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It is nearly certain that we will endure, sooner rather than later, another catastrophic terrorist attack on American soil. The blundering of our military into the Middle East; the failed states that have risen out of the mismanagement and chaos of Iraq and Afghanistan; the...
Chris Hedges
Sometimes homophobes will try anything to come up with a reasonable argument for why homosexuality is wrong, but it turns out with a little bit of thought that debate is going to be shut down very easily.
Joe Morgan
8 min
The US patent act clause 102 says that nothing can be patented if it is prior public knowledge. If the public has been aware of the material and its benefits, then it is not possible to patent. Clause 102 then goes on to define ‘public knowledge’ as only that of Americans’...
8 min
Ashraf Fayadh was sentenced to death for apostasy, joining a long list of dissidents facing capital punishment
Ben Norton
The Paris attackers weren’t Syrian, and they didn’t use encryption, but the US government is still using the carnage to justify attempts to ban them both
Trevor Timm
The greatest gift you can offer loved ones is your true presence.
Thich Nhat Hanh
7 min
Among the issues tackled in the new documentary film "Drone" is the connection between video games and military recruitment. We air a clip from the film and speak to its director, Tonje Hessen Schei, as well as drone war whistleblower Brandon Bryant.
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November 20 is Transgender Day of Remembrance for the LGBTQ community to call attention to transgender victims of hate crimes. 2015 has seen a historic high in anti-trans violence, with nearly twice as many people murdered as 2014.
1 min
Jingoists conveniently forget the West's Cold War strategy was to arm the Islamic extremists that became al-Qaida
Ben Norton
When Mhairi Black posted a short message to welcome refugees to Scotland she received both support and condemnation. Here she responds to those who said she should be more concerned about the problems faced by Scottish people.
Mhairi Black
Why France’s brave new war on ISIS is a sick joke, and an insult to the victims of the Paris attacks
Nafeez Ahmed
A reflection on religion, spirituality, connection and destruction.
2 min
It's easy to see Isis as an irrational death cult, argues Charlie Winter - but its motives in the Paris attack were strategic. The group is trying to achieve polarisation in the west, spread fear, spark military action against it and improve its image.
2 min
Air Force whistleblowers say US drone program "is one of the most devastating driving forces for terrorism and destabilization around the world."
Lauren McCauley
11 min
Since 2009, the Unist'ot'en clan and its supporters have occupied a camp that is blocking proposed oil and gas pipelines in northern British Columbia, Canada. In the summer of 2015, oil company workers regularly attempted to enter the indigenous group's territory, and a...
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Antoine Leiris lost his wife Helene in the Bataclan theatre in Paris. His Facebook tribute to his wife and challenge to her killers has since been shared thousands of times.
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This clip, narrated by Kevin Spacey, comes from the feature documentary Uganda Rising. It shows how Africa was carved up by European colonial forces, using divide and rule policies that continue to have devastating effects on those living in those countries to this day.
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The facts about poverty and its root causes do not stop our political leaders telling us how generous we are to Africa. Of how much they care about doing something about it. And of how proud they are (and we should be too) of the amount rich countries give in aid.
3 min
In Borneo, several starving orangutans have been rescued after their forest homes were clear-cut for a palm oil plantation. The rainforest was bulldozed by BGA, a member of the RSPO – the organization issuing the label for sustainable palm oil. Please act now to stop this...
Rainforest Rescue
Arabic translator Alice Guthrie investigates 'Daesh', the new name for ISIS recently adopted by several world leaders because it delegitimises the group's activities. But how can a new name undermine a terrorist organisation? And why do the English-speaking media find the...
Alice Guthrie
In Syria I learned that Islamic State longs to provoke retaliation. We should not fall into the trap
Nicolas Hénin
Shutting down borders and blaming Muslim immigrants for the Paris attacks would give ISIS precisely the type of “civilizational conflict” it craves.
Jerome Roos
Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.
Arundhati Roy
We destroyed ourselves with our dumb 9/11 overreactions. It's essential not to make the same mistake again.
