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Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all.
George Monbiot · 53,387 views · 4.3 stars
Would you advise someone to flap towels in a burning house? To bring a flyswatter to a gunfight? Yet the counsel we hear on climate change could scarcely be more out of sync with the nature of the crisis.
Martin Lukacs · 30,852 views · 4.9 stars
A short film by Eat The Moon.
4 min · 2,850 views · 4.5 stars
Believe you me, neoliberalism is not an institution, but rather a paranormal activity (completely normalized and legally ratified) which operates both in and outside ourselves. This is how it directs our behaviors, those we impose upon ourselves and those we project onto...
Leónidas Martín · 2,410 views · 5 stars
Neoliberalism transforms freedom for the many into freedom for the few. Its logical result is neofascism.
Chris Hedges · 2,178 views · 4 stars
If you've ever wanted to understand what neoliberalism is, this is the video series for you.
146 min · 94,392 views · 4.8 stars
“The creation of today’s market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.”
– Naomi Klein in The Shock Doctrine
Liberty! Human Rights! Choice! Prosperity! Freedom!
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Drew Serres · 64,166 views · unrated
An interview covering neoliberalism, migration, Brexit, Trump, community-building, climate change, democracy, power, globalization, and lots more.
2 min · 33,858 views · 5 stars
Last week a research wing of the International Monetary Fund came out with a report admitting that neoliberalism has been a failure. The report, entitled, “Neoliberalism: Oversold?” is hopefully a sign of the ideology's death. They were only about 40 years late. As Naomi...
Benjamin Dangl · 20,053 views · 4.5 stars
The following is a statement by the Left Unity Executive Committee following the outcome of the referendum vote in the UK:
Left Unity · 8,640 views · 3.2 stars
Crisis after crisis is being caused by a failed ideology. But it cannot be stopped without a coherent alternative.
George Monbiot · 6,543 views · 5 stars
How elites on both sides of the political spectrum have undermined our social, political and environmental commons.
7 min · 5,128 views · 5 stars
Rich people have always had class consciousness because... they want to stay rich. This collective consciousness led the "founding fathers" of the United States to set up systems of governance that would, first and foremost, protect them (the wealthy, landowning minority)...
Colin Jenkins ·
4,654 views · 5 stars
A short summary
Colin Jenkins ·
1,956 views · 3.8 stars
How do we build on communities of dissent, asks veteran Black activist A. Sivanandan in a short film released this week by Sage Publications alongside a collection of his key writings in Race & Class.
2 min · 1,884 views · 5 stars
Global capitalism is the 800-pound gorilla. The twin ecological and economic crises, militarism, the rise of the surveillance state, and a dysfunctional political system can all be traced to its normal operations.
Faramarz Farbod · 1,285 views · 4 stars
While U.S. advocates and local politicians struggle to get their first public banks chartered, Mexico’s new president has begun construction on 2,700 branches of a government-owned bank to be completed in 2021, when it will be the largest bank in the country. At a press...
Ellen Brown · 740 views · unrated
CW: Includes discussion about sexual assault, torture, and scenes of police brutality.
English and Spanish, with hard-coded English subtitles.
32 min · 528 views · 4 stars
If you get into debt buying your child branded trainers, if you fear redundancy, if you suffer anxiety about the future of the planet and you blame yourself for all of these things then you are showing symptoms of drowning in the “insidious” and “sinister” ideology...
Brendan Montague · 1,717 views · unrated
How a ruthless network of super-rich ideologues killed choice and destroyed people’s faith in politics
George Monbiot · 277 views · 4 stars
Beware the architects of our neofeudalism calling on the government to pay a guaranteed basic income
Chris Hedges · 3,027 views · unrated
On Real News: Reality Asserts Itself, Dr. Kumar tells Paul Jay that Muslim characters on Homeland are either terrorists, sympathizers of terrorists, or "good Muslims" which means pro-US.
21 min · 5,603 views · 5 stars
AN INTERVIEW WITH PHILIP MIROWSKI - Many observers expected that the 2008 financial crisis would mark the end of neoliberalism. Instead, we saw a wave of privatization and sharp cuts in public services. Today, the forces best placed to exploit the coronavirus pandemic are...
Alex Doherty · 812 views · 4.5 stars
Sometimes when you are living within a system of oppression it is difficult to even see that the system exists, let alone imagine alternative ways of living and organising. Thankfully the system of capitalism, and its coke-fuelled cousin neoliberalism, that dominates the...
Andrew Butler ·
11,326 views · 4.5 stars
The decision to leave the EU is a disaster, but also a great opportunity for renewal
George Monbiot · 1,491 views · 5 stars
Neoliberalism encourages us to treat every aspect of our lives as if it were on sale in a marketplace: is it an anti-spiritual project?
Deborah Grayson and Charlotte Millar · 3,057 views · 5 stars
Neoliberalism is a mature stage of capitalism - a reciprocal process of concentrated wealth taking control of the public agenda via government. Capitalist economists like Milton Friedman were instrumental in paving the way for neoliberalism. The idea gained prominence in...
Colin Jenkins ·
3,247 views · 4.8 stars
Contrary to the assumptions of left-liberal commentators, neoliberalism is not merely a bad policy adopted by “greedy” elites. It is in fact a fundamental systemic rejection of the post-laissez-faire settlement put in place in just about all of the developed capitalist...
Alan Nasser · 8,692 views · unrated
Drawing from the Beautiful Trouble and Beautiful Rising toolboxes, here are six key concepts that may prove useful to movements preparing to resist Donald Trump’s presidency.
The Beautiful Trouble Team · 9,373 views · unrated
In my recent essay, I argued that power in our societies resides in structure, ideology and narratives – supporting what we might loosely term our current “neoliberal order” – rather than in individuals. Significantly, our political and media classes, who are of course deeply...
