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The Deficit Myth: The Biggest Lie In Politics
The Deficit Myth: The Biggest Lie In Politics
The truth about inflation, money printing, taxes, fiat currency, and "the national debt." Debunking lies about what causes inflation and common misconceptions about government spending and "taxpayer money." Does the national debt actually matter? Do budget deficits matter?...
35 min
The Problem With Taxing The Rich from a Leftist Perspective
The Problem With Taxing The Rich from a Leftist Perspective
The myth of tax revenue and why taxing the rich is not the real solution to inequality.
21 min
The Future Is Local: Bioregioning 101
The Future Is Local: Bioregioning 101
The past century has been marked by the rise of globalization in every sense of the word - through production, culture, agriculture, consumption and more. This trend has brought great wealth and opportunities to many people - but what have we lost and forgotten through this...
89 min
Human and Planetary Health: Ecosystem Regeneration | Daniel Wahl
Human and Planetary Health: Ecosystem Regeneration | Daniel Wahl
In this perceptive and radical talk, Daniel Wahl PhD observes that we are standing at the dawn of the planetary era.
29 min
The 4 Paths to Resist Trump
The 4 Paths to Resist Trump
We worked with friends to create the Resistance Guidebook with practical ideas about starting points for people who are feeling the need to do something but not sure about what.
3 min
HOPE in Spite of Trump | Robert Reich
HOPE in Spite of Trump | Robert Reich
If youre feeling despair, I completely understand. But Trumps second term will expose a reality that has been hidden from many Americans: the raw, stinking power of the American oligarchy. Im hopeful that America will see this reality for what it is and respond to it. ...
5 min
What Does Elon Musk Really Want?
What Does Elon Musk Really Want?
Donald Trump is back in the White House, but who is really pulling the strings?
6 min
An Unprecedented Corporate Assault is Coming. Can It Be Stopped?
An Unprecedented Corporate Assault is Coming. Can It Be Stopped?
Corporations are planning an assault on workers rights once Trump takes office. It's time for Democrats to fight at the state level. In over a dozen states the Democrats have the power to overturn anti-union laws or pass key worker protections. Now they need to act.
9 min
House Music: A Cultural Revolution
House Music: A Cultural Revolution (2024)
Chicagos secret is very much out in the open now: house music DJs headline clubs and festivals from London to Cape Town. But this electronic dance music was born behind closed doors at underground venues. In the early 1980s, a band of mostly Black, gay artists created house...
53 min
Deep Ecology
Deep Ecology (2025) ($5)
Deep Ecology delves into the profound interconnectedness of our personal and collective grief with the ecological and systemic crises engulfing our planet. At its heart lies the transformative practice of community acknowledgment and expressionrituals where participants...
53 min
Local One
Local One
The Amazon Labor Union made history in 2022 by becoming the first group to successfully unionize an Amazon warehouse in the U.S. Two and a half years later, the company has refused to recognize the union and bargain a contract. To pressure the company to start negotiating...
10 min
Climate Inertia: Why Change Feels Impossible
Climate Inertia: Why Change Feels Impossible (2022)
We have never been so aware of the risk of collapse due to climate change. And yet, it seems we are unable to make the collective change the situation seems to demand. How can we explain our collective inertia in the face of the ongoing environmental crisis? Why cant our...
50 min
Colorblind | Tim Wise
Colorblind | Tim Wise
Anti-racist writer and educator Tim Wise presented a talk on Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity, at Stetson University in February.
75 min
How Billionaires Took Over The World
How Billionaires Took Over The World
Theres a Sickness at the Heart of Politics & Its Called Oligarchy
9 min
Power: One River, Two Nations
Power: One River, Two Nations (1996)
When Hydro-Qubec announced its intention to proceed with the enormous James Bay II hydroelectric project, the 15,000 Cree who live in the region decided to stand up to the giant utility. With unprecedented access to key figures like Cree leader Matthew Coon Come and American...
77 min
He Was The Most Decorated Marine In US History. Then He Turned on The Empire.