Bret Weinstein
More than a dozen are feared dead, with scores missing, after a tailings owned by some of the biggest mining companies in the world burst
Sarah Lazare
12 min
Ben Swann explores the origin of ISIS that has already been long forgotten by American media. Swann takes on the central issue of whether or not ISIS was created by "inaction" by the United States government or by "direct" action.
12 min
Last night - parallel to the Paris attacks, as I found out this morning - I had a special experience. As I walked home through the dark from Tamera's bar to my sleeping place, I heard fast steps and was suddenly hit by the realization in how many places on Earth, virtually...
After Paris, macho language about 'pitiless war' defines the contours of leadership. Little else is on offer. It is red meat to our emotions.
Vijay Prashad
What’s the difference between Al Qaeda and Fort Benning?
George Monbiot.
"As the Paris climate talks take the global stage, it’s time to draw attention to the military elephant in our room and demand that adaptation to climate change is led by principles of human rights and solidarity, rather than militarism and corporate profits."
Nick Buxton
We must mourn all victims. But until we look honestly at the violence we export, nothing will ever change
Ben Norton
Some of my progressive friends still refuse to support Bernie Sanders. They say he’s sleeping with the enemy by going for the Democratic Party nomination, and that he’s too soft on Israel and guns: he's not a woman; he's not black. They think he should be more pure, that the...
We, the West, overthrew Saddam by violence. We overthrew Gaddafi by violence. We are trying to overthrow Assad by violence. Harsh regimes all — but far less draconian than our Saudi allies, and other tyrannies around the world. What has been the result of these interventions?...
Chris Floyd
The word wisdom is used frequently every day, whether it is spoken and heard or written and read. Yet it is debatable, in my opinion, if most of us know what it is. In most dictionaries it is defined as "the quality or state of being wise, sagacious, discerning and...
Joseph M. Marshall III
The rush to fit the horrors of Paris into convenient neo-imperial narratives shows a disturbing lack of empathy
Zoe Samudzi
Dear Secretary Clinton:
Layali Awwad
The attacks that took place at a series of venues in Paris on November 13 are already the deadliest on French soil since 1945. At least 127 people have been killed in six different places. Reports say that another 100 are in “absolute” critical condition. Police have reported...
Aurelien Mondon
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
It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then you hear a story about people overcoming all odds to help others and it completely changes your perspective of the world. The story of Jia Haixia and Jia Wenqi is certainly one of these.
Kate Good
After years of legal battles, a Netherlands court orders the industry to shut down.
John R. Platt
If you’ve ever found yourself trapped in a seemingly endless loop of negative thinking, or wondered why you fixate on a stray rude comment but easily forget compliments, you may have a culprit to blame: evolution.
Kathleen Toohill
“Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.” -Carl Jung
Return Yoga
3 min
A Compassion Over Killing investigator worked inside Quality Pork Processors, a USDA-inspected slaughterhouse in Minnesota that exclusively supplies to Hormel, the makers of SPAM. This shocking footage offers a disturbing, close-up view of the suffering endured by pigs as...
3 min
“We need a real awakening, enlightenment, to change our way of thinking and seeing things. To breathe in and be aware of your body and look deeply into it, realise you are the Earth and your consciousness is also the consciousness of the Earth.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
With all of the unrest that has been occurring at my alma mater, The University of Missouri-Columbia, it has caused me to reflect on my own experiences while on campus.
I completed both my undergraduate as well as my master's degree at Mizzou and while I had the opportunity...
Erica Wright
9 min
In the United States more than 130 Native American languages are endangered. Several are on the verge of extinction with only a handful of fluent speakers.
9 min
When billionaire presidential hopeful Donald Trump inexplicably decided this week that boycotting Starbucks over the ‘de-Christmas-ization’ of their ubiquitous red holiday coffee cup was somehow a matter of national importance, the internet exploded — and American mainstream...
Claire Bernish
2 min
What happens when a rigged game of Monopoly makes some players really rich?
