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Orangutans are native to Borneo and Sumatra and must learn a variety of skills as they grow up. In this video, you'll see seven behaviors that researchers have observed in the wild: from pushing over dead trees to make noise as part of a dominance display, to building...
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Reddit is the seventh largest website in the U.S. It's a gathering place for 240-million monthly users, who create discussion groups based on their own interests.
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Habari Gani! (What's the News in Swahili, the greeting during Kwanzaa)
Christmas Day in Willingboro, South Jersey - right outside of Philadelphia - was spent recovering from the road trip from Lawrence, Kansas and gearing up for the first day of Kwanzaa, the Principle Umoja...
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
I recall a Buddhist parable involving a stick that appears from a distance to be a snake, causing fear to rise in the perceiver. As the perception shifts upon closer examination, the fear subsides and the relieved hiker continues down the path. Understanding and awareness...
Jim Tull
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To encourage others to help animals in need, please watch and SHARE this exciting video we made of rescuing a deer stranded in a frozen river near Drumheller, Alberta! PLEASE WATCH TO THE END!!
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Your feelings of pain and uncertainty are real. The world is now in a time of darkness. Shadows are all around us. It can be very confusing and painful. But it may reassure you to know that feeling pain and confusion is a sign that you are awake.
Humanity is now in the...
Joe Brewer
What if casualties don’t end on the battlefield, but extend to future generations? Our reporting this year suggests the government may not want to know the answer.
Mike Hixenbaugh for The Virginian-Pilot, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica
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The Zapatista uprising granted land, pride and rights to the indigenous people from Chiapas. Twenty years later, the Mexican authorities and large corporations want to take away their land to carry out entrepreneurial projects. Violence and corruption threaten peasants like...
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Though it looks like the world is set in its ways, it is in fact eminently open to change by those who dare to swim into the stream of history.
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A group of celebrated activists, from many different movements and visions, tell us why they believe independent media -- like ours -- has always mattered and continues to be vital in propelling progress.
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With films like Pocahontas, Apocalypto, Peter Pan and The Green Inferno, it's safe to say that Hollywood has a deplorable track record when it comes to its portrayal of Indigenous Peoples. Perhaps it's to be expected given that films tend to be produced through a Euroce
John Ahni Schertow
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
Martin Winiecki
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Directed by: Sonia Kennebeck National Bird Official Trailer 1 (2016) - Documentary From director Sonia Kennebeck and executive producers Wim Wenders and Errol Morris, NATIONAL BIRD follows the harrowing journey of three U.S. military veteran whistleblowers determined to break...
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UNTIL WE TALK - Official Trailer - Coming 2017
Bassam and Arab Aramin, Rami and Yigal Elhanan share the same tragic fate: They lost a beloved family member in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Instead of acting out their feelings of revenge they are seeking reconciliation...
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Pie's Christmas Party drunken round up of 2016.
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Showcase your writing, art, film, music, and photography
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Punks mobilize in the Bay Area to save Burnt Ramen, a Richmond music space, as widespread evictions threaten the underground community following Oakland's tragic Ghost Ship Fire.
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It’s been a pretty crazy year, and we’ve been with you all the way, keeping you covered for all the important news and conversations. That means we’ve made a LOT of videos (somewhere north of 3,500). Just in case you haven’t had tim
AJ+
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After witnessing the "violent rage" shown by babies whenever deprived of an item they considered their own, Jean Piaget - a founding father of child psychology - observed something profound about human nature: Our sense of ownership emerges incredibly early. But why do we...
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'The reality is that Israel has no incentive to comply with the principles Kerry outlined,' says Jewish Voice for Peace
Deirdre Fulton
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WARNING: This video contains graphic content related to human rights abuses in Haiti
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With memory palaces, anyone can look like a memory genius.
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In this discussion with Grace Lee Boggs, Angela Davis talks about being vegan and what she believes being responsible towards other sentient beings entails in regards to our food choices.
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Obama is a great actor and speech-giver, but his war policies reflect those of Bush, and his economic policies are straight neoliberal Clintonesque. Buying into the thrill of having the first black president, or thinking he's cool after seeing him on late-night shows, or to...
