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Aljazeera - PEOPLE & POWER - Ingushetia - A second Chechnya? - 01-11-09

Category: Documentary
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By Dom Rotheroe and Antony Butts On October 25, Maksharip Aushev, an Ingush businessman and civil opposition leader, was murdered by unknown gunmen who sprayed his car with more than 60 bullets. Shortly before his death, filmmakers Dom Rotheroe and Antony Butts spoke with him for their film on the conflict in the Russian republic of Ingushetia. Recently, the Russian republic of Ingushetia has become the most dangerous place in the Russian federation. Endemic corruption combined with a battle between Islamic extremists and unaccountable Moscow-backed security forces has plunged the area into violence. The conflict has left many Ingushetians in despair; their human rights suppressed and their faith in the authorities in tatters. It is a cycle of bloody atrocity and counter-atrocity that seems to have no end. While the Ingush stayed out of the Chechens' recent wars for independence from Russia, this did not prevent the violence from finally spilling over. In June 2004, rebels attacked Ingushetia's main city of Nazran and killed scores of security officials. With Russia by then pretty much in control of Chechnya, Chechen rebels wanted to spread the war into neighbouring Muslim republics. And in Ingushetia discontent had been growing ever since Vladimir Putin, the then Russian president, installed the unpopular Murat Zyazikov as president there in 2002. 'Disappeared' Trapped in the middle of the decade-long dirty war are 500,000 Ingush. Maksharip Aushev, a businessman and civil opposition leader, told us that he carries a gun "because it's dangerous out there". "At any moment they can turn up in camouflage and kidnap you - and then you'll just be disappeared. "Although the gun will not protect you at least you'll manage to do something so they don't torture you, don't take you away - so you don't just go missing like most people usually do here," he said. Things changed for businessman Maksharip three years ago when his nephew, who had refused to become an informant, and son were snatched off a train by security forces. They were taken to Chechnya and tortured. "As soon as my son and nephew were abducted, I stepped out," he explained, saying that he never wanted to be involved in politics but felt forced into it. Maksharip blamed the Russian security forces (FSB) and rallied public protests, which led to the release of his son and nephew. In the process he also kicked off widespread civil opposition to the regime and became one of the most outspoken leaders of the opposition to Zyazikov, a former KGB officer and an ally of Putin. According to Magomed Mutsolgov, the co-founder of the local human rights group Mashr, it was after Zyazikov became president that anyone even vaguely suspected of opposing the regime began getting visits from the security forces. Mutsolgov co-founded Mashr when his younger brother disappeared four years ago. "Altogether we have had over 500 cases of kidnapping. Some of those people were found dead," he says. 'Nothing left to lose' The violence has been increasing exponentially. Mashr estimates that 212 people were killed in 2008. By August 2009 that number had already been reached. Yet violence by the security forces is only one side of Ingushetia's mayhem. In the last seven years, Islamic militants have killed over 200 policemen, soldiers and government officials. The most devastating attack happened in August 2009 when a suicide bomber drove a truck into Nazran's main police station, killing 24 people and injuring more than 160. In recent years religious extremists among the rebels have turned the war for Chechen independence into a jihad for a Sharia-based emirate covering all of Russia's Caucasian Muslim republics. They have also started targeting civilians whom they deem un-Islamic. Recently, two sisters, aged 52 and 60, were shot to death in a roadside kiosk, supposedly for selling alcohol. "They are psychotic. Putting seven, eight bullets into women. What Sharia law are they talking about?" the victim's sister asks. "We have nothing more to be afraid of. We have gone through all this and are ready for anything. We have lost our parents, husbands. What else can we be afraid of? We have nothing left to lose." Yet even this family lay the final blame less on the militants than on the authorities and the lawlessness and corruption they believe Zyazikov fostered. Poverty Ingushetia is not only Russia's most violent republic. It is also its poorest. "Zyazikov declared that over 70 factories had been built in the republic, that the unemployment problem had been solved, etc etc. We risked our lives trying to prove to the Russian government that there were no factories, that the huge amounts of money allocated to us were simply being fiddled away by Zyazikov and his people," Maksharip said. By October 2008, opposition to Zyazikov had grown to such a pitch and the violence and corruption had become so brazen that Moscow finally replaced him with the popular ex-general, Yunus-bek Yevkurov. The new leader set out to tackle the corruption and violence and brought advisors from the civil opposition into his administration. He also sacked some corrupt officials, tried to initiate talks with the rebels and gained the public's trust. But then, on June 22, 2009, his presidential convoy was rammed by a suicide bomber. Yevkurov ended up in a critical condition in hospital. Extra-judicial executions In his absence, and with the Kremlin demanding even better results against the rebels, allegations of extra-judicial executions by the security forces began flooding in. Many believe it is Russia's FSB, the former KGB, that is orchestrating the cycle of violence in Ingushetia. Their agents have even been caught firing on Ingush policemen, raising suspicions that Moscow is deliberately keeping the fractious north Caucasus destablised in order to justify its controlling military presence. Others believe the motive is also the money that those in power can make from conflict. "As the Russian saying goes, 'It is good fishing in troubled waters.' These kind of civil wars are started to make it easier to steal money," Maksharip said. Suspicion Suspicion of the FSB here is reminiscent of Soviet times. Several human rights campaigners have been killed in the north Caucasus in the last few years. Aslambek Paev, a human rights campaigner, told us: "Everything is monitored. You have to be very careful and observant when you work. Probably I'm the next one. "What difference does it make for us? We know we're dead anyway, that sooner or later they'll kill us." Yevkurov recovered from the attack on him and returned to office. He has since sacked his entire cabinet for making problems worse in his absence. But it is yet to be seen how far his promised reforms will go - or indeed how effective they can be in a land which both the militants and elements of Russia's power structures seem determined to keep on the boil. Losing control One month before his death, the security forces had stopped Maksharip's car and attempted to take him into custody after he left a government meeting. He escaped only because a crowd of motorists, including an aide to the governor, surrounded him. "If I had been a half-metre closer, they would have tied me up and I would have disappeared without a trace," he told Caucasian Knot, a website that covers the region. Yevkurov has reached out to human rights activists and the opposition, offering them a degree of protection, but Aushev's killing suggests that he, and by extension the Kremlin, may be losing control over the overlapping law enforcement agencies fighting a growing Islamist insurgency in the region. Though deep in mourning, Maksharip Aushev's family agreed to our film being broadcast. His assassination highlights the continuing perils faced by anyone who seeks to defend basic freedoms in Ingushetia, raising fears of further violence in the region.
