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Whistleblower to be released from military prison in May
Nika Knight
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Betsy DeVos is not fit to be the next Secretary of Education! Watch to learn more about how she ruined education in Michigan through for-profit charter schools -- and be sure to call your U.S. Senators today to tell them to protect public education!
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Donald Trump is not fit to be president. He is a threat to the Nation, and the World.
Nationalism is a form of geographical racism that makes some lives matter more than others, and explicitly justifies that logic without apology. While today, not even lying corrupt politicians will outright say that racism is acceptable, nationalism is promoted and accepted...
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Two organisations emerged losers after the 2014 independence referendum. Yes Scotland won praise after narrowly failing to overturn a thirty point deficit. The other loser was the BBC. The British State broadcaster sacrificed its reputation in return for a narrow win for the...
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Real people. Real issues. And actions that make a real difference. Join us at thisismyoath.com
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If the world is going to be successful in achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and save our planet, every organisation, company and government will need AidHub.org - Making Impact Count (Please visit https://aidhub.org for more details) Music created and...
We are in strife as a species because our theologies are all wrong. Fundamentalists and atheists alike, either proclaim or reject a supreme being who is separate from you, from me, and from the rest of creation. But the term "separate God" is an oxymoron. Any image of God...
Mark Ellison
10 min
Last week the CEO of the British Red Cross said the NHS was facing a 'humanitarian crisis'. Aaron looks at the service's recent problems and how they reflect an intentional project, by the Tory Party, to privatise healthcare in the UK.
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Officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, SEAL Team 6 is today the most celebrated of the U.S. military’s special mission units. But hidden behind the heroic narratives is a darker, more troubling story of “revenge ops,” unjustified killings...
99 years of classical anarchism and 72 years of 'modern' anarchism but are they really that separate?
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Barack Obama's presidency, sandwiched between those of George W Bush and Donald J Trump, will be missed by many Americans, says Gary Younge. But, he argues, 'could be worse' is poor rhetorical compensation for 'yes we can'. Since Obama was simultaneously the best man for the...
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After six-months of undercover filming, Al Jazeera Investigations exposes how the Israel lobby penetrates the many different levels of British democracy.
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Al Jazeera has uncovered evidence of an Israeli diplomat's involvement in smear campaigns to discredit a British minister and other politicians. Al Jazeera's investigative unit went undercover with an Israeli lobby group for several months. The investigation reveals...
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Travelling the length of the country and back again with a pair of horses and gypsy caravan, Live Before You Die is the ultimate horse-drawn road movie, following a band of Travellers with handcarts, goats, donkeys and ponies along green lanes to the fairs and festivals of...
One "piece of the oppressor" that I have found in myself during my inner activist journeys is my use of shame as a method of engaging with the world's problems. Having learned that "shame" is a tool that has been used by the world's oppressors for so long, I strive not to use...
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Fewer women are having abortions than ever before. Cameron Esposito tells us how that could change under Drumpf.
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Climate change, species extinction, pollution and poverty: The world seems to be going down the drain! There are many reasons for these problems. One reason of particular importance is rooted deep in our economic system. This video explains it. What's your opinion about that?...
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For 40 years, billy barr has lived alone in small cabin in one of the coldest places in the United States - the ghost town of Gothic, CO. With no goals of proving anything, or even knowledge that the climate was changing, billy started collecting data about snowpack to pass...
Romantic love in Western societies is often portrayed in a stereotypical way: two yearning halves, who search for each other to find their complete, original state. Few find this bliss because it’s a myth, dating back to Plato. In Greek mythology, the perfect lovers were...
Susanne Vosmer
In contrast to neoliberalism’s ideology of freedom and openness, walls — enclosing rich and poor alike — abet privatization and precarity the world over.
Elliot Sperber
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Astronomy Professor Larry Molnar, working with a small handful of undergraduate students remotely operating a tiny telescope in the desert of New Mexico, believes he has found the unfindable - a star that is about to explode.
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In this short film we meet three women; a wrestler, a skater and a boxer - with the heart, resilience and dedication of champions.
It’s getting hot out there. For a stretch of 16 months running through August 2016, new global temperature records were set every month.[1] Ice cover in the Arctic sea hit a new low this past summer, at 525,000 square miles less than normal.[2] And apparently we’re not doing...
Jason Hickel
Office of Government Ethics has not received even initial draft financial disclosure reports for some of the nominees scheduled for hearings
Lauren McCauley
Over the last century, capitalism has repeatedly revealed its worst tendencies: instability and inequality. Instances of instability include the Great Depression (1929-1941) and the Great Recession since 2008, plus eleven "downturns" in the US between those two global...
