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In this episode of Days of Revolt, Chris Hedges interviews documentary filmmaker Josh Fox, who directed the new film "How to Let Go of the World". The two discuss the catastrophe of climate change, and the role of art and culture in helping us embrace what climate can't change.
26 min
Our city streets can be gloomy grey concrete-covered places; these genius pieces of street art transform everyday objects and situations into fun and playful social spaces
S&U
Political rhetoric in the U.S. is often characterized by sickly sweet appeals to democracy. Voting is held up as the foundation of democracy, or as the most useful or necessary method of political participation or expression. Judging by that rhetoric, and by the image of the...
Kevin Cashman
Predictably, after New York, the establishment is demanding that Bernie bow out. The etiquette of conventional Party politics, after all, dictates that he step aside, lest he weaken the front runner. But this race has never been about tweedle-dee vs. tweedle-dum, so the...
John Atcheson
If you haven’t been paying attention, I don’t blame you for at first not believing this. After all, companies go to great lengths to greenwash their image and present themselves as progressive and environmentally responsible, even while they turn your land to deserts and your...
Exposing The Truth
Wealth inequality has reached truly epic proportions — with 62 individuals amassing the same aggregate wealth as 3.7 billion. Most of us intuitively sense that this outcome was rigged by design by a global elite.
Joe Brewer
Once again, for the umpteenth time in the Democratic presidential primary, there is a dominant narrative in the establishment news media that it is over for Bernie Sanders. News outlets have crunched the numbers, again, and after the loss to Hillary Clinton in New York...
Kevin Gosztola
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We should all be able to afford a home in an area we want to live. But for many of us in the UK, with prices spiralling way beyond incomes, this isn’t a reality.
Instead, finding somewhere to live can often feel like a game.
Why is this? And who are we actually playing...
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48 min
The defiant women who returned to the radioactive exclusion zone soon after the disaster share their tales of survival.
48 min
5 min
Why do we need libraries, I hear you cry, when there is THE INTERNET? Well, the thing about the internet is that it'll only show you what's most popular, not what is BEST.
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9 min
Thrilled to announce that this film won 1st Prize for Long Documentary Category at the Danish Press Awards in March 2017!!!
9 min
New Yorkers voted overwhelmingly for those holding their progress captive
Peter Bloom
6 min
The One Thing You Should Know; Before You Die...
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The Gift is the story of an ordinary couple, when he gives her a small sphere pulled out his chest, she can't separate herself from her new gift… even after they break up.
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British MPs launch landmark report on impending environmental ‘limits’ to economic growth
Nafeez Ahmed
Bernie Sanders offers a different way forward.
Matt Karp
3 min
A new animation about consumption, climate change and wellbeing by PIRC, George Monbiot and Leo Murray. For more info, see: http://carbonomissions.org.uk
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REVERSING THE MISSISSIPPI is a documentary about a genius technologist and a rebel educator, two pioneers from opposite spectrums with one goal in common: Build a sustainable community. Can two men driven by determination overcome global challenges to change the world?
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Crisis after crisis is being caused by a failed ideology. But it cannot be stopped without a coherent alternative.
George Monbiot
Historical perspective on Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton
Tony Brasunas
There is widespread recognition among politicians and pundits that Americans are sharply divided by party on virtually all of the big questions facing our country.
Everyone knows this is just the way things are, and it’s why we have gridlock in Congress.
But here’s one...
Robert Weissman
5 min
Peace House attended a Trump rally disguised as satirical characters. What happened after completely changed their perspective...
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33 min
In Defence of Life follows the struggles and triumphs of four communities resisting large-scale mining projects in Colombia, the Philippines, South Africa and Romania. Courageous environmental and human rights defenders from these communities describe how they have suffered...
33 min
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Ladakh is that one place, which is by default on everyone's Bucket List. But what happens, when a pristine land becomes a tourist hotspot? Last year I went on a trip to Ladakh that changed my paradigm towards a lot of things. Like so many of you, I have a million memories...
