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Socialist Standard November 2009.pdf

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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Socialist Standard magazine November 2009 - Front cover: ‘Twenty years beyond the Berlin Wall’ Editorial – ‘Socialism Was Never Tried’ Features ‘The fall of “communism”: Why so peaceful?’ Twenty years ago the Berlin Wall came down, symbolising the collapse of state capitalism in Eastern Europe. ‘The Myth of Soviet “Socialism”’ Vladimir Sirotin from Russia explains how that country was never socialist. ‘Workers’ State? Pull the other one’ How could anyone have seriously argued that the workers ruled in Russia? ‘Joining the killing machine’ The campaign to win the young to war has come a long way from the ‘Your Country Needs You’ poster with the pointing finger of Kitchener used in the ‘First Great War’. ‘Afghanistan – lying about dying’ The pressure to misinterpret the deaths, as the bodies come back, as nobly purifying is a cynically orchestrated propaganda exercise intended to justify the war. Regular features - Pathfinders (science / technology) – ‘Gullibility Travels’ Material World – ‘Malawi: Children of the Tobacco Fields’ Pieces Together – news cuttings from mainstream media Cooking the Books 1 (economics) – ‘Out of Control’ Cooking the Books 2 - ‘Free is Cheaper?’ 50 Years Ago – ‘The Darwin Centenary’ Voice From the Back - selected news items Free Lunch – cartoon Book Reviews – ‘Che Guevara and the Economic Debate in Cuba’, by Luiz Bernardo Pericás ‘Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History’ by David Aaronovitch ‘The Trouble with Capitalism’, by Harry Shutt ‘Enough’, by John Naish Plus letters, book reviews, meetings, etc. Also see www.worldsocialism.org
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BBC Four - The King of Communism (2003)

Category: Documentary
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BBC Four - The King of Communism (2003) Nicolae Ceausescu created a unique personality cult in the 1970s and 1980s, transforming communist Romania into one of the strangest regimes Europe has ever seen. Newspapers had to mention his name 40 times on every page, factory workers spent months rehearsing dance routines dressed as soldiers and gymnasts for huge shows at which thousands of citizens were lined up to form the words Nicolae Ceausescu with their bodies. When the Romanian economy and living standards plummeted in the 1980s, the line between theatre and life blurred completely. Ceausescu went on working visits to the countryside where he inspected displays of meat and fruit made out of polystyrene, and closer to home began work on what would have been the largest palace in the world. At the final parade in 1989, workers walked past their leader to the sound of taped chants and applause. Using Ceausescu's own archive of 35mm propaganda films, King of Communism offers a surprising and chilling view of the absurd world of the Romanian dictator's regime. "This is a real-life communist version of Springtime for Hitler," says director Ben Lewis. "It's an all-singing, all-dancing unmasking of the illusions of communism, but it's also a serious study of the experience, effects and legacy of the twentieth century's most destructive political system."
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Socialist Standard October 2009

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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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.
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Socialist Standard September 2009.pdf

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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Socialist Standard magazine September 2009 Editorial – ‘Capitalism and the two world wars’ Open Letter – ‘The Economic Crisis: an open letter to trade unionists’ Articles – ‘Oil or democracy, what do you think?’ (Iraq and Afghanistan) ‘Japan: the road to Pearl Harbor’ ‘Nazism - the ultimate evil?’ ‘Harry Patch and the First World Slaughter’ ‘Imagine a world without war’ ‘Why are we waiting?’ ‘As things are now’ (3rd part of what life might be like in socialism) Regular features - Pathfinders (science / technology) – ‘Euthanasia? Health Care Reforms, etc’ plus ‘Bang goes the science media’ and ‘Competition for the Twittering Classes’ Material World – ‘March of the Far Right’ Pieces Together – news cuttings from mainstream media Cooking the Books 1 (economics) – ‘Hunting in the morning’ Cooking the Books 2 – ‘A salaried economy, no thanks’ 50 Years Ago – ‘The Inhumanity of War’ Book reviews – ‘Globalization in Question’, by Paul Hirst, Grahame Thompson and Simon Bromley ‘Globalisation Laid Bare: Lessons in International Business’, by Industry and Parliament Trust ‘Bloody Foreigners – The story of immigration to Britain’, by Robert Winder. ‘The Rise and Fall of Communism’, by Archie Brown ‘Rare doings at Camberwell’ and ‘Muzak to my ears’, Past Tense Publications Greasy Pole (UK politics) – ‘Alan Milburn: Days of Despair’ Voice From the Back - selected news items Free Lunch – cartoon Plus letters, meetings, etc.
