How Do Commercials Get Us to Buy Crap We Don't Need?

Advertisers are using several psychological tactics to get us to buy a lot more this holiday season.

3 min

COP 21: Undercover Police Crack Down on Freedom Of Speech

Yesterday undercover police cracked down on anyone questioning the sponsors of a corporate "Solutions 21" event in Paris. The action was supported by Corporate Europe Observatory, Les Amis de la Terre France, Attac France (Officiel), Climate Justice Action, JEDIs, Solidaire...

10 min

Get AdBlock! What Are You Waiting for?

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

Why Our Conversations About Paris Have Been Broken From the Start

The rush to fit the horrors of Paris into convenient neo-imperial narratives shows a disturbing lack of empathy

Zoe Samudzi

After the Paris Attacks: Live News Should Challenge Narratives, Not Desperately Try to Create Them

As the events from Oslo on July 22, 2011 filtered through, TV news producers began to scramble. Many people had been murdered by a gunman, and they needed experts to give expert opinions. Fast. What followed was one of the the most embarrassing examples of uninformed mass...

Christian Christensen

Rebel Media in an Age of Crisis

We live in tumultuous times. Our world is wracked by a convergence of destabilizing and devastating wars, soaring levels of inequality, and mass waves of human displacement. Battered by increasingly erratic weather patterns, we are haunted by the terrifying spectre of...

3 min

The Yes Men: Pranksters Against War

This just in: One week after Barack Obama’s election, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan end… according to the Yes Men’s version of the New York Times.

3 min

Help Change the Story at the Paris Climate Talks

The UN climate talks in Paris (COP21) are right around the corner

New Internationalist

Donald Trump Hosting Saturday Night LIVE?

Dear Lorne Michaels and Saturday Night Live,

2 min

Study: Corporate Media Refuses to Acknowledge Civilian Victims of US Wars

New research finds, through their silence, mainstream news outlets are 'legitimating' U.S. military's burn pits on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan

Sarah Lazare

Bernie Sanders Has a Secret Weapon, and the Media Elites Just Don't Get It

Americans are a people for whom ideology matters a lot less than speaking plainly and sticking by your beliefs.

Mark Hertsgaard

How The Media Has Shaped Your Negative Perception of Feminism

The Straw Feminist trope is a deliberately created, exaggerated caricature of a feminist that is used to undermine and ridicule feminist movements. This was probably one of the most difficult and longest videos I’ve made so far, partly because the Straw Feminist is a very...

10 min

Sweden's Feminist Foreign Minister Has Dared to Tell the Truth About Saudi Arabia. What Happens Now Concerns Us All

Margot Wallström’s principled stand deserves wide support. Betrayal seems more likely

Nick Cohen

Ignoring the Cause of Welfare: Not Laziness but Low Wages

Numerous US media outlets recently uncritically echoed a methodologically flawed report by an anti-immigration organization with ties to white supremacist groups (FAIR.org, 9/4/15). Beyond this serious problem, however, lies a larger and more endemic issue in media: an...

Ben Norton

What 'The Wall Street Journal' Gets Totally Wrong About Bernie Sanders' Agenda

The Journal wants to shock and awe voters with big numbers, but Sanders’s proposals would save America big bucks.

Joshua Holland

This Is Kobane (trailer)

This is a documentary of the struggle to survive and heal in war while bringing to life a better society. Kobane has had about 80% of its infrastructure destroyed and has been largely cutoff from aid and supplies. While struggling to cope with the military and civilian...

7 min

The Tao of Bill Hicks: “Chomsky with Dick Jokes”

Mark Kernan argues that the late comedian was a shaman of our times

Mark Kernan

Not Quite All Things Considered: Why the Mainstream Media Discounts Bernie Sanders

Recently, on All Things Considered—you know, that bastion of liberal media—Mara Liasson, talking about the prospect of Joe Biden running for President said: There are many Democrats who think it would be good for Hillary Clinton because she'd have a serious opponent, and...

John Atcheson

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Televangelists

U.S. tax law allows television preachers to get away with almost anything. We know this from personal experience. Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption will not be able to accept donations from Church supporters from the states of Mississippi, Nevada, Pennsylvania, or South...

20 min

Vaccine Injury, Disability and Death: Making Space for Difficult stories

The stories of families suffering serious injuries are too often ignored, discredited, used to further anti-vaccine campaigns, or quietly accepted as a type of collateral damage in our noble war to eradicate the scourge of infectious disease from the planet.

