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Could Nevada Ranch Standoff be the next Waco Tragedy? | Police Beat 4 min
Abby Martin reports on the Bureau of Land Management's siege of a Cliven Bundy's ranch in Nevada over cattle grazing on federal land, which has escalated into a heavily militarized standoff between the agency and protestors defending the rights of the rancher.
Brother Ali Breaks the Set on Where Hip Hop Meets Islam & 'Mourning in America' 10 min
Abby Martin features an exclusive interview with hip hop artist, Brother Ali, discussing his politically charged music and where the Muslim faith merges with hip hop. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin
My Father's Gift 7 min
'Gift' is a must watch short film that has a profound, heart-touching message about the importance of giving, and the true value of wealth. It’s a beautiful depiction of how we deeply touch others when we selflessly give our time, love and kindness. “Gift” is about a boy who...
Snake Oil: How Fracking's False Promise Imperils Our Future 101 min
Recorded February 25th, 2014 in Vancouver, BC Richard Heinberg speaks on his newest book, covering the short-term nature of the recent North American oil boom and the financial bubble that supports it.
Seed Act 8 min
Seed Act is a short film about how different people and organisations get hands on for seed sovereignty, to protect life, biodiversity and the production of healthy seeds, in a world which is increasingly regulated and suffocated by seed acts, legislations limiting what has...
Adapted from “Classified: How to Stop Hiding Your Privilege and Use It for Social Change.” 1. The Boss
Steady-State Economics: It's The Answer To The Failed Endless-Growth Paradigm 9 min
What is a steady-state economy and how could it positively impact human behavior and our survival on the planet?
Among the big energy stories of 2013, “peak oil” -- the once-popular notion that worldwide oil production would soon reach a maximum level and begin an irreversible decline -- was thoroughly discredited.  The explosive development of shale oil and other unconventional fuels
Confessions of an FDA Agent, Truth Behind 'Honor Diaries' & US' Embarrassing Illiteracy Rate 27 min
Abby Martin talks about a new 'breakthrough' technology discovered by the US Navy, that converts sea water to fuel, yet is only being considered for military use.
Chuck D on Corplantations, Booty & Thug Television and Fighting the Power 13 min
Abby Martin features an exclusive interview with Hip Hop Legend and Public Enemy front-man, Chuck D, discussing the corporatization of Hip Hop, his views on internationalism and the upcoming United We Stand Festival on May 10th, where both Abby and Chuck are featured guests.
F-ck The Poor? 1 min
A man walks the streets of London shouting #FuckThePoor to see whether we really do care about those less fortunate. He makes a really good point.
Permanently Temporary: The Truth About Temp Labor 33 min
Temp labor is one of the fastest growing industries in the US. Increasingly, temp workers are part of a business strategy to keep costs down and profits high. From mega-retailers to mom-and-pop shops, temps are hired to do some of the hardest and most dangerous jobs. While...
Examined Life 2 min
Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold...
How Financial Looters Are Destroying Your 401(k) in a Fraction of a Second 4 min
Abby Martin explores the public distrust of the US financial system, discussing the controversies surrounding 'High-Frequency Trading', a practice that involves advanced computer algorithms that gives buyers and sellers on Wall Street an advantage over the general public.
If Walmart Paid Its Employees a Living Wage, How Much Would Prices Go Up? 2 min
In the series “The Secret Life of a Food Stamp,” Marketplace reporter Krissy Clark traces how big-box stores make billions from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps. What’s more, the wages of many workers at these stores are so low that the...
A History of the Black Bloc 14 min
This week: 1. Madrid resist austerity 2. A History of the Black Bloc 3. Le Peuple de l'Herbe - Parler le fracas 4. Street fighting in Montréal
Sir Ken Robinson - How Are You Intelligent? 8 min
"Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves." Ken Robinson Music: The Heroic Weather-Conditions of the Universe, Pt. 1: A Veiled Mist, Pt.
Jacque Fresco - A Story of Change 13 min
"Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples."
Neil DeGrasse Tyson - The Most Human Activity 5 min
"We spend the first year of a child's life teaching them to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there."
Carl Sagan - Who Speaks for Earth? 7 min
"We have heard the rationales offered by the super powers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species, who speaks for Earth?" - Carl Sagan​
Sir Ken Robinson - The Power of Imagination 6 min
"We have an extraordinary human power... the power of imagination" Ken Robinson
Peter Joseph - The Revolution of Values 3 min
"The real revolution is the revolution of values". - Peter Joseph
Are War Criminals Great Painters? | Think Tank 8 min
Abby Martin covers what Dick Cheney has been up to since leaving office and features an interview with comedian and host of the Moment of Clarity web series, Lee Camp, discussing a few of the more ridiculous stories in the news, including Bush's exhibit of paintings, low...