Richard D. Wolff
21 min
Berets, badges, Black Lives Matter and social justice: the youth group for activist girls of colour
The Radical Monarchs is an alternative to the Scout movement for girls of colour in Oakland, California. Its members earn badges not for sewing or selling cookies, but for...
Indigenous battles to defend nature have taken to the streets, leading to powerful mobilizations like the gathering at Standing Rock. They have also taken to the courts, through the development of innovative legal ways of protecting nature. In Ecuador, Bolivia and New...
Kiana Herold
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Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key suit up as President Obama and Luther, his faithful anger translator, to get real about Donald Trump's election.
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This video is a response to what happened in 31st December 2016 in new year's eve in Bengaluru when the Brigade road became an adda to eve-teased women. We thought our politicians would stand against this horrendous act but they were least logical people in the scene. let's...
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Burzynski, the Movie is an internationally award-winning documentary originally released in 2010 (with an Extended Edition released in 2011) that tells the true story of a medical doctor and Ph.D biochemist named Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski who won the largest, and possibly the...
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Interview with Cornelius Castoriadis for the Greek television network ET1, for the show "Paraskinio," 1984 (with English-language subtitles). This documentary describes the life and the work of Cornelius Castoriadis and his turning from Marxism to the ideas of autonomy...
80% of the world’s oil has already peaked, and the resulting oil crunch will flatten the economy
Nafeez Ahmed
Our hope for new landscapes does not lie in the center of the circle to which everyone has turned, but beyond its circumference - in the wilds beyond our fences. The mystic will always live on the margins; the madman, twiddling with his fingers at the edge; the 'criminal'...
from Survival International
Survival International
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behaviour and...
Michael Kitson
11 min
Days before the election, a historic African-American church in the Mississippi delta was set on fire in and vandalized with the words 'Vote Trump'. Paul Lewis visits the city of Greenville, where the story behind the burning of Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church takes an...
I want to talk a little about narcissistic personality disorder. I’ve unfortunately had a great deal of experience with it, and I’m feeling badly for those of you who are trying to grapple with it for the first time because of our president-elect, who almost certainly suffers...
N Ziehl
A human trafficking survivor and her firstborn found each other and made peace with their painful past, inspiring the revolutionary music of Nahko Bear.
Dawn Schiller
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Atlantic writer Vann R. Newkirk is about to be a father, and he’s nervous. America’s history of racial violence is something that every citizen inherits, but the consequences for black Americans remain acute. “One day I’m gonna look that boy in the eye and have to explain the...
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Chip Richards helps us ask the question, "Are we complete enough with last year to truly start fresh and create an epic new story in the year to come?"
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it”. A Serbian essay-film reflects hilariously on power, history, and combative humor.
Docs & the World
Some anonymous wise person once observed that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. But Wolfgang Streeck, a 70-year-old German sociologist and director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, thinks capitalism’s end...
Crawford Kilian
As tyrants take control of democracies, they typically:
1. Exaggerate their mandate to govern – claiming, for example, that they won an election by a
Robert Reich
Solidarity and strength has brought victory at Standing Rock, but the water protectors know the struggle to protect their sacred lands is far from over.
Eryn Wise with Frank Barat and Vidal Cuervo
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The Arctic is changing. 2016 saw record temperatures worldwide, in some places it reached 20C (68 F) above the average. As a result the Arctic is melting. In 2016 the Northwest passage had an ice-free summer, allowing cruise ships access to one of the most remote places on...
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From being asked whether you arrived in the UK on a lorry, or whether you thought about going somewhere else, to the questions about what it's like to be... questioned. If you're a refugee, you'll be well-versed in answering these common queries.
If you want to explain the political landscape of this country to anyone unfamiliar- be it a foreigner or the youth- simply explain it as our national religion. Because that's what it actually is.
I began to experience the crippling power of anxiety in my third year of university.
The panic attacks were one thing, but the most horrifying thing about anxiety, the thing that sustains it, is the insomnia. I would wake up in the middle of the night, heart racing, and...
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Healing Forest is a journey to discover the magical healing powers of nature. To find ways to reconnect people with nature. Join us in this exploration of fascinating forests and inspiring stories of healing from nature.
Welcome to a world where fake news stories are used to manipulate public opinion. Dissent is no longer tolerated and all your communications are monitored; the economy is not functioning and reality TV is used to distract you from harsher realities. Welcome to 2017.
David Bishop
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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.
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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...
'The reality is that Israel has no incentive to comply with the principles Kerry outlined,' says Jewish Voice for Peace
Deirdre Fulton
66 min
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.
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...
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...
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.
"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
11 min
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...
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?
“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.