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PBS MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour Broadcast on 1989-11-10 Berlin Wall History in the Making!

Category: News & Current Affairs
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The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour originally broadcast on November 10, 1989* as the Berlin Wall came down! (*approximate date based on events reported) Brought to you from the archives of TooleMan TV Includes: Extended reports from Berlin and Moscow A newsmaker interview with Secretary of State James Baker Analysis by Nikolai Shishlin of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, West German Ambassador Jurgen Ruhfus, Former NATO Commander General Bernard Rogers, Former US Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman, and former Undersecretary of State George Ball An essay on the Berlin events by Roger Rosenblatt
Seeders: 3
Leeches: 3

La Joven Revolucion Hondureña

Category: Documentary
Description:
SYNOPSIS: This documentary "The young Honduran revolution" was made by German-Danish activist Johannes Wilm. While working for the revolutionary Nicaraguan government he snuck across the border to Honduras in early August to document the resistance movement in the neighboring Central American republic, after a military coup had overthrown Leftist president Manuel Zelaya on June 28th. By coincidence he documents how for the first time in nearly thirty years the majority of students rise up against the police in a battle of 3000 students fighting police on the campus of the Autonomous University of Honduras in Tegucigalpa on August 5th. The documentary shows where the student leaders come from, what their analysis of the current situation is, what plans they have for changing it, and what perspective for the future they see both for them personally and for the country at large. It is 90 minutes long and it is made in Spanish with English subtitles. The film has so far been shown in various cities in the south west and in 12 countries in Latin America. It has been featured by a number of Latin American magazines and in the US by the Monthly Review and the Upside Down World site. It will be shown in Los Angeles at the "Human Rights Film Festival" on the 23rd of October, then in Hermosillo, Sonora where it will be shown to journalist students of Kino University on the 27th and to other students at the University of Sonora on the 29th. In Arizona where it will be shown amongst other places at the U of A on the 9th of November and at ASU in Phoenix on the 4th and. At UC Berkley the SDS will present it on the 12th of November. IMDb.............: Not yet. Feel free to create an IMDB-listing. Year.............: 2009 Country..........: Honduras/Nicaragua Runtime..........: 90 Minutes Audio............: Spanish (Stereo) Subtitles........: Spanish, English, Norwegian Video Format.....: NTSC Aspect Ratio.....: 16:9 DVD Format.......: Anamorphic DVD Source.......: DVD5 DVD Distributor..: [url=http://www.johanneswilm.org]Johannes Wilm[/url] Program..........: DVD Decrypter Average Bit Rate.: 5.65 Mb/sec Menus............: [X] Untouched [ ] Stripped Video............: [X] Untouched [ ] Re-encoded DVD-extras.......: [X] Untouched [ ] Stripped [ ] Re-encoded [ ] None DVD-Audio........: [X] Untouched [ ] Stripped tracks Extras: . self-interview by creator Johannes Wilm on background for filming and terminology. Uploader Comments: This film is uploaded to onebigtorrent.org with the approval of film maker Johannes Wilm in an effort to spread knowledge about the situation in Honduras. It is important to us that the world sees what happens in broad daylight, so that we may better stand together in the fight for democracy and human rights. If you like this film (or even if you dislike it), please help us spread the word. You can comment the film here, at the blog of the filmmaker, or at the facebook page for the documenary. The biggest problem for political art is not piracy, it's anonymity. Help us fight it! And enjoy! =)
Seeders: 4
Leeches: 8

Spring Awakening (2006) CAM avi

Category: Misc
Description:
I pulled out Judith Levine's "Harmful to Minors". I had read it already but always wanted to return to it. This put me in mind of a Levine review of a play some time back. I looked up the review of Spring Awakening at The Nation. Spring Awakening is now a musical. I was incredulous. The original play was written in 1891 and has scandalized generation after generation, is rarely produced and is always criticized as being not appropriate for minors-- when it's about minors-- 14 year olds to be specific. The play copy is very hard to find-- about 2 in the state library system. As I was reading about the play I tjhought of the exceptional work the high schools are doing over the past couple years. I wonder if there's a prospect for a student production? Now in 2009 I have reposted the CAM from an Off Broadway production in 2006. A CAM of a live stage set piece will, of its nature, be static. Try to envision yourself in the audience for the single perspective. That helps. Since torrents of movies and documentaries and audio content are now common, I see the next big breakthrough to come in this type of CAM: those who would share live theater for analysis of more productions especially for young actors. Where I live a production of Urinetown came to the local performing arts center. A short time later when the play was released for performance, a high school did the play here. Like some of my other torrents such as Marat Sade and Peter Watkins' "La Commune" and The Living Theater "Signals Through The Flames" I see live theater as a way to raise awareness of the subjects we explore on OBT. Notes written November 8, 2009
Seeders: 4
Leeches: 3