AMY WRIGHT GLENN

Bernie Sanders Explains Why Elites Don't Want You To Vote

In an excerpt from the 2006 documentary "American Blackout" Senator Bernie Sanders Explains Why Elites Don't Want You To Vote.

1 min

Why Big Media Shouldn't Get Bigger: Bill Moyers Interviews Bernie Sanders

In 1983, 50 corporations controlled a majority of American media. Now that number is six. And Big Media may get even bigger, thanks to the FCC's consideration of ending a rule preventing companies from owning a newspaper and radio and TV stations in the same big city.

22 min

10 Compelling Reasons You Can Never Trust The Mainstream Media

A poll in 2012 showed that trust in the mainstream media is increasing, which should worry all of us who value truth, integrity and press freedom.

Sophie McAdam

A Psychologist Explains Why People Don't Give a Shit About Climate Change

"We [should] tell new stories of the dream, not the nightmares. We must describe where we want to go, such as happier lives, and better cities."

Bill Kilby

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

A more beautiful, egalitarian and regenerative world is possible. Take this library and use it to inspire global change!

Films For Action

Big Brother, eh?

This week we break Bill C-51, down Klanada's sinister new law, that would give the Canucks increased spying powers over its population. On the break, long standing hip-hop act Onyx, returns with "Fuck The Law." We wrap things up with an interview with Antoine, a computer...

16 min

The Feudalism of Facebook: New Pay-to-Play News Feed as Indy Media Killer

The Facebook empire of 1.4 billion users just conquered new territory, unrolling a "partnership" to host articles from some of the most well-known news publications in the world, in a venture that critics warn poses a direct threat to independent media outlets—and the...

Sarah Lazare

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Paid Family Leave

Many American companies do not offer paid leave after the birth of a child, which means they probably shouldn't run sappy Mother's Day ads.

12 min

Facebook's Internet.org Isn't the Internet, It's Facebooknet

This week Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Internet.org, its marquee project to “connect two-thirds of the world that don’t have internet access,” is now inviting any website or service to join the program. According to Zuckerberg, this change—which follows...

Josh Levy

Radical Film-Making and Digital Paradox: the Case of The Fourth Estate

Digital media technologies are full of paradoxes. On one hand they are said to open up new opportunities, a “democratisation” of media, but on the other they are said to consolidate not just media power, but also the ideological frameworks that constrain critical creative...

Elizabeth Mizon

Obama's Anger Management Translator Speaks the Truth

Comedian Keegan-Michael Key plays his iconic character Luther at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

4 min

Interview with Tim Hjersted of Films For Action

As research for a panel on the subject of ‘audiences’ at the Radical Film Network‘s inaugural conference earlier this year, I spoke to a number of media organisers and radical filmmakers about their work and how they survive while doing it. This is the second of two...

Elizabeth Mizon

The Fourth Estate (2015)

Following a 9 month long international screening run, the independent UK documentary The Fourth Estate is now online for all to view, download, and share for free.

80 min

There's a Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn

While most people slept, a trio of artists and some helpers installed a bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Brooklyn on Monday morning. The group, which allowed ANIMAL to exclusively document the installation on the condition that we hide their identities, hauled the...

3 min

Films For Action Is Launching a Pay-Per-View Section of the Website

Hey everyone, after two years planning, developing and taking our sweet time to get this ready, we are excited to announce the launch of our pay-per-view (PPV) section of the website. This section will feature films hosted by Vimeo, Youtube and others as well as our own...

Films For Action

If Politics Is Dead, Is The Election Its Funeral?

In this episode, I look at the recent collapses within the political parties in the US and UK and work out is this the death of politics?

9 min

Free Hugs on St. Patrick's Day (Inspirational Video)

What happens when you take some Free Hugs signs downtown on St. Patrick's Day? Watch to find out. We are changing the world...one hug at a time. Be a Part of the Shift.

6 min

The Gulabi Gang

In this week's show an homage to women everywhere, a look at the trolls from the Men's Rights Movements and how the Gulabi Gang in India who are beating down rapitsts with big ass sticks. On the music break, Bambu with "The Queen is Dead."

15 min

MSNBC Is Moving "Away From Left-Wing TV" to What?

The executives at MSNBC are doing some shifting around of its network schedule. A source from the network

Ring of Fire

Filmmakers Behind "The Corporation" Launch Campaign to Donate Film to 1,000 Schools

Get up off the couch! The filmmakers of "The Corporation" are raising money to launch a shorter, downloadable and affordable version of the film with a license for unlimited school and community screenings. If they make their goal of $50,000, they will gift the film to 1,000...

