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Washington and European Governments are Cheerleading Israel’s Genocidal Campaign in Gaza
Washington and European Governments are Cheerleading Israel’s Genocidal Campaign in Gaza
The failure to intervene to halt the carnage threatens to ignite violence throughout the region.
Chris Hedges · 2,380 views · unrated
Yasuní: The “Yes” Heard Around the World
Yasuní: The “Yes” Heard Around the World
“Leave the oil in the ground? Give up more than a billion dollars a year? Put nature above the economy? What madness is this?”
Pablo Solón · 628 views · unrated
This Is What Happens To Trump's Deportees 15 min
This Is What Happens To Trump's Deportees
What Happens When You Get Deported? – Second Thought
Second Thought · 322 views · unrated
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 · 7,139 views · 100%
Meet the Top 7 Oligarchs Controlling Your Online News
Meet the Top 7 Oligarchs Controlling Your Online News
​The internet has not democratized news in any meaningful way; instead, the media monopoly has simply migrated to digital spaces.
Caitlin Scialla · 2,276 views · unrated
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
Have I mentioned how important I think Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael is? I reread it recently for the first time in a while, and was again impressed with how many important modernity-challenging ideas are packed into one novel.
Tom Murphy · 1,360 views · unrated
As US Attacks Iran, Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us Once More
As US Attacks Iran, Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us Once More
“There is a time when silence is a lie, when silence is complicity, and when silence betrays our troops, our country, and ourselves. We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth."
Norman Solomon · 2,607 views · unrated
The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think
The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think
If you want a more progressive Democratic Party, the California governor ain't it.
Norman Solomon · 2,361 views · unrated
Unremitting Turkish Attacks Leave Rojava in Peril — and in Need of Solidarity
Unremitting Turkish Attacks Leave Rojava in Peril — and in Need of Solidarity
The future of this experiment is on the line as much of its civilian infrastructure has been destroyed since October.
Martin Winiecki · 1,476 views · unrated
Friends Don't Let Friends Destroy Themselves
Friends Don't Let Friends Destroy Themselves
In September 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, people gathered by the thousands across the country of Iran in spontaneous demonstrations and candlelight vigils to show support for America in its hour of grief. At one football match in Tehran, sixty thousand...
Charles Eisenstein · 1,322 views · 100%
Chris Hedges: Trump's Useful Idiots 17 min
Chris Hedges: Trump's Useful Idiots
A bankrupt liberal class, by signing on for the Zionist witch hunt against supposed antisemites and refusing to condemn Israel for its genocide, provided the bullets to its executioners.
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel · 1,179 views · unrated
How Corporate Democrats Made Trump Possible: A 10-Year Timeline
How Corporate Democrats Made Trump Possible: A 10-Year Timeline
Saving the country from autocracy requires recognizing—and then overcoming—the chokehold that Democratic leaders have on the party.
Norman Solomon · 919 views · unrated
Honoring Michael Parenti, Who Kept the Torch of the US Left Lit and Sharply Afire
Honoring Michael Parenti, Who Kept the Torch of the US Left Lit and Sharply Afire
​Parenti stands out as uniquely courageous and unapologetic in directly confronting capitalism, US imperialism, and the manifold corruptions and inequities of society’s powerful.
Christopher D. Cook · 824 views · unrated
Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History
Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History
The assault on historical memory by the Trump administration is designed to obliterate our shared understanding of reality and whitewash the crimes of the past to whitewash the crimes of the present.
Chris Hedges · 700 views · unrated
The Project Is to Reclaim the Commons. The Place to Start Is in Our Communities.
The Project Is to Reclaim the Commons. The Place to Start Is in Our Communities.
The city is the solution.
Patrick Mazza · 507 views · unrated
Act While It Still Matters
Act While It Still Matters
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” – Omar El AkkadWhen he posted on October 25, 2023, he also shared video of Gaza, in three...
Wim Laven · 452 views · unrated
The Dead and the Dying in Trump's American Gulag
The Dead and the Dying in Trump's American Gulag
A system of concentration camps is being built and it's time the nation reckon with this monstrosity before any more people are killed.
Rebecca Gordon · 5,027 views · unrated
Shopping Isn’t a Strategy. Here's How to Make Boycotts Effective.
Shopping Isn’t a Strategy. Here's How to Make Boycotts Effective.
With millions of Americans’ resistance still limited to consumer choices plus attending an occasional protest, we’re leaving a lot of potential people power on the table. If even a fraction of these individuals became active participants in campaigns and organizations, our...
Eric Blanc · 3,667 views · unrated
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
There's a question at the heart of the coming automation revolution that too few people in power are willing to answer honestly: Who will own the gains? Will it be the hedge funds, billionaires, and multinational corporations? Or will it be all of us — the people who built...
Tim Hjersted · 766 views · unrated
UN Report Warns of Escalating Genocide in Gaza
UN Report Warns of Escalating Genocide in Gaza
A United Nations report, published in October, lays out in chilling detail the advances made by Israel in Gaza as it seeks to eradicate “the very existence of the Palestinian people in Palestine.” This genocidal project, the report ominously warns, “is now metastasizing to...
Chris Hedges · 617 views · unrated
How Public Groceries Can Make Food Affordable Again
How Public Groceries Can Make Food Affordable Again
Errol Schweizer, a former national vice president of grocery at Whole Foods, argues in Jacobin that the private sector is responsible for ever-rising grocery prices and can’t be relied on to fix the problem. Our food system needs a public option.
Errol Schweizer · 546 views · unrated
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