15 Documentaries to Nourish the Brain and Heart (Free to Watch Online)

The Future of Journalism

In the past, media was protected in most democracies because in order to govern themselves, people need access to accurate and timely information on all topics relevant to their governance. The news needs to be the match that starts analysis and action which doesn’t stop...

Heather Marsh

The World's Most Subversive Soap Operas

From telenovelas about Latin America’s missing girls to a series on conflict resolution in wartorn lands, soap operas are surreptitious agents of social change in the developing world. When veteran Hollywood screenwriter Deborah Jones saw that the director of...

Christopher Dickey

Courage is Contagious at the Million Mask March, London, Canada

The mainstream media won't do a proper job when it comes to telling our story - so here is my Gonzo Journalism style contribution to help add clarity to the story of our conscious evolution relating to the global events on Nov 5th. We are writing our own history. Remember...

10 min

The Censorship That Dare Not Speak Its Name

This is a subtly revised set of remarks given at “The Point is to Change It” conference on November 1, 2013 at the University of San Francisco. The event was co-sponsored by Project Censored.

James F. Tracy

On "Reforms," Bad and Good

“Reformism” is one of those words that’s hard to pin down sometimes. It’s usually taken to mean advocating for “reform within the system” — in other words, the bad kind of reform.

Kevin Carson

The Military-Industrial Pundits: Conflicts of Interest Exposed for TV Guests Who Promoted War

Still trust the mainstream media to bring you unbiased news? New research shows many so-called experts who appeared on television making the case for U.S. strikes on Syria had undisclosed ties to military contractors. A new report by the Public Accountability Initiative...

10 min

TPP: The Biggest Threat to the Internet You've Probably Never Heard Of

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) is being negotiated in secret between more than 12 countries around the Pacific region. Find out why it poses a huge threat to your digital freedoms.

5 min

The Killing Screens: Media & the Culture of Violence (trailer)

The Killing Screens urges us to think about the effects of the media in new and complex ways. In contrast to the relatively simplistic behaviorist model that media violence causes real-world violence, Gerbner encourages us to think about the psychological, political, social...

6 min

Running on Empty: The Brain Drain in Local TV News (2011)

Journalism is losing experienced reporters at a record rate. This means less in-depth and investigative reporting that help keep you informed. This documentary introduces you to some seasoned reporters who were at the top of their game. They share their frustrations and...

57 min

Why the Media Ignores Self Immolations

Abby Martin reflects on the recent self-immolation on the National Mall in Washington DC by discussing the political relevancy of self-immolations over the years and the corporate media's lack of coverage of these events in America.

5 min

The Brainwashing of My Dad (2015)

What happened to Dad? As filmmaker, Jen Senko, tries to understand the transformation of her father from a non political, life-long Democrat to an angry, right-wing fanatic, she uncovers the forces behind the media that changed him completely: a plan by Roger Ailes under...

90 min

Shutdown Coverage Fails Americans

U.S. news reports are largely blaming the government shutdown on the inability of both political parties to come to terms. It is supposedly the result of a "bitterly divided" Congress that "failed to reach agreement" (

Dan Froomkin

Fmr NYT Journalist Seymour Hersh Blasts Bin Laden Fairytale, Calls for Corporate Media Shutdown

Abby Martin gives props to world renowned journalist Seymour Hersh, for calling out the abysmal failure of the corporate media in the US, saying that the MSM should fire 90 percent of its reporters and that "not one word" of the bin laden death narrative is true. Read the...

4 min

Seymour Hersh on death of Osama bin Laden: 'It's one big lie, not one word of it is true'

Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back

Lisa O'Carroll

Awakening to the Blob: How The Media Mediates Our Lives

Not just a book review of Thomas de Zengotita's Mediated

Maura R. O'Connor

Obama's Justice Department: Trumpeting a New Victory in War on Freedom of the Press

There’s something profoundly despicable about a Justice Department that would brazenly violate the First and Fourth Amendments while spying on journalists, then claim to be reassessing such policies after an avalanche of criticism—and then proceed, as it did thi

Norman Solomon

The Society of the Spectacle: Guy Debord's Classic Work Remade into a Mind-Bending Short Film

Guy Debord's classic 1967 text, remade into a contemporary context, with all sorts of visual remixing in the grand spirit of 'the spectacle.' Also includes Marshall McLuhan and John Berger.

18 min

Jon Stewart Slams CNN for Chaotic, 'Vomit-like' Coverage of Mass Shooting in Washington

John Stewart ripped CNN apart on Tuesday night's Daily Show for it's appalling coverage of the Washington Navy Yard Shooting - specifically for drawing speculative conclusions in the absence of concrete facts. Just mute the ad at the beginning. It is Comedy Central's video...

7 min

How Facebook May Secretly Foil Your Activist Plans

In recent years, Facebook has become an unexpectedly crucial tool for activism. The social media platform allows activists to efficiently connect and communicate with one another in order to arrange meetings, protests and boycotts. Unfortunately, activists who once found that...

