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The Monopoly On Violence (2020)

This is a story of the violence and coercion that underlies our modern societies. Most of the time, our interactions are peaceful and consensual, but there is a large notable exception. The state maintains its power and ability to create law by the constant threat of force...

106 min · 4,414 views · 4 stars

Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History (2024)

For generations, Monopoly has been Americas favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and for better or worse the impulses that make our free-market society tick. But behind the myth of the games creation is an untold tale of theft, obsession and corporate...

54 min · 417 views · unrated

Mickey Mouse Monopoly (trailer)

The Disney Company's massive success in the 20th century is based on creating an image of innocence, magic and fun. Its animated films in particular are almost universally lauded as wholesome family entertainment, enjoying massive popularity among children and endorsement...

5 min · 13,307 views · 5 stars

NBC/Comcast Merger: Media Monopoly Taking Over?

Is television and entertainment media converging into a monopoly, dragging the Internet down with it and ultimately hurting you as the consumer? The proposed NBC Universal and Comcast merger has people saying just that. Sam Seder, former Air America Host says he doesn't see...

7 min · 3,444 views · 2.7 stars

Does Money Make You Mean? Monopoly May Hold The Answer

What happens when a rigged game of Monopoly makes some players really rich? (Created in collaboration withAJ+.)

2 min · 2,434 views · 5 stars

Tech CEOs Admit They Want AI Monopoly: US Plans to Block China's Competition & 'Steal' Engineers

Big Tech oligarchs in Silicon Valley fear competition from Chinese AI companies like DeepSeek, so they're working with the US government to cut off competitors. Billionaire Donald Trump backer Peter Thiel admits they want monopolies, arguing "competition is for losers". Ben...

30 min · 523 views · unrated

An Anti-Capitalist Woman Invented Monopoly and a Man Got All the Credit

The surprising origins of a beloved board game In March of 1903, a single woman in her late thirties walked into the U.S. Patent Office to secure her claim to a board game she had been diligently designing in the hours she stole from her day job as a stenographer. Lizzie...

Jen Doll · 6,215 views · 5 stars

10 Ways to Fix America's Rigged Monopoly Game

Alright folks. Real talk. Weve reached a point where the top 1% owns more than the bottom 90% combined. Thats not a bug in the systemits the system working exactly as designed.

Tim Hjersted · 594 views · unrated

Legendary Newspaper Fights to Stay Alive and Stop Conservative News Monopoly in Las Vegas

The story is, by now, familiar: A once-powerful newspaper is facing insolvency, and its owners, heirs to the empire-builder of yesteryear, are fighting among themselves, allowing petty concerns about money to split their family and tarnish their legacy. This time, the setting...

Steve Friess · 1,192 views · unrated

Is The US Really A Meritocracy?

One of the most common misconceptions about US society is that we live under a perfectly fair, egalitarian system which rewards those who have intelligence and a strong work ethic. This is the myth of American meritocracy. In this episode, Second Thought explores why the US...

13 min · 5,409 views · 4.5 stars

The Impact Of Media Consolidation On News Content

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 · 4,680 views · 3 stars

This Is the Secret To Understanding US Politics and the New Cold War On China: Monopolies

One of the main goals of the US political and economic system is to protect corporate monopolies. Silicon Valley Big Tech corporations fear Chinese competitors, so the US government is trying to ban them. Political economist Ben Norton explains how imperialism works, and what...

53 min · 188 views · unrated

Benjamin Tucker - Anarchist or Capitalist?

Editor's note: We found this article about Tucker relevant to today because his views represent such an interesting break from stereotypical views about socialism, markets, anarchism, and the 'left/right' associations we have with all these terms. For instance, that if you...

Gary Elkin · 4,057 views · 5 stars

Food Fascism in the Land of the Free

The food industry is no longer a free market. In fact, I'd go as far as saying it's becoming the most glaring example of corporate-government fascism in America. Actual monopolies fully control the basic building blocks of the food that makes up the majority of the...

Eric Blair · 9,393 views · 5 stars

What Comes After Capitalism? (with Yanis Varoufakis)

Free market capitalism died over a 100 years ago and gave way to monopoly capitalism. Now, to avoid dystopian capitalism, there may be only one way forward...

