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Say it with me, kids. Software Patents are Insane.

You could also check out some of the stuff here:

http://chomskytorrents.org/
http://www.cryptome.org/
http://www.chomsky.info/interviews.htm

http://www.chomskytorrents.org/DownloadTorrent.php ?TorrentID=1516 An astonishing documentary.

If you are looking for tips on site design or a CMS, I don't have any. You can choose whichever popular (probably PHP based) CMS you are familiar with or whichever one's style appeals to you.

As for video hosting, I think the Internet Archive is a good start. However, they have been known to censor videos in the past, so you might want to have on site backups that you could quickly switch to. I would also recommend google video because of it's searchability, support for many video formats, and lack of a file size limit. Don't use youtube. Youtube doesn't support many media formats, has ads, and forces you to split up your video into tens of little clips. It's impossible to watch a feature length documentary on youtube. Youtube got popular because it appealed to kids on myspace with ADD who enjoyed watching ten second clips of people getting kicked in the nuts (although there is some useful content if you wade through the crap). The Internet Archive or google video is a much better choice for a serious, hour+ long project.

You might also want to host a torrent and post links to it on a few of the popular torrent search sites. The big name sites like http://isohunt.com/ and http://thepiratebay.org/ are good. A socio-politically oriented torrent site like http://www.chomskytorrents.org/ might obtain viewers for you as well.

If you are interested in the history of the public relations and marketing industry and the theory behind modern advertising, you should check out the English documentary "The Century of the Self". You can find a tracker at:

http://www.chomskytorrents.org/TorrentDetails.php? TorrentID=911

Freudian psychology has had more of an influence on advertisers then real science.

By winning the cold war, the US has

you mean, by waiting for USSR's money to run out, forcing them to drop out of the cold war..
go watch BBC's The Power of Nightmares (torrents here, or here(search for "nightmares"))

Finding another job might solve the problem for yourself, but its unreasonable to expect the majority of your co-workers to do the same. People have bills to pay, moving isn't trivial, jobs aren't in surplus, and being poor living paycheck to paycheck makes it even more difficult. Unions are the way workers gain leverage on their employers. In cases where businesses have more incentive (e.g. if they can do it, get away with it, and make more money at it) to trample on workers than respect their rights, unions are absolutely necessary. If the government doesn't regulate (e.g. enforcing a living wage, not 5.15 an hour) and the employees don't organize and bargain to earn their rights, exploitation is inevitable.

America happens to have a large middle class because workers before us fought vigorously and against all odds (which you won't be taught in school). After losing that round, corporations chose to build their factories overseas where there aren't unions or government regulations, leaving behind huge abandoned factories, thousands of jobs, and ghettos at home.

A good alternative is worker-owned factories.

You are Ignorant to what really terrorism is, I suggest you watch these Documentaries for they shed some light on as to what is drivng "American Dream" http://www.chomskytorrents.org/Torrents/Eye.openin g.documentries.about.USA.IRAQ.and.the.media.torren t

http://www.chomskytorrents.org/DownloadTorrent.php ?TorrentID=25 watch it, it's worth it.

I use bittorrent for only http://www.chomskytorrents.org/. Whole Bittorrent is worth even just for this site (IMHO)

Consumers have a choice. They don't have to buy products that are engineered to prematurely become unuseable. Slashdot ran a similar story not too long ago about Monsanto offering seeds that were only useable for crops for a single season. If you want to become a subscriber/minion for a corporation, then you patronize their shit and their controlling schemes. Or you don't.

I urge EVERYONE to make sure they see the movie The Corporation and everything is put in proper perspective. (Torrent 1, Torrent 2.)

Consumers have a choice. They don't have to buy products that are engineered to prematurely become unuseable. Slashdot ran a similar story not too long ago about Monsanto offering seeds that were only useable for crops for a single season. If you want to become a subscriber/minion for a corporation, then you patronize their shit and their controlling schemes. Or you don't.

I urge EVERYONE to make sure they see the movie The Corporation and everything is put in proper perspective. (Torrent 1, Torrent 2.)