Kevin Mathews

"Wrong, Blasphemous and Sinful" - 10 Years of 9/11 Media Coverage (2011)

"Wrong, Blasphemous and Sinful" is the English version of the Belgian film "Epouvantails, autruches et perroquets." The film analyzes the way the media managed to skip or distort controversial subjects surrounding the 9/11 attacks. The original film in French appeared on the...

101 min

The Internet Must Go (2013)

The Internet Must Go is a video mockumentary which follows the character John Wooley, a market researcher who tries to come up with a plan for how internet service providers can try to market what internet access would look like without network...

30 min

The Fighting F--k Toy and Other Disturbing Hollywood Archetypes that Shape Our Perception of Women

Want to have a pervasive effect on the subconscious attitudes of our culture? Get into the entertainment business.

10 min

Journalists Admit to Not Being Skeptical In Lead-Up to Iraq War

In this clip from the film "War Made Easy", some of television's most prominent journalists admit that their organizations were not skeptical enough in their reporting during the lead up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

2 min

Obama Will Launch a Huge Propaganda Blitz -- and May Attack Syria Even If He Loses the Vote in Congress

Grassroots pressure has forced President Obama to seek approval from Congress for an attack on Syria. But Obama is hell-bent on ordering a missile assault on that country, and he has two very important aces in the hole.

Norman Solomon

Legendary Newspaper Fights to Stay Alive and Stop Conservative News Monopoly in Las Vegas

The story is, by now, familiar: A once-powerful newspaper is facing insolvency, and its owners, heirs to the empire-builder of yesteryear, are fighting among themselves, allowing petty concerns about money to split their family and tarnish their legacy. This time, the...

Steve Friess

Ten Documentaries Featuring Champions of Social Justice

Social activism has always been a popular subject for documentarians because it presents stories of both cause and characters. The 10 powerful films below are not a complete list of films about social activists, but certainly proof enough that social change is possible...

Bill Moyers & Company

CNN: Let Me Explain Why Miley Cyrus' VMA Performance Was Our Top Story This Morning

Over the years, CNN.com has become a news website that many people turn to for top-notch reporting. Every day it is visited by millions of people, all of whom rely on “The Worldwide Leader in News”—that’s our slogan—for the most crucial, up-to-date information on current...

Meredith Artley, Managing Editor Of CNN.Com

'Game of Thrones' Exec says Piracy is 'Better than an Emmy.' He Has a Point.

The people behind “Game of Thrones,” reportedly the most-pirated show on the Internet, have always taken an oddly laissez-faire view of piracy. Director David Petrarca once told a crowd in Sydney that illegal downloads help the show by generating “buzz.” Both author George...

Caitlin Dewey

A New Kind of Real

Things are getting real. Entertainment, specifically. And by "real" I don't mean serious, or imminent, or even necessarily honest -- but real, as in pushed to the limit of what we perceive as real, and even further, until it's so real we can't distinguish what's real and...

Gabriel Mizrahi

Abby Martin Blasts Rachel Maddow for 9/11 Comments

Abby Martin calls out MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, for promoting the notion that violence is rooted in conspiracy theories, while disregarding the importance of questioning official government narratives.

6 min

Is Television Making Us Stupid?

"I wasn't worried about freedom. I was worried about people being turned into morons by TV." -- Ray Bradbury in 2001 talking about his book Fahrenheit 451 Is television actually making us stupid? After all, this is a device nicknamed "the boob tube" and "the idiot box."...

Ron Kaufman

It's The Greatest Drama of All Time and You Just Might Be Missing It

When you're glued to the latest series of a show like Game of Thrones, caught up in the drama, the twists and turns of the plot, you may be missing the most intricate, massive drama imaginable; the one happening all around you, in real time.

6 min

How to End A Dirty War: Rick Rowley on Truth-Telling

Secret wars breed deadly blow-back. It’s a truth as old as covert operations themselves but one that both Democratic and Republican administrations ignore, leading to a vicious cycle of spending on killing that soaks up billions of public dollars.

14 min

Why Sharing News About Solutions Is a Revolutionary Act

Scary stories of kidnappings and explosions lead our news feeds, but it's the good news that helps break down the myth of our own powerlessness. "If it bleeds, it leads." Ever hear that maxim of journalism? If you want readers, go with the scary, gruesome story—that's...

Frances Moore Lappé

Four Ways to Escape the NSA Dragnet

Start by switching to an alternative search engine, using an alias on Facebook, and supporting allied nonprofits. The PRISM scandal confirmed our worst fears when it comes to state-level surveillance of the Internet, with the revelation that the NSA has created...

Nick Pearson

15 Things Everyone Would Know If There Was Actually a Liberal Media

Prince Riebus (and apparently many others) still t

David Akadjian

The More Nefarious US Foreign Policy, The More It Relies on Media Complicity

Americans are shielded from the ugly consequences of US military power by our journalists' self-censorship The US still has military spending that is higher in real, inflation-adjusted terms than it was during the peak of the Reagan cold war build-up, the Vietnam war and...

