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The Monopoly On Violence 106 min
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...
Chris Cofer · 5,113 views · 75%
Mickey Mouse Monopoly 5 min
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...
13,419 views · 100%
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...
Jen Doll · 6,304 views · 100%
NBC/Comcast Merger: Media Monopoly Taking Over? 7 min
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...
3,485 views · 42%
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 · 1,452 views · unrated
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...
Steve Friess · 1,229 views · unrated
Tech CEOs Admit They Want AI Monopoly: US Plans to Block China's Competition & 'Steal' Engineers 30 min
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...
713 views · unrated
Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History 54 min
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...
711 views · unrated
Does Money Make You Mean? Monopoly May Hold The Answer 2 min
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+.)
2,484 views · 100%
Challenging Monopoly Power: Why Local Business Is Better for People, the Planet, and Your Wallet with Stacy Mitchell 88 min
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...
1,096 views · unrated
How Do We, As a Society, Want to Be Remembered? 3 min
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.
Michael Richards · 9,655 views · 81%
What Comes After Capitalism? (with Yanis Varoufakis) 7 min
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...
Yanis Varoufakis · 6,438 views · 100%
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 · 4,032 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...
Colin Jenkins · 1,630 views · 79%
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 · 111,267 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...
Kevin Carson · 9,708 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 · 13,127 views · 100%
Wall-E as Sociological Storytelling 16 min
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.
Pop Culture Detective · 4,679 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...
Kevin Carson · 1,658 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 · 1,146 views · unrated
The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (ft. Lina Khan) 6 min
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...
445 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...
Herman Daly · 7,455 views · unrated
Is The US Really A Meritocracy? 13 min
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...
Second Thought · 5,462 views · 88%
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...
Gary Elkin · 4,190 views · 100%
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...
Red Phoenix · 11,694 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...
Jason Lee Byas · 9,218 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...
Colin Jenkins · 8,087 views · 88%
The Impact Of Media Consolidation On News Content 11 min
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...
4,736 views · 50%
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...
Yanis Varoufakis · 6,223 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 · 1,944 views · unrated
Robert Reich: The Monopolization of America 12 min
Robert Reich: The Monopolization of America
Robert Reich looks at antitrust laws and corporate giants.
1,673 views · unrated
How Corporations Crush the Working Class | Robert Reich 5 min
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...
410 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...
LocalOrg · 4,142 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 · 2,365 views · unrated
How Monopolies Secretly Steal Your Freedom (ft. Lina Khan) 7 min
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...
1,718 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...
Tim Hjersted · 913 views · unrated
This Company Makes Billions By Rationing Your Health Care 14 min
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...
555 views · unrated
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...
Damon Vrabel · 24,070 views · 94%
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...
John Taylor Gatto · 17,960 views · 100%
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...
Anarchist F.A.Q. · 10,618 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...
Sebastian A.B. · 8,800 views · 92%
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 · 8,129 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 · 3,547 views · 88%
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...
Kevin Carson · 2,718 views · unrated
Net Neutrality in the US: Now What? 11 min
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.
2,385 views · 100%
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 · 1,541 views · 69%
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 · 878 views · unrated
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 · 32,097 views · 100%
TPP/TTIP/TiSA Grants Banks Terrifying Secret Powers 8 min
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...
The Young Turks · 12,349 views · 100%
Our Land: A 7 Part Series about Revolutionizing Our Relationship to Food & Land 60 min
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...
10,920 views · 100%
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 · 8,044 views · 88%
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 · 6,288 views · 88%
This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons 47 min
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...
Jeremy Earp · 4,991 views · 100%
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 · 4,258 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...
Ellen Brown · 4,126 views · 88%
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 · 2,949 views · 100%
Authorities in Ferguson and New York - Expect Resistance!
Authorities in Ferguson and New York - Expect Resistance!
Frank Castle · 2,946 views · 94%
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 · 2,214 views · unrated
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...
Ron Jacobs · 1,497 views · unrated
AI Bubble Madness: Why Nvidia's Market Cap Fell $600,000,000,000 in ONE DAY 29 min
AI Bubble Madness: Why Nvidia's Market Cap Fell $600,000,000,000 in ONE DAY
The US economy depends on an unsustainable stock market bubble driven by AI companies that are almost all losing money. Nvidia seems healthier, but serious red flags explain why its...
488 views · unrated
Ex-google Exec (WARNING): the Next 15 Years Will Be Hell Before We Get To Heaven! 155 min
Ex-google Exec (WARNING): the Next 15 Years Will Be Hell Before We Get To Heaven!
Mo Gawdat sounded the alarm on AI, and now he’s back with an even bigger warning: AI will cause global collapse, destroy jobs, and launch us into a 15-year dystopia that will change...
453 views · unrated
Does Nonviolence Really "Protect the State"?
Does Nonviolence Really "Protect the State"?
