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Fox News Objects When Boots Riley Speaks Truth to Power
Fox News Objects When Boots Riley Speaks Truth to Power
When Boots Riley from the Coup was asked to go on Fox News as part of a segment about a local music festival, the producers clearly hadn't really thought about what they were doing. When asked to describe the band he starts by saying "We're a punk funk communist revolution...
1 min
Should Twitter, Facebook and Google Executives Be the Arbiters of What We See and Read?
Should Twitter, Facebook and Google Executives Be the Arbiters of What We See and Read?
There have been increasingly vocal calls for Twitter, Facebook and other Silicon Valley corporations to more aggressively police what their users are permitted to see and read. Last month in The Washington Post, for instance, MSNBC host Ronan Farrow demanded that social media...
Glenn Greenwald
The Forms of Violence That Our Corporate Media Never Talks About
The Forms of Violence That Our Corporate Media Never Talks About
The corporate media loves to talk about violent protesters, while the biggest forms of violence in our society go unchallenged.
Mickey Z.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization
In the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, John Oliver explores the racial inequality in treatment by police as well as the increasing militarization of America's local police forces.
15 min
Films For Action: We Share Breaking Knowledge
Films For Action: We Share Breaking Knowledge
A lot of media organizations focus on breaking news. We&
Films For Action
Common Arguments Against Anarchism Explained, and Rebuked
Common Arguments Against Anarchism Explained, and Rebuked
We don't need brutalising hierarchies of power to survive. There's nothing 'natural' about the world we're living in, we are not all inherently evil for no reason, and there is no justification for the domination that we experience in everyday life.
19 min
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: News & Advertising
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: News & Advertising
The line between editorial content and advertising in news media is blurrier and blurrier. That's not bullshit. It's repurposed bovine waste.
11 min
How TV Ruined Your Life
How TV Ruined Your Life (2011)
Comedy series in which Charlie Brooker uses a mix of sketches and jaw-dropping archive footage to explore the gulf between real life and television.
120 min
Subverting Media: A Low Tech Guide to Information Activism
Subverting Media: A Low Tech Guide to Information Activism
From stencils to ‘zines to graffiti and poster art, “Subverting the Media” takes us on a trip through the alternative media scene. East Harlem muralist James De La Vega, anti-patriarchal poster collective “Sister Serpents”, Bronx-based graffiti group, “Tats Cru” and Sabrina...
24 min
Wouldn't It Be Great If Tabloids Had Any Value to Society at All? These Images Imagine If They Did.
Wouldn't It Be Great If Tabloids Had Any Value to Society at All? These Images Imagine If They Did.
Waiting in line to pay for groceries, it’s hard not to notice all the ridiculous tabloid headlines: So-and-so wore shorts yesterday! Who's cheating on who? People are on diets! As entertaining as it all may be, shouldn’t *real* stories get the kind of attention the pointless...
Morgan Shoaff
The Gaza Bombardment - What You're Not Being Told
The Gaza Bombardment - What You're Not Being Told
The corporate media isn't just distorting the facts on the Gaza assault, they're flat out covering them up.   On July 7, 2014 Israel began a massive assault on the Gaza strip of Palestine. In the first week alone Israel dropped over 400 tons of bombs, killing over 130...
9 min
Comedy Vs. Anti-Science: 10 Videos That Show How Humor Can Make a Difference
Comedy Vs. Anti-Science: 10 Videos That Show How Humor Can Make a Difference
From Colbert and Oliver to Sarah Silverman and Louis CK, comedians are torching anti-science activists with aplomb  In the latest version of America’s long-running culture wars, conservatives (and even some liberals) have zeroed in what once might have seemed like an...
Sarah Gray
Raucous Crowd Stifled in Net Neutrality Debate at Latest FCC Event
Raucous Crowd Stifled in Net Neutrality Debate at Latest FCC Event
Albuquerque, NM -- Frustrating.  This is the best way to describe the first public FCC question and answer session since Chairman Tom Wheeler proposed his “Open Internet” rules in May.   It wasn’t just Wheeler’s dodging of straightforward questions, or the recurring technical...
Matthew Toplikar
6 Anti-NSA Technological Innovations that May Just Change the World
6 Anti-NSA Technological Innovations that May Just Change the World
Rather than grovel and beg for the U.S. government to respect our privacy, these innovators have taken matters into their own hands, and their work may change the playing field completely. People used to assume that the United States government was held in check by...
