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Universal Basic Income: Answering the Common Objections
Universal Basic Income: Answering the Common Objections
Whenever the idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) comes up, certain objections are raised almost immediately. These concerns deserve real answers, not soundbites. I get it - the stakes are high. Its a major shift from the economic norms weve been conditioned to accept.
Tim Hjersted
Why We Need a Workers' Bill of Rights in the Age of Automation
Why We Need a Workers' Bill of Rights in the Age of Automation
Theres a basic question hanging over the future of work that almost no one in power is asking out loud:
Tim Hjersted
Stop Blaming Immigrants. Start Blaming the Real Criminals.
Stop Blaming Immigrants. Start Blaming the Real Criminals.
Let's get something clear right off the bat: 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...
Tim Hjersted
America Is OCCUPIED — Here’s the Proof!
America Is OCCUPIED — Here’s the Proof!
In this segment of 51-49, James breaks down how a Jewish Congressman was ousted from a safe blue district not by voters, but by a $3 million cash dump from the pro-Israel lobby. What looks like a normal primary election is actually a quiet case study in how foreign influence...
6 min
Planting Trees Won't Save the Planet. Protecting Forests Will.
Planting Trees Won't Save the Planet. Protecting Forests Will.
What happens when a study goes viral? After the trillion tree campaign captured the internet's imagination, YouTube sensation, MrBeast, raised 20 million dollars to plant 20 million trees. But did they survive? We went to check in on them and were shocked. In this episode of...
12 min
10 Lessons for Stronger Movements
10 Lessons for Stronger Movements
Our real opponents are the billionaires, the war profiteers, and the politicians in both parties bought by corporate moneynot the few imperfect allies we have in power, and not the ordinary people who vote or think differently from us.
Tim Hjersted
“Ultimate Grifter”: Bob Kuttner on How Trump Could Drop His Tariffs & Take Credit for Saving Economy
“Ultimate Grifter”: Bob Kuttner on How Trump Could Drop His Tariffs & Take Credit for Saving Economy
President Trump is facing increasing criticism from big businesses over his decision to launch a global trade war.
10 min
Trump's War on Children: DOGE Guts Head Start, Child Abuse Programs, Healthcare & More
Trump's War on Children: DOGE Guts Head Start, Child Abuse Programs, Healthcare & More
Cuts by the Trump administration are putting children at risk, according to a new report by ProPublica. The administration has cut funds and manpower for child abuse investigations, enforcement of child support payments, child care and more. On top of that, Head Start...
7 min
Hundreds Of Experts Say The US Is Turning Fascist | The Kyle Kulinski Show
Hundreds Of Experts Say The US Is Turning Fascist | The Kyle Kulinski Show
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11 min
Rebellion PAC Launches Populist Takeover of The Democratic Party
Rebellion PAC Launches Populist Takeover of The Democratic Party
In this video, Cenk Uygur announces Rebellion PAC to promote populist economic policies within the democratic party. Former Bernie Sanders presidential campaign co-chair, rep Ro Khanna is on board.
19 min
Israel’s Oldest Newspaper Tried to Smear Us. We Recorded the Whole Thing | BreakThrough News
Israel’s Oldest Newspaper Tried to Smear Us. We Recorded the Whole Thing | BreakThrough News
Israels oldest newspaper tried to run a hit piece against us. Luckily, we recorded the whole thing. Hear this Haaretz journalist try to ask gotcha questions to Kei Pritsker to try to frame The Encampments film as anti-Semitic. - BreakThrough News
12 min
Scared Sacred
Scared Sacred (2004)
In a world teetering on the edge of self-destruction, award-winning filmmaker Velcrow Ripper sets out on a unique pilgrimage. Visiting the 'Ground Zeros' of the planet, he asks if it's possible to find hope in the darkest moments of human history.
105 min
Israel’s Eradication of Gaza’s Healthcare System (w/ Dr. Feroze Sidhwa) | The Chris Hedges Report
Israel’s Eradication of Gaza’s Healthcare System (w/ Dr. Feroze Sidhwa) | The Chris Hedges Report
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65 min
American Concentration Camps
American Concentration Camps
Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps including those in El Salvador it creates a system of detention that eschews due process and disappears citizens into black holes.
Chris Hedges
This Bill Could Destroy Texas Public Schools. Your State Could Be Next.
This Bill Could Destroy Texas Public Schools. Your State Could Be Next.
