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Novara Media investigates Danny Bones, an AI-generated rapper linked to British far-right groups and political parties, specifically Advance UK. The video highlights the risks of using AI to spread divisive political messages.
25 min
One week into the United States and Israel’s war on Iran, and the messaging coming from the White House is consistently chaotic and contradictory. From regime change and nuclear threat to preemptive attack - the Trump administration is struggling to juggle its narrative. And...
We've seen this pattern before.
Tim Hjersted
2 min
2 minutes of clips showing Donald Trump repeatedly promising to avoid starting new wars and emphasizing his role as a "candidate of peace" and "peacemaker."
20 min
Your brain isn’t broken, but it may seem like that because of how the screen age overwhelms your biology.
Myths are often treated as ahistorical, but here they are understood as alive and operating as memory systems that organize power in the present. This glossary names 100 and their function. They are the stories we live inside, defined.
Naya Diaz
In the end, the question is not whether a single post is offensive—it is whether we allow cycles of warranted outrage to consume the very attention required for collective survival.
Peter Scaramuzzo
The internet has not democratized news in any meaningful way; instead, the media monopoly has simply migrated to digital spaces.
Caitlin Scialla
17 min
What would it take for you to call this a crisis?In Minnesota, federal agents have killed civilians - and outside the United States, much of the world’s media is calling it what it is: state violence against citizens.But inside America, it’s being softened. Downplayed...
18 min
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.
17 min
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).
My friends, stay informed. Stay engaged. Be aware. Don’t fall into apathy. But please, don’t let the bad news kill you. We need you here to help twist the plot.
John Pavlovitz
85 min
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.
Confronting the brutality of the ruling dictatorship and the designs of U.S. and Israeli imperialism are the dual tasks of the uprising, according to Tudeh.
C.J. Atkins
While the current protests are largely driven by a record-high Rial to USD exchange and a 60 percent food inflation rate, the transition from labor strikes in South Pars to coordinated urban violence points towards a deeper level of intervention.
Vijay Prashad
8 min
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.
At the heart of this test lie two irreconcilable viewpoints: those who align themselves with armed agents and the task of protecting America from the “enemy within,” and those who embrace compassion for others. Between those with the guns, and those with the whistles.
Jordan Liz
New footage of ICE shooting in Minneapolis released, raising questions about officer's actions. Graphic content warning.
Brad Reed
25 min
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...
4 min
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.
“They’ve been pretending that this made-up thing was real for a year. But now that they’d have to actually demonstrate its existence in court, they’re going to cram it down the memory hole.”
Stephen Prager
18 min
Breaking down U.S. President Trump's recent actions in Venezuela, and the right-wing propaganda that has followed in the wake of it.
There is so much that National Public Radio could do to make itself better and raise the expectations of its listening audience.
Ralph Nader
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan have written a weekly column for nearly two decades. This is their final dispatch, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities in people-centered journalism.
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
Knowing him for over half a century, I am confident that Noam’s hate for sexism, misogyny, racism, exploitation and fascism didn’t lose even a tiny fraction of its passion and clarity due to his “time spent with” Epstein and/or Bannon.
Michael Albert
How can Washington claim the right to seize or blow up vessels, disrupt maritime trade, and kill civilian boaters—while bombing Yemen and condemning its de facto Houthi government for intercepting ships in the Red Sea to counter Israel’s genocide in Gaza?
Medea Benjamin
A comprehensive look at the evidence tell us criticism of Chomsky is absolutely warranted. This piece attempts to model what a fair and proportionate accountability process looks like.
Tim Hjersted
A new Department of Justice memo is another giant step towards authoritarianism; however, establishment media didn’t see it that way.
Jim Naureckas
When the state hunts its most essential—and most exploited—workers to meet deportation quotas, the myth of border security collapses.
Julia Norman
Declaring unilaterally that a war exists (when it doesn't) and then bombing unarmed civilian boats in international waters is inherently illegal, regardless of whether anyone is killed by the first, second, or tenth bomb. That’s an act of piracy and murder, not a legal use of...
