Politics
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Category: PoliticsStealing a Nation
STEALING A NATION (John Pilger, 2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of people of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean -secretly and brutally expelled from their homeland by British governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s, to make way for an American military base. The base, on the main island of Diego Garcia, was a launch pad for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Tags: Stealing a Nation Views: 708 Rating:  Posted By: admin |
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Category: PoliticsThe Israeli Lobby
Excellent documentary from 2007 about the Israeli lobby and it's impact on US forreign policy. The first minute and 20 seconds are entirely in dutch - but the rest of documentary is in english (occassionally dutch narrated but you won't miss a thing if you don't understand it). Featuring John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago's Department of Political Science and Stephen M.Walt of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government who wrote the paper: "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" Tags: Views: 875 Rating:  Posted By: admin |
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On April 12th 2002 the world awoke to the news that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had been removed from office and had been replaced by a new interim government. What had in fact taken place was the first Latin American coup of the 21st century, and the world's first media coup Tags: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Views: 907 Rating: Posted By: admin |
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Category: PoliticsThe Trials of Henry Kissinger
The film focuses on Christopher Hitchens' charges against Henry Kissinger as a war criminal - allegations documented in Hitchens' book of the same title - based on his role in countries such as Cambodia, Chile, and Indonesia. Kissinger's story raises profound questions about American foreign policy and highlights a new era of human rights. Increasing evidence about one man's role in a long history of human rights abuses leads to a critical examination of American diplomacy through the lens of international standards of justice.
The film focuses mainly on Kissinger's role in America's secret bombing of Cambodia in 1969, the approval of Indonesia's genocidal assault on East Timor in 1975, the assassination of a Chilean general in 1970, and his involvement in the 1969 Paris peace talks concerning the Vietnam Conflict. Tags: The Trials of Henry Kissinger Views: 1021 Rating:  Posted By: admin |
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Category: PoliticsWar Made Easy
War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations. Tags: War Made Easy Views: 1533 Rating:  Posted By: admin |
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Category: PoliticsThe War on Democracy
John Pilger's 2007 documentary explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. Pilger claims that the film "...tells a universal story... analyzing and revealing, through vivid testimony, the story of great power behind its venerable myths. It allows us to understand the true nature of the so-called "war on terror". According to Pilger, the film’s message is that the greed and power of empire is not invincible and that people power is always the "seed beneath the snow". Tags: BUSH'S BRAIN Views: 1118 Rating: Posted By: admin |
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Category: PoliticsAmerican Blackout
Chronicles the recurring patterns of disenfranchisement witnessed from 2000 to 2004 while following the story of Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who not only took an active role in investigating these election debacles but also found herself in the middle of one after publicly questioning the Bush Administration about the 9-11 terrorist attacks. Tags: American Blackout Views: 1285 Rating: Posted By: admin |