He Was The Most Decorated Marine In US History. Then He Turned on The Empire.
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...
8 min
1 Million Members, 100 Million Trees: How Brazil’s Socialist Farmers Are Fighting Big Ag
1 Million Members, 100 Million Trees: How Brazil’s Socialist Farmers Are Fighting Big Ag
The one-million strong Landless Workers Movement (MST) is a backbone of the Brazilian left, famous for its mass actions and radical land occupations all across the Brazilian countryside. While fighting agribusiness giants, the MST has become the largest producer of organic...
20 min
The REAL Story of Jesus
The REAL Story of Jesus
This might be a controversial question. But the answer isn't straightforward and requires us to examine Jesus in a way many of have us have never before.
12 min
What Studies Say About Transgender, Gender Dysphoria, and Gender Affirming Care
What Studies Say About Transgender, Gender Dysphoria, and Gender Affirming Care
What does medical science say about transgender / gender affirming care? Dr. Anthony Youn dives deep into the studies, claims, and expert professional recommendations from an open minded point of view.
14 min
From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza
From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza (trailer)
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.
3 min
How Leftists Can Win in 2025
How Leftists Can Win in 2025
Ready to start your political education journey? Click here: https://democracylover.gumroad.com/l/fpjkwn
11 min
The Secret Reason the Dems Keep Losing
The Secret Reason the Dems Keep Losing
Being part of a political party used to actually mean something other than being hounded for money over text and being disappointed by your choice of candidates at the polls every few years. Heres how the death of mass-membership organizations tanked the American political...
19 min
Francesca's HEATED Debate With Cenk Uygur On Strategy Under Trump
Francesca's HEATED Debate With Cenk Uygur On Strategy Under Trump
Woooee! Things get spicy between Francesca and Cenk as they discuss Cenk's recent tour of right wing media outlets, left versus right populism, establishment vs anti-establishment, and the future of TYT as the country awaits the ascendence of God Emperor Donald Trump for a...
122 min
A DYING SEA
A DYING SEA (2021)
In A Dying Sea: The Disaster of the Sea of Marmara, filmmaker Florian Seltmann examines one of the most alarming ecological crises in recent history. In 2021, the Sea of Marmara faced an unprecedented spread of mucilagea dense, slimy organic substancetriggered by untreated...
20 min
Yasuni Man
Yasuni Man (2020) ($5)
A desperate struggle between conservationists and oil interests plays out in Yasuni Man, as the indigenous peoples living in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon struggle to preserve their way of life against encroaching modernity. Filmmaker and biologist Ryan Patrick Killackey...
98 min
The Political Spectrum is a Myth
The Political Spectrum is a Myth
Im Andres Acevedo, and this is The Market Exit. In this essay, I challenge one of the most pervasive frameworks in political discourse: the left-right spectrum. Where does it come from, and why does it continue to dominate how we think about politics today?
16 min
Revolution Now! with Peter Joseph | Ep #53 | Dec 18th 2024
Revolution Now! with Peter Joseph | Ep #53 | Dec 18th 2024
In this episode, the focus is on introducing a new phase of the podcast with expanded content, including visuals, interviews, media analysis, and discussions of current events, while ensuring accessibility for audio-only listeners.
73 min
If Aliens and T2 Came Out Today (Satire)
If Aliens and T2 Came Out Today (Satire)
This is a satire of how easily offended anti-woke critics would treat Aliens and Terminator 2 if they came out today. This is actually a segment toward the end of my last video, called Why I Stopped Being Anti-Woke.
6 min
A Video to Send to Your Trump-Voting Friends and Family
A Video to Send to Your Trump-Voting Friends and Family
Want a better economy? Hate elitism? The problem isn't the left vs right, it's the top vs the bottom. You might want to look up.
23 min
THE LAST HOPE CAMP
THE LAST HOPE CAMP (2022)
What was the Last Hope camp, what did we achieve, and what now?
