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A three part BBC documentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Trap and The Power of Nightmares. It is an astounding series of films about how humans have been colonised by ( amongst other things ) the machines they have built. [youtube]Uz2j3BhL47c[/youtube] [youtube]Yq0xVuRG4ng[/youtube] [youtube]lXJYkkxh0rk[/youtube]
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Journalists Fitzgerald and Gould do yeoman’s labor in clearing the fog and laying bare American failures in Afghanistan in this deeply researched, cogently argued and enormously important book. The authors demonstrate how closely American actions are tied to past miscalculations & how U.S. policy has placed Afghans and Americans in […]
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[ If you haven’t seen this – then it’s two minutes of your life well spent ] An animated interview of John Perkins, author of ‘HoodWinked’ and ‘Confessions Of An Economic Hitman’ [youtube]n7Fzm1hEiDQ[/youtube]
There’s quite a lot of fun to be had in mapping our current economic woes on to John Kenneth Galbraith’s interpretations and criticisms of capitalism, first published in 2004. One of the many “frauds” that he says capitalism foists on us is that of “accepted fraud”, whereby shareholders in a […]