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Israeli Army Vet's Exposé - "I Was the Terrorist" 28 min
In a rare, candid conversation, Abby Martin interviews a former Israeli Army combat soldier who served as an occupier in Palestine’s Hebron City. Eran Efrati spent years as a sergeant and combat soldier in the Israeli military, but has since become an outspoken critic of the...
‘World’s Happiest Man’ Has A Plea: Treat Animals With Compassion 2 min
Tibetan Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard is asking for people to be more compassionate toward animals.
Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named "Vault 7" by WikiLeaks, it is the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency.
Now more than ever, we cannot take news media at face value – we need tools to read media critically, strategies to discern how information works. This is what inspired The Listening Post’s project: Media Theorised. We’ve taken key works of five thinkers from around the...
Framed: The Politics of Stereotypes in News 2 min
Palestinian academic Edward Said’s (1935-2003) book ‘Orientalism’ showed how the West had the power to represent the colonial ‘other’ - while at once leaving them voiceless.
Digital Prophecies: The Medium Is the Message 2 min
In the 1960s, way before anybody had ever tweeted, Facebook Live-d or sent classified information to WikiLeaks, one man made a series of pronouncements about the changing media landscape. His name was Marshall McLuhan and you've probably heard his most quoted line: "The...
How to Read the Signs in the News 3 min
Roland Barthes The work of French philosopher Roland Barthes (1915-1980) is difficult, slippery, whimsical - it calls on us to read the world around us as a series of texts. He would have seen the TV screen as a cultural text - there to be read, interpreted, decoded.
In the juvenile prison of Wiesbaden in Germany there are more than 300 inmates, including returning Isis fighters from Syria. A pilot project by the German government seeks to reintegrate individuals through the study of the Qur’an and through theatre.
Nine Legendary Activists Share Lessons On How To Win Social Change 15 min
Whether it's 1966 or 2016, one thing that hasn't changed much is how people organise and campaign for social and political advancement. Amidst rising political and social division, newsPeeks spoke with Noam Chomsky, Kathleen Cleaver, Devon Thomas, Angela Phillips, Erin...
Like it, or not, our world has to go through the dark night of the Soul - A Global Initiation in the process 3 min
A 3 minute extract from a talk by Kingsley L. Dennis around 2012 where he talks about the world going through a disruptive 'dark night of the soul'
"It's still religious discrimination in the pre-textual guise of national security. And it's still unconstitutional."
The Wizard of Oz Could Be A Subversive Critique of Capitalism 5 min
In his introduction to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," L. Frank Baum claims that the book is simply an innocent children's story. But some scholars have found hidden criticisms of late-nineteenth-century economic policies in the book. Is it possible that this much-loved...
Stuart Hall: Race, Gender, Class: The Politics of News 3 min
Known as the ‘Godfather of Multiculturalism’, Stuart Hall (1932-2014) gave us tools to understand how representation is always imbued with ideology - and how to resist.
Theresa May was defeated in the Lords last week, and ever since has worn the appalled expression of a famously strict headmistress who has intercepted a note being passed between pupils that turns out to be a breathtakingly vivid representation of a masturbating werewolf. It...
Edward Snowden on Donald Trump, Obama's Presidency, Activism & Liberty & His Life in Exile 22 min
In our interview with NSA-whistleblower, activist and human rights advocate, Edward Snowden, we talk to him about the history of intelligence agencies, notable whistleblowers, the role of politicians and whether he thinks that Donald Trump will misuse the power of the...
Jeremy Scahill on the Military Industrial Complex, Donald Trump, Ramstein & Anti-War Movements 22 min
In this interview with bestselling author, investigative reporter and co-founder of The Intercept, Jeremy Scahill, we talk about the political economy of the United States foreign policy apparatus and its influence abroad in countries such as Germany and Saudi Arabia. In...
Incredible Animation Summarises Noam Chomsky's 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine 5 min
For decades, Noam Chomsky has been the agent provocateur when it comes to critiquing the US mainstream media. He co-authored ‘Manufacturing Consent’, a seminal work on mainstream journalism and its role in the mechanics of power.