Seeders: 3
Leeches: 3

Who Killed Martin Luther King (1989)

Category: Documentary
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Who Killed Martin Luther King (1989) Was it really a lone racist named James Earl Ray that killed Martin Luther King or was his assassination part of a much bigger plan? And why was the FBI treating Martin Luther King like a threat? This video presents startling facts about the Assassination of Martin Luther King. For anyone who still thinks James Earl Ray acted alone, they are in for a big surprise. The film asks all the pertinent questions about Ray's whereabouts, motivations, etc. The film however suffers from some technical problems audio-wise where the sound dips in some places. Despite its technical shortcomings (sound problems, weak narrative voice) this is a well researched documentary and worth downloading.
Seeders: 22
Leeches: 10

JFK - Directors Cut Disc2 "Beyond JFK"(2003)

Category: Documentary
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--this is my own dvd rip of this great documentary--SNACH-- Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy (1992) Program Info Picks up where the film leaves off. Beyond JFK is a documentary about the facts and stories that were the basis for Oliver Stone's film JFK. The video covers the arrests of Clay Shaw, David Ferrie, and Lee Oswald, including rarely seen footage. It also shows extremely rare interviews with Dean Andrews, Clay Shaw, Jim Garrison, Lou Ivon, Marina Oswald, and Jim Marrs - to name a few. This video is basically a re-hash of the movie, but it's interesting because we get to see who these characters actually were and we get to hear, in their words, what they were thinking at the time of Garrison's infamous trial, and what they have to say about it now. U.S./1992/Color/90 Minutes/4:3/Mono Mix/English Directors: Barbara Kopple & Danny Schechter Video Info Beyond.JFK.1992.DVDrip.xvid.mp3-snach.avi Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave File size : 705 MiB Duration : 1h 30mn Overall bit rate : 1 095 Kbps Movie name : JFK_DIRECTORS_CUT_DISC2.Title1.DVDRip Writing application : Lavf52.33.0 Original source form/Name : JFK_DIRECTORS_CUT_DISC2 Video ID : 0 Format : MPEG-4 Visual Format profile : Simple@L3 Format settings, BVOP : No Format settings, QPel : No Format settings, GMC : No warppoints Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263) Codec ID : XVID Codec ID/Hint : XviD Duration : 1h 30mn Bit rate : 953 Kbps Width : 448 pixels Height : 336 pixels Display aspect ratio : 4/3 Frame rate : 29.970 fps Resolution : 24 bits Colorimetry : 4:2:0 Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.211 Stream size : 614 MiB (87%) Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04) Audio ID : 1 Format : MPEG Audio Format version : Version 1 Format profile : Layer 3 Codec ID : 55 Codec ID/Hint : MP3 Duration : 1h 30mn Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 128 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Resolution : 16 bits Stream size : 82.5 MiB (12%) Alignment : Aligned on interleaves Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.72 video frame) Extras Assassination Update - The New Documents (2001) Produced and Directed by Charles Kiselyak Narration by Jim DiEugenio Written by Jim DiEugenio Video Info Assassination.Update-The.New.Documents.2001.DVDrip.xvid.mp3-snach.avi Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave File size : 200 MiB Duration : 29mn 42s Overall bit rate : 942 Kbps Movie name : JFK_DIRECTORS_CUT_DISC2.Title21.DVDRip Writing application : Lavf52.33.0 Original source form/Name : JFK_DIRECTORS_CUT_DISC2 Video ID : 0 Format : MPEG-4 Visual Format profile : Simple@L3 Format settings, BVOP : No Format settings, QPel : No Format settings, GMC : No warppoints Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263) Codec ID : XVID Codec ID/Hint : XviD Duration : 29mn 42s Bit rate : 800 Kbps Width : 448 pixels Height : 336 pixels Display aspect ratio : 4/3 Frame rate : 29.970 fps Resolution : 24 bits Colorimetry : 4:2:0 Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.177 Stream size : 170 MiB (85%) Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04) Audio ID : 1 Format : MPEG Audio Format version : Version 1 Format profile : Layer 3 Codec ID : 55 Codec ID/Hint : MP3 Duration : 29mn 42s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 128 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Resolution : 16 bits Stream size : 27.2 MiB (14%) Alignment : Aligned on interleaves Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.72 video frame) Meet Mr. X: The Personality and Thoughts of Fletcher Prouty (2001) Produced and Directed by Charles Kiselyak Interview Conducted and Provided by Len Osanic Video Info Meet.Mr.X.Fletcher.Prouty.2001.DVDrip.xvid.mp3-snach.avi Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave File size : 74.4 MiB Duration : 11mn 2s Overall bit rate : 942 Kbps Movie name : JFK_DIRECTORS_CUT_DISC2.Title20.DVDRip Writing application : Lavf52.33.0 Original source form/Name : JFK_DIRECTORS_CUT_DISC2 Video ID : 0 Format : MPEG-4 Visual Format profile : Simple@L3 Format settings, BVOP : No Format settings, QPel : No Format settings, GMC : No warppoints Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263) Codec ID : XVID Codec ID/Hint : XviD Duration : 11mn 2s Bit rate : 800 Kbps Width : 448 pixels Height : 336 pixels Display aspect ratio : 4/3 Frame rate : 29.970 fps Resolution : 24 bits Colorimetry : 4:2:0 Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.177 Stream size : 63.2 MiB (85%) Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04) Audio ID : 1 Format : MPEG Audio Format version : Version 1 Format profile : Layer 3 Codec ID : 55 Codec ID/Hint : MP3 Duration : 11mn 2s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 128 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Resolution : 16 bits Stream size : 10.1 MiB (14%) Alignment : Aligned on interleaves Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.72 video frame) Additional content can be found at the Col. L. Fletcher Prouty Reference Site at Prouty.org Trackers http://tracker.conspiracycentral.net/announce http://www.h33t.com:3310/announce http://inferno.demonoid.com:3417/announce http://tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce http://tracker.openbittorrent.com/announce
Seeders: 5
Leeches: 8

“The CIA - Licensed to Kill” 2009 08 11 avi www.DemocracyNow.org clip

Category: News & Current Affairs
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“The CIA - Licensed to Kill” 2009 08 11 avi www.DemocracyNow.org clip 76mg/ 5 mns The US drone attacks inside Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq have received bipartisan support in Washington. And when the CIA disclosed the existence of an aborted secret assassination program last month, congressional outrage centered around the fact that lawmakers weren’t properly informed. The open acceptance of assassination as a tool of US policy can in part be explained by the fact it’s been going on for decades. David Wise, co-author of The Invisible Government, a number one bestseller about the CIA. His other books include Nightmover, Molehunt, The Spy Who Got Away, The American Police State, and The Politics of Lying. David is also the former chief of the Washington bureau of the New York Herald Tribune. His latest piece appeared in the Los Angeles Times last month, called “The CIA, Licensed to Kill.” SEE ALSO The CIA, Licensed to Kill http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jul/22/opinion/oe-wise22?pg=1 Source: https://onebigtorrent.org/download.php?id=5931&d=1 Cap: n/a Other shunster posts at:http://www.bt-chat.com/browse.php?category=11 Support www.DemocracyNow.org with website purchases and/or donations. View, listen,download: The Peace and Freedom Report weekdays at the website.
