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Teen Vogue is a political publication, with writers who have policy objectives and ties to political organizations. For example, Allegra Kirkland, the politics director of Teen Vogue, was previously a reporter (and later senior editor) at Talking Points Memo, a left-biased news website, where she covered “extremist groups, voting rights, and the Trump administration.” Her articles at TPM included criticisms of Ron DeSantis, William Barr’s “absurd defenses” of Donald Trump, and GOP gerrymandering. Colleen Hamilton, a contributor to Teen Vogue and author of the article “Healthcare for Trans Kids: How Parents Are Fighting to Get Their Children the Care They Need” boasts even clearer political ties. According to her website, her reporting focuses on “grassroots movements for social justice, queer liberation.” She is also a “nonprofit communications consultant” and has worked with organizations such as the gun control advocacy network March for Our Lives. Kirkland and Hamilton are far from the only Teen Vogue employees with political activist backgrounds. Lexi McMenamin, Teen Vogue’s news and politics editor, has a long history of working for political organizations. McMenamin had a stint working at the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), a liberal organization focused on creating a society “where people of color, immigrants . . . and LGBTQ communities thrive together.” The CPD works with other left-of-center organizations like CASA de Maryland and Action Now in Illinois. After leaving the CPD, McMenamin worked as a field organizer for Carol-Shea Porter (D-NH) on her campaign for Congress in New Hampshire. Shea-Porter is a former Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives and served as vice-chair of the 2020 Democratic National Convention. McMenamin also interned twice at the Urban Justice Center (UJC) before working as the UJC’s media coordinator. The UJC is a left-of-center legal foundation that notably runs the Sex Workers Project, which provides legal services to sex workers in New York City. McMenamin’s history of voter advocacy continued at NextGen America, an organization that dedicates millions of dollars to electing Democrats, as a political organizer in New Hampshire, where NextGen worked with SEIU International and Planned Parenthood Votes. After NextGen America, McMenamin worked for Public Justice as a communications associate. Public Justice is a nonprofit legal firm that focuses on lawsuits against the government and major businesses. Teen Vogue writer James Factora, a “queer trans movement journalist,” is a prolific contributor to both Teen Vogue and Them, which are sometimes one and the same because, in addition to sharing writers, Teen Vogue also cross posts articles from other platforms, such as Them. In a post on Them’s website, Factora refers to the Republican Party’s “quest to obliterate Black History Month” and writes dozens of indictments of Republican policy at both the state and federal levels. Them is an LGBT magazine owned by Conde Nast, the same parent company that owns Teen Vogue. Teen Vogue is only one arm of Conde Nast’s media empire, which includes the left-leaning publications Them, Wired, and the New Yorker. In all my time reading through the Teen Vogue website and investigating its writers, I found no articles with a conservative lean and no writers with explicit (or implicit) ties to conservative organizations or viewpoints. If your teen is reading Teen Vogue, be aware that the content they are consuming includes highly political and sexual articles. Teen Vogue’s politics and identity sections are echo chambers that promote only one point of view. Teen Vogue employs writers with left-leaning political experience, and they are cultivating readers who could become the next generation of employees at organizations like NextGen America and March for Our Lives. To learn more, visit www.capitalresearch.org.

