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The first Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture is delivered by veteran journalist, Bill Moyers. Citing Zinn as his inspiration, Moyers focuses on the challenges facing our democracy. He decried what he says has been a 30-year trend toward plutocracy, where the rich get richer at the...
116 min
December 2010 and Cablegate has burst open. With a steady trickle of Diplomatic communiques leaking out every single day, the Book of Revelations is expanding dramatically. In all the hubbub, the global community is forced to ask questions of its leaders. At the same time...
6 min
In the midst of the 1990s bull market, one lone regulator warned about the derivatives dangers that would cause an economic meltdown nearly a decade later in the housing market. Frontline investigates the story of Brooksley Born, who saw the systemic risk in the virtually...
55 min
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
Clear Channel neglects its emergency system, disaster strikes, and people die. Pentagon pundits profit from the same war they promote. Fox News gets a court ruling that news does not have to be true. And Radio Talkers rule. Media Policy is killing people in this country...
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Some of us have known this for a long time. Some of us just found out and some will find out very soon. There are few, if any, elected officials who really care about our interests unless we're one of the few thousand ultra rich who control Congress and the White House.
Michael Collins
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that I have put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange out of jail.
Michael Moore
The Canary Effect takes an in depth look at the devastating effect that US policies have had on the indigenous people of America.
63 min
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
On February 15th, 2003, up to 30 million people, many of whom had never demonstrated before, came out in nearly 800 cities around the world to protest against the impending Iraq War. We Are Many is the never-before-told story of the largest demonstration in human history, and...
105 min
Exclusive rough-cut of the first in-depth documentary on WikiLeaks and the people behind it! From summer 2010 until now, Swedish Television has been following the secretive media network WikiLeaks and its enigmatic Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange. Reporters Jesper Huor and...
57 min
Cities should be a solution not a problem for human beings. The city of Curitiba has demonstrated for the past 40 years how to transform problems into cost-effective solutions that can be applied in most cities around the world.
51 min
'The War On Democracy' (2007) was John Pilger's first for cinema. It explores the current and past relationship of Washington with Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.
94 min
This feature-length documentary focuses on the efforts by troops in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to oppose the war effort by peaceful demonstration and subversion. It speaks mainly to veterans but serves as a ready reminder to civilians that soldiers may oppose...
49 min
Lone voice in Washington defends Wikileaks and Julian Assange.
5 min
The FBI's lead suspect in the September, 2001 anthrax attacks -- Bruce E. Ivins -- died Tuesday night, apparently by suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to charge him with responsibility for the attacks. For the last 18 years, Ivins was a top anthrax...
Glenn Greenwald - Friday, Aug 1, 2008
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
Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris presents an amazing documentary about Robert McNamara, U.S. Secretary of State, 1961-68. The film opens the door into what was really going on when the Kennedy Administration handled the Cuban Missile Crisis... as well as how Vietnam...
107 min
Worse Than War documents Daniel Goldhagen¹s travels, teachings, and interviews in nine countries around the world, bringing viewers on an unprecedented journey of insight and analysis. In a film that is highly cinematic and evocative throughout, he speaks with victims...
116 min
With the release of a third raft of Wiki-leaks documents and the response by most American politicians and media pundits, the public now has a significant amount of data with which to assess the validity (or otherwise) of what Wiki-leaks is doing, and the case appears to...
Joe Quinn
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...
10 min
The vicious intimidation campaign against WikiLeaks is wrong, dangerous and undermines the rule of law. Top US politicians have branded WikiLeaks a terrorist organization, and urged corporations to shut it down. Commentators have suggested assassinating its staff. The...
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
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...
60 min
In its first months in office, the Obama administration sought to protect Bush administration officials facing criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies the that governed interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. A...
David Corn
The comparison of these two passages is so telling in so many ways:
Glenn Greenwald
As opponents of gays serving openly in the military parse through the Defense Department's survey results of more than 115,000 servicemen and women and their families to find some shred of justification for officially sanctioned bigotry, it is worth taking note of this...
The Baltimore Sun Editorial Staff
Let's start with what the U.S. embassy cables released by WikiLeaks this weekend are not.
Arianna Huffington
In a national broadcast exclusive interview, Democracy Now speaks with Noam Chomsky about the release of more than 250,000 secret U.S. State Department cables by WikiLeaks.
45 min
President Obama's FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, has a reputation in DC of being a "tepid" regulator. From reports of his net neutrality proposal, he's l
Marvin Ammori: Law Professor/Advocate in Cyberlaw
The future of the Internet is up for grabs. Big corporations are lobbying Washington to turn the gateway to the Web into a toll road. Yet the public knows little about what's happening behind closed doors where the future of democracy's newest forum is being decided.