(Created in collaboration with AJ+.)
2 min
I know why Theresa May has that permanently appalled expression – she’s seen my internet history
Frankie Boyle
"You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole."
Tomas Young
For people in the modern world, there may be nothing more difficult to comprehend than the group calling itself the Islamic State, or ISIS. The beheadings, rapes, and other acts of cruelty seem beyond understanding, as does the wanton destruction of priceless ancient...
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Socialists, Communists, and Left Bloc unite in 'unprecedented' coalition to end years of punishing cuts
Lauren McCauley
3 min
It is the 20th anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, who campaigned against oil pollution in the oil rich Niger Delta by Royal Dutch Shell.
3 min
The Youth, the dreaded Youth. Pissing on our chrysanthemums, loitering with menace, eating crisps with their mouths open, thinking for themselves.
30 min
Today 60 million human beings are displaced from war and extreme poverty. Many European countries are responding to the crisis with racist hysteria, polices and police state measures. Abby Martin exposes the facts that are left out of the mainstream reporting: the role of...
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The Empire has a range of weapons to maintain its power: from its courts to its military. But it also has effective ideological weapons. Everyone in the United States knows that "socialist" or "communist" is considered a bad word. How did things get that way?
30 min
Whenever public protests ignite into violent behaviour, the mainstream media are often quick to refer to “anarchy” and to “anarchists”. Those who are referred to as anarchists are protesters who burn tyres or engage in battles with the police. In this narrative, anarchists...
Andreas Wittel
Many people think money makes the world go around, or the global economy at least. They consider it in a s
Steve Rushton
3 min
Climate change continues to have a disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable communities around the globe, including migrants and communities of color -- people who are typically marginalized in our society. CultureStrike, in collaboration withJustseeds Artists’...
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Former offenders face enormous obstacles once they leave prison. John Oliver sits down with Bilal Chatman, an ex-prisoner, to discuss the challenges of reentering society.
19 min
For our Debt Issue, we explored ways we could turn the tables on the bankers, rethink the soul-crushing nature of debt, and find routes to get out of it. Because the shame and powerlessness of debt can overwhelm our senses and perceptions, we decided to ask our favorite...
Yes! Magazine
25 min
A crisis in Palestine is again all over the headlines. From stabbings and molotov cocktails, to killing of protesters and anti-Arab lynch mobs--how much of the mass media coverage can we really trust?
Abby Martin takes a look at how the so-called "Israel-Palestine conflict"...
25 min
Stress kills Mindfulness. Here are Ten Things you can do to avoid it.
Captain Paul Watson
Critics of foreign aid often argue that it's ineffective at generating sustainable economic development or truly helping the world's poor. But as this great map from the cost information website HowMuch.net reveals, one reason for that is that promoting development and...
Matthew Yglesias
12 min
Watch the video to find out the answer to that question for some.
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And did you feel it, in your heart, how it
pertained to everything?
And have you too finally figured out what
beauty is for?
And have you changed your life?
Eleanor Young
"You grew up wanting so bad to be Luke Skywalker, but you realize that you were basically a Stormtrooper, a faceless, nameless rifleman, carrying a spear for empire, and you start to accept the startlingly obvious truth that these are people like you."
Sophie McAdam
From slavery to genocide, society has shown a terrifying ability to disregard the personhood of others. Here's why.
Nicholas Epley
3 min
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...
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Something's wrong with media coverage of female athletes.
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On Saturday 31st October 2015, at 1.30am, my 22-year-old eldest daughter Polly was killed when she lost control of the car she was driving and hit a tree. She was alone in her VW Beetle, no one else was hurt and, I am told, it was instant.
John Darvall
8 min
People are becoming increasingly irritated by the mainstream media, and here are 6 reasons why.
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I have been struggling with “how” to do the work so many of us call social justice. I understand the “why,” or I at least think I do. I am on a journey to understand my role in changing the world, which is no doubt a privilege. It has taken me quite a while to get over the...
