Videos
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Video: EMERGENCY ALERT: Latest Syrian Chemical Attack Follows History of False Flag Provocations
In this exclusive clip from the forthcoming edition of the Jack Blood Podcast, James Corbett and Jack Blood dissect the latest reports of a chemical weapons attack in Syria, occurring just two days after a UN chemical weapons team arrived in the country. Continue reading
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Video: South Africa's Largest Union on the Verge of Major Split
Patrick Bond: South Africa trade unions become magnets for capital as an ideological confict masked as a sex scandal threatens to fracture union behind the one-year-old massacre (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in Tokyo 1961
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Tokyo 1961 – Lee Morgan, trumpet – Wayne Shorter, tenor sax – Bobby Timmons, piano – Jymie Merritt, bass Continue reading
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Media Advisory: Defining Drone Deaths in Yemen
The United States has reportedly carried out nine drone attacks in the last few weeks in Yemen, generating headlines about the targeting and killing of suspected Al-Qaeda militants in the impoverished country. But how can media know for sure who is being killed? Continue reading
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Video: Instead of Recovery British Economy Shows Signs of Stagnation
John Weeks: “British Press tries to vindicate austerity and budget cuts as “signs of economic recovery.” Continue reading
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Miles goes Electric: 'Milestones', 'Footprints', 'Round Midnight'
Antibes 1969. Miles goes electric with, amongst others; Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. Continue reading
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FAIR TV: Terror Alerts and the NSA, Snowden's Asylum, Covering Weiner By Peter Hart
10 August 2013 — FAIR Blog The media are using the government’s warnings about a terror attack to boost NSA surveillance. Plus media get mad about Russia’s decision to grant whistleblower Edward Snowden temporary asylum. But what’s the U.S. record on extradition? Plus ABC covers the Anthony Weiner campaign–and can’t much figure out why they’re Continue reading
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Video: Bradley Manning, the Nuremberg Charter and Refusing to Collaborate with War Crimes – Pt 3 of 4
In this segment of Reality Asserts Itself, Paul Jay and Vijay Prashad discuss the Bradley Manning case in light of the 68th anniversary of signing the Nuremberg Charter which states it is illegal to follow orders to commit a war crime (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Video: The Great Rift: Capitalism and the metabolism of nature and production John Bellamy Foster
John Bellamy Foster: We need a society that is geared, as István Mészáros always tells us, to substantive equality. And no compromise on the issue of equality. Bolívar said equality is the law of laws. So we need substantive equality and we need ecological sustainability. And they have to go together. Continue reading
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk – ‘Misty/I Want to Talk’
Misty/I Want to Talk’ performed by the fantastic Rahsaan Roland Kirk at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1972. Continue reading
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Video: Monsanto Baseball: Escaping Accountability in Corporate America
deceptionsusa.com presents “Monsanto Baseball.” If you are Monsanto, you can commit the most egregious crimes against humanity but you are never guilty of any safety violations. In fact the EPA, FDA and USDA approve your products for public consumption. Continue reading
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Video: Fracked Up!
Journalist Patrick Henningsen interviewed Ian Crane about the drive by vested interests to develop shale gas extraction using hydraulic fracturing in the UK. He speaks about the implications for the environment and the resistance which is building…Fracking’s cast of characters includes the likes of Haliburton, Cuadrilla, Centrica and British Gas, to name only a few.… Continue reading
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Video: Mercenaries and Private Security Companies on Contract with UN By grtv
Former Chairperson of the UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries, José L. Gómez del Prado, explains how private military and security companies have created an association to counter the regulations called for by his working group. Continue reading
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Video: Vijay Prashad: Marx and Tolstoy Helped Me See the Limits of Liberalism
On the second episode of Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, Vijay Prashad talks about growing up in India and coming to the realization that liberalism could never eliminate poverty Continue reading
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Video: Greenwald: Is U.S. Exaggerating Threat to Embassies to Silence Critics of NSA Domestic Surveillance?
The Obama administration has announced it will keep 19 diplomatic posts in North Africa and the Middle East closed for up to a week, due to fears of a possible militant threat. On Sunday, Senator Saxby Chambliss, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the decision to close the embassies was based on… Continue reading
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Video: Architecture, Occupation, and Resistance
Justin Podur interviews architectural researcher Suzy Harris-Brandts, who studied and worked with the Decolonizing Architecture group in the West Bank. They discuss the limitations of negotiations, design tactics under occupation, and the responsibility of architects. Continue reading
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FAIR TV: Misreporting WikiLeaks, NYT Defines the "Center," MSNBC's Walmart "Debate" By Peter Hart
This week: The corporate media finally paid attention to the Bradley Manning trial–but NBC botched some of the history. Plus the New York Timestries to show how Democrats are moving ‘away from the center.’ But how do they define the center anyway? And we look at an MSNBC debate over Walmart and a living wage… Continue reading
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Video: Has the Gov’t Lied on Snooping? Let’s Go to the Videotape
Since Edward Snowden leaked documents detailing the NSA’s sweeping surveillance programs, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was forced to admit that part of his congressional testimony was “erroneous.” Here are six claims about NSA surveillance that have been undermined by recent disclosures. Continue reading
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Inside Syria: Britain Violates Own Anti-Terrorist Legislation by grtv
Press TV has conducted an interview with Michel Chossudovsky, Centre for Research on Globalization from Montreal about Britain’s recent announcement that the al-Nusra Front group in Syria as an al-Qaeda terrorist group. Continue reading
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