Seeders: 38
Leeches: 3

Democracy Now! Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Suu Kyi Sentenced to 18 Months of House Arrest Obama: Critics of US Honduras Policy Hypocritical Clinton Calls on Congo to Stamp Out Rape “Time Is Running Out” for Copenhagen Climate Change Talks US Drone Strike Kills 10 Head of Chechen Charity Murdered Jailed Marwan Barghouti Elected to Fatah Leadership Ecuador’s Correa Sworn In to Second Term Overcrowding Blamed for Prison Riot in California Westchester to Spend $60M on Fair Housing FBI Raid New Orleans Police Department Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88, Dies Obama Reverses Campaign Pledge to Renegotiate NAFTA President Obama has wrapped up a two-day visit to Mexico for talks with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The three leaders met in Guadalajara to discuss issues including immigration reform, trade, Mexico’s drug war, the crisis in Honduras, and the swine flu outbreak. It was Obama’s first official summit under the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. On the campaign trail, Obama had promised to open up NAFTA to renegotiations. But he’s backed off that pledge since taking office, blaming the global economic meltdown. [includes rush transcript] Charles Bowden on Mexico's Dirty War Against Drugs Last week Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy blocked the release of a State Department report affirming that Mexico has respected human rights in its fight against drug cartels. Leahy’s move holds up more than $100 million in US aid. The money has been delayed under a law linking 15 percent of US funding to Mexico under the Merida Initiative to Mexico’s record on human rights. On Monday, President Obama praised the Mexican government for its handling of the drug war. We speak with Charles Bowden, a reporter who has been extensively covering the human consequences of Mexico’s drug war. [includes rush transcript] Former Adviser to Gen. Stanley McChrystal Calls for Moratorium on US Drone Strikes in Pakistan Andrew Exum is a former Army captain who has been openly critical of the drone attacks inside Pakistan. Exum served on active duty in the US Army from 2000 until 2004, including two years leading a platoon of Army Rangers inside Iraq and Afghanistan. He recently returned from two months in Afghanistan, where he served as part of the advisory team of the commander of US troops there, General Stanley McChrystal. [includes rush transcript] David Wise: "The CIA, Licensed to Kill" The US drone attacks inside Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq have received bipartisan support in Washington. And when the CIA disclosed the existence of an aborted secret assassination program last month, congressional outrage centered around the fact that lawmakers weren’t properly informed. The open acceptance of assassination as a tool of US policy can in part be explained by the fact it’s been going on for decades. [includes rush transcript]
Seeders: 80
Leeches: 15

Anti-Authoritarian Politics Books - Anarchism, Democratic Socialism

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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|-- Acharya S - Zeitgeist - Christian Mythlogy - Jesus and Horus - Companion Guide.pdf |-- Ahmed - The War on Freedom - How and Why America Was Attacked [911, WTC, Bush, neocons] (2002).pdf |-- Albert - Liberating Theory [poor layout] (South End, 1986).pdf |-- Antipsychiatry | |-- Cleckley - The Mask of Sanity.pdf | |-- Farber - Madness, Heresy and The Rumor of Angels.pdf | |-- Foucault - Madness and civilization.pdf | |-- Laing - The Divided Self - An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness.pdf | |-- Pridmore - Madness of Psychiatry.pdf | |-- Szasz - Psychiatric Slavery.djvu | `-- Szasz - The Theology of Medicine.djvu |-- Avrich - The Russian Anarchists.pdf |-- Bamford - NSA - Body of Secrets - Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency [possibly unreliable] (2002).pdf |-- Bertrand Russell - In Praise of Idleness (1932).html |-- Bertrand Russell - Political Ideals (1917).pdf |-- Bertrand Russell - Political Ideals (1917).txt |-- Bertrand Russell - Proposed Roads To Freedom (1919).pdf |-- Bertrand Russell - Proposed Roads To Freedom (1919).txt |-- Bolz - The Counterterrorism Handbook - Tactics, Procedures and Techniques 2e (CRC, 2001).pdf |-- Bregman - Israel's Wars 1947-1993 (Routledge, 2000).pdf |-- Brown - Web of Debt - The Shocking Truth about our Money System 3e (Third Millenium, 2007).pdf |-- Carlisle - Encyclopedia of Politics (Sage, 2005) | |-- Carlisle - Encyclopedia of Politics - The Left (Sage, 2005).pdf | `-- Carlisle - Encyclopedia of Politics - The Right (Sage, 2005).pdf |-- Chomsky Noam | |-- Chomsky - 5 books.pdf | |-- Chomsky - America's war on terror.pdf | |-- Chomsky - An Open Media Book (9-11).pdf | |-- Chomsky - An exchange on Manufacturing Consent 2002.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Anarchism & Marxism.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Class Warfare.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Confronting the Empire.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Democracy And Education.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Deterring Democracy.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Fateful Triangle - The United States, Israel and the Palestinians.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival - America's Quest for Global Dominance.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Imperial Ambitions.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Iraq is a Trial Run (04.02.2003).pdf | |-- Chomsky - Keeping The Rabble In Line (1994).pdf | |-- Chomsky - Liberating the Mind from Orthodoxies.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - The Political Economy of Mass Media.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Media Control.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Necessary Illusions.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Nine Eleven (9-11).pdf | |-- Chomsky - On Osama Bin Laden.pdf | |-- Chomsky - On War in Afganistan.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Philosophers and Public Philosophy.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Philosophy of Cognitive Science.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Pirates and Emperors, Old and New.