r/lectures • • Nov 21 '14

Dont Talk to Police

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r/lectures • • Nov 21 '16

Tony Schwartz: The Truth About Trump. Trump's Art of the Deal ghostwriter portrays the future President as a narcissitic, sociopathic sexual predator incapable of telling the truth or admitting he is ever wrong. @ the Oxford Union

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274 Upvotes

r/lectures • • Jul 12 '15

Noam Chomsky and Bernie Sanders in 1985: The System of Propaganda and how the world works. Excellent lecture.

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274 Upvotes

r/lectures • • Jun 15 '17

"The system has made it impossible to vote against Goldman Sachs" - Chris Hedges on the decline of American democracy

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r/lectures • • Dec 10 '16

"America's incarceration rate parallels the rate of citizens sent to the gulag at the height of Stalinism"- Propaganda, Race and Mass Incarceration by Jason Stanley.

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r/lectures • • Oct 16 '13

Economics Hillarious Professor Mark Blyth- Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea. To Blyth, austerity is "people with lots of money telling people with no money they need to pay shit back". If you're new to economics, this guy could be for you.

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r/lectures • • Oct 01 '16

Richard Wolff - Socialism For Dummies. Most people don't even know what socialism is. Professor Wolff lays out what it is, why so many people think it is something else, and its history in an easy to follow manner.

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r/lectures • • Jan 26 '16

Yanis Varoufakis: Capitalism will eat democracy -- unless we speak up

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r/lectures • • Dec 21 '14

Robert Sapolsky: Human Behavioral Biology (25 lectures, Stanford University)

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r/lectures • • Mar 19 '14

Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet [35:00]

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r/lectures • • Oct 24 '12

History Hot off the Press Noam Chomsky Gives an impromptu Lecture: The History of Propaganda, from Edward Bernays to Obama/Romney 2012. Highly Recommended!

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189 Upvotes

r/lectures • • Aug 03 '15

This guy reads every article in nutrition journals and each year summarizes them in a lecture. Out today.

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r/lectures • • Oct 10 '16

Peter Norton: Fighting Traffic. The story of why nobody in America walks or cycles. The history of how the auto industry got jaywalking to be an offense and got people to believe streets were for cars, not for people and to blame pedestrians for fatalities.

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183 Upvotes

r/lectures • • Oct 17 '17

Politics Glenn Greenwald: Trump is not an abberation from US political culture but its logical outcome.

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r/lectures • • Jul 04 '18

Human Behavioral Biology - Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky

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180 Upvotes

r/lectures • • May 28 '14

As Noam Chomsky ages, he only gets more radical, in this new lecture at Durham University (May 2014) entitled "Surviving the 21st century" he argues that humanity will not survive the 21st century unless the current system is fundamentally altered.

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r/lectures • • Sep 08 '19

US Terrorism - Noam Chomsky (2009) I couldn't listen to this without gritting my teeth in shame.

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r/lectures • • Nov 23 '15

"Propaganda in liberal democracies like America or Britain is much more thorough than in totalitarian states," - John Pilger: The Hidden Power of the Media.

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r/lectures • • Nov 18 '12

Self help STEPHEN FRY: WHAT I WISH I'D KNOWN WHEN I WAS 18

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r/lectures • • Jul 14 '18

Stanford's Sapolsky On Depression in U.S. (Full Lecture)

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r/lectures • • Jun 07 '16

Politics Noam Chomsky: "After the election extravaganza"- Professor Chomsky argues that the upcoming US election will determine the fate of the human species and analyses each candidate's positions.

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r/lectures • • Feb 03 '16

Chris Hedges: THe Death of the liberal class. Hedges argues that the Democratic Party, Unions and the liberal media have sold out ordinary Americans and are in bed with big business.

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r/lectures • • Jan 28 '13

History Anthropologist David Graeber's Amazing Lecture about his book: Debt- the first 5000 years, which is basically the closest thing to a history of the world I've found.

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153 Upvotes

r/lectures • • Jan 26 '17

Gary Webb: The CIA, the Contras, and Crack Cocaine (audio). How the CIA facilitated the rise of the crack epidemic in the 80s.

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152 Upvotes

r/lectures • • Jan 12 '12

Law Google employee gives a talk about why copyright is complete bullshit and why we'd all be better off if we get rid of it almost entirely

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