Category: politics

Slavoj Žižek: Our World Is Coming To An End (…again?)

https://youtu.be/6_XHvOGWkCY?si=XBSDnk6QTi9O7BJF Aaron Bastani Meets Slavoj Žižek | Downstream.Slavoj Žižek is perhaps the most famous living Marxist philosopher. In 2023, he has written 3 books with topics ranging from the nature of freedom to his intensely pessimistic view of the future. He sat down with Aaron to talk about Israel and Palestine, Deep Fakes and the…… Continue reading Slavoj Žižek: Our World Is Coming To An End (…again?)

GB 1970s Power Cuts

https://youtu.be/OVDYs4pvUBU?si=ChSIrGrm1O3TMwfm The Dark Side Of 1970s Britain | Turn Back Time: The Family | Absolute History.In this final episode of the series, Albert Road is transformed once again for family life in the 1970s. Single mum Lisa Rhodes moves in with her two sons, joining the other parents for whom the seventies are all about…… Continue reading GB 1970s Power Cuts

Atrocities: One way <OR> another…

https://youtu.be/NMRC_ADHbNI?si=oBc-p49eW6yqsHFy Atrocity Incorporated: The psychology of the Hamas killers on October 7.Atrocity Incorporated: The psychology of the Hamas killers on October 7. Many people who have witnessed video of Hamas insurgents in Israel on Oct. 7 have been appalled by the glee of the celebratory attackers. This week in Edmonton, media and political leaders will…… Continue reading Atrocities: One way <OR> another…

U.S. and Israel and all that stuff

https://youtu.be/6SG24TBKPRo?si=tiLD78MuazQcCsux Atlantic writer Phil Klay https://www.theatlantic.com/internati… discusses his recent article. < OR > https://youtu.be/rXzXc3XK4V8?si=-y6nDl_Zm68LzRQR What America did is SHOCKING & no one’s allowed to talk about it…You won’t see this on BBC or CNN Matt Kennard’s book: The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire ► https://www.amazon.co.uk/Racket-Rogue… Join the Future of Journalism ►   / doubledownnews  

Anti-Arab Sentiment in Israel

https://youtu.be/nb_vXaVKaMM?si=wG9CBgdkFGsKVJqS This short film, documents the Israeli side of our 2011 public opinion survey in Israel and the West Bank. For this part of the survey, we visited 5 cities: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Be’er Sheba, Herzliya, and Haifa where we spoke to 250 Jewish-Israelis. For the full report connected to this video, go to: http://electronicintifada.net/content…

Stephen Fry into Ukraine

https://youtu.be/0FO6ZJL26eM?si=BQNFpnX2LMmoek_5 Stephen Fry is invited to Kyiv by First Lady Olena Zelenska to co-host a conference on mental health in time of war. He discusses the war with President Zelensky, and tells him jokes . He meets amputees and the recently bereaved , Azov brigade survivors , and artist Nikita Titov. He experiences an air…… Continue reading Stephen Fry into Ukraine

Marvin Atudorei Calistrat wants to change the paradigm…

Calistrat Marvin Atudorei, a Romanian political scientist with a pronounced interest in the societal comparison of civilisations and eras on a broad scale, speaks to Alex Thomson first about his book America’s Plans for World Hegemony (the only one of his books so far translated from the Romanian), and in the latter half of the…… Continue reading Marvin Atudorei Calistrat wants to change the paradigm…

Tariq Ali: The Churchill cult…

https://youtu.be/Vb0BKH3z1zs?si=cTHcpwfuSqcZYFtD The Churchill cult is out of control: Tariq Ali on Winston Churchill.- – -Churchill was a divisive, reactionary politician – unpopular even within his own party – and an open enemy of the working class. The life he lead was that of a racist imperialist, and he was sympathetic to fascism – a supporter…… Continue reading Tariq Ali: The Churchill cult…