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Let's talk about the climategate scandal. What it showed us about climate science, and about ourselves. And what "pushing a narrative" really means.
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Corporations have turned Medicare Advantage into a money-making scheme, denying patients care to generate profits. For Megan Bent, it may have cost her father his life.
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A health insurance whistleblower is exposing their most appalling practice. Its called prior authorization and its part of a money-making scheme based on denying and delaying patients care. But doctors are fighting to reform it.
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Why are so many doctors being forced to take out payday loans to make ends meet? Trying to answer this question led us to a giant monopoly that's been slowly plundering every part of our health care system.
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PragerU, The Daily Wire, countless far-right talk shows, YouTube channels, think tanks, and online magazines. Where are they all coming from, and why are they all so well funded? Let's take a look at the groups bankrolling far-right rhetoric and what they stand to gain from...
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Democrats are barely talking about it anymore.
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Private health insurance corporations are trying to trick seniors across America into signing up for Medicare Advantage. Is it less expensive? No. Is it better coverage? Also no. Its just another way for corporations to skim more money off the ill.
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We must challenge the logic of empire and violenceboth state-sanctioned and vigilante, Tim Hjersted writes, while urging a shift to collective, nonviolent action to dismantle the profit-driven healthcare system.
What would happen if you could end sexism overnight by giving everyone a magic pink pill? Why changing hearts, minds and culture isnt enough, you need to change the conditions that generate cultural attitudes in order for changing hearts and minds to have a long term effect.
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Celebrated thinkers like Steven Pinker and Harry Frankfurt tell us that inequality shouldn't concern us, and that we should only focus on whether or not we're lifting people out of poverty. In the real world, even if everyone starts off relatively wealthy, inequality...
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Donald Trump has assembled the most pro-Israel cabinet in the history of the United States, Ive investigated his funders and it all makes sense
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The moderates got their candidate in every single election in which the Republicans nominated Donald Trump and they lost to Trump two out of three times. Mehdi Hasan rebuts the demonstrably and obviously false notion that the Democrats lost the presidential election because...
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While lots of politicians and hucksters would like you to believe that Christianity is antithetical to Marxism and Communism, they're absolutely wrong. I explain in this video about how my own experiences with Christianity led me to a radical politics grounded in Marxist...
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'ello guvna. Feeling crushed under the crippling weight of capitalism's chaos? You're not alone. Let's yap about The Tragic Optimist's Guide to Surviving Capitalistic Nihilisma journey through despair, hope, and the absurdity of it all.
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Dirty money flows through London's viens, our major businesses & utilities have been sold off to oligarchs, dictators and criminals. In this video, we explore the REAL foreign invasion of Britain.
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Why has every communist country so far been a one-party dictatorship? Richard Wolff cant answer this question for some reason. Neither can Freddie de Boer. Yet the answer is very simple, and we can learn a lot from it. Is it something inherent to Marxism? Is human nature...
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The crisis of mass media lies at the heart of every other crisis we face today. Economic inequality, a ravaged planet, endless warsnone of these can be addressed if the public is systematically misled about their causes or distracted by manufactured moral panics with little...
There is currently a movement known as "red pill" that is handicapping young people and dooming them to a lifetime of failed relationships. They're the disease presenting themselves as the cure. I talk about why they're wrong and provide some actual guidance from my...
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I discuss how and why I changed over the last decade, from being more anti-sjw (anti-woke) to realizing the dangers of falling into that trap.
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Capitalism thrives on profiting from crisisit sold us lies about cigarettes, sugar, and opioids, and now it's doing the same with climate change. Fake solutions and disinformation aren't accidents; they're the business model.
In this video essay, I explore the complicated nature of ethical consumerism. Specifically, I unpack what the idea of "there's no ethical consumption under capitalism" really means, and look at how brands have co-opted ethical messaging for corporate gains. - OCC
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An introductory overview of the Great Transition framework and vision
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The Western alliance is divided over Israel, after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, charging him with crimes against humanity in Gaza. The United States is threatening sanctions. Ben Norton discusses the...
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The Australien Government has made an ad about our next federal election, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
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Just wanted to get my thoughts on the Trump election win off my chest - and some motivation for how the left need to move forward.
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Today I blew the dust off my political arc and explain how I narrowly avoided the alt right
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Second Thought explains.
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This 32 minute animation - in 4 Acts - describes the backdrop for The Great Simplification - an economic/cultural transition beginning in the not-too-distant future.