The Corporation

The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2014

This round-up features Films For Action's picks for best activist film of 2014, most of which can be watched for free online. Our favorites for the year are at the top of the list.

Films For Action

State of Female Justice: What Makes You Rise?

In LA, February 6, Flanders hosted a live public event, bringing together women from the movements for racial, economic, environmental and media justice to discuss creating gender justice in our world. This State of Female Justice event is part of a series, developed by...

147 min

Watch: Russell Brand's Brilliant Takedown of Toxic Fox News Rant in Wake of Hebdo

"Violence and killing are the consequences of this hateful programming . . . And look who profits." In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack, Fox News has gone on a hate-spree of invective about all Muslims being to blame for the actions of a handful of criminals. The tirade...

Janet Allon

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004)

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism pulls back the curtain on Fox News, revealing how it built a media empire on spin, fear, and partisan propaganda. Through insider accounts and damning footage, the film exposes how "fair and balanced" was always a marketing...

78 min

What the Torture Report Isn't Telling You

Why is the corporate media turning torture into a debate? Abby Martin discusses the media's reaction to the Senate torture report and why torture has suddenly turned into a partisan debate.

4 min

War by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda

Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice? Why is the BBC so often a mouthpiece of rapacious power? Why do the New York Times and the Washington Post deceive their readers?

John Pilger

Words That Start With F

Watch more reports from the streets of resistance subMedia.tv

3 min

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The Lottery

State lotteries claim to be good for education and the general wellbeing of citizens. But are they? (Spoiler alert: No.) Connect with Last Week Tonight online...

15 min

Taking Down the Daily Show with Allison Kilkenny and Jamie Kilstein

Abby Martin interviews co-founders of Citizen Radio and authors of the new book, #NEWSFAIL, Allison Kilkenny and Jamie Kilstein, about the biggest flaws in corporate comedy news and why topics like feminism and climate change are covered so poorly by cable news.

17 min

Can MSM Handle the Contra-Cocaine Truth?

“Kill the Messenger” tells the tragic tale of journalist Gary Webb who revived the Contra-cocaine scandal in the 1990s and saw his life destroyed by the mainstream media. The question now is: Will the MSM continue its cover-up of this sordid part of Ronald Reagan’s legacy...

Robert Parry

The Radicalization of Phil Donahue

Mr. Donahue says he believed he was blessed, living in the greatest country on earth - but through hosting his show, speaking to people like Chomsky and the Black Panthers, he came to question what he had thought was true.

63 min

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Miss America Pageant

The Miss America Pageant...how is this still a thing? They claim to give more scholarships to women than any other organization, and, unfortunately, they're right. To illustrate these problems, John Oliver stages his own pageant with the help of Kathy Griffin. Connect with...

16 min

Ferguson: Chronicle of an Insurrection

An in depth look at the events that unfolded in Ferguson, Missouri following the police murder of Michael Brown, a black teenager. Also features an exclusive interview with former Black Panther, Ashanti Alston, about the state of black "America", abolishing penile power and...

20 min

Westminster Fear & Media Bias Shafted Scotland: Russell Brand The Trews (E150)

Russell Brand The Trews (E150). Reaction to the referendum in which Scotland votes to stay in the United Kingdom. But were the odds stacked against independence?

8 min

Wayward Nation: The New American Dream Is Working Overtime

The Wayward Nation crew heads off to Denver next, to team up with pioneer Ricky Padilla for the launch of his new company, Brown Water Coffee. The stakes are high, for right now Ricky and his young employees are less than four days to launch.

8 min

#SaveTheInternet: Web Giants Rally against FCC proposal

American web companies took on the government Wednesday, displaying messages to millions of users warning about the dangers of the Federal Communications Commission’s proposed changes to net neutrality. The government agency is looking to approve a new plan that critics say...

5 min

Wayward Nation: The New American Dream is Censored

Eric Rusch

Russell Brand: Who's More Dangerous, Me Or Fox News?

The Fox News Five are still angry with Ol' Russ. But who wants us to live in fear and hate - me or Fox News? You decide.

13 min

Thousands of Canadians Stand for Love and Unity - Powerful Indy Media Journalism

Between August 21st and 24th, thousands of Canadians gathered in Ottawa to take part in the countries first Peoples' Social Forum - an event of workshops, education, network, and conscious evolution. As part of the event a unified march was organized towards parliament hill...

6 min

What's So Special about Storytelling for Social Change?

A new world requires new stories, but people will only listen to them when they themselves are included in the storyline. This requires a ‘gear-shift’ in conversations about radical action.

Simon Hodges

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