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Iraq For Sale
2008-02-19 22:13:00 1 hr 15 min 40 sec More About: Multimedia , Iraq , For Sale , Sale
Trials Of Henry Kissinger
2008-02-19 16:52:00 1 hr 19 min 41 sec More About: Multimedia , Henry , Trials , Kissinger
The Scandal of the Scandal of Scientology: Looking over my shoulder, The
2008-02-18 17:04:00 By Paulette Cooper ….It all started after I wrote an article, “The Scandal of Scientology ,” for Queen magazine in the U.K. I had a master’s degree in psychology and had studied comparative religion at Harvard for a summer and what I learned during my research about the group founded by L. Ron Hubbard was both fascinating ...
War Made Easy
2008-02-17 18:36:00 1 hr 10 min 15 sec War Made Easy exposes a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to ... More About: Multimedia
George Carlin Doing it Again
2008-02-17 18:26:00 4min 18sec More About: Multimedia , George , George Carlin
Another Must See: People and the struggle of the 4th world war
2008-02-15 23:09:00 Or go here to watch…. http://www.calleymedia.org/ 2004 documentary on the impact of financial neo-liberalism on Latin America and other parts of the world and what Hugo Chavez is doing to stop its spread in Venezuela. More About: Multimedia , People , World , World War
The War on Democracy by John Pilger - A Must See
2008-02-15 19:48:00 Or watch here…. The War on Democracy is John Pilger’s first major film for the cinema - in a career that has produced more than 55 television documentaries. Set in Latin America and the US, it explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. “The film tells a ... More About: Multimedia , John Pilger
Countdown: Special Comment Bush Bluff Feb. 14, 2008
2008-02-15 18:48:00 9min 12sec More About: Bush , Multimedia , Special , Comment , Countdown
White House Aides Cited for Contempt of Congress
2008-02-15 18:32:00 DN! In other news from Washington, the House has overwhelmingly endorsed contempt citations against two White House aides for their refusal to testify in the U.S. attorney firing scandal. White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former counsel Harriet Miers ignored a subpoena after President Bush claimed executive privilege protects them from testifying. The 223 ... More About: Congress , Aides
Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters(Satire)
2008-02-15 18:15:00 Onion News Network Poll : Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters More About: Multimedia , Satire
More Real News
2008-02-15 17:50:00 Obama vs Clinton foreign policy advisers in summery: Clinton’s advisers are pro war and Obama’s are against, sort of…. McCain “will make Cheney look like Gandhi” so says Pat Buchanan Ahmadinejad invited to Iraq 3 major laws passed in Iraq after stalemate break Bolivia accepts US explanations in spy scandal More About: News , Multimedia , Real
Jewish functionaries are stirring up the Clinton-Obama race
2008-02-15 17:33:00 By Akiva Eldar Haaretz ….Official Israel is making an effort to maintain a respectable neutrality. Has-beens are being called into the ring, like a former ambassador to Washington, Dan Ayalon, who jabbed Obama in a sensitive spot - the volume of his support for Israel. Ayalon is not alone. Jewish advisers and non-Jewish supporters are almost obsessively occupied ... More About: Race , Clinton
American Atheists Update 02-05-08
2008-02-15 00:57:00 She make some great points and the statistics are very interesting. We do not have to stop voting, but we need a voice. Seculars unite! American Atheists website…. More About: Multimedia , Update
How the spooks took over the news
2008-02-14 14:34:00 The Independent ….For the first time in human history, there is a concerted strategy to manipulate global perception. And the mass media are operating as its compliant assistants, failing both to resist it and to expose it. The sheer ease with which this machinery has been able to do its work reflects a creeping structural weakness which ... More About: News , The News , Spooks
This is What A Police State Looks Like
2008-02-14 14:25:00 This is What A Police State Looks LikeAdd to My Profile | More Videos Wake up! They have taken away our press, and they have taken away our right to dissent. No amount of democracy can exist in these conditions. At best we have a plutocracy. Only we the people can change this. More About: Multimedia , Police State
A Current Era Exclusive: A Review of 50 Facts That Should Change the World