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Richard Feynman was a physicist who received a nobel prize for his work in quantum electrodynamics. He was notorious for asking his mathematicians to explain concepts in simple language to test their understanding.
Here his unique technique to learn new materials:
Step 1...
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Being a feminist comedian and activist, I can say with absolute certainty that a lot of people hate me. There are times when the internet can feel like a burst drain spewing vitriol of every possible kind. Usually before I’ve even had breakfast.
Kate Smurthwaite
The site shows users how Facebook categorizes them. It doesn’t reveal the data it is buying about their offline lives.
Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr., Surya Mattu
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Mashup artist Cassetteboy presents his take on one of the biggest news stories of the year, shining a humorous light on Brexit. The video lampoons a host of Conservative MPs - David Cameron, Boris Johnson, George Osborne, Michael Gove, Theresa May as well as Ukip's Nigel...
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A government of pure social democracy is vilified and continually cast as an evil (ie, Red scaring) simply because it would reverse the current economic inequality model- empowering and caring for the poor without making their struggle disproportionately benefit those who are...
In the past few days, my mind has been a battlefield. Thoughts slamming around, wrenching the bits of sanity left in me. And one question hits the hardest.
Where were you?
Almost 6 six years of war, and never have I ever seen the name of my city, the name of Aleppo...
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Imagine a world where governments compete for your citizenships. Bitcoin and Blockchain expert Toni Lane Casserly explains how this technology could anoint people over institutions.
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Facebook released its annual Year-in-Review ... which somehow left out references to fake news, ideological bubbles or addiction to smartphones. So Newsbroke created a realistic Facebook roundup for 2016. Enjoy - and here's to a better 2017.
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"It owns all these not-at-all-important laws are smuggled into NDAAs that are signed on Christmas Eve with basically no public debate," wrote media critic Adam Johnson
Lauren McCauley
This year scientists discovered and described several new species of animals and plants, including 13 new dancing peacock spiders, a new crab that was discovered in a pet market, a new species of whale and a tarantula that shoots balls of barbed hair at its enemies.
Shreya Dasgupta
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Want to know what happened to the Refugees who were living in The Jungle in Calais?
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John Pilger reveals what the news doesn't - that the world's greatest military power, the United States, and the world's second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, are on the road to war. Pilger's film is a warning and an inspiring story of resistance.
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This short documentary is about the urban farming story of my school named 'haja production school' which is located in Seoul city, South Korea.
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In austerity Britain homelessness services have been halved, and homelessness has doubled.
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We went singing woke Christmas carols in a white neighborhood and their reactions are priceless.
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This is exactly what we all need right now. Here is a great secret of life that you can use to change the hearts and minds of everyone in your world.
Speech by Garret John LoPorto
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A group of street people in Austin, TX edit, write, and distribute their own newspaper as a way to help get them off the street. The Challenger Street Newspaper improves their lives by helping them to earn a living in an environment where job opportunities are virtually...
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Our failure to understand the link between fame and big business made the rise of Trump inevitable
George Monbiot
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In a very short amount of time the human population exploded and is still growing very fast. Will this lead to the end of our civilization?
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“We fought you. We took your land. We signed treaties that we broke … But we’ve come to say that we are sorry.”
Sarah van Gelder
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We visited Concordia parish, one of America's sickest counties. We're afraid it's about to get worse.
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A new socioeconomic order is inevitably taking shape. The future is human connection.
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Journalist and activist Barrett Brown is released from prison after four years. On his drive across Texas to a halfway house, he discusses his extraordinary case and considers what the future now holds for him and other radical journalists.
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Being defined by a negative speaks more of bureaucracy than of sex or self-expression.
Sita Balani
Antiracism is a favorite concept on the American left these days. Of course, all good sorts want to be against racism, but what does the word mean exactly?
Adolph Reed Jr.
Our media feeds are echo chambers. And those echo chambers don’t just reflect our political beliefs; they reflect our feelings about human progress. Bad news can be a bubble too
Angus Hervey
The End of History is just the beginning
Nafeez Ahmed
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For her contribution to The Way We Dress, our series exploring the role clothes play in the lives of women around the world, Sarajevo-born, London-based filmmaker Una Gunjak returned to her native city to capture a filmic portrait of one woman's experience of wearing a...