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CONSCIOUS2.0 Antifascist / Alternative music

Category: Misc
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Jetzt wird abgerechnet - am 01.03.09 veröffentlicht Beat 2.0 den Sampler CONSCIOUS2.0, mit dem das (Beat-)Produzententeam von Beat2.0 sein Debut beschreitet.Auf satten 25 Tracks wird abgerechnet mit der Gesellschaft: Kein inhaltsloses Gedisse, keine Bitches und keine Cordon-Sport Jacken - dafür Rebellion auf inhaltlicher und musikalischer Ebene!CONSCIOUS2.0 sagt etwas aus!Keine holen Phrasen, kein pseudo-elitäres Machogehabe.Dafür Demosoundtrack sowie Texte mit Aussage.Noch nie waren so viele "Ökorapper" auf einem Sampler vereintEntstanden aus der Idee eine Beat-CD zu machen, die sich vom Standard abhebt - mit Story in Hörspielmanier. Innerhalb eines knappen Jahres wurde daraus ein umfangreicher Sampler mit diversen Artists der linken und Berliner Rapszene, welche ihre Lines auf ziemlich aggressive und elektronisch-düstere Beats droppen.Mit dabei sind Holger Burner, Albino, MadCap, Meyah Don, Lena Stöhrfaktor (Conexión Musical), Kurzer Prozess, Pyro One, Ambigu MC & DJ Boogie Dan (Monkey Mob), LeijiONE, Refpolk, Kobito & DJ Kai Kani (Schlagzeiln), DISCO, Boykott, Sookee, Tapete, Luke27, MC Molekular, Jenz Steiner, Finest, La Resistance, LST-da phunky Child, Carpe Diem und Stronzige Mission.Beat2.0 - Florin Shordo und LeijiONE - begehen mit diesem Sampler ihr Debut und überraschen mit komplexen Arrangements und musikalischem Tiefgang - statt Schulkantinenfrass gibt es Gourmetfutter für die Ohren.Mit dem Verzicht auf fremde Samples und altbackene Klänge, setzen sie mit hartem Sound dort an, wo FLER und Massiv die Straße verlassen haben, um in einer unsicheren Gasse Drogen und Waffen zu verkaufen.Umso mehr überrascht es, dass einem dieses 5-Gänge-Sound-Menü für lau um die Ohren fliegt.
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Fuck Industrialism (green anarchy, anti-civilization, anarcho-primitivism, zerzan, jensen)

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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Files: Alan Watts / The Joker / (01) alan watts - the joker [1of6].mp3 13.9 MB Alan Watts / The Joker / (02) alan watts - the joker [2of6].mp3 13.9 MB Alan Watts / The Joker / (03) alan watts - the joker [3of6].mp3 12.4 MB Alan Watts / The Joker / (04) alan watts - the joker [4of6].mp3 14 MB Alan Watts / The Joker / (05) alan watts - the joker [5of6].mp3 13.9 MB Alan Watts / The Joker / (06) alan watts - the joker [6of6].mp3 13.7 MB Alan Watts / Ecology & Religion.mp3 6.4 MB Alan Watts / The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are.pdf 376.3 KB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 1 of 2 / 01 Apocalypse.mp3 1.8 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 1 of 2 / 02 Kidnapping Scientists.mp3 13.1 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 1 of 2 / 03 Three Rules.mp3 4.2 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 1 of 2 / 04 Electrodes on the Eyeballs.mp3 1.6 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 1 of 2 / 05 Amnesia.mp3 10.2 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 1 of 2 / 06 Killing Time.mp3 6.4 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 1 of 2 / 07 Selling Fingers.mp3 9.9 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 1 of 2 / 08 Nihilism.mp3 2.6 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 1 of 2 / 09 The Point of Life.mp3 7.5 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 1 of 2 / 10 The Secret Beekeepers Don't Want You to Know.mp3 20.7 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 1 of 2 / 11 Godspeed.mp3 2.6 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 1 of 2 / tragedy.jpg 8.3 KB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 2 of 2 / 01 Science Bashing.mp3 7.1 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 2 of 2 / 02 See What I Mean-.mp3 9.4 