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Why Are We Wasting so Much Food? 5 min
Award-winning author Tristram Stuart argues that food waste is a global scandal.
This national retail co-op is doing its part to preserve the spirit of Thanksgiving.
From Paris to Beirut, the Islamic State's latest atrocities are a calculated effort to bring the war in Syria home to the countries participating in it.
Confessions of a Walmart Hitman 11 min
Former Walmart executive recounts how he would watch Associates sit in the break room during their lunch hour without eating because they couldn't afford food. Walmart banned management...
The True Story of Native Peoples' Plight - From Genocide to Reeducation 25 min
Each November, Americans celebrate a mythical version of U.S. history. Thanksgiving Day's portrayal of the experience of Native Americans under the boot of settler-colonialism is one of...
100% Possible - Clean, Safe, Renewable Energy 2 min
What if Steve Jobs had given up on the iPhone – how would you be reading this now?! More importantly, what would our world be like if MLK hadn't had a dream, or Gandhi never stood...
“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half” —Jay Gould Metanoia Films has released a new documentary, Plutocracy: Divide et Impera (Divide and Rule). It’s the...
In the wake of Monday night’s direct attack on #BlackLivesMatter demonstrators in Minneapolis at a protest against the fatal police shooting of Jamar Clark, I feel compelled to share...
Squatting in Rome (2015) Medialien 22 min
The presence of numerous squats, including the biggest in Europe, a militant student scene as well as unpunished police repression make Rome one of the strongholds of radical Italian...
The belief that economic growth can be detached from destruction appears to be based on a simple accounting mistake.
Stunning Images of Deep Sea Creatures off the Coast of Puerto Rico Reveal Hidden World 2 min
Some sea creatures are so new to us, they don't even have names.
Native American Responses to Thanksgiving 2 min
We invited Native Americans to respond to the word "Thanksgiving." These are their responses.
Get AdBlock! What Are You Waiting for? 1 min
Everyone hates online ads. But you don’t have to see them anymore. In fact you don’t have to see ads on any website ever. All of you have to do is download AdBlock. I’m a Youtuber. I...
3 Seconds in Earth Time Is All It Takes to Almost Kill The World, and We Call Ourselves Wise... 5 min
We named ourselves "Homo Sapiens," meaning "wise man," but would real wisdom lead to the 6th mass extinction of life on Earth?
Rebel Geeks - Steal From the Capitalists 25 min
Evan "Rabble" Henshaw-Plath is a coder, activist, anarchist, and a hacker. He is also one of the original developers of Twitter.
In the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, the world has woken up to the threat that the ‘self-proclaimed Islamic State’ poses to the Western world. Among other things, it has sp
From authoritarian power grabs to Andrew Neil’s nonsensical eulogy, the reaction to the Paris attacks proves that we haven’t learned from our past mistakes
Cupcake fas­cism as­serts it­self vi­ol­ently through some­thing the in­fant­il­ized sub­ject holds deeply as an ideal. This ideal is niceness.
The ISIS Trap - Will You Fall Into It? 1 min
ISIS has a pretty black-and-white view of the world. Either you're with them, or you're with people they consider infidels. But what about people in the middle? ISIS has a plan for them.
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...
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...
A Commons Sense 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...
Ashraf Fayadh was sentenced to death for apostasy, joining a long list of dissidents facing capital punishment
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
The greatest gift you can offer loved ones is your true presence.
From Console to Trigger: How Pentagon "Exploits" Video Game Culture to Wire Youth for War 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...
Anti-Transgender Violence Rising in 2015 1 min
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...
Jingoists conveniently forget the West's Cold War strategy was to arm the Islamic extremists that became al-Qaida
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...
Why France’s brave new war on ISIS is a sick joke, and an insult to the victims of the Paris attacks
A reflection on religion, spirituality, connection and destruction.
Paris Attacks: Isis Has a Strategy. Let's Not Be Part of It 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...
Air Force whistleblowers say US drone program "is one of the most devastating driving forces for terrorism and destabilization around the world."
The Unist'ot'en Are Holding Their Ground Against Oil & Gas Pipelines 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...
Paris Attacks: "I Won't Give You the Gift of Hating You" 2 min
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.
A Brief History of European Colonization in Africa 4 min
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...
Honest Accounts - The True Story of Africa's Billion Dollar Losses 3 min
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...
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 –...
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...
In Syria I learned that Islamic State longs to provoke retaliation. We should not fall into the trap
Shutting down borders and blaming Muslim immigrants for the Paris attacks would give ISIS precisely the type of “civilizational conflict” it craves.
Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.
We destroyed ourselves with our dumb 9/11 overreactions. It's essential not to make the same mistake again.
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
What You Need to Know about The Origin of ISIS 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...
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...
After Paris, macho language about 'pitiless war' defines the contours of leadership. Little else is on offer. It is red meat to our emotions.
What’s the difference between Al Qaeda and Fort Benning?
"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...
We must mourn all victims. But until we look honestly at the violence we export, nothing will ever change
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...
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...
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...
The rush to fit the horrors of Paris into convenient neo-imperial narratives shows a disturbing lack of empathy
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...
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...
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...
After years of legal battles, a Netherlands court orders the industry to shut down.
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...
“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
High-Speed Slaughter Hell at Hormel, Makers of SPAM 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...
“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...
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...
Marie's Dictionary - Great Grandmother's Efforts to Keep Her Native Language Alive 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.
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...
Does Money Make You Mean? Monopoly May Hold The Answer 2 min
What happens when a rigged game of Monopoly makes some players really rich?  (Created in collaboration with AJ+.)
I know why Theresa May has that permanently appalled expression – she’s seen my internet history
"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...
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...
Socialists, Communists, and Left Bloc unite in 'unprecedented' coalition to end years of punishing cuts
Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa - Nigerian Environmental Justice Campaigner 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.
The Youth, the dreaded Youth. Pissing on our chrysanthemums, loitering with menace, eating crisps with their mouths open, thinking for themselves.
Who Is to Blame for the Refugee Crisis? 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...
Anti-Communism: America's Unofficial Religion 30 min
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...
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...
Many people think money makes the world go around, or the global economy at least. They consider it in a s
Climate Change Warriors: We Are the Storm! 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...
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Prisoner Re-Entry 19 min
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.
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...
The Distortion & Death Behind Israel/Palestine Coverage 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...
Stress kills Mindfulness. Here are Ten Things you can do to avoid it.
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...
What's It Like To Be A Black Girl In Rome? 12 min
Watch the video to find out the answer to that question for some.
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?
"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...
From slavery to genocide, society has shown a terrifying ability to disregard the personhood of others. Here's why.
Rebel Media in an Age of Crisis 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...
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...
6 Problems With Mainstream Media 8 min
People are becoming increasingly irritated by the mainstream media, and here are 6 reasons why.
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...
That's What He Said: Women 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...
'President Obama has sold the American people a false bill of goods,' says Friends of the Earth
Chris Hedges on What It Takes to Be a Rebel in Modern Times 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...
Harry Patch: Anti-War Hero 6 min
Harry Patch had no time for, 'Thieving politicians lies'. Poem: Heathcote Williams Narration: Alan Cox Montage: Alan Cox and Margaret Cox
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...
Hospitals Bombed in Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen: Mistakes or War Crimes? 1 min
More than a dozen hospitals have been bombed in Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen in recent weeks. Mistakes or war crimes?
Changing the Way We Change the World 17 min
This short film is intended as a conversation-starter for staff, volunteers, board members, and funders of social purpose organisations.
Cops - What Are They Good For? 6 min
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...
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