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Rogue State: USA Believes It Doesn't Have to Follow International Law
Trump Admits He Wants to Take Venezuela's Oil — and Give It to US Corporations
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The USA Is Isolated on the World Stage. This UN Vote Proves It.
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Trump Officially Ends Democracy | The Kyle Kulinski Show
Trump Orders CIA to Attack Venezuela, as US Military Kills Innocent People
Russell Vought: The Shadow President
Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces (w/ Seth Harp) | The Chris Hedges Report
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Tests Military Tech on Palestinians (2025)
Is ANTIFAscism Really a Violent, Extremist Movement? | Matthew Cooke
Trump-backed Venezuelan Coup Leader Promises to Give Oil to US Corporations
Lowkey EXPOSES Truth Behind Gaza Ceasefire
Beyond Standing Rock (2024)
USA vs China: Which Represents Humanity's Future? Compare Their UN Speeches
How the Military-industrial Complex Captured US Democracy
How 5 Companies Are Keeping the World at War
US War Secretary Encourages Military to Commit War Crimes, as Trump Threatens 'Enemy Within' USA
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The Global Rise of Authoritarians: Here's Their Playbook
We're Breaking Up with Empire | Matthew Cooke
Jewish Journalist Exposes Israel’s Dark Secret History
This Is the Secret To Understanding US Politics and the New Cold War On China: Monopolies
Trump Brags "I Ended Nord Stream Pipeline From Russia To Germany, Making EU Dependent On US Oil/Gas
How the World Can Free Itself From US Financial Colonialism: Economist Michael Hudson Explains
Capitalism Won't Save Us. Here's What Will. | Jason Hickel
The Ruling Class Is Causing Collapse
Forward Ever: The Killing of a Revolution (2024)
How the USA Exploits Europe, Treating Its Allies Like Vassals
How China & Russia Help Global South Countries Defend Against US Interventionism: Nicaragua Explains
What People Are Watching Now
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (2024)
The Amazon Changers - Cook to Empower (2019)
This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons (2010)
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)
How to Make Housing Affordable for Everyone, Now and Forever!
These Are the Worst Pirates on Earth
PressPausePlay (2011)
Artificial Creativity: Has AI Stolen Our Creative Soul?
Possum Living (1980)
The Capitalist Mindset
Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)
The True Story of Che Guevara
He Was The Most Decorated Marine In US History. Then He Turned on The Empire.
Project 2025 Explained in Schoolhouse Rock Style!
Incredible Animation Summarises Noam Chomsky's 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul
What Is Addiction? - Gabor Maté
Human (2015)
How to Make a Fascist (2025)
Tiny Space, Big Harvest – How to Grow Food in a Small Garden
Unbroken Ground: Revolutions Start from the Bottom (2016)
The Eternal Song (trailer)
Radical Love: The Life and Legacy of Satish Kumar (trailer)
From A Village To The World: The Journey of Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson (2023)
WitchHunt (2019)
The Corporation (2003)
Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: a Zen Film (trailer)
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
The Sacredness of Twoness | Lyla June Johnston
The Lottery of Birth (2013)
The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and the Rise of the National Security State (2012)
Santa Is a Psychedelic Mushroom - It’s Time to Embrace the Shamanistic side of Christmas
Franciscan Mysticism: Becoming What You Already Are | Richard Rohr
All the Time in the World: Disconnecting to Reconnect (2014) ($5)
Under the Dome: Investigating China’s Smog (2015)
Earthlings (2005)
Watch the Beautiful Two-Minute Ad Asking the Washington Football Team to Change Its Name
What Will Socialism Look Like?
Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices (2005)
BlackRock Is Terrifying (2025)
The Fisherman and the Banker (2024) ($9)
Why the Future Is Post-Growth | Donnie Maclurcan on Life Beyond Capitalism
From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning (1992)
Chris Hedges & Abby Martin - Trump, Fascism & the Christian Right
HyperNormalisation (2016)
BlackRock: The Conspiracies You Don’t Know
The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement (2020)
Charlie Kirk and the Conservative Death Cult
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Shunryu Suzuki - Essential Wisdom for the Art of Living
Bill Nye Destroys the Gender Binary with an Abacus
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
Operation Great Bear - Blockading Sacred Headwaters To Stop Trophy Hunters
Is Trump Acting Out His Childhood Trauma? Russell Brand & Dr. Gabor Maté
Scared Sacred (2004)
Hackers for Freedom (2019)
Shadows of Liberty: The Truth Behind the News Media (2012)
13TH (2016)
AI Riots vs "Moore's Law for Everything" by Sam Altman
Systemic Racism: Is That Really a Thing?
How Peter Thiel Is Destroying Democracy
The 60 Minutes Story the Trump Administration Doesn't Want You to See
Why Tech Billionaires Are Quietly Bankrolling Europe’s Far-right
Rogue State: USA Believes It Doesn't Have to Follow International Law
PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind (2010)
Israelism (2023)
Why the Left Actually Lost Young Men
Norman Finkelstein: Gaza, Truth & the Battle for Free Speech
This Is Neoliberalism | 5 Part Series (2020)
Plutocracy: The History of Class War In The USA (2019)
George Monbiot on Neoliberalism: "A Self-Serving Racket"
TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)
Water is Love (2024)
Beware Of Images (2016)
The War You Don't See (2010)
InterReflections: A Story about The Greatest Revolution of Our Time (2020)
The Power of Nightmares (2004)
475 (2013)
The Power of Friendship: Social Contact and The Future of Humanity (2025)
Tao Te Ching: The Book Of The Way by Lao Tzu, Translated by Stephen Mitchell (Audiobook)
Our Consumer Society (2022)
Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2004)
Sicko (2007)
What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007)
Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)
The Yes Men Fix The World (2009)
The Rise of The Ultra-Right in The US (2025)
India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed (2019)
Wall Street's War for Drug Money: A Basic Lesson in Real Economics
The Epstein Files Are Way Worse Than You Think | The Kyle Kulinski Show
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power (2017)
The War on Thinking in America (2025)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Who Is REALLY Controlling the Economy?
The Secret of Oz (2009)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
Guardians of the Earth: A Film about the Paris Agreement (2017)
Slavery by Another Name (2012)
Spin: Footage You Were Never Supposed to See (1995)
Power: One River, Two Nations (1996)
Patron Documentaries
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)
Affluenza (1997)
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)
Blood and Oil (2008)
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
We Are Many (2020)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)
Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
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