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Move comes in response to efforts by climate activists urging president to secure environmental protections before new administration takes power
Nadia Prupis
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Chloe Longfellow started spending more time with her grandmother Doris after her father died when she was 3. The lessons her grandmother taught her have stayed with her to this day.
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The words 'the economy' weren't mentioned in a winning British election manifesto before 1950. But today, says Catriona Watson of Rethinking Economics, politicians put it front and centre of their politics. This is undemocratic, she argues, when it is discussed in terms most...
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This week began with a mass email from the head of the Democratic National Committee, who declared: “By now, Americans know beyond any reasonable doubt that the Russian government orchestrated a series of cyberattacks on political campaigns and organizations over the past two...
Norman Solomon
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The future of our children, our health, and our society, will depend on how we meet the defining social challenge of our time: developing a quality, comprehensive education system. The conflicts over policy and resources have become commonplace - sowing division rather than...
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Anarcho-syndicalism (also referred to as revolutionary syndicalism) is a theory of anarchism which views revolutionary industrial unionism or syndicalism as
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It’s time to teach nonviolence. It is time to flood the curricula of our schools with subjects that can improve human relations such as Nonviolent Communication, Nonviolent Conflict Resolution, Character Education, Mindfulness Meditation, Restorative Justice, Mediation, and...
Piero Falci
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The real - original - meaning of Socialism. The only USEFUL definition. Find more here...http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb
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Why instead of a more complicated understanding of identity, we need a more profound understanding of exploitation
Walter Benn Michaels
In just one weekend in December, a series of terrorist attacks killed nearly 200 people in five different countries. All of them claimed the lives of civilians, and all were claimed by different terrorist groups.
Natasha Ezrow
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I love all my videos, and am grateful for any views I get. But the outsize success of my videos that criticize women kind of bugs me.
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In earlier times, corporations were not only about generating profits. They combined skills, efforts and capital of many different people to undertake public works such as supplying water to cities, building bridges or railroads. They were limited in size and they did not...
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Peel back the layers of information about “fake news” and a deeper truth begins to take shape. We start to see outlines of hidden media worlds that give birth to very different communities of truth. The deep truth about “fake news” is that no one has direct access to reality.
Joe Brewer
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If this year was a tough one for you, then it might be time for change. These science-backed ways may lead to happier year for you.
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Human rights violations by Israel on Israeli Jews and Foreign Nationals
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After 10 years of regular shows, subMedia.tv are saying ¡Hasta La Pasta! to their regular and much-loved anarchist video show 'It's The End Of The World As We Know It And I Feel Fine'. In this excerpt from the final show host The Stimulator reflects on the last 10 years of...
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Is Donald Trump just a populist Trojan Horse who rolled into the Oval Office on a message of helping the working class? Is he unloading an army of out-of-touch billionaires to continue the same disastrous policies Republicans have championed for years? The answer is “100%...
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Capitalism’s end might be in sight, but it might not be good news, German sociologist Wolfgang Streeck warned in a conference. Alessio Perrone reports.
Alessio Perrone
We’ve been pitted against each other for too long. Now is the time to come together to fix our corrupt political systems.
David Korten
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Kenya: a forest people #fightback as they are illegally evicted, beaten & imprisoned - paid for by the World Bank.
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Pie rails against what he perceives to be a lack of respect for democracy.
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Cry Freedom is a 1987 feature film directed by Richard Attenborough, set in apartheid-era South Africa it chronicles the life and death of black freedom fighter Steve Biko (born 18 Dec 1946) and his friendship with white newspaper editor Donald Woods. These are a few selected...
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2016 showed that America's politics are a corrupt game for the rich and powerful at the expense of the poor and powerless. In my view, that proven fact takes immediate precedence over any other issue, including endless debate about the possibility of foreign hacking in our...
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Outre-Mur is a documentary edited by 4 communication students in Brussels. It illustrates the case of Belfast, in Northern Ireland, where the "Peace lines" are still dividing protestant and catholic communities. Since 1972, they have been living walled in, each in their own...
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A small team of filmmakers set out for Greece, documenting human stories from the frontlines of the European Refugee Crisis, focused on humanity and hope. The world was changing and we found ourselves at a crossroads in history, so we set out to help in the way that we knew...
