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As the capitalist economy crumbles, some are looking at socialism
By K�llia Ramares
With the corporate capitalist economy falling
apart as it is, some people are looking at socialism with a less jaundiced eye.
Of course, there are some people for whom socialism was never the spawn of
Satan that banksters and other corporate cutthroats and their political minions
would have us believe.
Jul 28, 2009, 00:09
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The ugly secret of Pentagon 9/11
By Jerry Mazza
9/11 films have become a genre, whether
non-fiction or fictionalized accounts of the events and truth of that awful
day. This latest, Severe Visibility,
by actor, writer, director Paul
Cross, is a riveting, Kafkaesque film which takes places largely in the matrix
of the Pentagon, the belly of the beast on 9/11 and its aftermath. The small
cast and independent production reminds me somewhat of The Reflecting Pool, with
its relentless questioning of the official story.
Apr 14, 2009, 00:12
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A new twist on �Animal Farm�
By
Jerry Mazza
Wiki
tells us George Orwell�s short novel Animal
Farm is
a dystopian (opposite of utopian) �allegory in which animals (mostly pigs) play
the roles of the Bolshevik revolutionaries and overthrow and oust the human
owner of a farm (Manor Farm), renaming it Animal Farm and setting it up as a
commune in which, at first, all animals are equal.
Mar 26, 2009, 00:20
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The government is in debt to private banks that pretend to have money
By Ann Tulintseff
If there is one book, one newspaper, one blog,
one article, that one should read to understand the current economic crisis, to
understand the root of the problem, and to understand its solution, it is �The
Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Monetary System and How We Can Break
Free,� by Ellen Hodgson Brown. Brown began writing �Web of Debt,� six years
ago, and, while some are surprised at the current national and world economic
crisis, others, including Brown, had seen it coming.
Mar 2, 2009, 00:20
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Pages from a checkered past
By Eric
Walberg
CAIRO, Egypt -- History just won�t leave the
poor Czechs alone. As the Czechs celebrated the 90th anniversary of their
independence from the Austro-Hungarian empire on October 28, knives were drawn
in Prague where accusations that the dean of Czech belles lettres, Milan Kundera, had collaborated with
the Communist authorities to capture a Czech deserter and US spy, Miroslav
Dvoracek, in 1950.
Oct 29, 2008, 00:16
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Bill Moyers talks with Thomas Frank: Web exclusive
By Bill Moyers
Thomas Frank's THE
WRECKING CREW , examines
corruption in Washington and puts the Abramoff scandal into context.
Aug 4, 2008, 00:14
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Of patriots and pawns
By Carolyn Baker
I was taken aback to receive a package from New
Almaden, California nearly a month ago. I didn�t know where the town was nor at
that time, anyone there. Even more astounding was the discovery that the
package contained Mary Tillman�s book Boots On The Ground By Dusk, her personal account of her
son Pat�s death and its impact on the Tillman family.
Jul 30, 2008, 00:10
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You don�t mess with the racism
By Remi Kanazi
I love Adam Sandler. From Billy Madison to Happy
Gilmore to the Chanukah Song,
the predecessor of the Superbad generation has effortlessly conquered the
domain of slapstick comedy and inappropriate jokes. But damn you, Scuba Steve!
If you�re going to propagate misinformation about the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict, do it quietly -- or at least in your non-comedic life.
Jun 27, 2008, 00:13
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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