Videos
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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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‘Suspicious things going on’: UK, US aiming to block Iraq war inquiry
The US and Britain are trying to block the inquiry into the UK’s involvement in the invasion of Iraq, anti-war activist Lindsey German told RT. Conversations between former British PM Tony Blair and former US President George W. Bush remain unattainable. Continue reading
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‘Suspicious things going on’: UK, US aiming to block Iraq war inquiry
The US and Britain are trying to block the inquiry into the UK’s involvement in the invasion of Iraq, anti-war activist Lindsey German told RT. Conversations between former British PM Tony Blair and former US President George W. Bush remain unattainable. Continue reading
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Calle 13’s René "Residente" Pérez on Revolutionary Music, WikiLeaks & Puerto Rican Independence
Calle 13, one of Latin America’s most popular bands, released a new song this week featuring an unlikely collaborator — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The song, “Multi_Viral,” also features Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and the Palestinian singer Kamilya Jubran. To create the lyrics, Calle 13 lead singer and songwriter René Pérez asked… Continue reading
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Germany Says No to Weaponized Drones By David Swanson
Germany had planned to buy a fleet of “Euro Hawk” killer drones — perhaps in an effort to bring the European Union up to speed with certain other Nobel Peace laureates. But something happened on the way to the celestial colosseum. Continue reading
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Video: Wikileaks Exposes the TPP as a Capitulation to Corporate Interests
Kevin Zeese: Obama administration’s Fast Track authority plan derailed by bipartisan outrage (inc. transcript). Continue reading
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Hip Hop, White Supremacy & Capitalism (Exclusive FILM)
If you are upset at the way corporations have co-opted Hip Hop and re-sold it in the most racist, hyper-violent, and misogynistic ways possible, then this is a film you must watch. “Hip Hop, White Supremacy & Capitalism: Why Corporations Infiltrated RAP Music” is an incredibly powerful and in-depth film focusing on the nefarious role… Continue reading
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John Riddell: Do we need an anti-capitalist government? United fronts in the 20th and 21st centuries (videos)
ohn Riddell, editor and translator of Towards the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922, speaking in London on November 3, 2013, at the “Building Unity, Taking Power: Left Histories and Contemporary Practice” seminar organised by the Anti-Capitalist Initiative, International Socialist Network and Socialist Resistance. The above talk is “Do… Continue reading
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Video: Chris Hedges: The Detention of Greenwald's Partner on Terrorism Charges Amounts to the "Criminalization of Journalism"
Chris Hedges says David Miranda’s detention represents an assault on journalism by the US and its allies. Continue reading
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Video: Collateral Murder: Evidence of Genocide By Kieran Kelly
The video known as “Collateral Murder” is strong evidence of genocide being carried out by the US against the people of Iraq. Hidden in the horrors of its brutality is a rich historical record revealing an armed force which systematically targets and kills non-combatants. The events shown are war crimes violating the principle of non-combatant… Continue reading
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Video Report: Military Doctors Designed, Enabled U.S. Torture of Prisoners at Guantánamo, Secret Prisons
A new report says medical professionals working under U.S. military orders have been complicit in the abuse of terrorism suspects. The Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism concluded that medical staff who worked with the CIA and Pentagon “designed and participated in cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment and torture of detainees” at Guantánamo Bay and… Continue reading
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