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 2 of 2 / 03 Corporations Are Beautiful People.mp3 19.5 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 2 of 2 / 04 Locked in a Room With Psychopaths.mp3 3.9 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 2 of 2 / 05 We're All Refugees.mp3 22.1 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 2 of 2 / 06 Will the Culture Change-.mp3 2.9 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 2 of 2 / 07 Where Do I Find Hope-.mp3 4.9 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 2 of 2 / 08 We're Screwed.mp3 7.9 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 2 of 2 / 09 Premises.mp3 2.6 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 2 of 2 / 10 Dumpster Diving.mp3 3.7 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 2 of 2 / 11 Finger Exercise.mp3 7 MB Derrick Jensen / [2001] Standup Tragedy / CD 2 of 2 / tragedy.jpg 8.3 KB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 1 of 3 / 01 Wired for Sound.mp3 6.9 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 1 of 3 / 02 Dumpster Diving.mp3 5.9 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 1 of 3 / 04 The Land Demands Love Be Made.mp3 3.3 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 1 of 3 / 06 Silencing.mp3 6.7 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 1 of 3 / 07 Science Bashing.mp3 738 KB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 1 of 3 / 08 Plastic Explosives.mp3 8.6 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 1 of 3 / 09 Selling Fingers.mp3 8.3 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 2 of 3 / 01 Apocalypse.mp3 1.6 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 2 of 3 / 02 What Is a Hate Group-.mp3 1.8 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 2 of 3 / 03 Government of Occupation.mp3 6.2 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 2 of 3 / 04 Calling the FBI.mp3 3.5 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 2 of 3 / 05 Four Reasons for Slavery.mp3 3.7 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 2 of 3 / 06 Ham and Noah.mp3 3.9 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 2 of 3 / 07 Angelina Jolie Moments.mp3 6.6 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 2 of 3 / 08 Wall of Intolerance.mp3 897.6 KB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 2 of 3 / 09 Personal Hate.mp3 1.2 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 2 of 3 / 10 Criminals and Killers.mp3 959.9 KB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 2 of 3 / 11 Porn.mp3 9.1 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 2 of 3 / 12 Happy Birthday.mp3 1.1 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 2 of 3 / 13 Objectification.mp3 2.4 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 2 of 3 / 14 Patriarchy in Four Letters.mp3 3.4 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 2 of 3 / 15 The Other Side of Darkness.mp3 8.5 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 3 of 3 / 01 E-Bombs.mp3 1.7 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 3 of 3 / 02 Holocausts.mp3 11.6 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 3 of 3 / 03 A Match to Light a Fuse.mp3 524 KB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 3 of 3 / 04 This Is How Human Beings Lived.mp3 1.9 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 3 of 3 / 05 China's Landfill.mp3 1.8 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 3 of 3 / 06 Death Squads in the U.S.mp3 1.6 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 3 of 3 / 07 Civilization.mp3 2.2 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 3 of 3 / 08 Effectiveness.mp3 1.6 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 3 of 3 / 09 Existentialism, Responsibility, and Toilet Paper.mp3 9.3 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 3 of 3 / 10 Sustainable Technology.mp3 1.9 MB Derrick Jensen / [2003] The Other Side of Darkness / CD 3 of 3 / 11 Cannibal