Richard Wolff - What Is Money? Why Do Some Have More Than Others? 13 min
In this interview with Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard Wolff,  we talk to him about an instrument of exchange that we use in our society on a daily basis called money. What is...
Richard D. Wolff - What Are Capitalism & Socialism? What Differentiates Them From Each Other? 10 min
In this interview with Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff,  we talk to him about Capitalism and Socialism. What is Capitalism and Socialism? What differentiates Capitalism...
Hawaiians Tell the Story of U.S. Imperialism and Land Grabbing That Continues to This Day 18 min
This three-part series reports on native Hawaiians fight for land and the movement for sovereignty from the U.S.
Take a Tour of Banksy's Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem 12 min
It's billed as the hotel with "the worst view in the world". The Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem has opened its doors, packed with art works by Banksy.
Israeli Comedian Gets Serious in Final Monologue: Wake up and Smell the Apartheid 6 min
In Last Monologue, Israeli Comedy Show Host Implores Israelis to Wake Up and Smell the Apartheid. Asaf Harel's scathing indictment of Israeli society has gone viral. You can read more here.
Brazil's Warrior Women - a Women's Grassroots Movement for Access to Babassu Oil 8 min
In celebration of International Women's Day 2017.
To look for the cause of this crisis in the wings, wards and surgeries of our hospitals is to search for the cause of a traffic jam inside the internal combustion engine...
From Raleigh to Los Angeles, communities on the frontlines are building the movement infrastructure for a coordinated fightback.
“Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!" - Otto Von Bismark. How that can happen, and why we need it to happen.
'Worst view in the world': Banksy Opens Hotel Overlooking Bethlehem Wall 1 min
British street artist Banksy unveils his new Walled Off hotel on Friday. The 10-room establishment is situated next to the Israeli barrier wall at Bethlehem. Banksy hopes it will spark a dialogue and attract younger visitors from Tel Aviv while also creating jobs in the area.
Jon Stewart Returns to Urge the Media to Break Up With Trump 10 min
Worried that the mainstream media's breakup with President Trump has reporters feeling blue, Jon Stewart stops by with relationship advice.
Reimagine Work: Baking Without a Boss 3 min
"So much in society we are bombarded with a competitive approach and it is about reimagining that and reworking it!" A glimpse into the working lives of people from the Leeds Bread Co-op who can't imagine having a boss and are bringing the values of democracy, equality and...
The Last Resort 72 min
A fascinating documentary about Misool Eco-Resort, situated in the stunning islands of Raja Ampat, Indonesia. This is not just a luxury, tourist destination- it is also also a biodiversity and conservation hotspot. See how this one time shark finning camp is turned into a...
Russell Brand Brilliantly Picks Apart Media Manipulation and Islamophobia 9 min
A look at Lindsay Lohan's recent appearance on Good Morning Britain and how she was quizzed about her faith.
Donald Trump’s presidency has already been an unprecedented barrage of racism, homophobia, sexism and other attacks on human rights and the planet. He is a racist, a misogynist, and the world’s climate change denier in chief; in short he is terrifying. But the response gives...
Tulsi Gabbard Speaks Out Against the Regime Change War in Syria 6 min
There is no denying that interventionist wars that were propagated as necessary to relieve human suffering, have actually increased human suffering in those countries — many times over. We must understand the consequences of this destructive policy, end our counterproductive...
Donald Trump’s administration has seen several “rogue” Twitter accounts claiming to be from staffers in the White House and other US governmental agencies. The accounts purport to provide snippets of insider information to the public; its “revelations” extend from exampled...
Bill Hicks Reminds Us Life is Just a Ride 2 min
Revelations is Bill Hicks' last special ever, taped in 1992, and features him at the height of his genius. Recorded at the Dominion Theatre in London, Bill Hicks opens our eyes and minds to the hypocrisy and ludicrousness of the world around us.
I have been besieged by a jumbled, confused trail of thoughts
Sikh-American Valarie Kaur Offers a Powerful Reframing of This Moment in History 4 min
Sikh-American civil rights advocate Valarie Kaur's plea to her country in the times of Dona
I ran into my friend Rick the other day in a small town near our homes in northern Vermont. He was just coming out of the bookstore, holding a pink plastic bag that, I would soon learn, contained a dozen eggs from his flock of free range hens. After a bit of small talk, Rick...
