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Today we explore the phenomena of "Vice signalling" & performative cruelty, how it arouse as a reactionary rejection of "Woke-washing" - and what we can do stop it
This letter is a result of a joint effort between myself and the "Grans United", a working group within the "Omas Gegen Rechts" (Grannies Against the Far Right) movement.
Trump’s Board of Peace serves as a multidimensional attempt to maintain international dominance in the face of China’s rise — but is there anything "new" about Trump's colonialism?
The Donald Trump administration is waging a war against all multilateral institutions and international law itself. He withdrew the US from most global organizations and created a "Board of Peace" as an alternative to the UN that is entirely controlled by the USA. Ben Norton...
Today, free markets are championed as the foundation of capitalism, while socialists argue that free markets cause growing inequality and exploitation of the working classes, and thus need to be constrained by the state, or else abolished entirely.
Robin Williams talks about depression and the addiction to substances that ruined his life. Robin opens up about mental health struggles and how alcohol made him go to rehab. Talking to many interviewers Robin Williams expresses his comedy to get him through sadness.
The video discusses the "masculine urge to join a fascist death squad" by exploring the complex relationship men are socialized to have with violence in American society (0:00). The speaker, a gun owner who has used a firearm in self-defense, shares his personal experience of...
This is me thinking out loud, carefully and practically, about how real political change actually happens — based on history, organising in Brixton since I was imprisoned, and a lot of experience inside movements that worked… and some that didn’t.
When we let algorithms and politicians decide what's true, the internet isn't the biggest casualty.... our humanity is.
ICE executed Alex Pretti on the street, in cold blood.
From televangelism to Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and today’s internet trolls, this video essay unpacks how alt-right media and the internet age have monetized fascism—often in more ways than one. And what does it mean when edgelords are in office, and Trump fascism means that...
LJ explores how Christian identity in the United States has been weaponized for political power, racism, and social hierarchy. He clarifies that the video is not an attack on Christianity itself but rather on a specific political ideology that uses Christian symbols and...
In moments like this, fear pushes people toward anger, and anger pushes nations toward mistakes they can’t undo.
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under siege, and dissent is increasingly met with repression in the streets. In this moment, questions of power —...
Ryan Grim, Meghnad Bose, and Rana Roudi discuss the killing of Alex Pretti. The Drop Site team analyzes the available footage and examines the implications of what it shows.
Heater Cox Richardson discusses the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis, providing a detailed account of the incident and its broader implications for American democracy. Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, was shot and killed by what appear to be Customs and...
This video discusses how to approach life's inevitable difficulties through the lens of Stoicism, emphasizing that pain and suffering are unavoidable and have always been a part of the human experience. Focusing on what is within one's control is crucial for navigating...
So-called "peace president" Donald Trump has bombed 10 countries, more than any other US leader. He attacked 7 countries in 2025 alone. Now he wants to raise the USA's military budget to $1.5 trillion. Ben Norton explains how the self-declared "peacemaker" is waging war...
We uploaded everything. Now AI is remixing it all.
Jordan Peterson was once one of the most influential public intellectuals in the world. Millions turned to him for guidance in an increasingly chaotic cultural moment. But over time, something shifted in his message, and in how that message was received. The climate of the...
Ryan Holiday shares his strategies for effective reading, emphasizing quality over quantity and deep engagement with texts. He reads hundreds of books annually while managing multiple businesses, writing, and being a father, without using speed-reading or summaries (0:00-0:22).
Never in American history have we had a police force that routinely conceals agents’ names and identities – until now. We dug into government documents, court filings, and hundreds of on-the-ground videos to understand not only why ICE wears masks, but the deeper agenda...
DHS is instructing ICE cops to break down doors without obtaining a warrant, a blatant violation of the 4th Amendment
Norm Finkelstein discusses the dire situation in Gaza, highlighting the seizure of territory by Israel, the blocking of reconstruction aid, and the severe lack of humanitarian aid, clean water, and medical facilities.
