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Reviews
9/11 truth goes pop culture?
By Jerry Mazza
It seems a Herculean task to write a �best-selling
author� novel about the �next 9/11, the end of oil, and deception of a nation,�
and make it double as a Hollywood doomsday blockbuster. But Steve Alten, who
has written eight fiction thrillers and has Tinsel Town experience, has tried
to do both with The Shell Game. I
guess it�s laudable for a successful novelist to take a crack at raising
consciousness, perhaps risk a career. Though Alten gives us a rasher of truth,
I found an unsettling number of missing pieces in his novel.
Apr 21, 2008, 00:12
Reviews
Eric Larsen�s "A Nation Gone Blind"
By Sean M. Madden
Two
years have passed since Eric Larsen�s A Nation Gone Blind was published
-- two long years during which time I, and doubtless many others, would have
been less pained had I, we, known that another soul had penned these words of
truth, nowadays so seldom heard. For it is truth which is central to
Larsen�s book, his solitary search for it, and his well-wrought conclusion that
the public at large and even our so-called intellectual classes -- including
writers, editors and academics (in the humanities no less) -- are no longer
able to think well due to a preponderance of feeling and zeal which has largely
crowded out clear reasoning based on empirical evidence and logic.
Apr 10, 2008, 00:12
Reviews
The Reflecting Pool
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
Whether you see yourself as a truth seeker, patriotic
American, independent thinker or voter, or just someone with bad memories of
9/11, you should make an effort to view The Reflecting Pool, a new
independent movie. It is not about 9/11. It is about the credibility of the
official government story about 9/11. Though a drama, it is based on
meticulously researched facts about 9/11 as revealed in the bonus material on
the DVD.
Apr 3, 2008, 00:28
Reviews
9/11�s second round of slaughter
By Jerry Mazza
What makes this documentary, Dust
to Dust: the health effects of 9/11, so special is not just the
chilling statistics it displays onscreen about the poisonous brew of materials
that fell on Ground Zero and the surrounding neighborhoods; what makes this
piece so affecting is the heart-rending testimony of the warm-bodied victims of
9/11�s fall-out, now living through a second round of slaughter, sadly their
own.
Jan 16, 2008, 00:20
Reviews
Guantanamo detainees' testament to the power of the human spirit
By
Jerry Mazza
This slender volume brings together 22 poems by 17
detainees, the collective voice of some 775 men held in the US detention at
Guantanamo, Cuba. According to Department of Defense data, less than half are
accused of committing any hostile act against the US or its allies. The very
circumstances of the initial detainment of hundreds of these men are
questionable, more like a national disgrace.
Nov 22, 2007, 01:18
Reviews
Who runs the world and why you need to know immediately
By Carolyn Baker
Daniel
Estulin is a Madrid-based journalist and an investigative reporter who took
on the daunting and dangerous task of researching the Bildeberg Group, and who
offers his findings in The True Story Of The Bilderberg Group, recently published by TrineDay.
Nov 21, 2007, 00:53
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Unmasking the wannabe masters of the universe
By Bev Conover
"In 1954, the most powerful men in the world met
for the first time under the auspices of the Dutch royal crown and the
Rockefeller family at the luxurious Hotel Bilderberg in the small Dutch town of
Oosterbeck. For an entire weekend, the debated the future of the world. When it
was over, they decided to meet once every year to exchange ideas and analyze
international affairs. They named themselves the Bilderberg Group. Since then,
they have gathered yearly in a luxurious hotel somewhere in the world to try to
decide the future of humanity. Among the select members of this club are Bill
Clinton, Paul Wolfowitz, Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller, Zbigniew
Brzezinski, Tony Blair and many other heads of government, businessmen,
politicians, bankers and journalists from all over the world," writes
journalist Daniel Estulin in the opening paragraph of the introduction to his
must-read book, The True Story of the Bilderberg Group.
Nov 2, 2007, 01:51
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Traveling the road to 9/11
By Joseph Nechvatal
I have always been fascinated with trying to see the
more subliminal/hidden aspects of our world, so long as they are either based
in hard-nosed verified fact; or understood as speculative vision (which may
possess a metaphoric validity of its own). With The Road to 9/11: Wealth,
Empire, and the Future of America,
University of California Berkeley professor emeritus Peter Dale Scott delivers
the preceding.
Oct 11, 2007, 00:48
Reviews
Why they hate America
By Gaither Stewart
John Mason Hart�s monumental Empire and Revolution
answers with courage the question many modern Americans are asking: �Why do
they hate us so much?� At the outset Professor Hart aptly quotes a passage from
Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes� masterpiece, The Death of Artemio Cruz,
the gist of which is that one cannot commit what North Americans [and the
Mexican elite] have committed against Mexico and expect to be loved.
