System Fail

As humanity reckons with a never ending cavalcade of catastrophes, large segments of the population have succumbed to despair or distraction through culture wars or a series of vain cultural phenomena. [Insert Barbenheimer joke here.] Many yout...

As corporate celebrations of pride seek to commodify queer culture into consumer markets, the far right has begun to fight back against these ruthless pride-based advertising campaigns; by pushing for the erasure of LGBTQ people from the public li...

As guilt mounts over humanity's inaction in the face of the climate crisis, industrialized capitalists have adapted their tactics to meet the demands of a more environmentally conscious market; by selling the image of sustainability! Touted as ...

This episode of System Fail highlights the tensions between Indigenous communities and the settler colonial state in Brazil. The lower house of Brazil's congress passed a bill, PL 490, which aims to open up Indigenous territories for mining and ca...

As technological advances in Artificial Intelligence are poised render the labour of millions obsolete, humans in industrialized nations must decide whether to succumb to existential despair or embrace their new robot overlords for their kitschy n...

As the news cycle focuses on an epic battle between those infected with the Woke Mind Virus and so-called defenders of free speech, another virus, virtually forgotten by western governments, has sparked tensions in China.

As the gears of recuperation churn popular energy towards supporting a heavily sanitized list of politicians in the US, the people of so-called Brazil are dealing with the aftermath of a hotly contested election. Despite widespread reports of vote...

[This episode of System Fail contains graphic depictions of war, famine, chemicals weapons use and other violence inflicted by the state. Viewer discretion is advised.] In an exclusive interview, we hear from Liz Truss, disgraced former Prime M...

In the 16th episode of System Fail we take a look at the, let’s say, unorthodox hobbies of Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro.

As economic crises, climate catastrophe and war crimes become increasingly normalized, a creeping nihilism is starting to take hold. In Lebanon people have had enough of rampant corruption, inflation and limits on bank withdrawals. Without any ...

In the wake of Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee celebrations, we take a look at some of the recent resistance waged by two nations rendered stateless by British cartographers. First we visit Palestine where tensions have flared into several v...

Welcome to another Episode of System Fail. In this episode we will be covering the trend of rising state repression around the globe. We start in so-called Chile where the newly elected ostensibly left-libertarian president Gabriel Boric has fa...

Welcome to another episode of System Fail. In the news this week we do a quick rundown of May Day celebrations around the world. Although there were other May Day festivities we focused on Montreal Santiago de Chile, Istanbul, Berlin and Paris. ...

Welcome back to another season of System Fail. In our 10th installment, we briefly cover multiple fronts of the War on Men. First up, Tucker Carlson bravely leads men on an unorthodox quest to boost their testosterone levels. Next, Vladimir Pu...

En este episodio de Falla del Sistema repasamos la ola de revueltas que comenzó en 2019, antes de ser interrumpida por la pandemia de COVID-19. Luego echamos un vistazo más de cerca de uno de los puntos máximos de esta ola, el 'estallido social' d...

In this episode we look back at the wave of revolts that began in 2019, before being interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. We then take a closer look at one of the high water marks of this wave, Chile's 'estallido social', and the steps that the C...

CW: Includes discussion about sexual assault, torture, and scenes of police brutality. English and Spanish, with hard-coded English subtitles. In this episode we look back at the wave of revolts that began in 2019, before being interrupted by the...

CW: Discussion of sexual assault (including against minors), torture; scenes of police brutality, murder. In this episode we look at recent developments in the social war in Greece, fueled in part by the COVID lockdown, the Greek #MeToo movement...

CW: Discussion of sexual assault (including against minors), torture; scenes of police brutality, murder. English/Greek with some hardcoded English subs. In this episode we look at recent developments in the social war in Greece, fueled in part b...