SCG News
Graham Hancock Breaks the Set on TED Censorship, Possible Lost Civilizations & War on Consciousness
Graham Hancock Breaks the Set on TED Censorship, Possible Lost Civilizations & War on Consciousness
Abby Martin interviews author and philosopher, Graham Hancock, about the potential mysteries of ancient civilization, censorship by TED Talks and the difficulty in getting new ideas into the discussion when they conflict with our general attitude that we've got things pretty...
13 min
Why John Oliver Is Edgier Than Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
Why John Oliver Is Edgier Than Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
Just ahead of the sixth episode of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,” comedian John Oliver admitted on “CBS This Morning” that he and his crew are “still trying to work out what this is.” But Oliver seems to know what “Last Week” isn’t: “The Daily Show.”
Prachi Gupta
Facebook Is Throttling Nonprofits And Activists
Facebook Is Throttling Nonprofits And Activists
B. Traven
Take Back Your Privacy and Block Mass Government Spying: Here's How
Take Back Your Privacy and Block Mass Government Spying: Here's How
It's finally time to Reset the Net! - Here's how.
Reset The Net
John Oliver's Cheeky Net Neutrality Plea Crashes FCC Website
John Oliver's Cheeky Net Neutrality Plea Crashes FCC Website
The US Federal Communications Commission website reported technical difficulties because of heavy traffic this week hours after comedian John Oliver called on viewers to share their thoughts with the agency about what he called “cable company fuckery”. We’ve been ex
Amanda Holpuch
Punchlines For Progress
Punchlines For Progress (2010)
Punchlines for Progress assembles some of the best American political satirists to highlight the power and importance of the court jester. From the Red Scare through today this tradition continues to inform and speak truth to power. Featuring Amy Goodman, Lenny Bruce, George...
46 min
This Is John Oliver's Epic Treatise Calling On The Internet To Prevent Cable Company F-ckery
This Is John Oliver's Epic Treatise Calling On The Internet To Prevent Cable Company F-ckery
Cable companies are trying to create an unequal playing field for internet speeds, but they're doing it so boringly that most news outlets aren't covering it. John Oliver explains the controversy and lets viewers know how they can voice their displeasure to the FCC.
13 min
Comic: How Big Media Is Killing Democracy, But The Solution Is Up To Us
Comic: How Big Media Is Killing Democracy, But The Solution Is Up To Us
Today, six corporations own most of our media—but we could be poised to take it back.
Symbolia and YES! Magazine
The Government Just Turned the Internet Into the Equivalent of First Class and Coach
The Government Just Turned the Internet Into the Equivalent of First Class and Coach
It's official: The FCC is moving ahead with their plan to replace its discarded open Internet rules with new ones that will allow Internet companies to pay for fast lanes, voting 3-2 in favor of the ISP-favored plan.
Tom McKay
Grassroots Efforts to Save Net Neutrality May be Working
Grassroots Efforts to Save Net Neutrality May be Working
Concerned Internet users want to make sure that the FCC and Congress hear them when it comes to keeping the Internet open and free. Digital-rights advocacy group Free P
Marguerite Reardon
Solidarity Means Attack!
Solidarity Means Attack!
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13 min
Net Neutrality in the US: Now What?
Net Neutrality in the US: Now What?
Vihart: Comprehensive info. Time is of the essence, so forgive my inevitable errors. We've stopped things like this before! You have power if you bother to take it. 
11 min
Tech Giants Blast FCC Chairman's Attack on "Free and Open Internet"
Tech Giants Blast FCC Chairman's Attack on "Free and Open Internet"
Letter from top companies comes amid growing public protest and internal dissent among Democratic commissioners
Jon Queally
Top Ten Bill Moyers Videos on the Web
Top Ten Bill Moyers Videos on the Web
Modern America has a strong generational divide.  Whether it’s cultural or political, there are a wide-range of topics that can be off limits when talking to “the grandparents.”  On the reverse side, it can be hard to listen to the “wisdom” of a generation that’s had such a...
Matthew Toplikar
Stephen Colbert Won't Save Us, "Game of Thrones" Isn't That Good: This "Golden Age" of TV is a Big Sham
Stephen Colbert Won't Save Us, "Game of Thrones" Isn't That Good: This "Golden Age" of TV is a Big Sham
Stop calling this TV's golden age. It's still the Idiot Box, even if you like "Girls," Jon Stewart and "The Wire" I think it happened around Season 3 of “The Wire.” Maybe it was “The Sopranos.” “Curb Your Enthusiasm”? “Lost”? I can’t say. I just know I woke up one day...