by Sarah Lee MAY 19, 2022 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Print this Page When Tesla and Space X boy genius Elon Musk announced in late April 2022 he was interested in buying Twitter—and subsequently struck a deal to purchase the social media platform for $44 billion—it may not have been a coincidence that the Biden administration decided to unveil the new Disinformation Governance Board housed in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) a mere three days later. After all, Twitter had been instrumental in censoring the New York Post’s story about the salacious and alleged pay-to-play contents of Hunter Biden’s forgotten laptop. The Post’s exposé also detailed the existence of thousands of emails that suggested the younger Biden had been leveraging his daddy’s name for what the Post called “a series of eyebrow-raising overseas business deals.” Twitter suspended the Post’s account and disallowed sharing of the story between users, cementing what many of the platform’s users had suspected for some time: Twitter leaned left and would clamp down on information that failed to suit their preferred narrative, otherwise known as “viewpoint discrimination.” A Brief History of Disinformation Twitter, it turns out, has been in the business of disinformation for several years. The Aspen Institute, a left-leaning think tank, formed a disinformation commission to help produce a report on disinformation that former President Barack Obama—current President Joe Biden was his vice president—echoed at a speech at Stanford University on April 21, 2022. In that speech, Obama outlined the problem of unfettered online speech and what he viewed as its threat to democracy. The former president painted a very frightening picture, indeed. One that ultimately pointed a finger back at “companies that have come to dominate the internet generally, and social media platforms in particular.” It is odd that Tiana Epps-Johnson, Stanford alum and Obama Foundation fellow, helped introduce Obama at Stanford. Epps-Johnson is also the founder and executive director of the Center for Tech and Civic Life, an supposedly nonpartisan nonprofit that took in hundreds of millions in funding from Mark Zuckerberg to help “fortify” the 2020 election. What’s more, the Aspen Institute’s disinformation commission—from which Obama pulled some of his themes—includes Twitter head of site integrity Yoel Roth, who was responsible for blocking access to the Post’s article on Hunter Biden. Twitter Censorship But Twitter’s censorship of a highly consequential, fact-based news story is not the only way it has gone woke. According to Vivek Ramaswamy and Jed Rubenfeld writing in the Wall Street Journal, “Conservative opinions about transgenderism are censored as ‘attacks’ on a ‘protected group’” and “Conservative views on Covid are flagged as ‘misinformation.’” Twitter also removed President Donald Trump’s May 2020 tweet (before removing his entire account) that acknowledged violent protests that summer saying “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” calling it a “glorification of violence.” But the disinformation czars in Twitter corporate ignored Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s tweets calling for the destruction of Israel and Colin Kaepernick’s tweets supporting the burning of police stations. Users who claimed the 2020 election was stolen found themselves censored, but similar claims about malfeasance perpetrated by Russia in the 2016 election went untouched. Most recently, current Twitter employees have accused Musk of wanting to harm the trans community because Musk made light of pronouns in Twitter bios calling them an “aesthetic nightmare.” Academics examining the question of whether Twitter engages in viewpoint discrimination have found interesting results. “Is Twitter Biased Against Conservatives? The Challenge of Inferring Political Bias in a Hyper-Partisan Media Ecosystem, ” a study by MIT and Yale professors concluded that there was an extreme disparity between suspended users based on party: 7.7 percent of the Democrats compared to 35.6 percent of Republicans The catch—there’s always a catch—is that the study also justified that disparity by noting that Republicans on Twitter “shared substantially more news from misinformation.” Federal Disinformation Efforts How convenient to have a federally administered disinformation governance board to determine exactly what “disinformation” means. Less conveniently, a mere three weeks after the disinformation board was announced, DHS shut it down. But this is likely not the last we’ll hear of the federal government defining “disinformation” to suit its agenda.

On April 6, energy firm NextEra pleaded guilty to three federal charges of killing eagles with wind turbines. The plea included an $8 million fine, an agreement to pay almost $30,000 for future eagle kills, and a commitment to spend $27 million to prevent future kills. The penalties should have been worse. Prosecutors alleged NextEra’s raptor-slayers had executed 150 eagles in eight states. NextEra didn’t act alone. Hundreds of hypocritical nonprofits implicitly endorse eagle elimination because they oppose nuclear energy and promote massive build-out of wind turbines. Their combined annual budgets exceed $1 billion. The notorious list includes the Natural Resources Defense Council, the League of Conservation Voters, the Sierra Club, and the Environmental Defense Fund. Financial support comes from big names such as the Ford Foundation. A March 2021 Department of Energy report stated that a “typical” nuclear plant “needs a little more than 1 square mile to operate,” while “wind farms require 360 times more land area to produce the same amount of electricity and solar photovoltaic plants require 75 times more space.” Supporters of wind energy are not conservationists. There’s nothing “clean” about energy that devours hundreds of times the land needed by another carbon-free option and then needlessly wipes out eagles as a cost of doing business. Renewables Can’t Meet Energy Needs President Joe Biden hasn’t learned this yet. In his March 1 State of the Union address he pledged to “double America’s clean energy production in solar, wind, and so much more.” But despite hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies already given out, solar, and wind together still accounted for less than 5 percent of total American energy consumption in 2020. Biden’s speech didn’t mention increasing production of nuclear or the other fuels that account for 95 percent of the energy we need. In 2020 the combined output of every wind turbine and solar panel on Earth was 6,037 TWh (terawatt hours). In comparison, the American nuclear program alone produced 2,051 TWh, even as it represented just 8.4 percent of total U.S. energy consumption. Conservationists Should Support Nuclear Energy If the president, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the rest were conservationists, they’d ditch the wasteful wind subsidies and instead demand a doubling (or more) of carbon-free nuclear energy. The Department of Energy reports uranium is “a common metal found in rocks all over the world” and “economically recoverable” in the United States and more than a dozen other nations. France obtained 36.1 percent of total energy consumption from nuclear in 2020. Of the five richest and largest industrial economies, the French are the least carbon intensive per capita. In 2020, French carbon emissions measured 3.8 tCO2 per person, compared to 4.6 for the United Kingdom, 7.0 for Germany, 8.2 for Japan, and 13.0 for the United States. If 36 percent of American energy consumption in 2020 had been nuclear, that could have theoretically displaced all of the coal and nearly half of oil consumption. (Although this would have required many more vehicles to run on electricity). Fake conservationists are marching us in the other direction. Last April the Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense Fund cheered the closure of the Indian Point nuclear station in upstate New York. In an absurd defense of the weather-restricted power industry, the Sierra Club released a graphic showing house cats kill more birds than wind turbines. Well, yes, house cats prey upon America’s inexhaustible supply of quickly reproducing sparrows, robins, and other small birds. For the Sierra Club to equate this with wind turbines wiping out big and slow-to-reproduce predators is as silly as saying a Formula One racer is comparable to what is found at a roadside used car lot. Protecting Wild Animals and the Wide Open Quoted by NPR after the federal plea deal, the leader of the eagle-killing wind firm copped a Sierra Club attitude: “NextEra President Rebecca Kujawa said collisions of birds with wind turbines are unavoidable accidents that should not be criminalized.” Every single one of those collisions is avoidable, because wind turbines themselves are avoidable. We’d be knocking almost all of them down if the sanctimonious anti-nuclear nonprofits acted like conservationists who enjoy witnessing wild animals and wide-open spaces. To learn more: https://capitalresearch.org/article/supporters-of-wind-farms-over-nuclear-power-are-eagle-killers-not-conservationists/