Texas is on the verge of passing a law that could defund public education. Vouchers send public taxpayer dollars to private schools. It could cost taxpayers $10 billion by 2030. And, it could destroy Friday Night Lights.
10 min
The Deportation-Industrial Complex Is the New War on Drugs—And It's Just as Corrupt
The Deportation-Industrial Complex Is the New War on Drugs—And It's Just as Corrupt
Spending hundreds of billions on mass deportation for non-violent civil offenses or misdemeanors is the war on drugs rebranded. And its truejust like the war on drugs, mass deportation doesnt solve the root causes of anything. It scapegoats vulnerable people, militarizes our...
Tim Hjersted
Murmurings of the Land | Stephen Jenkinson & Nathalie Roy of the Orphan Wisdom Farm
Murmurings of the Land | Stephen Jenkinson & Nathalie Roy of the Orphan Wisdom Farm (2025)
Stephen Jenkinson is a storyteller, a ceremonialist, an off-grid farmer anda "grief literacyadvocate". He's the author of many books, including prize winner "Die Wise". Jenkinson, along with his wife Nathalie Roy, is the founder of the Orphan Wisdom school, which operated in...
27 min
Trump’s Gestapo Is Disappearing American Teens | The Kyle Kulinski Show
Trump’s Gestapo Is Disappearing American Teens | The Kyle Kulinski Show
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11 min
Why Third Parties Can't Win Elections in America
Why Third Parties Can't Win Elections in America
The deck is stacked against third party movements in the United States. If the Left wants to overthrow Trump and restore any semblance of democracy in this country, it needs to move past this notion. Any effort to build a third party hinders our ability to pursue leftist...
31 min
The Art of Justifying Evil
The Art of Justifying Evil
The way some people answer the problem of evil can be an avenue to atrocity. - DARKMATTER2525
44 min
Cannes Selects Film on Gaza Photographer Fatma Hassona; A Day Later, She's Killed in Israeli Strike
Cannes Selects Film on Gaza Photographer Fatma Hassona; A Day Later, She's Killed in Israeli Strike
Fatma Hassona, the 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and subject of the upcoming documentary film "Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk," was killed with her family Wednesday by an Israeli missile that targeted her building in northern Gaza. The strike occurred just one...
17 min
Trump's Tariffs Hurt the US Much More than China - Economist Michael Hudson Explains
Trump's Tariffs Hurt the US Much More than China - Economist Michael Hudson Explains
Donald Trump's tariffs are benefiting rich elites at the expense of the majority of the population, argues economist Michael Hudson. He explains how the US trade war on China is isolating the United States and encouraging countries to seek alternatives. Ben Norton hosts the...
59 min
How This Legal Immigration Program Became a Human Trafficking Scheme
How This Legal Immigration Program Became a Human Trafficking Scheme
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.
19 min
How Two Billionaires Erased a Rural Ohio Town
How Two Billionaires Erased a Rural Ohio Town
Today we will be exploring the homes abandoned in New Albany, Ohio, and why they went abandoned. - Stringer media
44 min
In Defense of Che Guevara (How the Media Lies to You)
In Defense of Che Guevara (How the Media Lies to You)
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...
28 min
Palantir: The New Deep State
Palantir: The New Deep State
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...
17 min
China Has Already Won Trump's Trade War
China Has Already Won Trump's Trade War
Kyle Kulinski and Krystal Ball interview Ben Norton on Trumps failed skirmish against China.
23 min
We Found The Real Government Waste & Fraud. Trump Endorses It.
We Found The Real Government Waste & Fraud. Trump Endorses It.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the recently-confirmed administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. says that he wants to expand Medicare Advantage a program that former health insurance executive Wendell Potter calls one of the biggest scams [...] weve seen in this country.
14 min
"Encouraging & Important": Harvard Rejected Trump Takeover. Will Other Institutions Join the Fight?
"Encouraging & Important": Harvard Rejected Trump Takeover. Will Other Institutions Join the Fight?
Harvard University has pushed back as President Trump ramps up his attacks on higher education. After Harvard rejected demands by the Trump administration to eliminate all DEI initiatives and further crack down on Palestinian rights protests, including reporting international...
17 min
Mohsen Mahdawi's Abduction "Should Terrify" Us, Says VT Rep. Balint
Mohsen Mahdawi's Abduction "Should Terrify" Us, Says VT Rep. Balint
The Trump administration is now seeking to deport Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, who is being held in a prison in northwest Vermont. He was detained by Homeland Security agents when he went to an immigration services center to take a civics test that is the final...
