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How many more disaffected black men have to self-radicalize before we take their claims seriously?
When Donald Trump gets more air time than Bernie Sanders, the media misses the mark on grassroots change.
Shefali Tsabary's latest book argues that parents need to focus more on themselves and less on their children.
The belief that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. - Murray Bookchin
"We Want Our Country Back!"  But From What? 5 min
Around the time of President Obama's first inauguration, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some towns were getting less diverse. So he got out a map, found the whitest communities in the USA — and moved in.
Recent research has shown cities what works. For starters, hire more female police officers.
Trump's Angry America 29 min
With Donald Trump the official Republican candidate for America's presidency, Panorama visits the racially divided town of Bakersfield in California. Reporter Hilary Andersson meets the Trump supporters who back his calls to oust 11 million illegal immigrants and ban Muslims...
Animals Embody "Human Exclusive" Emotions 2 min
A video about animals embodying once thought human exclusive emotions like love, grief, happiness, joy and anger. We grant them way too little in their capacity to feel. This video nicely refutes and challenges common misconceptions that humans are unique in their diversity...
Erdoğan's Crackdown: 'Free Speech Is Being Rebranded as Terrorism' 11 min
Since Turkey’s failed military coup on Friday, more than 6,000 people in the civil service, security forces and military have been arrested. Writers and journalists fear that Turkey’s authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, will use the failed putsch as grounds to...
Three police officers were killed and at least three wounded in a shooting early on Sunday, July 17 in Baton Rouge. Ten days earlier – on July 7 – a sniper gunned down five police officers in Dallas.
In this time of unprecedented global change, we need to be rooted in reality more than ever. Yet it is quite clear — by simply tracking all the ways people make an exodus from “the real” on a daily basis — that we are not doing this individually or as a collective...
For half a century, Stokely Carmichael's slogan "Black Power" has resonated in the fight against anti-Black racism and oppression in the U.S.
The UK Parliament on Monday debated whether to renew Trident, Britain's aging nuclear weapons system.
How Did Hitler Rise to Power? 5 min
Decades after the fall of the Third Reich, it feels impossible to understand how Adolf Hitler, the tyrant who orchestrated one of the largest genocides in human history, could ever have risen to power in a democratic country. So how did it happen, and could it happen...
Turkey's Failed Military Coup, Explained 3 min
The attempted coup against Turkish President Erdoğan might have failed, but plenty of problems still await him.
Success at School Vs Success in Life 3 min
Many people who do brilliantly at school turn out not to do so well at life. Why?
This is George. He was a good little monkey and always very curious. Today George and the man with the yellow hat were in Cleveland to visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “George,” said the man, “I’m going to
Trump's Predatory Housing Advice Still Plagues Cleveland 3 min
Cleveland, the second poorest city in the US is set to hold the 2016 Republican convention. Since the housing crisis, the city has lost 17% of its residents, many due to predatory practices. Community organizers point out that Donald Trump advocated some of the practices that...
Documentary Children Sex Workers, Las Vegas Shocking Truth 2016 43 min
Children Sex Workers, Las Vegas Shocking Truth Watch This Documentary On Youtube HD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cI4Tr573Z0
Documentary Psychology the Brain - What Is Reality ? 56 min
Documentary The Brain What Is Reality ? Watch On Youtube HD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzoWys2bzYw
The fallout from the failed military coup in Turkey extended through the weekend, as the number of people arrested rose to about 6,000 and world leaders continued urging restraint from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has said the plotters would pay a "heavy...
Theresa May Becomes Britain's 2nd Female PM - This Is NOT a Feminist Victory 2 min
Eleanor Penny on all the ways the former Home Secretary has screwed over women.
17Th July 2016 - Strange High Pressure System in the Arctic. 4 min
A very large high pressure system in the Arctic has counter clockwise winds. (In the northern hemisphere high pressure systems should have clockwise winds.)
Y ESE MAR QUE TRANQUILO TE BAÑA 2 30 min
This is the second video for our nonprofit campaing to keep the oceans clean for those who live there.
Y ESE MAR QUE TRANQUILO TE BAÑA 1 30 min
We made this video as a contribution to create consciousness to keep the ocean clean forthe animal who live there.
Belfast Palestine Arts Festival Trailer 2016 4 min
The Belfast Palestine Arts Festival provides a platform for Palestinian cinema, art and culture in Belfast, featuring Palestinian artists, bringing a fresh perspective on Palestine's economic, social and cultural life. The festival is organised by a team of dedicated...
We All Love Animals, But.. 3 min
We All Love Animals is a short little video about our love towards animals being contradicted by our daily actions.