Video Shows Shell Knew About The Dangers of Climate Change 25 Years Ago 2 min
In 1991, Shell produced a public documentary on global warming called Climate of Concern. It warned that trends in global temperatures raised serious risks of famines, floods and climate refugees. But in the quarter century since, Shell has continued to invest heavily in...
How the BBC Makes The Most Incredible Wildlife Films in the World 24 min
A look at how technology has evolved to bring us the extraordinary scenes seen on Planet Eart II.
It's 3:23 in the morning and I'm awake because my great great grandchildren won't let me sleep my great great grandchildren ask me in dreams what did you do while the planet was plundered? what did you do when the earth was unraveling? —
Free your mind, find your power, change the world
The West Was Built on Racism. It's Time We Faced That 2 min
Dead white men are revered by many as responsible for the advancement of civilisation, says sociology professor Kehinde Andrews. But, he argues, this so-called progress came at the expense of millions of people of colour. Global inequality is not an accident, he argues – it...
Mundo Calato Documental 15 min
Mundo Calato es el primer proyecto Aero-Visual de esta serie de películas que pretende dar a conocer el Mundo y con él  su valor, su  belleza, su energía, su fuerza, la importancia de la pachamama para que esta pueda ser y sea respetada con sabiduría y conciencia.
Chris Hedges & Abby Martin - Trump, Fascism & the Christian Right 26 min
For the first time in modern history, a fringe wing of Christian extremists have obtained the highest seats of power in the US government—from Mike Pence to Betsy DeVos. This new development is coupled with the emergence of the Alt Right, the Trump movement, and the rise of...
Existing Is Resisting - Farmers Resisting GM Crops 5 min
This animation illustrates the myriad practices of everyday resistance that have to be carried out by non-GM producers to try and avoid the spread of genetically modified (GM) maize and the burdens of GM contamination. It is based on the academic paper: Herrero, A....
Now that the Democrats have (s)elected their latest unrepentant Clinton lackey and protoge of Neoliberal corporatism for the spot of DNC Chair-- in a secretive unrecorded vote, no less, to avoid any inconvenient individual accountability-- many abandoned voters are currently...
Existing Is Resisting - How Farmers Are Resisting GM Crops 5 min
This animation illustrates the myriad practices of everyday resistance that have to be carried out by non-GM producers to try and avoid the spread of genetically modified (GM) maize and the burdens of GM contamination. It is based on the academic paper: Herrero, A....
Belgian Police Chief Advocates for the Legalization of All Drugs 3 min
Deputy Chief of Police Peter Muyshondt (Belgium) is convinced that his brother would still be alive if drugs were legal.
The Venus Project is the culmination of Jacque Fresco’s life’s work to present a sustainable redesign of our culture. The project lays out a sustainable world civilization where technology and science are applied to redesigning our social system with the prime concern being...
Sweatshop of Wall Street 18 min
The Sweatshop Of Wall Street is a short documentary about the world of direct sales in New York City. The piece follows of Phil and Zao, two young salespeople who made as little as $0.50 an hour hawking cellphone contracts to passersby in Brooklyn, New York. From a misleading...
Britain in Iraq: The Impact Goes Far Beyond The 2003 Iraq War 11 min
We are still feeling the backlash from the 2003 Iraq war today; in Iraq, in the Middle East and globally. But in conversations about the 2003 war, two vital perspectives have often been missing.
Feda's Dream 1 min
Feda dreams to become a fashion designer one day, but with limited job opportunities in Jordan and Lebanon, refugees and host communities are struggling to make ends meet. The LEADERS consortium, with generous funding from the EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syria...
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle 1 min
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle (2017). A forthcoming feature documentary about the human cost of the housing crisis from Paul Sng, director of Sleaford Mods - Invisible Britain (2015).
To get someone’s support, you need more than just facts.
The Trump Report - The Real Fake News About The Dakota Access Pipeline 2 min
President Trump is sick of the lying fake news media, so he's doing the news himself. Today on The Trump Report: Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline (great pipeline).
