Wakeful Video Weekend 2020-01-19 (16 videos)

Major focus of this week’s video collection: our system treating us like trash and how a new system could do the opposite. Part of this also: our mentality and culture. Some key issues: capitalism, socialism, Universal Basic DIVIDEND, warmongering & terror state…

Stars & Channels: Richard Wolff (Democracy At Work), Noam Chomsky, Meagan Day & Jimmy Henders, Michael Parenti, The Hill, The Intercept, Michael Brooks, Jimmy Dore, Yanis Varoufakis (DiEM25), NonCompete, and more…

Topics:

1. Our System Treating us Like Trash ***
2. The Worst Economy in Our Lifetimes **
3. Teacher Strikes = People Strikes (Kept Secret by the MSM)
4. Universal Basic DIVIDEND etc.: Insightful Yanis Varoufakis Conversation **
5. Historic Insight on Corporatist Fascism
6. Capitalism (narratives, fascism, $$wars, motives)
7. Noam Chomsky Describing Our Corporatist Manipulation
8. Fights to Get Money Out Of Politics
9. Socialism: Not Normally Being Linked to Government
10. France’s Uprising Against Neoliberalism
11. Iran: 1+ Hour of Informed Intellectual Discussion
12. U.S. Terrorism
13. Mentality: Are We Evil? Can We Change? ***

Wakeful Video Weekend 2020-01-12 (21 videos) – 2 Main Themes: (1) U.S. Homelessness, (2) Iran

It must take days to search and select these top videos for a weekend. So much time for the rest of us to save when we make use of them. This weekend’s compilation has outstanding reports on American homelessness not easily found through any other source. The Iran reports are also above the average slew out there. And there is more:

Stars & Channels: Bernie Sanders, Democracy Now!, Emir-Stein Center, Empire Files, Invisible People, Kim Iversen, Milwaukee PBS, Prchuk 911, PRIMO NUTMEG, Ralph Nader Radio Hour, Rebel HQ, Richard Wolff, RT America, The Damage Report, The Hill, The Humanist Report, The Michael Brooks Show, The Political Vigilante

14 Topics:

1. Why Bernie is the Best Candidate
2. Economics (Richard Wolff)
3. American Dream Replaced with Working Poverty
4. Homelessness (rare OUTSTANDING documentaries)
5. RNRH: Medicare for All (Perfect), Dictatorship Psychology
6. Medicare for All: Andrew Yang Apparently Backing Out
7. Head-Twisted Voters that America Cannot Rely Upon
8. News: Iran
9. Iran: Bernie on the Assassination
10. Middle East & Iran & Us (U.S.)
11. Iran Gov Analysis
12. Anti-Iran-War Protests
13. Candidates (Bernie, Warren)
14. Billionaires in Fake Democracy

 

1. Why Bernie is the Best Candidate *

Bernie Is The Candidate: Here’s Why ft. Meagan Day ~ The Michael Brooks Show

Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-12-29 (21 videos)

Main issues treated by this week’s video collection: the cheating and rule of the rich, and the many angles of our immigrant nation.

Stars & Channels: Double Down News, Richard Wolff, Lewis Black, The Laura Flanders Show, VICE News, BuzzFeedVideo, NowThis News, As/Is, Ralph Nader & Harvey Wasserman, The Real News Network, Academy of Ideas, and several more…

Topics:

1. Fighting the Oligarchy ***
2. Great Wolff Speech from 2013 ***
3. Corporate Tax Cheats – How & How Much (prime example: Amazon)
4. The Rich Doubling their Wealth while we Struggle to Live
5. U.S. (Anti?)-Immigrant Nation
6. The Buyers’ Labor Market
7. Empire: The Afghanistan Scam
8. U.S. History: Especially Election Fraud & Green vs Nuclear Power
9. News: The Real Reason for R&D Sanctioning Against a Russian-EU Gas Deal
10. Public Brainwash: The People Played by Schools & Media
11. Music: Let’s Recall our Immigrant Ancestry – Immigrants are Human Beings
12. Music: Colorful America (Star Spangled Banner)
13. Humor: Lewis Black on 2019

Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-12-22 (25 videos)

Many issues: how to build deep change and regain democracy, anti-corruption efforts, the crumbling mass media, capitalist fundamentalism, corrupticians, awakening evangelicals (imagine that!!!), a presidential candidate promoting human values over profits, T-impeachment BS and weirdness, #M4A, asking if billionaires should exist, what war profiteering does to us, and three funny videos, as well. The biggest topic this time (6 videos) is the kind of living in our times at different levels of our dungheap society.