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Powers and Prospects.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Preventive War - The Supreme Crime.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Profit over People.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Secrets Lies And Democracy.pdf | |-- Chomsky - The Culture of Terrorism.pdf | |-- Chomsky - The Iraq war and contempt for Democracy.pdf | |-- Chomsky - The Propaganda System.pdf | |-- Chomsky - The prosperous Few and the restless Many (1994).pdf | |-- Chomsky - Torturing Democracy.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Turning the Tide U.S. intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Understanding Power (2002).pdf | |-- Chomsky - War Against People.pdf | |-- Chomsky - What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream.pdf | |-- Chomsky - What Uncle Sam Really Wants.pdf | |-- Chomsky - What the Linguist is Talking About.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Who are the Global Terrorists.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Year 501 The Conquest Continues.pdf | `-- Chomsky - You Are Being Lied To (The Disinformation Guide).pdf |-- Cook - The Long Sexual Revolution (Oxford, 2004).pdf |-- Creveld - The Rise and Decline of the State (1999).pdf |-- Crook - Revolutionary France 1788-1880 (Oxford, 2002).pdf |-- Dasgupta - Economics - A Very Short Introduction.pdf |-- Dawisha - Arab Nationalism in the 20th Century (Princeton, 2003).pdf |-- Dawkins Richard | |-- Dawkins - The God Delusion.pdf | |-- Dawkins - The Selfish Gene (1976).pdf | |-- Richard Dawkins - A Devil's Chaplain (2003).pdf | |-- Richard Dawkins - Extended Phenotype (2004).pdf | |-- Richard Dawkins - River Out Of Eden (1995).pdf | |-- Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker.pdf | `-- Richard Dawkins - Unweaving The Rainbow.pdf |-- Dissident Voice - Intellectual Cleansing I - Keeping the Media Safe for Big Business.html |-- Dissident Voice - Intellectual Cleansing II - Jonathan Cook Responds.html |-- Edward Bernays - Propaganda (1928).pdf |-- Emma Goldman | |-- EMMA GOLDMAN.gif | |-- Emma Goldman - 1908 - What I Believe.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - 1909 - A New Declaration of Independence.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - 1910 - Anarchism What It Really Stands For.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - 1911 - Francisco Ferrer and The Modern School.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - 1914 - Voltairine De Cleyre.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - 1917 - Address To The Jury.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - 1918 - The Truth About the Bolsheviki.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - 1923 - My Disillusionment in Russia.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - 1924 - My Further Disillusionment in Russia.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - 1931 - Living My Life.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - 1934 - Was My Life Worth Living.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - Anarchy Defended by Anarchists.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - Socialism Caught in the Political Trap.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - The Social Importance of the Modern School.pdf | |-- Hippolyte Havel - 1911 - EMMA GOLDMAN (Biography).pdf | |-- aandofrontpiecesm.gif | |-- anarchism.jpg | `-- socsigdra.gif |-- Federal Reserve - Modern Money Mechanics.pdf |-- Feenberg - Transforming Technology - A Critical Theory Revisited (Oxford, 2002).pdf |-- Flaschel - Macrodynamics of Capitalism - Synthesis of Marx, Keynes and Schumpeter 2e (Springer, 2009).pdf |-- Fromm - Art of Loving [bw] (Harper, 1956).pdf |-- Fromm - Haben oder Sein (1976).pdf |-- Fromm - Marx's Concept of Man [poor layout] (1961).pdf |-- Fromm - The Art of Loving [dp, no ocr] (1957).pdf |-- Fromm - To Have or To Be (Continuum, 1976).pdf |-- Ganser - NATO's Secret Armies - Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe (2005).pdf |-- Guerin - Anarchism - From Theory to Practice (1970).pdf |-- Hahnel - ABCs of Political Economy - Modern Primer.pdf |-- Heller - Bojite se socialismu (Periskop, 2007).pdf |-- Illich - Deschooling Society [html] (1970).pdf |-- Karl Marx and Marxism | |-- Albritton - New Dialectics and Political Economy (Palgrave, 2004).pdf | |-- Blakeley - Marx and Other Four-Letter Words (Pluto, 2005).pdf | |-- Carver - The Cambridge Companion to Marx (1991).pdf | |-- Collier - Marx - Beginner's Guide (Oneworld, 2004).pdf | |-- Fine - Marx's Capital 4e (Pluto, 2004).pdf | |-- Glasser - Twentieth Century Marxism - Global Introduction (Routledge, 2007).pdf | |-- Hollander - The Economics of Karl Marx - Analysis and Application (Cambridge, 2008).pdf | |-- Hutnyk - Bad Marxism - Capitalism and Cultural Studies (Pluto, 2004).pdf | |-- LeBaron - Mao, Marx and The Market (Wiley, 2002).pdf | |-- Marx - Capital Vol 1.pdf | |-- Marx - Capital Vol 2.pdf | |-- Marx - Capital Vol 3.pdf | |-- Marx - Communist Manifesto.pdf | |-- Marx - Grundrisse.pdf | |-- Marx - The Civil War in France.pdf | |-- Marx - The Class Struggle in France.pdf | |-- Marx - Wage Labour and Capital.pdf | |-- Musto - Karl Marx's Grundrisse - Foundations (Routledge, 2008).pdf | |-- Newman - Socialism - Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2005).pdf | |-- Resnick - New Departures in Marxian Theory (Routledge, 2006).pdf | |-- Rosa Luxemburg - The Accumulation of Capital (Routledge, 1913,2003).pdf | |-- Singer - Marx - Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 1980).pdf | |-- Thomas - Marxism and Scientific Socialism (Routledge, 2008).pdf | |-- Uchida - Marx for the 21st Century (Routledge, 2006).pdf | |-- Walker - Historical Dictionary of Marxism (Scarecrow, 2007).pdf | `-- Wolfenstein - Psychoanalytic-Marxism Groundwork [dp,bw] (Free Association, 1993).pdf |-- Kelly - Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault (Taylor, 2009).pdf |-- Kinna - Anarchism - A Beginner's Guide (Oneworld, 2005).pdf |-- Knight - The Kennedy Assassination (Edinburgh, 2007).pdf |-- Konner - The Atheist's Bible.pdf |-- Laing - The Divided Self - An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness.pdf |-- Le Bon - The Crowd - A Study of the Popular Mind (1895,2002).pdf |-- Lippmann - Public Opinion (1921).txt |-- Lynd - Wobblies and Zapatistas - Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History (PM, 2008).pdf |-- Macrakis - Seduced by Secrets - Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World (Cambridge, 2008).pdf |-- Maga - The 1960s - Eyewitness History (Infobase, 2003).pdf |-- Marcuse Herbert | |-- Feenberg - Essential Marcuse - Introduction - Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse (2007).pdf | |-- Marcuse - Aggressiveness in Advanced Industrial Society (1967).html | |-- Marcuse - An Essay on Liberation (Beacon, 1969).pdf | |-- Marcuse - Collected Papers I - Technology, War and Fascism (Routledge, 1998).pdf | |-- Marcuse - Collected Papers II - Towards a Critical Theory of Society (Routledge, 2001).pdf | |-- Marcuse - Heideggerian Marxism (Nebraska, 2005).pdf | |-- Marcuse - Liberation from the Affluent Society (1967, Lecture in London).html | |-- Marcuse - One-Dimensional Man [html, ocr errors] (1964).pdf | |-- Marcuse - Repressive Tolerance (1965).html | |-- Marcuse - Soviet Marxism - A Critical Analysis (Columbia, 1958).pdf | `-- Marcuse - The End of Utopia (1967).html |-- Marshall - Demanding the Impossible - History of Anarchism (Harper, 2008).pdf |-- Maschke - The Lie Behind the Lie Detector 4e (antipolygraph.org, 2005).pdf |-- McFadden - On the Federal Reserve (Congressional Record, 1934).html |-- McKibben - Deep Economy - Economics As If the World Mattered (Oneworld, 2007).pdf |-- Mikhail Bakunin | |-- Aldred, Guy A. - Michel Bakunin, Communist.pdf | |-- Bakunin - God and the State.pdf | |-- Bakunin - Integral Education 2.pdf | |-- Bakunin - Integral Education.pdf | |-- Bakunin - Marxism Freedom and the State.pdf | |-- Bakunin - Power Corrupts The Best.pdf | |-- Bakunin - Revolutionary Catechism.pdf | |-- Bakunin - Rousseau's Theory of the State.pdf | |-- Bakunin - Selected writings.pdf | |-- Bakunin - Stateless Socialism = Anarchism.pdf | |-- Bakunin - THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM.pdf | |-- Bakunin - The Commune, the Church & The State.pdf | |-- Bakunin - The Immorality of the State.pdf | |-- Bakunin - The Organization of the International.pdf | |-- Bakunin - The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State.pdf | |-- Bakunin - The Policy of The International.pdf | |-- Bakunin - Where i stand.pdf | |-- J. M. W. - Mikhail Bakunin (The Torch of Anarchy).pdf | |-- bakunin.gif | |-- bakuninhunt.jpg | |-- bakuninper.jpg | `-- bakuninphoto.jpg |-- Miller - From Difficult to Disturbed - Understanding and Managing Dysfunctional Employees (AMACOM, 2008).pdf |-- Miller - Political Philosophy - A Very Short Introduction.pdf |-- Minogue - Politics - A Very Short Introduction.pdf |-- Mises - Theory of Money and Credit (1912).pdf |-- Newman - Socialism - A Very Short Introduction.pdf |-- Orwell George | |-- 1933 - Down And Out In Paris And London | | `-- Down And Out In Paris And London.txt | |-- 1934 - Burmese Days | | `-- Burmese Days.txt | |-- 1935 - A Clergyman's Daughter | | `-- A Clergyman's Daughter.txt | |-- 1936 - Keep the Apidistra Flying | | `-- Keep The Apidistra Flying.txt | |-- 1937 - The Road To Wigan Pier | | `-- The Road To Wigan Pier.txt | |-- 1938 - Homage To Catalonia | | `-- Homage To Catalonia.txt | |-- 1939 - Coming Up For Air | | `-- Coming Up For Air.txt | |-- 1945 - Animal Farm | | `-- Animal Farm.txt | |-- 1949 - Nineteen Eighty-Four | | `-- 1984.txt | |-- George Orwell - 1984.pdf | `-- Miscellaneous Essays | |-- 1931 - A Hanging.txt | |-- 1931 - The Spike.txt | |-- 1936 - Bookshop Memories.txt | |-- 1936 - Shooting An Elephant.txt | |-- 1937 - Spilling The Spanish Beans.txt | |-- 1939 - Marrakech.txt | |-- 1940 - Boys' Weeklies And Frank Richards's Reply.txt | |-- 1940 - Charles Dickens.txt | |-- 1940 - Charles Reade.txt | |-- 1940 - Inside The Whale.txt | |-- 1941 - The Art Of Donald McGill.txt | |-- 1941 - The Lion And The Unicorn - Socialism And The English Genius.txt | |-- 1941 - Wells, Hitler, And The World State.txt | |-- 1942 - Looking Back On The Spanish War.txt | |-- 1942 - Rudyard Kipling.txt | |-- 1943 - Mark Twain - The Licensed Jester.txt | |-- 1943 - Poetry And The Microphone.txt | |-- 1943 - W B Yeats.txt | |-- 1944 - Arthur Koestler.txt | |-- 1944 - Benefit Of Clergy - Some Notes On Salvador Dali.txt | |-- 1944 - Raffles And Miss Blandish.txt | |-- 1945 - Antisemitism In Britain.txt | |-- 1945 - Freedom Of The Park.txt | |-- 1945 - Future Of A Ruined Germany.txt | |-- 1945 - Good Bad Books.txt | |-- 1945 - In Defence Of P. G. Wodehouse.txt | |-- 1945 - Nonsense Poetry.txt | |-- 1945 - Notes On Nationalism.txt | |-- 1945 - Revenge Is Sour.txt | |-- 1945 - The Sporting Spirit.txt | |-- 1945 - You And The Atomic Bomb.txt | |-- 1946 - A Good Word For The Vicar Of Bray.txt | |-- 1946 - A Nice Cup Of Tea.txt | |-- 1946 - Books Vs. Cigarettes.txt | |-- 1946 - Confessions Of A Book Reviewer.txt | |-- 1946 - Decline Of The English Murder.txt | |-- 1946 - How The Poor Die.txt | |-- 1946 - James Burnham And The Managerial Revolution (Second Thoughts On Burnham).txt | |-- 1946 - Pleasure Spots.txt | |-- 1946 - Politics Vs. Literature - An Examination Of Gulliver's Travels.txt | |-- 1946 - Politics and the English Language.txt | |-- 1946 - Riding Down From Bangor.txt | |-- 1946 - Some Thoughts On The Common Toad.txt | |-- 1946 - The Prevention Of Literature.txt | |-- 1946 - Why I Write.txt | |-- 1947 - Lear, Tolstoy, And The Fool.txt | |-- 1948 - Writers And Leviathan.txt | |-- 1949 - Reflections On Gandhi.txt | `-- 1952 - Such, Such Were The Joys.txt |-- Passmore - Fascism - A Very Short Introduction.pdf |-- Perkins - Confessions of an Economic Hitman (BK, 2004).pdf |-- Perlman - Manufacturing Discontent - The Trap of Individualism in Corporate Society (Pluto, 2005).pdf |-- Peter Kropotkin - The Anarchist Prince | |-- Anarchism - 1910 - from The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - 1880 - The Commune of Paris.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - 1880 - The Spirit of Revolt.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - 1890 - Brain Work and Manual Work.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - 1892 - Revolutionary Studies.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - 1898 - Anarchism its philosophy and ideal.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - 1901 - Communism and Anarchy.