The Economist's New Clothes BBC Analysis 11.2.2009 MP3

Category: News & Current Affairs
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As an economist herself, Stephanie Flanders is well placed to ask some of the profession's most eminent participants - how could they get it so wrong, and where do they go from here? Official Page: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/analysis/8332455.stm Transcript: http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/programmes/analysis/transcripts/02_11_09.txt
Seeders: 4
Leeches: 0

PBS Frontline - The Crash (1998)

Category: Documentary
Description:
PBS Frontline - The Crash (1998) Frontline looks at the 1998 global economic meltdown that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummet 512 points. Targeting the reasons behind the fallout, the measures to prevent such a severe collapse again, and the high-stakes poker game of unregulated capital, the program's highlights include commentary from top fund mangers and policy analysts on the crash and the odds of it happening again.
Seeders: 23
Leeches: 5

The Anarchist Library on torrent

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
Description:
The whole archive of theanarchistlibrary.org
Seeders: 14
Leeches: 3

Democracy Now! Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
Description:
Today's Headlines Senate Panel OKs Healthcare Reform Without Public Option Health Rallies to Be Held at Insurers’ Offices Thousands Rally in DC as Immigration Bill Unveiled Iraq: 85,000 Deaths Since 2004 UN: 100,000 Displaced by Northern Iraq Drought Russia Rejects New Iran Sanctions Groups Warn of Civilian Toll in Congo Fighting Obama to Sign Pakistan Aid Bill Zelaya Delegation, Coup Regime Discuss Restoration Alleged Cuban Spy Re-Sentenced to 22 Years EPA Releases Email Ignored by Bush Admin Jury Selection Begins in Trial of Bear Stearns Execs With Senate Finance Vote, Fate of Public Option Uncertain as Healthcare Reform Talks Move Behind Closed Doors The Senate Finance Committee has become the fifth and final congressional panel to approve legislation to reform the nation’s healthcare system, voting 14-to-9 to approve an $829 billion measure. Maine Senator Olympia Snowe was the only Republican to support the package, which omits a public option. Talks now move behind closed doors, where Senate leaders will craft final legislation. We get analysis from Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake. [includes rush transcript] "Stripping Bare the Body: Politics, Violence, War": Groundbreaking Journalist Mark Danner on Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq and Torture Award-winning journalist, writer and professor Mark Danner has just released a new collection of dispatches about Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq and the use of torture in the US war on terror. It’s called Stripping Bare the Body: Politics, Violence, War. We speak to Danner about torture in the so-called war on terror and his career of chronicling US-backed human rights abuses abroad. [includes rush transcript] As US and Other Wealthy Nations Slash Aid, UN Warns of "Silent Tsunami of Hunger" in Global Food Crisis The UN World Food Program is calling the current global food crisis “a silent tsunami of hunger.” This week the WFP warned that more than 40 million people will have their food rations reduced or eliminated because of the drastic aid cuts. We speak with award-winning Indian journalist, writer and activist Devinder Sharma. [includes rush transcript]
Seeders: 83
Leeches: 17

Socialist Standard October 2009

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
Description:
Socialist Standard magazine October 2009 - Front cover: ‘Capitalism 2025: U.S. Spooks Make Their Predictions’ Editorial – ‘Capitalism and Health Care’ Articles – ‘Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World’. An analysis of the US report designed to guide strategic thinking and inspire political action on behalf of the U.S. ruling class and its allies. ‘The rise and fall of the ILP’ With proposals to set up a united leftwing party to challenge Labour, we look at a previous attempt at this. ‘The disease that is capitalism’ What’s better - treating the symptoms or dealing with the cause? ‘Big Brother and the Robots’ A discussion of a Socialist Party meeting in London entitled ‘Here Come the Robots’ ‘New roots of conflict’ The conflicts over oil may give way to another source of military dispute - lanthanide metals. ‘The SLP of America: a premature obituary?’ By some accounts, the Socialist Labor Party of America has ceased to function. Regular features - Pathfinders (pop science / technology) – ‘Is Technology Making Us Stupid?’ Material World – ‘Why they keep piling up manure: the psychology of wealth accumulation’ Pieces Together – news cuttings from mainstream media Cooking the Books 1 (economics) – ‘It Isn’t Over ‘til it’s Over’ Cooking the Books 2 – ‘Funny Money’ 50 Years Ago – ‘The Power You Have’ (re. voting) Voice From the Back - selected news items Book Reviews - The Mind of the Market : How Biology and Psychology Shape Our Economic Lives. By Michael Shermer Made to Break. Technology and Obsolescence in America. By Giles Slade Reports & Reflections on the 2009 UK Ford-Visteon Dispute: a Post-Fordist Struggle. Past Tense, June 2009 Plus letters, meetings, etc.
Seeders: 6
Leeches: 0

TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin, May 15, 2009: W(h)ither the United States?