Sickness.mp3 7.1 MB Derrick Jensen / [2004] Denver, Co; Oct 28th, 2004; feat Ward Churchill / Ward Churchill & Derrick Jensen in discussion, Denver, Co, 28oct04, p1of2.mp3 26 MB Derrick Jensen / [2004] Denver, Co; Oct 28th, 2004; feat Ward Churchill / Ward Churchill & Derrick Jensen in discussion, Denver, Co, 28oct04, p2of2.mp3 27.1 MB Derrick Jensen / [2006] WERU 89.9 FM - Camdem, Maine ~ September 9th 2006 / Derrick Jensen 09-09-2006 in Camden, Maine; WERU 89.9 FM - part 1.mp3 31.3 MB Derrick Jensen / [2006] WERU 89.9 FM - Camdem, Maine ~ September 9th 2006 / Derrick Jensen 09-09-2006 in Camden, Maine; WERU 89.9 FM - part 2.mp3 25.8 MB Derrick Jensen / [2007] Vancouver, BC; Oct 19th, 2007; Q&A / 2007 - Derrick Jensen ~ Q&A in Vancouver, BC ~ Ukrainian Orthodox Hall ~ October 19th, 2007 [mono][low fidelity].mp3 185.1 MB Derrick Jensen / [2007] Vancouver, BC; Oct 19th, 2007; Q&A / index_01.jpg 63.7 KB Derrick Jensen / 2006 - Derrick Jensen at NYC Peak Oil conference -April 29th-.mp3 66.7 MB Derrick Jensen / 2006 - Radio Ecoshock - Derrick Jensen - Kick It Over.mp3 24.2 MB Derrick Jensen / 2007 - Activism Beyond Hope - Derrick Jensen on Wild Earth radio.mp3 26.1 MB Derrick Jensen / 2007 - Derrick Jensen in Vancouver - April 20th 2007.mp3 158.5 MB Derrick Jensen / Derrick Jensen - dozens of articles on primitivism, technology.rar 1.5 MB Derrick Jensen / It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine) - Episode 10.mp4 54.2 MB Derrick Jensen / jensen_poster_web.pdf 4 MB Derrick Jensen / Unwelcome Guests 201 - Derrick Jensen, Grace Ritter, Jeff Schmidt - Assailing the Hierarchy As If Your Life Depended On It - It Does!_ALBW.mp3 54.5 MB Emma Goldman / Anarchism & Other Essays / 01-anarchism.mp3 9 MB Emma Goldman / Anarchism & Other Essays / 02-anarchismcont.mp3 7.3 MB Emma Goldman / Anarchism & Other Essays / 03-prisons.mp3 14.1 MB Emma Goldman / Anarchism & Other Essays / 04-emancipation.mp3 12.2 MB Emma Goldman / Anarchism & Other Essays / 05-suffrage.mp3 15 MB Emma Goldman / Anarchism & Other Essays / 06-marriage.mp3 11.2 MB Emma Goldman / Compilation / 01-Biographic Sketch.txt 60.1 KB Emma Goldman / Compilation / 02-Preface.txt 6.2 KB Emma Goldman / Compilation / 03-Anarchism_ What It Really Stands For.txt 31.2 KB Emma Goldman / Compilation / 04-Minorities Versus Majorities.txt 15.1 KB Emma Goldman / Compilation / 05-The Psychology of Political Violence.txt 44.5 KB Emma Goldman / Compilation / 06-Prisons_ A Social Cime and Failure.txt 26.1 KB Emma Goldman / Compilation / 07-Patriotism_ A Menace To Liberty.txt 28.2 KB Emma Goldman / Compilation / 08-Francisco Ferrer And The Modern School.txt 31.9 KB Emma Goldman / Compilation / 09-The Hypocrisy of Puritanism.txt 14.8 KB Emma Goldman / Compilation / 10-The Traffic In Women.txt 27.2 KB Emma Goldman / Compilation / 11-Woman Suffrage.txt 24.8 KB Emma Goldman / Compilation / 12-The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation.txt 18.9 KB Emma Goldman / Compilation / 13-Marriage and Love.txt 19 KB Emma Goldman / Compilation / 14-The Drama.txt 47.3 KB Emma Goldman / [DOC - ITA] Emma Goldman.zip 89.4 KB Emma Goldman / Anarchism and Other Essays.txt 415.4 KB Emma Goldman / Anarchism What It Really Stands For.doc 40.5 KB Emma Goldman / Failure of Christianity.htm 17.6 KB Emma Goldman / Francisco Ferrer and The Modern School.doc 41.5 KB Emma Goldman / If Voting Changed Anything, They'd Make it Illegal - Emma Goldman Quote.jpg 13.9 KB Emma Goldman / Marriage and Love.doc 26 KB Emma Goldman / Minorities and Majorities.pdf 14.7 KB Emma Goldman / Minorities versus Majorities.doc 21.5 KB Emma Goldman / Minoroties versus Majorities.pdf 14.7 KB Emma Goldman / Patriotism A Menace To Liberty.doc 36 KB Emma Goldman / Prisons A Social Crime And Failure.doc 35 KB Emma Goldman / The Hypocrisy Of Puritanism.doc 20.5 KB Emma Goldman / The Individual, Society And The State.htm 30.2 KB Emma Goldman / The Modern Drama ~ A Powerful Disseminator Of Radical Thought.doc 59 