Want to Be More Influential? Learn from Tyrion's Genius 11 min
In part 1, we learn why Tyrion Lannister has a knack for staying alive. He is constantly getting into trouble and talking his way out. But Tyrion's genius is replicable if you learn how he thinks. And one of the first things he thinks of is what other people want. That is how...
He did promise he would, so that helps to explain some of the anger and disappointment with his endorsement.
Flugennock 20 min
Flugennock  chronicles the art and activism of political cartoonist Mike Flugennock. Flugennock's comics have circulated for more than thirty years. Based in Washington D.C.,Flugennock's marijuana fueled posters have promoted smoke ins, marijuana legalization, protests...
NEVOAZUL is a magazine about less and more where minimalism, consumerism and sustainability merge with art, literature and culture. Together we can open a debate about how social responsability, sustainable behavior and ethical fashion could make a difference in our future.
Few people can argue that Bruce Lee had an easy life. Growing up in the streets of Hong Kong and Macao, Lee had to fight for his life all the time, often against very unequal odds. Many parallels exist between the modern activist and the life of Bruce Lee. Embattled and...
Today must begin a #RevolutionaryLove
Documentary Chinese Media: USA the Worst Place on Earth (Eng Subs) 45 min
Documentary Chinese Media: USA The Worst Place On Earth (Eng Subs) Watch On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xCGmdCksm0
Media Review: Journalism 12 min
Published on Jul 14, 2016 Rosie Warren reviews the changing face of the Journalism industry, looking at the winners and losers in the digital age.
He's playing the long game. If Sanders had gone third party, split the votes and then Trump got elected, it would have divided the left and set back the momentum and gains the Sanders/progressive movement has made another 10 years. The center of America would blame the...
On Structural Racism and Daily Inaction
RSA ANIMATE: Economics Is for Everyone! 12 min
‘Economics is for everyone’, argues legendary economist Ha-Joon Chang in our latest mind-blowing RSA Animate. This is the video economists don’t want you to see! Chang explains why every single person can and SHOULD get their head around basic economics. He pulls back the...
Loving 3 min
Loving celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (portrayed in the film by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), who fell in love and were married in 1958.
Anarchism is often used as a synonym for chaos, but as a political philosophy it is a way of organising our society through cooperation and mutual aid, without elected leaders or hierarchy. Surely that's something we can all get behind?
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Expedition researchers have found thousands of species in Madidi National Park – and even uncovered some new ones.
There's been quite a lot of anger, disappointment and attention on Bernie's decision to endorse Clinton the last couple weeks. But I've started to believe this attention on Bernie has become a big distraction from the fact that the work was always going to be up to us. The...
Civil Disobedience Will Always Be Necessary to Counter Unjust Laws 2 min
A just society has fair laws. But most societies aren't like that. So what can you do? The opponent of slavery, Henry David Thoreau, gave one answer in his essay 'On Civil Disobedience': follow your conscience and break the law on moral grounds rather than be a cog in an...
Creating a Just Society May Require a Veil of Ignorance 2 min
What’s your blueprint for a just society? Your answer probably reflects who you are and the situation you find yourself in. If you’re rich, you may well be in favour of the freedom to earn and enjoy the fruits of your efforts; if you’re poor you’re likely to be more...
The Importance of Staring Out of the Window 2 min
We are so busy and so obsessed with our phones, we rarely take a break to do that vital and rather philosophical thing: stare out of the window.
Outsourcing Emergencies - Putting Lives at Risk for Profit 1 min
Saving lives should not be tied to making profits.
A first year law school student wrote a complaint about her professor having worn a Black Lives Matter T-shirt during class. The professor’s response is priceless.
What if black people are actually dying at the hands of good apples more often than people want to believe? What if grand juries and juries have kept letting officers off the hook, because they judge the offending officers to be “good apples,” who must therefore have just...
No one wants to be called fragile. And if you’re white, what you feel reading the title of this article may be indicative of the term. “White fragility” refers to white people’s low emotional tolerance for discussing topics of race and racism.
The new Tory leader will no doubt introduce a cap for migrants. Probably an orange cone with an ‘M’ on the front that gives out an electric shock if they stray too close to a golf course
In 1991, when video was released of Rodney King being beaten by Los Angeles police officers, Alton Sterling of Louisiana was 12 years old. Philando Castile of Minnesota was seven.
I keep thinking since the horrific police assassinations in Dallas that we’ve been here before. It’s not that so many police officers have been summarily executed. It’s that a palpable tension still exists between police and black people in our country, despite the efforts of...