2008-02-14 04:57:00 by Sharon Cave BBC?s Jessica Williams has another hit in her version 2.0 of 50 Facts That Should Change The World . Notice that she is still using the word ?Should? in the title. This in itself is one of the most powerful points of the entire collection of essays. In essence the word ?Should? implies we ... More About: Exclusive , Review
Everything by the Book
2008-02-13 17:10:00 Woman is stripped naked and abused by Start County Sheriff Dept. http://www.sheriff.co.stark.oh.us/ email them at strkshrf@raex.com to let them know how you feel. This comes from training and being put into the mindset of us vs. them. “To protect and serve” is what should be taught. She called the police and was the victim of a ... More About: Multimedia , Book
Lapdogs of the corporate press
2008-02-13 16:51:00 4min 23sec More About: Multimedia , Press , Corporate
US spy scandal in Bolivia
2008-02-13 16:24:00 Asked to spy on Venezuelans and Cubans? The US is scared to death of democracy and Evo Morales. More About: Multimedia , Bolivia , Scandal
Torture, tribunals and the death penalty
2008-02-13 16:20:00 Michael Ratner is President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York. He has taught at Yale Law School, lectured at Columbia Law School, and was President of the National Lawyers Guild. Related: Sept. 11 families worry that Gitmo trials will be ‘tainted’ The families of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks want justice for the ... More About: Multimedia , Death , Death penalty , Torture , Penalty
Amy Goodman Interview
2008-02-13 16:18:00 By Elizabeth DiNovella The Progressive ….Q: The FCC just relaxed media ownership limits. What?s your response to that? Goodman: We?ve got hundreds of channels with fewer and fewer owners and it?s a very big problem. There?s the illusion of diversity but what matters is who owns these channels. That?s why regulations are so important. The media is the place ... More About: Interview
The Folly of Attacking Iran: Lessons from History
2008-02-12 16:41:00 6min 20sec More About: Multimedia , History , Iran , Lessons
Seymour Hersh with Images from Iraq
2008-02-12 16:19:00 Warning: Results of war shown in this video 2min 59sec More About: Multimedia , Iraq , Images , Ages
Discovery Channel Accused of Political Censorship for Dropping Oscar-Nomina
2008-02-12 15:37:00 DN! A new documentary called ?Taxi to the Dark Side? was recently nominated for an Academy Award. The film investigates some of the most egregious abuses associated with the so-called ?war on terror??including the US torture of prisoners. The Discovery Channel bought the rights to the Oscar -nominated film and had planned on airing it. But this week, ... More About: Political , Censorship , Discovery Channel
Breaking the Drug Taboo: Group of Traumatized Veterans Get Experimental Ecs
2008-02-11 15:54:00 By Scott Thill AlterNet ….Enter the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), and its currently funded trials using 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methamphetamine — otherwise known as MDMA, or ecstasy — to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although the U.S. Army had carried out lethal dose studies of MDMA back in the 1950s, work which was not classified until the close ... More About: Experimental , Veterans , Drug , Group , Breaking
Legislators consider aspartame ban
2008-02-11 15:29:00 By Treena Shapiro Advertiser Government Writer Hold on to your diet soda. A set of bills before the state Legislature would ban aspartame ? known also by brand names NutraSweet and Equal ? as soon as Jan. 1. House Bill 2680 is up for a vote in the Health Committee on Wednesday, giving supporters of the ban more time ... More About: Legislators
FBI Deputizes Private Contractors With Extraordinary Powers, Including ?Sho
2008-02-08 15:54:00 By Matthew Rothschild The Progressive Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does?and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information ... More About: Private , Contractors , Extraordinary , Powers
Death toll rises to 57 in U.S. tornadoes
More articles from this author:2008-02-07 19:29:00 By Pat Harris Reuters NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Communities across the U.S. South grieved for the dead and tried to pick up their lives on Thursday after the deadliest round of tornadoes in nearly a quarter century killed 57 people. Damage was likely to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Tennessee’s Madison County alone estimated it ... More About: Death , Tornadoes , Toll 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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