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Tara Culp-Ressler
The U.S. Air Force is complaining that it cannot find enough drone pilots. Of course, there are plenty of kids with the video gaming skills needed but, for one reason or another, they just won’t sign-up fast enough. The reasons might have to do with less promotional...
Kevin Ryan
It’s not Russia. It’s not al Qaeda. It’s not Bashar al-Assad. The other super power is the people of the world — and the people of, but not by or for, the United States.
David Swanson
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Coming this Fall of 2013 -- A Winner of the 2011 University of Toronto Film Festival, the film examines the academic community's treatment of critical perspectives on 9/11 by exploring the taboo that shields the American government's narrative from scholarly examination.
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What a beautiful, inspiring story. Photographer Richard Renaldi takes two random strangers on the street and has them pose together in a photograph as if they were intimate family members. Almost
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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 neutrality protections.
The...
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Every clear-thinking American knows that education and jobs are needed more than armed guards in poor neighborhoods. But average Americans are led to believe in a terrorist threat that may or may not exist, and that in any case is greatly exaggerated, while the corporate/milit
Paul Buchheit
U.S. Tries to Walk Back Peace Deal
Earlier today, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al-Moualem all agreed to place Syria’s chemical weapons under international contr
Washington's Blog
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If you don't know what ALEC is, please watch this. If you do, watch it anyway. And then let's all get together and do something about it. United, we stand. Divided, ALEC wins. - Melinda Clark
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Australia could achieve nearly 100% renewable power within decades at the same cost as continuing to use fossil fuels, according to a new federal government study.
Modelling from the
TckTckTck
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Directors Tom Simon and Sarah Teale (HBOs Dealing Dogs) tell the story of an animal rights investigator who goes undercover at a hog farm in Ohio to explore a whistle blower's allegations. The evidence he gathers leads to a rare prosecution and trial for animal cruelty, and a...
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Longer school years aren't the answer. The problem is school itself. Compulsory teach-and-test simply doesn't work.
Peter Gray
Many of the legal and diplomatic processes that led to peace in other times of conflict haven't even been tried yet in Syria.
Sarah van Gelder
As U.S. political and media leaders prepare for military strikes against Syria, the parallels to the lead-up to the war with Iraq should give us pause. Weapons of mass destruction, we are told, are being used by a cruel Middle Eastern despot against his own people. A military...
Sarah van Gelder
Our society is living within a massive lie. The lie says, “Everything is fine and we should proceed with business as usual. We are not destroying our climate and, with it, our stability and our civilization. We are not committing passive suicide.”
Margaret Klein
I recently wrote about geoengineering as a strategy to deal with climate change and carbon dioxide emissions. That drew comments from people who confuse this scientific process with the unscientific theory of “chemtrails.” Some also claimed the column supported
David Suzuki
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After watching this video, I just wanted to make the most of my free time. I also wanted some candy, so we will call that a 2 for 1. - Rafael Casal
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Some smart people thought, and perhaps some still think, that the 2003-2011 war on Iraq was unique in that it was promoted with the use of blatant lies. When I’d researched dozens of other wars and failed to find one that wasn’t based on a foundation of similar lies, I wrote...
David Swanson
Just in time for back to school: In Massachusetts this week, a venerable classroom tradition is facing a high court challenge. The state’s Supreme Judicial Court is currently weighing an atheist couple’s argument that the words “under God” be struck from the Pledge of...
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Here's a preliminary draft of what the United States Congress could pass this week if it were sincerely interested in human rights, international norms, the rule of law, and peace in Syria. You are welcome to suggest it to your Congress members, who are more than welcome to...
David Swanson
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This is a tale of two worlds: The first exploring the current trends that just may lead us all into vast new levels of decline; The second showing what the world could be...if anyone actually gave a damn to make it happen. ;)
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With Syria back in the news due to the horrific chemical weapons attack last week that killed hundreds and threats from the US to engage in military strikes, below are some do’s and don’ts for progressive/radical anti-war organizations/activists in the US as you figure out a...
Ramah Kudaimi
The Syrian revolution is a revolution that began as a struggle for self-determination. The Syrian people demanded to determine their own destiny. And, for more than two years, against all odds, and in the face of massive repression and destruction from the Assad regime, they per
Darth Nader
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Emerging from the echoes and end-game of a dualistic ego-driven world, we find ourselves once again with the opportunity to reflect on the past and change our planetary future into a whole new positive, conscious and peaceful paradigm.
The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of...
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Something remarkable has happened. The New York Times, the most influential newspaper in the United States, has published a photo on its front pa
Freeman
The New York Times has an article today (
Jim Naureckas
“The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less
Ellen Brown
As the US intensifies its push for military intervention in Syria, virtually the only narrative available swings from the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad to the role of Islamist elements within the resistance. Further, where dissent with the US positi
Joshua Stephens
Yes We Scan. Yes We Drone. And Yes We Bomb. The White House's propaganda blitzkrieg to sell the Tomahawking of Syria to the US Congress is already reaching pre-bombing maximum spin - gleefully reproduced by US corporate media.
