Alternative Media
Are you nomophobic? Afraid of being without your smartphone? Here a handful of ways to overcome your smartphone addiction.
Alexis speaks with producer Sharron Rose (and wife of Jay Weidner) to discuss their latest film project – The Last Avatar There are many Hollywood films that are brilliant at drawing the viewer in to the depths of emotion. Whether it’s laughter, tears, or the grips of fear, Hollywood has made it their business to […]
Alexis speaks with film historian and new media pioneer Randall Libero about the multiple dimensions of Hollywood Film Watch the full interview on YouTube What do motion pictures (Hollywood Film) have to do with human consciousness? According to film historian and new media expert Randall Libero, a lot! When we watch a movie, whether romantic […]
Julian Assange is a dangerous person, in words and deeds—dangerous to those who constantly make a killing from war, vast inequities and plunder of the planet.
Famous actress & healthy eater, Gwyneth Paltrow, takes a much-needed stance against GMO chemical violence by recently heading to the U.S. capitol to express her concerns about the DARK Act which could trample on the right of states to enact GMO food-labeling laws.
[Tom] Morello is best known as the guitarist from Rage Against the Machine, but he’s also sold millions of albums with Audioslave and, more recently, he’s recorded on his own as the Nightwatchman and with underground rapper Boots Riley in Street Sweeper Social Club. On top of all that, in 2014 Morello spent much of the year as a member of Bruce Springsteen‘s E Street Band, and later this year he’s playing in Ozzy Osbourne‘s backing band…During his recent Radio.com visit, the main thing on Morello’s mind is his brand-new record label, Firebrand Records.
…the SoHo-based social media site Tsu has signed up 3.5 million users in six months and hopes to close a Series B funding round within weeks. What explains this counter-market progress and investor attention? The answer is commerce and investing, not social media. Tsu pays users a cut of the site’s ad revenue based on how many people view its posts. The pitch to newcomers is compelling enough: Facebook is making billions selling ads against your own content and your own network of friends, but they’re not sharing it with you. We do.
Foster Gamble: People are often asking us at Thrive, “Where do you get your news? And how do you sort out what’s true?” Following is a commentary on political tribalism vs. ethics and critical thinking, and at the end of this blog is a partial list of the many sources that we continually review.
Alexis sits down with filmmaker and conspiracy researcher Sean Stone along with 21st Century Wire’s Patrick Henningsen and Dean Ryan to discuss the esoteric underpinnings of world events. Who says discussion about world events, history, and yes even conspiracy can’t be fun. After sitting down with film director, producer and alternative historian Sean Stone along […]
In this episode of The Trews, Russell Brand reacts to Fox’s Bill O’Reilly blaming Beyonce for America’s social issues.
In this video Luke Rudkowski breaks down the psychology, business plans and market of FEAR PORN. Luke goes in-depth with statistics and charts showing you the current situation. We live in the most peaceful and prosperous time in history, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t challenges that we need to overcome.
The images below, published by Awesome Daily, speak to the soul in a way that words can not. We can get very caught up in the daily grind, forgetting that outside our familiar bubble of Western culture there is a whole world out there; places we may never visit and which are home to people whose perspectives and experiences we may never have the privilege of sharing.
We are living in an unprecedented era where one person or a small team can use independent and alternative media to communicate key perspectives to millions of people worldwide. The flip side is that someone with very little real expertise can undermine valuable inquiry and healthy skepticism.
The Mike Brown shooting deserved to be national news as multiple significant, ongoing crises intersect at Ferguson: the loss of jobs which hit these communities worst; the militarization of US police departments; race; chronic multi-generational poverty.
When he is not busy developing independent journalism out of Cleveland, OH, Andrew Demeter is running his YouTube channel, TeenTake. Now he is asking for support to produce the very first news channel run entirely by teens, called Politicast.
