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If you want to sustain yourself for the work ahead, here’s some advice: It doesn’t matter whether the other side “deserves” anger.
Colin Beavan
52 min
Belo Monte: After the Flood is a new film directed by award-winning environmental documentarian Todd Southgate, and produced with International Rivers, Amazon Watch and Cultures of Resistance.
In rural McDowell County, West Virginia, a crowd of Trump supporters cheered progressive senator's call for universal healthcare
Nika Knight
58 min
In a country where people can own two or three homes, these are the stories of those who don’t have one.
All three girls and their families have endured the emotional trauma of being thrown out of their homes. With nowhere to go they are absorbed into the hidden world of bed...
2 min
Dear Europe is a collaborative video about the upcoming European elections and how lessons gleaned from Brexit and Trump, might relate. The piece was made by artists who call the US and the UK home. Turn on closed captions for French, Dutch and German and Italian!
On January 30 – three days after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting immigration from several predominantly Muslim countries – an American scientist employed by NASA was detained at the US border
Paul Ralph
15 min
Rosemary Adaser was one of many mixed-race children considered illegitimate who was brought up in institutions run by the Catholic church in Ireland between the 1950s and 1970s. She tells of the abuse and racist treatment she suffered, and returns to her school in Kilkenny...
When Joshua Browder developed the chatbot for DoNotPay, the original idea was just to help people out with their traffic ticket woes. DoNotPay has since successfully overturned more than 200,000 disputable parking tickets in London, New York, and Seattle. It’s also given free...
Dom Galeon and Kelsey Marquart
8 min
In today's Trews I respond to your comments on various subjects.
Eurocentric modernism has unhinged us from our human nature, argues Rajani Kanth.
Lynn Parramore
11 min
David Milarch is an arborist from central Michigan. In 1991, Milarch had a near death experience that inspired a personal quest – to archive the genetics of the world's largest trees before they're gone and to replant global forests to fight climate change. This is the story...
2 min
DIVIDE IN CONCORD is a feature-length documentary that follows the entertaining tale of banning bottled water in small town America.
April 1 to 7: Call for a Week of Solidarity
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
2 min
What happens when our meta-addiction to all things media and all things digital emerges as the default social conditon, the rule rather than the exception? Like the citizens of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, we are enslaved not by the things we fear, but by the things we...
2 min
Earlier this year the Wall Street Journal’s editor-in-chief insisted that the Wall Street Journal wouldn’t label Trump’s false statements as “lies.” Lying, said the editor, requires a deliberate intention to mislead, which couldn’t be proven in Trump’s case.
Simone de Beauvoir is rightly best known for declaring: ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, woman.’ A less well-known facet of her philosophy, particularly relevant today, is her political activism, a viewpoint that follows directly from her metaphysical stance on the self...
Skye C Cleary
2 min
8 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
Have you heard any of these statements before?
Life is hard and requires sacrifice. If you work hard, you will succeed. There is not enough. Look out for yourself. The world is hostile. “Survival of the fittest.” Competition drives progress. Be rational. Control your...
Chris Agnos
Have you noticed all the cuts being made to your city budget? To schools and libraries, fire fighters and social services, and other public spending? Think you could do a better job managing the budget? Soon, you may have that chance.
Maria Hadden and Josh Lerner
Communication is essential to achieve successful human interactions. However, the type of communication we have highly determines the outcome of our relationships. It all simply boils down to how we are connecting with each other.
Elyane Youssef
Or, The Curse of the iPad Stalks the Land
Rob Hopkins
54 min
A New Understanding explores the treatment of end-of-life anxiety in terminally ill cancer patients using psilocybin, a psychoactive compound found in some mushrooms, to facilitate deeply spiritual experiences. The documentary explores the confluence of science and...
Important Information regarding a proposed law reform and what it means to you.
5 reasons why antifa are nothing like the fascists.
It's about working together to get the good things in life, the things we're currently expected to have to strive for alone, the things that most people will live an die and never experience precisely because they're alone and powerless and poor.