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Young men aren't okay... so why aren't more people talking about it?
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How to un-panic yourself from online hell.
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Top 10 signs you are ontologically evil! Number 7 will SHOCK you!
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Think about it this way, maybe it's the Democratic Party which has become deplorable to the working class.
Les Leopold
The blind pursuit of global trade is one of the most destructive forces in the world today, wreaking havoc on democracy, livelihoods and the environment worldwide. It's time to shine the spotlight on Trade Gone Mad. It doesnt have to be this way!
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Now's not the time to give up. If anything, it's an opportunity to fight for the real changes we need. Take a look at these 10 ideas to fix our broken system.
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As Elon Musk becomes increasingly involved in overtly supporting the Trump campaign, lets take a look at his past. Musk initially branded himself as a free speech warrior when he purchased Twitter, promising to end censorship on the platform. However, over time, he has...
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A United Nations report,publishedin October, lays out in chilling detail the advances made by Israel in Gaza as it seeks to eradicate the very existence of the Palestinian people in Palestine. This genocidal project, the report ominously warns, is now metastasizing to the...
Chris Hedges
Point-by-point debunkings of the Nazis were socialists arguments.
20 min
Do you like Star Wars? Ok, how about Star Wars but then . . . you sprinkle in a lil bit of the 2024 US Presidential Elections madness?! Don't let General Grievous bully you into calling you a 'fool'. Because you won't want to miss this EPIC Thriller. Not only will you be...
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This series of writings is an experimenta new way of writing a book that invites you all to participate in. Ive written or co-written thirteen published books over more than four decades as an author, and a number of others (we dont talk about those), and seen publishing...
Starhawk
This series of writings is an experimenta new way of writing a book that inviting you all to participate in. Ive written or co-written thirteen published books over more than four decades as an author, and a number of others (we dont talk about those), and seen publishing...
Starhawk
Abby Martin of @EmpireFiles explains why the Democratic Party has resisted progressive and populist policies.
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Trumps mass deportation plan, though framed as a way to protect American jobs, actually helps corporations exploit workers and harms the U.S. economy. Heres how:
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In the aftermath of the 2024 American presidential election, we have seen a lot of finger-pointing and misplaced blame. The fact that Donald Trump's brand of far-right populism beat the liberal centrism of Kamala Harris and the Democrats is not surprising.
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Donald Trump has nominated warmongering neoconservatives to run his foreign policy, including Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor, Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary, John Ratcliffe as CIA Director, and Elise Stefanik as UN Ambassador.
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An examination of the "Bernie to Trump pipeline".
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Donald Trumps shock victory in the United States election this week revealed fundamental flaws with the Democratic Party establishment, the news outlets in its corner and how they approach the voting public.
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Donald Trump won the 2024 US presidential election in a landslide. Why did Kamala Harris lose so badly? Ben Norton explains the failure of the billionaire-funded Democratic Party to provide an economic alternative to the billionaire-funded Republicans' pseudo "populism", as...
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The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Throughout the history of our nation, this amendment has...
Keeling Baker
"In this video essay, I look at the environmental and social cost of the military and militarism. I narrow in on the United States military-industrial complex because it is by far the biggest military machine in the world. I look at how the military and the...
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Capitalism, militarism and imperialism are disastrously intertwined with the fossil fuel economy.A globalized economy predicated on growth at any social or environmental costs, carbon dependent international trade, the limitless extraction of natural resources, and a view of...
Richard Moser
Amid the postmortems and reckoning that will now follow the wreckage of Donald Trumps return to absolute power, as authorized by the Supreme Court, there are two notes in particular that deserve a deeper dive.
Chuck Idelson
What do we do now that the orange fascist is back?
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In a world marked by division, inequality, and growing despair, navigating daily life with integrity and purpose can feel overwhelming. Yet, even amid this brokenness, profound change is possible through acts of radical compassion.
It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what the Roger Lancaster calls poisoned solidarity, the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.
Chris Hedges
The key to taking effective action in a Trump world is to avoid perpetuating the autocrats goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.
Daniel Hunter
Never has a president so repeatedly and openly demonstrated his disrespect for the law, the Constitution and the democratic institutions of the United States. From Russian interference in the 2016 elections to secret deals with the mafia, Donald Trump has faced many...
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A quick message ahead of Tuesdays election.
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