And yes, all parallels to Iraq 2.0 duly came...
Pepe Escobar
Americans have been repeatedly told that Al Qaeda under the helm of the late Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Military Is Opposed to Syria War
Many current and former military officers are highly skepti
Washington's Blog
Canadian author Naomi Klein is so well known for her blade-sharp commentary that it’s easy to forget that she is, above all, a first-rate reporter. I got a glimpse into her priorities as I was working on this interview. Klein told me she was worried that some of the things...
Jason Mark
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THE BRUSSELS BUSINESS is a docu-thriller that dives into the grey zone underneath European democracy. An expedition into the world of the 15,000 lobbyists in the EU-capital, of the PR-conglomerates, think tanks and their all embracing networks of power and their close ties to...
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The corporate media has once again become complicit in promoting the propaganda and disinformation put out by the US government. Like all good propaganda, success is defined partly by framing and limiting the debate to questions which, at the outset, prevent the most...
NBC News' report, "'
Tony Cartalucci
The U.S. has Repeatedly Violated the “Red Line” on Chemical Weapons
The U.S. encouraged Saddam Hussein’s use of chemical weapons against Iran … which was the largest use of chemical weapons in history.&nbs
Washington's Blog
1. Floss. Shut up about blood and it getting stuck in your teeth or a general fear of dentistry and just floss.
Ben Branstetter
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When you've got giant energy companies this scared, you must be doing something right. At 3:38, I snorted. Just sayin'. And at 4:43, he explains brilliantly what's in it for you. - Adam Mordecai
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Want to have a pervasive effect on the subconscious attitudes of our culture? Get into the entertainment business.
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Line In the Sand is an independent documentary about the ongoing resistance to the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil through the U.S. with the risk of damaging land and health. We're drawing a line in the sand through film to say "no" to...
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A hard-hitting, fact-filled, humorous look at U.S. warmongering.
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Sending a bunch of $3 million missiles into Syria to blow stuff up will kill a great many men, women, and children
David Swanson
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Throwing conventional environmental wisdom on its head, Ben Falk doesn't want to reduce his impact on the land. He wants to increase it as much as possible. We couldn't agree more.
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Let's compare a couple of accounts of the mass deaths apparently caused by chemical weapons in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta on August 21. One account comes from the U.S. government (
Jim Naureckas
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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.
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A global movement is coming together to challenge the fossil fuel industry in a fight for the planet and our future here.
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Guruju Sri Vast argues that it's our concept of family that leads to so much conflict and suffering in the world. "By only seeing those inside your house as your family, naturally, you must take from those outside of your house to take care of those inside of your house."...
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Thought-provoking 5 minutes on the state of the world from the late, great Alan Watts - a man far ahead of his time.
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Labor Day is a complete rip-off. Labor isn't celebrated at all—instead, a single day's break from labor is celebrated. You might think this is a stupid thing to care about, because Labor Day is really just about getting drunk in your yard, again. But that's actually evidence...
Ken Layne
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
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Be a man. Stop being such a fag. Grow a pair. You're such a girl. Man up.
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The Assange Agenda is a documentary about how surveillance by governments and corporations is disrupting democracy and how Julian Assange, Wikileaks and others attempt to turn back the clock on the erosion of civil liberties and individual...
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The Military-Industrial-Complex owns this country. It owns this president. And it will own our future, unless we rise up to stop it. Watch this to get yourself psyched up.
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Those pesky earthquakes that happen near fracking rigs? Just natural side effects, folks. Nothing to see here... Read about frackquakes at http://bit.ly/frackingquake
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There are some things in our society.. and some things in our world.. which I am proud to be maladjusted" -Martin Luther King Jr. Mankind's increasing capability is at great contrast with the global state of disparity. We've reached unprecedented levels of technological...
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All over the world species are becoming extinct at an astonishing rate, from 1000 to 10,000 times faster than normal. The loss of biodiversity has become so severe that scientists are calling it a mass extinction event.
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I wish my teachers had shown me documentaries like this when I was in school.
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U.S. Is Isolated
Britain, France, C
Washington's Blog
Evidence of “weapons of mass destruction” is “no slam dunk,” U.S. officials are saying this time around, reversing the claim made about Iraq by then-CIA director George Tenet.
David Swanson
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"Elections are moments when groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state." - Thomas Ferguson
This is a clip from Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (2009). It is possibly the definitive documentary explaining the influence of money on politics.
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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 setting...
Steve Friess
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Filter-free news & resistance updates via the Stimulator.* This week:
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The U.S. is about to attack Syria. Here’s what you need to know:
Washington's Blog
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Different war. Same principles of justice. You can bet that on the 50th year anniversary of MLK Jr.'s "I have a dream speech," while the US is poised to launch yet another war, this time in Syria, King would echo the same words as he does here.
Today, these words are even...
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Legendary equality, justice, and peace activist who championed character over the color of one's skin is compared with warmongering corporate servant Obama ... because of the color of his skin.
The differences between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and current US President...
Tony Cartalucci
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We can honor MLK Jr. by pursuing the causes he was advocating for before he was killed.