4 min
Superclusters – regions of space that are densely packed with galaxies – are the biggest structures in the Universe. But scientists have struggled to define exactly where one supercluster ends and another begins. Now, a team based in Hawaii has come up with a new technique...
In this article, Smucker reveals how radicals can pursue a revolutionary horizon that "delivers the goods." The key is to arm ourselves with the strategic knowledge and orientation to start building the future we want now, in the shell of the old.
Jonathan Matthew Smucker
6 min
"I'm trying to find a way to translate my experience, so you can relate, but I'm waiting... waiting for the moment you stopped listening."
14 min
In this interview with Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts) and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff talks about bankruptcy protection, debt jubilee, students debt and the function that a credit system serves in our society today.
In this episode Dean invites Nafeez to deconstruct his recent essay outlining a roadmap for the resistance in the Age of Trump.
In the face of corporate domination, economic injustice, and climate change, movements led by women offer a revolutionary path.
Rucha Chitnis
12 min
Our phones, computers and even TVs can be used to spy on us today. This video asks what does it mean to be a young person growing up in a surveillance state.
16 min
In January 2014 a brutal new Jihadist group swept through Syria and set up its capital in Raqqa in the east of the country.
"Morality has lead us to accept what we cannot change, and to think that there are things we cannot change."
America has always been great for the richest 1%, and it's rapidly becoming greater. Confirmation comes from recent work by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman; and from the 2015-2016 Credit Suisse
Paul Buchheit
4 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire ation.
4 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
4 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
4 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
4 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
4 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
4 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
We face a very serious political problem in this country, and that problem is manifested in
Bernie Sanders
1 min
A teaser of the upcoming cinematic documentary revealing the controversial life of Women Extraordinaire. You can SUBSCRIBE to our NEWSLETTER on our website: www.WEGeniusMinds.com. We will LOVE to keep you informed about our progress!
52 min
A dwarf, a dragon, and a golden egg. Yet the real fairy-tale of this film is the journey of Jeanmarie,
the Dutch street performer. In an adventurous project, Jeanmarie teams up with youth worker Frank to travel through the last remaining untouched regions of China, performing...
3 min
The proportion of women not having children before the menopause has reached a record high in the last decade. Here, women from the UK, France and Spain discuss the taboo of childlessness that they say comes from a dated societal structure - and celebrate International...
2 min
Women are massively more affected by budget cuts than men, says the Labour peer. They are more likely to be single parents, earn less and work part time than their male counterparts. She argues the government must replace ‘gender-neutral’ budgeting with economic policies that...
Strike for equity, justice and the human rights of women and all gender-oppressed people
FFA Staff
9 min
Bill Nye is interviewed by Tucker Carlson on Fox News to talk about climate change and research to identify the cause of the cognitive dissonance in those who deny the evidence that the current rate of climate change is man-made. What happens is an object lesson in media...
26 min
This documentary chronicles the story Jordyn, a 13 year old autistic boy who is just learning how to communicate for the first time. Unable to control his body and emotions, Jordyn's autistic world is also filled with unseen beauty and idealism which he expresses through his...
4 min
Humans and birds are having a difficult time co-existing, as a confrontation in an open field spirals out of control.
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...
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.
WikiLeaks
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...
The Listening post
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.
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...
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.
Alex Healey
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...
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."
Andrea Germanos
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...
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...
Frankie Boyle
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
18 min
This three-part series reports on native Hawaiians fight for land and the movement for sovereignty from the U.S.
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.
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.
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.
Sarah Lazare
“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.
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.
10 min
Worried that the mainstream media's breakup with President Trump has reporters feeling blue, Jon Stewart stops by with relationship advice.
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...
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...
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...
Steve Rushton
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...
Helen Ringrow
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
Mari Marcel Thekaekara
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...
Steven Gorelick
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...
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?
—
Dahr Jamail
Free your mind, find your power, change the world
Nafeez Ahmed, with Andrew Markell and Gunther Sonnenfeld
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...
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.
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...
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...
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....