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Hamas’s incursion into Israel on October 7 transformed the politics of the Middle East. Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) has carried out a forensic analysis of the events of that day – examining seven hours of footage from CCTV, dashcams, personal phones and headcams of dead Hamas fighters, and drawing up a comprehensive list of those killed. In October 7, the I-Unit reveals widespread human rights abuses by Hamas fighters and others who followed them through the fence from Gaza into Israel. But the investigation also found that many of the worst stories that came out in the days following the attack were false. This was especially true of atrocities that were used repeatedly by politicians in Israel and the West to justify the ferocity of the bombardment of the Gaza Strip, such as the mass killing of babies and allegations of widespread and systematic rape. In particular the I-Unit reveals that claims by the Israel Defence Force that it found 8 burned babies at a house in Kibbutz Be’eri were entirely untrue. There were no babies in the house and the 12 civilians inside were killed by Israeli forces when they stormed the house. This was one of a number of incidents where the police and army appear to have killed Israeli citizens. October 7 is a deep dive into the events that led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people, the significance of which will reverberate for decades. Subscribe to Al Jazeera http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow Al Jazeera on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find Al Jazeera on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com /

"Comparing a state or people with Nazi Germany has a powerful and compelling effect on many people. It achieves the goal of dehumanizing an entire civilian population." This video was made by GDF with support from their patrons! Support GDF on Patreon: https://patreon.com/gdfofficial Go to https://ground.news/gdf to stay fully informed. Youtube original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywMFnGU03Fw

This music video from Double Down News is a moral gauntlet for the world. Will we turn away? Will we refuse to look? Or will we bear witness and use our voices to call for a ceasefire? Join the Future of Journalism. Support DDN on Patreon: ► https://www.patreon.com/DoubleDownNews Support DDN via Paypal ► https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=TLXUE9P9GA9ZC&source=url

This debut feature film by journalist Abby Martin began while reporting in Palestine, where she was denied entry into Gaza by the Israeli government on the accusation she was a “propagandist.” So Abby connected with a team of journalists in Gaza to produce the film through the blockaded border. It is a documentary about the historic Great March Of Return protests, which occurred every week from March 2018 until December 2019, but covers so much more. It tells the story of Gaza past and present, showing rare archival footage that explains the history never acknowledged by mass media. You hear from victims of the ongoing massacre, including journalists, medics and the family of internationally-acclaimed paramedic, Razan al-Najjar. At its core, ‘Gaza Fights For Freedom’ is a thorough indictment of the Israeli military for war crimes with exclusive documentary evidence and a stunning cinematic portrayal of Palestinians' heroic resistance. Watch the full documentary on Films For Action: https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/gaza-fights-for-freedom/ Donations, DVDs, digital download, soundtrack, Arabic/Spanish subtitles & more at https://gazafightsforfreedom.com SUPPORT ABBY MARTIN'S WORK BY BECOMING A PATRON Her next film is: Earth's Greatest Enemy She urgently needs donations to make this film a reality. If you want to make this hard-hitting environmental film that exposes the US war machine, make a tax-deductible donation via: - PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/empirefilesinc - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/empirefiles

Rabbi Michael Lerner spoke at Muhammad Ali's memorial service in 2016 and received a roaring standing ovation for sharing a message that deserves to be heard around the world today.

This debut feature film by journalist Abby Martin began while reporting in Palestine, where she was denied entry into Gaza by the Israeli government on the accusation she was a “propagandist.” So Abby connected with a team of journalists in Gaza to produce the film through the blockaded border. It is a documentary about the historic Great March Of Return protests, which occurred every week from March 2018 until December 2019, but covers so much more. It tells the story of Gaza past and present, showing rare archival footage that explains the history never acknowledged by mass media. You hear from victims of the ongoing massacre, including journalists, medics and the family of internationally-acclaimed paramedic, Razan al-Najjar. At its core, ‘Gaza Fights For Freedom’ is a thorough indictment of the Israeli military for war crimes with exclusive documentary evidence and a stunning cinematic portrayal of Palestinians' heroic resistance. Donations, DVDs, digital download, soundtrack, Arabic/Spanish subtitles & more at https://gazafightsforfreedom.com SUPPORT ABBY MARTIN'S WORK BY BECOMING A PATRON Her next film is: Earth's Greatest Enemy She urgently needs donations to make this film a reality. If you want to make this hard-hitting environmental film that exposes the US war machine, make a tax-deductible donation via: - PayPal:https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/empirefilesinc - Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/empirefiles

May cooler heads prevail. There are people who have lost their damn minds on both sides of this tragedy. Support The Show On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/seculartalk