Ibram X. Kendi is a professor, activist, and author most known for pioneering the radical-left ideology of “antiracism,” which claims that any racial inequalities are inherently the result of racist policies. Kendi has argued that there is no such thing as being “non-racist,” and that in order to avoid being racist, individuals must actively combat racism by promoting left-of-center policies. Kendi has claimed that other approaches to racial inequality, such as race-blind policymaking or an emphasis on individual responsibility, are inherently racist. Scholars have come out in opposition to Kendi’s ideology, arguing that such a broad definition of racism casts some of America’s leading African-American activists, including Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois, as racists. Kendi has written several books on his theory, including How to Be an Antiracist and Antiracist Baby, a children’s picture book designed to teach infants and children under four left-of-center critical race theory. Kendi has advocated for his theory to become a central part of the American K-12 education system, arguing that racism is so fundamental to the United States that his political-economic program should be taught to children as young as preschoolers. Kendi recently signed a deal with Netflix to promote his ideology in three film and television projects. Kendi has called for the immediate implementation of a number of left-wing policies at the federal level, including reparations payments to African Americans for American slavery, the removal of police funding, universal basic incomes, online voting, government-controlled healthcare, need-based school funding, complete student debt forgiveness, and the Green New Deal. Kendi has been endorsed by a number of prominent left-of-center and radical-left political figures, including controversial professor Cornel West, Democratic activist and former political candidate Stacey Abrams, Poor People’s Campaign director William J. Barber II, Black Lives Matter co-founder and self-proclaimed Marxist Alicia Garza, and 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones. In 2020, Kendi equated right-of-center policies and beliefs with “genocide, enslavement, inequality, voter suppression, bigotry, cheating, lies, individualism, exploitation, denial, and indifference to it all.” Kendi has gone so far as to propose a constitutional amendment that would ban “racism” by imposing mass government regulatory standards to enforce Kendi’s antiracist ideologies. The amendment would make racial inequity unconstitutional, ban public officials from having “racist ideas,” and permanently fund a United States Department of Anti-racism that would have oversight over all local, state, and federal public policies to ensure they are not “racist” and be allowed to discipline public officials if they “do not voluntarily change their racist policy and ideas.” To find out more, visit CapitalResearch.org or visit the InfluenceWatch Profile: https://www.influencewatch.org/person/ibram-x-kendi/

May 4, 2022, Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, will testify in person before the Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight of the Senate Committee on Finance. The following is his written statement: https://capitalresearch.org/article/scott-walter-testifies-to-a-senate-finance-subcommittee-on-the-political-activities-of-tax-exempt-entities/