Corbyn has survived the latest challenge to his leadership. Paul Mason on why they want to beat him — and how he can win.
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Municipal Violations 17 min
If you have money, committing a municipal violation may pose you a minor inconvenience. If you don’t, it can ruin your life.
How the Holder Justice Department Refused to Prosecute Wall Street Fraud 31 min
The Untouchables (2014) - a documentary about how the Holder Justice Department refused to prosecute Wall Street Fraud despite overwhelming evidence. Watch On Youtube HD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsD5--JP61k
Artist Ai Weiwei on the Struggle for Human Rights and Dignity 5 min
Copenhagen-based director Martin Garde Abildgaard talks about documenting conceptual artist Ai Weiwei’s first major exhibition in Greece at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens:
The Burning Question 30 min
As Africa faces its biggest humanitarian crisis in decades, 'The Burning Question' explores the links between hunger and drought in African countries like Malawi and developed countries continued reliance on the fossil fuels that drive climate change.
Black Lives Matter Is Winning! 5 min
It's been a rough week, and a hard one for Black Lives Matter. But I'm very confident that #BLM is winning, and it will eventually make a better world for all of us. This video explains why... FURTHER READING: Here is the link to the Red State article by Leon H.
Exodus: The Moment My Dinghy Sank in the Med 6 min
Powerful footage, filmed by a refugee, shows the terror of being on an overcrowded rubber dinghy as it sinks during the crossing between Turkey and Greece. Thousands of people have died trying to make the same journey.
The 5 Stages of Climate Change Grief w/ Bill Nye and Arnold Schwarzenegger 43 min
Bill Nye is feeling down. He's visiting his therapist – Dr. Arnold Schwarzenegger – wondering why he doesn't feel like himself lately. He feels as if a horrible weight is on his shoulders. The therapist listens sympathetically, and diagnoses the cause. Bill is suffering from...
In the aftermath of the Leave vote, people will need to find ways to calmly hear each other and bridge divides. Ultimately, we will need to unite against the corporate forces that undermine our wellbeing, not against immigrants who are victims as well.
Theresa May Will Be Watching You 2 min
If you're not worried about the Investigatory Powers Bill (aka the Snoopers' Charter), you don't know enough about it. Visit Privacy International and join the campaign against new Government snooping powers.
Wasted/ Wanted 27 min
Every year, supermarkets in the UK throw away an estimated 40million tonnes of perfectly edible food, often for perplexing reasons. FareShare is a charity that diverts some of this waste, redistributing it to organisations that work with vulnerable people.
I want you all to take a deep breath with me now. Seriously. Ready? Gently breathe in... fill your lungs... now slowly fully exhale out. Then say it with me: This revolution is just beginning.
ReWilding Europe, One Bison at a Time 3 min
When you think of Europe, wild animals roaming through open fields isn't the first thing that comes to mind, right? Well, you might be surprised to learn that 18 percent of Europe's land is protected nature. Thanks to the efforts of one organization, Europe's wildness is also...
"It is simply inconceivable that...May should be crowned prime minister without even having won an election in her own party, let alone the country"
South Africans have been appalled during 2016 by images of graduates “begging” for jobs at traffic lights. Their pleas are a stark depiction of the country’s grave youth unemployment crisis. This, and the broader
Increasingly we are lost in a world of binary codes: zero or one, Republican or Democrat, black or white, female or male, good or bad.
Why and How to Say Sorry 2 min
Apologising doesn't generally come easily - but it always tends to pay off beautifully.
Documentary An Interesting Look at Race and Racism South Africa 47 min
Documentary An Interesting Look At race And Racism South Africa : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA5et9KrUQ0
Rethinking: India 15 min
Alex Mott visits India on the trail of the Vedas and ancient stone working techniques. As with sites in Egypt and around the world, the physical evidence is right in front of you - but how they did it is still a mystery.
Rethinking: Egypt 18 min
Alex Mott visits Egypt, researching the pyramids and claims of ancient technology. The Darwinian theory of linear evolution struggles to accommodate some of these artefacts - and human history may need rethinking.
Rethinking: Bosnian Pyramids 15 min
Alex Mott visits Bosnia, investigating the claims of pyramids and ancient structures. It's possible the Valley of the Pyramids is the work of intelligent hands - but Mother Nature can also produce some fairly amazing things herself.