Phyllis Bennis and Khury Petersen-Smith
The moment we allow governments to kill without trial, we step out of the rule of law and into barbarism.
Tim Hjersted
“Invasion” and “replacement” narratives function as cover stories for the corporate plunder of the working class, turning justified anger away from elites and toward scapegoats.
Tim Hjersted
18 min
Dena Takruri speaks to Assal Rad about how badly legacy media has failed at one of its most important jobs: covering war crimes and genocide.
26 min
In this conversation, Mehdi Hasan sits down with Stephen Kapos – an 88-year-old British-Hungarian Holocaust survivor, who was forced to go into hiding at the age of seven, was separated from his mother and father, lost 15 members of his family to the Nazi concentration camps...
Reason Magazine presents itself as a courageous outsider “pushing back against socialism,” but its real and consistent function is far more familiar: it operates as an ideological shield for concentrated private power while marketing itself as anti-authoritarian.
Tim Hjersted
Militarism must be exposed for what it is: savage, medieval madness.
Matthew Cooke
Steve Rose's framing of Scott Galloway as a kind of enlightened guide to “the crisis of men” is a useful illustration of how contemporary media systems manage dissent.
Tim Hjersted
4 min
Somehow a lot of people managed to miss the point of every movie they were raised on, from Star Wars to The Lion King to Robocop to Beauty & the Beast.
36 min
When 86 House Democrats—including party leader Hakeem Jeffries—join Republicans to “condemn the horrors of socialism,” you don’t need a political science degree to understand what’s happening.
Tim Hjersted
10 min
Rightwingers, including several prominate ones, completely fell for a troll post about NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's "requirement to teach Arabic numerals in schools".
Dear friends and critics, I care a lot about what our supporters think. I read most of the comments on our Facebook posts and I try to take in as many as I can.
Tim Hjersted
11 min
The video Douglas Murray doesn’t want you to see.
12 min
Krystal and Saagar discuss Fox News falling for welfare queen AI slop videos.
6 min
goose explains why knowing headlines isn’t the same as understanding the world.
19 min
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Introducing The Well-Oiled Plan — a sharp, darkly funny animation that exposes how the fossil fuel industry is using the same PR tricks once used by Big Tobacco, selling poison as “freedom.
31 min
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, a far-right Venezuelan coup-plotter who has long been funded by the US government. She strongly supports Israel as it commits genocide against the Palestinian people, and she is at the center of Donald Trump's war on...
5 min
goose explains why online debates don’t feel like conversations anymore.
9 min
"The rightwing machine wants you scared of progress, but I’m here to speak their worst nightmare out loud…If you’re even remotely associated with the Democratic Party, whether running for office, helping out, or just breathing while Democratic, the GOP and their rightwing...
8 min
This history makes it incredibly clear.
5 min
goose thought facts were enough.but brains aren’t spreadsheets. they’re nests.and some geese would rather honk louder than feel wrong.
3 min
When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator fights to bring Pepe back from the darkness. A Frankenstein-meets-Alice in Wonderland journey of an artist battling to regain control of his creation.
Every time someone critiques capitalism, or suggests alternatives like public ownership, workplace democracy, or real economic self-governance, you can count on a predictable response: someone parachutes into the comments with “Mao! Stalin! Pol Pot!” like it’s a mic drop.
Tim Hjersted
128 min
It's finally time to tackle climate change denial. There are so many frauds peddling disinformation in this realm, so who should we tackle? The answer is Matt Ridley. He is the poster boy for "lukewarmism", which is a version of climate change denial that accepts some science...
30 min
In this video, Hakim critically examines and debunks the “great replacement” and “white genocide” conspiracy theories, explaining their origins, motivations, and impacts, relying on statistical evidence and historical context.
16 min
Chris Gunness is the former chief spokesman for UNRWA and founder of the Myanmar Accountability Project.
