Videos
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FAIR TV: Snowden on Sunday TV, New Pundits, USA Today on Fracking’s Riches
25 January 2014 — FAIR Blog This week on FAIR TV: Everyone seems to agree that Edward Snowden started an important debate over NSA surveillance. But on the Sunday chat shows, debate isn’t what you’re likely to see. And CNN and CBS add new contributors–but are they opening up or closing the discussion? Plus:USA Today cheers on the fracking boom in Continue reading
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Video: Alive Inside: How the Magic of Music Proves Therapeutic for Patients With Alzheimer’s and Dementia
The clip begins with video of Dryer looking largely unresponsive to the outside world. Then he was given a pair of headphones to listen to Cab Calloway, his favorite artist. The music energizes him, awakens him and helps bring back old memories. We play clips from the film and speak with Cohen about his project,… Continue reading
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Video: Corporate Deregulation To Blame for Toxic Spill in West Virginia
A toxic spill in West Virginia’s Elk River has left 300,000 local residents without water for the past week. The leak came from a storage facility for chemicals used to process coal, and it’s left many wondering if industry regulations are too lax, especially for the company responsible for the leak, Freedom Industries. Continue reading
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Video: Snowden’s New Year Message
UK’s Channel 4 News always broadcast an ‘alternative’ message on Christmas Day, an alternative that is to the Queen’s Speech. This year, it’s Edward Snowden. Continue reading
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Video: Global Labour Migration
A meeting, designed as a dialogue, to build greater solidarity between the labour and migrant justice movements in their shared struggle against workers’ exploitation by global capital. Continue reading
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Settler siren Arfa channels Miley Cyrus in soft-core bulldozer vid By Philip Weiss
A few words of explanation. +972 and Heeb magazine say the video, by settler siren Orit Arfa, is the worst video ever made. Called “Jews Can’t Stop,” Arfa riffs off Miley Cyrus’s song, We Can’t Stop. Continue reading
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Video: Michel Warschawski on Israel’s Non-Existent Left
At most, there are moments in which a part or even a majority of the public’s opinion, what’s called the “peace camp”, feels that the government, which is right-wing, is taking the country in the direction of international isolation to a disastrous war; and then it is recruited, but not around its own values, but… Continue reading
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Video: Michel Warschawski on Israel's Non-Existent Left
At most, there are moments in which a part or even a majority of the public’s opinion, what’s called the “peace camp”, feels that the government, which is right-wing, is taking the country in the direction of international isolation to a disastrous war; and then it is recruited, but not around its own values, but… Continue reading
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Video: Number of Foreign Mercenaries in Syria Much Higher than Estimates
Press TV talks with Michel Chossudovsky, from the Center for Research on Globalization from Montreal, regarding the figures released by Foreign Policy magazine about the number of foreign militants fighting President Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria. Continue reading
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Video: Inside the Evidence: The Truth about Chemical Attacks in Syria By Mother Agnes Mariam
RT’s Meghan Lopez speaks with Mother Agnes-Mariam de la Croix, founder of the James the Mutilated Monastery in Syria, who says that the videos show the chemical weapons were used by Syrian rebels, not the Assad administration. Continue reading
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Video: The Secret History of How Cuba Helped End Apartheid in South Africa
As the world focuses on Tuesday’s historic handshake between President Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro, we look back at the pivotal role Cuba played in ending apartheid and why Castro was one of only five world leaders invited to speak at Nelson Mandela’s memorial. In the words of Mandela, the Cubans ‘destroyed the myth… Continue reading
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Video: Watching the Watch List: Landmark Case Goes to Trial over Massive U.S. Terrorism “No-Fly” Database
With hundreds of thousands of people now on the government’s terrorist watch lists, a closely watched trial begins today in San Francisco. Stanford University Ph.D student Rahinah Ibrahim is suing the U.S. government after she was barred from flying from Malaysia back to the United States in 2005 to complete her studies at Stanford after… Continue reading
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Video: Matt Damon channels Howard Zinn – "The problem is civil obedience."
We’re mighty glad that Damon, a very decent man and a thinker, even if deeply embedded in the Hollywood miasma, took it upon himself to make this video. Fact is, Howard Zinn and other radicals had been saying this for decades, (Zinn gave this speech in 1970), reaching a puny audience. But it took Damon… Continue reading
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Video: Matt Damon channels Howard Zinn – “The problem is civil obedience.”
We’re mighty glad that Damon, a very decent man and a thinker, even if deeply embedded in the Hollywood miasma, took it upon himself to make this video. Fact is, Howard Zinn and other radicals had been saying this for decades, (Zinn gave this speech in 1970), reaching a puny audience. But it took Damon… Continue reading
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Video: Susan George on "How to win the class war – The Lugano Report II" Part 1
If you have ever wondered what it’s like to be in the shoes – and the minds – of the guardians of the capitalist system, Susan George can give you the key. “How to win the Class War” is a ‘Factual Fiction’: the facts are based on solid research, but the fictional setting and the… Continue reading
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Video: Professor Louie What Does it Mean to be Working Class?
At the People’s Voice Café in New York City, the incomparable Brooklyn rapper Professor Louie offers a heavy lesson in class to the 99% in rhythm and rhyme. Continue reading
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Video: Masterful combo: Aya El Zinati’s video of Susan Abulhawa reading ‘Black’ By Annie Robbins
During the recent power outages Gazan Aya El Zinati made this knockout video with clips of her friend Susan Abulhawa reading ‘Black’, a masterful harsh/heart-thrashing critical poem from her first volume of poetry My Voice Sought the Wind. Continue reading
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Video: Masterful combo: Aya El Zinati’s video of Susan Abulhawa reading ‘Black’ By Annie Robbins
During the recent power outages Gazan Aya El Zinati made this knockout video with clips of her friend Susan Abulhawa reading ‘Black’, a masterful harsh/heart-thrashing critical poem from her first volume of poetry My Voice Sought the Wind. Continue reading
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Video: Will Cuban Reforms Create More Inequality? – James Early on Reality Asserts Itself pt3
On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, James Early who has visited Cuba more than thirty times says what’s needed is more citizen participation and less centralization but Cuba is not headed towards the Chinese capitalist model Continue reading
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Video: Leaked Memo Reveals U.S. Plan to Oppose Helping Poor Nations Adapt to Climate Change
Newly leaked documents have revealed how U.S. negotiators at the U.N. climate summit in Warsaw are opposing efforts to help developing countries adapt to climate change. According to an internal U.S. briefing memo seen by Democracy Now!, the U.S. delegation is worried the talks in Warsaw will “focus increasingly on blame and liability” and that… Continue reading
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