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The path of the polar vortex is shifting from North America toward Eurasia. Now, a new study suggests that this might cause several regions to suffer colder and longer winters than usual.
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Abby Martin goes on-the-ground to the epicenters of state-backed settler terrorism in Palestine’s West Bank, in Part II of her report on illegal Israeli settlements and home demolitions (watch Part I here).
This installment visits both the rural countryside of...
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The demolition of Palestinian homes for Israeli settlements reached a ten-year high in 2016. While this activity led by the fanatical settler movement is illegal under international law, it is completely aided and abetted by the Israeli government.
With hundreds on notice...
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Oscar Boyson travelled to cities all over the world to learn about some of ways cities are changing, building and adapting for sustainability and livability. In places he couldn't visit he crowdsourced footage from residents. This film is made in collaboration with The...
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It’s the time of year where retailers bombard us with advertisements and special offers of magical gifts to delight our nearest and dearest. But let’s be honest: Christmas gifts often have little purpose beyond the experience of handing them over. They’ll end up in landfill...
Elaine Ritch
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced plans to clean up Fukushima, the site of a massive 2011 nuclear disaster, and move former residents back by spring 2017. But not everyone wants to go back.
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"Behind the Fence" looks inside the 5x5 square mile camp that imprisons the Rohingya muslim minority in Myanmar, and investigates the extremist Buddhists who propagate virulent anti-Muslim sentiment across the country.
Behind the Fence profiles Abul, a husband who does...
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The Left and the Syria Debate
by AS, jadaliyya.com
December 10, 2016

Photo by: Map of Syria, its governorates, and major cities
Talking about Syria
As`ad Abukhalil أسعد ابو خليل
We take almost all of the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
– W. G. Sebald
Last weekend, I was sitting in a packed room in the middle of a wild and wet Dartmoor listening to the mythologist Martin Shaw tell...
Paul Kingsnorth
Post on film The People Speak, where many committed actresses, actors, and musicians lend their voices to fragments of historian Howard Zinn's famous books A People's History of the United States and Voices of A People's History of the United States. Both in the book and the...
Docs & the World
Published on December 8th, 2016, by the European Coordination Via Campesina.
A great example of popular action, a remarkable invitation to take consciousness of the 'real' issues we are facing and of our potential as citizens and human beings.
Share, Learn, Take Action!
Valentina Hemmeler, European Coordination Via Campesina
A comic book to divulgate easily accesible knowledge on climate change, with a focus on industrial agriculture.
Useful for our own knowledge (agro-industry produces over 50% of CO2 emissions!), and for those who want to have accessible and well illustrated material for...
La Via Campesina and Grain
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Bernie Sanders spoke to Trump supporters, and the results were surprising. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.
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On Monday, Dec. 5, 2016 — the 61st anniversary of the launch of the Montgomery Bus Boycott — and just hours after a major victory was won for the people of Standing Rock, hundreds of thousands of us joined together to take an organized stand against racial injustice and...
Shaun King
Right now, there are two forces at play in our world. One of them is swirling into a mess of ecological collapse, rising neo-fascist ideologies and economic instability. The other is the amazing fact that we have new “Star Wars” movies.
Cam Fenton
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In July 2015, Barack Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. He invited VICE along to film the historic event for part of a documentary, Fixing the System, which investigated America's broken criminal justice system.
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When people in the West throw their clothes away, their cast-offs often go on a journey east, across the oceans, to India’s industrial interior. From the Kutch District of western India to the northern city of Panipat, garment recyclers turn into yarn the huge bales of...
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Meet Dena Takruri, the Muslim-American journalist working to give voice to people unheard.
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Yelitza Castro makes the homeless men and women she cooks for feel like family. At StoryCorps, Yelitza spoke with her friend, Willie Davis, about the Christmas meal she cooked for him when he was homeless and how those meals changed his life.
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In 3.75 billion years, Earth's Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy. Over the next several billion years, the two galaxies will rip each other apart, eventually creating one elliptical galaxy.
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An Animal Aid video exposé, featuring undercover footage from a free-range and RSPCA-assured farm, operated by Bernard Matthews - one of the UK's largest turkey producers - reveals animals with bloodied and infected head wounds. The footage also shows a dead bird, and a dying...
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