Most American towns before the 1950s were already 15-minute cities. What changed wasn’t freedom—it was corporations dismantling transit to profit from cars and sprawl.
Tim Hjersted
I’ll be honest: my favorite conspiracy theories are the ones that sound anti-establishment, rebellious, and free-thinking — but in practice, they do the establishment’s work for them. The ones that get people so convinced they’re resisting power that they never notice how...
Tim Hjersted
35 min
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Let's stop using doublespeak and name things what they are. As Marianne Willliamson says, we beat big lies with big truths. Share it if you feel it. Voters need to stop electing big business bought and bribed republicans and democrats e.g. Scott Peters, Kurt Schrader...
31 min
Do you watch or listen to The Joe Rogan Experience? Do you think that scientists believe the average world climate temperature is cooling? There is likely a connection.In January of 2025, Joe Rogan referenced a Washington Post article about climate change. Unfortunately...
32 min
Visions of the future are common in science fiction. From "The Fifth Element" to "Doctor Who" to "The Hunger Games," we have imagined the future of fashion time and time again. But what if...it's all weird and messed up and we have to write a video essay about it? What if...
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This video explains: 1. What the political left and right actually mean 2. Why elites don’t want us to know what they mean 3. How confusion about left and right is a major cause of growing inequality 4. How understanding what left and right mean is a key tool in the fight for...
16 min
The mainstream narrative loves to invoke figures like Albert Einstein, MLK Jr, and Nelson Mandela, yet it always ends up whitewashing their radical beliefs. This video will shine a light on what the approved narrative conveniently ignores. This video is for educational...
9 min
In this video, Heather Cox Richardson explains how a series of preventable human errors and policy failures by the administration dramatically worsened the outcome of the catastrophic flood in Texas:
5 min
Mass protests are erupting across Israel — but not for the reasons you might think. This video takes you beyond the headlines — into the uncomfortable truths, the rising extremism, and the dangerous blind spots in how the West talk's about Israel and Gaza.
39 min
There is no immigration crisis — at least not the kind you're being told. In this video, we break down the myths, lies, and deliberate distractions fueling America’s immigration debate.
84 min
A message to Jews who support the war in Gaza. How lies about 1948 and Oslo, led to the destruction of Gaza.
13 min
More than 100 BBC employees have written a letter calling out their employer for becoming a mouthpiece for Israel and engaging in systemic censorship, including the refusal to air the documentary 'Gaza: Medics Under Fire'. More than 300 other journalists have co-signed.
8 min
You’re NOT Allowed To Talk About It.
10 min
Israel has launched a war against Iran, it claims it seeks to destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities. But that is a lie. In reality Netanyahu and Israel are executing a plan 30 years in the making. Salem breaks it down.
14 min
Tim Miller returns with a disturbing update on the targeted political assassination of Minnesota Democratic State Rep. Melissa Hortman and the attempted assassination of another Democratic lawmaker. The suspect, Vance Boulter, impersonated a police officer, arrived in a fake...
44 min
Hi, this is my first video. lmk what you think.
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Israel is paying influencers in the US to spread its propaganda. A meeting between Netanyahu and a group of US influencers has highlighted Israel’s long history of manipulating social media to cover up its genocidal agenda. With its propaganda budget expanding by 20x this...
28 min
When you search for details about the Argentine-born revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, you will be greeted with copious slander and lies about his life. He is often defamed as a murderer or a bigot when, in reality, he was not. This video will debunk the lies about Che and...
26 min
Something stopped me from going alt-right: being happy.
59 min
Donald Trump is portrayed as a "populist" committed to average working-class people, but his policies benefit wealthy elites at the expense of everyone else. His administration includes 13 billionaires -- including Elon Musk, the world's richest oligarch -- and he is cutting...
20 min
Jon Stewart goes old-school Daily Show on Trump and Republicans who pride themselves on “saving” free speech, all while censoring anybody who doesn’t agree with them.
