John Pilger – Freedom Next Time

Journalist, author, film maker John Pilger speaks in Chicago at Socialism 2007: Socialism for the 21st Century.

The Daily Show: “The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend.”

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Keith Olbermann on Restoring Habeas Corpus

COVER-UP: Behind the Iran-Contra Affair

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Exclusive Footage of Nahr al-Bared Camp in Northern Lebanon

Mr. President, what is your job?

Nora, The Piano-Playing Cat

NY Police Report Bomb to Frame Activist as Terrorist

 

Two persons identifying themselves as New York police officers interrupted a 9/11 Truth demonstration on a public sidewalk in front of the new WTC 7 Building to intimidate free speech, stating “Larry [Silverstein] doesn’t want to hear it,” before accusing We Are Change founder Luke Rudkowski of having a bomb and that his cell phone was “a gun.” [link]

Bill Moyers: “Buying the War”

Four years ago on May 1, President Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln wearing a flight suit and delivered a speech in front of a giant “Mission Accomplished” banner. He was hailed by media stars as a “breathtaking” example of presidential leadership in toppling Saddam Hussein. Despite profound questions over the failure to locate weapons of mass destruction and the increasing violence in Baghdad, many in the press confirmed the White House’s claim that the war was won. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews declared, “We’re all neo-cons now;” NPR’s Bob Edwards said, “The war in Iraq is essentially over;” and Fortune magazine’s Jeff Birnbaum said, “It is amazing how thorough the victory in Iraq really was in the broadest context.”

How did the mainstream press get it so wrong? How did the evidence disputing the existence of weapons of mass destruction and the link between Saddam Hussein to 9-11 continue to go largely unreported? “What the conservative media did was easy to fathom; they had been cheerleaders for the White House from the beginning and were simply continuing to rally the public behind the President — no questions asked. How mainstream journalists suspended skepticism and scrutiny remains an issue of significance that the media has not satisfactorily explored,” says Moyers. “How the administration marketed the war to the American people has been well covered, but critical questions remain: How and why did the press buy it, and what does it say about the role of journalists in helping the public sort out fact from propaganda?”

On Wednesday, April 25 at 9 p.m. on PBS, a new PBS series BILL MOYERS JOURNAL premieres at a special time with “Buying the War,” a 90-minute documentary that explores the role of the press in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq.

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John Kerry: WTC Building 7 Was Controlled Demolition

“Questioned on WTC 7 by members of Austin 9/11 Truth Now at a Book People event in Austin Texas, Kerry responded, “I do know that that wall, I remember, was in danger and I think they made the decision based on the danger that it had in destroying other things, that they did it in a controlled fashion.”

Kerry is basically saying that the building was intentionally demolished to prevent a random collapse from damaging nearby buildings, but that premise has never been explicitly admitted, with officials clinging to the notion that the collapse was expected but was not aided by means of explosive charges, because to admit to a controlled demolition would be to expose foreknowledge of 9/11 itself.” [link]

360 Vision – Gold Diggers Part 1

Honduras is rich in silver and gold. So why is this Central American republic plagued by such desperate poverty?

Roman Catholic Church officials in Honduras believe foreign mining concerns like Canada’s Goldcorp Inc. bear much of the blame. They want these companies out of their country – now. 

America: Freedom to Fascism: US Income Tax Is Illegal

Mind Control: America’s Secret War

Flashback: FBI Had Foreknowledge of 1993 WTC Bombing

Allegations of FBI foreknowledge
In the course of the trial it was revealed that the FBI had an informant, a former Egyptian army officer named Emad A. Salem. Salem claims to have informed the FBI of the plot to bomb the towers as early as February 6, 1992. Salem’s role as informant allowed the FBI to quickly pinpoint the conspirators out of the hundreds of possible suspects.

Salem, initially believing that this was to be a sting operation, claimed that the FBI’s original plan was for Salem to supply the conspirators with a harmless powder instead of actual explosive to build their bomb, but that the FBI chose to use him for other purposes instead. 

Part 3: We Will Force You to be Free, by Adam Curtis

“The Trap: What Happened To Our Dream of Freedom?” is a three-part series of films written and directed by BAFTA-winning producer Adam Curtis, explaining the origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom.

