Julian Assange -The US's War on Terror: Guantanamo Bay

Julian Assange speaks with Moazzam Begg - former Gitmo prisoner and a rights campaigner fighting for those still trapped behind the wire, and Asim Qureshi - former corporate lawyer, whose human rights organization Cageprisoners Ltd exists solely to raise awareness of the plight of prisoners who remain in Guantanamo Bay.

Inside Job

Oscar-nominated documentary narrated by Matt Damon.
The global economic crisis of 2008 cost ten of millions 
of people their savings, their jobs, and their homes.

http://www.webiversity.magnify.net/video/Inside-Job-Narrated-by-Matt-Dam

Subjectivity in Wittgenstein's philosophy with reference to Kierkegaard‏

Kierkergaard inspired Wittgenstein on religion.  According to both philosophers, we should not criticize religion from a scientific point of view. 
Here some quotes from Wittgenstein:
"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present".
"What we cannot speak about we must passe over in silence".
"The place to which I really have to go is one that I must actually be at already".
"Death is not an event on life: we do not live to experience death."
"All too often philosophers thinks with their heads without using their eyes."
"The meaning of a word is its use in the language".
According to Kierkergaard religious beliefs are non-objective truth and non-standard understanding.Ethics, aesthetics and metaphysics belong to the innefable.

http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/phil_honproj/6

Stand Up, Walk Around, Even Just For '20 Minutes'

If you're sitting at a desk take a minute and stand up. That's the latest advice from the book, The First 20 Minutes.  Surprisingly simple ways how you can combat the effects of a sedentary lifestyle.
Even regular exercisers may not be doing enough to counteract the health hazards of sitting down at a desk all day long.


http://www.npr.org/2012/05/09/152336802/stand-up-walk-around-even-just-for-20-minutes 

Slavoj Zizek -The empowerment of the Right, the dissolution of the Left

The public sector is facing severe economy measures.  The budgets for culture, education and health care are being cut.  The measures are implemented by the political right.  The political left, in this period of turmoil, does not seem to be able or willing to meet force with force and turn the tide.  Has the left become unsettled?  Does the binary division between left and right still apply to read the current political developments and state of flux?  Can the left reinvent itself and find an answer to the spreading attitude of rigidity and xenophobia?

Chantal Bax -Wittgenstein on Subjectivity

Philosophy of psychology
Rethinking the Inner and Outer, Self and Other
Against and beyond the cartesian picture
The nature of the mental.  Psychological phenomena -thoughts and feelings.
Psychological verbs.  Third person identify by observation/information.  First person by expression.


http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/c.bax/bestanden/InnerOuterSelfOther.pdf

Assange -Nabeel Rajab & Alaa Abd: Two leading Arab Revolutionaries

Julian Assange speaks with two leading Arab revolutionaries in the middle of conflict, Alaa Abd El-Fattah from Egypt and Nabeel Rajab from Bahrain.  Alaa Abd El-Fattah is a long time Egyptian blogger, programmer and political activist.  His parents were human rights campaigners under Anwar Sadat; his sister Mona Seif became a Twitter star during the 2011 Egyptian revolution, and is a founder of the No Military Trials for Civilians group formed under the post-Mubarak military junta.  El-Fattah was imprisoned for 45 days in 2006 for protesting under the Mubarak regime, and released after "Free Alaa" solidarity protests in Egypt and around the world.  In 2011, from abroad, El-Fattah helped route around Mubarak's internet blockade.

Nabeel Rajab is a lifelong Bahraini activist and critic of the Al Khalifa regime.  A member of a staunch pro-regime family, Rajab has agitated for reform in Bahrain since his return from university in 1988.  Along with the Bahraini-Danish human rights defender Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, he helped establish the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights in 2002. Rajab is reasonably new to the limelight -- becoming a face for the Bahrain uprising of February 14 2011, after the sit-in at Pearl Roundabout.  Since then, he has been a public face for the revolution, waging a social media war on Twitter with PR companies working for the regime.  After al-Khawaja was imprisoned, he led protests for his release.  He has endured beatings, arrests and legal harrassment for engaging in pro-democracy demonstrations. On Saturday 5th of May, he was arrested at Manama airport , and charged the next day with encouraging and engaging in "illegal protests." Nabeel Rajab remains in detention at the time of broadcast.

Catastroika

Documental - neoliberalism - Russia - Chile - Greece - Paris - California -Naomi Klein, Slavoj Zizek, etc. 

Smiley & West -Slavoj Zizek

Slavoj Zizek -minute 21:30

Bill Moyers -Life on the Border

Luis Alberto Urrea on the border culture between Mexico and the United States.  Son of a Mexican father and Anglo mother, Urrea grew up in Tijuana and then just across the border in San Diego.  Over the years he has produced a series of acclaimed novels, including The Hummingbird’s Daughter, The Devil’s Highway, and his latest, Queen of America — each a rich and revealing account of the people of the borderlands that join and separate our two nations.

Noam Chomsky -What next for Occupy?

For the majority, real incomes have pretty much stagnated, sometimes declined. Benefits have also declined and work hours have gone up, and so on. It's not third world misery, but it's not what it ought to be in a rich society, the richest in the world, in fact, with plenty of wealth around, which people can see, just not in their pockets.

Cornel West & Tavis Smiley in Oakland, California

Smiley & West highlights from the tour for their new book The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto at the Paramount Theater in Oakland, CA

Tavis Smiley and Cornel West: The Rich and The Rest of Us

On April 23, 2012, Los Angeles Center Scene Public Programs 

Chatting with Chomsky

Democratic underground
OCCUPY, OWS, anarchism, racism, corporate power and the potential for a cooperative alternative


http://blip.tv/grittv/chatting-with-chomsky-6121530

Money, power & Wall Street

The inside story of the global financial system

Toni Morrison -On Love and Writing

Toni Morrison, who was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom, talks about subjects that inspire both her life and writing with Bill Moyers.

May Day Special -Chris Hedges

"No Work, No Shopping, Occupy Everywhere": May Day Special on OWS, Immigration, Labor Protests

Yoga: it's never too late to reap the benefits

Yoga can help fight stiffness, hardening of the arteries, hormonal fluctuations, depression and loss of bone density. And, says Josephine Fairley, you can start at any age

Moncef Marzouki -Tunisia's first post-revolution leader

Julian Assange, The World Tomorrow
The West's double standards in protecting human rights. 
During the reign of the previous President Moncef Marzouki was imprisoned and kept in solitary confinement, which he considers to be torture. Once elected Head of State, he has vowed to put an end to human rights violations in Tunisia.


http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/05/01