Why the popular anarchist critique gets strategic resistance backwards—and what actually threatens power
Tim Hjersted · 57 views · unrated
Real Estate 4 Ransom: Why Does Land Cost the Earth? 39 min
Real Estate 4 Ransom: Why Does Land Cost the Earth? (2012)
REAL ESTATE 4 RAN$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...
49,675 views · 97%
War, Propaganda and the Media: A Detailed Primer on the Tactics of Modern War Propaganda
War, Propaganda and the Media: A Detailed Primer on the Tactics of Modern War Propaganda
We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy’s side of the front is always propaganda, and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause...
Anup Shah · 36,982 views · 100%
Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education
Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education
While teaching means different things in different places, seven lessons are universally taught from Harlem to Hollywood Hills.
Meryn Callander · 31,112 views · 100%
Marx Was Right
Marx Was Right
Karl Marx exposed the peculiar dynamics of capitalism, or what he called “the bourgeois mode of production.” He foresaw that capitalism had built within it the seeds of its own...
Chris Hedges · 25,877 views · 97%
The Role of Anti-Establishment "Conspiracy Theories"
The Role of Anti-Establishment "Conspiracy Theories"
In recent years, populist explanations for world events have become common and often taken the form of anti-establishment conspiracy theories. The contradiction between how people...
Colin Todhunter · 16,150 views · 100%
The Steps Toward Self Empowerment
The Steps Toward Self Empowerment
How many of you can recall situations in which you felt unjustly treated or taken advantage of and you did not stand up for yourself? Or remember finding yourself in a situation where...
Krishnananda · 13,008 views · 100%
44 Reasons Why Capitalism Cannot Be Redeemed
44 Reasons Why Capitalism Cannot Be Redeemed
I have a very friendly relationship with Adam Bendell, who is very deeply involved in the world of impact investment and who has also been very interested in the work I am doing around...
Miki Kashtan · 4,296 views · 100%
Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism
Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism
Neoliberalism transforms freedom for the many into freedom for the few. Its logical result is neofascism.
Chris Hedges · 2,388 views · 75%
Journalism's Next Frontier: Crossing the Threshold From Having to Being
Journalism's Next Frontier: Crossing the Threshold From Having to Being
A personal journey
Nafeez Ahmed · 1,633 views · 100%
A Commoners' Manifesto: 24 Articles on How Commons Can Change the World
A Commoners' Manifesto: 24 Articles on How Commons Can Change the World
A commons world is decentralised, stable and unified, not statist, growth-obsessed and 'left’. I’d like to persuade the left away from statist ‘solutions’, and yes, to recruit the...
Dave Darby · 1,198 views · unrated
This Is the Secret To Understanding US Politics and the New Cold War On China: Monopolies 53 min
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...
441 views · unrated
The Real Ideology Behind Reason Magazine's Anti-Socialist Crusade
The Real Ideology Behind Reason Magazine's Anti-Socialist Crusade
Reason Magazine presents itself as a courageous outsider “pushing back against socialism,” but its real and consistent function is far more familiar: it operates as an ideological shield...
Tim Hjersted · 253 views · unrated
Communalism: a Liberatory Alternative to the Present System
Communalism: a Liberatory Alternative to the Present System
The belief that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. - Murray Bookchin
Marcus Amargi and Stephanie Amargi · 24,631 views · 100%
Central Banks Nervous as Alternative Currency with David Bowie's Face Goes Viral
Central Banks Nervous as Alternative Currency with David Bowie's Face Goes Viral
One of the best ways for the general public to take power back is to develop alternative currencies — both local and global — that allow people to trade outside of the...
John Vibes · 15,392 views · 97%
13 Point Human Rights-Based Revolutionary Agenda
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...
REVOLUTION LA · 9,151 views · 100%
21St Century Bastards #Faketoys May Be the Best Thing on the Internet
21St Century Bastards #Faketoys May Be the Best Thing on the Internet
In a world where some of the most unimaginable shitheads keep getting elevated to positions of authority and influence, it's gratifying to see them taken down a peg or two... or in this...
Andrew Butler · 6,255 views · unrated
World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
Just in case you were beginning to think rich people were deeply misunderstood and that they feel the pain of those who are less fortunate, here's the world's wealthiest woman...
David Lazarus · 5,808 views · 50%
Understanding Occupy Wall Street -- It's Not What They're for, But What They're Against
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 don’t have a policy agenda and, therefore, don’t stand for anything. They're wrong. The key isn’t what...
Sally Kohn · 5,682 views · 100%
Trump Won Because the Democratic Party Failed, Not Because the White Working Class Revolted
Trump Won Because the Democratic Party Failed, Not Because the White Working Class Revolted
The reckoning is here for progressives and the Democratic Party now that the unthinkable has happened. Most of America, shell-shocked, is asking how Hillary Clinton and the entire...
Arun Gupta · 5,151 views · 100%
The Subsidy of History
The Subsidy of History
Carson indicts historically existing capitalism as a betrayal, rather than a manifestation, of free-market libertarian principles. He points out that libertarians have typically focused...
