Category: Video
What’s happening: Real Media/PMC newsletter #2
Real Media and Phoenix Media Co-op have teamed up to release a regular newsletter. True to our collective aims, we seek to provide bold, accurate, accessible journalism which is unashamedly internationalist and subversive. A key […]
American exceptionalism – an interview with Professor Andrew Bacevich
On 8 July, Phoenix Media Co-op spoke to Andrew Bacevich, a retired US Army Colonel and Professor of international relations. We talked about the role of the US in world affairs and the notion of […]
Comedian Jimmy Dore explains why today’s mainstream media is so bad
The Jimmy Dore Show has almost 870.000 YouTube subscribers. Phoenix Media Co-op asked its host, Jimmy Dore, what made his political comedy so successful. And he said, in large part, that’s down to the terrible […]
Former US diplomat says ‘there’s no comparison’ between Israeli violence and Palestinian violence
Phoenix Media Co-op recently spoke to former US diplomat Ann Wright. The peace campaigner and retired US colonel has visited the “open-air prison” of occupied Gaza previously; and she slammed the Israeli state’s “disproportionate use of […]
The ‘completely corrupt’ US lobbying system uses China and Russia to justify military spending
Phoenix Media Co-op asked nuclear policy specialist Joe Cirincione about the power of the arms lobby in US politics. And he explained how treating China and Russia as enemies helps to justify massive spending on weapons, especially […]
Persecution of the left in recent years helped make a neoliberal banker president in Ecuador
Neoliberal banker Guillermo Lasso won Ecuador’s recent presidential election. But just how much did the persecution of the left in recent years contribute to his victory? Phoenix Media Co-op asked independent journalist and Ecuador expert […]
Biden’s nuclear weapons policy unlikely to differ much from Trump’s, according to expert
Phoenix Media Co-op asked nuclear policy specialist Joe Cirincione about his recent article on the changes the current US government should make to help create a safer world. And he spoke about how there currently seems to […]
‘The future is bleak’ on the global arms race, according to nuclear expert
Phoenix Media Co-op asked nuclear policy specialist Joe Cirincione about the upcoming prospects for progress in de-escalating the global nuclear arms race. And for now, he lamented, “the future of arms control is bleak”. The arms race […]
The stories of oppression, murder and activism behind this viral Indian song
A slickly-produced song from the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu has reached more than 140 million views on YouTube in just over a month since its release. Phoenix Media Co-op unearths the untold stories […]
Puerto Rico
The Caribbean island of Puerto Rico (PR) has passed from one colonial ruler to another. Today, the ‘US territory‘ is going through a massive debt crisis. And, as Washington dithers, a longstanding movement for meaningful […]