Alexander Zaitchik
Look Up: A Video With One Powerful Message For Us All
Look Up: A Video With One Powerful Message For Us All
Everyone should watch this at least once. This short video by Gary Turk is a reminder of the effects of social media on our society. By connecting online, we are disconnecting offline. What are we missing from life as a result? What critical moments do we miss that we didn't...
5 min
Sen. Al Franken: Comcast-Time Warner merger "would be bad for consumers"
Sen. Al Franken: Comcast-Time Warner merger "would be bad for consumers"
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee that will hold hearings on the proposed merger by Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Franken discusses the problems with the proposed merger and online privacy.
5 min
Internet Citizens: Defend Net Neutrality
Internet Citizens: Defend Net Neutrality
A short, animated video explaining net neutrality. Tell the FCC to reclassify broadband internet as a title II common carrier telecommunications service: http://goo.gl/xHnB4n Discuss this video: http://www.reddit.com/r/CGPGre...
4 min
Buying the War: How Big Media Failed Us
Buying the War: How Big Media Failed Us (2007)
In 2003, the United States pre-emptively attacked Iraq in a war that would last for eight years claiming an estimated 189,000 lives, costing over $2 trillion and causing untold economic and emotional devastation for the
83 min
Media Bias and How to Beat It
Media Bias and How to Beat It
Media Bias is a serious problem, though probably not in the way you've been told. There is also an easy way to beat it.
4 min
Bill Moyers Essay: What Happened to Obama's Promised Net Neutrality?
Bill Moyers Essay: What Happened to Obama's Promised Net Neutrality?
Candidate Obama said the Internet would remain open and free, but that's before he appointed a former cable and wireless top gun to run the FCC.
4 min
Net Neutrality - What a Closed Internet Means for Video Games
Net Neutrality - What a Closed Internet Means for Video Games
The debate about net neutrality rages on, but the meaning of "open internet" vs. "closed internet" is seldom explained. Without an open or neutral internet, corporations like AT&T or Comcast can restrict bandwidth and charge people extra for faster connections or limit access...
6 min
Moyers & Company: Is Net Neutrality Dead?
Moyers & Company: Is Net Neutrality Dead?
Democracy loses if the Internet's sold to the highest bidder -- and that may be what's about to happen.
25 min
Immortal Technique on Conspiracy Facts, Money as God & Breaking the Two Party Dictatorship
Immortal Technique on Conspiracy Facts, Money as God & Breaking the Two Party Dictatorship
Hip hop artist Immortal Technique discusses everything from his creative process in his politically charged lyrics to his views on capitalism and the two-party stronghold over American politics.
13 min
The Internet Is About to Become Worse Than Television
The Internet Is About to Become Worse Than Television
Last week, an obscure but potentially internet-transforming document was leaked from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. It revealed that government regulators are considering rules that
Annalee Newitz
Why the Media is More Racist than Cliven Bundy | Weapons of Mass Distraction
Why the Media is More Racist than Cliven Bundy | Weapons of Mass Distraction
Abby Martin calls out the corporate media's incessant coverage of the Cliven Bundy Ranch story, whilst ignoring other important newsworthy issues such as record drone strikes in Yemen, the kidnapping of 230 Nigerian girls and the end of 'net neutrality'.
4 min
Brazil's 'Internet Bill of Rights' a Victory for Web Freedom
Brazil's 'Internet Bill of Rights' a Victory for Web Freedom
Tim Berners-Lee, Father of the Internet, says law will 'unleash a new era—in which the rights of citizens in all countries are protected by a Digital Rights Charter'
Lauren McCauley
Confessions of an FDA Agent, Truth Behind 'Honor Diaries' & US' Embarrassing Illiteracy Rate
Confessions of an FDA Agent, Truth Behind 'Honor Diaries' & US' Embarrassing Illiteracy Rate
Abby Martin talks about a new 'breakthrough' technology discovered by the US Navy, that converts sea water to fuel, yet is only being considered for military use.
27 min
Ukraine Crisis - What You're Not Being Told
Ukraine Crisis - What You're Not Being Told
The European and American public are being systematically lied to about the Ukraine crisis. Sources & full transcript: http://scgnews.com/the-ukraine-crisis-what-youre-not-being-told Follow us on our new Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SCGNews
11 min
Cenk Uygur Blasts Corporate Media for Soap Opera Coverage & Toeing Establishment Line
Cenk Uygur Blasts Corporate Media for Soap Opera Coverage & Toeing Establishment Line
Abby Martin speaks with host and founder of The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur, discussing why he left his job at MSNBC, the corporate media's superficial coverage of news events and the recipe for success in alternative media. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet...