KB Emma Goldman / The Philosophy of Atheism.htm 15 KB Emma Goldman / The Philosophy of Atheism.pdf 11 KB Emma Goldman / The Place Of The Individual In Society.doc 38 KB Emma Goldman / The Psychology Of Political Violence.doc 56 KB Emma Goldman / The Traffic In Women.doc 35.5 KB Emma Goldman / The Tragedy Of Woman's Emancipation.doc 25 KB Emma Goldman / Trotsky Protests Too Much.rar 96.8 KB Emma Goldman / Woman Suffrage.doc 32 KB Howard Zinn / [1999] A People's Hstory of the United States / howard zinn - a people's history of the united states (disc 1) - 01 - machiavelli and teaching.mp3 2.4 MB Howard Zinn / [1999] A People's Hstory of the United States / howard zinn - a people's history of the united states (disc 1) - 02 - professionalism and morality.mp3 2.4 MB Howard Zinn / [1999] A People's Hstory of the United States / howard zinn - a people's history of the united states (disc 1) - 03 - mumia abu-jamal.mp3 2.2 MB Howard Zinn / [1999] A People's Hstory of the United States / howard zinn - a people's history of the united states (disc 1) - 04 - the history profession.mp3 3.5 MB Howard Zinn / [1999] A People's Hstory of the United States / howard zinn - a people's history of the united states (disc 1) - 05 - objectivity.mp3 2.6 MB Howard Zinn / [1999] A People's Hstory of the United States / howard zinn - a people's history of the united states (disc 1) - 06 - making choices.mp3 3.2 MB Howard Zinn / [1999] A People's Hstory of the United States / howard zinn - a people's history of the united states (disc 1) - 07 - history standards.mp3 1.1 MB Howard Zinn / [1999] A People's Hstory of the United States / howard zinn - a people's history of the united states (disc 1) - 08 - the best and the brightest.mp3 1.8 MB Howard Zinn / [1999] A People's Hstory of the United States / howard zinn - a people's history of the united states (disc 1) - 09 - the mexican war.mp3 2 MB Howard Zinn / [1999] A People's Hstory of the United States / howard zinn - a people's history of the united states (disc 1) - 10 - the conquest of the philippines.mp3 2.5 MB Howard Zinn / [1999] A People's Hstory of the United States / howard zinn - a people's history of the united 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Socialist Standard August 2009.pdf

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Socialist Standard magazine August 2009 - Editorial – ‘Counting Bodies’ (Iraq, Afghanistan) Articles – ‘Why we don’t need another Labour party’: The Labour Party has failed, so let’s start a new one. That’s what some trade unionists and leftwingers are saying. That would be to repeat a mistake. ‘The power behind the shame’: It was the political power that the Catholic Church once exercised in Ireland that allowed it to cover up for so long the child abuse exposed in the recent Ryan Report. ‘Capitalism is bad for your health’: Capitalism puts a price on everything including human life. ‘Capital, science fiction and labour’: Can we rely on technology to bring down capitalism? ‘The Penny drops’: The second part of “Then and Now– how we live and how we used to live” looks back from a future time at the changeover to socialism. ‘One BRICk at a Time’: Brazil, Russia, India, China - What kind of thing do the bosses of BRIC talk about when they get round a table? Regular features - Pathfinders (pop science / technology) – ‘Trans-Human socialism’ plus ‘Is War Past Its Sell-by Date?’ Material World – ‘Exploitation in Uzbekistan’ Pieces Together – news cuttings from mainstream media Cooking the Books 1 (economics) – ‘Sharing With Eddie Shah’ Cooking the Books 2 – ‘Adam Smith, business and labour’ 50 Years Ago – Book reviews - 'Fuelling a Food Crisis – The impact of peak oil on food security' by Caroline Lucas, Andy Jones and Colin Hines. 'The Internet and Democratic Citizenship' by Stephen Coleman and Jay Blumler. Greasy Pole (UK politics) – ‘Jack Straw’ Voice From the Back - selected news items Free Lunch – cartoon Plus letters, meetings, etc.
