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![Little White Lie [2014, Lacey Schwartz]](/img/wide/6d8520ab-9de8-4c55-a0ff-77176065183d.jpg)
65 min
Synopsis
Little White Lie tells Lacey Schwartz’s story of growing up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish identity — despite the open questions from those around her about how a white girl...
3 min
Billionaires have found a shady way to secretly finance candidates. They use nonprofits as vats of cash to funnel cash to candidates that will advance their interests.
With the rise of slick corporate platforms such as Uber and Airbnb, the sharing economy has lost sight of its core values, argues Ed Mayo. Co-operative ownership might be the best way to help sharing platforms rediscover the power of collaboration
Ed Mayo
5 min
Sir David Attenborough tells George Monbiot that the British public is better informed about the environment than ever before, in part thanks to television. He discusses his new programme on the titanosaur – a subset of dinosaurs that can reach 37m in length. He also talks...
Despite the economic turmoil of the recent years and the uncertain times we live in, there are moments in our lives when we decide to embrace change, no matter the risk.
10 min
The conflict is really only 100 years old, and it's not really about religion.
3 min
Celebrate Australia as a whole.
On 26 January, one of the saddest days in human history will be celebrated in Australia. It will be "a day for families", say the newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch. Flags will be dispensed at street corners and displayed on funny hats. People will say incessantly how proud...
John Pilger
Men are obsessed with sex, according to this article by Steve Bearman in Elephant Journal (and re-posted on this website). Men are thought to think about sex all the time, and allowed to be sexual all the time. For women that is pretty different...! We will be frequently...
A First Nations clan is bringing pipeline projects to a grinding halt—simply by occupying their traditional lands.
Tony Manno
10 min
As a recent poll shows the majority of Britons do not explicitly object to their countries colonial history. What was the full scale of the damage caused by empire? And how can we make amends?
2 min
Harvesting palm oil is destructive to the environment, resulting in the destruction of thousands of miles of rainforest and destroying crucial orangutan habitat. But some engineers and scientists are coming up with an alternative and some hope.
Construction of the contentious Amazon dam is complete, but a judge now says it can’t begin operating until commitments made to Indigenous groups back in 2010 are met.
Glenn Scherer
If you have a pension, or a string of ISAs, then you are watching – for the second time in a decade – your wealth destroyed. European stock markets are now 20 per cent off their peak in the middle of last year.
Paul Mason
11 min
This 11 minute video manages to be informative, satirical, and poetic as it covers serious issues that affect all of humanity. It offers simple solutions to government and corporate involvement in unconstitutionally drugging the American people via the air we breathe and the...
Originally published at Garden Buildings Direct.
Kayla Williams
2 min
In the following films, members of Lives Unlimited and their families talk about what is important to them, the possibilities of being in control of their support and the difference this has made to their lives.
15 min
"Moving Forward Together" highlights the stigma and prejudice facing Gypsy Roma Traveller Community in York. The film explores how stigma restricts access to education and employment #aspire2more
Is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation promoting the interests of multinational corporations at the expense of social and economic justice?
Jon Queally
3 min
Decade Zero #1 is the first of a series of short fictional documentary films that blend utopia and apocalypse, the present and the future, the real and the imagined.
8 min
The Cold War remains the most important event of our lives. It changed every country in the world, and it was staggeringly dangerous. Communist Witch Hunts were bad, but if that's the only thing we remember, we make it easier for those in power to take advantage of us.
2 min
It’s easy to think that inequality is inevitable but, says Danny Dorling, we are living in extraordinary times. The overall wealth of the richest 1,000 people in the UK has doubled in six years. Not only should this not go on, but it can’t go on
It’s an all-too-easy event to mock. It’s hard to keep a straight face when the world’s rich arrive annually in their private jets to the luxury ski-resort of Davos to express their deep concern about growing poverty, inequality and climate change. US comedian Jon Stewart has...
Nick Buxton
10 min
Time To Cycle was an organised mass cycle ride from London to Paris in December 2015. The plan was to arrive in Paris for the end of the climate talks, COP21. The aim was to do this sustainably and to connect a variety of people along the way, thus uniting people, sharing...
During our spiritual Journey through the world of shapes and forms, we are often under the effect of our daily disappointments, as our “sandcastles come tumbling down,” and we ask ourselves the question: ”What am I doing here?”
Frank M. Wanderer
10 min
Comedian Jeremy Hardy on why he supports the Stop Trident national demonstration on Saturday 27 February 2016 in London.