Brilliantly Articulated Animation About Mass Incarceration In The US 4 min
Thanks to Visually (http://Visual.ly) for facilitating the creation of this video, to http://youtube.com/kurzgesagt for the animation, and to The Prison Policy Initiative for research help and fact checking. (http://www.prisonpolicy.org). It wasn't easy to pick this topic...
Critics cite irony of annual report filing: 'This is a company that everywhere it goes it creates poverty'
US Attempts Twitter Coup in Cuba | Big Brother Watch 4 min
Abby Martin goes over of an Associated Press article which exposes USAID's secret attempt to monitor and influence dissent in Cuba through a social messaging service called ZunZuneo. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @...
Drugging Whales, Killing Giraffes & Other Disturbing Zoo Realities | Brainwash Update 5 min
Abby Martin goes over the dark side of zoological and water parks, going over instances of maltreatment of animals in captivity, including drugging Orca whales at SeaWorld with valium and 'culling' healthy animals because of inbreeding. LIKE Breaking the Set @...
What Governments Have Done: A Happy Song to Sing with Your Friends! 3 min
What have governments done? Lots of good things right?! Well... I think the biggest counter-response to this by mediaplayer"> video would be: well without governments we wouldn't have X, Y and Z! The major breakthrough comes I think when we realize that human societies have...
Growth is Not Enough 3 min
Our politicians are hung up on keeping the growth curve rising. But does GDP really tell us all we need to know about a country's wealth and well-being? In this new RSA Short, Kate Raworth makes a powerful argument to look beyond economic growth alone for a true measure of...
In the land of all-night samba clubs and soccer fanatics, Brazil is throwing its famously high-energy spirit into the untested waters of online democracy. Multimillion dollar budgets are being handed over to online “town halls,” and the federal government is crowdsourcing...
The Universal Basic Income (UBI) – sometimes called the Unconditional Basic Income, Citizens’ Income or Social Wage – has in recent times become a focus of economic discussion across the political spectrum. While column inches in the Financial Times and The Economist have...
British Band Decline Invitation to Perform at Bahrain Grand Prix, Release Protest Video Instead 4 min
British band Magic Drum Orchestra show their support for the people of Bahrain by turning down an offer to perform at the 2014 Formula 1 Grand Prix and playing the "TntnTtn" protest rhythm as an introduction to their version of Rage Against the Machine's "Killing In The Name".
In the last three years, Albuquerque police department officers have shot and killed 23 people -- one of the highest per capita fatal police shooting rates in the country. One of the most recent was James Boyd, a mentally ill homeless man. The incident was captured on video...
The Humanists Guide to Morality Narrated by Stephen Fry 3 min
What makes something right or wrong? That's the question posed in this short animation about morality, written and produced by the British Humanist Association and narrated by Stephen Fry.
Battle for Bentley - Will you show up? 6 min
Bentley is a beautiful valley community that has peacefully resided 12 kms north west of Lismore for many years. It is a primary produce area and sits within the Northern Rivers water catchment area. Right now it is the new frontline in the fight for fresh water, safe air and...
Listen to The Wire Creator David Simon Explode Lies with Truth. It Made My Jaw Hit the Floor. 27 min
From crime beat reporter for the BALTIMORE SUN to award-winning screenwriter of HBOs critically-acclaimed The Wire, David Simon talks with Bill Moyers about inner-city crime and politics, storytelling and the future of journalism today. This show aire
NASA Astronaut on 'Gravity', Mars Colonization & Sex in Space | Interview with Dr. Leroy Chiao 13 min
Abby Martin's exclusive interview with former NASA Astronaut and ISS Commander, Leroy Chiao, about US-Russian cooperation in space, life on other words and the reality of the film 'Gravity'. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @...
Henry Kissinger's Legacy of War Crimes Exposed by Secret Yale Visit 6 min
Abby Martin speaks about how Yale University's secret invite to Henry Kissinger has shined a new light into the former Secretary of State's long list of criminality, by helping facilitate US war crimes in South East Asia, South America and the Middle East, which resulted in...
The Unknown Known (2014) (trailer) 3 min
In THE UNKNOWN KNOWN, Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris (THE FOG OF WAR) offers a mesmerizing portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, the larger-than-life figure who served as George W. Bush's secretary of defense and as the principal architect of the Iraq War.
