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April 20^th sees the launch of a global campaign by the US based charity Invisible Children to capture the Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, indicted for war crimes in 2005 by the International Criminal Court. After its release in March, this video was viewed by 100 million people in just six days.

‘Massive private gains at public loss’

‘Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, Lehman brothers; they knew what was happening’

’What can we believe in? There’s nothing we can trust anymore’

Charles Ferguson’s award winning documentary Inside Job, narrated by Matt Damon, exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008.  Not only was the crash avoidable, Ferguson claims that the industry corrupted bankers, analysts, academics, government officials and the discipline of economics itself.

Watch Inside Job     

Watch an Interview with Charles Ferguson

Neuro-scientists have discovered that we're actually soft-wired to experience another's emotions as if we were experiencing them ourselves - an observation that could have profound implications in many areas. Economist, writer and political activist Jeremy Rifkin explains more in this entertaining animation.

Conceptual artist Rachel Perry Welty makes hand-created collages to explore how we project identity in a consumer culture.

James Hansen was one of the first scientists to go public in a big way about climate change. That was in 1988. Nearly twenty-five years later, he is even more alarmed - but has solutions too

WATCH HIS TED TALK

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