Mark Weisbrot

Hey Idiots: Taking On the "Right Wing Insanely Fake Christian Hate-Monkey Trolls" Over Al Jazeera

With Al Jazeera America launching in a couple of weeks, Current TV's John Fugelsang decides to address the

Abby Zimet

DÉRIVES (2013)

Produced independently without any financial aid, Dérives is the result of more than thirty hours of interviews with citizen witnesses and victims of police brutality.

73 min

Edward Snowden's Not the Story. The Fate of the Internet Is.

The press has lost the plot over the Snowden revelations. The fact is that the net is finished as a global network and that US firms' cloud services cannot be trusted Repeat after me: Edward Snowden is not the story. The story is what he has revealed about the hidden...

John Naughton

Honor The Treaties

A portrait of photographer Aaron Huey's work on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Featuring Shepard Fairey.

12 min

So What Happens When You Make a Fake North Korean Propaganda Film?

From consumerism to Columbus Day to celebrity culture, the film "Propaganda" (available to watch in whole online) slices open contemporary Western culture for its rewriting of history and its imperialist and corporatist policies. The film was released in ten parts last year, upl

Bryce J. Renninger

Remembering Helen Thomas: Journalistic Trailblazer

Abby Martin gives a tribute to the late Helen Thomas, looking back at some of the highpoints of her career and her important role as a female journalist who was never shy to hold powerful people accountable. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby...

4 min

Rolling Stone Bomber Cover: Media Misses the Point | Weapons of Mass Distraction

Abby Martin goes over the corporate media hypocrisy over a recent Rolling Stone magazine cover which features Boston bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and calls out the corporate media for focusing more on the cover than the many unanswered questions that remain regarding...

6 min

MSNBC 'Dear Snowden' Distraction | Brainwash Update

Abby Martin calls out MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry for choosing to focus on Edward Snowden's international escapades rather than focusing on the more relevant issue of NSA spying. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @...

4 min

Larry King: Greenwald Not a Journalist | Think Tank

Abby Martin talks to Larry King, host of RT's Politicking, about his views on what journalism should be, and how they are different from what 'Breaking the Set' presents. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin

9 min

Western Propaganda through N. Korea's Eyes | Interview with Slavko Martinov

Abby Martin talks to filmmaker, Slavko Martinov, creator of the film 'Propaganda', a documentary made from the perspective of North Korea, which serves as a critique against the hyper capitalist structure, political manipulation, and consumerism that characterizes the western...

11 min

Bill Maher Democrat Lackey | Brainwash Update

Abby Martin calls out Bill Maher, host of HBO's 'Real Time', for his evolution from being a controversial commentator to being an arrogant lackey for the democratic party, citing his rampant Islamophobia, support for drones, and defense of the NSA's wiretapping program.

5 min

Classic TV: Jon Stewart Calls Out Crossfire Pundits

In 2004, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart confronted the two hosts of CNN's Crossfire on their own show to criticize their brand of debate theater which Stewart claimed was promoting dishonest arguments. Less than three months later CNN canceled the show with the head of the...

14 min

PressPausePlay (2011)

The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a...

81 min

The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR

Thom Hartmann

The Mother of All Rules Governing US Media: Censor & Cover-Up US Government Criminality

In January 2008 The Sunday Times published the second report of its four-part investigative series concerning the U.S. government’s direct role in international terrorism networks and organized crime involving nuclear espionage: For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets .

Sibel Edmonds

Why was a Sunday Times report on US government ties to an al-Qaeda chief spiked?

FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds was described as "the most gagged person in the history of the United States" by the American Civil Liberties Union. Was the Sunday Times pressured to drop its investigation into her revelations? A whistleblower has revealed extraordinary...

Nafeez Ahmed

Free The Press, Buy The Tribune Company

Infamous right-wing billionaires Rupert Murdoch and the Koch Brothers are threatening to buy the Tribune Company, which publishes the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. Enough - let's buy the Tribune Company ourselves, and free the press.

4 min

Al Jazeera English Live Stream

Al Jazeera's English Live Stream is always on, featuring their latest coverage. They broadcast to more than 220 million households in more than 100 countries. Much has been said about the quality of their coverage, including dismissive attitudes that generally prefer the...

999 min

Ron Unz on Our American Pravda & Sibel Edmonds Case

“These three stories—the anthrax evidence, the McCain/POW revelations, and the Sibel Edmonds charges—are the sort of major exposés that would surely be dominating the headlines of any country with a properly-functioning media. But almost no American has ever heard of...

Sibel Edmonds

How Cable News Terrorizes America

In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing and while a massive police manhunt continued for the suspected perpetrator, 19 year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, NBC journalist David Gregory would say to American television viewers: "This is a new state of terror the country has to get...

Murtaza Hussain

What You Read is an Ethical Choice

Your information diet is an ethical choice of yours, so when you’re on the Huffington Post looking at say the Kardashians and you click on the Kardashians, understand that you are not only reading that article, but you’re also voting for that article.

Clay Johnson

ACLU: CISPA Is Dead (For Now)

CISPA is all but dead, again.

Jason Koebler

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