Jul 6, 2007, 00:54
Reviews
The implications of peak oil and the shortcomings of alternatives
By K�llia Ramares
Crude
is the tenth book related to oil that I�ve read and reviewed. As you can
expect, a certain amount of material in these books is old hat to me by now;
the names of some of the experts cited, and indeed the authors themselves, have
become quite familiar; I�ve interviewed some of them myself. But each book has
a �personality� of its own, so I keep reading.
Apr 2, 2007, 01:14
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Lackluster �300�: Artistic adventurism or cultural terrorism?
By Shirzad Azad
The West has had a long history of designating other
nations as backward and itself as a great civilization and the model of
progress. As the leader and the top representative of the Western civilization,
the United States has enthusiastically followed this tradition through its
movie-making mafia, Hollywood, and after bashing many other nations, including
Africans, Indians, Chinese, and Japanese, it has recently turned its attention
to the Iranians.
Mar 29, 2007, 01:09
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Everything your denial keeps you from seeing: "Children of Men"
By Carolyn Baker, Ph.D.
Director Alfonso Cuaron has adapted P.D. James'
1993 futuristic novel written in the genre of George Orwell into a stunning
film that many people will not see -- dare not see, because it depicts the
world we all fear we are being catapulted into at lightning speed. That world
of the year 2027 is one that folks my age may or may not be around for, but if
given the choice, I prefer to pass.
Jan 25, 2007, 00:54
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The planet is taking a hit from unsustainable industrial agriculture
By K�llia Ramares
Have you ever considered how
much energy it takes to get food from the farm to your table? Or how many miles
the food has traveled to reach you? These are two of the questions raised by
Dale Allen Pfeiffer in Eating Fossil Fuels, a ringing indictment of
industrial agriculture.
Dec 1, 2006, 00:46
Reviews
Strange liberators indeed: Imperialism and rogue states you want to hate
By Macdonald Stainsby
In the era of �humanitarian imperialism� the discourse
of the ruling class has unfortunately had a �trickle down� effect on far too
many of those who ought to know better. Rather than moralizing about the form
painted onto a people by the imperialist media looking to subjugate small
nations, Gregory Elich does a deeply researched and personally encountered
accounting of imperialism�s misdeeds in the places where the saturation of vile
propaganda has been the most thorough.
Nov 15, 2006, 00:27
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The Case for Impeachment: A thunderous cry for Bush�s removal and why
By Frank J. Ranelli
Richard M. Nixon, a president with imperial
conquests of his own, once stated in 1973 that he failed to notice the 400,000
plus protesters outside the White House while he watched a ball game. Arrogance
and an infallible belief that he was beyond the reach of not only those
patriotic citizen�s redresses and grievances, but the laws of this nation
proved his political demise. Thirteen months later, amid lies, spying and
scandal, Nixon resigned in order to stave off an inevitable impeachment that
had already begun in the House Judiciary Committee.
Oct 11, 2006, 01:02
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Stealing America...Vote by Vote
By Harvey
Wasserman
Dorothy Fadiman's powerful, moving, infuriating,
comprehensive and brilliant new film might well be re-named "The Crime of
the Century."
Sep 28, 2006, 00:55
Reviews
Disseminating truth is a perilous endeavor
By K�llia
Ramares
I read little fiction and review even less of it. So
when I started reading the political novel �Looking for Bigfoot,� my first
thought was that when a political message is conveyed in an art form, be it novel,
play, poem, stand-up comedy, musical piece, or painting, the art form has to
first work as art. Otherwise, you just have propaganda masquerading as art.
Mar 1, 2006, 00:26
Reviews
Spooks, the Godfather and JFK
By Natylie Baldwin
My mother and I used to engage in the requisite
family debates about who was behind the Kennedy assassination. For me it was
important to know what happened from an historical standpoint. But for her it
was less academic. She vividly remembers being sent home early from her
fourth-grade class one autumn day without explanation only to find her mother,
who never had a kind word for a Democrat, in tears as she opened the door.
Feb 3, 2006, 15:52
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Spychips make Orwell's Big Brother seem relatively harmless
By K�llia Ramares
RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification.
Organizations that promote RFID, which include companies whose names and brands
you recognize, such as Wal-Mart, Gillette, Procter & Gamble, Intel, UPS and
Benneton, as well as government agencies such as the Department of Defense and
the Department of Homeland Security, want to implant an RFID tag on every item
on earth.
Jan 17, 2006, 00:44
Reviews
The Saudis' approaching twilight
By K�llia Ramares
Matthew R. Simmons is the founder and CEO of Simmons
& Co., International, a Houston-based investment bank for the energy
industry. Although Simmons is not himself a petroleum geologist or petroleum
engineer, he has learned much about how and where oil and natural gas are
produced in his more than 35 years of involvement with the industry as a
financial advisor.
Jan 9, 2006, 02:20
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