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - 1913 - The Coming War.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - 1920 - The Wage System.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - Anarchist Morality.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - On Order.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution.pdf | |-- anarchism.jpg | |-- kropotkin3.gif | |-- memfront.jpg | `-- szabl032.jpg |-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | |-- 180px-Hw-proudhon.jpg | |-- D.W. Brogan - 1934 - Proudhon.pdf | |-- Proudhon - 1840 - What is Property.pdf | |-- Proudhon - 1845 - Interest and Principal (letters).pdf | |-- Proudhon - 1846 - The Philosophy of Misery.pdf | |-- anarchism.jpg | |-- proudhon.gif | `-- proudhon3.gif |-- Piper - Final Judgment - The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy 6e [Kennedy] (AFP, 2004).pdf |-- Prouty - Secret Team - The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World (1973).pdf |-- RAND - Deterrence - From Cold War to Long War (2008).pdf |-- Rapport - 1848 - Year of Revolution (Basic Books, 2008).pdf |-- Reed - The Art of Protest (Minnesota, 2005).pdf |-- Roncaglia - The Wealth of Ideas - A History of Economic Thought (Cambridge, 2005).pdf |-- Rothbard Murray | |-- America's Great Depression - Rothbard.pdf | |-- For a New Liberty - Rothbard.pdf | |-- History Of Money And Banking In The United States - Rothbard.pdf | |-- Making Economic Sense - Rothbard.pdf | |-- Man Economy and State - Rothbard.pdf | |-- Power And Market Government And The Economy - Rothbard.pdf | |-- Rothbard - The Case Against the Federal Reserve.pdf | |-- The Anatomy of the State - Rothbard.pdf | |-- The Ethics of Liberty - Rothbard.pdf | |-- The Mystery Of Banking - Rothbard.pdf | `-- What has Government done to our Money - Rothbard.pdf |-- Ruppert - Crossing the Rubicon - The Decline of the American Empire (New Society, 2004).pdf |-- Sherratt - Adorno's Positive Dialectic (Cambridge, 2002).pdf |-- Smail - Power, Responsibility and Freedom - Internet Publication (2005).pdf |-- Smith - Red Barcelona - Social Protest and Labour Mobilization in the 20th Century (Routledge, 2002).pdf |-- Stackelberg - Routledge Companion to Nazi Germany (2007).pdf |-- Stone - Prime Green - Remembering the Sixties (2007).pdf |-- Tarpley - 911 Synthetic Terrorism Made in USA (2004).pdf |-- Tarpley - Barack H. Obama - The Unauthorized Biography (Progressive, 2008).pdf |-- Tarpley - George Bush - The Unauthorized Biography.pdf |-- Tarpley - Surviving the Cataclysm - Your Guide Through the Greatest Financial Crisis in Human History (1999).pdf |-- Tawney - The Acquisitive Society (1921).pdf |-- Thrift - Knowing Capitalism (Sage, 2005).pdf |-- Tietje - Is Lookism Unjust (Journal of Libertarian Studies vol. 19-2, 2005).pdf |-- US Government - 911 Commission Report.pdf |-- Vail - A Theory of Power (iUniverse, 2004).pdf |-- Vance Packard - The Hidden Persuaders (IG, 1957,2007).pdf |-- Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class (Oxford, 1899,2007).pdf |-- Voegelin - From Enlightenment to Revolution (Duke, 1975).pdf |-- Ward - Anarchism - A Very Short Introduction.pdf |-- Wilkinson - International Relations - A Very Short Introduction.pdf |-- Zerzan John | |-- Zerzan - Against Civilization - Readings and Reflections (1999).pdf | |-- Zerzan - Agriculture.html | |-- Zerzan - Future Primitive.html | |-- Zerzan - Globalization and Its Apologists.html | |-- Zerzan - No Way Out (2003).html | |-- Zerzan - Number - Its Origin and Evolution.html | |-- Zerzan - Patriarchy, Civilization, and the Origins of Gender.html | |-- Zerzan - Running on Emptiness - The Failure of Symbolic Thought.html | |-- Zerzan - Seize the Day (2006).html | |-- Zerzan - The Mass Psychology of Misery.html | |-- Zerzan - The Modern Anti-World.html | |-- Zerzan - The Origins of War.html | |-- Zerzan - Time and Its Discontents.html | |-- Zerzan - Too Marvelous for Words.html | |-- Zerzan - Twilight of the Machines.html | |-- Zerzan - We Have To Dismantle All This.html | `-- Zerzan - Why Primitivism.html `-- Zinn - People's History of the United States (Harper, 2003).pdf
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The Trials of Henry Kissinger

Category: Documentary
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Is Henry Kissinger - Nobel Laureate and the most famous diplomat of his time - also a war criminal? Did Henry Kissinger sabotage the 1968 Vietnam peace talks for his own political gain? Did he orchestrate the secret bombing of Cambodia without approval from the U.S Congress? Did he authorize covert operations - involving kidnapping and assassination - to overthrow a Chilean President? In a new climate of international justice. The Trails of Henry Kissinger investigates these & other charges. Featuring previously unseen footage, declassified documents, and revealing interviews with Kissinger supporters (Alexander Haig, Brent Scowcroft & Willaim Safire) as well as his detractiors (Seymour Hersh, William Shawcross & Christopher Hutches). The Trials of Henry Kissinger explores how a young boy who fled Nazi Germany grew up to become one of the most powerful & controversial figures in american history. This is an NTSC dvd.
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PBS American Masters - Walter Cronkite, Witness to History 2006

Category: Documentary
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PBS American Masters - Walter Cronkite, Witness to History 2006 Everyone knew Walter Cronkite from the CBS Evening News, where he earned distinction as "The Most Trusted Man in America" during his 19 years at the anchor desk. Throughout his award-winning career – which began as a field reporter in World War II – Cronkite covered such historic events as the first trip to the moon; the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy; the Watergate scandal; the Vietnam War; the Iran hostage crisis; and John Glenn's return to space. Through it all, he steadfastly adhered to a credo of fast, accurate and unbiased news reporting. After stepping down as anchorman in 1981, his story continued – Walter Cronkite lead the life of a genuine Renaissance man – author, sailor, producer and patron, his public concern for, and commitment to, our world never faltered. Cronkite died on Friday, July 17, 2009.