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Andrew Martin once worked in the finance industry, but after leaving that life, he and his wife Beth moved to New Zealand and developed an amazing permaculture property in just 3 years!
15 min
To those who are supporting Hillary Clinton,
Kris Seto
"We are finally unveiling the brain mechanisms underlying the potential of LSD, not only to heal, but also to deepen our understanding of consciousness itself."
Jon Queally
18 min
Credit reports play a surprisingly large role in our lives, but even more surprising is how often they contain critical mistakes. John Oliver helps credit agencies see why this is a problem.
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19 min
In September 2015 the BBC recorded an interview with Hamsa, a Syrian mother and refugee, as she neared the end of a desperate four-year journey from Homs, Syria to Germany. Her determination and spirit caught the attention of thousands of people around the world, including...
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Over the years, I’ve probably received more mail about Mutiny of the Soul than any other essay I’ve written. The idea of the article has been hugely validating for many readers: that depression, ADHD, anxiety, etc. aren’t chemical malfunctions of the brain, nor spiritual...
Charles Eisenstein
If the left is to fight back against authoritarianism, we must bring together diverse movements working for social change.
Henry A. Giroux
In the last six months, a relatively low-profile senator from a low-profile state has become a national and even global political phenomenon. At a recent speech in the South Bronx, over 18,000 people rallied with thunderous applause when Bernie Sanders said, "We need millions...
Quincy Saul
Our system of modern capitalism is just one story; it is not the only one there is. It’s not inherent within us. It isn’t some inevitable expression of predefined Human Nature. It was invented by human beings and so human beings can change it. But in order to get there, we...
Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk
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
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
“We won’t see a presidential candidate like Bernie again in our lifetimes.” As I heard these words, spoken by a woman at a Sanders campaign event recently, I felt a chill go through me. Because I knew she was right. We won’t.
John Sanbonmatsu
Americans don't just want a new president, they want a new precedent.
[The following is an imagined 1932 New York Daily News editorial board interview with Franklin Roosevelt during his presidential campaign. The Daily News comments below derive from the editorial board’s interview with Bernie Sanders on April 1, 2016. The Roosevelt statements...
Les Leopold
3 min
BP - one of the world's most destructive corporations - sponsors the British Museum. So we set up our own "rebel exhibition" - without permission - inside the museum, with powerful objects sent by communities affected by BP all over the world.
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24 min
Part of the way the U.S. Empire's elections are rigged is the corporate media's censorship of third-party candidates, despite their nationwide campaign efforts. The Green Party, running Dr. Jill Stein for President, has been totally ignored by the establishment. Abby Martin...
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35 min
Despite a concerted effort by the U.S. Empire to snuff out the ideology, a 2016 poll found young Americans have a much more favorable view of socialism than capitalism. Though he died 133 years ago, the analysis put forward by one of the world's most influential thinkers...
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Clinton is uniquely unsuited to the epic task of confronting the fossil-fuel companies that profit from climate change.
Naomi Klein
10 min
In 2015 leaders and members of diverse indigenous communities throughout America founded the United Nations of the Spirit.
Durante el mes de diciembre del 2015 en la Eco Yoga Aldea de Varsana, cerca de Bogotá, Col
10 min
Outrage abounds these days, but the biggest story of all is hardly getting any attention
Joe Brewer
One needn’t speculate about how the Democrats could end up losing the 2016 presidential election. In fact, a subtly complex, multi-part plan to do just that is exactly what the Democrats have been up to over the last six months.
Seth Abramson
Love: Development of self first priority.
Toxic love: Obsession with relationship.
Light Shifter
Who are we? We are the people who are ready to fight back. The people who no longer live in hope that the Earth will be saved, but in the certainty that we will save her. We are activists, survivors, lovers and fighters. And we say: the destruction will stop.
Derrick Jensen
Either by omission or by commission, the US media actively misinforms the public on crucial issues that matter. The reason they do this is because they legally can.
Cynthia McKinney
When Rory Fanning, a burly veteran who served in the 2nd Army Ranger Battalion and was deployed in Afghanistan in 2002 and 2004, appeared at the Donald Trump rally in Chicago last month he was wearing the top half of his combat fatigues. As he moved through the crowd, dozens...
