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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.
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
5 min
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...
Move comes in response to efforts by climate activists urging president to secure environmental protections before new administration takes power
Nadia Prupis
3 min
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.
2 min
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...
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
69 min
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...
24 min
Anarcho-syndicalism (also referred to as revolutionary syndicalism) is a theory of anarchism which views revolutionary industrial unionism or syndicalism as
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
2 min
The real - original - meaning of Socialism. The only USEFUL definition. Find more here...http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb
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
4 min
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.
2 min
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...
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
2 min
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.
114 min
Human rights violations by Israel on Israeli Jews and Foreign Nationals
6 min
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%...
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
57 min
Kenya: a forest people #fightback as they are illegally evicted, beaten & imprisoned - paid for by the World Bank.
3 min
Pie rails against what he perceives to be a lack of respect for democracy.
9 min
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...
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...
2 min
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...
18 min
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...
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
8 min
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.
9 min
"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...
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
6 min
Bernie Sanders spoke to Trump supporters, and the results were surprising. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.
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
67 min
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.
13 min
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...
3 min
Meet Dena Takruri, the Muslim-American journalist working to give voice to people unheard.
3 min
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.
2 min
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.
2 min
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...
11 min
With big dreams to become a journalist and a pilot, two children from the slum must find a way to pursue their education in order to achieve their goals. The YCCM (Young County Change-Makers) is an organization in the Nyalenda Slum in Kisumu, Kenya, that provides support and...
Almost two centuries ago an idea was born with such explanatory power that it created shock waves across all of human society and whose aftershocks we’re still feeling to this day. It’s so simple and yet so powerful, that after all these years, it remains capable of making...
Scott Santens
We were five minutes into the first episode of Jessica Jones when my husband asked me if I was going to be okay. It was right about when Jessica watches Luke Cage from a fire escape. While that scene isn’t especially triggering, i
Malin James
2 min
Powered by thousands of immense server farms and billions of microchips, this ain't your daddy's Fascism... Want someone truly different and truly entertaining to address your school, civic, religious or business group? I'm a veteran public speaker with hundreds of radio, TV...
'What we have instead are assertions, disseminated by anonymous people, completely unaccompanied by any evidence, let alone proof,' writes Glenn Greenwald
Nadia Prupis
13 min
In August 2012, Syrian photographer Issa Touma awoke to the dawn of the rebel uprising in the city of Aleppo. He spent the next nine days holed up in his apartment, filming the emerging civil war outside.
7 min
The U.S. is helping Saudi Arabia bomb Yemen and it's a disaster.
62 min
Miko Peled is an Israeli activist, author, he was a soldier and his father was one of the most famous generals in Israel. Miko grew up in Jerusalem from a prominent Zionist family. His grandfather Avraham Katsnelson, signed the Israeli Declaration of Independence. His father...
Years of habitat destruction and poaching have reduced giraffe numbers by 30 percent, placing them in the vulnerable category for the first time
Jason Daley
We are entering a new utopian age. That may seem counterintuitive to suggest as the most right wing government since Thatcher leads the UK into a bleak post Brexit future, Trump prepares to enter the White House flanked by a team of white supremacists in the US, and the far...
Paul Walker-Emig
Taking a lesson from Standing Rock, we must be careful with language while working toward progress in the Trump years.
Arun Gupta
6 min
It's time once again for The Blame Game! That's right, it's liberal America's favorite game show, the game that pits progressive against progressive as they battle it out to answer the elusive question: Who's to blame?
In this chilling song, pharmaceutical companies are called out for contributing to America's opioid crisis.
Amanda Froelich
I don't know if it should be any less disturbing to think that Julian Assange tipped the election. Hilary had long been enemies with the hacktavist culture after they embarrassed her State Department. Assange and Snowden (who lives in Russia) have been in fear of US...
J. Whipple
5 min
It's time to move from Trump Depression to Trump management. Here are three strategies to get us there.
3 min
Poem about cultural appropriation and colonial amnesia. I'm currently crowdfunding for my PhD research 'Black British and Mixed Race Identity: The intersectionality between race, class and political affiliation'. I'm going to be looking at the simultaneous rise in BME...
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I'm currently crowdfunding for my PhD research 'Black British and Mixed Race Identity: The intersectionality between race, class and political affiliation'. I'm going to be looking at the simultaneous rise in BME conservative support and Black liberationist group activity. I...
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Time: 6:09 a.m. Date: 5 June 2019. Place: A first-floor flat in any British town or city.
A fire breaks out. A man and his young daughter, Laura, are trapped by the flames.
Not surprisingly, the man quickly dials 999. And not surprisingly, Laura cries ‘where’s the fire...