17 min
Neoliberalism Needs To Go
Neoliberalism Needs To Go
Second Thought explains neoliberalism.
20 min
Trump's Trade War Immediately Failed: China Is Much Stronger than USA Thinks
Trump's Trade War Immediately Failed: China Is Much Stronger than USA Thinks
After Donald Trump imposed 145% tariffs on China, he was forced to issue exemptions for Chinese made cellphones, computers, semiconductors, and other electronics, because the deindustrialized US can't make them. Trump's huge trade war immediately failed, demonstrating that...
33 min
Expert on Fascism Has a CHILLING Warning About What Comes Next
Expert on Fascism Has a CHILLING Warning About What Comes Next
Timothy Snyder, a historian and author of On Tyranny, recently announced his decision to leave America due to rising authoritarianism. He also reacted to Trumps defiance of the Supreme Court by warning that it marks the beginning of a new era of state terror in the United...
11 min
The Next Person in a Cell With No Charges Could Be You
The Next Person in a Cell With No Charges Could Be You
We are now in the midst of a outright coup against the Constitution, against the United States, and against our founding ideals. If we don't fight for and win the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, our democracy is dead.
Thom Hartmann
Trump REFUSES to Free Innocent Immigrant He Sent to a Gulag, Says Americans Are Next
Trump REFUSES to Free Innocent Immigrant He Sent to a Gulag, Says Americans Are Next
In a joint meeting with Trump and El Salvadors president, Nayib Bukele, both men refused to release an innocent immigrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from CECOT, a notorious Salvadoran prison. Both Bukele and members of Trumps administration claimed they dont have the...
23 min
Our Coming Cyberpunk Dictatorship (Snow Crash)
Our Coming Cyberpunk Dictatorship (Snow Crash)
There's a worst case scenario looming here, isn't there?
58 min
Trump & Tariffs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Trump & Tariffs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
John Oliver discusses the ongoing chaos surrounding Donald Trump and tariffs, why the past week could have lasting repercussions, and why your grandma might be looking to start an OnlyFans.
28 min
The Left Needs to Start Taking Accountability For its Losses
The Left Needs to Start Taking Accountability For its Losses
The modern left has normalized a lot of self-defeating behaviors. Let's talk about those behaviors and what traits we need to internalize instead. Probably not the last video I will do on the topic. - Anark
37 min
Trump's Nuclear Trade War Targets China - But Will Blow Back on USA
Trump's Nuclear Trade War Targets China - But Will Blow Back on USA
Donald Trump's trade war went nuclear, hitting China with 145% tariffs, aimed at economic decoupling. This is already backfiring on the US economy, which is heavily reliant on Chinese imports. The volatility also fueled a crisis in the bond market, with Treasury yields...
34 min
'GROW A F*CKING SPINE!': Dems REVOLT & Demand RESISTANCE
'GROW A F*CKING SPINE!': Dems REVOLT & Demand RESISTANCE
Kat Abughazaleh is running for Congress and primarying an incumbent Democrat with a brutally honest campaign slogan, "What if we didn't suck?"
17 min
Bernie Sanders PERFECTLY Explains Why Americans are OVER This Bulls**t System
Bernie Sanders PERFECTLY Explains Why Americans are OVER This Bulls**t System
During a CNN town hall, Bernie Sanders explained why so many Americans have lost faith in our political system: corruption. He explains how special interests are stacking the deck against voters and why politicians are complacent.
24 min
We Went To A Bernie Rally. We Didn't Find Who You'd Expect. | Ft. John Russell
We Went To A Bernie Rally. We Didn't Find Who You'd Expect. | Ft. John Russell
Bernie Sanders is drawing the largest crowds he's ever seen, and an upcoming rally in LA could be his biggest yet. We went to Denver to see why tens of thousands of people across the political spectrum want to fight oligarchy.
10 min
New Campaign: Don't Buy Apartheid
New Campaign: Don't Buy Apartheid
PSC has launched an important new campaign: Don't Buy Apartheid. We're calling on all individuals, shops, cafs, and venues to engage in two key boycott actions: boycott Israeli produce, and boycott Coca-Cola. Join your local PSC branch and take action at supermarkets selling...
2 min
The Alt-Right Pipeline Almost Got Me. Here’s Why It Failed
The Alt-Right Pipeline Almost Got Me. Here’s Why It Failed
Something stopped me from going alt-right: being happy.
