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The Monopoly On Violence
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 · 4,790 views · 75%
Mickey Mouse Monopoly
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 · 13,379 views · 100%
NBC/Comcast Merger: Media Monopoly Taking Over?
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 · 3,464 views · 42%
Legendary Newspaper Fights to Stay Alive and Stop Conservative News Monopoly in Las Vegas
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 · 1,214 views · unrated
An Anti-Capitalist Woman Invented Monopoly and a Man Got All the Credit
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 · 6,257 views · 100%
Tech CEOs Admit They Want AI Monopoly: US Plans to Block China's Competition & 'Steal' Engineers
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 · 634 views · unrated
Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History
Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History (2024)
For generations, Monopoly has been America’s 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 game’s creation is an untold tale of theft, obsession and...
54 min · 588 views · unrated
10 Ways to Fix America's Rigged Monopoly Game
10 Ways to Fix America's Rigged Monopoly Game
Alright folks. Real talk. We’ve reached a point where the top 1% owns more than the bottom 90% combined. That’s not a bug in the system—it’s the system working exactly as designed.
Tim Hjersted · 786 views · unrated
How Do We, As a Society, Want to Be Remembered?
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 · 9,634 views · 81%
Health Care: An Anarchist Approach
Health Care: An Anarchist Approach
The current US debate about health-care funding can be understood as concerned with meeting the challenge of doing three things at once:
Gary Chartier · 4,007 views · 75%
Prisoner Prophet: Revisiting George Jackson's Analysis of Systemic Fascism
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 · 1,600 views · 79%
What Comes After Capitalism? (with Yanis Varoufakis)
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 · 6,380 views · 100%
Does Money Make You Mean? Monopoly May Hold The Answer
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 with AJ+.)
2 min · 2,460 views · 100%
Challenging Monopoly Power: Why Local Business Is Better for People, the Planet, and Your Wallet with Stacy Mitchell
Challenging Monopoly Power: Why Local Business Is Better for People, the Planet, and Your Wallet with Stacy Mitchell
Monopolistic business practices have been illegal in the United States for more than a century. Yet, monopoly power continues to accelerate in our modern commercial landscape. Large, powerful corporations edge out smaller businesses, often citing scale, “efficiency”, and...
88 min · 966 views · unrated
The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege
The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege
The definitive critique of our economic system since its beginning to the present day.
Kevin A. Carson · 110,928 views · 98%
Five Left-Libertarian Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For
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 · 9,668 views · 72%
When The Government Shuts Down, Suddenly "Public" Land Isn't Public, but the Property of the State
When The Government Shuts Down, Suddenly "Public" Land Isn't Public, but the Property of the State
The government shutdown is teaching us a lot about the “public sector” — mainly that it doesn’t exist.
Grant Mincy · 13,099 views · 100%
Real Libertarians Don't Shill For The Kochs
Real Libertarians Don't Shill For The Kochs
It’s been the thing lately, among certain establishment liberals, to dismiss libertarians as “Koch-funded shills.” We’ve heard a lot of it from Mark Ames and Yasha Levine at NSFWCorp, for example.
Kevin Carson · 1,628 views · unrated
On "Reforms," Bad and Good
On "Reforms," Bad and Good
“Reformism” is one of those words that’s hard to pin down sometimes. It’s usually taken to mean advocating for “reform within the system” — in other words, the bad kind of reform.
Kevin Carson · 1,122 views · unrated
Wall-E as Sociological Storytelling
Wall-E as Sociological Storytelling
Pixar’s 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 · 4,615 views · 100%
The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (ft. Lina Khan)
The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (ft. Lina Khan)
Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off? Well, they may already be doing that thanks to a shady tactic called “surveillance pricing.” Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains what we can do about it.
6 min · 355 views · unrated
Growthism: Its Ecological, Economic and Ethical Limits
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 · 7,373 views · unrated
Benjamin Tucker - Anarchist or Capitalist?
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 · 4,125 views · 100%
Is The US Really A Meritocracy?
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 · 5,442 views · 88%
The Impact Of Media Consolidation On News Content
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 · 4,711 views · 50%
It's Not "Corporatism," It's Not "Crony Capitalism," It's Capitalism!
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 · 11,664 views · 100%
An Invitation to Anarchism
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, it’s not uncommon for a Republican or Democrat to hurl the word at each other...
Jason Lee Byas · 9,179 views · 70%
Expropriation or Bust: on the Illegitimacy of Wealth and Why It Must Be Recuperated
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 · 8,040 views · 88%
Can a Corporation Thrive Without Bosses? Valve's Innovative Management Structure Says Yes
Can a Corporation Thrive Without Bosses? Valve's Innovative Management Structure Says Yes
You have read Valve’s survival manual for new employees. You have read Michael Abrash’s wonderful account of working at Valve. Now read my political economy analysis of Valve’s management model; one in which there are no
Yanis Varoufakis · 6,180 views · 100%
Robert Reich: The Monopolization of America
Robert Reich: The Monopolization of America
Robert Reich looks at antitrust laws and corporate giants.
12 min · 1,652 views · unrated
How Corporations Crush the Working Class | Robert Reich
How Corporations Crush the Working Class | Robert Reich
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich breaks down how power has shifted from labor unions to corporate giants over the last few decades, resulting in the rich getting richer at the expense of the working class.
5 min · 370 views · unrated
Decentralize Big-Retail: How to Uproot Walmart & Bring Jobs Back Home
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 · 4,123 views · 75%
The Golden Age of Freedom Is Still Ahead
The Golden Age of Freedom Is Still Ahead
Free enterprise is often associated with the past. This perception puts the market’s champions, seen as hopeless reactionaries, on the defensive.