If you thought your children were safe from the Left’s culture war in a private school, think again. Across America, a pandemic of “woke” ideology is quietly spreading through privately run schools and colleges supposedly shielded from government control. Proponents may call this new teaching “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), but that’s a euphemism for a dark agenda: inculcating kids with the Left’s malicious obsession with race. Far from promoting independent thought, it’s a campaign to crush dissent and rewrite history while teaching children to hate one another for the color of their skin. The public is almost completely unaware of how activists are indoctrinating America’s youth with transgenderism, racial segregation, and other far-left “virtues”—and still would be, if not for the efforts of a handful of courageous moms bent on exposing the truth. Meet Undercover Mother, a group of roughly 100 volunteer moms and dads from across the nation engaged in some of the finest investigative journalism happening today. These Undercover Mothers are fighting in the trenches to defeat the radical Left’s agenda that’s taken over our schools. If they succeed, it’d mean nothing less than saving America’s nonprofit schools—and the students they teach—from the radical Left.

How does the Left achieve their woke goals? Through the instruments of woke like the National Lawyers Guild. The National Lawyers Guild, a nonprofit association of left-wing attorneys and others connected to the legal profession, has recently received attention for its association with some of the most controversial fringes of America’s political far Left. Perhaps most notably, this includes the sometimes-violent Antifa (short for anti-fascist) movement. The guild and its local chapters are among the relatively few nonprofits that have publicly supported Antifa’s actions, declaring that “the NLG will continue to support anti-fascists and anti-racists in the street and in the courts, and will not be swayed by the argument that hateful, dangerous speech should be tolerated at any cost.” In his 2021 book Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, journalist Andy Ngo went so far as to call the guild “in effect . . . the legal arm of antifa.” The National Lawyers Guild, in fact, has a long and interesting history of serving as the “legal arm” of multiple manifestations of American far-leftism dating back to the 1930s. A profile detailing the guild’s uniquely resilient history of radicalism is now available on InfluenceWatch. What became the National Lawyers Guild (the “NLG” or the “Guild”) had its origins at a meeting of approximately 25 lawyers on December 1, 1936. It was conceived as an alternative to the then-conservative American Bar Association, and was intended to serve as a professional association of left-wing attorneys who supported President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal policies and the priorities of organized labor. Maurice Sugar, a Detroit-based lawyer who would later become general counsel to the United Auto Workers labor union, had been campaigning for such an association for several years and was instrumental in bringing the idea to fruition. The NLG’s initial members represented a multi-ideological coalition of the American left. Notable early leaders included American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) counsel Morris Ernst and future Supreme Court justices Abe Fortas and Robert H. Jackson. President Roosevelt knew a number of the Guild’s founding members personally, and sent a letter of congratulations to its founding convention. Indeed, Ernst had reportedly intended for the NLG to function essentially “as the legal arm of the New Deal,” and many of its founding members were active in the labor movement. Find out more: InfluenceWatch Profile: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/national-lawyers-guild/ A History of Radicalism at the National Lawyers Guild: https://capitalresearch.org/article/a-history-of-radicalism-at-the-national-lawyers-guild/

In perhaps one of the greatest messaging coups of all time, the Black Lives Movement Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) – an international effort funded by some of the most powerful and wealthy leftists admittedly steeped in the Marxist playbook – took the true statement that black lives matter and used it to create chaos and destroy the livelihoods of the very people it was professing to help. In BLM: Aftermath – Chapter 1, we explored the consequences of the protests and riots following the murder of George Floyd from the perspective of those living in Floyd’s Minneapolis neighborhood. In BLM: Chapter 2 – Cleveland, we look at what the 2020 demonstrations – tied to the Black Lives Movement Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF), an international effort funded by some of the most powerful and wealthy leftists admittedly steeped in the Marxist playbook -- did to a city already familiar with economic devastation resulting from racial tension. In the wake of the protests, Cleveland voters implemented a policy of public safety oversight by a community-led board (over the objections of the city’s African American mayor and police chief), a situation that has led to an anemic police force and rising crime in the city. Watch to learn more. (Original song “Shadows” by FCB Records recording artist Aaron Malik) Learn more: https://blmaftermath.com/ Capital Research Center: www.capitalresearch.org Updates: Movement for Black Lives: https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-organizational-restructuring-of-black-lives-matter-movement-for-black-lives/ BLM Global Network Foundation: https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-organizational-restructuring-of-black-lives-matter-black-lives-matter-global-network-foundation/ The Radical Origins of Black Lives Matter: https://capitalresearch.org/article/radical-lives-matter/ InfluenceWatch Profiles: Black Lives Matter: https://www.influencewatch.org/movement/black-lives-matter/ Black Lives Matter At School: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/black-lives-matter-at-school/ Black Lives Matter Grassroots: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/black-lives-matter-grassroots/ Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/black-lives-matter-foundation/ Black Lives Matter PAC: https://www.influencewatch.org/political-party/black-lives-matter-pac/ Black Lives Matter of Greater New York: https://www.influencewatch.org/movement/black-lives-matter-of-greater-new-york/