Inside Occupied Palestine 89 min
Two Veterans For Peace activists and an activist former Israeli Air Force Blackhawk pilot describe, and illustrate with dramatic photos, the impossible situation of the Palestinians living under the Israeli occupation. The pilot says : "I'm an Israeli, I'm ex-military, so I...
Recipe For Change | Building an Earthship in Ushuaia 62 min
Recipe For Change follows the story of Earthship Biotecture in Ushuaia, Argentina as they and a group of academy students build a two-room simple survival Earthship. Earthships are fully off the grid buildings which catch th
Exposed: How Google, Apple & the Biggest Tech Companies Colluded to Fix Wages 10 min
Exclusive: Pando Daily Senior Editor Mark Ames describes how his team uncovered secret internal memos between dozens of tech companies to fix wages for more than a million employees
Your Mom's So Poor...She Doesn't Have Any Money. 3 min
Know what's incredibly expensive? Poverty. Know who's profiting from that? Wall Street. Check out this episode of Take Action News with Nicole Carty to learn about a brilliant idea that could stop the exploitation and turn the tables.
The Secret Reason Sustainable Living Is Now Illegal 6 min
Many states are cracking down on sustainable off-the-grid living. They generally come up with ridiculous laws to justify it. However, there is a much larger, deeper reason as to why these communities are being stopped.
Dr.Cornel West: Obama is "Puppet of Big Business" 8 min
Dr.Cornel West has become critical of president obama.
Debate Chris Hedges vs Sam Harris Religion, Politics 88 min
Uploaded by None on 2011-11-26. Debate Chris Hedges vs Sam Harris Religion, Politics FULL
Ukraine Crisis - What You're Not Being Told 11 min
The European and American public are being systematically lied to about the Ukraine crisis. Sources & full transcript: http://scgnews.com/the-ukraine-crisis-what-youre-not-being-told Follow us on our new Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SCGNews
Peter Joseph: Economic Calculation in a Natural Law / Resource-Based Economy 163 min
Intro: 0:00 Part 1: Why Change?: 4:12 Part 2: Post Scarcity: 30:59 Part 3: Economic Organization and Calculation: 1:11:01 Q&A: 1:45:10
Chris Hedges: What Moral Courage Looks Like 9 min
This is one powerful speech.
Does The U.S. Want War With Russia? 5 min
Two weeks ago, when Liz Wahl quit her post as an RT host live on air claiming that she could not be part of a network that was "funded by the Russian Government" and was set on "whitewashing the crimes of Putin.
Remote Control Cockroaches & Invisible Cloaks with Lee Camp | Think Tank 8 min
Abby Martin speaks with comedian and host of Lee Camp's Moment of Clarity web series, Lee Camp, going over several mind blowing technologies, including remote control cockroaches and a real invisibility cloak. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby...
A new post-carbon era dawns as the old fossil fuel system dies. It's time to step up.   Last Friday, I posted an exclusive report about a new
So you’ve been to the playa, and you’ve seen the promised land – the promise of freedom, of self-expression, of immediacy and creativity and community.  The playa fed you, and it changed you.  It provided you opportunities for growth, you took advantage of those...
Establishing a Food Forest the Permaculture Way 82 min
Join Geoff Lawton on a Permaculture adventure as he demonstrates how to grow a food forest from start to finish. Over 90 minutes of quality information to get you on the right track in creating your own garden of Eden.
Abby Martin Takes Down the Cold War-Obsessed Neocons Behind the Curtain 6 min
Abby Martin calls out the Foreign Policy Initiative or FPI, a DC neocon think tank that rose out of the ashes of PNAC. Abby discusses the real motivation behind their recent attacks against the credibility of Breaking the Set; advocating for a revival of the Cold War.
As the United States steps up covert drone strikes on Yemen, with
Update: NASA is now clarifying its role in this study. NASA officials released this statement on the study on March 20, which seeks to distance the agency from the paper: "A soon-to-be published research paper, 'Human and Nature Dynamics (HANDY): Modeling Inequality and Use...
Resource scarcity and competition to dominate the Eurasian energy corridors are behind Russian militarism and US interference
Mind Over Money 53 min
In the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, NOVA presents "Mind Over Money"—an entertaining and penetrating exploration of why mainstream economists failed to predict the crash of 2008 and why we so often make irrational financial decisions. The...
