The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Occupy the Cinema: "Nobody Speak" Tackles Free Press and Journalism in the Age of Trump
At its core, "Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press" raises the question of where the line is between public and private, whether crossing it is “bad,” and whether the news men and women who do so ought to be held legally accountable.
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Occupy the Cinema: In "Rat Film," Humans and Rodents Claw for American Survival
Through all the invisible walls that it demonstrates are surrounding us, "Rat Film" seems to conclude that people will continue living and making due. People, in general, won’t be brought down. We’ll find a way.
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The dubious friends of Donald Trump: the Russians (ZEMBLA Video)
The Russians are alleged to be in possession of sensitive information about Trump. And that exposes Trump to blackmail. Fake news, tweets Trump: “I have nothing to do with Russia – no deals, no loans, no nothing!”
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Robert Reich: Boycotting Trump–Consumer Power
Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus and Macy's have dropped Trump brands. Let’s make it unprofitable to work with Trump.
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The Empire Files [029] - Monsanto, America's Monster
Few corporations in the world are as loathed – and as sinister – as Monsanto, but the threat posed to people and planet could be reaching new heights.
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Weiner on Weiner: "This Is the Worst – Doing a Documentary On My Scandal"
This "Weiner" is a comedy of errors and a tragedy of modern proportions – sure, it’s head shakingly humorous and even eye rollingly awkward to see how far a man can dig his own grave, but it’s a sad state of affairs to do so, isn’t it?
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Robert Reich: Why Either Trump’s and Cruz’s Tax Plans Would Be the Largest Redistributions to the Rich in American History
The tax cuts for the rich proposed by the two leading Republican candidates for the presidency – Donald Trump and Ted Cruz – are larger, as a proportion of the government budget and the total economy, than any tax cuts ever before proposed in history.
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Uruguay's José Mujica: "The Routine, For Anyone Setting Out To Change the World"
José Mujica, a former Tupamaros freedom fighter in the 1960s and 70s, served as Uruguay's president from 2010 to 2015 – and here discusses a philosophy of life focused on sobriety, learning learn to live with what is necessary and fairest.
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"The Lives of Others": How One Region's Women Are Driving the Return to Organic Farming
In one of the more remote areas of Odisha, eastern India, live small communities of subsistence farmers who over the last few years have managed to return to a system of cooperative, zero-input agriculture.
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Activists and Legislators On Capitol Hill Discuss "Killswitch: The Battle To Control the Internet"
Will this film be a cautionary tale of what happens when you dare to take on elite power structures – or will it be the spark that ignites a revolution that will redefine democracy in the digital age?
