In this wide-ranging talk, researcher Peter Dale Scott points out similarities that arise when you look at the assassination of JFK and the events of 9/11.
Recorded at the 2006 "Coalition on Political Assassinations" (COPA) Regional Meeting in Dallas, Texas, November 18, 2006. For more information on COPA write to: copa (at) starpower.net
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With Britain facing the greatest terrorist threat in our history, the nation trusts the government to devise policies to protect the nation. Dispatches reporter Peter Oborne reveals that our trust may be misplaced. He presents the case that the government has reacted to the London bombings by rushing through anti-terror policies motivated by the desire to ward off tabloid criticism, gain electoral advantage and make the government look strong.
Since Tony Blair's New Labour government came to power in 1997, the UK civil liberties landscape has changed dramatically. ASBOs were introduced by Section 1 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and first used in 1999. The right to remain silent is no longer universal. Our right to privacy, free from interception of communications has been severely curtailed. The ability to travel without surveillance (or those details of our journeys being retained) has disappeared.
Indeed, as Henry Porter (the Observer journalist famous for his recent email clash with Tony Blair over the paring down of civil liberties) reveals in this unsettling film, our movements are being watched, and recorded, more than ever before.
JK: All this really comes down to whether humanity can live without conflict. It basically comes to that. Can we have peace on this earth? The activities of thought never bring it about.
DB: It seems clear from what has been said that the activity of thought cannot bring about peace: it inherently brings about conflict.
JK: Yes, if we once really see that, our whole activity would be totally different...
Dialogue, 1983
Somehow this 30 minute video biography of Jesco White, the "best" mountain dancer in West Virginia, manages to be simultaneously frightening, touching, and hilarious. Since originally airing on West Virginia public television, it's become something of a cult classic.
"Jessie can be three people. He is Jessie, he is Jesco, and he is Elvis. Jessie is the most beautiful man that I could've ever loved. But Jesco... he is somebody else. He's the devil in hiself. Nothing satisfies him, he can't be happy, nothing you do for him makes him happy." - (Norma Gene White)
"And I took the butcher knife and held it up to her neck. I said, 'If you want to live to see tomorrow, you better start frying them eggs a little bit better than what you've been frying them, and I'm tired of eating sloppy slimy eggs." - (Jesco White)
Directed by the 2003 City of Atlanta Emerging Award Recipient, Franklin Lopez. Narrated by Indigo Girl Amy Ray, this critically acclaimed short is inspired by the book ''Days of War, Nights of Love'' ''Chapter L is for Love'' by the Crimethinc Ex-Workers Collective (www.crimethinc.com). This film narrates this chapter and visually tells a story.
The story is about two couples. One who followed the path that will most likely please society and the other too passionate about life to care what anyone thinks.
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Noam Chomsky, a libertarian socialist, and William F. Buckley, a conservative, debate foreign policy. The Greek Civil War, American supported terror, The Vietnam War, and other Cold War issues are addressed.
The 1973 film by French Situationist Guy Debord, based on the 1967 book of the same title, shows the dominating oppression of modernization of both the private and public spheres of everyday life by economic forces. The hegemonic mass media operates as a propaganda machine in both communist and capitalist nations and creates commodity fetishism in the minds of the masses.
Steal This Movie (2000) is an American biographical film of 1960s radical figure Abbie Hoffman. It was directed by Robert Greenwald and the screenplay was written by Bruce Graham. It is based on a number of books including To america with Love: Letters From the Underground by Anita and Abbie Hoffman and Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel by Marty Jezer.
The film follows Abbie Hoffman's (Vincent D'Onofrio) relationship with his second wife Anita (Janeane Garofalo) and their awakening and subsequent conversion to an activist life. The title of the film is a play on Hoffman's 1970 counter-culture guidebook titled Steal This Book.
This documentary examines the turbulent life in California of political philosopher Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), author of One-Dimensional Man, Reason and Revolution and Eros and Civilization, among other books, professor of philosophy at the University of California San Diego, and a visionary and influential force for the student movement worldwide during the Sixties and Seventies. Blending archival footage, interviews, re- created scenes and voice-over narration, the video profiles not only the life of Marcuse but also the history of student protest and social activism. The video features interviews with Marcuse's student Angela Davis, former UCSD Chancellor William McGill, colleagues Fredric Jameson and Reinhard Lettau, and rare footage of Marcuse and former California Governor Ronald Reagan.
Directed by Paul Alexander Juutilainen
A man playing a live mythological rollplaying game trys to explain how an arrow went throuh his friends arm . . . to the police. apparently this is real and not Reno-911.
Douglas Rushkoff talks about media and the press, about the birth and possibilities of the Internet: what's gone wrong and what could go beautifully right, about counter culture and the "us and them"-mentality.
This is a documentary that deals with a climatic phenomenon that has been seriously underestimated and how this should forc us to recognise that global warming is a far greater threath than has previously been assumed.
It's from the BBC so it's very good, clear and to the point.
A must see for anyone wondering about the state of the Earth.
In the 1960’s an anti-war movement emerged that altered the course of history. This movement didn’t take place on college campuses, but in barracks and on aircraft carriers. It flourished in army stockades, navy brigs and in the dingy towns that surround military bases. It penetrated elite military colleges like West Point. And it spread throughout the battlefields of Vietnam. It was a movement no one expected, least of all those in it. Hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile. And by 1971 it had, in the words of one colonel, infested the entire armed services. Yet today few people know about the GI movement against the war in Vietnam.
In the past few years, a hurricane has engulfed the debate about global warming. This scientific issue has become a rhetorical firestorm with science pitted against spin and inflammatory words on both sides.
This documentary shows how fossil fuel corporations have kept the global warming debate alive long after most scientists believed that global warming was real and had potentially catastrophic consequences. It shows that companies such as Exxon Mobil are working with top public relations firms and using many of the same tactics and personnel as those employed by Phillip Morris and RJ Reynolds to dispute the cigarette-cancer link in the 1990s. Exxon Mobil sought out those willing to question the science behind climate change, providing funding for some of them, their organizations and their studies.
For decades, U.S. strategists-for-hire have been quietly molding the opinions of voters and the messages of candidates in elections from the Middle East to the South American jungle. With flabbergasting access to think sessions, media training and the making of smear campaigns, we watch how the consultants' marketing strategies shape the relationship between a leader and his people. Our Brand is Crisis is an astounding look at one group's campaign to elect the President of Bolivia and its earth-shattering aftermath. For more information please visit www.ourbrandiscrisismovie.com.