Martin Luther King Jr. was more than a civil rights leader. He was a Christian witness who understood the true cost of following Christ in a world ruled by injustice, violence, and corrupt power.
In this episode, Peter Joseph addresses the release of the Integral White Paper, as the core focus, and critiques the pervasive vagueness of alternative economic discourse, arguing that terms like socialism, communism, and Marxism function as empty abstractions that obscure...
A full 10% of NYC Trump voters turned around and voted for Zohran Mamdani. So we went to talk to them. These voters are done with the status quo. One New Yorker told us: "As Americans, we can realize it's not Republican versus Democrat. It's more of like a class war."-----
We took a deep dive into Trump's tariffs, and his real approach became painfully clear.Make tariff threats, extract money from companies willing to pay, then grant exceptions to those who play the game.It's another lucrative scam for a wildly corrupt president.-----
The largest nurses' strike in New York City history has reached its 10th day, as negotiations stall. Nearly 15,000 New York City nurses are fighting for a contract that includes higher pay, a staffing increase to manage patients, improved benefits and workplace protections...
The time has come, I can no longer remain silent. The current US administration is perpetrating a fascist takeover of our democracy, and Big Tech CEOs and companies are complicit. It's time to reckon with the inextricable ties between the companies we turn to for innovation...
We’re now one year into Trump’s second term; domestically, he’s converted the U.S. into a full-blown authoritarian regime. On the international front, well… the entire world hates our guts. In fact, the world’s frustration with America’s fascist dictator has reached a boiling...
It's not about illegal immigration. That's a pretext. This is political punishment, suppression, & a play for more power. They want to execute the plan quickly and brutally, because they have until November to get it done.
What does Superman tell us about the ethics of closed borders?
Once, unions shook nations and promised a better future for working people. Some even sought radical social transformation. But today, their once booming voice has felt more like a whisper. Their mass mobilisation has retreated into passive bureaucracies. All while their...
Democracy Now! producer John Hamilton reports from Minneapolis, where residents say ICE agents are violently targeting legal observers and community members as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants. Patty O'Keefe, who was arrested while monitoring ICE...
Former UNRWA Chief spokesman Chris Gunness Powerful Speech to the UN
We can abolish ICE by the end of January. We can shut down any more talk of invading other countries. And we can force the immediate release of the Epstein files. By demanding congress filibuster to shut down the government until our demands are met.
Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also...
If America doesn't respond to the calamity that's befallen the working class, we will have Trumps as far as the eye can see.
AI and robots are making a dangerous leap.
The US has kidnapped Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife. They may use the language of freedom, but what this is really about – is theft, which is what the U.S. was built on. Venezuela is just a window into how American power and wealth have always worked –...
It feels like they’re everywhere lately - women online calling themselves feminists while turning against trans women, warning that “men are invading women’s spaces.”
Watching America from the outside, it's hard not to ask the obvious question. How the hell did this happen? Why would anyone vote for this guy?
In this video, Mike Figueredo argues that the current political climate, fueled by the Trump regime's actions, is pushing America towards collapse. He suggests that the government is waging a war against its own people, particularly those in blue states.
A new investigation by ProPublica finds over 40 cases of immigration agents using potentially fatal chokeholds and other moves that can cut off breathing. "These arrests are playing out around the country, and often in full view of cameras and witnesses," says ProPublica...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has always sold itself as a technocratic arm of “law and order.” But in Trump’s second term, that façade has slipped.
Reporter Ken Klippenstein's latest investigation into the inner workings of the Trump regime finds that immigration enforcement agencies ICE and Border Patrol have relaxed recruitment and deployment guidelines in an effort to fulfill the administration's sweeping deportation...
Revolution: Food is all about the positive changes taking root in our modern food system. It focuses on real farmers who are growing, raising real food and the consumers who are demanding it.
"They didn't ask very many questions." Independent journalist and U.S. military veteran Laura Jedeed recounts how she was hired as a deportation officer by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a six-minute interview at a job fair in Texas, despite never signing any...