86 min
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56 min
Is television and entertainment media converging into a monopoly, dragging the Internet down with it and ultimately hurting you as the consumer? The proposed NBC Universal and Comcast merger has people saying just that. Sam Seder, former Air America Host says he doesn't see...
7 min
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is putting together a net neutrality proposal and plans to take action on the controversial issue as early as next month, according to several sources with knowledge of the situation.
Details of the proposal...
Kim Hart
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...
2 min
“If you’re going to have a rally where hundreds of thousands of people show up, you might as well go ahead and make it about something.”
6 min
Funny little video taking extreme Libertarian ideas to their logical conclusion.
1 min
Climate Change will have profound implications for the security of every nation. Experienced military experts have come to some conclusions on what's coming.
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18 min
As the 2007-08 presidential campaign cycle offered up the usual slate of Washington insiders, Ron Paul, an obscure Congressman from Texas brought an alternative voice that challenged the political establishment. Advocating a philosophy of sound money, a non-interventionist...
115 min
Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary brought Chris Hedges to their Poverty Scholars Strategic Dialogues on Media and Religion and he delivered a monumental address urging the poor deal effectively with the right wing's grip on power, counter their fascistic racial...
78 min
Winner of both the Edward R. Murrow Award and the Polk Award for Excellence in Journalism, 'Boogie Man' tells the story of the king of trash politics. Lee Atwater, the brilliant and ruthless Republican political consultant and strategist who eventually became chairman of the...
2 min
New Left Media's Chase Whiteside interviews "Tea Party" members protesting the new health care bill. Unfortunately, none seemed to know much about what was in the legislation.
10 min
3 facts show that the government "fixed the facts" regarding 9/11 around a policy decision to exonerate the government from any blame whatsoever.1. 9/11 Commission's Chief Counsel says Official Story "Almost Entirely Untrue . . . There Was an Agreement Not to Tell the...
Washington's Blog
No need to modernize the phrasing of this most obviously relevant Orwellian slogan. Obama, our Nobel Prince of Peace, continues the endless wars, warrantless and evidence-less detentions, and illegal torture. The public is kept in an increasing state of fear of a...
Activist Post
In two minutes, John Perkins explains how the globalized economy works today. It's pretty important that people understand what's driving the economic cancer that has now taken over the planet.
2 min
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...
2 min
Sign the petition telling History Channel that until they stop running politically motivated fiction as historical "fact," you will refuse to watch their programming.
Joel Surnow, a hard-right activist and former Fox News producer who supported Rick Santorum and is close...
12 min
More than a million spectators gathered before the Capitol on a frosty January afternoon to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama, who promised in his campaign to change Washington's mercenary culture of lobbyists, special interest influence and backroom deals. But within...
2 min
Mainstream news attributes Haitian poverty to the supernatural, avoiding history of foreign intervention. Danny Glover, Peter Hallward, and Anthony Fenton contribute to breaking down the media avoidance of Haiti's history of foreign intervention. According to Hallward...
13 min
Congresswoman Donna Edwards and constitutional law professor Jamie Raskin speak out against the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. FEC and call for a mass movement of people to support a constitutional amendment. Visit FreeSpeechforPeople.org to learn more and get...
4 min
A short film explaining the Federal Reserve System and its consequences on average Americans.
11 min
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...
2 min
Since 2003 militias known as the Janjaweed under orders from the sudanese government have killed over 200,000 civilians and another 2.5 million have been forced into refugee camps.
In a bid to secure their oil interests inside of sudan and chad, many of the worlds major...
28 min
Version 1 of a documentary about the recent Pittsburgh G20 Protests, and the Police Occupation of the University of Pittsburgh. This film is a collaboration between Pittsburgh Indymedia, Chicago Indymedia, Twin Cities Indymedia, and the Glass Bead Collective. Expect a future...
30 min
"A most important project" - Noam Chomsky, Institute professor MIT "...a magnificent and entertaining introduction and elaboration upon an important way to understand the crisis in American democracy today" - Robert W. McChesney, University of Illinois prof. co-author, The...
3 min
FOX News is on a witch hunt. Their goal is simple: to destroy the Obama administration and the progressive movement. They've already forced Van Jones out of the White House. They've badgered Congress into passing unconstitutional measures to defund ACORN. Glenn Beck actually...
6 min
Last week, Rep. Alan Grayson said the Republican "plan" for health care was "don't get sick", and if you get sick, "die faster". Republicans called on Grayson to apologize; Grayson's response was to apologize to those who have died due to lack of health insurance. Since then...
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350 is the most important number in the world--it's what scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Two years ago, after leading climatologists observed rapid ice melt in the Arctic and other frightening signs of climate change, they issued...
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The International Council on Security published maps of the insurgency's presence in 2007, 2008 and 2009. The United States added troops in Afghanistan in each of these years. ICOS's maps show that none of these troop increases arrested the growth of the insurgency. In fact...
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