How The Banks Won 44 min
As the government prepares an emergency budget to help pay for the bank bailout, Will Hutton investigates the banks and what they've done with our money. He discovers that while ordinary taxpayers take the pain, for the banks it's largely business as usual.
Rap News 23: Crimea: Media War Games - feat. Abby Martin 6 min
It's March 2014 and following on from an extremely successful Winter Olympic Games, Russia decides to organise another fun sporting event: and the whole world's invited. Welcome to the Paramilitary Games in the Crimean Peninsula.
Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story 73 min
We all love food. As a society, we devour countless cooking shows, culinary magazines and foodie blogs. So how could we possibly be throwing nearly 50% of it in the trash?
Cenk Uygur Blasts Corporate Media for Soap Opera Coverage & Toeing Establishment Line 13 min
Abby Martin speaks with host and founder of The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur, discussing why he left his job at MSNBC, the corporate media's superficial coverage of news events and the recipe for success in alternative media. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet...
Unwasted: The Future Of Business On Earth 54 min
Unwasted presents the alluring ideal of zero waste as a key element of the sustainable business model. While some may shake their heads thinking this an impossible task, it’s worth remembering that mankind had a zero waste lifestyle up until about 100 years ago. There were no...
The Act Of Killing 160 min
In this chilling and inventive documentary, executive produced by Errol Morris (The Fog Of War) and Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man), the filmmakers examine a Country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in...
Typhoon Haiyan Survivors Dance to Pharrell Williams-and They Are Incredible 3 min
Want to see a different side of Tacloban City's destruction? These survivors' moves will change how you think about resilience after chaos.   After four months of images of chaos, destruction, and grief-stricken families in the hardest-hit areas of the post-Haiyan...
This Video Is Amazing, Until It Becomes Blatant Corporate Greenwashing 3 min
This starts video starts so well. It points to the futility of small lifestyle tweaks without tackling the bigger underlying issues. It then goes on to poke fun at the "we're here to save you" privileged white male attitude exemplified by certain individuals and NGOs. All...
Watching Strangers Kissing is Tender, Funny, Moving, Awkward and Kinda Awesome 3 min
A short film where twenty strangers are asked to kiss on camera. The results are lovely and emotionally charged. Make love not war... and kiss more.
The Stimulator: Food Fight! 18 min
This week: 1. Warming up police intelligence 2. A hungry man is an angry man 3. Farm land not airports 4. Vintage riot porn: The battle for Narita 5. Bosnia burns 6. Bilbao welcomes the IMF 7. African migrants bum rush fortress Europe 8. Brujeria: La Migra 7.
India: A Dangerous Place To Be A Woman 57 min
In December 2012 a young medical student was brutally gang-raped on board a bus in Delhi. Horrified by the attack, 28-year-old British Asian Radha Bedi travels to India to uncover the reality of life for young women there.
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women 5 min
In this update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. Killing Us Softly 4 stands to challenge a new generation of students to take advertising seriously, and...
Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy 61 min
There were other connections between the Bushes and the Saudis.
Extending Our Circle of Compassion: Zoe Weil at Tedx 13 min
Over the centuries, our culture has been slowly but gradually extending its circle of compassion. Our capacity to have compassion for those 'not like us' (whether the difference be defined by race, gender, nationality, religion or species) is one of the great challenges and...
Jackson Katz: A Paradigm-Shifting Perspective On The Violence That Harms Both Women and Men 19 min
This should really get your brain thinking in entirely new ways.
It's Time Our Culture Rewrites the Story on Gender 2 min
Join the movement. Featuring: Jean Kilbourne, Pedro Noguera, Jackson Katz and Rosario Dawson.
Ever since we started writing and speaking about our current book project, How on Earth: Flourishing in a Not-for-Profit World by 2050, we have been amazed by one phenomenon in particular. When we have a chance to explain to people what not-for-profit (NFP) enterprise...
What Happens When You Expose Corporate Corruption From The Inside? She Knows All Too Well. 2 min
Sherron Watkins called out corporate corruption before whistle-blowing was cool. So why do decent folks sometimes get awkward around her?
A news anchor for Moscow's English-speaking television network spoke out against Russia's invasion of Ukraine in a move of journalistic bravery Monday night.
The Dhamma Brothers 2 min
A documentary film about a group of prison inmates who participate in a 10-day Vipassana retreat. The film asks "is it possible for these men, some of whom have committed horrendous crimes, to change?" The Dhamma Brothers tells a dramatic tale of human potential and...