When you are building a house, it is really important to keep in mind all the aspects that will be responsible for giving a unique and wonderful look for your kitchen. No matter what, the kitchen is one important place because the cooking starts there and ends there. For...
As your child develop their communication skills, their influencing skills also develop. Effective communication is a great way to develop their social skills. Whatever the age of your child is, encouraging effective communication skills can help prepare them for a successful...
“They dumped a can of insects on me… and I thought they were my friends”, 17 year old Tanya (name changed for this article) told me bravely while I shuddered on hearing that. She was a survivor of bullying. Today she is a confident teenager who is active in debating, theatre...
3 min
Only two countries in the world have a for-profit bail system, and the U.S. is one of them. Innocent or guilty, if you're arrested in America, you could face serious financial trouble.
1 min
On Sunday January 17th, Coast Salish Territories, 7 activists boarded a Kinder Morgan rig, drilling test holes for a proposed oil terminal for their Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline. The activists shutdown drilling work and were later arrested by heavily armed police.
5 min
Critics are outraged by a new comic released by controversial French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which depicts Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old toddler whose body washed up on a Turkish beach, growing up to be a "groper in Germany."
3 min
Blockbuster director Michael Bay's latest film, "13 Hours: The Secrete Soldiers of Benghazi," takes a unique stab at the terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya in 2012 - as well as the political and foreign policy aftermath. RT's Anya Parampil has details...
4 min
The cosmos is One interconnected and indivisible Whole. You Are the Cosmos, and All That Is. Therefore, You Are Me!
Each year, hundreds of thousands of students enrol to study at South Africa’s universities. Of the 60% of black African students who survive the first year, only 15% will ultimately graduate. This is hardly surprising: these failed students come from an opp
Rajendra Chetty and Christopher B. Knaus
Just 62 individuals now hold the same amount of wealth as 3.6 billion people, the bottom half of the entire planet — a shocking statistic made even more alarming when considering as recently as 2010, that same half of all wealth was held by 388 people. Now, 80 billionaires...
Claire Bernish
2 min
These Syrian refugees are fighting against sexual assault in Germany after foreigners were accused of attacking women in Cologne on New Year's Eve.
“If you’re young, privileged, and interested in creating a life of meaning, of course you’d be attracted to solving problems that seem urgent and readily solvable.”
Courtney Martin
The Prime Minister’s statistics on Muslim women struggling with the English language are fudged — and the British media has failed to notice
Nafeez Ahmed
4 min
Terrorists know that murdering people isn't enough to bring about their goals. So what are they really trying to do with their crimes, and how do we stop them?
3 min
From the Chinese Exclusion Act to the Patriot Act, here's what a century of government discrimination in America looks like.
85 min
Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson
As spiritual seekers we sooner or later need to face an expectation–almost a commonplace now–to accept what is actually happening to us, surrender to the circumstances, since this surrender will be the foundation of our spiritual development. The question may, however, arise...
7 min
A young Innu returns to the sight of the Indian Residential School in Sept-Îles to deliver a poetic tribute to its victims.
2 min
TWO SPIRITS interweaves the tragic story of a mother's loss of her son with a revealing look at a time when the world wasn't simply divided into male and female, and many Native American cultures held places of honor for people of integrated genders.
The legacy of the British colonialist Cecil John Rhodes has sparked angry protests from Cape Town to Oxford. In the wake of the #RhodesMustFall campaign, which resulted in his statue being removed from the University of Cape Town, students at Oxford have clamoured for another sta
Paul Maylam
5 min
Chatting anonymously on the internet isn’t used solely for shadowy criminal hackers and government operatives. From journalists to congressmen, learning how to adjust the privacy of our digital communication is becoming an ever more important skill.
Browsing and...
People regularly come up to me and say, “Parker, I really like your writing. I just don’t always agree with it.”
Here’s a secret: neither do I, and that’s a good thing.
Parker Molloy
I grew up with an understanding that the hair that grows naturally on my body is unattractive. The hair that naturally grows under my arms and on my legs makes me less of a female, less feminine and less appealing to the opposite sex. I learnt from a very young age to feel...
Ella Grace Denton
18 min
IMSI catchers are portable surveillance tools used for spying on thousands of phones in a targeted area, tracking their location and even intercepting calls, messages, and data. They are supposed to help identify serious criminals, but cannot operate without monitoring...
2 min
Most of us, says Marlon James, are non-racist. While that leaves us with a clear conscience, he argues, it does nothing to help fight injustice in the world. In fact, we can pull off being non-racist by being asleep in bed while black men are killed by police. We need to stop...