7 min · 6,292 views · 5 stars

How Monopolies Secretly Steal Your Freedom (ft. Lina Khan)

What is freedom? Are you really free if your groceries or medicine are so expensive that you cant afford them? Or if your boss can change your work schedule on a whim or block you from getting a new job?

7 min · 1,365 views · unrated

This Company Makes Billions By Rationing Your Health Care

Why are so many doctors being forced to take out payday loans to make ends meet? Trying to answer this question led us to a giant monopoly that's been slowly plundering every part of our health care system.

14 min · 427 views · unrated

Five Left-Libertarian Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For

A note of clarification: The "left" in left libertarian in the title exists to distinguish the solutions this article presents from the right-learning associations most people have of American libertarianism. If you're only used to reading

Kevin Carson · 9,614 views · 3.9 stars

Wall-E as Sociological Storytelling

Pixars Wall-E is a masterpiece of animated filmmaking about two adorable robots falling in love. It also serves as an excellent example of sociological storytelling.

16 min · 4,557 views · 5 stars

How Not to Fight the 1%

In an article that will no doubt make progressive hearts go pitty-pat (The 1% May Be Richer Than You Think, Research Shows,Bloomberg, August 7), Jeanna Smialek suggests that top 1%s wealth is far greater even than official statistics indicate and that because so much of that...

Kevin Carson · 12,120 views · 4.7 stars

TPP/TTIP/TiSA Grants Banks Terrifying Secret Powers

"In March 2014, the Bank of England let the cat out of the bag: money is just an IOU, and the banks are rolling in it. So wrote David Graeber in The Guardian the same month, referring to a BOE paper called "Money Creation in the Modern Economy." The paper stated outright that...

8 min · 12,263 views · 5 stars

Our Land: A 7 Part Series about Revolutionizing Our Relationship to Food & Land

We have created this series of films to celebrate and interpret intervention, undertaken by individuals and communities, to shift our food and farm economy. These episodes each address a major systemic failure of the old food economy:toxicity, monoculture, monopoly, inequity...

60 min · 10,483 views · 5 stars

This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons (2010)

For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as the commons -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most important intellectual and cultural works. InThis Land is Our Land...

47 min · 4,470 views · 5 stars

Media Finally Admits: Israel Is Committing Genocide In Gaza, As US Corporations Profit

The New York Times finally admitted Israel is carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, in an article by an Israeli scholar who studies the Holocaust. A United Nations report detailed how US corporations are profiting from these crimes, although the...

29 min · 1,233 views · unrated

Corporate Landlords Are Taking Over, Making Life Unaffordable: Economist Michael Hudson Explains Why

Private equity funds and other Wall Street investors are buying up homes across the US and the West, driving up rent and the cost of living. Economist Michael Hudson explains how these corporate landlords are a result of the system of financialized capitalism, dominated by an...

60 min · 109 views · unrated

Ex-google Exec (WARNING): the Next 15 Years Will Be Hell Before We Get To Heaven!

Mo Gawdat sounded the alarm on AI, and now hes back with an even bigger warning: AI will cause global collapse, destroy jobs, and launch us into a 15-year dystopia that will change everything. Mo Gawdat is back! Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer at Google X and...

155 min · 132 views · unrated

We NEED To Nationalize 70% of the Economy

Are corporations destroying America? From greedflation to wealth inequality, the U.S. economy is collapsing under late stage capitalism. This video explores why industries like healthcare, housing, energy, banks, and utilities should be nationalized and treated as public...

44 min · 163 views · unrated

We Asked Our Community How to Make America Great—Here's What They Said

We recently posed a simple question to our community on Facebook: How can we make America great? We got hundreds of comments.

Films For Action · 768 views · unrated

Decentralize Big-Retail: How to Uproot Walmart & Bring Jobs Back Home

In many towns across America, Walmart, or a similar mega-retailer, is the only option you have when you need (almost) anything. Big-retail is a monopoly in its truest form and it has become so, not through "free market" economics, technological innovation, supply and demand...

