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Private equity funds and other Wall Street investors are buying up homes across the US and the West, driving up rent and the cost of living. Economist Michael Hudson explains how these corporate landlords are a result of the system of financialized capitalism, dominated by an...
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Why are so many artists struggling in a booming music industry? Over 600 million people globally have streaming subscriptions, with most of them paying about 12 bucks a month. And for musicians, its never been easier to release work into the world. But ease of access doesnt...
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Investor-owned utilities are building expensive & polluting energy projects to drive up shareholder profits. The scheme enriches massive firms like Blackrock and Vanguard. Meanwhile customers are forced to pay higher and higher energy bills.
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Two dialysis giants control the industry and they're gaming the healthcare system. DaVita and Fresenius are pushing out and intimidating patients, and sometimes refusing to send them to the hospital. It's all done to boost profits and make more off the dialysis business.
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Western governments claim to be models of democracy, and demonize their geopolitical adversaries as "authoritarian", but empirical evidence shows that the USA and European countries are oligarchies dominated by economic elites and large corporations.
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Mobile homes are one of the last remaining affordable housing options in America. Now theyve become private equitys latest target. Private equity firms now own at least 1200 parks nationwide. And residents have seen their rents spike by as much as 100% in the last 6 years.
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Just two days after we sat down with Francesca Albanese, the Trump Administration placed her under sanctions. They accuse the UN Special Rapporteur of waging economic warfare on the United States. She says the sanctions are mafia style intimidation techniques and vows to...
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I keep hearing that the government should be "run like a business. Bunk.
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JBS, the Brazilian meat-packing giant known for bribery and corruption scandals, just went public. The company was previously denied access to U.S. markets until they donated millions to Trumps inaugural fund. Now, small farms across the country are sounding the alarms.
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We talked to detainees and prison guards to unearth the violent and inhumane conditions at private prisons. "In these places, human rights don't exist. You don't even exist as a human," one former detainee told us. Meanwhile, the CEO of private prison company CoreCivic is...
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Rainforest Action Network has been campaigning for No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation (NDPE) policy for years, and right now they have their sights set on Mondelz, the corporation that makes Oreos and also continues to use conflict palm oil.
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Republicans are about to supercharge the gap between worker and CEO pay. The 2017 tax cuts enriched Wall Street and CEOs, who spent billions on stock buybacks. Workers got nothing. Now, corporations are posed for an even bigger windfall in Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill.
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AIPAC has long been a controversial organization, even in the world of lobbying. They have a history of being vindictive, engaging in personal attacks & what could be seen as intimidation. But with Tucker & Ted going after it, WWIII, & everything else as of recent, it's time...
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Lisa Pratta was a sales rep for drug manufacturer Questcor then she became a whistleblower. She witnessed bribes and was screamed at to illegally sell a multiple sclerosis drug. So she went after the pharma giant.
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A former Palantir employee is sounding the alarm. The tech company, founded by Peter Thiel, claims they can revolutionize government systems with their AI-powered software. Theyve been hired by the Department of Defense, the FBI, ICE, and even Wendys. Now DOGE will likely...
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Dupont and 3M have been secretly poisoning America for decades. PFAs also known as forever chemicalsare now in our food, water, clothes, and our blood. These companies knew its chemicals were highly toxic. But they chose to use them on everything you own.
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Welcome to the REAL Matrix.
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Elon Musk promised to cut $1 trillion of federal spending. Hes cut 0.5% of that. Meanwhile, hes secured an extra $8 billion in new contracts for Starlink, government-funded landing pads for SpaceX rockets, and access to all of the governments data.
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Update: 70% of Maine residents in 2024 voted against a ballot measure that would have created the first statewide consumer-owned utility in the country. What did it cost to buy 70% of of Maine voters? $37.6 million. This is how much the opposition spent to defeat the measure...
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Sobering yet hopeful, Common Ground exposes the toxic interconnections of American farming policy, politics, and health, by sharing stories of destruction and healing across the United States and beyond, and how regenerative agriculture and soil health plays a vitally...
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In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I unpack the true dangers of Elon Musk. Over the last decade and increasingly in the last five years, Elon Musk has descended deeper into right-wing and fascist politics. And with that descent has come the return of...
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The Dark Money Game features two documentaries, Ohio Confidential and Wealth of the Wicked, both directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney. The films investigate how an untraceable web of money from wealthy individuals and corporations flows through nonprofits...
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On this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Chris Hedges speaks with filmmaker Alex Gibney about Gibneys documentary series The Dark Money Game, which examines the labyrinth of mirrors that facilitates untraceable corruption through the American political system. Although...
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If youve ever paid to park at a public park, this ones for you. Shall we yap about the hollowing out of America? What happens when your water, schools, prisons, and even democracy itself get put up for sale?
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Documentary | UK, India and USADirector: Sheena Sumaria, Executive Producer: Christopher HirdLicensed for personal at-home viewing.
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Let's get something clear: undocumented immigrants commit less crime than U.S. citizens. This isn't speculation. It's not "just one study." It's the consistent finding of virtually every serious analysis over decades. Study after study has shown that immigrants, both...
Corporations are bringing in hundreds of thousands of foreign workers under the H-2A visa program. Workers tell us its basically a human trafficking scheme a way to replace farmworkers who unionize and fight for higher pay. Trump could expand it with little oversight.
