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The Bush Georges And The American Horror Closet
by Nick Glossop on March 23, 2013
The following clip may be for you if you were at all surprised that the end of the Bush W. administration did not bring about an end to the Bush wars, or the Bush war shenanigans, or Gitmo, or that the Obama presidency has shown less than zero appetite for pursuing and prosecuting Bush officials who lied, deceived, profiteered, and engaged in such war crimes as unprovoked war, attacks on …
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Documentary Exposes US Role in Iraq Sectarian Conflict
by Nick Glossop on March 16, 2013
This is one of the great untold stories of the Iraq War, how just over a year after the invasion, the United States funded a sectarian police commando force that set up a network of torture centers to fight the insurgency. It was a decision that helped fuel a sectarian civil war between Shia and Sunni that ripped the country apart. At its height, it was claiming 3,000 victims a
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Poll: Canadians are Progressive and Acquiescent
by Andrew Loewen on December 23, 2012
Northern Ontario (Attawapiskat) Cree leader Theresa Spence is on the 13th day of her hunger strike near the Canadian parliament today.
Majority of Canadians support grassroots protest movements: poll
A recent Trudeau Foundation poll shows the majority of Canadians are “progressive” (social democratic) in theory and acquiescent in practice: docile subjects of representational democracy.
The poll speaks to the staggering complacency of Canadians regarding their own values but their strong …
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Idle No More & Settler-Colonial Canada
by Andrew Loewen on December 11, 2012
Artwork by Dwayne Bird.
Idle No More is a grassroots indigenous movement initiated by four women in Saskatchewan in response to Federal legislation (Bill C-45) that violently contravenes the Treaty Rights of First Nations (and the more fundamental indigenous rights of many who don’t recognize the authority of said treaties or, as in most of BC, never signed land treaties). Responding to this grassroots pressure in their communities …
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1000 Words, 1000 Days: Day 343 – Tim Lopes, The White Knight Of The Hidden Camera
by Marty Schwartz on December 9, 2012
A few days ago, I joked about becoming a journalist. I suppose that, had I grown up with the right role model, that could have been my reality. Indiana Jones made archeology look cool. Jaws taught me that marine biology could be full of thrills and excitement. And TV’s Jessica Fletcher showed me that even being a senior citizen / mystery writer in the right small town could lead …
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Bradley Manning Finally Gets to Speak
by Matthew Payne on December 1, 2012
Kevin Gosztola has been doing Pulitzer-quality work on the Bradley Manning pre-trial hearing on whether Manning was subject to “unlawful pretrial punishment.” The answer seems to be, “hells to the yeah!”:
2:05 PM Fifteen minute break. Fein opened up an incredible line of questions with Manning that do not obviously appear to benefit the government’s case that he wasn’t unlawfully punished. He asked about “voluntary statements” he signed except they
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The land before Eden: Herzog narrates “Dinotasia”
by Michelle Lovegrove Thomson on November 18, 2012
Reuniting with the team that produced Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Grizzly Man, Bavarian bravura Werner Herzog turns out film project number EIGHT since 2010′s Cave doc: Dinotasia!
Imagine for a moment that Malick left all of Sean Penn’s scenes in The Tree if Life on the cutting room floor, and instead fleshed-out the primordial drama of pre-biblical Paradise. From Dios to dinos!
“Their bones gave rise to …
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Lana Wachowski enters the public sphere as a filmmaker
by Michelle Lovegrove Thomson on October 30, 2012
Lana Wachowski–one half of the sibling team responsible for directing The Matrix and Cloud Atlas (with Tom Tykwer)–has emerged from nearly 12 years of media avoidance to speak about her experiences as a transgendered woman, and as a filmmaker interested in preserving a “private civic life”.
In an acceptance speech delivered at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual gala dinner in San Francisco, Wachowski explains that being able to circulate …
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1000 Words, 1000 Days: Day 300 – It’s The Eurovision Song Contest Winners! Save Us All! (part 2)
by Marty Schwartz on October 28, 2012
According to my raven-haired mistress whom I call Ms. Wiki, there have been sixty top-prize winners in the Eurovision Song Contest since its 1956 debut. That’s fifty-seven years of winners, with an ugly four-way tie in 1969. Because today is Day 300 and I foolishly believe that history cares if I do something grand with such a plump, round number, I’ve decided to review each of the Eurovision winners.…
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A Suite Of Films Poses The Question ~ Why Poverty?
by Nick Glossop on October 19, 2012
Why Poverty? uses film to get people talking about poverty.
We’ve commissioned award-winning film makers to make eight documentaries about poverty, and new and emerging talents to make around 30 short films. The films tackle big issues and pose difficult questions, but they’re also moving, subtle and thought-provoking stories.
They transmit around the world in November 2012, on 62 national broadcasters reaching 500 million people. They’ll be accompanied by events
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The Trouble with Obama is America
by Andrew Loewen on October 4, 2012
The web is of course churning with responses reactions to the Presidential debate last night. The consensus is that Romney won by swinging into populist gear while Obama failed to show up. Matthew Rothschild at The Progressive says Obama was “pathetic” (and not just in delivery as is the standard gripe but in message). Big grownups that they are, liberals are licking their wounds by posting pictures of Big Bird …
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On ‘A Letter From A Scared Actress’ And The Exploitation Of Good People
by Lorelei Loveridge on September 25, 2012
Following up on the article I wrote the other day about the film ‘Innocence of Muslims’ that has caused riots, deaths and protests (hugely mapped out already by Wikipedia) in the Middle East and worldwide, this is the painful testimony (to a writer/friend named Neil Gaiman) by a Georgian actress named Anna Gurji who joined the film’s production team in what she thought was a cheap spoof about …
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