How a marathon conversation turned into a conspiratorial manifesto—unchecked claims about Democrats, voting, and immigration, fact-checked and debunked.
Jane Prescott
15 min
There is a direct connection between the way the right wing is using the term "DEI" and the way bigots have used the n-word for 200 years. In this video, I trace the history of the most notorious slur in American history to the way "DEI" and "CRT" and other words are being...
54 min
For decades, U.S. imperialism has operated not just through military force but through a vast system of economic coercion, media manipulation, and covert operations. The World Bank, IMF, and USAID present themselves as tools of development, but in reality, they enforce...
28 min
In 2024, AI-generated images and videos are more realistic and accessible than ever, blurring the lines between fact and fiction. This video explores the evolution from early deepfakes in 2018 to today’s powerful generative AI tools like Midjourney and Microsoft’s VASA-1. I...
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I'm Andres Acevedo and this is The Market Exit. During the migration crisis of 2015, the small country of Sweden admitted a very large number of refugees. What effects did this surge of migrants to Swedish have on the Swedish economy? To find out, I met professor Peo Hansen...
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There’s nothing quite as satisfying as watching a fictional character obliterate some poor soul with a monologue so sharp it could split atoms. Whether it’s Matt Damon roasting an Ivy League trust fund kid or Eminem fact-checking his battle rap opponent into oblivion—when the...
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Do you ever feel like social media is manipulating your emotions? That’s not a coincidence. Platforms thrive on outrage, keeping you engaged by feeding you rage-inducing content. But you don’t have to play their game.
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The EJN Director describes the five values which are the foundation of ethical journalism: 1. accuracy; 2. independence; 3. impartiality; 4. humanity; 5. accountability.
Socialism is one of the most vilified and misunderstood ideas in modern political discourse. The number one reason for this hatred? Most people have no idea what socialism actually is.
Tim Hjersted
16 min
I’m Andres Acevedo, and this is The Market Exit. In this essay, I challenge one of the most pervasive frameworks in political discourse: the left-right spectrum. Where does it come from, and why does it continue to dominate how we think about politics today?
6 min
This is a satire of how easily offended anti-woke critics would treat Aliens and Terminator 2 if they came out today. This is actually a segment toward the end of my last video, called “Why I Stopped Being Anti-Woke.”
12 min
14.8% of Americans do not believe in climate change. Recently, a study mapping a 485-million-year history of Earth’s temperature and CO2 levels has been misinterpreted by some who downplay urgent climate concerns. Their argument suggests that, since the Earth has experienced...
25 min
Let's talk about the climategate scandal. What it showed us about climate science, and about ourselves. And what "pushing a narrative" really means.
20 min
PragerU, The Daily Wire, countless far-right talk shows, YouTube channels, think tanks, and online magazines. Where are they all coming from, and why are they all so well funded? Let's take a look at the groups bankrolling far-right rhetoric and what they stand to gain from...
The crisis of mass media lies at the heart of every other crisis we face today. Economic inequality, a ravaged planet, endless wars—none of these can be addressed if the public is systematically misled about their causes or distracted by manufactured moral panics with little...
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I discuss how and why I changed over the last decade, from being more anti-sjw (anti-woke) to realizing the dangers of falling into that trap.
Capitalism thrives on profiting from crisis—it sold us lies about cigarettes, sugar, and opioids, and now it's doing the same with climate change. Fake solutions and disinformation aren't accidents; they're the business model.
Tim Hjersted
32 min
Today I blew the dust off my political arc and explain how I narrowly avoided the alt right
58 min
Top 10 signs you are ontologically evil! Number 7 will SHOCK you!
43 min
Do you like Star Wars? Ok, how about Star Wars but then . . . you sprinkle in a lil bit of the 2024 US Presidential Elections madness?! Don't let General Grievous bully you into calling you a 'fool'. Because you won't want to miss this EPIC Thriller. Not only will you be...
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