US Capitalism Poisons Internet!.. the Gravel Institute videos are fighting back.. watch here

There’s a big problem on the internet: right-wing groups like PragerU pour lies and disinformation into our feeds. H Jon Benjamin (of Bob’s Burgers and Archer) explains how The Gravel Institute is fighting back.

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Does Capitalism Mean Freedom? (with Zephyr Teachout)

According to the standard account, capitalism—whatever your criticisms of it—is synonymous with freedom. Zephyr Teachout explains how we are told other systems necessitate central planning by undemocratic bureaucracies.

But what if that’s not true? capitalism puts us at the whims of employers, bosses, and huge corporations, despite its claims. Capitalism doesn’t mean freedom.

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Why America Throws the Poor in Prison

America built mass incarceration: the wholesale imprisonment of entire populations. Why, exactly, are so many people in prison – more than the entire population of New Mexico? That’s our focus for this week’s video: how a crisis of capitalism created a surplus population of former workers concentrated in declining cities, and how politicians and capitalists – instead of helping those people, and building a better and more just economy – built a prison system larger than any other in the history of the world to warehouse them. Chase Madar, professor of law at NYU Gallatin, explains.

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