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Network (Lumet, 1976)[+Extras]-aNaRCHo

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THIS IS MY PERSONAL FAVOURITE FILM, AND IN MY OPINION THE BEST FILM EVER MADE! SIDNEY LUMET'S MASTERPIECE...FROM THE 2-DISC SPECIAL EDITION... Network (Lumet, 1976)[+Extras]-aNaRCHo (FILM IS IN ENGLISH, ENGLISH AND FRENCH SUBTITLES INCLUDED) Essay by Greg Ng from Senses of Cinema The 1970s in Hollywood were a fertile time. The emergence of the director, as a legitimate artist in his or her own right, shifted focus from the studios, which by the '60s had grown formulaic and unadventurous in their output, to a new generation of writers and directors, whose concerns and experience were markedly different from the conservative voice of the movie industry at that point. Due in part to falling profits and the rise of television, a vacuum arose in the industry that opened the door for fresh ideas. Hollywood was redirected and, as a result, American cinema entered a new age – an age when box-office success did not necessarily preclude sophisticated content in a movie, an age when political discourse was not relegated to non-existence or tokenism, or a niche-market. The period between 1969 and the beginning of the 1980s saw American cinema, inspired as it was by international filmmaking (such as the French New Wave), offering critical, ambiguous and highly artful movies. At its most ambitious, the New Hollywood was a movement intended to cut film free of its evil twin, commerce, by enabling it to fly high through the thin air of art. The filmmakers of the '70s hoped to overthrow the studio system, or at least render it irrelevant, by democratising filmmaking, putting it in the hands of anyone with talent and determination. However, as the decade passed, the promise of real change receded; the status quo prevailed. As Peter Biskind puts it, in his book Easy Riders and Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'N' Drugs 'N' Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood, although the decade of the 70s contains shining monuments to its great directors, the cultural revolution of that decade, like the political revolution of the 60s, ultimately failed. Robin Wood, in Hollywood: from Vietnam to Reagan, argues that the Vietnam War, among other things, focussed Western society's dissenting voices, simultaneously discrediting 'the system' and emboldening the dissenters. However, like Biskind, Wood acknowledges “this generalized crisis in ideological confidence never issued in revolution. No coherent social/economic program emerged.” Commercial imperatives once more came to play their part in shaping the output of the industry, as previously fêted directors suffered box office losses and investment money turned to more secure propositions. Thus, a central tenet of political economy – i.e., the inherent censorship of the mass market – prevailed. Ironically, one of the films that stands as a testament to '70s Hollywood's freedom and ambition, Sidney Lumet's Network (1976), depicts precisely this phenomenon. Network is an example of a hugely successful and critically acclaimed feature film that offers a critique of television, ideology, radical chic and the consequences of American-led post-war capitalism, whilst being funny – no mean feat, and something only barely achieved in the current day by the likes of Michael Moore, et al. Lumet's direction and Paddy Chayefsky's script lambaste the ills of the modern world (couched within the fast-paced soliloquies delivered by the stellar cast of Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall and William Holden) and are oft times prescient, predicting the rise of 'reality television', and the subsequent decline of both production and social values. One of the central themes of Network – the decay of society and of love, concurrent with a plunge in standards and morality of the audience, which represents the world (in keeping with the mindset of both the film and its characters) – proves salutary in explaining what happened to Hollywood after the '70s. Just as the collapse of the old studio system in the '60s was precipitated by a change in demography and values, so too has a drift toward social conservatism and the continuing project of marketising everything affected our age. When Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the ageing news anchor for Union Broadcasting System, is fired due to poor ratings, he announces to his friend and network executive Max Schumacher (William Holden) that he intends to “blow my brains out, right on the air, right in the middle of the 7 o'clock news”. Schumacher replies, “You'll get a hell of a rating. I'll guarantee you that. 50 share, easy.” He facetiously begins to run with the idea: “We could make a series out of it. 'Suicide of the Week.' Oh, hell, why limit ourselves: 'Execution of the week.'” Beale joins in, “Terrorist of the Week”, and Max's eyes get distant; he temporarily becomes the visionary commercial television producer: I love it. Suicides. Assassinations. Mad bombers. Mafia hit men. Automobile smash ups. The death hour. Great Sunday night show for the whole family to see. It'd knock fucking Disney right off the air. The joke, these days, has poignancy. Chayefsky's blistering script seems aimed fairly and squarely at commercial television, and its producers. Network is presented as a voracious predator that consumes everything in sight for the sake of audience share. Nothing is sacred – not least of all love, as is demonstrated amply by the soulless programming executive, Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway). “The only reality she knows comes at her over the television.” Network portrays a dark vision of an industry that has largely come to be. The dumbing-down of the news, from informative to entertaining (“television is showbiz”, says Christensen to Schumacher) is prescient of the rise, in the late 20th century and early 21st, of infotainment. The UBS news is transformed into a near-variety show, with a soothsayer, a psychic detective and the star, the “Mad prophet of the airwaves”, Howard Beale. The disturbing thing about this, for Chayefsky, runs along the lines of neo-Marxist criticism of the day. To quote Stuart Hall: the cultural industries do have the power constantly to rework and reshape what they represent; and, by repetition and selection, impose and implant such definitions of ourselves as fit more easily the descriptions of the dominant or preferred culture. That is what the concentration of cultural power – the means of culture-making in the heads of the few – actually means. Television's ruthlessness and its lack of discernment in its search for ratings, as joked about by Schumacher and his 'death hour' idea, has fulfilled his prophecy. 'Reality television' abounds, with its low production costs and supposed interactivity – its invitation for audiences to spectate at someone's demise, and even play a part in it. Network satirises 'the revolutionary underground', and the script dextrously portrays the ease with which the likes of Christensen incorporate such movements into a commercial framework, in order to make them a marketable commodity. Says Diana, to her staff, as she pitches the idea of what we would now call a reality television show, Look, you've got a bunch of hob-goblin radicals, calling themselves the Ecumenical Liberation Army who go around taking home movies of themselves robbing banks! Maybe they'll take movies of themselves kidnapping heiresses, um, hijacking 747s, bombing bridges, assassinating ambassadors! She goes on to tell them, “I want angry shows. I don't want conventional programming on this network. I want counter-culture. I want anti-establishment.” Christensen, television incarnate, has, as such, the mind of the market. She slots, programmes and categorises everything, reducing totalities to glib, trite, preclusive stereotypes (or soundbites). At her meeting in Los Angeles, with the aforementioned hob-goblin radicals, she introduces herself: “Hi. I'm Diana Christensen – a racist lackey of the imperialist ruling circles.” “And I'm Lorraine Hobbs – a bad-ass Commie nigger”, comes the reply. Her idea is staggering and speaks of the sheer hubris of unfettered, market capitalism – as immanent in television itself. Without a moral concern in her body, Christensen pitches: “Each week, we open, with an authentic act of political terrorism.” The concept, in 1976, may have been preposterous. But in 2005 it is quite literally inconceivable. There's a war going on – let's not forget – a war on terrorism. And in wartime, as they say, the first casualty is the truth. The adage here is admittedly stretched, but the degree of self-censorship that began, and has prevailed, across the world's media since 2001 is evident. Hollywood seems nowhere near touching subjects like this, much less laughing at it. It's not just the subject matter; it's the way it is delivered. Lorraine Hobbs answers back to Diana's pitch with uncertainty: The Ecumenical Liberation Army is an ultra-left sect, creating political confusion with wildcat violence and pseudo-insurrectionary acts, which the Communist Party does not endorse. The American people are not yet ready for open revolt. We would not want to produce a television show that celebrates historically deviational terrorism. Chayefsky's script is simply much more ambitious, and verbose, than anything Hollywood offers up for contention these days. Network's assumption that