“To Shoot An Elephant” is an eye witness account from The Gaza Strip. December 27th, 2008, Operation Cast Lead. [youtube]JXHB2dnd42Q[/youtube] Urgent, insomniac, dirty, shuddering images from the only foreigners who decided and managed to stay embedded inside Gaza strip ambulances, with Palestinian civilians on the receiving end of tanks, helicopter […]
Fascism
20 years ago the United States and its allies launched Operation Desert Storm to fight back Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. Has the United States learned any lessons since? [youtube]CEyIsoGLzko[/youtube] Author John R. MacArthur of Harper’s Magazine says the US mainstream media worked as agents for the government, if you […]
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END:CIV examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. [youtube]b0ErwcSlM8A[/youtube] Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: “If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the […]
Yvonne Ridley comments on the British media’s lopsided coverage of the uprising in Tunisia – devoting airtime to the inconvenience caused to UK tourists and focusing on the role of social media rather than the “revolutionaries who physically took to the streets and faced down live ammunition, baton charges and […]
[youtube]lUpZhhbKUBo[/youtube] Film producer Aaron Russo set out on a journey to find the law that requires American citizens to pay income tax This film which is neither left, nor right-wing is a startling examination of government. It exposes the systematic erosion of civil liberties in America since 1913 when the […]
There has been a fresh round of articles appearing recently concerning world population, suggesting that journalists may have grown tired finally of writing / worrying / bullshitting about climate change. Indeed, Google Trends indicates that articles on population growth have doubled since 2008. Apparently, 2011 is the year the planet […]
The Islamabad government has admitted for the first time that there are US Marines operating in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, a report says. The disclosure has been made during a closed-door meeting of the parliamentary committee on defense, a Press TV correspondent reported on Thursday. Senator Khurshid Ahmed, a member […]
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[youtube]zpbW64vRrMc[/youtube] The Federal Reserve is one of the most powerful and secretive institutions in Washington, long considered beyond the reach of lawmakers. But now, as details emerge of how the Fed secretly doled out more than a trillion dollars during the financial crisis, a rare bipartisan movement in Congress demands […]