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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. Decades of propaganda have reduced the concept to caricatures of authoritarian states and...
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?
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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.”
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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...
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Let's talk about the climategate scandal. What it showed us about climate science, and about ourselves. And what "pushing a narrative" really means.
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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...
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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...
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.
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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.
Today I blew the dust off my political arc and explain how I narrowly avoided the alt right
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Top 10 signs you are ontologically evil! Number 7 will SHOCK you!
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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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Donald Trump won the 2024 US presidential election in a landslide. Why did Kamala Harris lose so badly? Ben Norton explains the failure of the billionaire-funded Democratic Party to provide an economic alternative to the billionaire-funded Republicans' pseudo "populism", as...
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We've all heard the news about the recent hurricanes in the southeast. But the surprising part is the conspiracy theories that have arisen, implying that the government deliberately manufactured and deployed them. This is totally idiotic on so many levels, the primary level...
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The tragedy of the theory that the U.S. government is manipulating hurricanes is that it redirects anti-establishment energy back towards support for the status quo.
A brief primer on "enemy images" and how power structures deploy them to rally support for military and political agendas.
For a long time, Israel has used sex to sell zionism. There are 3 reasons why: they involve the settler-colony’s past, present, and survival for the future.
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Video games are not what they seem... They have a hidden agenda and are the frontlines of a digital battleground where pixels and politics collide. Salem breaks it down.
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When political leaders speak of genocide, they repeat a timeworn mantra: "Never again." Over the past year, for the Palestinians of Gaza, "again" has become reality - mass casualties broadcast almost in real time by its victims. This film is about an alternative version of...
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The "real" US Government has made an ad about the 2024 election and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅
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Racist pseudo-science is making a comeback thanks to Elon Musk. Recently, the tech billionaire has been retweeting prominent race scientist adherents on his platform X (formally known as Twitter), spreading misinformation about racial minorities’ intelligence and physiology...
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"Schoolhouse Rock" was an American series of animated "educational" short films. They were shown during Saturday morning "children's programming" on the ABC television network from1973-1985.
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A better world is possible. These documentaries light the way by showing examples of people rejecting despair, fighting against the status quo, creating alternatives and living a more beautiful world into being.
Following a shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump's supporters have portrayed him as a so-called "threat to the US deep state". But in reality, Trump was a warmonger as president, and appointed top CIA officials and neoconservatives to run his foreign policy. Ben...
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This is a clip from Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky & The Media (1992), more relevant today than ever.
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From air strikes to field executions, Fault Lines investigates the killings of civilians by the Israeli military in Gaza and the role of the United States in the war.
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The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative
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U.S. media and politicians have spoken out ad nauseam about the alleged anti-semitism on display at ceasefire protests. Not only do they fail to distinguish between antizionism (which is not antisemitism) and antisemitism, but they refuse to cover the the violence and hate...
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Actor, playwright and essayist Wallace Shawn shares his thoughts on the "misbegotten" state of Israel, condemns its "insanity," defends the protests, and expresses skepticism about the antisemitism of college campuses.
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The video Israel does not want you to see.
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Elites use identity, particularly national identity, as a way of advancing their own interests, often against the interests of the populations that they pretend to represent. The Israel Palestine conflict is a stark example of this, where nationalist elites initially...
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From FOX to MSNBC, the corporate media is united in promoting elite economic and government interests.
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A new al-Jazeera documentary finally offers the most definitive story of that fateful day - and I talk through the shocking claims of real atrocities and false claims with journalist Richard Sanders. - Owen Jones
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“We are not medieval peasants begging at the court of King Zuckerberg. We are the free citizens of democracy."
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The Tasmanien Government has made a tourism ad and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
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'There’s been no shortage of commentary in corporate media about pop superstar Taylor Swift helping to make this year’s Super Bowl the most-watched telecast in U.S. history.¹There’s been a lot less commentary about how Americans were fixated on football at precisely the same...
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And how the world fell for it.
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A new devastating report - based on interviews with CNN journalists and staff and internal emails and memos - has exposed CNN's raging pro-Israeli bias. This matters - a lot. - Owen Jones
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The US is designating the Houthis as a terrorist group for what amounts to disrupting genocide. The Houthis have targeted ships headed to Israel, citing their obligations to the UN Genocide Convention. BT’s Kei Pritsker explains the hypocrisy behind the US decision and asks...
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Why do Israelis dance and celebrate the death and destruction in Gaza? The answer lies in the dehumanization of Palestinians that is at the core of Israeli society.
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Over the past two-plus decades, the Media Education Foundation has produced and distributed documentary films, and organized a series of high-profile events and talks, to counter U.S. media narratives that have dehumanized the Palestinian people.
Media Education Foundation
Legendary scholar-activist Edward Said delivers a powerful lecture dismantling the persistent ideological belief that the world is riven by a clash of civilizations between the civilized and enlightened U.S.-led West and the barbaric and backward-looking totalitarian forces...
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In this 1998 film based on his paradigm-shifting book, Edward Said excavates and deconstructs deeply rooted Western perceptions of the Middle East as a mysterious land of exotics, villains, and terrorists, and argues that this caricatured cultural heritage continues to blind...
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From 7th October 2023, it's been clear that media coverage about Palestinians has been defined by racism: that their lives are considered to have little value. That's not simply an assertion. A detailed study has gone through the BBC's coverage in depth - and it has exposed...
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In this illustrated 2017 talk, Rutgers University media scholar Deepa Kumar, one of America's foremost experts on Islamophobia, looks at how Arabs and Muslims have become the predominant face of terror in U.S. news and entertainment media -- even though terror attacks by...
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Israel's Netanyahu and Turkey's Erdogan have engaged in a vicious war of words, each accusing the other of mass murder. They're both right about each other - they just don't have a moral leg to stand on. But this spat had an unfortunate consequence for Netanyahu - he just...
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"During the first six weeks of the war in Gaza, Israel routinely used one of its biggest and most destructive bombs in areas it designated safe for civilians, according to an analysis of video evidence by The New York Times."
This is a clip from our show SYSTEM UPDATE, now...
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Human Rights Watch have just done an in-depth report about how Meta is censoring pro-Palestinian voices on Facebook and Instagram. Here I show that I've been 'shadowbanned' on Facebook - and why this is part of a general attempt to silence the few pro-Palestinian voices with...
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This is a clip from Glenn Greenwald's SYSTEM UPDATE, now airing every weeknight at 7pm ET on Rumble. You can watch the full episode for FREE here.
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The U.S. Congress and elite colleges and universities are flipping reality upside down. Students are protesting to stop a genocide against Palestinians, but are accused of promoting one against Jewish people.
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The Australien Government and the Opposition have made an ad about electoral reforms, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative (so they're hoping you don't see it)
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Avi Shlaim served in the IDF. Ghada Karmi fled the Nakba. Two exiles, one history
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Abby Martin discusses how Palestinians are killed by the Israeli army regardless of whether they protest non-violently, recounting the non-violent Great March of Return protests that took place between 2018–2019, where over 223 Palestinians, including medics and journalists...
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Pro-war Israel supporters today are invoking the same logic Bin Laden used to justify the 9/11 attacks. This theory, which justifies the war crime of collective punishment, is morally bankrupt no matter who promotes it.
The Government™ has made an ad about what's happening in Israel & Gaza and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
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Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, activist and spokesman for Neturei Karta, talks to Al Jazeera
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Despite its intention of creating a Palestinian state, Hamas has arguably provided Israel with ammunition necessary to further its strategic goals since the fundamentalist group’s conception — with support from Israel.
Max Jones