4.1 Miles 21 min
Kyriakos Papadopoulos is a 41-year old local captain of the Greek Coast Guard. He has two wonderful young daughters Vivi and Melissa, and before the refugee crisis exploded in 2014, he had a “normal” life. Lesbos was a small peaceful island and is job involved routine border...
The following piece is a work of satire*. The fact that it is nearly indistinguishable from some folk’s disturbing view of reality is, I think, an apt commentary on our citizenry’s terrifyingly vast depths of ignorance. (*No religions were harmed in its conception)
7 Signs of Tyranny 2 min
Consider yourself warned.
Let’s not be romantic. Industrial civilization is no utopia. For every creature comfort we have, something or someone pays the price. The wilderness is no fairy tale either. Nature is neutral, but she is almighty. If we watch up close a wildfire or a lightning storm we are...
Ra’s Al Ghul   In the comics, Ra’s Al Ghul is of
How to Be a Great Listener 5 min
There’s so much talking going on in the world with everyone trying to get their opinions and stories heard, but not a whole lot of listening. Yet, when we listen, we learn and we connect.  We discover new information and fresh things about other people.  Listening is a vital...
A Paradise! That is what I came searching for in India… And my work took me to remote villages of rural India where I discovered fascinating ecological traditions and wisdom. Everywhere I went I documented vernacular architecture, traditional agricultural practices, handloom...
Everything we do in life serves as an example to someone, whether anyone involved is even consciously aware of it. Whatever these people (be it ourselves, co-workers, kids, family, even strangers) perceive as our mentality and motives becomes recorded and spread quite like a...
'They cannot extinguish the fire that Standing Rock started,' Dallas Goldtooth declared
Dr. Ann Russo on violence, healing, and transforming justice.
MLK Stands With Standing Rock (#NoDAPL) 3 min
Martin Luther King's words are as relevant as ever, highlighting the many parallels between the civil rights movement of the 60’s and the NoDAPL movement of the present. #NoDAPL
The Resistance Calendar lists upcoming rallies across the country.
Saramurillo, Justice for Peru's Amazonian Peoples? 9 min
This short film tells the story of the recent indigenous mobilization at Saramurillo in the Northern Peruvian Amazon and shares the voices of indigenous peoples who united in this ongoing struggle for their rights, and for the protection of the water, land and life itself...
How Independent is Hollywood? 4 min
A huge number of big-budget Hollywood films, especially those featuring war, conflict or terrorism, are influenced by Hollywood's close relationship with the United States military. This leads us to ask - how independent is Hollywood?
TESLA The One Man Show 
2017 10 min
The 10 minute version of a documentary style short film of the Theatre Production by Toby John Short.  This one man show details the life of Serbian born - American inventor Nikola Tesla and rise of his A.C system of electrical distribution.  "Free wireless power might be too...
When I lived in San Francisco, I often would marvel at the movement of goods through the ports across the bay in Oakland. Full container ships would enter the bay one after another and unload their cargo, which ultimately would be making its way to the many big box stores...
The Foiled Bomb Plot in Kansas That Didn't Make Trump's Terror List 5 min
When a plot by a pro-white militia to bomb a Somali mosque in Kansas was foiled by the FBI last October, the aborted conspiracy received little national coverage - nor did it make Donald Trump's list of 78 'under-reported' terrorist attacks.
Dreams of My Children - A Syrian Refugee's Plea 5 min
Hala and her family are from the Syrian city of Aleppo. In 2012, her husband was kidnapped and she and her four children fled to Germany. Now, as the family tries to rebuild their life in a new land, nightmares of the past still haunt them. This film comes as a special...
In just one week, with several strokes of a pen, Trump unleashed upon the working class in the U.S. an attack not seen in decades. From his attack on the flawed Affordable Care Act to the banning of immigrants from Muslim countries to the explicit targeting of “sanctuary...
The London Anarchist Group Squatting Mansions to Fight Homelessness 6 min
London squatting activists ANAL (Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians) are squatting empty multi-million pound buildings and opening them up to the homeless.
In times like these, in times of great crisis, when, as Yeats memorably put it, the ‘centre cannot hold’ and the ‘blood-dimmed tide is loosed’, then our first response must be to find another, deeper centre. This work, of finding an impassable place that provides both a...