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Shouldn’t We Be Cautious … Given the Repeated Bogus Claims?
In 1981, the U.S. accused the Soviets of supplying chemical weapons to Communist states in Vietnam and Laos for use in counterinsurgency warfare. It turned out that the “yellow rain” which the U.S. became...
Washington's Blog
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Teaching the middle class to hate their government was an essential part of the plan to implement Corporate Feudalism.
Dennis Marker
Those Condemning Syria Have Themselves Recently Used Chemical Weapons
We condemn all use of chemical weapons.
But the U.S. used chemical weapons against civilians in Iraq in 2004. Evidence here,
Washington's Blog
If she's twerking on it, maybe we'll pay attention.
mileycyrustwerkingonreality
Did the West's Proxy Forces Gas Thousands to Rescue Failed Syrian War?
As far back as 2007, it was a documented fact that the West, including the United States and its allies Saudi Arabia and Israel, conspired to use terrorists drawn from the ranks of the Muslim...
Tony Cartalucci
The military buildup in the Mediterranean indicates that Assad’s opponents intend to militarily intervene in Syria under cover of ‘humanitarian intervention’, a disingenuous narrative that could not be further from the truth.
Nile Bowie
Days before Bradley - now Chelsea - Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for helping expose U.S. war crimes in Iraq, the Obama Department of Justice filed a
Abby Zimet
Matt Taibbi for Rolling Stone
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Disney Princesses believe in equal pay for all humans (and mermaids).
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"The Lord is Not On Trial Here Today" is a Peabody Award-winning documentary by Jay Rosenstein that tells the compelling personal story of Vashti McCollum, and how her efforts to protect her ten-year-old son led to one of the most important and landmark First Amendment cases...
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This is the story of more than four hundred Americans who participated in a bold and dangerous experiment designed to awaken the conscience of a complacent nation. These self-proclaimed, 'Freedom Riders' challenged the mores of a racially segregated society by performing a...
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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, even...
Bill Moyers & Company
We can cultivate empathy throughout our lives, says Roman Krznaric—and use it as a radical force for social transformation.
Roman Krznaric
When the Ben Swann team has conference calls we certainly do not discuss pop culture. However, after watching the Miley Cyrus video pop up in my Facebook news-feed multiple times I said to myself, “What the hell, watch it.” After regaining composure from the visceral...
Michael Lotfi
Washington and its British and French puppet governments are poised to yet again reveal their criminality. The image of the West as War Criminal is not a propaganda image created by the West’s enemies, but the portrait that the West has painted of itself.
Paul Craig Roberts
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
All things die and all things live forever;
But our task is to die,
To die making roads,
Roads over the sea.
– Antonio Machado
Recently a reader of my website asked me to clarify the difference between resignation and surrender. When faced with catastrophic...
Carolyn Baker
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The sheer awesomeness is just a little unbelievable. Only in the internet age could we ever expect to see a man the United States would like to have hung from the gallows singing... well.. just watch.
Thank you, Rap News, for this little moment of humor amongst the...
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For the first time in history, the U.S. government has ordered that flow of Colorado River water from the 50-year-old Glen Canyon Dam be slashed, due to a water crisis brought about by the region's historic 14-year drought. On Friday, the Federal Bureau of Reclamation--a...
Dr. Jeff Masters
September’s coming up fast, and we know what that means. Soon Congress will be back in session and we’ll be inundated with fresh evidence that our democracy is broken. That makes this a good time to reflect on the powerful forces arrayed against the public interest – and to...
Richard Eskow
Dear President Obama:
Norman Solomon
This morning's big news story/pounding headache is courtesy of convicted spy Bradley Manning's announcement that she wishes to live the rest of her life as a woman/the internet's predictably shitty response to that announcement, respectively.
First, the news: Manning...
Erin Gloria Ryan
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This video is so simple, but the impression it left on me, looking into the eyes of this being left an indelible impression on me.
What you are seeing is from the state of Pará, Brazil, where animals await their fates fearing any human approach. In Brazil, an ox is killed...
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'Every aspect of this case sets a dangerous precedent for future prosecutions of whistleblowers'
Andrea Germanos
Sixty years ago this week, on Aug. 19, 1953, the United States, in collaboration with Britain, successfully staged a coup in Iran to overthrow democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh that a newly declassified CIA document reveals was designed to preserve the...
Robert Scheer
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The first thing you notice about Sarnia, Ontario, is the smell: a potent mix of gasoline, melting asphalt, and the occasional trace of rotten egg. Shortly after my arrival I already felt unpleasantly high and dizzy, like I wasn't getting enough air. Maybe this had something...
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If you know of something better please tell us in the comments, because this is both brilliant and politically biting. Naturally, all credit for this bit of political theater goes to Banksy.
Also, yes this installation is from 2010 (created for
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In London, government authority has just fired a new shot at freedom of the press.
Norman Solomon
In an act of blatant escalation against press freedom, UK officia
Abby Zimet
At TED talks, the most viewed video — now surpassing 14 million hits — is “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” by England’s Sir Ken Robinson.
Thomas Larson