5 min
Fell in Love With Fire
Fell in Love With Fire (2024)
Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, showing how everyday people sustained six months of rebellion by creating extensive networks of self-determination and mutual aid.
65 min
Israel's Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza Revealed Through Evidence and Analysis
Israel's Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza Revealed Through Evidence and Analysis
Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza strip. Watch this video to understand how Amnesty International arrived at this conclusion.
6 min
This Detroit Agrihood is Transforming its Community - Michigan Urban Farming Initiative Tour
This Detroit Agrihood is Transforming its Community - Michigan Urban Farming Initiative Tour
A tour of MIUFI (Michigian Urban Farming Initiative) and interview with its manager - Quan Blunt.
13 min
What the Economy of the Future Looks Like
What the Economy of the Future Looks Like
Most of us are aware that our profit-driven, capitalist economy is driving our climate and ecological crises. But what are our alternatives?
20 min
Have We Finally Lost to Climate Change? No.
Have We Finally Lost to Climate Change? No.
Recently, it feels like the world does not care about the climate or environmental crises. Between COP29 being an absolute disaster, Trump's recent election, and the continued destruction being waged by governments and corporations on our planet and its people, some might...
15 min
Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States (2016)
As long as rabbits don't have historians, history will be written by the hunters. With the tremendous success of his book, A Peoples History of the United States, Howard Zinn radically changed the way Americans see themselves. His friend Noam Chomsky says that Zinn literally...
91 min
The (Many) Crimes of United Healthcare, Explained
The (Many) Crimes of United Healthcare, Explained
Yapping bout the whole united healthcare situation, insurance, lobbying, and more.
13 min
A Forgotten '60s Radical Movement
A Forgotten '60s Radical Movement
An in-depth look at the New Left of the 1960's.
54 min
Transgender Neurobiology with Dr. Robert Sapolsky
Transgender Neurobiology with Dr. Robert Sapolsky
Robert Sapolsky is a neuroendocrinology researcher and author. He is a professor of biology, neurology, neurological sciences, and neurosurgery at Stanford University. Sapolsky has received numerous honors and awards for his work, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 1987, an...
62 min
How Junk Science is Being Used Against Trans Kids
How Junk Science is Being Used Against Trans Kids
This researcher has been studying the history of Trans kids for years.Heres what you need to know.
7 min
Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: a Zen Film
Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: a Zen Film (trailer)
"Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Film" featuring the groundbreaking work of Zen teacher & therapist Barry Magid.
2 min
What If Climate Change Was a Hoax? | Frankly 72
What If Climate Change Was a Hoax? | Frankly 72
14.8% of Americans do not believe in climate change. Recently, a study mapping a 485-million-year history of Earths temperature and CO2 levels has been misinterpreted by some who downplay urgent climate concerns. Their argument suggests that, since the Earth has experienced...
12 min
The Time Climate Scientists Hid Data
The Time Climate Scientists Hid Data
Let's talk about the climategate scandal. What it showed us about climate science, and about ourselves. And what "pushing a narrative" really means.
25 min
How Corporations Raided Medicare
How Corporations Raided Medicare
Corporations have turned Medicare Advantage into a money-making scheme, denying patients care to generate profits. For Megan Bent, it may have cost her father his life.
12 min
Whistleblower Exposes Health Insurers' Most Evil Scheme
Whistleblower Exposes Health Insurers' Most Evil Scheme
A health insurance whistleblower is exposing their most appalling practice. Its called prior authorization and its part of a money-making scheme based on denying and delaying patients care. But doctors are fighting to reform it.
13 min
This Company Makes Billions By Rationing Your Health Care
This Company Makes Billions By Rationing Your Health Care
Why are so many doctors being forced to take out payday loans to make ends meet? Trying to answer this question led us to a giant monopoly that's been slowly plundering every part of our health care system.
14 min
Why Is There So Much Right-Wing Media?
Why Is There So Much Right-Wing Media?
PragerU, The Daily Wire, countless far-right talk shows, YouTube channels, think tanks, and online magazines. Where are they all coming from, and why are they all so well funded? Let's take a look at the groups bankrolling far-right rhetoric and what they stand to gain from...