10 min
Part three of a four-part series that reveals how a secret pact formed a cartel that controls the world's oil.
10 min
At the end of the 1960s, the Seven Sisters, the major oil companies, controlled 85 percent of the world's oil reserves. Today, they control 10 percent. New hunting grounds are therefore required and the Sisters have turned their gaze towards Africa.
10 min
The first part of a four-part series that reveals how a secret pact formed a cartel that controls the world's oil.
6 min
This short film highlights the non-profit organization "Paws of War" which rescues dogs and pairs them with U.S. Veterans.
As human societies have developed over the course of history, so too have corollary systems of order. In the most basic sense, the often informal development of customs, norms and ethics become inevitable in spaces where groups of human beings come together to interact with...
40 min
Noam Chomsky discusses his book "9/11" and U.S. foreign policy in the 20th Century in moral terms in this 2002 interview with CBC Hot Type's Evan Solomon.
29 min
The oil industry is a powerhouse with control over land, resources, politics and more. In this episode of The Empire Files, Abby Martin uncovers big oil's strong-arm reach--its growth, its crimes, its power and its impunity.
1 min
Are you willing to accept the challenge?
92 min
Global Capitalism: Monthly Economic Update Richard D. Wolff Wednesday, January 13th at 7:30pm "Capitalism Delivers the...: Inequality, Instability, Insecurity'" These programs begin with 30 minutes of short updates on important economic events of the last month.
29 min
OBAMA'S SIREN SONG In his final State of the Union, President Barack Obama asserted that we have recovered from the 2007/08 financial crisis, asserting that the United States has the strongest, most durable economy in the world...let's look into that shall we?
7 min
Meet the activists who welcome refugees in Croatia.
7 min
If you watched the mainstream media's coverage of Iran's capture of American Navy sailors, one would think that these sailors were snatched out of their beds somewhere in middle America and were not engaged in a hostile action, says journalist and author Max Blumenthal of...
3 min
Check out Sir-Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back," remixed and rewritten to be about the shadiest kind of campaign funding. "I like super PACs and I cannot lie!"
55 min
Seed Swap follows Dr. Campbell, an anthropologist living in the Ozarks, as he helps to organize a seed swap to be held March 1st 2008 in Mountain View, Arkansas. Hundreds of people and seed varieties attend the first Swap. Over a period of four years we watch as that first...
75 min
In the 1970's, a small group of residents in the Ozark Highlands of Arkansas organized and successfully halted the U.S. Forest Service’s planned aerial applications of herbicides. Now the group battles their rural electric cooperative to protect the region’s organic farms...
In Eckhart Tolle’s opinion, emotion is the body’s reaction to a certain idea, to the mental interpretation of a specific or imaginary situation. The ideas generating emotional reactions are often pre-verbal, that is, they remain unspoken or even unconscious, and they often...
2 min
What kind of Asian are you by Ken Tanaka.
86 min
From Executive Producer and narrator Ryan Phillippe come 'Isolated', directed by Justin LePera
3 min
Brave New Films is taking on the National Rifle Association and the gun manufacturers, the most feared special interest group in the USA. Their reluctance to allow for safe gun policies has helped create a 6 billion dollar a year industry and leaves 80 Americans dead from...
5 min
Violent protests in #Brazil: People clash with police in Sao Paolo over public transport fare hike
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Ils ne sont plus qu'à quelques kilomètres de leur rêve. Un rêve si proche, mais devenu presque inaccessible. Environ quatre mille migrants s'entassent dans la " Jungle " de Calais, un camp à l'est de cette ville du Nord de la France.
1 min
100 years of Iranian fashion trends in one minute.
17 min
Uploaded by Heal Love Now on 2016-01-11.
3 min
Iran and Saudi Arabia's escalating dispute is a shame, but what is even worse is the way that the United States is working to make it worse.
5 min
A social media storm erupted after administrators at a New Jersey high school accused a 16-year-old Israeli-Jewish student of bullying because of anti-Israel tweets that may have violated the state's broad anti-bullying laws. Attorney Stanley Cohen, who is providing legal...
2 min
Western Sydney University presents graduate Deng Thiak Adut. This is his #unlimited story. From a child soldier and refugee to a lawyer, Deng Thiak Adut's journey from South Sudan to Australia is a story of resilience, oppo
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Black Voters explain why they have dropped Hillary Clinton, and supports Bernie Sanders instead. & Building on MLK's Legacy. Vote in the Primaries! Also make sure you register as a democrat if you're in a state with a closed primary Go to VoteForBernie.org for voter info.
