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The future of this experiment is on the line as much of its civilian infrastructure has been destroyed since October.
Martin Winiecki ·
1,070 views · unrated
The failure to intervene to halt the carnage threatens to ignite violence throughout the region.
Chris Hedges · 2,082 views · unrated
It will result in even higher levels of death and destruction.
Chris Hedges · 1,143 views · unrated
Israel’s message, on the eve of a ground invasion, is clear. Leave Gaza or Die.
Chris Hedges · 2,198 views · 5 stars
Israel will appear triumphant after it finishes its genocidal campaign in Gaza and the West Bank. But by the time Israel achieves its decimation of Gaza, it will have signed its own death sentence.
Chris Hedges · 941 views · unrated
Israel, which always seeks to blame Palestinians for the atrocities it carries out, is the least trustworthy source about the bombing of the hospital in Gaza.
Chris Hedges · 1,435 views · unrated
Before the tragic and unprecedented loss of life in 2023, 2022 was the deadliest year in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories in over a decade. Israel itself has been in the grips of political turmoil. The country has elected the most right-wing government in its...
12 min · 311 views · unrated
Recounting his love of the water, Ray Lewis, OAM, snorkels among the vibrant sea life of the marine sanctuary he has worked to protect.
Written, Produced and Directed by Tim Brown and Michael Portway
Editor and Sound Design | Tim Brown
Colorist | Michael Portway
Awards...
6 min · 709 views · 4 stars
According to a December poll, 76% of Democrats and 61% of Americans support a permanent ceasefire. That still leaves 24% of Democrats who support Israel's war on Gaza.
Tim Hjersted ·
3,001 views · unrated
Republicans have introduced more than 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills in 2023 alone, all over the country. They're obsessed with controlling who Americans love, how they identify, and even where they can go to the bathroom. Here's why.
5 min · 871 views · unrated
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 · 1,174 views · 5 stars
The Government™ has made an ad about what's happening in Israel & Gaza and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
3 min · 2,032 views · 5 stars
Like many other people in Israel and across the world, my first reaction to the attack on October 7 was of shock and horror. But that initial reaction was accompanied by rage, not only at the appalling massacre perpetrated by Hamas on women and children, the elderly and the...
Omer Bartov · 1,061 views · 4.8 stars
World leaders just gathered at the UN in New York to discuss the climate, ahead of the main COP 28 climate conference coming up in November 2023. The president of that event is also the CEO of one of the world's largest oil and gas producers. So how, in the name of all things...
16 min · 920 views · unrated
Hiding in the Walls captures the complicated and devastating story of Baltimore’s lead poisoning epidemic. It takes a deep dive into the origins of lead poisoning, the failures of local leadership to stop the problem, and ultimately how it came to be a dangerous part of daily...
2 min · 5,676 views · unrated
The Blue-Gieman & US gives a voice to everyday people seeking answers to systematic racism and police brutality in America. The film presents hard truths, hidden facts, and soul-searching journeys from the catastrophic events of 2020 and before to a new face of healing and...
60 min · 4,605 views · unrated
Last week, Variety reported that “more than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone of Interest’ Oscar speech.” The angry letter is a tight script for a real-life drama of defending...
Norman Solomon · 1,201 views · unrated
NOTE: In the days leading up to the election, NDN Collective was invited to participate and contribute to a video with other organizers and activists, calling upon the movement to “Vote Like a Radical,” inspired by the essay authored by April Rosenblum.
NDN Collective · 74 views · 5 stars
I gave this talk in Blackburn, England during a campaign event for my friend Craig Murray who is running for parliament. Like George Galloway, who was recently elected to parliament, Craig’s central campaign issue is the genocide in Gaza. He calls for a permanent ceasefire...
Chris Hedges · 947 views · unrated
The resurgence of the labor movement in 2023 galvanized and emboldened unions around the country—and sent capitalists scrambling to squash the nascent militancy of their workers.
55 min · 753 views · unrated
A battle for the future of democracy is raging in Greg Abbott's Texas. In the summer of 2023, amid a deadly, record-breaking global heatwave, Republican Governor Abbott signed a bill that eliminated mandated water breaks for outdoor workers. When TRNN's Marc Steiner traveled...
27 min · 874 views · unrated
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 · 798 views · 5 stars
Avi Shlaim served in the IDF. Ghada Karmi fled the Nakba. Two exiles, one history
48 min · 1,043 views · unrated
Andrew Feinstein on why it is not controversial to say so. (Feburary 2023)
12 min · 987 views · unrated
Introducing… HeadSpin! our parody game show which exposes the only real winners in this economy: big banks, fossil fuel giants, and landlords.
6 min · 834 views · 5 stars
Here is a message of peace from my friend Michal Halev, the mother of Laor Avramov who was murdered on October 7th, 2023. I share this with you and stand behind her:
3 min · 1,289 views · unrated
There's a contradiction inherent in how Israel reckons with its atrocities against Palestinians. On one hand Israel's leaders and their supporters call for the genocide of Palestinians, such as this past weekend when Israel's Defense Minister announced a blockade of Gaza...
33 min · 1,397 views · unrated
“Liking” a post on social media might not seem like a high-impact action. But nonprofit media groups actually depend a great deal on their readers’ online engagement.
Luca Goldmansour · 5,110 views · unrated
Some people on the left make the following argument: we need to vote for a third party in this election, even or especially in swing states, as a way to punish the Democrats for their support for the genocide in Gaza. Only if the Democrats lose the election because of...
Stephen R. Shalom · 287 views · unrated
On October 22nd, 2023, James Talarico spoke at his home church in Texas about the dangers of Christian Nationalism.