Category: News & Current Affairs
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TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin, May 15, 2009: W(h)ither the United States? The Debate: W(h)ither the United States? The Obama administration's emerging foreign policy: mea culpa or managing the relative decline of American power? Guests: Andrew Bacevich is professor of international relations at Boston University, and author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. Peter Beinart is a senior fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations, and a columnist for the Washington Post. Wenran Jiang is an associate professor of political science and Mactaggart research chair of the China Institute at the University of Alberta. He is a senior fellow with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, and an online columnist for Business Week. Sergei Plekhanov is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at York University. Janice Stein is TVO's international affairs analyst, the Belzberg professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. For more information on this episode, including information on the guests and various other resources and links, visit the episode webpage ----- Note: This is an iPod video podcast that is available for free download from the website.Quality is good. Audio podcasts (mp3 format) are also available for free download for the individual segments. Type: mp4 file Size: 114MB Runtime: 00:54:27 Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 320x240 Audio: AAC 32000Hz mono 48Kbps Download this episode using the attached torrent file or download it directly using this link: http://feeds.tvo.org/~r/tvo/TxZN/~5/M9G96kY7weU/TAWSP_Dbt_20090515_779513_0_320x240_304k.mp4 You can also watch a flash video of this episode through your web-browser here: http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=7&bpn=779513&ts=2009-05-15%2020:00:35.0 ----- Andrew Bacevich is that rare breed in American political discourse: a principled conservative who stands out in stark contrast to the grotesque monstrosity and demonstrably incoherent, unprincipled ideology that is American conservatism, sometimes labelled libertarianism, of the Reagan revolution and Republican party variety, which is mostly a racist, "God Bless America and kill the darkies abroad!!" screeching, anti-government, anti-tax, corporate-and-private-power-worshipping philosophy. It is an ideology that hypocritically preaches incessantly about "limited government" but which is anti-government and anti-state only when it comes to social programs for the poor, the weak, the powerless and minorities, and whose criticisms of expansive government, coercive state-power, and executive and federal power overreach are notably absent when it comes to the expansion of the domestic police state and of the grotesque, weapons-of-mass-destruction-producing and mass-murdering apparatus that is the expansive American military establishment, American imperial power-structure and the National Security State. It is quite revealing to see a principled conservative like Andrew Bacevich arriving to very similar conclusions about American power, imperialism and foreign policy as someone from the left, such as Noam Chomsky. Resources and links to related material 1) Farewell to the American Century by Andrew Bacevich: Americans have perpetuated a mythic version of the past that never even approximated reality and today has become downright malignant. 2) Andrew Bacevich on PBS Bill Moyer's Journal: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08152008/watch.html 3) Glenn Greenwald - The looming political war over Afghanistan 4) Glenn Greenwald - Our war-loving Foreign Policy Community hasn't gone anywhere 5) Chris Floyd - Beyond Here Lies Nothing: Surging Further Into the Abyss 6) Cheney/Obama ----- TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin The Agenda with Steve Paikin is TVO's flagship current affairs program - devoted to exploring the social, political, cultural and economic issues that are changing our world, at home and abroad. The Agenda airs weeknights at 8:00 PM EST on TVO - Canada's largest educational broadcaster. TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin website: http://www.tvo.org/agenda/
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Leeches: 0

Why Do People Hate America (ebook) [cpdl]

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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Copy Paste title: Why Do People Hate America? Digital |> author: Ziauddin Sardar, Merryl Wyn Davies Librarian | `> isbn: 0971394253 _______| `____________ || | | | word count: 68603 ||infor-| |control + a|| pages: 240 ||mation| | || format: .htm ||wants | |control + c|| version: 1 ||to be > | || CPDL ||free `> |control + v|| release no.: 00012 ||__________`|___________|| |___________><____________| _______________________________________________________ The controversial bestseller that caused huge waves in the UK! The Independent calls it "required reading." Noam Chomsky says it "contains valuable information that we should know, over here, for our own good, and the world's." We call it our biggest book so far and will be backing it from day one with guaranteed co-op spending, a national publicity and review blitz, talk radio bookings, various retail sales aids including postcards, and of course the usual full court press on the Web and via email. This is NOT just another 9/11 book: it is the book for those of us trying to understand why America -- and Americans -- are targets for hate. Many people do hate America, in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa, as well as in the Middle East. Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies explore the global impact of America's foreign policy and its corporate and cultural power, placing this unprecedented dominance in the context of America's own perception of itself. In doing so, they consider TV and the Hollywood machine as a mirror which reflects both the American Dream and the American Nightmare. Their analysis provides an important contribution to a debate which needs to be addressed by people of all nations, cultures, religions and political persuasions -- and especially by Americans. Described by The Times Higher Education Supplement as "packed with tightly argued points," the book is carefully researched and built to withstand the inevitable criticism that will be aimed at it. A book that some reviewers will love to hate and others will praise for its insights, it's guaranteed to cause a stir. Ziauddin Sardar is a prominent and highly respected journalist and author. Prolific and polymath, he is a familiar U.K. television and radio personality. Merryl Wyn Davies, writer and anthropologist, is a former BBC television producer. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/223755921
Seeders: 4
Leeches: 0