It's time to start imagining a society that isn't dominated by police
Documentary Psychology: Intense Examination of Sleep Paralysis 45 min
What exactly conjures those scattered moments in the mind to play during sleep? How can the visions seen in these dreams and nightmares effect the sleeper? See On Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3BHoOa_Pas
Amid heightened tensions and fear for safety after deadly Dallas sniper ambush, Black Lives Matter protests against police violence took to the streets in major American cities and the UK
Loved Ones, Episode 1: Disability and Police Terror 8 min
"Loved Ones" is a series of short documentaries that follow the work of Lisa Ganser, an artist and anti-police terror activist. This first episode is dedicated to people with disabilities that have been killed by police in the United States. An audio-described version...
After tonight's ‪#‎BlackLivesMatter‬ vigil, I don't have the words to speak to how powerful and moving this event was. It appeared there was about
How to Build a Place-Based Economy Where You Live 15 min
How can communities rethink ownership to remedy poverty? In this powerful talk, Eric Kornacki shares the story of his journey carrying lessons learned from Central American sweatshops to empower the transformation of a now-gentrifying neighborhood gripped in poverty in his...
When people ask me, “Who will protect us,” I want to say: Who protects you now?
The Catalyst - Short Film 8 min
We are born without values, beliefs or principles. We absorb these from our immediate surroundings as we grow up and over time. However, when these principles are turned into weapons, we start the slow decline from humanity and compassion into extremism and segregation: "us"...
Documentary Bill Moyers Journal: Buying the War 83 min
Buying the War How Big Media Failed Us (2008) See this documentary HD on Youtube : https://youtu.be/dGBjsL5a01Q
Civil Disobedience: Trying to Stop Trident Nuclear 2 min
The Government wil decide on July 18th 2016 to renew Trident or not. Campaigners, Trident Ploughshares, spent the month of June protesting against Trident at AWE Burghfield. Can we stop Trident Nuclear weapons?
I have struggled to find words to express what I thought and felt as I watched the videos of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile being killed by the police. Last night, I wanted to say something that hasn't been said a hundred times before. It finally dawned on me that there...
Garner sold loose cigarettes; Alton Sterling hawked CDs — and they both died at the hands of police
Martin Luther King Jr. said it best in 1966: "[The] law cannot make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important also." Two years later, he was shot and killed in Memphis. But his dream that the United States legal system might...
Swine 16 min
Resistance has arrived - the world's most destructive industry has a secret it doesn't want you to know about, Jack Tomlins goes undercover to reveal the truth. Will he survive?
The Return of NYC's Guardian Angels 6 min
We spend a day with the Guardian Angels, a second-wave resurgence of the 70's crime fighting group that says it's back protecting the streets and subways of New York City after a series of slashings earlier this year.
The other day I was speaking to a small audience at a music festival and thought to allude to Brexit to make a point. Some in the circle looked a bit mystified, so I asked, “Everyone knows what Brexit is, right?” It turned out that quite a few of them did not.
This Is What Global Wealth Inequality Looked Like in 2013. It's Only Gotten More Extreme. 4 min
In 2013, the richest 300 people in the world were more wealthy than the poorest 3 billion combined. Since then, the disparity has continued to grow because every year rich countries take over 10 times more money from poor countries than they give in aid.
It's Time to Tackle Tax Havens 2 min
www.tackletaxhavens.com is a global campaign designed to raise public awareness of tax havens: what they are, the damage they do and how we can tackle them together. Taxes are the most efficient and sustainable means of supporting vital public services like education...
In the lexicon of human migration there are still hierarchical words, created with the purpose of putting white people above everyone else. One of those remnants is the word “expat”.
Singing mermaids invade British Museum to celebrate BP 2 min
On Sunday, a troupe of singing merfolk invaded the British Museum to celebrate the museum's climate-trashing sponsor, BP, and its new exhibition 'Sunken Cities'. Rising sea-levels might be great news for merfolk but they're disastrous for the rest of us. So now we need your...
Its long, sputtering history tells us that we change what we use only after we change how we think.
Does it matter that these titans are so successful? Vanessa Baird examines what their domination means for all of us.
Outside the Chilcot announcement on Wednesday an anti-war rally gathered. In its ranks were a number of military veterans. They are, unsurprisingly, an increasing presence in the anti-war movement: organised, dedicated, passionately angry.
Alton Sterling Is Just the Latest Example of Systematic Racism in America 2 min
At the time of this publishing, 559 people were killed by police in 2016. And disproportionately, these people were black. They include Alton Sterling — who was killed in an encounter with police while selling CDs outside a supermarket in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was tased...
Two 28 year old men, hiding behind the badges given to them by the city of Baton Rouge and the power given to them by the system that says white is right, murdered a black man, a husband, a father.
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