"The white “race” was invented by rich Virginians in 1676 in the aftermath of a populous rebellion of impoverished, indentured, and enslaved Africans and Europeans now known as Bacon’s Rebellion." This is a clip from "The History of White People in America," presented by Independent Lens. Watch the full 9 min video on Films For Action: https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/how-america-invented-race-the-history-of-white-people-in-america/

Both America and the Soviet Union called the Soviet Union a socialist system but for different reasons. America called it a socialist system because it wanted to defame and demonize socialism. The Soviet Union called their government socialist because that was a popular and celebrated term in Europe, despite authoritarian control having nothing to do with true, democratic socialism (where workers are also the owners and have democratic control over their workplace and government). In truth, as Noam Chomsky points out, the people of the Soviet Union had no control over the means of production or control over their lives and were essentially slaves. It would be the same as if Stalin came to power in America, created a fascist police state, used coercive force to protect criminal banks, evicted people unjustly from their homes, suppressed protests and broke up unions, then lavished massive subsidies on big companies, gave tax breaks to the rich, allowed many large corporations like GE to pay nothing in taxes, and then proudly called this a "free-market capitalist" system. In Chomsky's own words... "When the world's two great propaganda systems agree on some doctrine, it requires some intellectual effort to escape its shackles. One such doctrine is that the society created by Lenin and Trotsky and molded further by Stalin and his successors has some relation to socialism in some meaningful or historically accurate sense of this concept. In fact, if there is a relation, it is the relation of contradiction. It is clear enough why both major propaganda systems insist upon this fantasy. Since its origins, the Soviet State has attempted to harness the energies of its own population and oppressed people elsewhere in the service of the men who took advantage of the popular ferment in Russia in 1917 to seize State power. One major ideological weapon employed to this end has been the claim that the State managers are leading their own society and the world towards the socialist ideal; an impossibility, as any socialist -- surely any serious Marxist -- should have understood at once (many did), and a lie of mammoth proportions as history has revealed since the earliest days of the Bolshevik regime. The taskmasters have attempted to gain legitimacy and support by exploiting the aura of socialist ideals and the respect that is rightly accorded them, to conceal their own ritual practice as they destroyed every vestige of socialism. As for the world's second major propaganda system, association of socialism with the Soviet Union and its clients serves as a powerful ideological weapon to enforce conformity and obedience to the State capitalist institutions, to ensure that the necessity to rent oneself to the owners and managers of these institutions will be regarded as virtually a natural law, the only alternative to the 'socialist' dungeon. The Soviet leadership thus portrays itself as socialist to protect its right to wield the club, and Western ideologists adopt the same pretense in order to forestall the threat of a more free and just society. This joint attack on socialism has been highly effective in undermining it in the modern period." - Noam Chomsky, The Soviet Union Versus Socialism The clip above is from the 60-minute mark of the film Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (2009). Watch the full film here: https://www.filmsforaction.org/Watch/Golden_Rule_The_Investment_Theory_of_Politics_2009 It's one of the best documentaries explaining the influence of money on politics.

Advertising & the End of the World features an illustrated presentation by Sut Jhally of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the producer and writer of the award-winning Dreamworlds series. Watch the film: https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/advertising-and-the-end-of-the-world-documentary/ Focusing directly on the world of commercial images, he asks some basic questions about the cultural messages emanating from this market-based view of the world: Do our present arrangements deliver what they claim -- happiness and satisfaction? Can we think about our collective as well as our private interests? And, can we think long-term as well as short-term? Drawing from the broad arena of commercial imagery, and utilizing sophisticated graphics, Advertising & the End of the World addresses the issues these questions raise, encouraging viewers to reflect on their own participation in the culture of consumption. Making the connection between society's high-consumption lifestyle and the coming environmental crisis, Jhally forces us to evaluate the physical and material costs of the consumer society and how long we can maintain our present level of production.

David Korten’s inspiring and extensively illustrated presentation of his book The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. David says we are at a defining moment in all of human history. “Will future generations know our time …[as] the Great Unraveling, when profligate consumption exceeded Earth’s capacity … and led to an accelerating wave of collapsing environmental systems, violent competition for… resources, and a dramatic die-back of the human population?” “Or will they look back … on the time of the Great Turning, when their forebears … turned crisis into opportunity, and learned to live in creative partnership with one another and Earth?” Video by: https://peakmoment.tv/

A new documentary by Abby Martin exposing the world's biggest polluter: the US military. Earth's Greatest Enemy investigates the Pentagon's catastrophic toll on the planet–from carbon emissions to toxic dumping, to habitat destruction and more, while highlighting the struggles against it. This will be the first ever piece of media that puts every facet of the Pentagon's pollution together into one indictment. We urgently need donations to make this film a reality. If you want to make this hard-hitting environmental film that exposes the US war machine, make a tax-deductible donation via: - PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/empirefilesinc - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/empirefiles www.earthsgreatestenemy.com