Today’s labor unions have a big problem: membership. As of 2020, less than seven percent of private-sector workers were part of a union. And membership rates have been plummeting for years. But labor leaders think they have a plan to turn things around: Target and organize the next generation of workers. If you’re between the ages of 18 and 34, Big Labor Wants You! Labor unions have one major motivator for growing their ranks: money. On average, larger unions collected almost $2.5 million in dues in 2019. For each member, these dues can range anywhere from $360-$1200 per year. And that's not including initiation fees which can easily cost over $100 dollars. The steady drop in membership has meant a drop in the amount of dues unions take in. And unions losing money is bad news for their allies on the political Left, who rely heavily on the funding they receive from unions each year. In fact, labor unions spent a whopping $1.8 billion on politics and lobbying in 2020, the vast majority of which went to Democratic causes, regardless of the political preference of dues-paying union members. It turns out that even during a global pandemic, one that left many union members without jobs, Big Labor made sure to prioritize its own political agenda. Then, there’s the track record of corruption. For example, in 2020 the United Auto Workers was put under a six-year-long monitorship after a federal investigation found several union officials—including two past presidents—guilty of wrongdoing, including embezzlement and fraud. The next year, the executive director of the Service Employees International Union’s California arm was also charged with multiple counts of tax fraud, embezzlement, and perjury. And those are just some of the latest examples. Young voters should know that unions want to collect as much money as possible to fuel their political agenda, which may not align with their own. And since their traditional worker base is no longer buying what they’re selling, unions are turning to the younger generation to help line their pockets. The gig economy, restaurant workers, media companies, and tech operations are among newly targeted workplaces. Young Americans deserve to know the truth about Big Labor’s quest for more money and political power -- all at the expense of young people’s individual paychecks

The Architects of Woke series takes aim at far-left post-modernist and Marxist thinkers and activists responsible for the spread of identity politics from college campuses to society at large. The eighth episode, “Michel Foucault & Science As 'Oppression'”, covers the the influence of the late French post-modernist philosopher Michel Foucault. If you've ever seen science attacked as "too white" or "too male," then you've seen the influence of Foucault. Foucault, rather than seeing science as a means to understand the world, instead understood science as a tool of power to oppress. Foucault saw "discourses" such as "sane" vs. "crazy" and "man" vs. "woman" as inherently oppressive for categorizing people, and science as inherently oppressive for reinforcing such categories. Ironically, Foucault's science denial may have contributed to his death... To learn more about this topic, check out the following material: Cynical Theories - https://www.amazon.com/Cynical-Theori... Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left - https://www.amazon.com/Fools-Frauds-F... In The Asylum - https://www.city-journal.org/html/asy... Postmodernism's Dead End - https://quillette.com/2019/09/23/post... InfluenceWatch Profile - https://www.influencewatch.org/person... The Architects of Woke is hosted and directed by filmmaker Rob Montz. Montz is the co-founder and CEO of Good Kid Productions. His online documentary work has attracted millions of views and coverage in major outlets, including The Economist, USA Today, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Adam Carolla Podcast. His 2017 documentary “Silence U. PT 2: What Has Yale Become?,” published on We the Internet TV, won the 2018 Reason Video Prize. You can view previous episodes of the Architects of Woke at the following links: Judith Butler’s War on Science: https://youtu.be/yus0cmyRZWM Slavoj Žižek & the Romance of Revolutionary Terror: https://youtu.be/mcS7jggHGCI Chapo Trap House & the Marxist Vanguards for Alienated Millennials: https://youtu.be/l4knok5jf4QStokely Carmichael & Racism Without Racists: https://youtu.be/SRC2qyn4pyg Howard Zinn, Hollywood, & the Fairy Tale of American Evil: https://youtu.be/2nyNJVNrh_Q The 1619 Project’s Fake History: https://youtu.be/vB8817g26Ig The University's Shadow Activists: https://youtu.be/RW6dlndP91w To keep updated with The Architects of Woke series, sign up for our email list at DangerousDocumentaries.com

