Videos
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Video: Puerto Rico Rising
1 December 2017 — Vimeo On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico. A category 4 storm, it was the strongest hurricane to hit the island in almost a century. Now, the people of Puerto Rico are hungry, homeless and dying. Many towns lack access to clean water, communication and transportation. And… Continue reading
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How the People of South Africa were Misled and Can Rise Again By John Pilger
Returning to South Africa, John Pilger delivers an inaugural lecture in Cape Town in memory of the anti-apartheid campaigner, Abdulhay Ahmed Saloojee. He asks why the struggle for freedom has yet to be won, why a form of apartheid still rules and why this oppression has become a model for much of the world in… Continue reading
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Video Preview: #stopmurdoch Sky Takeover
30 November 2017 — CPBF The #stopmurdoch video is being crowdfunded and this is a preview and an opportunity to fund it. The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom One of CPBF’s aims is to: ‘To challenge the myth that press freedom is best served by current forms of ownership and control, and by ‘self-regulation’… Continue reading
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Video: Saudi Financial Crisis at Heart of Princely Rage
The severe financial crisis and foreign policy failures are making Prince Mohammed bin Salman increasingly belligerent, says Vijay Prashad Continue reading
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Video: Russiagate 'Experts' Include Bigots and Frauds
Max Blumenthal of Alternet’s Grayzone Project reveals that several influential so-called “experts” on Russiagate have sketchy pasts and an agenda to silence dissenting voices Continue reading
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Video: Harvey Weinstein Hired Israeli Spies to Silence His Victims
The disgraced film producer contracted the firm Israeli firm Black Cube to spy on his accusers. Journalist and best-selling author Max Blumenthal says that’s no surprise given Israel’s role as a “leading expert on repression” Continue reading
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Videos: Hezbollah and the modern history of Lebanon
Twelve documentaries on the contemporary history of Lebanon: Hizbollah and the PLO. Continue reading
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Video: Empire Files: Trump Expands Police-State Crackdown on the Left
At Trump’s inauguration, around 200 protesters and journalists were mass arrested and now face up to 70 years in prison on baseless charges. Many other legal assaults on civil liberties are in the works around the country, from treating anti-fascists as “domestic terrorists”, to legislation protecting drivers who run over peaceful marchers (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Video: Activists Acquitted in Effort to Prevent British Fighter Jet Delivery to Saudi Arabia
A UK court has acquitted two activists for breaking-in to a BAE Systems factory to disarm Typhoon fighter jets meant for the Saudi war on Yemen Continue reading
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Video: Homegrown Terror: JFK Docs Show US Considered Attacks at Home to Blame on Cuba
The new round of documents on the Kennedy assassination shed light on the long-running U.S. government effort to overthrow Fidel Castro — including discussions to stage attacks on U.S. soil and blame Cuba Continue reading
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Video: After Indictments, Where is Russiagate Headed?
Paul Manafort and former business partner Rick Gates, along with former Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos, have been the first people indicted in the Trump-Russia probe. Independent journalist Marcy Wheeler, economist James Henry, and TRNN’s Aaron Mate discuss. (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Video: Real Media: Media & Mistrust
Sociologist and author Tom Mills talks about growing public mistrust of the media, who owns the print media, and how the broadcast media tends to draw its journalists from certain sectors of society Continue reading
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Video: Pollution Kills 9 Million People a Year
Pollution causes far more deaths than tobacco, infectious disease or war, and causes 4.6 trillion dollars of economic damage per year, according to a major new study published in the British medical journal The Lancet (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Video: Brexittania – Official Trailer
On/off. Yes/no. Leave or Remain? While referenda always divide people, Brexit did so in a manner unprecedented in modern British history: old pitted against young, nationalists against migrants, the countryside against the city, and “the people” against “the elite”. But underneath these binaries we find human beings whose individual stories influenced the outcome of this… Continue reading
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Video: US Military Breeds Violence in Africa
After the killings of U.S. soldiers in Niger and a potential U.S. link to the Mogadishu attack, author Bill Fletcher says that an increased American military role in Africa threatens even more violence Continue reading
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Video: The Internet is under attack!
The FCC wants to let companies like Verizon and Comcast censor and throttle the Internet. This is how we fight back. Continue reading
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Video: Real Media: The Value of Data
Tom Fisher of Privacy International talks to Real Media about why and how companies are able to exploit users’ personal data (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Video: Venezuelan Regional Election: Opposition Claims Fraud in Areas They Won
16 October 2017 — TRNN The Governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela won 17 out of 23 governor races in Sunday’s regional vote, prompting the opposition to claim fraud once again, without evidence. Lucas Koerner of Venezuelanlaysis.com analyzes the situation (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Video: FBI Report Targets Black Activists
The FBI terrorism unit’s report warning that ‘black identity extremists’ are a violent threat is only the latest in a long tradition of targeting black activists, says the Black Agenda Report’s Glen Ford Continue reading