Chris Hedges
Vote defensively. Vote offensively. Vote when there is someone worth voting for. Vote locally where we have more agency over the outcomes. Vote to protect our movements, which is the real source of our power.Reject ideologies that benefit the status quo. Not voting says...
Tim Hjersted
A bombshell dropped the other day. But if nobody heard it explode, did that make it a dud?
Marty Kaplan
Did the brainiac space man played by Matthew Mcconaughey ever stop to consider the possibility that continuing to rely on massive homogeneous corn fields was driving the death of the planet? No, no he did not.
This parody video isn't directly related to the mo
23 min
"This too shall pass"
"The body is the subconscious mind."
23 min
Devoted Indigenous rights advocate and chronicler of Plains Indian history died this weekend in hospice in Billings, Montana
Nika Knight
21 min
This week we take a look at the multiple converging flashpoints of resistance in France, which have combined into a popular movement that has inspired over a million peeps to take to the streets in a massive expression of collective rage. On the music break, we have French...
21 min
21 min
Lawmakers have to raise money to keep their jobs, but a surprising amount of their job now consists of raising money. John Oliver sits down with Congressman Steve Israel to discuss the costs of political spending.
21 min
12 min
Watch the 6th graders at Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School in Queens, NY transform an unused piece of their campus into a beautiful permaculture garden.
12 min
When maximizing profits isn’t the only goal, companies can actually work better.
Michelle Chen
There is an ancient South American prophecy called the Eagle and the Condor.
Jocelyn Mercado
Last year, I was invited to give a talk on peace in Carbondale, Illinois. I was surprised to discover that in recent years, activists from across Carbondale had come together with a broad vision of what their community could one day become—a nonviolent city. They wanted a new...
Rev. John Dear
20 min
The Blueprint project is an integrated response system especially applicable in emergency situations. The model includes permaculture practices, solar and biogas energy usage, natural building methods and water harvesting structures. We only offer what we use ourselves – for...
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The notion of the "liberal media" hides the fact that most corporate media isn't concerned about presenting a diversity of left-perspectives. That's because the media doesn't actually have a liberal agenda. It has a corporate agenda and it serves corporate profit and the...
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If we do not initiate the young they will burn down the village to feel the heat. - African Proverb
The villages are burning. Worldwide. An estimated $500 billion is spent yearly on teen dysfunctions in the U.S. alone: drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy and STDs...
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Sometimes I feel this sense of "oneness" in my body and it's hard to describe, but I say 'we're all one' as a verbal way to describe the feeling. At other times oneness is an intellectual idea that I know to be true but I don't feel it in my direct experience.
A new book by Starhawk explores the task of healing society.
Antonia Blumberg
Trump’s outlandishness may get more press but Clinton’s intelligence act might be just as dangerous
Peter Bloom
It’s not over. Far from it. The economic and political establishment, which includes the Democratic National Committee (DNC), its Wall Street and corporate backers, and the major media, most of it now owned by a half dozen big corporations, have worked feverishly to turn the...
RoseAnn DeMoro
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is slated for an up-or-down vote in Congress. Proponents say it’s about free trade. But it looks more like corporate colonization.
David Korten
In 2006, when I told people that I was a socialist, they looked at me like I was crazy. To be a socialist was to be on the margins of American political life, wedded to a lost cause that disappointed millions. It was the political equivalent of being a Milli Vanilli fan.
A...
Bhaskar Sunkara
The "lesser of two evils" has been centered on the false dichotomy of Trump versus everyone else.
Danny Haiphong
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Anti-racism activist Tim Wise contextualizes the Trump campaign as just the latest in a centuries-long strategy of rich whites duping poor whites into channeling anger toward people of color, rather than the elite.
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12 min
In the wake of Donald Trump's accusations against the Bush administration for lying about "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and failing to keep Americans save from terrorism, TYT's Eric Byler interviewed Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff for Secretary of State Colin...