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2015 wrapped up with a bang, with dozens of militant actions carried out by anarchists under the banner of "Black December." In Turkey, aspiring Fuhrer, Tayipp Erdogan, is attempting to wipe out the Kurds, but is faced with fierce resistance from the PKK and its allies.
5 min
Consume less, share more, drink hand-squeezed OJ. Those are some basic principles behind degrowth, an idea and movement that rejects economic growth as a goal for society. This video explains degrowth with oranges, juice, and peels.
89 min
Power is a short documentary, about women and girls in India who are learning to fight back. Debi Steven, martial arts champion and self defense teacher from London, is on a mission. After the Delhi gang rape in 2012 she founded the organisation ACTION BREAKS SILENCE to teach...
6 min
In June 2015, Baltimore native Keith Davis Jr. was shot by police after a foot chase to a nearby garage. He survived, but is now facing 17 charges after police said he drew a firearm after the chase. However, his family has disputed the police narrative.
Our innovative new film, featuring One Born Every Minute’s Delia Jepson, lets you explore the parallel worlds of life as a midwife in the UK and in Tanzania – at the click of a button.
"In the visible world you are the invisible presence" ~Mooji
By Presence, Eckhart Tolle means being free and independent of psychological time (past and future), and it is achieved by focussing our attention fully and completely on the present time, the events of the...
Frank M. Wanderer Ph.D
2 min
Why are mangroves so important? How are they under threat? And what can we do to help protect them? This short video sets out to answer those questions, using photographs from all around the tropics, encouraging participation and to help spread awareness of the mangrove forest.
Is there an universal law, the Law of Attraction, which says that everybody has the ability to attract things with his thoughts and intentions. According to this, if our thoughts are negative, we will attract bad things, and if our thoughts are positive, we will attract good...
He has no home and only the clothes he stands up in. She has a spare room. This is what happened when Yasser and Helen moved in together, as seen through both their eyes…
Helen Pidd and Yasser Al Jassem
2 min
An international scientific panel believes that the Earth has entered a new geological age. The team, which has been tasked with defining the so-called Anthropocene, says humanity's impacts on Earth will be visible in sediments and rocks millions of years into the future. The...
28 min
Abby Martin interviews Dr. Deepa Kumar, professor of media studies at Rutgers University and author of *Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire*, about the roots of this alarming situation. From confronting right-wing arguments, to examining the reality behind Donald Trump's...
4 min
Will anyone listen? I doubt it. 😢
How safe is it to eat meat in America? Two PBS Frontline Documentaries ask the hard questions about E. Coli, Salmonella, and other bacteria that are sending American families to the hospital, and in some cases to the grave. The latest Center for Disease Control estimates...
54 min
In Modern Meat, FRONTLINE takes a close look inside the world of the modern American meat industry and shows how this once simple product has turned into a much more dangerous phenomenon, given the fact that an average American eats at least three hamburgers a week; and with...
When we are asked what we find the most important thing in our life, the most of us would be able to answer the question. We would, naturally, come up with different answers, but that is not the point; the point is that we are able to answer. But as long as we are able to...
55 min
FRONTLINE investigates the spread of dangerous pathogens in meat - particularly poultry - and why the food-safety system isn't stopping the threat. Focusing on an outbreak of salmonella Heidelberg at one of the nation's largest poultry processors, the documentary reveals how...
The society and culture in which you have grown up programmed those fixed patterns of the mind into you, and your identity who you are and what your job is in this world, is based upon those patterns. These systematic patterns of thoughts, programmed into you by your parents...
3 min
A devastating report claims that the lawyers for the city of Chicago have spent years hiding important evidence related to a police shooting, while also delivering contradictory accounts to courts on important cases. RT's Anya Parampil takes an in-depth look at how this will...
The 40-hour work week is an ingrained part of our culture, but it does very little to enrich our lives. Lucy Purdy explores alternative working models that do away with the idea of the nine-to-five
Lucy Purdy
3 min
Let the Fire Burn is composed entirely with archival footage yet unfurls with the tension of a thriller. Jason Osder’s documentary recounts the steps that led to a horrific tragedy on May 13, 1985, when a longtime feud between the city of Philadelphia and the controversial...
10 min
Part 2 of the 'Burnaby Mountain Resistance: How It Went Down' documentary series.
2 min
Amer and Raghda met in a Syrian prison 20 years ago. Amer looked on as the injured Raghda was dumped in the cell next to his. For months, they communicated through a tiny hole they secretly made in the wall. They fell in love, and after leaving prison they married and had...