The Architects of Woke series takes aim at far-left post-modernist and Marxist thinkers and activists responsible for the spread of identity politics from college campuses to society at large. The seventh episode, “The University’s Shadow Activists”, covers the rapidly growing class of university administrators. With the rising cost of higher education, have you ever wondered where all that money is going? Since the 1970s the size of the university student body and faculty has jumped by around 50%, but the number of administrators has increased 300%. Often being paid more than professors, graduates with degrees from activist university departments who are unemployable in the private sector are incentivized to become university administrators. While there, these activists have a perverse incentive to cultivate student grievances; the less students can run their own lives, the more power accorded to administrators. To learn more about this topic, check out the following material: Think Professors Are Liberal? Try School Administrators - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/op... The Fall of the Faculty - https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Faculty-B... The Architects of Woke is hosted and directed by filmmaker Rob Montz. Montz is the co-founder and CEO of Good Kid Productions. His online documentary work has attracted millions of views and coverage in major outlets, including The Economist, USA Today, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Adam Carolla Podcast. His 2017 documentary “Silence U. PT 2: What Has Yale Become?,” published on We the Internet TV, won the 2018 Reason Video Prize. You can view previous episodes of the Architects of Woke at the following links: Judith Butler’s War on Science: https://youtu.be/yus0cmyRZWM Slavoj Žižek & the Romance of Revolutionary Terror: https://youtu.be/mcS7jggHGCI Chapo Trap House & the Marxist Vanguards for Alienated Millennials: https://youtu.be/l4knok5jf4QStokely Carmichael & Racism Without Racists: https://youtu.be/SRC2qyn4pyg Howard Zinn, Hollywood, & the Fairy Tale of American Evil: https://youtu.be/2nyNJVNrh_Q The 1619 Project’s Fake History: https://youtu.be/vB8817g26Ig To keep updated with The Architects of Woke series, sign up for our email list at DangerousDocumentaries.com

The Architects of Woke will release episodes throughout 2019. The series takes aim at far-left post-modernist and Marxist thinkers and activists responsible for the spread of identity politics from college campuses to society at large. The third episode, “Chapo Trap House & the Marxist Vanguards for Alienated Millennials”, covers the influence of the radical socialist Chapo Trap House podcast. The #1 most funded podcast on Patreon, earning over $130,000 a month and boasting a regular listenership in the hundreds-of-thousands, Chapo Trap House is by far the most popular far-left podcast in the nation. Their views go far beyond the pop-socialism of most Bernie Sanders fans, instead explicitly advocating Soviet style Communism and expressing brutal hatred towards the wealthy and anyone who disagrees with them. Their listenership has conquered internet communities, spreading their vitriol far and wide, and gaining ever increasing influence for their views... To learn more about Chapo Trap House, check out the following links: InfluenceWatch.org entry: https://www.influencewatch.org/for-pr... "Socialism That's Selling": https://capitalresearch.org/article/c... Book Review: https://www.politico.com/magazine/sto... The Architects of Woke is hosted and directed by filmmaker Rob Montz. Montz is the co-founder and CEO of Good Kid Productions. His online documentary work has attracted millions of views and coverage in major outlets, including The Economist, USA Today, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Adam Carolla Podcast. His 2017 documentary “Silence U. PT 2: What Has Yale Become?,” published on We the Internet TV, won the 2018 Reason Video Prize. You can view previous episodes of the Architects of Woke at the following links: Judith Butler's War on Science: https://youtu.be/yus0cmyRZWM Slavoj Žižek & the Romance of Revolutionary Terror: https://youtu.be/mcS7jggHGCI To keep updated with The Architects of Woke series, sign up for our email list at DangerousDocumentaries.com