LocalOrg · 4,061 views · 4 stars

Real Estate 4 Ransom: Why Does Land Cost the Earth? (2012)

REAL ESTATE 4 RAN$OM outlines a genuine alternative to the global property speculation that forced so many into debt. Doubling the pressure, the tax game has become just that, with tax havens a favoured option for the wealthy. The result - we are taxing the wrong things...

39 min · 49,336 views · 4.9 stars

The Top 10 Flaws of Neoclassical Economics

Neoclassical economics has severe flaws. But since the field is captive to the monopolistic money and banking system, it is very difficult for economists who are aware of this to speak up. If they were to speak about the flaws, their careers would be severely limited. Only...

Damon Vrabel · 23,964 views · 4.8 stars

The Oligarchy Knows Class Warfare Is the Real Fight—Why Don't Liberals?

The Democrats and Republicans have legalized a level of greed and fraud that even heirs of the robber barons thought unsustainable.

Chris Hedges · 7,820 views · unrated

Prisoner Prophet: Revisiting George Jackson's Analysis of Systemic Fascism

"Fascism must be seen as an episodically logical stage in the socio-economic development of capitalism in a state of crisis. The rise of Donald Trump has brought talk of fascism to the forefront. While comparing US Presidents to Hitler is certainly nothing new -- both Obama...

Colin Jenkins · 1,530 views · 4.2 stars

It's Not "Corporatism," It's Not "Crony Capitalism," It's Capitalism!

Chances are if you are reading this, you have spent a fair amount of time discussing the [Occupy Wall Street movement]. Anyone with a basic familiarity with the protests is aware that the demonstrators represent a broad spectrum of ideologies, beliefs and goals.

Red Phoenix · 11,622 views · 5 stars

How Bosses Are (Literally) Like Dictators

Americans think they live in a democracy. But their workplaces are small tyrannies.

Elizabeth Anderson · 22,491 views · 4.8 stars

American Cartel: How America's Two Major Parties Helped Destroy Democracy

Cartel: An association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition.

Frank Castro · 5,185 views · 4.5 stars

The Internet Is Dead, Long Live the Internet!

The internet as we know it is dead.

The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program · 3,447 views · 4.5 stars

When The Government Shuts Down, Suddenly "Public" Land Isn't Public, but the Property of the State

Thegovernment shutdownis teaching us a lot about the public sector mainly that it doesnt exist.

Grant Mincy · 13,040 views · 5 stars

Authorities in Ferguson and New York - Expect Resistance!

Frank Castle · 2,884 views · 4.8 stars

Pope Francis: Capitalism Is 'Terrorism Against All of Humanity'

Pope Francis argues that modern economy's worship of 'god of money' leads to disenfranchisement and extremism

Nika Knight · 31,922 views · 5 stars

Scott Noble's History of Resistance

Scott Noble has been making documentary films for close to a decade. His films are consistently thoughtful and never superficial. Reminiscent of Chris Markers documentary work in style and approach, Nobles films remind us that history is important. They also provoke a sense...

Ron Jacobs · 1,371 views · unrated

An Invitation to Anarchism

The word anarchist is thrown around a lot these days. When discussing their mild disagreements over foreign policy, healthcare, tax rates, gun control, immigration, torture, or the war on drugs, its not uncommon for a Republican or Democrat to hurl the word at each other. In...

Jason Lee Byas · 9,126 views · 3.8 stars

Growthism: Its Ecological, Economic and Ethical Limits

We have many problems poverty, unemployment, environmental destruction, climate change, financial instability, etc. but only one solution for everything, namely economic growth. We believe that growth is the costless, win-win solution to all problems, or at least the...

Herman Daly · 7,274 views · unrated

Expropriation or Bust: on the Illegitimacy of Wealth and Why It Must Be Recuperated

Election seasons bring with them a renewed interest in politics. For most that couldn't care less about such concerns, election season becomes, for at least a moment, a time to reflect on deeper issues. For those of us who spend a large portion of our lives thinking, writing...

Colin Jenkins · 7,901 views · 4.5 stars

Health Care: An Anarchist Approach

The current US debate about health-care funding can be understood as concerned with meeting the challenge ofdoing three things at once:

Gary Chartier · 3,981 views · 4 stars

Open-Source Healthcare

The healthcare industry is a textbook example of what Ivan Illich (inTools for Conviviality)called a radical monopoly. The central function of the governments safety and consumer protection regulations, in most cases, is either to exclude competing providers of a good or...

