Nice documentary on the history of the Israel/Arab conflict.
See, in today’s world, governments have to manipulate the public before they can attack their enemies. If you want to invade another country, you just provoke them until they get pissed off enough to do something, then just say you’re defending your self from their attacks. Yea, they’re catching on.
I mean Hizbollah’s stated reason […]
In his commencement address at John Hopkins University, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg very directly demonizes those that would politicize stem cell research, global warming, Terry Schaivo, and evolution.
From the speech:
Today, we are seeing hundreds of years of scientific discovery being challenged by people who simply disregard facts that don’t happen to agree with [...]
This is art. Surreal. Bush on stage with a doppleganger speaking his publically suspected and personally held beliefs. Whoever talked him into that was brilliant.
Here’s a trailer from Al Gore’s new movie, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Here’s a video I found of Governor Arnold smoking a fat joint and, my favorite, wearing a shirt that says “Arnold is Numero Uno.”
My friend was a flight attendant for Universal Studios and said whenever she had to fly […]
The Telegraph reported Sunday on this video taken by unknown “private security contractors” as they fired machine guns randomly at people in cars as they drive around Iraq.
According to the Telegraph:
The video first appeared on the website www.aegisIraq.co.uk. The website states: “This site does not belong to Aegis Defence Ltd, it belongs to the […]
It’s not something we see very often; take two intelligent, eloquent public speakers with abrasive wit and passionately-held opposing viewpoints and put them on a stage and point cameras at them and let them fight it out and see if you learn anything. Amy Goodman from Democracy Now did a wonderful just doing just that.
The […]
Janis Karpinski, former military police commander in charge of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq where US solders tortured prisoners, says the unlawful torture of Iraqi prisoners was ordered by Donald Rumsfeld and implemented by General Sanchez. She says she was scapegoated because she is a woman.
Watch the video on Democracy Now or […]
Excellent, must-watch presentation by Amy Goodman on independent media in a time of war, exposing our lack of one. Amy raises some interesting questions. If we had State-run media, how would it look any different? Did you know CNN has a different version of the news for the rest of the world, CNN vs. […]