Episode 1, “F**k You Buddy“, will show how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today’s idea of freedom. This model was derived from ideas and techniques developed by nuclear strategists during the Cold War. It was then taken up by genetic biologists, anthropologists, radical psychiatrists and free market economists, until it became a new system of invisible control.

Episode 2, “The Lonely Robot“,  tells the story of how, in the 1990s, politicians from both right and left tried to apply an idea of freedom modelled on the freedom of the market to all other areas of society.

Behind it was a scientific model of ourselves as simplified robots, rational calculating beings whose behaviour and even feelings could be predicted by numbers. Out of this came today’s systems of management – from performance targets to the new categories of mental disorder, and reading the genetic codes buried inside us.

In Episode 3 entitled “We Will Force You to Be Free“, the program suggested that following the path of negative liberty to its logical conclusions, as governments have done in the West for the past 50 years, resulted in a society without meaning populated only by seflish automatons, and that there was some value in positive liberty in that it allowed people to strive to better themselves. The closing minutes hinted that instead of seeking either positive liberty, with its coercive undertones leading to tyrrany, or negative liberty, with its selfish undertones leading to meaninglessness, a balance could perhaps be achieved, or that positive liberty could in fact be employed in our societies without resulting in violence and coercion.
Part 3, “We Will Force You to be Free” (Real Player Video) is HERE

Part 2, “The Lonely Robot” (Real Player Video) is HERE

Part 1, “F**k You Buddy” (Real Player Video) is HERE

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The Lonely Robot – Part 2 of “The Trap”

“The Trap: What Happened To Our Dream of Freedom?” is a three-part series of films written and directed by BAFTA-winning producer Adam Curtis, explaining the origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom.
Adam Curtis continues his series of films explaining the origins of our contemporary, narrow and limited idea of freedom.

This episode tells the story of how, in the 1990s, politicians from both right and left tried to apply an idea of freedom modelled on the freedom of the market to all other areas of society.

Behind it was a scientific model of ourselves as simplified robots, rational calculating beings whose behaviour and even feelings could be predicted by numbers. Out of this came today’s systems of management – from performance targets to the new categories of mental disorder, and reading the genetic codes buried inside us.

Part 2, “The Lonely Robot” (Real Player Video) is HERE

Part 1, “F**k You Buddy” (Real Player Video) is HERE

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom?

A series of films by BAFTA-winning producer Adam Curtis that tells the story of the rise of today’s narrow idea of freedom. Part One: F**k You Buddy. [59m29s]

The Trap: What Happened To Our Dream of Freedom? is a three-part series of films written and directed by BAFTA-winning producer Adam Curtis, explaining the origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom.

Curtis believes that if one steps back and looks at what freedom actually means for us today, it’s a strange and limited kind of freedom.

The West fought the Cold War for freedom and individual freedom is the dream of our age. It’s what our leaders promise to give us and defines how we think of ourselves.

And abroad, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the attempt to force freedom on to other people has led to bloody mayhem and the rise of an authoritarian anti-democratic Islamism.

This, in turn, has helped inspire terrorist attacks in Britain. In response, the government has dismantled long-standing laws that were designed to protect our freedom.

Curtis argues that we have forgotten other ideas of freedom. We are in a trap of our own making, a trap that controls us, deprives us of meaning, and causes death and chaos abroad.

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Chiquita Banana Terrorism

<President Uribe oversaw payments by Chiquita to AUC & FARC rebel groups>

Chiquita Brands International, famous for its bananas, has agreed to pay $25 million in fines for employing paramilitary groups to protect its farms in Colombia, according to a CNN report.

The corporation is also suspected of using hired military forces to exterminate workers who caused problems or had political beliefs that were not in the best interests of the company, says Karl Penhall on CNN’s American Morning.

“This right-wing death squad that Chiquita Brands says it financed through its Colombian subsidiary was responsible not for tens or hundreds of deaths, but in fact for thousands of deaths,” Penhall reports.

CNN video available at Raw Story HERE

mp3 with intro by Joe HERE