Kevin Carson · 2,638 views · unrated

How Do We, As a Society, Want to Be Remembered?

How do we, as a society, want to be remembered? I would rather it not be this way.

3 min · 9,561 views · 4.2 stars

The Public School Nightmare: Why Fix a System Designed to Destroy Individual Thought?

I want you to consider the frightening possibility that we are spending far too much money on schooling, not too little. I want you to consider that we have too many people employed in interfering with the way children grow up and that all this money and all these people...

John Taylor Gatto · 17,865 views · 5 stars

Are "Anarcho"- Capitalists Really Anarchists?

In a word, no. While "anarcho"-capitalists obviously try to associate themselves with the anarchist tradition by using the word "anarcho" or by calling themselves "anarchists" their ideas are distinctly at odds with those associated with anarchism. As a result, any claims...

Anarchist F.A.Q. · 10,395 views · 4 stars

Can a Corporation Thrive Without Bosses? Valve's Innovative Management Structure Says Yes

You have readValves survival manual for new employees. You have readMichael Abrashs wonderful accountof working at Valve. Now read my political economy analysis of Valves management model; one in which there are no

Yanis Varoufakis · 6,143 views · 5 stars

Statism and the Illusion of Choice

Power is not to be conquered, it is to be destroyed. It is tyrannical by nature, whether exercised by a king, a dictator or an elected president. The only difference with the parliamentarian democracy is that the modern slave has the illusion of choosing the master he will...

Sebastian A.B. · 8,697 views · 4.7 stars

Understanding Occupy Wall Street -- It's Not What They're for, But What They're Against

Critics of the growing Occupy Wall Street movement complain that the protesters dont have a policy agenda and, therefore, dont stand for anything. They're wrong. The key isnt what protesters areforbut rather what theyreagainst-- the gaping inequality that has poisoned our...

Sally Kohn · 5,612 views · 5 stars

13 Point Human Rights-Based Revolutionary Agenda

REVOLUTION LA is a political discussion group and revolutionary grassroots movement dedicated to building class-consciousness from the bottom-up through community education, outreach and empowerment.As the struggle of disadvantaged populations continues to widen through mass...

REVOLUTION LA · 8,975 views · 5 stars

The Golden Age of Freedom Is Still Ahead

Free enterprise is often associated with the past. This perception puts the markets champions, seen as hopeless reactionaries, on the defensive.

Anthony Gregory · 2,313 views · unrated

Public Banking in Costa Rica: A Remarkable, Little-Known Model

In Costa Rica, publicly-owned banks have been available for so long and work so well that people take for granted that any country that knows how to run an economy has a public banking option. Costa Ricans are amazed to hear there is only one public depository bank in the...

Ellen Brown · 4,052 views · 4.5 stars

Marx Was Right: Five Surprising Ways Karl Marx Predicted 2014

There's a lot of talk of Karl Marx in the air these days from Rush LimbaughaccusingPope Francis of promoting "pure Marxism" to aWashington Timeswriter

Sean McElwee · 7,950 views · 4.5 stars

What Schools Teach Without Teaching: American Myths and Powerlessness

All over America, school children are completing another academic year before theirsummer vacation. This invites the questions, what did theylearnand what did theydowith what they learned?

Ralph Nader · 6,454 views · 5 stars

The New Story | La Nueva Historia

The old paradigm of separateness, patriarchal anthropocentrism, religious monopolies, and the dictatorship of the ego, among other guiding threads, have brought humanity and planetary living systems to the brink of collapse. To aspire to a possible future, it is essential to...

20 min · 2,259 views · unrated

Central Banks Nervous as Alternative Currency with David Bowie's Face Goes Viral

One of the best ways for the general publicto take power back is to develop alternative currencies both local and global that allow people to trade outside of the corporate-government banking systems and central bank notes.

John Vibes · 15,347 views · 4.9 stars

The Internet Is About to Become Worse Than Television

Last week, an obscure but potentially internet-transforming document was leaked from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. It revealed that government regulators are considering rules that

Annalee Newitz · 15,072 views · unrated

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