How the American immigration police got so powerful.
In the aftermath of the Renee Good murder, it’s become brutally clear that millions of people are no longer just disagreeing on policy opinions or even values, they’re disagreeing on what happened. The same video, the same evidence, is producing completely opposite realities.
The scene in Minneapolis looks eerily familiar to 1930s Germany. In the aftermath of ICE’s execution of Renee Good, the ICE gestapo has threatened, harassed, assaulted, and terrorized countless others in Minneapolis and elsewhere. To boot, hordes of ICE agents are now going...
This year, my friends and I are taking on a huge project. We're going to try to build our own houses on land that we bought this summer.
Matt Kennard explains how the US operates as a "gangster state." With Trump openly expressing his intention to steal Venezuela's oil, we've entered a new era of "naked imperialism," where the Western Hemisphere and the world are considered US property.
This video examines the great falling away described by the Apostle Paul and argues that the current MAGA moment reflects a deep spiritual crisis within the American church.
Donald Trump claims he will "run" Venezuela, after he bombed it and abducted President Nicolás Maduro. However, his plan makes no sense -- and will likely blow back on the USA. Acting President Delcy Rodríguez is still independent, and not cutting off China. US sanctions...
Most Americans are taught a sanitized version of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The man with a dream. The peaceful marcher. The national holiday.
This in-depth video explores what fascism is, why it is so hard to define, and how people can embrace fascist ideas without recognizing themselves as fascists.
Remember when conservatives said you’re not allowed to mock Charlie Kirk or quote him? Apparently, the respectability they demanded in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination doesn’t apply to Renee Good, who was murdered by ICE thug Jonathan Ross on January 7th in...
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After months of Washington - with the help of much of the US mainstream media - manufacturing consent for a military intervention in Venezuela, last week American forces abducted the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, and flew him to a prison in New York City. Now, the...
Ashley McCollum's quiet, small-town life "changed in an instant" on the night of Feb. 3, 2023, when a Norfolk Southern "bomb train" derailed near her home in East Palestine, OH. The derailment, followed by the disastrous decision to "vent and burn" multiple carloads of...
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We speak with two people who responded to the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, by an ICE agent in Minneapolis Wednesday. Trump administration officials claim the agent acted in self-defense, but local officials, including Minnesota Governor...
An analysis by The New York Times of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
To justify bombing Venezuela and abducting President Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump falsely accused him of leading the so-called "Cartel de los Soles". But the US Department of Justice was forced to admit that this "Suns Cartel" doesn't exist. The USA lied -- while the CIA...
The video explores what The Soy Pill calls "grievance pundits" on the right-wing, individuals who build careers by leveraging a "persecution complex" rather than actual talent or qualifications.
The US perfected the art of the coup to push out leaders it didn’t like and install leaders it did. In this story I go through some of the major US-led coups to explore how the US rose to power and stayed there.
Marco Rubio’s personal ties to drug trafficking underscore a deep irony in the Trump administration’s attempts to use the drug war as a means of achieving their imperialist goals in Latin America.
Quorum calls, UC objections, forcing recorded votes, the two-hour rule… The minority has options.
"Thought leaders" help gut the government infrastructure that helps normal people, then advocate for their companies to "fill the gap" of government failure — failure that they themselves brought about. This is the fraud behind the "thought leader" class.
This is the story of how an exotic berry in Jamaica built a multinational empire: the United Fruit Company, El Pulpo, The Octopus, a corporation so powerful it could make and break nations.
Zeteo's Mehdi Hasan outlines Donald Trump's "Donroe Doctrine," a throwback foreign policy exemplified by the Trump administration's shocking intervention in Venezuela.
Invading Venezuela, Iraq, Afghanistan, bombing Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Palestine, is the job of the US presidency as established by the founders -- a group of war profiteers, slavers, bankers, speculators, and whiskey distillers. Empires cost far more than they...
"We know what this is about, says Chris Hedges, it's the same thing that the invasion of Iraq was about — the seizure of vast reserves of oil."
