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Give The Land Back?
Today we travel to a future where the US and Canada give stolen land back to tribes & bands. Guests: Molly Swain — co-host of Métis in Space, studying in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta … Continue reading
Frank Bailey — Black British Hidden Stories | Medium
Courtney Ismain Jul 5, 2019·2 min read A defender of black social progression When the government invited subjects of their Caribbean colonies to work in Britain following the Second World War, they expected them to return home after a few … Continue reading
Brazil’s Yanomami people victims of illegal gold rush in Amazon rainforest
In the northern Brazilian state of Roraima, more and more illegal gold miners are invading indigenous land. This gold rush comes with the blessing of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro. Our reporters Fanny Lothaire and Laura Damase investigated the illegal activities … Continue reading
How America became a superpower
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Tagged "Base Nation" http://www.davidvine.net/base-nation.... Troop numbers: "Total Military Personnel and Dependent End Strength By Service, America grew from a colony to a superpower in 200 years. Help us make more ambitious videos by joining the Vox Video Lab. It gets you exclusive perks, and Country". Defense Manpower Data Center. November 7, and video extras bringing you closer to our work! Learn more at http://bit.ly/video-lab 2:07 Correction: Cuba seceded from the US in 1902. With over 800 military bases around the globe, design, history, like livestream Q&As with all the Vox creators, Politics, Regional Area, the US is easily the most powerful nation on earth. But it wasn't always this way. The US once played an insignificant role in global affairs. In this 8-minute video, you can see the transformation. Military budget data: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/ca... US foreign bases based on David Vine's book
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Violence erupts in Brazil after a black man is beaten to death outside supermarket
A black man has died after being beaten by supermarket security guards in the city of Porto Alegre on the eve of Black Consciousness Day. Videos of the incident circulated on social media and have sparked outrage and protests across … Continue reading
China’s Vanishing Muslims: Undercover In The Most Dystopian Place In The World
China’s Uighur minority live a dystopian nightmare of constant surveillance and brutal policing. At least one million of them are believed to be living in what the U.N. described as a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy,” while … Continue reading
Revenge of the tribes: How the American Empire could fall | Amy Chua | Big Think
Yale professor Amy Chua has two precautionary tales for Americans, and their names are Libya and Iraq. “We’re starting to see in America something that I’ve seen in other countries that is not good,” says Chua. “We don’t want to … Continue reading
How the US poisoned Navajo Nation
The biggest radioactive spill in US history. As World War Two was ending, the growing nuclear arms race put the US in need of uranium. It turned to Navajo Nation, where the uranium mining industry thrived for four decades — … Continue reading
Weed was the real winner of the 2020 election
Americans are turning against the war on drugs
We’re Still Living and Dying in the Slaveholders’ Republic
Ibram X. Kendi Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research He became a founding father. He coveted his freedom. But for most of his political career, he turned away from talk of founding or fathering a new nation … Continue reading
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Joe Biden Family Tree | Next President of the United States?
Donald Trump Family Tree: CREDITS: ========================= Chart: Matt Baker https://usefulcharts.com/ Narration: Jack Rackam https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaQz… Animation: Syawish Rehman https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf0O… Intro music: “Lord of the Land” by Kevin MacLeod and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution license 4.0. Available from http://incompetech.com