Stars & Channels: David Hoffman, Democracy At Work, InsideOut TV, Ralph Nader Radio Hour, Secular Talk, The Grayzone, The Hill, Jimmy Dore, Michael Brooks, RJ Eskow, and several more…

Topics:

1. Movements: How to Build Deep Change and Regain Democracy **
2. Corruption: Cenk Uygur’s Anti-Corruption Run for Congress
3. Media (Shrinking MSM, The Press Killing Itself)
4. Capitalism (Capitalist Fundamentalism, Capitalism Pros & Cons & Libertarians)
5. Fascism: Irrationalized Loyalists Promising Violence
6. Candidates (Gaslight-Corrupticians, Yang for Human Values, Awakening Evangelicals)
7. Trump Impeachment (Establishment Tools, Impeachment Weirdness)
8. Medicare for All: Making Sense
9. Human Purpose: Should Billionaires Exist?
10. Empire: Talking to a Vet
11. Living in our Times (Rich or Struggling)
12. Humor (US Retirement & Bernie, Our Con Congress, Cartoonish Villains in Politics)

Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-11-10 (21 videos)

Another collection of great recent videos best not to miss. JFK’s much forgotten amazing speech on Medicare for All, the ways the oligarchy meddles with our minds, the war on journalism and free speech, the people’s uprising sparked by Bernie Sanders, and more and more and more…

Stars & channels: The Political Vigilante, Bernie, Ilhan Omar, The New School, John Spritzler, Jimmy Dore, Democracy At Work, The Real News Network, The Grayzone, The Zero Hour, Democracy Now!, TEDx Talks, goingundergroundRT, World Affairs, The Humanist Report, The Rational National, The Rational National, and more…

Topics:

1. Amazing Speech: JFK on Medicare for All
2. Alleged Personal Failings vs Reality
3. 2015 Panel Chris Hedges and Cornel West
4. Society for the Rich (Let’s Compete to Death)
5. Modernizing Cuban Socialism
6. U.S. War on Journalism and Free Speech
7. Inequality and the Apparatus of Justification
8. Violence by the State on Homeless People
9. Disillusion
10. MSM Blacking out Bernie AGAIN (Over and Over)
11. Midwest Voters Snubbed by the ‘Elites’
12. Bernie for Farmers
13. Bernie & Ilhan Rally High Points (Minnesota)
14. Humor: Obama Shames Voters For Criticizing Corrupt Politicians

 

1. Amazing Speech: JFK on Medicare for All

JFK Explains Why US Needs Med4All In 1962 — The Political Vigilante ~ Graham Elwood

Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-10-26 (22 videos)

An amazing number of brilliant women made fantastic arguments and analyses this week. Don’t miss them nor the also insightful men in these 22 outstanding videos treating what’s wrong and how to make change.

Stars and channels: Krystal Ball, Naomi Klein, Jane Fonda, Jill Stein, Bernie, Richard Wolff, Taya Graham (The Real News Network), John Spritzler, The Rational National, The Michael Brooks Show, Jimmy Dore, Gayle McLaughlin (the California Progressive Alliance), Harriet Fraad, Politics and Prose, Aaron Glantz, Democracy Now!, Ralph Nader, Steven Greenhouse, Nick Hanauer, and more.

Topics:

1. #MfA: Universal Healthcare for Liberty
2. Risks for All, Not Just Investors
3. Police Crimes: Our Dungeon & Dragon Society
4. Let’s Have No Government by and for Criminals
5. Bernie (Reviews, Movement, Track Record, Market vs Society)
6. Bernie & Tulsi Combo: Might it Landslide the Nation?
7. Corporatists and Oligarchs Looking for Another “D” Puppet
8. Organizing Outside of Political Parties
9. The Source and Success of Racism
10. Humor: The ‘Elites’ Crying When We Call Out their Corruption
11. The Twin Party Tyranny Blocking Representation of the People
12. Panel: Naomi Klein & Jane Fonda – Sunrise, Climate, & Humanity
13. Banksters: The Then & Now Real Estate Raid
14. Indigenous Dealing with California Wildfires
15. Immigration & Border: Many Victims are Native Americans
16. American Past, Present, & Future & Comparison w/ Other Nations
17. SCOTUS, The Achilles Heal of Democracy
18. A 0.1%er Getting Some of the Wrongness

Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-10-13 (24 videos)

Such cool videos picked up this week! These weekly compilations are really worth sharing. So much wrong today. And so much improvement we can make happen. — Unfortunately, the 31 videos I picked out this week are just too many. I have postponed some for next week. Don’t miss them! 😉