Jonathan Cook · 7,198 views · 4 stars
Collective action to right wrongs or help the suffering under neoliberal ideology is wrong, unfeasible, or some combination of the two.
Noah Berlatsky · 2,013 views · unrated
Stop Analysing and Act!
Paul Mason · 9,588 views · 3.5 stars
Beyond the media spin, the four reasons for this defeat.
Tony Brasunas · 30,391 views · 5 stars
Is mass media used to manipulate the public? Yes, undoubtedly so. Examples to illustrate this are so numerous and backed up by intellectuals like Noam Chomsky,
Tim Hjersted ·
10,048 views · 4.5 stars
George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian society casts a dark shadow over the United States. As American society has moved from a welfare to a warfare state, the institutions that were once meant to further justice and limit human suffering and misfortune and...
Henry A. Giroux · 953 views · 4.5 stars
The tough logic of capitalism prevails even at the heart of the sharing economy. As nice as it may be to share, no one gives away anything for free.
Byung-Chul Han · 429 views · 4 stars
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at FreedomFest on July 11 in Las Vegas. (John Locher / AP
Chris Hedges · 3,061 views · 5 stars
Frightening commentary has emerged among liberals committing to a protest-vote against both Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. Proponents argue that, in some undescribed way, their protest-vote will send to these front-runners the “signal” that they are not entitled to our...
Ariän El-Taher · 1,165 views · 5 stars
This bears repeating: Humans are not inherently toxic and destructive. Humanity is not a cancer.
Tim Hjersted ·
6,485 views · 4.8 stars
The fantasies of a faith-based neoliberal economics laid bare
Robert Parenteau · 1,446 views · 4 stars
Rich people don’t have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially. I am not surprised many of them understand literature only as an ornament. Life is an ornament to them, relationships are...
Colin Jenkins ·
6,400 views · 4 stars
Neoliberal policies contribute to alienation, disempowerment and non-unionised jobs, but a new model for unions could break the vicious circle, argues Simon Taylor.
Simon Taylor · 3,983 views · 4 stars
The culture wars give the oligarchs, both Democrats and Republicans, the cover to continue the pillage.
Chris Hedges · 3,570 views · 5 stars
Trump has shown that he understands who his real and most powerful base is—the billionaire class—ever since his election.
Paul Street · 904 views · unrated
An in-depth investigation into the 2008 financial crisis nine years in the making. Through interviews with regulators, former officials, foreclosure victims, industry whistleblowers, and journalists, THE CON connects the dots to what America used to be and where we’re headed...
122 min · 7,314 views · 4 stars
More than being a time of hope—or fatalism—the inauguration of President Joe Biden should be a time of skeptical realism and determination.
Norman Solomon · 2,023 views · unrated
The ruling elites, despite the accelerating and tangible ecological collapse, mollify us, either by meaningless gestures or denial.
Chris Hedges · 5,219 views · 5 stars
Many pundits and scholars have remarked on how the 2016 election reflected the significance of race in American politics. One strain of commentary to that effect contends that Trump’s election revealed a deep commitment to racism among white voters, especially working-class...
Adolph Reed, Jr · 568 views · unrated
In 2013, President Obama, speaking at a fundraiser in Medina, Washington — home to a small community of wealthy donors — expressed a sentiment that has become all too common among Democratic Party liberals.
Jake Johnson · 37,359 views · unrated
From laissez-faire economics in 18th-century India to neoliberalism in today’s Europe the subordination of human welfare to power is a brutal tradition
George Monbiot · 17,920 views · 4.9 stars
I am an archaeologist and a wilderness survival instructor. Because I study societies that have collapsed, and since I teach basic outdoor skills, people ask me about what to do in a natural disaster, social upheaval, or some apocalyptic event. Right now, much of that concern...
Chris Begley · 4,937 views · unrated
If the left is to fight back against authoritarianism, we must bring together diverse movements working for social change.
Henry A. Giroux · 1,082 views · 5 stars
The politics of Jeremy Corbyn, elected by a landslide Saturday to lead Britain’s Labour Party after its defeat at the polls last May, are part of the global revolt against corporate tyranny. He had spent his long career as a pariah within his country’s political...
Chris Hedges · 7,303 views · 4.5 stars
18 concrete ways to make the urgently needed climate mobilization a reality
Jeremy Brecher · 1,390 views · unrated
Capitalists, throughout history, have backed fascism to thwart even the most tepid forms of socialism
Chris Hedges · 1,665 views · 3.7 stars
We need a new economics for the 21st century. Here are five potential pillars.
Sam Cossar-Gilbert · 3,491 views · unrated
It’s been said that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than it is the end of capitalism, so ubiquitous is the ideological project of neoliberalism in the modern world – like goldfish in a bowl that are totally ignorant of ‘water’, we often fail to notice how...
Rob Plastow · 2,592 views · 4.5 stars
During the presidential election cycle, liberals display their gutlessness. Liberal organizations, such as MoveOn.org, become cloyingly subservient to the Democratic Party. Liberal media, epitomized by MSNBC, ruthlessly purge those who challenge the Democratic Party...
Chris Hedges · 2,887 views · unrated
I rarely tell readers what to believe. Rather I try to indicate why it might be wise to distrust, at least without very good evidence, what those in power tell us we should believe.
Jonathan Cook · 14,387 views · 4 stars
We have a decade to transform the US economy to stave off climate catastrophe, and Bernie Sanders has the only agenda to do so and the only mobilization strategy to get it done. No plan for a better future is worthwhile if environmental crisis renders our future unimaginably...
Daniel Denvir · 1,833 views · unrated