20 min
Why Governments Won't Act On Climate Change
Why Governments Won't Act On Climate Change
Democrats are barely talking about it anymore.
17 min
The $1 Trillion Private Health Insurance Scam
The $1 Trillion Private Health Insurance Scam
Private health insurance corporations are trying to trick seniors across America into signing up for Medicare Advantage. Is it less expensive? No. Is it better coverage? Also no. Its just another way for corporations to skim more money off the ill.
13 min
Material Conditions: How to Eliminate Sexism
Material Conditions: How to Eliminate Sexism
What would happen if you could end sexism overnight by giving everyone a magic pink pill? Why changing hearts, minds and culture isnt enough, you need to change the conditions that generate cultural attitudes in order for changing hearts and minds to have a long term effect.
33 min
Why Inequality Is Always Dangerous | What is Politics?
Why Inequality Is Always Dangerous | What is Politics?
Celebrated thinkers like Steven Pinker and Harry Frankfurt tell us that inequality shouldn't concern us, and that we should only focus on whether or not we're lifting people out of poverty. In the real world, even if everyone starts off relatively wealthy, inequality...
4 min
Lowkey EXPOSES Donald Trump
Lowkey EXPOSES Donald Trump
Donald Trump has assembled the most pro-Israel cabinet in the history of the United States, Ive investigated his funders and it all makes sense
16 min
'There Was Nothing Left-Wing about Harris': Mehdi Hasan Slams the Media for Blaming the Left
'There Was Nothing Left-Wing about Harris': Mehdi Hasan Slams the Media for Blaming the Left
The moderates got their candidate in every single election in which the Republicans nominated Donald Trump and they lost to Trump two out of three times. Mehdi Hasan rebuts the demonstrably and obviously false notion that the Democrats lost the presidential election because...
4 min
How Jesus Turned Me Into A Marxist
How Jesus Turned Me Into A Marxist
While lots of politicians and hucksters would like you to believe that Christianity is antithetical to Marxism and Communism, they're absolutely wrong. I explain in this video about how my own experiences with Christianity led me to a radical politics grounded in Marxist...
19 min
The Tragic Optimist's Guide to Surviving Capitalistic Nihilism
The Tragic Optimist's Guide to Surviving Capitalistic Nihilism
'ello guvna. Feeling crushed under the crippling weight of capitalism's chaos? You're not alone. Let's yap about The Tragic Optimist's Guide to Surviving Capitalistic Nihilisma journey through despair, hope, and the absurdity of it all.
60 min
The REAL Foreign Invasion of Britain
The REAL Foreign Invasion of Britain
Dirty money flows through London's viens, our major businesses & utilities have been sold off to oligarchs, dictators and criminals. In this video, we explore the REAL foreign invasion of Britain.
33 min
Why Every Communist Country is a One-Party Dictatorship
Why Every Communist Country is a One-Party Dictatorship
Why has every communist country so far been a one-party dictatorship? Richard Wolff cant answer this question for some reason. Neither can Freddie de Boer. Yet the answer is very simple, and we can learn a lot from it. Is it something inherent to Marxism? Is human nature...
56 min
The Red Pill Lie
The Red Pill Lie
There is currently a movement known as "red pill" that is handicapping young people and dooming them to a lifetime of failed relationships. They're the disease presenting themselves as the cure. I talk about why they're wrong and provide some actual guidance from my...
80 min
Why I Stopped Being Anti-Woke
Why I Stopped Being Anti-Woke
I discuss how and why I changed over the last decade, from being more anti-sjw (anti-woke) to realizing the dangers of falling into that trap.
56 min
Why Ethical Consumerism Is a Trap
Why Ethical Consumerism Is a Trap
In this video essay, I explore the complicated nature of ethical consumerism. Specifically, I unpack what the idea of "there's no ethical consumption under capitalism" really means, and look at how brands have co-opted ethical messaging for corporate gains. - OCC
21 min