailing gender...

Robin D.G. Kelley · 1,261 views · unrated

Legendary Newspaper Fights to Stay Alive and Stop Conservative News Monopoly in Las Vegas

The story is, by now, familiar: A once-powerful newspaper is facing insolvency, and its owners, heirs to the empire-builder of yesteryear, are fighting among themselves, allowing petty concerns about money to split their family and tarnish their legacy. This time, the setting...

Steve Friess · 1,236 views · unrated

When Concerns of Cultural Appropriation Risk Supporting Intellectual Property

The latest entry in panics over social justice comes from my hometown, where some folks have created a list shaming restaurants and foodcarts that were owned by white people but sold “non-European international cuisine.” One of the more annoying restaurants on that list...

William Gillis · 1,052 views · 75%

Radical Hope: Life During the Climate Apocalypse

Global organizer Joshua Kahn Russell on the shifting terrain of climate justice, the need for spiritual perspective in the movement, and learning to love contradiction in the age of Bernie and Trump.

David Olson · 960 views · unrated

Sure, Vote for Bernie, but Let's Just Make Sure We Don't Lose Sight of Our Long-Term Goals

In deliberating on what to write about for this latest edition of the Hair of Samson, it was suggested that I write about Bernie Sanders. I was initially somewhat skeptical of this endeavor. After all, it is quite obvious that Sanders is not a socialist but a social democrat...

Thomas Estabrook · 803 views · 88%

The Neglected Mass Shooter and His Need to Be Seen

At a vigil to honor the victims of Sandy Hook, I read aloud the piece that Rabbi Lerner wrote on December 14th, 2012, entitled: “Banning All Guns is Necessary but Not Sufficient”, that we also need a fundamental transformation of consciousness both inner and societal. An...

Cheryl Hashman Sheinman · 794 views · 75%

The True Sharing Economy: Inaugurating an Age of the Heart

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 · 793 views · 88%

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How The Media Shape Politics - From Dilma in Brazil, to Zuma in South Africa and Trump in the US

A few years ago, Brazil enjoyed VIP treatment in news narratives: it was the rising star on the global stage, the B in BRICS, and the world's new economic powerhouse. Fast-forward to today and it's a completely different story as a political scandal threatens to bring down...

Al Jazeera English · 609 views · 100%

Major Papers Urge Trump to Kill Syrians, Risk World War III

This style of coverage—enthusiastic about the moral need for violence but oblivious to its obvious consequences—inhibits the public’s capacity to make sense of the extremely dangerous moment in which we are living.

Gregory Shupak · 49,882 views · unrated

War, Propaganda and the Media: A Detailed Primer on the Tactics of Modern War Propaganda

We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy’s side of the front is always propaganda, and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace. — Walter Lippmann Probably every conflict is...

Anup Shah · 37,028 views · 100%

Coming Home to Roost: American Militarism, War Culture, and Police Brutality

"President Kennedy never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon..." - Malcolm X, December 1, 1963 "Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle… you are here because you are real men and all real men like...

Colin Jenkins · 14,433 views · 88%

A Timeline of Climate Change Denial and the Special Interests that Have Funded It

HistoryCommons.org has compiled an incredible historic resource that documents the rise and escalation of the climate denial industry over the last 15 years. Without editorializing the content, these articles summarize 178 headlines (often with multiple news article sources...

HistoryCommons.org · 14,074 views · 100%

How to Change the Course of Human History

(at least, the part that's already happened)

David Graeber and David Wengrow · 9,385 views · 100%

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