26 min
Fox News Journalist DEBUNKS IDF Lie
Fox News Journalist DEBUNKS IDF Lie
We tip our hat to any journalist brave enough to speak the truth and expose government liesespecially when they do so on a network thats typically hostile to reporting on war crimes committed by states our government is allied with. - Films For ActionThis is a clip from our...
14 min
Trump Is Threatening the World. What Should It Do In Response?
Trump Is Threatening the World. What Should It Do In Response?
We have never witnessed an attempt to build a global empire by trade and economic war alone before now. Trump is trying it. How should the world respond?
14 min
What's REALLY Happening in Gaza is SHOCKING & No One’s Allowed to Talk About it
What's REALLY Happening in Gaza is SHOCKING & No One’s Allowed to Talk About it
You wont see this on BBC or CNN.
9 min
A War on the First Amendment: David Cole on Trump Targeting Students, Law Firms, Schools & More
A War on the First Amendment: David Cole on Trump Targeting Students, Law Firms, Schools & More
An immigration judge has announced she could rule as early as Friday on whether the Trump administration can continue to detain Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University student protest leader incarcerated at an immigrant detention center in Louisiana. Khalil, a legal...
28 min
Naomi Klein: Trump NOT The Anti-Globalist We Demanded
Naomi Klein: Trump NOT The Anti-Globalist We Demanded
Ryan and Emily discuss Naomi Klein saying Trump is not the anti globalist we envisioned.
24 min
Red Fever
Red Fever (trailer)
Red Fever is a witty and entertaining documentary about the profound Indigenous influences on Western culture and identity, from sport and fashion, to politics and the environmental movement.
2 min
Public Banking 101
Public Banking 101
The details can be complex, but the value of public banking is actually simple to understand.
3 min
The Resurrection of Victor Jara
The Resurrection of Victor Jara (2015) ($5)
This feature length film explores the legacy and cultural resurgence of South American singer-songwriter and activist Victor Jara, who was brutally killed in 1973 following a military coup in Chile.
98 min
After Winter, Spring
After Winter, Spring (2015) ($4)
Six years in the making, award-winning film AFTER WINTER, SPRING is an intimate portrait of a rural community in southwest France as it grapples with a profound question: will it be the last generation of family farmers in a region continuously cultivated for over five...
74 min
First They Came for Mahmoud Khalil
First They Came for Mahmoud Khalil
The Trump administrations nationwide roundup of international students accused of holding opinions it dislikes is picking up speed, sowing fear, separating families and driving people to go underground or out of the country. This targeting appeals to President Trump and his...
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Kanye’s Downfall Shows Why “Woke” Was Necessary
Kanye’s Downfall Shows Why “Woke” Was Necessary
Kanye Wests latest spiralfrom unhinged rants to losing his last industry alliesshows what happens when social guardrails disappear. Once one of the most influential artists in the world, Kanye is now a case study in how unchecked rhetoric spreads in todays political and media...
12 min
Where To Cut Pentagon Waste?
Where To Cut Pentagon Waste?
The newly minted Department of Government Efficiency is taking a buzzsaw to red tape. They're promising a leaner, faster and better government. But when are the cost-cutters going to take a hard look at the largest government bureaucracy: the Pentagon.
3 min
How DOGE Helps Billionaires Evade Taxes
How DOGE Helps Billionaires Evade Taxes
Heres the real reason why DOGE is gutting the IRS. (Hint: it has nothing to do with efficiency.)
3 min
Yes. It's a Genocide - the Evidence Is Overwhelming
Yes. It's a Genocide - the Evidence Is Overwhelming
When analyzing the ongoing assault on Gaza, it is imperative to begin not with slogans or opinion, but with the clear and unequivocal framework of international law. The UN Genocide Convention of 1948, to which nearly every nation on Earth is a partyincluding Israel and the...
Films For Action
Trans Athletes: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Trans Athletes: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
John Oliver discusses why trans athletes seem to be at the center of U.S. politics right now, the nuances around competition and safety, and where the conversation could be headed.
43 min
America’s Constitutional Crisis (w/ Katherine Franke) | The Chris Hedges Report
America’s Constitutional Crisis (w/ Katherine Franke) | The Chris Hedges Report
The United States is facing a constitutional crisis, one that if it is not resolved, will cement into place an authoritarian state.The Trump administration has unilaterally revoked birthright citizenship, frozen federal spending, signed executive orders to dismantle over a...
44 min