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HOPE in Spite of Trump | Robert Reich

If you’re feeling despair, I completely understand. But Trump’s second term will expose a reality that has been hidden from many Americans: the raw, stinking power of the American oligarchy. I’m hopeful that America will see this reality for what it is and respond to it. - Robert Reich

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The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (2024)
Should We Destroy the Machines?
Trump Admits He Wants to Take Venezuela's Oil — and Give It to US Corporations
"The Problem With Plastic": How Pollution Is Worsening Climate Crisis & Hurting Our Health
We Investigated the Criminals Who Bought Trump: What We Found Will Shock You
The Capitalist Mindset
How Palantir Profits From War and Mass Surveillance
Palantir Executives Sell Their Shares as the Stock Crashes - but They Smear Critics as 'Crazy'
AI Bubble Madness: Why Nvidia's Market Cap Fell $600,000,000,000 in ONE DAY
The Rise of the Thielverse & the Surveillance State (w/ Whitney Webb) | The Chris Hedges Report
Warning: Largest Bubble Ever Seen Threatens US Economy
Doctor Explains Why They're Terrified to Speak Out
The Well Oiled Plan
Trump-backed Venezuelan Coup Leader Promises to Give Oil to US Corporations
AI Fight: the Working Class Is at a Crossroads W/ Prof. Wolff
AI Could Wipe Out the Working Class | Sen. Bernie Sanders
How the Military-industrial Complex Captured US Democracy
How 5 Companies Are Keeping the World at War
How Palantir Is Transforming Modern Warfare | The Listening Post
Jimmy Kimmel & the FCC: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
BlackRock Is Terrifying (2025)
Alex Karp - The Techno-Nationalist Behind Palantir
How Supermarkets Rewired the Planet
The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (ft. Lina Khan)
How Google Broke Google
How Trump’s Agenda Could Kill You | Robert Reich
This Is the Secret To Understanding US Politics and the New Cold War On China: Monopolies
Amazon’s Secret Plot To Build a Data Center In the Desert
Corporations Bring Back INDENTURED SERVITUDE | The Kyle Kulinski Show
Corporate Landlords Are Taking Over, Making Life Unaffordable: Economist Michael Hudson Explains Why
Why Spotify’s CEO Is Worth Billions While Musicians Make Pennies
The Wall Street Lie That Jacked Up Your Electricity Bill
A CEO Wanted To Run Healthcare Like Taco Bell. Here’s How His Patients Are Doing.
Rule By the Rich: Western Governments Are Oligarchies, Not Democracies
Private Equity’s Ruthless Takeover of the Last Affordable Housing In America
Exposing a Global Economy of Genocide | Francesca Albanese
Cancel The Apocalypse: Here are 41 Films to Help Unlock the Good Ending
Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending
Alter Nativas: Building Possible Futures (2023)
Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust
2040: Join The Regeneration (trailer)
Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist (2015)
The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)
Money & Life (2013)
Feeding Ourselves (2017)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
Singapore: Biophilic City (2012)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
Renewables Can't Power Capitalism, But They Can Power Ecosocialism
In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times (2012)
Communities Of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe (2020)
Inner Climate Change: The Change Starts Within You (2020)
Rundown Apartments Reborn as Food-Forest Coliving Agritopia (2021)
The Hardest Thing I've Ever Loved: Creating a Transformative Culture (2020)
Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)
The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy (2018)
Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas (2008)
What's a Colloquium? An Oral History of the Natural Building Movement (2020)
India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed (2019)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)
Fantastic Fungi (2019) ($5)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
Patron Documentaries
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)
We Are Many (2020)
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
Affluenza (1997)
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
Blood and Oil (2008)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)
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