Cody Charles
7 min
It has been said that 'Men are afraid women will laugh at them, and women are afraid men will kill them.' How do you feel about this statement? In this episode our men discuss how they relate to women, adding a much needed male point of view to the discussion surrounding...
7 min
'President Obama has sold the American people a false bill of goods,' says Friends of the Earth
Deirdre Fulton
16 min
Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges sits down with Ben Makuch at the Toronto VICE office to discuss what it takes to be a rebel in modern times. Hedges discusses his new book Wages of Rebellion, an investigation of the social and psychological factors...
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Harry Patch had no time for, 'Thieving politicians lies'.
Poem: Heathcote Williams
Narration: Alan Cox
Montage: Alan Cox and Margaret Cox
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George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian society casts a dark shadow over the United States. As American society has moved from a welfare to a warfare state, the institutions that were once meant to further justice and limit human suffering and misfortune and...
Henry A. Giroux
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More than a dozen hospitals have been bombed in Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen in recent weeks. Mistakes or war crimes?
1 min
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This short film is intended as a conversation-starter for staff, volunteers, board members, and funders of social purpose organisations.
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Since the police force was established in Britain in 1829 the list of their crimes, committed largely with impunity, continues to rise at an alarming rate. Is it time we started to question whether this broken institution actually does more harm than good?
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Could this tidal lagoon project in Wales be the future of sustainable energy?
2 min
Massive forest fires have engulfed Indonesia for several months, and produce more daily CO2 emissions than
Jeff Conant
When news broke that Rupert Murdoch, evil overlord of Fox News, had purchased National Geographic, it sent shockwaves of panic through thinking individuals everywhere. After all, National Geographic has traditionally been one of the most well-known sources of scientific...
John Prager
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Plutocracy, by filmmaker Scott Noble, is the first documentary series to comprehensively examine early American history through the lens of class.
560 min
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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.
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Day of the Dead sponsored by... BP and the Mexican Government. Did the British Museum have an irony bypass?
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The Intercept has obtained a cache of secret documents detailing the inner workings of the U.S. military’s assassination program in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The documents, provided by a whistleblower, offer an unprecedented glimpse into Obama’s drone wars.
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Bestselling author, feminist and all-round funny woman, Caitlin Moran takes us on a tour of her house and talks us through some of the feminist basics: how being a bit hairier down below could result in a massive telly, Russell Crowe, his wrinkles and some provocative posing...
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It’s fairly easy to spot the “anti-knowledge” spouted by the Tea Party and the Religious Right’s favorite candidates, but a more subtle form of reality-deprived “group think” pervades America’s elites though it is rarely noted in the polite circles of the mainstream media.
Mike Lofgren
It began in high school—actually before that—but my my first organizing effort was done senior year of high school. Speaking out against things that seemed unjust has always felt natural to me. I had this deep understanding of what I thought was fair or not fair, even when I...
Bulaong Ramiz
6 min
WOW! We knew the system was bad, but this is just twisted beyond comprehension! Thank you Represent.Us for making this. More info:
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This incredible 2-minute animation by www.rightsinfo.org will tell you everything you need to know about your human rights and why they matter. Want to know more?
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Over the last century, cities have been designed to accommodate the automobile. So, how do we redesign them to benefit people?
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Racism is real but race is not. "Black" and "White" were labels invented in the 15th century - made up to divide us. Is it time to let these labels go? Prince Ea believes the answer is yes.
4 min
"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion" ~ Paulo Coelho
Desiree Adaway
The UN climate talks in Paris (COP21) are right around the corner.
In the greatest environmental disaster of the 21st Century (so far), Indonesia has been blotted out by smoke. And the media.
George Monbiot
Why must we all work long hours to earn the right to live? Why must only the wealthy have access to leisure, aesthetic pleasure, self-actualization…?
Josh Jones
73 min
Modulations is a feature-length documentary that captures a moment in history where humans and machines are fusing to create today's most exciting sounds.
73 min