The Architects of Woke series takes aim at far-left post-modernist and Marxist thinkers and activists responsible for the spread of identity politics from college campuses to society at large. The fifth episode, “Howard Zinn, Hollywood, & the Fairy Tale of American Evil”, covers the influence of the late Howard Zinn. Zinn was a historian and far-left political activist best known for authoring A People's History of the United States, one of the most influential history books in both secondary and higher education. A member of the Communist Party USA at the time when Stalin was enslaving half of Europe, Zinn ignored that colonialism as he focused A People's History of the United States on the supposed horrors in American history from Columbus onward. Zinn's narrative painted a false and simplistic caricature of America's origins that has spread throughout Hollywood and our culture... To learn more about Howard Zinn, check out the following links: A People's History of the United States - https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062... Zinn's Website - https://www.howardzinn.org/ Zinn Education Project - https://www.zinnedproject.org/ Howard Zinn's "The Problem is Civil Disobedience" (Read by Matt Damon and Others) - http://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/z... InfluenceWatch Entry - https://www.influencewatch.org/person... Right-Wing Criticism of Zinn: Debunking Howard Zinn - https://www.regnery.com/9781621577737... The Washington Examiner on Zinn's Communism - https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/we... The Wall Street Journal's "Reclaiming History From Howard Zinn" - https://www.wsj.com/articles/reclaimi... Left-Wing Criticism of Zinn: The New Republic's "Agit-Prof" - https://newrepublic.com/article/11257... Dissent Magazine Expose - https://www.dissentmagazine.org/artic... American Federation of Teachers Criticism: https://www.aft.org/sites/default/fil... Left-Wing Defense of Zinn: Zinnophobia - https://www.amazon.com/Zinnophobia-Hi... The Architects of Woke is hosted and directed by filmmaker Rob Montz. Montz is the co-founder and CEO of Good Kid Productions. His online documentary work has attracted millions of views and coverage in major outlets, including The Economist, USA Today, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Adam Carolla Podcast. His 2017 documentary “Silence U. PT 2: What Has Yale Become?,” published on We the Internet TV, won the 2018 Reason Video Prize. You can view previous episodes of the Architects of Woke at the following links: Judith Butler's War on Science: https://youtu.be/yus0cmyRZWM Slavoj Žižek & the Romance of Revolutionary Terror: https://youtu.be/mcS7jggHGCI Chapo Trap House & the Marxist Vanguards for Alienated Millennials: https://youtu.be/l4knok5jf4Q Stokely Carmichael & Racism Without Racists - https://youtu.be/SRC2qyn4pyg To keep updated with The Architects of Woke series, sign up for our email list at DangerousDocumentaries.com

The Architects of Woke will release episodes throughout 2019. The series takes aim at far-left post-modernist and Marxist thinkers and activists responsible for the spread of identity politics from college campuses to society at large. The first episode exposes the outsized influence of Judith Butler, the University of California at Berkeley feminist gender theorist famous for making the argument that gender is a performance rather than biological reality, leading to the notion that gender is an endlessly divisible spectrum that can have far more than two types, male and female, which is contradicted by substantial evidence. Butler’s theories, spread through dense, opaque jargon, gave birth to the notion that gender is subjective and non-binary, which has corrupted feminism and harmed women, according to lesbian activists. Butler is a powerful force in academe; she serves on the executive council of the Modern Language Association, which sets writing standards for high school and undergraduate students. The Architects of Woke is hosted and directed by filmmaker Rob Montz. Montz is the co-founder and CEO of Good Kid Productions. His online documentary work has attracted millions of views and coverage in major outlets, including The Economist, USA Today, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Adam Carolla Podcast. His 2017 documentary “Silence U. PT 2: What Has Yale Become?,” published on We the Internet TV, won the 2018 Reason Video Prize. Subjects of upcoming episodes of The Architects of Woke will include Slavoj Žižek, a highly influential Marxist-Leninist philosopher, and Chapo Trap House, the wildly popular podcast that’s the highest-funded project on Patreon. The radical socialist podcast has been described as “the last stop off the socialist train before Antifa.” Read more about Judith Butler here: https://www.influencewatch.org/person... To keep updated with The Architects of Woke series, sign up for our email list at DangerousDocumentaries.com

The Architects of Woke series takes aim at far-left post-modernist and Marxist thinkers and activists responsible for the spread of identity politics from college campuses to society at large. The sixth episode, “The 1619 Project's Fake History”, covers the New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project. Directed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, the project attempts to reframe our understanding of American history by alleging the central event in the founding of the United States was the first importation of enslaved Africans to Virginia in 1619 and not the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The project has been notably criticized by esteemed historians for its factual errors. Despite this, schools across the nation have embedded the 1619 Project into their curriculums, perhaps endangering our nation's understanding of its founding for generations to come... To learn more about the 1619 Project, check out the following links: InfluenceWatch Entry: https://www.influencewatch.org/moveme... The New York Times' 1619 Project: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2... The Pulitzer Center's 1619 Project Educational Programming: https://pulitzercenter.org/projects/1... Historian Nell Irvin Painter on the indentured servants, not slaves, who arrived in 1619: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2... Criticism by historian Gordon Wood: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019... Historians' letter to the editor & The New York Times' response: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/ma... The Architects of Woke is hosted and directed by filmmaker Rob Montz. Montz is the co-founder and CEO of Good Kid Productions. His online documentary work has attracted millions of views and coverage in major outlets, including The Economist, USA Today, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Adam Carolla Podcast. His 2017 documentary “Silence U. PT 2: What Has Yale Become?,” published on We the Internet TV, won the 2018 Reason Video Prize. You can view previous episodes of the Architects of Woke at the following links: Judith Butler's War on Science: https://youtu.be/yus0cmyRZWM Slavoj Žižek & the Romance of Revolutionary Terror: https://youtu.be/mcS7jggHGCI Chapo Trap House & the Marxist Vanguards for Alienated Millennials: https://youtu.be/l4knok5jf4Q Stokely Carmichael & Racism Without Racists: https://youtu.be/SRC2qyn4pyg Howard Zinn, Hollywood, & the Fairy Tale of American Evil: https://youtu.be/2nyNJVNrh_Q To keep updated with The Architects of Woke series, sign up for our email list at DangerousDocumentaries.com