13 min
Russia Today Anchor Speaks Out Against Invasion Of Ukraine: 'What Russia Did Is Wrong'
Russia Today Anchor Speaks Out Against Invasion Of Ukraine: 'What Russia Did Is Wrong'
A news anchor for Moscow's English-speaking television network spoke out against Russia's invasion of Ukraine in a move of journalistic bravery Monday night.
Catherine Taibi
The Whole World Is Watching
The Whole World Is Watching (2014)
A 30 minute documentary focused on the challenges citizen journalists face and our rights with cameras in public. Digital cameras & social media sharing are possibly the most powerful tools available to activists. Know your rights about using them, and don't be intimidated...
32 min
How The Washington Post's New Owner Aided the CIA, Blocked WikiLeaks & Decimated the Book Industry
How The Washington Post's New Owner Aided the CIA, Blocked WikiLeaks & Decimated the Book Industry
AUGUST 7, 2013 - The Washington Post announced the paper had been sold to Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos for $250 million. Bezos, one of the world’s wealthiest men, now controls one of the most powerful newspapers in the country. Some critics of the sale have cited...
48 min
Rap News 20: The News
Rap News 20: The News
"The News". It's the most viral meme of reality on the planet: if it's not on "the News" it didn't happen - right? Welcome back to Season 2 of Juice Rap News, in which intrepid anchorman Robert Foster embarks on a new era of adversarial rap journalism by casting a critical...
7 min
Glenn Greenwald: Snowden's Journalist of Choice
Glenn Greenwald: Snowden's Journalist of Choice (2014)
In June of 2013, Glenn Greenwald was the first to report on the classified national security agency documents leaked by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, through a series of articles in "The Guardian." Last November, VICE traveled to meet Greenwald at his home in...
32 min
Opening Access: A Look at the People's Media
Opening Access: A Look at the People's Media
A half-hour special presentation of a bold new vision for community media. Combining archival footage with interviews and b-roll, Opening Access presents a compelling picture of an emerging model for alternative media that will engage new communities and new voices.
30 min
15 Crucial Facts NEVER Heard On The Mainstream Media
15 Crucial Facts NEVER Heard On The Mainstream Media
The mainstream corporate-owned media is now essentially a rotting corpse. Welcome to the funeral. 
5 min
The People Guarding US Nukes Will Shock You
The People Guarding US Nukes Will Shock You
Abby Martin calls attention to thirty four officers at Malstrom Airforce Base in Montana who were caught cheating on a proficiency exam related to nuclear launch procedures. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin
2 min
Abby Martin Rips Corporate Media over Justin Bieber's Eggs
Abby Martin Rips Corporate Media over Justin Bieber's Eggs
Abby Martin calls out the corporate media for their incessant coverage of Biebergate, whilst ignoring important stories such as Congress' attempt to implement new Iran sanctions amidst promising diplomatic negotiations, as well as new photographs emerging of a 2004 incident...
4 min
The Internet Is Dead, Long Live the Internet!
The Internet Is Dead, Long Live the Internet!
The internet as we know it is dead.
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program
Facebook's Community Double Standards
Facebook's Community Double Standards
Is Facebook flirting with fascism? The question might prove difficult to answer with a resounding “yes or no,” but, to those who have been keeping track of its recent censorship practices, the answer appears to lean heavily toward the affirmative.
Ben Norton
Reality Asserts Itself - Chris Hedges
Reality Asserts Itself - Chris Hedges
Reality Asserts Itself - Chris Hedges
17 min
The Absurdity of Right-Wing Media Madness in a Catchy Song
The Absurdity of Right-Wing Media Madness in a Catchy Song
Oldie but goodie, Dan and Dan's satirical song about the right-wing British newspaper The Daily Mail.
3 min
Good News/Bad News: A Manifesto for Independent Media
Good News/Bad News: A Manifesto for Independent Media
We live in extraordinary times. All around us the old world is crumbling, while the new one struggles to be born. Crises and catastrophes are rocking our planet like never before. Rebellions and revolutions are stirring the system to its very core. And yet, while the tidal...
ROAR Collective
How Even a Proven Government Conspiracy Can Get Totally Dismissed by Corporate Media
How Even a Proven Government Conspiracy Can Get Totally Dismissed by Corporate Media
In the insular world of Manhattan media, there’s much handwringing over the latest blow to print publications
Robert Parry
We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks
We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks (2013)
A documentary that details the creation of Julian Assange's controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1824254/
129 min