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The Listening Post - Media Black Spots – 2009 07 24 Al Jazeera

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The Listening Post - Media Black Spots – 2009 07 24 Al Jazeera 207 mb/23min/mp4/Smaller Screen Viewing. Media 'hotspots' are the places where a free press is almost non-existent and independent media are either silenced by government forces, overpowered by state-owned broadcasters, or shut out of conflict zones, unable to report the story at all. We start this week's report with a look back at the coverage from Gaza - the media blockade, and the spin from within the war zone that was designed to mask the truth. This year also saw Sudan and the conflict in Darfur back in the media spotlight. When the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, for war crimes, media coverage of the story was divided. The Arab world's reporting talked about the court's double standards, one set of rules for an Arab-African leader and another for Western politicians. But with the world's media almost entirely shut out of Sudan and the Sudanese government picking up their PR game , where do the facts end and the speculation begin about what is really happening in the troubled Darfur region? We also take you behind the coverage and the spin with five things you need to know about the Sudanese media. Journalists struggled to tell both sides of the story in Sri Lanka In part two of our show, we turn our attention to Sri Lanka and the struggle that journalists faced when trying to tell both sides of the story during the recent conflict and its aftermath. As the Sri Lankan government claimed final victory over the Tamil Tiger movement, a separate battle with the media was also being played out that saw censorship, intimidation and news blackouts become the norm. While reporting from the island was a struggle for the international media, Sri Lankan journalists also came under fire from the authorities, for speaking out against their government's military action. Our report will also look at the attacks against independent voices in Sri Lanka, and the influence of the government on the country's media outlets. Next week on our special feature series on media "hotspots", we will look at the steps the North Korean authorities are taking to control their media image. Source:http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/listeningpost/2009/07/200972283935744208.html Other shunster posts at:http://www.bt-chat.com/browse.php?category=11 Watch Al Jazeera Live: http://www.livestation.com/channels/3-al_jazeera_english or call your cable company anywhere. ------------ Content Type: [Documentary] [News]
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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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The Listening Post~US Media Double Standards 2009 09 17 Al Jazeera

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The Listening Post~US Media Double Standards 2009 09 17 Al Jazeera 22mn / 154 mb mp4 We focus on double standards in the US media when it comes to covering the so-called 'war on terror'. There has been a lack of consistency in what state-side news is reporting, and a lack of confidence in their coverage as a result. We take a look at the willingness of Barack Obama, the US president, to suppress certain images, and the US media's reticence in even using the word "torture". Salah Khadr also explores the celebratory coverage of the release of journalist Roxana Saberi from an Iranian prison in May this year, in comparison to their silence about foreign reporters held by the US. Pentagon propaganda Often the standard by which reporters measure themselves editorially and creatively, the Times has, since 9/11, found itself under fire for some well-publicized failings in reporting, that had real implications on security issues. Meenakshi Ravi takes a look at the paper that promises "all the news that is fit to print" and the media war over alleged Pentagon propaganda and the prison at Guantanamo Bay. However, in April 2008, far from being accused of acting as a mouthpiece for the Pentagon, the New York Times exposed a pundit program that put retired, pro-Pentagon generals on air across the US media networks. The Pentagon abolished the program after the Times article was published – and the news channels and papers that played along with the propaganda game ignored the story. The Listening Post explores the story of the Pentagon pundits, and the picture it painted about the US military's relationship with the news media. http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/listeningpost/2009/07/2009715144916757956.html x- flv Other shunster posts at:http://www.bt-chat.com/browse.php?category=11 Watch Al Jazeera Live: http://www.livestation.com/channels/3-al_jazeera_english or call your cable company.
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