The Architects of Woke will release episodes throughout 2019. The series takes aim at far-left post-modernist and Marxist thinkers and activists responsible for the spread of identity politics from college campuses to society at large. The second episode, “Slavoj Žižek & the Romance of Revolutionary Terror”, covers the influence of the famed Slovenian communist philosopher Slavoj Žižek. Having starred in three feature-length documentary films, debated academic superstar Jordan Peterson, and holding one of the largest fan bases of any academic in the world, Žižek is perhaps the most influential Marxist alive. But despite Žižek’s fun pop-culture references and friendly debate with Professor Peterson, his ideas are far from benign. A supporter of revolutionary violence, Žižek speaks approvingly of deadly revolutionaries Vladimir Lenin and Maximillien Robespierre. In Žižek’s view, a free capitalist society is inherently oppressive, and violence is needed to overthrow it. The video concludes, based on Žižek’s own words, that Žižek’s utopia is to squash you in order to gratify his narcissism. The Architects of Woke is hosted and directed by filmmaker Rob Montz. Montz is the co-founder and CEO of Good Kid Productions. His online documentary work has attracted millions of views and coverage in major outlets, including The Economist, USA Today, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Adam Carolla Podcast. His 2017 documentary “Silence U. PT 2: What Has Yale Become?,” published on We the Internet TV, won the 2018 Reason Video Prize. Subjects of upcoming episodes of The Architects of Woke will include Chapo Trap House, the wildly popular radical socialist podcast that has been described as “the last stop off the socialist train before Antifa” and receives over $100,000 a month in donations, making it the highest-funded project on Patreon. To learn more about Žižek and his critics, we recommend the following: “Robespierre or the ‘Divine Violence’ of Terror” by Slavoj Žižek - https://www.lacan.com/zizrobes.htm “Resistance Is Surrender” by Slavoj Žižek - https://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n22/slavoj-... “Violent Thoughts About Slavoj Žižek” by Simon Critchley - http://www.nakedpunch.com/articles/39 “Slavoj Žižek” InfluenceWatch Encyclopedia Entry - https://www.influencewatch.org/person... “The Deadly Jester” by Adam Kirsch - https://newrepublic.com/article/60979... “Clown Prince of the Revolution” by Roget Scruton - https://www.city-journal.org/html/clo... To keep updated with The Architects of Woke series, sign up for our email list at DangerousDocumentaries.com

Entryism is a political strategy of infiltration, first taught by Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky in 1934, in which “members of one group are encouraged to enter a larger organization with the intent of subverting its policies and objectives from within.” Today, entryism is still a common tactic of the far-left.

For years, environmentalists have been pushing for solar and wind to replace oil, gas, and coal. But there’s one question that hasn’t come up nearly enough: what happens when the sun sets and the wind stops? Full Article: https://capitalresearch.org/article/t...

Andrés travels around America to call attention to Venezuela’s plight and to warn Americans – don’t let it happen here too. The biggest threat to the American dream and our liberties is the so called “socialist dream”: free college, free healthcare, free energy, free everything. Website: https://capitalresearch.org/

Under the Universal Postal Union, China’s shipping is subsidized by the American taxpayer through the U.S. Postal Service, which loses billions of dollars every year. , It’s important our leaders understand the need for all international agreements to treat us with equal rates, in order to protect both free and fair trade.

Popular belief says unions represent the will of their members, but in reality unions actively craft regulation that protects them from the will of their members. The Capital Research Center's Dr. Steven J. Allen explains how. Full Article: https://capitalresearch.org/article/u...

Since 1969, UCS has been at the forefront of the politicization of science. Anti-military scientists and engineers, along with other so-called progressives, created the group that grew out of protests at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other schools across the nation. The Capital Research Center's Matthew Vadum reports. Full Article: https://capitalresearch.org/article/h...