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22 min
Far from being a far-fetched pipe dream that human beings could never live under, pockets of anarchistic self-activity are what keep us sane in a profoundly insane world. This video mainly deals with how the capitalist system exerts massive amounts of pressure on individuals...
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A short film discussing the nature of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and its impact on Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the treaty representing the bicultural relationship in Aotearoa New Zealand. Jane Kelsey, Hone Harawira, Marama Davidson and Margaret Mutu provide their...
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Arizona residents were forced to wait hours on line in order to vote in this week's primary. Some were turned away.
Bob Cesca
Anytime there’s a new development in robotics or artificial intelligence, popular culture almost instantly regurgitates the Skynet Terminator narrative. To wit, when Anti-Media reported on a new robot getting pushed around by its handlers, even we couldn’t resist alluding to...
Jake Anderson
Eating more fruit and vegetables and cutting back on red and processed meat will make you healthier. That’s obvious enough. But as chickens and cows themselves eat food and burn off their own energy, meat is a also major driver of climate change. Going veggie can...
Marco Springmann
This morning I was walking into my building and a man was walking parallel with me. He was going towards one set of doors; I was going towards a pair adjacent to them. He smiled at me and gestured me over to his side with a head nod. “Let me get the door for you.” (He meant...
Kel Campbell
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Is everyone transgender? Can straight people identify as queer? Shon Faye asks: If queerness is defined by a rejection of labels how should queers differentiate and support the identities most vulnerable to patriarchal oppression?
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Why is American media so biased in the way it covers attacks in Europe compared to how it covers the rest of the world?
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Blogger Emlyn Pearce responds to those who feel all Muslims are responsible for the actions of a few, with an amazing Facebook post that's going viral.
Emlyn Pearce
Paranoid politicians, sensational journalists – the Isis recruiting officers will be thrilled at how things have gone since their atrocity in Belgium
Simon Jenkins
The First World is quickly learning that it was easy to skip the lecture on morals and ethics - it is physics that will eloquently phrase the challenge in the end. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
New studies show being in nature may increase your willingness to be generous, trusting, and helpful toward others.
Jill Suttie
Last week, I got an email question from a colleague (we’ll call her ‘Amy’). I’ve known for a while. I asked Amy for permission to answer her question in a more public forum, because this is a question I get quite often. And it is a question that is difficult to answer without...
TMS Ruge
25 min
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...
25 min
I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask, "Where is that?" If I offer a clue by referring to "Bikini", they say, "You mean the swimsuit."
John Pilger
Here are a few simple facts:
Liam Miller
2 min
Can a forest heal people? Explore the magic of nature. Come home. Be Healed.
2 min
Frank Barat reflects on today's attacks on his city, and argues that only more understanding can defeat terrorism and its root causes.
Frank Barat
Twelve years ago, John Perkins published his book, “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.” Today, he says “things have just gotten so much worse.”
Sarah van Gelder
New social movements are different. Instead of asking for alternatives, they are bringing them to life.
Marina Sitrin
Democratic presidential candidate speech praises "everything that is bad about Israeli policy and U.S. imperialism"
Lauren McCauley
6 min
What is this thing we call... nationalism, really?
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19 min
Donald Drumpf wants to build a wall on the U.S-Mexico border. Is his plan feasible?
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Anonymous published information about Donald Trump, including his cell phone number and Social Security number, online. The response from the Trump team was to call for the arrest of those responsible and for an apparent investigation by the FBI and Secret Service. However...
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The village of Tamaquito lies in the forests of Colombia. Here, nature provides the people with everything they need. But the Wayúu community’s way of life is being destroyed by the vast and rapidly growing El Cerrejón coal mine. Determined to save his community from forced...
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The living earth is slowly being consumed by the human animals living on its surface. There are many drivers of the destruction being wrought, and many solutions we can pursue. One of the clearest drivers of deforestation, habitat loss and extinction is our insatable and...
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During the presidency of Lula Da Silva, billions of dollars in bribes were taken to allow construction companies to overcharge the government-owned oil company, Petrobras. Now, Brazil has corruption, but it's actually pretty good for a developing country. But the people of...
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