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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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
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
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.