There’s not much to be said about Metanoia’s “Psywar” except that it bears watching. A history of the public relations industry, this outstanding documentary explores the highly deleterious impact of organized and well-funded propaganda efforts on a would-be democratic society. [END] Permalink: Psywar
This is part six of six of “Evidence of Revision,” an eight-hour video collection which covers many a taboo subject in American history including the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK, the causes of the Vietnam war, the social uprisings of the 1960s and ’70s, the Jonestown massacre, government mind control programs such as MKULTRA, and vote rigging and political corruption at the highest levels. This installment focuses on the assassination of civil rights figure Martin Luther King, Jr., which seems to have been carried out by someone working with or impersonating someone with access to a Memphis police car. [END] Permalink: Evidence of Revision Part 6: The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Robert Kane Pappas’ “Orwell Rolls in His Grave” is probably the premier video overview of what is wrong with the media today and how American democracy has suffered as a result of the faults of this essential part of a self-governing society. Featuring Robert McChesney, Mark Crispin Miller, Bernie Sanders and others, “Orwell” covers a wide range of topics from the depoliticizing of the American public at the hands of the infotainment-oriented “news” agencies to the widespread media consolidation following the sweeping deregulations of the Reagan era. [END] Permalink: Orwell Rolls in His Grave
Above, Michael Moore briefly discusses flack he allegedly received over his treatment of Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd in his most recent film, “Capitalism: A Love Story.” Mr. Moore may not have done outstanding work in his 9/11 and Columbine movies — despite being one of the first mainstream anti-Iraq war movies, “Fahrenheit 9/11″ barely scratched the surface with regard to the inside job that was September 11th, and “Bowling for Columbine” was way off-base in many respects — but this one was pretty good, all things considered. Below is the trailer.
Just before this one, Moore made another excellent film, “Sicko,” about the financing and accessibility of the U. S. medical care system versus health care in other countries including Canada, the UK and France. Below is its trailer.
The 2004 U. S. Presidential election brought us Bush versus Bush Lite. In 2006, the Democrats took the U. S. Congress and while things started getting worse at a slower rate, the overall tone was the same. This documentary from BBC Dispatches examines the political parties of England and how, in recent years, rather than offering visionary leadership in increasingly complex times, they all have been posturing to be perceived as “toughest” in the same areas, such as immigration control and street crime, and spending much of their campaigns on competing to outdo each others’ placebo-based pandering. The main issue at the “rotten heart” of the current electoral system according to Dispatches: “parties, cut adrift from their popular roots, are now cold-blooded vote-winning machines. If you ignore them, they ignore you.” When there are no substantive differences between the utterly bland major parties, is it still democracy? In this sickening look into the “mass marketing” campaign style of today, Dispatches says that no, democracy is a thing of the past. With enough work, though, it can be a thing of the future as well. [END] Permalink: Why Politicians Can’t Tell the Truth
In 1992, Brian Springer spent months cruising the back channels of satellite TV feeds and came up with hours and hours of “news behind the news” which were to be edited out by the networks. His documentary, “Spin,” demonstrates how TV personalities act when they don’t think anyone’s watching and the careful perception management that goes into the crafting of the American political landscape. With a special focus on the Bush-Clinton-Perot presidential race, “Spin” will probably give you new insights into modern democracy. [END] Permalink: Spin
This German documentary presents a European perspective on the United States’ history of lying to the world in order to advance war agendas with a particular focus on the 9/11 attacks and the so-called “War on Terror.” This video serves as an excellent aid to understanding why the official version of 9/11 is an obvious lie, from the legends of the hijackers to the physical effects observed in the plane crashes and destruction of the buildings, and continues on into an extended analysis of the role of the media in promoting these lies, the agenda of social transformation which has been put into place in their wake and other topics. [END] Permalink: 9/11 False Flag
Barrie Zwicker’s “The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw” is a nice overview of the reasons to doubt the official story of the 9/11 attacks. Here is some additional information on Philip Zelikow, executive director of the 9/11 Commission and a member of the Clinton-Bush transition team. It should also be noted that 1998, the year that Zelikow’s “Catastrophic Terrorism” was published, was also the year that the neocons’ Project for the New American Century group was beginning its push on Bill Clinton to attack Iraq and essentially begin the so-called “War on Terror” at that time. [END] Permalink: The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw
John Pilger’s“Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror” questions the fundamental motives for the so-called “War on Terror” of the United States. In this video, Pilger explores the U. S.’ extensive recent history of military interventions both overt and covert in dozens of nations worldwide which, in the 21st century, have been expanded into a quest for what the Bush administration termed “full spectrum dominance” on a global scale. [END] Permalink: Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
“Enemy Image” is a history of the American media’s presentation of U. S. wars and the U. S. government and military’s fight to control that presentation, beginning with Vietnam and moving on through the 2003 war in Iraq. While early newsreels, with their patriotic narrative overdubs, presented a polished and sterile image of heroic troops bravely fighting like a well-oiled machine, the relatively unregulated television journalism of the later 1960s showed the common soldier up-close and personal, without the touch-ups of Hollywood. Although the film has a curious lack of mention of the late ’90s war in eastern Europe, it does a good job of comparing the Vietnam era to the much more heavily controlled time from the 1980s to today. “Everybody just wants to go home and go to school. [...] The whole thing stinks.” – U. S. soldier in Vietnam [END] Permalink: Enemy Image
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