Metamorphosis: The Ayahuasca Ceremony Of The Amazon 96 min
Ayahuasca has been used by Shamans and those they help for hundreds if not thousands of years. Found all over the Amazon, Ayahuasca and it's incredible ability to heal has been slowly but steadily creeping into western consciousness. Metamorphosis is a documentary that...
Yesterday a teenager sent me an email letter in which he said, "I feel cheated that it's all UP TO ME. By being in the younger generation, I have to save the world before I can even begin to think of building a life for myself, or there will be nothing to build my life on."
A friend of mine invited me to attend the World Ocean Summit titled “Sustainability and Governance” hosted by The Economist recently at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Half Moon Bay, CA. Sponsored by Shell, DNV-GL, and Google among others, it was attended by three hundred people...
Over the last two decades, the Internet has been a laboratory for social innovation. One of the most unexpected collective discoveries has been the existence of another mode of organization to achieve large-scale co-ordination. This mode relies neither on the market, where...
Blackfish 3 min
This emotionally wrenching, tautly structured story challenges us to consider our relationship to nature and reveals how little we humans have learned from these highly intelligent and enormously sentient fellow mammals.
Bambitat For Humanity -- Disaster Relief In The Philippines 3 min
Soon after the destruction of typhoon Yolanda last November 2013, industrial designer Joshua Doolittle came to the Philippines to promote bamboo as a post-disaster rebuild strategy. Along with the help of willing locals, Doolittle designed and built an impressively simple...
In the annals of internet conspiracy theories, none is more pervasive than the one speculating paid government plants infiltrate websites, social network sites, and comment sections with an intent to sow discord, troll, and generally manipulate, deceive and destroy...
Rap News 22: The Energy Crisis 6 min
Like many others who preceded us, our "civilisation" faces an Energy Crisis of megawattic proportions, which threatens to bring an end to our brief joyride. But our dirty little secret is seldom mentioned in the news, let alone connected to economic instability or to...
How the Government Manipulates Your Thoughts Online | Big Brother Watch 5 min
Abby Martin talks about journalist Glenn Greenwald's report regarding the intelligence community's use of subversive and manipulative online tactics to destroy the reputations of businesses and individuals.
Detention, Deportation or Death: The Stark Choice for Many Migrants to the UK Who Can be Detained Indefinitely Without Trial 4 min
The treatment of people that the British government wants to deport is among the harshest in the world. The UK is the only country in the European Union that detains people for years with no time limit. Detention Action believes that this is one of the most important civil...
Dada Krsnasevananda on "The Role of Spirituality in Modern Society" 15 min
"Imagine what it would be like if, instead of branding us by our brains or looks, our schools and televisions described the divinity and greatness inside each one of us, and taught us the means to realize it. If, instead of idolizing wealth and fame, showed us the usefulness...
Another World (2014) (trailer) 3 min
ANOTHER WORLD is a feature documentary about the journey of mankind to discover who we truly are, challenging the modern view of the world and reconsidering the world view and value systems of ancient societies such as the indigenous Americans.
Girl Rising (2013) (trailer) 2 min
From Academy Award-nominated director Richard E. Robbins comes Girl Rising - an innovative new feature film about the power of education to change a girl -- and the world.
There is the visible government situated around the Mall in Washington, and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable government that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to tourists at the White House or the Capitol. The former is traditional Washington...
The Collective Evolution III: The Shift 82 min
The Collective Evolution III is a powerful documentary that explores a revolutionary shift affecting every aspect of our planet. As the shift hits the fan, people are becoming more aware of the control structures that prevent us from experiencing our full potential.
Future Suspended 35 min
How does a global financial crisis permeate the spaces of everyday life in a city? From the streets of Athens, Greece, Future Suspended is divided in three sections. “Privatised” explores the legacy of mass privatisation projects that preceded the 2004 Olympics, placing them...
2013 was another incredible year for fantastic, forward thinking social change films.
Edward Burtynsky finds the eerie beauty in the man-made landscapes that dot our Earth’s surface. As a photographer who focuses on the relationship between humans and nature, he travels to the hidden corners of the Earth to document the way people are ravaging our planet...
Neil deGrasse Tyson Nails A Major Problem With Elected Officials 2 min
During a 2011 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, Neil deGrasse Tyson points out what is one of the major problems with who is chosen to represent the people of America.
The Tao of Picard - Philosophy and Politics in Star Trek 14 min
A compilation video highlighting Star Trek's stance on war, race, slavery, globalization, colonization, and personal liberty, juxtaposed with current facts and images that show these philosophies' parallels to modern-day issues.
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