Anthony Gregory · 2,347 views · unrated
This Company Makes Billions By Rationing Your Health Care
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 · 510 views · unrated
How Monopolies Secretly Steal Your Freedom (ft. Lina Khan)
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 can’t afford them? Or if your boss can change your work schedule on a whim or block you from getting a new job?
7 min · 1,608 views · unrated
Public Grocery Stores Don't Lead to Monopolies — They’re a New Choice in a Rigged Market
Public Grocery Stores Don't Lead to Monopolies — They’re a New Choice in a Rigged Market
Critics say a public grocery program would limit consumer freedom, but unlike corporate monopolies, it expands it by adding competition, giving shoppers another choice and pushing private retailers to keep prices in check.
Tim Hjersted · 819 views · unrated
The Public School Nightmare: Why Fix a System Designed to Destroy Individual Thought?
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 · 17,935 views · 100%
The Top 10 Flaws of Neoclassical Economics
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 · 24,048 views · 94%
Are "Anarcho"- Capitalists Really Anarchists?
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. · 10,497 views · 75%
Statism and the Illusion of Choice
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. · 8,767 views · 92%
Open-Source Healthcare
Open-Source Healthcare
The healthcare industry is a textbook example of what Ivan Illich (in Tools for Conviviality) called a “radical monopoly.” The central function of the government’s “safety” and “consumer protection” regulations, in most cases, is either to exclude competing providers of a...
Kevin Carson · 2,704 views · unrated
The Internet Is Dead, Long Live the Internet!
The Internet Is Dead, Long Live the Internet!
The internet as we know it is dead.
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program · 3,516 views · 88%
Net Neutrality in the US: Now What?
Net Neutrality in the US: Now What?
Vihart: Comprehensive info. Time is of the essence, so forgive my inevitable errors. We've stopped things like this before! You have power if you bother to take it.
11 min · 2,367 views · 100%
Forget Gerrymandering. Here's What We Need to Fix to Ensure Truly Fair Elections.
Forget Gerrymandering. Here's What We Need to Fix to Ensure Truly Fair Elections.
It's The Biggest Problem in American Politics
Reihan Salam · 857 views · unrated
We Protect You From Yourselves: Police, Oppression and the Rule of Law
We Protect You From Yourselves: Police, Oppression and the Rule of Law
What goes through the mind of a riot cop as he's beating you senseless? Spanish situationist Luis Navarro on policing, violence and the imposition of order.
Luis Navarro · 1,497 views · 69%
The Oligarchy Knows Class Warfare Is the Real Fight—Why Don't Liberals?
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 · 7,976 views · unrated
Third Party Candidates to Join in Real Time on Democracy Now!'s Live Coverage of First Pres. Debate
Third Party Candidates to Join in Real Time on Democracy Now!'s Live Coverage of First Pres. Debate
Eli Dragen · 4,234 views · 100%
Can We Talk About Sustainability Without Talking about Religion and Spirituality?
Can We Talk About Sustainability Without Talking about Religion and Spirituality?
It would seem there are certain strands of thought within many religions that are highly unsustainable, for the health of individuals, society and the planet as a whole.
Tim Hjersted · 2,841 views · 100%
Public Banking in Costa Rica: A Remarkable, Little-Known Model
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 · 4,103 views · 88%
Marx Was Right: Five Surprising Ways Karl Marx Predicted 2014
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 Limbaugh accusing Pope Francis of promoting "pure Marxism" to a Washington Times writer
Sean McElwee · 8,012 views · 88%
Authorities in Ferguson and New York - Expect Resistance!
Authorities in Ferguson and New York - Expect Resistance!
Frank Castle · 2,932 views · 94%
TPP/TTIP/TiSA Grants Banks Terrifying Secret Powers
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 · 12,320 views · 100%
Watch the 1991 Documentary Donald Trump Didn't Want Anyone to See
Watch the 1991 Documentary Donald Trump Didn't Want Anyone to See
The long-suppressed 'Trump: What’s the Deal?' is now available to be streamed online.
Sola Agustsson · 6,266 views · 88%
Pope Francis: Capitalism Is 'Terrorism Against All of Humanity'
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 · 32,023 views · 100%
Our Land: A 7 Part Series about Revolutionizing Our Relationship to Food & Land
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...
60 min · 10,718 views · 100%
Scott Noble's History of Resistance
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 Marker’s documentary work in style and approach, Noble’s films remind us that history is important. They also provoke a sense...
Ron Jacobs · 1,437 views · unrated
This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons
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. In This Land is Our Land...
47 min · 4,794 views · 100%
Ex-google Exec (WARNING): the Next 15 Years Will Be Hell Before We Get To Heaven!
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 he’s 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 · 372 views · unrated
AI Bubble Madness: Why Nvidia's Market Cap Fell $600,000,000,000 in ONE DAY
AI Bubble Madness: Why Nvidia's Market Cap Fell $600,000,000,000 in ONE DAY
The US economy depends on an unsustainable stock market bubble driven by AI companies that are almost all losing money. Nvidia seems healthier, but serious red flags explain why its stock price is extremely volatile, and why its market capitalization dropped $600 billion in...
29 min · 415 views · unrated
Real Estate 4 Ransom: Why Does Land Cost the Earth?
Real Estate 4 Ransom: Why Does Land Cost the Earth? (2012)
REAL ESTATE 4 RAN$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 · 49,514 views · 97%
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