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Today we will be exploring the homes abandoned in New Albany, Ohio, and why they went abandoned. - Stringer media
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Join the localization movement to build resilient local economies and flourishing communities. Local Futures produced a detailed Localization Action Guide to encourage everyone to 'GO LOCAL' - anytime, anyplace. It offers tangible and tested ways for individuals, communities...
Local Futures
The Shitthropocene is a mock anthropological view of humanity's consumption habits, turning a satirical (yet brutally honest) eye on how everything is turning to shit and why the impulse towards more might destroy us all.
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For nearly a half century, trickle-down economic policies have resulted in a tax system rigged in favor of the rich. This is not only bad for our economy, but its leading to a billionaire takeover of our democracy as well.
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Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich breaks down how power has shifted from labor unions to corporate giants over the last few decades, resulting in the rich getting richer at the expense of the working class.
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Alvaro Bedoya was investigating Amazon, X, and Walmart as an FTC commissioner. Hes also been a key ally of former FTC Chair Lina Khan. Donald Trump just illegally fired him and the only Democratic commissioner, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter.
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US Vice President JD Vance gave a speech about globalization that inadvertently revealed the truth about the US empire, the goal behind the new cold war on China, the economics of imperialism, and how the Trump administration is serving billionaire Big Tech oligarchs in...
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The new book Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful by The New York Times business investigations editor David Enrich chronicles an ongoing campaign by the wealthy and powerful to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision...
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Yapping about return-to-office movements, work from home policies, remote + hybrid work and all sorts lol
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The Document that Created our Modern Oligarchy
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Alright folks. Real talk. Weve reached a point where the top 1% owns more than the bottom 90% combined. Thats not a bug in the systemits the system working exactly as designed.
Tim Hjersted
Nvidias CEO is dodging $8 billion in taxes legally. He's using estate tax loopholes. Closing them, and taxing the ultra-wealthy, is the only thing that will stop a new American oligarchy. But Trump wants to eliminate the estate tax altogether.
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Revolution or Death is a three-part collaboration between Peter Gelderloos and subMedia. Part 1, 'Short Term Investments, examines the official response to the climate crisis and how it's failing.
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BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, is buying the ports on both sides of the Panama Canal, after Donald Trump threatened the Latin American country and forced it to pressure a Hong Kong company to sell its stake. Ben Norton discusses how the US government is trying...
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This was a talk I gave at the Workers Strike Back conference in Seattle earlier this week.
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First we got a mafia economy. Then we got a mafia state. We must rid ourselves of the ruling criminal class or become its victims.
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What does a rain jacket or a pan have to do with our health and environment? A lot. They can contain "forever chemicals or PFAS, which are seriously harmful and never degrade. We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way.
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Billionaire CEOs and political donors want to get Lina Khan fired. As chair of the FTC, shes taken on Amazon, Kroger, Microsoft, Meta, Airbnb, and more. Shes challenging powerful corporations like never before and theyre terrified.
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Trump attacked lobbyists as a candidate. Then he hired one as chief of staff. Now corporations are rushing to hire her former firm Ballard Partners. They registered 41 clients since the election 2x any other firm including Chevron, crypto companies & payday lenders.
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Billionaire Peter Thiel won big in the midterms, buying himself a Senate seat in Ohio. So what does Thiel want? Unfettered corporate power and the destruction of government institutions. This election got him closer than ever. We dug into his plan with @SecondThought.
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What is neoliberalism? In this video, we uncover how this economic theory evolved into a dominant cultural force that shapes the way we work, date, and live. Neoliberalism isnt just about tax cuts and deregulationits a mindset that has infiltrated every part of modern life.
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Billionaires like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos arent just amassing wealththeyre consolidating power, shaping government policy, and controlling the flow of information. As the ultra-rich dismantle institutions, defund public programs, and rewrite the rules to...
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As Donald Trump returns to the White House, many are raising concerns about the possible decline of liberal democracy. What then would a second Trump term mean for the next four years for the United States? And what impact will the president's foreign policy have on the...
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If youre feeling despair, I completely understand. But Trumps second term will expose a reality that has been hidden from many Americans: the raw, stinking power of the American oligarchy. Im hopeful that America will see this reality for what it is and respond to it. ...
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Corporations are planning an assault on workers rights once Trump takes office. It's time for Democrats to fight at the state level. In over a dozen states the Democrats have the power to overturn anti-union laws or pass key worker protections. Now they need to act.
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The Amazon Labor Union made history in 2022 by becoming the first group to successfully unionize an Amazon warehouse in the U.S. Two and a half years later, the company has refused to recognize the union and bargain a contract. To pressure the company to start negotiating...
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Yapping bout the whole united healthcare situation, insurance, lobbying, and more.
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Corporations have turned Medicare Advantage into a money-making scheme, denying patients care to generate profits. For Megan Bent, it may have cost her father his life.
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A health insurance whistleblower is exposing their most appalling practice. Its called prior authorization and its part of a money-making scheme based on denying and delaying patients care. But doctors are fighting to reform it.
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Why are so many doctors being forced to take out payday loans to make ends meet? Trying to answer this question led us to a giant monopoly that's been slowly plundering every part of our health care system.
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Democrats are barely talking about it anymore.
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Private health insurance corporations are trying to trick seniors across America into signing up for Medicare Advantage. Is it less expensive? No. Is it better coverage? Also no. Its just another way for corporations to skim more money off the ill.
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We must challenge the logic of empire and violenceboth state-sanctioned and vigilante, Tim Hjersted writes, while urging a shift to collective, nonviolent action to dismantle the profit-driven healthcare system.