13 enlightening non-fiction films on dire conditions of life in Gaza Strip, West Bank, and Jerusalem, and Palestinian impressive resilience.
65 min
Paul Bloom, psychologist and Yale professor, argues that empathy is a bad thing—that it makes the world worse.
15 min
The NHS is under threat of privatisation, the mainstream media continue to flood our minds with bad news stories supporting a narrative of despair regarding the state and future of the health service - bought, built and paid for by us, our parents and our grandparents.
It is getting harder to keep a secret these days. The collective shadow of our society, once safely relegated to the dark basement of the unmentionable, is now exposed to daylight, forcing us to face our contradictions. I’ll offer three examples: Donald Trump’s leaked...
Charles Eisenstein
3 min
This is an ad for Allegro, a Polish company similar to eBay, and it's heartwarmingly lovely.
2 min
Working with satellite images from NASA and the US Geological Survey, Google has created a searchable snapshot of the past 3 decades on Earth, creating startling time-lapses of what is often the diminishing of nature as human activity increases. This video from Time is a...
Many people are telling us who to believe and who not to believe using lists of “fake news” outlets that inevitably encourage censorship, yet there is a much more sensible way to approach the issue. Humans live their lives based on stories, we make choices based on beliefs...
Jacob Devaney
3 min
This is the incredible story of Daryl Davis.
4 min
Music video based around the topic of the Syrian Refugee Crisis. Rebekah Coval wrote the song as a prayer in response to hearing about Alan Kurdi, the three year old Syrian boy who drowned as his family attempted to reach safe shores in Greece.
8 min
Interns at our college designed this Solar Powered Projector to propose insight into the gender disparity in school attendance, and why boys are 20% more likely to attend class.
47 min
My video is conveying very current themes including the negative treatment of Native Americans, human impact and moving towards alternate energy sources. I used an example of the past treatments that Native Americans have recieved, and then tied that in with the current issue...
Let’s talk about Black on Black crime. Maybe you’ve heard about it on the news, specifically likely in regards to Black people murdered by other Black people. Perhaps you’ve heard it from people in relation to #BlackLivesMatter because how can Black lives matter when we’re...
Donyae Coles
5 min
This music video documents the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest at Standing Rock. While capturing the police brutality and human rights violations against peaceful Water Protectors, the filmmakers were tear gassed, targeted and shot with rubber bullets in an unconstitutional...
4 min
In early 2014 the Guardian hailed duo Sleaford Mods as ‘the most uncompromising British protest music made in years’. Here, we go backstage at a Sleaford Mods gig in their hometown of Nottingham to hear what singer Jason Williamson thinks about Brexit and the politicians...
He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if thou gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into thee.
—Nietzsche
Charles Eisenstein
“Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed.”
— Wendell Berry
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Trump is not an economic populist, he’s just playing one on TV.
Robert Borosage
8 min
It is time to reframe how we think about our past. We need a new year 0 for humanity. But which one should we choose and why?
Though it's important to fight Trump's policies, "it's at the values level that we need to do a reset," says Jones
Tim Dickinson
6 min
What we can learn from one of the great organizers in American history.
40 min
My video is about how our world as we see it today is changing. As humans grow bigger and bigger, we start to hurt our earth and it effects our lively hood. In this mashup of videos I added famous actors speeches because I think if they speak on a subject then most of the...
3 min
After an EU deal with Afghanistan, more than 80,000 rejected Afghan asylum-seekers are facing deportation back to that country. Alim says being sent back to Afghanistan could be a death sentence.
5 min
In this short tutorial we will tell you how to ruin any planet in 10 simple steps.
3 min
If you ever wanted to become a professional cyber-bully, troll or hater this short instructional video is for you.
These incredible images are a selection from of the 25 shortlisted by The Natural History Museum for the People's Choice Award from this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Which one captures your imagination?
Natural History Museum
After the insanity of the U.S. election, a lot of people are blaming Facebook for its algorithms that parse us into ideological bubbles and spread “fake news” and other kinds of misinformation. Some critics — like
Joe Brewer
3 min
EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH THIS! A shocking video about the nasty truth in tap water and why you should drink mineral water. Share it with your loved ones and everyone you care about!
7 min
Mohammed Abu Amar runs a makeshift 24-hour helpline from his flat in Hamburg, guiding scared refugees fleeing the violence in Syria across the water to Europe.
Despite losing the use of both legs in a shelling in Damascus in the early days of the conflict, Abu Amar made the...
President-elect Donald Trump's focus on single Boeing contract ignores enormous waste of bloated Pentagon budget
Nadia Prupis
4 min
Shot undercover in British factory farms and slaughterhouses, this immersive 360° video gives you a birds-eye view of what happens to chicken from farm to plate.