If you’re lucky enough to have longtime friends even as an adult, then you know probably already know how much it means to be able to spend time together. Maybe you even have a dream to retire together and sit on each other’s porches with your families, sharing stories from...
“A powerful, rigorous, and clear-eyed guide to building social justice movements.”
Where the Term "Redneck" Came From 15 min
If you don't know this story, you'll never look at the word the same again.  This is just a window into the sometimes shocking, subversive and untold history of the United States, from the film Plutocracy by Scott Noble. Watch the full documentary online here (free).
Redneck Revolt Presents: A Message to the Patriot Movement 6 min
Over the past few weeks, Redneck Revolt has been communicating with a former member of a III% Patriot Militia based out of Ohio. Peter made contact with our organization after questioning the basis for an upcoming operation that his local militia group was asked to be...
In mid-November of 2016, I was a Water Protector at Standing Rock. At first my goal was to play investigative journalist; documenting then writing about every detail for my article readers and online followers. However, by the time I actually got there, all my goals had changed.
What economic system designs, out of all conceivable ones, might be among the best at helping us meet real needs?
Philippine Vigils Against Vigilantes - The Reign of Terror in the President's War on Drugs 7 min
The war on drugs waged by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has taken more than 7,000 lives since its inception. It took the killing of a South Korean businessman by police to prompt President Duterte to formally apologize. And while he suspended the offensive, the...
Stories Of Wolves: The Lobo Returns 1 min
“Stories of Wolves” is about the recovery efforts for Mexican Gray Wolves, the most endangered land mammal in all of North America. Less than 100 wolves remain in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico.
A platform co-operative approach to information, rather than the models of Facebook and legacy media, provide reason for optimism, writes Dan Hind.
We frequently hear calls for system change, at public mobilisations, in conference halls and even in negotiation halls. The calls come as slogans, they come in anger and they come as a strong rebuke to the systemic scaffold on which our pains, our exploitation and the denial...
Instead of falling to the Nazi party, Norway broke through to a social democracy. Their history shows us polarization is nothing to despair over.
Artificial Ethics and the Search for Intelligence 5 min
How to stop a robot turning evil.
Slow Life: Raúl Micó 6 min
The Slow Life : Raúl Micó es un retrato sincero y positivo de alguien que podría ser cualquiera si no fuera porque ha encontrado la razón de su existencia, y eso sólo ocurre cuando desnudas tu alma, miras su horizonte y nadas contracorriente.
DOROTHY DAY as Known by Cornel West 120 min
Cornel West outlines the development of Dorothy Day becoming a leading visionary in America. Basic was the love by others and the influences of the neighborhood. Then some travel and the social movement of her time. She began to recognize the political, economic and social...
February 15Th, 2003: the Day the World Said No to War 8 min
This is a teaser for a feature length documentary about the biggest protest in history, on a single day. The day in question was 15 February 2003, when in around 800 cities all over the world, up to 30 million people marched to stop the impending war against Iraq.
DOROTHY DAY 10 min
Dorothy Day, Obl.S.B., (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert.
Want to be able to breath throughout this coming decade? Are you against the for-profit tax-funded constant wars, drone strikes, and bloated military industrial complex? Maybe even demanding some provably fair elections, ending the undemocratic influence of private...
Responding Effectively to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Attacks
Say what you like about Donald Trump but he's already done things people said were impossible, like made Twitter worse. Looking back, the Harambe situation is the closest working model we have for a Trump presidency. Last week he gave the sort of press conference that in a...
How Comedy Can Disarm Bullies 3 min
As long as you're funny, it can get you out of almost anything - even getting mugged, as co-founder of Between Two Ferns Scott Aukerman recounts. Unfortunately, not everyone out there is funny, although some people believe they are, and this is usually when you get...
Simple Social Experiment Shows We Are More Than The Boxes People Put Us In 3 min
We live in a time where we are quick to put people in boxes. Maybe we have more in common than what we think?
Khury Petersen-Smith and Brian Bean comment on a discussion in the Black Lives Matter movement about the role of white activists in the antiracist struggle.
I Am Not Your Negro 93 min
Director Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished - a radical narration about race in America, using the writer's original words. He draws upon James Baldwin's notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr.
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