Stars & channels: Bernie Sanders, The Humanist Report, John Spritzler, Be Inspired, TeleSUR, The Real News Network, Richard Wolff, Jimmy Dore, The Zero Hour, Michael Brooks, Ralph Nader, The Hill, LastWeekTonight, Democracy Now!, Redacted Tonight, The Hill, ItHadToBeSaid, and more…

Topics:

1. Bernie (The Role in Life, Money out of Politics, MSM)
2. Wage Slavery & The High Cost of Bad Leadership
3. Our Manufactured E-Lives: Owned by Commercialism & “Smart” Phones
4. Our Junk Economy: Wealth Accumulation by Dispossession
5. Addressing Disparity with More of the Same
6. No Left & Right: The ‘Elites’ Stick Together
7. Inequality System (CEO Kings, Global World Oppression)
8. Deified Greed
9. Trumpoholics (Impeachable Offenses, Can his Impeachment Succeed?)
10. Climate Crisis (Humor, Politics, XR Movement)
11. World: Revolutionary Haiti, Uprising Ecuador
12. Media: Real News Instead of Blabbermouths
13. Why Russiahhh?!? (ahead of all other possible smears & excuses)
14. Today’s American Depravity
15. School as Prison & Boot Camp: Our Manipulation Starts in the Schools

Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-09-28 (21 videos)

Plenty to cry and laugh, celebrate, or be awed. 21 superb videos harvested this week. If you missed them, don’t miss them now. Main themes: climate crisis, communal revolutions, system flaws, the “elite’s” myths, Medicare for All really is #1, divisiveness, rich vs poor, capitalism, and the American egalitarian spirit.

Stars & channels: Greta Thunberg, David Attenborough, Bernie, Richard Wolff, The Humanist Report, AJ+, Peter Coffin, The Grayzone, politizane, Libertarian Socialist Rants, Tovarishch Endymion, John Spritzler, Jimmy Dore, and more.

Topics:

1. The Climate Crisis (Planet Plea, Political Criminals, Greta Thunberg)
2. Communal Revolution (Awesome!)
3. U.S. Territories
4. The System Flaws vs Bootstraps
5. Private Insurances in no Way Preferable to Medicare for All
6. Economy (Economic Dictatorship, Socially Divisive Markets)
7. Media: Parroting Talking Points
8. Domestic Terrorism by the National Security State
9. Wars to Make the Rich Richer
10. Evil “Centrists” vs Medicare (Flagship Biden)
11. Capitalism (Wealth Distribution, Work ‘Rewards’, & Odd Ownership)
12. The United States of Egalitarians
13. Humor (Hillary 2020, ‘No’ Child Left Behind)

 

1. The Climate Crisis (Planet Plea, Political Criminals, Greta Thunberg)

Plea For The Planet

David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg’s plea for the planet
World Economic Forum

Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-09-21 (21 videos)

The latest weekend collection of recent best videos spreading news and ideas for positive change of our rotten world. Lots of good stuff you may have missed. Every week a new one. (Notice: Producing these when caught in financial struggles is hard. So, spreading the word and subscribing (for free) is a helpful thing to do.)

Stars and channels: Stars and channels: Chris Hedges, Jesse Ventura, Richard Wolff, Amy Goodman, The Michael Brooks Show, The Real News Network, John Spritzler, Tom Nicholas, Peter Coffin, Cowboy Economist, AJ+, The Grayzone, NonCompete, The Jimmy Dore Show, and more…

Topics:

1. News: Space Warmongering, Neurocapitalism (Thought-Policing), Academic Corruption
2. Economy: Recent Financial Tremor, China, Monopolies & Cartels
3. Corporate Dictatorship (Modern America)
4. Latest Union Fights
5. Workers’ Factory Occupation
6. Immigration & Mass Migration: Weapons of the Oligarchy
7. Inequality Report – A Thorough Overview
8. Neoliberalism: History, Causes, Effects, & Mind Warping
9. Manufactured Division vs Solidarity
10. Satire: Progressive Review of the D-Primary Candidates
11. Police State: ICE Plows into Peaceful Protesters with a Truck
12. Our Gitmo Shame
13. Dealing with a Corrupt Supreme Court
14. Spy Technology’s Corrupt Profits
15. John Bolton’s Firing – The Ins and Outs
16. Entertainment: Gelflings, Skeksis, and the Liberal-Fascist Bargain
17. Humor: Progressive Laughs In Bill Maher’s Face

A Fantastic Interview of Richard Wolff by Abby Martin

From back in 2016 and nearly one and a half million views by now. A must-see if you missed it or forgot much of it by now with all that is going on all the time. (and there is a follow-up to be shared this coming Video Weekend)

Marxism 101: How Capitalism is Killing Itself with Dr. Richard Wolff
Empire Files