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Can we imagine a film that would change the way people look at the ocean? Can we explain simply, to everyone, the greatest natural mystery of our planet? And lastly, can we help our children believe in a better and more sustainable world tomorrow?
88 min
The quality of one's childhood has an overwhelming effect on the course of adult life. It's good to be fully aware of this - and plan accordingly.
3 min
A short film critiquing the military industrial complex.
3 min
It was something I heard one dissident professor say when I was an undergraduate studying psychology in a Nigerian university. He didn’t quite say it; he whispered it. When the white men came, they brought us schools and the bible, he intoned. And then we gave them our own...
Bayo Akomolafe
A video of people listening to an interview with political activist and intellectual, Noam Chomsky, somehow manages to transform the abstract into the actual. It is unclear who the people in the video are, but what does becomes clear is that these people are able to convey...
13 min
With 20 million refugees worldwide, the International Olympic Committee announces a new team to make the games more inclusive for people without a nation to call home.
Christopher Zumski Finke
Drive an hour northwest from Durban's golden beaches, the land begins to rise into rolling, lush, green ridges. You've arrived at the Valley of a Thousand Hills in the Zulu heartland. Here in Isithumba, Indigo Skate Camp is home to the village’s very first generation of...
11 min
Your mind is being controlled by distant strangers who don’t have your best interests at heart. If that sounds like a paranoid fantasy, brace yourself and read on. These are the findings of a series of scientific studies that show how a few dominant institutions have the...
Jeremy Lent
From farm to pharmaceutical, diesel truck to dinner plate, pipeline to plastic product, it is impossible to think of an area of our modern-day lives that is not affected by the oil industry. The story of oil is the story of the modern world. And this is the story of those who...
71 min
Owen Jones argues that the terrorist who carried out America's worst ever mass shooting in Orlando will fail - just as a neo-Nazi terrorist did 17 years ago in London, when he detonated a nail bomb outside the Admiral Duncan pub in the heart of the capital's LGBT community
4 min
Our national attachment to dominance models of manhood is a major reason why we have so much violence.
Amanda Marcotte
When attending meetings with peace and justice activists, I often find myself the only business person in the room. Inevitably, someone makes a comment about the evils of business, or greedy capitalists, or some other negative comment that implies business people are the...
Judy Wicks
I recently attended a ceremony at the Tamera village in Portugal in which the officiant invoked “the healing of money.” Immediately a vivid image popped into my head of a man, vast and muscular, bound to the earth with stakes and tethers, straining with every atom of his...
Charles Eisenstein
I received the following email from a young woman, a student at an elite law school. I want to quote it in full, because it cuts so deep to core issues so many change agents face.
Charles Eisenstein
I write as a feminist, a well-seasoned historian of American women, and a die-hard supporter of Bernie Sanders. Long-time colleagues disparage my loyalty to the Sanders campaign and chastise me, along with him, for not celebrating Hillary Clinton’s landmark achievement as the...
Mari Jo Buhle
This can’t be turned into a story of us v them – because the real world is far more complicated than that
Samra Habib
Lucid dreaming is to be aware when you are dreaming and to have a degree of control over the dream.
3 min
While accepting the Tony Award for Best Score of a Musical, one of many awards won by Hamilton tonight, Lin-Manuel Miranda upended expectations. Miranda has tended to rap his acceptance speeches at previous awards shows (including this year's Grammys), so many expected he...
1 min
They're called "vulture funds" and they make a killing off of places like Puerto Rico - sometimes literally.
5 min
Lately, new ways to describe human interactions, social behaviours, and many facets of psychology have emerged on the social network scene. One of those descriptions is “high emotional intelligence.”
Raven Fon
Imagine a post-apocalyptic world in which resources are so scarce that the government decides that all grain must go to people rather than animals. Without animal feed, steak exists only as a memory, and eggs become black-market contraband. What would happen then?
Nathanael Johnson
I don’t think I can write about his right now. I can’t be positive… And I don’t want to be negative. What I want to do is remind people that love is stronger than hate, but it’s hard to do that with tears in your eyes. I want to expose all of the hypocrisy of people who talk...
Chris Boeskool
Just existing as a queer person is still a radical —and very dangerous — act.
Noah Michelson
Dear Mothers, I’m writing you today because I can no longer contain the ache in my gut and fire in my heart over an injustice that you and I are bearing the brunt of.
Beth Berry
Wall Street has thrown its weight behind Hillary Clinton. Some of the biggest names in the U.S. right-wing establishment have also
Ben Norton
Follow gonzo investigative reporter Greg Palast (BBC, Rolling Stone) as he busts the New Klux Klan – the billionaire bandits that purged one million voters of color that stole the White House.
106 min
Instead of a reality check for the party, it'll be smugness redoubled
Matt Taibbi
The time for status quo shortsightedness, superficiality, and consumerist distraction has passed- and your permission is not required.