19 min · 888 views · unrated
Fossil fuel executives have funded a massive, 50-year-long campaign to lie to the American people, cloud the science, and buy off Republican politicians. Untold millions will die and suffer as a result, but will their ever be one iota of accountability?
Thom Hartmann · 165 views · unrated
On Sunday, February 25, we received an email from a person who signed himself Aaron Bushnell.
Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective · 2,251 views · unrated
For the past month, Israeli bombardment of Gaza has been presented to the world as if it hasn’t already happened repeatedly (five times to be exact) since Gaza was put under brutal siege in 2007. “We will teach them a lesson that they will never forget” is a popular slogan by...
Mohammed Abu-Nimer · 1,051 views · unrated
Drought, forest fires and increasingly frequent storms. Climate change is destroying our forests. All over the world, people are looking for ways to keep them from dying out. Yet nature itself knows best what forests need to thrive.
26 min · 1,057 views · unrated
Around one billion people struggle with stress-related illness globally - and that figure is rising. What protects those with good mental health? Is their resilience innate? Or is the ability to withstand chronic stress and crisis something that can be learned? In the search...
52 min · 1,184 views · unrated
International oil giants are responsible for causing severe health problems in Iraq. The impact of toxic air pollution on the planet through gas flaring puts the lives of children and adults at serious risk. Gas flaring, the harmful practice of burning excess natural gas...
52 min · 1,162 views · unrated
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...
16 min · 821 views · 4 stars
Since Hamas militants killed around 1,200 people in Israel on 7 October 2023, extremist Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank are increasingly using violence to seize land and property which is forcing many Palestinians from their homes.
60 min · 442 views · unrated
Yesterday's assassination attempt on Donald Trump points to a profound sickness in American political life, whose threats don't discriminate by party or ideology.
Branko Marcetic · 683 views · unrated
Bush's Texas Solution: Tough on Crime Policies and Their Impact
49 min · 839 views · unrated
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.
Tim Hjersted ·
1,109 views · 5 stars
Seventy-five years of global inaction and Israeli impunity have led to this moment in which one of the most vulnerable populations on earth is pummeled by one of the world’s strongest military powers on a genocidal warpath.
Yumna Patel · 1,374 views · unrated
Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.~Matthew Desmond[1]The issue of housing is of fundamental importance that has a direct connection, among other basic rights, to democratic participation. Despite that (or because...
Yavor Tarinski ·
510 views · 4 stars
Being defined by a negative speaks more of bureaucracy than of sex or self-expression.
Sita Balani · 10,193 views · unrated
Best-selling author, foreign correspondent, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges addressed the Middle East crisis with a talk titled "The Genocide in Gaza" on December 6, 2023 at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in North Troy NY.
91 min · 2,719 views · unrated
Coca Cola, we’ve found out, has actually been cooperating with paramilitaries in Colombia to execute workers in their own bottling plants that are trying to form unions and trying to demand better working conditions. So we’ve been able to bring this to the attention of...
30 min · 18,408 views · 4 stars
Think invisible men, time travel, flying machines and journeys to other planets are the product of the European or ‘Western’ imagination? Open One Thousand and One Nights – a collection of folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age, from the 8th to the 13th centuries...
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad · 5,748 views · unrated
Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation was ultimately a religious act, one that radically delineates good and evil and calls us to resist.
Chris Hedges · 1,283 views · unrated
The reforms that could allow the PLO to lead and the Palestinian Authority to govern
Salam Fayyad · 1,615 views · 4 stars
A short film exploring the impact of media consolidation on news content and how this affects youth, both as viewers and media makers.
In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the U.S. At the time, Ben Bagdikian was called "alarmist" for...
11 min · 4,554 views · 3 stars
A brief primer on "enemy images" and how power structures deploy them to rally support for military and political agendas.
Tim Hjersted ·
164 views · unrated
Newly Revised Edition Created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod; Globalization & The Information Age. Slightly updated for 2012.
5 min · 3,894 views · unrated
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 · 1,591 views · unrated
Military spending and arms sales have a deep and lasting impact on the capacity to address the climate crisis, let alone in a way that promotes justice. Every dollar spent on the military not only increases greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but also diverts financial resources...
3 min · 2,529 views · unrated
This is a special edition of the Fishbones climate change animation, dedicated to the occassion of the International Climate Top in Paris 2015 -- otherwise known as COP21. Fishbones is an animated short explaining the most fundamental thing you need to know about what climate...
1 min · 4,554 views · 4.8 stars
“Anthropocene” is a widely proposed name for the geological epoch that covers human impact on our planet. But it is not synonymous with “climate change,” nor can it covered by “environmental problems.” Bigger and more shocking, the Anthropocene encapsulates the evidence that...
Julia Adeney Thomas · 1,379 views · 4 stars
We see and judge women based on the perspective of super rich white men who also tend to own the beauty competitions and the cosmetic companies.
Tamara Pearson · 1,181 views · unrated
The US achieved nothing in the Middle East, but millions of civilians paid the price – the same will be true now
Paul Rogers · 1,523 views · unrated
"The attack and the taking of hostages are a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. But the answer to killing civilians cannot be to kill more civilians. Imposing a siege and bombarding civilian infrastructure in a densely populated area will not bring peace...
Philippe Lazzarini · 1,295 views · unrated
Gaza was a free-fire zone on Saturday and Sunday, with UN officials saying that no place in the Strip is safe. Hundreds were killed, almost all of them innocent noncombatants, and including a worrisome number of children.
Although Israel tried to pull the stunt of issuing a...
Juan Cole · 1,076 views · unrated