Kevin Carson · 4,705 views · 88%
Why Should Anyone "Respect" the Law?
Why Should Anyone "Respect" the Law?
In the wake of the announcement that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted for shooting and killing Mike Brown, protestors across the country took to the streets in...
Max Read · 4,566 views · 100%
Beyond Patriarchy: A Libertarian Model of the Family
Beyond Patriarchy: A Libertarian Model of the Family
The Family: Friend or Foe?
Roderick T. Long · 4,000 views · 38%
The Government Shutdown Opportunity: Public Workers Ignore Washington and Reorganize Cooperatively
The Government Shutdown Opportunity: Public Workers Ignore Washington and Reorganize Cooperatively
Cory Doctorow, guest of honor at the upcoming FenCon science fiction convention in Dallas, notes (“During the shutdown, some scientists can’t talk about science,” Boing Boing, October 4)...
Kevin Carson · 3,780 views · 75%
After the Chemical Leak in West Virginia, We Have to Ask Ourselves One Very Important Question
After the Chemical Leak in West Virginia, We Have to Ask Ourselves One Very Important Question
On Thursday, January 9 a dangerous toxin, 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, leaked from a busted tank and into the Elk River in West Virginia. It is believed that nearly 7,500 gallons of the...
Grant Mincy · 3,368 views · 75%
From Mike Brown to Eric Garner, the Specter of Revolt is Haunting NYC
From Mike Brown to Eric Garner, the Specter of Revolt is Haunting NYC
"A riot is the language of the unheard." - MLK
Louise Michel · 3,365 views · 100%
2013: Hope or Despair?
2013: Hope or Despair?
Things are getting better and better and worse and worse faster and faster simultaneously.” – Tom Atlee
Charles Eisenstein · 3,192 views · 100%
Where Right-Libertarianism Goes Wrong
Where Right-Libertarianism Goes Wrong
Libertarianism is, in theory, no defender of the rich and powerful who must always be subject to market competition. As a libertarian who has engaged in countless classroom and online...
Andrew Kerr · 3,013 views · 100%
The Important Word in ‘Democratic Socialism’ Is ‘Democratic’
The Important Word in ‘Democratic Socialism’ Is ‘Democratic’
Sen. Bernie Sanders isn’t talking about making America into Cuba or Venezuela. He’s talking about extending social guarantees like those offered in other advanced countries, such as...
Jesse Jackson · 2,717 views · unrated
Release Kim Davis, Destroy Her Power
Release Kim Davis, Destroy Her Power
It was 1975 when the first same-sex Americans were “permitted” to marry one another. It was Clela Rorex who processed these licenses illegally. This act of sabotage against the state’s...
Ryan Calhoun · 1,885 views · 75%
Why Title II Reclassification for Net Neutrality Is the Biggest Deal Ever
Why Title II Reclassification for Net Neutrality Is the Biggest Deal Ever
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has confirmed that he will base new Net Neutrality rules on Title II of the Communications Act. He described those rules as "the strongest open Internet protection
Free Press · 1,880 views · unrated
Black Worker, White Worker (1972)
Black Worker, White Worker (1972)
In one department of a giant steel mill in northwest Indiana a foreman assigned a white worker to the job of operating a crane. The Black workers in the department felt that on the basis...
Noel Ignatin · 1,773 views · unrated
US and EU Sanctions Have Killed 38 Million Since 1970
US and EU Sanctions Have Killed 38 Million Since 1970
Far from a peaceful tool, these measures weaponise hunger and deprivation to enforce Western dominance.
Jason Hickel, Dylan Sullivan, Omer Tayyab · 1,651 views · unrated
We Asked Our Community How to Make America Great—Here's What They Said
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 · 1,053 views · unrated
A New Year of Empire
A New Year of Empire
With its violent military intervention into Venezuela – a country I used to live in – the U.S. has begun this year with entitled and undisguised imperialism.
Tamara Pearson · 902 views · unrated
Chris Hedges: Trumpland 16 min
Chris Hedges: Trumpland
The corporate coup d'état and collapse of American democracy began long before Trump. He is simply snuffing out what remains.
883 views · unrated
What Is The Antidote to Capitalism? Economic Democracy
What Is The Antidote to Capitalism? Economic Democracy
With democratic control over our productive capacities we can stop climate breakdown in short order. We can overcome the capitalist law of value, and organize production around social...
Jason Hickel · 717 views · unrated
FDR Warned Us about Organized Money. The Threat He Saw Now Dominates Both Political Parties in the US.
FDR Warned Us about Organized Money. The Threat He Saw Now Dominates Both Political Parties in the US.
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.They had begun to...
Films For Action · 648 views · unrated
Moral Injury: Murdered In Gaza Disappeared In America
Moral Injury: Murdered In Gaza Disappeared In America
The displaced and bereaved in Gaza, and the disappeared in America, are not the only ones experiencing injury. We who witness and cannot stop it also lose confidence in our ability to...
Abba A. Solomon · 598 views · unrated
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