The military-industrial-complex has grown into a monster so influential and powerful that even its earliest critics likely never foresaw its evolution. Where will it go from here, and can anything stop it? Bill Hartung tackles this question.
On January 6th, 2021, when Trump incited an insurrection, America's corporate leaders rushed to distance themselves from him.
Solarpunk is an aesthetic and genre which envisions a sustainable future built around social and ecological resilience. It often includes concepts such as renewable energy, rewilding & harmony with nature, counter-culturalism and decolonialism, collective living, optimism...
Tyson is about to fire 50% of Lexington, Nebraska's workforce in one of the largest plant closures in decades.
Why would US military veterans take up arms against the country they swore an oath to protect?
A new report from the grassroots organization RootsAction aims to do what a promised "autopsy" from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not: publicly reckon with the failures of the Democrats' 2024 presidential campaign.
Breaking down U.S. President Trump's recent actions in Venezuela, and the right-wing propaganda that has followed in the wake of it.
After the US military bombed Venezuela and abducted President Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump said "we're going to run the country", potentially for years. "We're in the oil business", he added, boasting that US corporations will exploit Latin America's natural resources. Ben...
In this 9-minute video, GDF chronicles the U.S. military operation that captured Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026, framed through Trump's explicit economic rationale—securing Venezuela's vast oil reserves for U.S. exploitation. This latest iteration of imperial resource...
The US government bombed Venezuela, and Donald Trump abducted President Nicolás Maduro and flew him out of the country to be tried in a show trial on politically motivated charges. Ben Norton explains the real reasons behind the USA's imperialist war on Venezuela.
In Uganda’s 2021 presidential election, music star, activist and opposition leader Bobi Wine, together with his wife, rallies his people in a dangerous fight for freedom from President Museveni’s oppressive 35-year regime.
"The work, my friends, has only just begun."
Their ideas have been tried over and over again. Every time is met with disaster, yet they want to do it again.
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Paul Jay and host Barry Stevens analyze rising progressive movements, from Mamdani's victory in New York City to Sanders and AOC drawing massive crowds in red states, and why working-class consciousness has always been the real threat to American elites. They discuss why...
Today we uncover the global plot to install "christian nationalism" - it feels ridiculous even writing that sentence, but I mean there's no other way to describe it. Strap in!
In Cold War Two, the USA is pressuring countries to cut ties with China and recognize Taiwan separatists. Donald Trump blatantly meddled in Honduras' 2025 election and backed a political coup to put in power right-wing oligarch Nasry "Tito" Asfura, who strongly supports...
Ronald Reagan is remembered as the "Great Communicator," the man who brought optimism back to America. But behind the smile was a ruthless counter-revolution.
The US government is seizing oil tankers and stealing Venezuela's crude. Donald Trump boasted that the USA will "keep" the oil and the ships. This is piracy. Ben Norton explains how Washington is blatantly violating international law in its imperialist war on Venezuela.
I'm sick of using a website that rewards white supremacy, is swarmed with bots, and doesn't even work. So as of today, I'm no longer using it. You can find us literally anywhere else. And if you want to support a candidate who puts their money where their mouth is, chip in at...
This is a 60 Minutes Story about how the Trump administration violated our constitution and people's basic human dignity. Acting like this does nothing to make us safer, and in fact only makes it more likely that American citizens are put at risk.
This epic four hour doumentary explores the "ingredients" that contributed to the rise of fascism, focusing on Germany and Italy. It argues that fascism wasn't a simple anomaly but emerged from a complex mix of historical, social, and psychological factors.
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Donald Trump imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and demands that the Hague modify its founding charter to guarantee the US impunity for its war crimes. The United States claims its geopolitical adversaries are "rogue states", but overwhelming evidence...
Neoliberalism – a business-backed ideology committed to cutting taxes, busting trade unions, gutting government regulations, and privatizing public services – is the dominant political and economic philosophy of our time. Yet despite capturing both major parties and shaping...
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