audiences could respond positively to what is essentially a dense, wordy screenplay, set amongst current events and asking uncomfortable questions, was vindicated. It won three Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay. Hollywood's 'best and brightest' have rarely offered much in the way of criticism since the terrorist attacks of September 2001. One cannot help but think of Christensen's pitch here; might we assume that '911' would have gotten the Network nod, as entertainment? In fact, the years that followed saw Hollywood directors, such as Ridley Scott, supplicate themselves to the Pentagon message, with films that glorified American actions around the world and supported the US government's view of history. With the release of 1969's Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper), American cinema came of age. The late 60s had seen a crisis in the studio-dominated film industry: attendances were down and the old men who ran [the studios] were increasingly out of touch with the vast baby boom audience that was coming of age in the '60s, an audience that was rapidly becoming radicalised and disaffected from its elders. The influence of the French New Wave, among others, provided inspiration for aspiring auteurs like Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet and Terrence Malick, to name but a few. The late 1960s saw a break from the old, studio-dominated conventions of film making, and for the first time placed the director in lights, over and above the studio, and producer. By the time of the late 70s, after the critical (and sometimes commercial) successes of films like Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976), et al, the 'voice' of the new directors was sounding more confidently. Network is nothing if not a collection of polemics. As New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael said, “Chayefsky isn't writing a farce: he's telling us a thing or two.” Howard Beale's “latter day prophet, denouncing the hypocrisies of our time” takes to the air with paternalistic sermons: Because less than three percent of you read books. Because less than fifteen percent of you read newspapers. Because the only truth you know is what you get from over this tube. Right now there is a whole, an entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube. Kael savages Chayefsky's preachiness here and decries the tendency of the time towards “vindictive, moralizing condescension”, citing “Beale's denunciations of the illiterate public (Chayefsky apparently thinks that not reading is proof of soullessness).” She continues to assert that television has not rendered people soulless, just as cinema did not, or the theatre. The film treats us to the high farce of the nominally 'revolutionary' Ecumenical Liberation Army in contractual negotiations with their lawyers and UBS's – an extremely comical (if dark) satire of the fickle nature of the expedient marriage of the political and the commercial. When Beale uses his nightly tirade to denounce the fact that “the Arabs control 60 billion dollars of this country”, and rants an extensive list of Arab interests in US capital, including “com[ing] back at us with our own dollars to buy General Motors, IBM”, et al, he blows the deal for Frank Hackett, the corporate head of UBS (played perfectly by Robert Duvall), the show and his own career. Michael Moore's Palme d'Or winning 'documentary', Fahrenheit 911, essentially spoke to the same phenomenon – that is, the coincidence of US and Saudi corporate interests, and its enmeshment with foreign policy, and the challenge to the notion of national sovereignty this presents . However, Moore's treatment is characteristically shallow, and not given any sense of historical context. Without an acknowledgement of the history of the US-Saudi relationship or of the role America has played in promoting the very system that allows for the situation he bemoans, Moore himself turns into the populist evangelical that Peter Finch portrays with finesse in Network. Network's ultimate concern – the negative impact of corporate culture and the mass market on society, and the processes by which it affects this – is essentially a mirror for what happened in Hollywood after the 1970s. By the end of what was a dazzling period of innovation and artfulness – delivering films such as Easy Rider, M*A*S*H* (Altman, 1970), Badlands (Malick, 1973), The Conversation (Coppola, 1974), Mean Streets (Scorsese, 1973) and Network, Hollywood succumbed to commercial pressures – eschewing unhappy endings and highly political content and commentary in its films for 'the blockbuster' – usually dated to the release of Steven Spielberg's Jaws, in 1980. Film narratives switched back to happy endings, resolution and dominant societal paradigms reasserted themselves. One only need look at the young George Lucas' spectacular rise to fame with Star Wars (1977), an overly simplified fairy tale of 'good vs. evil'. (11) Gone was the subtlety and sophistication of Taxi Driver or Badlands, with their confused and often violent protagonists, and their near-nihilistic challenges to bourgeois morality, and back were the classical 'heroes' of the big screen, whose essential goodness was never in doubt and who always triumphed over the 'bad guys'. As Biskind suggests, the flowering of American cinema, only too brief, had ended – and Spielberg had 'won'. Because the fact of the matter is that although individual revolutionaries succeeded, the revolution failed. [...] As Coppola later recognized, the market selected and shaped these directors, snuffing out the careers of those whose films were not commercial, and boosting and molding the careers of those that were. It seems only right to close with one of Chayefsky's more incisive soliloquies, delivered by the owner of UBS, Arthur Jensen (Ned Beatty): You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it. Is that clear? You think you merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken millions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity. It is ecological balance. You are an old man, who thinks in terms of nations, and peoples. There are no nations, there are no peoples, there are no Russians, there are no Arabs, there are no Third Worlds; there is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems. One vast and interwoven, interacting, multi-variant, multi-national dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, Reichmarks, Rubles, Pounds and Sheckles. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic, and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature. And you will atone. You get up on your little 21 inch screen, and howl about “America”, and “democracy.” There is no America, there is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T. And Dupont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. EXTRAS INCLUDE: - Director's Commentary as second audio track - The Making of Network (L. Bouzereau, 2006) 1hr 25min documentary - Vintage Paddy Chayefsky Interview On Dinah! - Private Screenings With Sidney Lumet - TCM Host Robert Osborne Interviews Director Lumet - Original Theatrical Trailer PLEASE SEED AND ENJOY!!!
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Democracy Now! Monday, July 20, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Honduras Talks Collapse; Arias Warns of “Civil War” Coalition of Centrist Senators Call for Delay on Healthcare Vote Citigroup and Bank of America Report Billions in Profits Israel Rejects US Call to Stop East Jerusalem Housing Complex Unemployment Rate Tops 10% in 16 States House Panel to Probe CIA’s Assassination Program US-India to Sign Arms Pact Khatami Calls for Referendum on Iran Government’s Legitimacy 16 Killed in Copter Crash at Afghan Base Al Jazeera Journalist Held at Guantanamo to Sue Bush & US Officials Kids’ Lower IQ Scores Linked to Prenatal Pollution Amazon Removes Orwell Books from Kindle Digital Book Reader UC to Grant Japanese WWII Internees Degrees Author Frank McCourt, 78, Dies Walter Cronkite (1916-2009): Legendary CBS Anchorman Was Critical of Media Consolidation, Wars in Vietnam and Iraq The legendary CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite died at the age of ninety-two at his home in New York on Friday. For nearly twenty years, Cronkite’s broadcast was a nightly staple in millions of American homes from 1962 until he left CBS Evening News in 1981. Praise for Cronkite’s work and legacy is all over the news, but few in the mainstream media have mentioned what many consider Cronkite’s most important news moment. In February 1968, soon after he returned from a trip to Vietnam, Cronkite cast doubt on the war and helped turn the tide of American public opinion against it. [includes rush transcript] NAACP Turns 100: The History and Future of the Nation's Oldest and Largest Civil Rights Organization The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or the NAACP, the country’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, had its 100th anniversary celebrations last week. The biggest event of the week was President Obama’s address in Harlem Thursday night. Thousands were in the audience as the President gave his first major speech on race since taking office. We take a look at the history and future of the NAACP with longtime NAACP board chairman Julian Bond and with historian Patricia Sullivan, author of Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement. [includes rush transcript]
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