"The Bernie campaign didn't get this far by deferring to the powerful, and there's no good reason to start now," says Norman Solomon of RootsAction
Deirdre Fulton
I talk a lot about Basic Income, the concept that everyone should be provided a minimum guaranteed income to provide for basic human necessities (food, clothing, shelter). All over the world it is c
Michael Moore talks to Jon Snow about Europe, Brexit, war and socialism. Interview with the documentary maker, known for films which take a critical look at life and politics in the United States.
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He's just seven years old and has made an epic journey with his elder brother from his former home in Afghanistan, through Pakistan, Iran and Turkey before stowing away in a lorry at Calais. Ahmad was found in the back of that lorry in Leicester after sending out a desperate...
8 min
Suddenly Hillary is deemed to have "clinched" the Democratic nomination, when there has been no real change in the situation.
Here's a sneak peak of the documentary, "The Compassion Project." Dr. Will Tuttle & Victoria Moran discuss compassion as the highest form of love.
2 min
Can we actually achieve a more just America as one of the outcomes of this political revolution? Yes. I believe we can.
Donna Smith
Here’s how I work: I’m extremely friendly and respectful to those who obey the laws of common decency when interacting with others.
Crystal Jackson
Rejection is always painful; it need not be a tragedy.
4 min
Making it okay to say you’re not doing so well
Jessica May Hayes
Let’s be honest, modern life is so far away from the parody that you see in movies and TV. You can’t say 10 things that you hate about a person and fall in love in the end, and no sane man over 70 would read his entire love story to a random patient from a godforsaken...
Jeff Sanchez
When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked details of massive government surveillance programs in 2013, he ignited a raging debate over digital privacy and security. That debate came to a head this year, when Apple refused an FBI court order to access the iPhone of alleged...
27 min
Noticing fewer fireflies? You’re not alone.
Melissa Breyer
Indonesia's Leuser Ecosystem is the last place on earth where endangered elephants, rhinos, tigers and orangutans coexist in the wild. But they're under threat from illegal palm oil plantations. So environmental activist Rudi Putra is trying to change that, one illegal tree...
2 min
1. We expect children to be able to do things before they are ready.
Jan Hunt
Liberalism is “an ideology rooted in a nation founded upon imperial conquest and rabid capitalist exploitation.” Its main proponent is in the Democratic Party, which “has become the engine of US imperial rule.” Hillary Clinton is a twin of Barack Obama. “While Obama...
Danny Haiphong
The corporate media mob this week tried to string Bernie Sanders’ leftish presidential campaign from a tree and kick the chair out from under his feet. By the time primary voters cast their ballots on Tuesday they had already been informed that, according to the Associated...
Glen Ford
This landmark election cycle has been narrated seemingly ad nauseam in the corporate media world - but could there be even more monumental trends to this story than meets the mainstream eye?
Rough, raw and unapologetically inspirational, Let Fury Have the Hour is a charged journey into the heart of the creative counter-culture in 2012. In a time of global challenges, big questions and by-the-numbers politics, this upbeat, outspoken film tracks the story of the...
87 min
Forbes just released its list of the top 100 most powerful women of 2016. We took a look and picked out the top five women who aren't entrepreneurs or corporate executives.
2 min
The novelist Terry Pratchett once wrote, “people think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.” However it seems these types of dichotomies are often both/and more than they are either/or. It is true that we are shaped by the stories that we...
Tommy Lehe
'We will take our fight for social, economic, racial, and environmental justice to Philadelphia,' senator declares
Jon Queally
The campaign group Trident Ploughshares have started a month of direct action to stop the manufacture of nuclear weapons and the renewal of the UK's Trident nuclear programme. Trident Ploughshares was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel...
5 min
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle is a forthcoming documentary exploring the failures and deception behind the social housing crisis. It will be directed by Paul Sng, maker of the acclaimed cinema release Sleaford Mods - Invisible Britain (2015).
3 min
Superdelegates don't vote until July; but the media can try to influence the election every damned day of the week.
Liam Miller
With thousands of advertisements seen by Americans everyday, and a corporate media that reinforces the needs of Empire, propaganda in the U.S. is more pervasive and effective than ever before.
The manipulation of public opinion through suggestion can be traced back to the...
26 min
To have sound levels of self-esteem is one of the gateways to happiness. But achieving this has very little to do with the progress of our careers.
5 min
Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein join the cast of Kinky Boots on Broadway for a bathroom break. You change the world when you change your mind.
2 min
MORE THAN AT ANY OTHER time in history, a strong case can be made on pragmatic, utilitarian grounds that war is no longer necessary. Nonviolent statecraft need not be the dream of pacifists and dreamy idealists. It is within our reach.
Simply opposing war and documenting its...
Stephen Zunes
Can we cure male trauma and the resulting illnesses it creates?
Mark Greene