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BBC Jazz 625: Thelonious Monk at the Marquee Club
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Why bad movies keep coming out and what to do about it By John Pilger
As an inveterate film fan, I turn to the listings every week and try not to lose hope. I search the guff that often passes for previews, and I queue for a ticket with that flicker of excitement reminiscent of matinees in art deco splendour. Once inside, lights down, beer in hand, hope recedes as… Continue reading
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Greenwald partner sues Home Office as UK defends ‘Miranda op
The UK Home Office says it has “to protect the public”, but Miranda has accused Britain of a “total abuse of power” and has said he will take legal action against the Home Office. The Guardian is “supportive” of his action. Continue reading
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History Commons New 9/11 Timeline Entries
A large number of entries have been added to the Complete 9/11 Timeline at History Commons, most of which provide new details about the events of the day of September 11, 2001. Other entries are being posted in the US Civil Liberties project on campaign finance, voting laws, and the 2006 US Attorney purge Continue reading
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“We Steal Secrets” The New Movie About Wikileaks Infuriates Wikileaks By Danny Schecter
You could say that Wikileaks, the subject of We Steal Secrets also began with a fury – a fury against war and secrecy, and was moving as fast as it could to challenge media complacency in the digital realm. Now, it is being ganged up on by a media that invariably builds you up before… Continue reading
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Fracking Industry Goes After Promised Land Film by Meher Ahmad
Before Gus Van Sant’s latest film Promised Land even premiered, the energy industry was up in arms, gearing up to counter the film’s apparent anti-fracking stance with a barrage of “community” responses (read: thinly veiled corporate PR). James Schamus, chief executive of Focus Features the distributor of the film, expressed shock about the attacks on… Continue reading
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Director Kathryn Bigelow defends her indefensible Zero Dark Thirty By David Walsh
Director Kathryn Bigelow took to the pages of the Los Angeles Times Tuesday to defend her pro-CIA film Zero Dark Thirty which has provoked opposition inside and outside the film industry. Bigelow’s column, which reveals her as a slavish admirer of the US intelligence and military apparatus, only sinks her—deservedly—deeper in the mire. Continue reading
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National Security Archive: The Zero Dark Thirty File
The poster for the blockbuster movie Zero Dark Thirty features black lines of redaction over the title, which unintentionally illustrate the most accurate take-away from the film – that most of the official record of the hunt for Osama bin Laden is still shrouded in secrecy, according to the National Security Archive’s ZD30 briefing book,… Continue reading
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The CIA’s Hollywood Release: “Zero Dark Thirty”, or How People Lose Their Humanity By Annie Day
So how did they feel about liking a film that upholds something they would otherwise find deplorable? Several people said it’s just a movie and shouldn’t be taken so seriously. One woman said she appreciated coming to understand, from the CIA’s perspective, why they used torture. And far too often, the answer was, “It’s complicated.” Continue reading
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Movie Review: Django Unchained: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger By Jordy Cummings
Of all the “b-movie” film genres of the 20th century, none was more consistently radical than the spaghetti western. So-named because of its Italian lineage, these films used the setting of the wild west to portray thinly veiled allegories about popular uprisings, class and racial oppression, and armed rebellion against the ruling classes. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 21 December 2012
21 December 2012 — williambowles.info Julian Assange: WikiLeaks to release 1 million new documents CNN (CNN) — WikiLeaks is preparing to release more than a million documents next year, the controversial website’s founder said Thursday. Julian Assange did not provide details about their contents but said they “affect every country in the world.” He Continue reading
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Can you help us launch our revolting platform?
The meat of the plan is the “ACTION SWITCHBOARD,” a human-moderated network to help thousands of newly-motivated, newly-inspired viewers of The Yes Men Are Revolting—or anyone!—pull off policy-changing, criminal-embarrassing actions of the sort we’ve been helping folks do for years. Continue reading
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Out of the bunkers, into the streets
For those of you who contributed last week to The Yes Men are Revolting Kickstarter campaign—thank you! You were a beacon of hope in an otherwise weird, rough week. Superstorm Sandy knocked out our power, locked us out of our offices in lower Manhattan, and reduced us to hauling water up 19 floors to Andy’s… Continue reading
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The ‘Pro-Israel’ Network Behind the 'Innocence' Video By Justin Raimondo
Was the release of the video a random event, one of those unpredictables that can arise at any moment to foil the best-laid plans? Perhaps. Yet one is hard-pressed to explain what the makers of Innocence sought to accomplish, if not precisely what has occurred. According to various explanations floated in the media — primarily… Continue reading
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South Africa's Political Wars Begin To Resemble Our Own By Danny Schechter
The Mail & Guardian reports political scientist Achille Mbembe saying in a debate in Johannesburg, “after 18 years of relative complacency and self-congratulatory gestures” the ANC was realizing South Africa was an ordinary country and not a miracle. Continue reading
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Social Media Scam Alert: Top Ten Ways to Tell Kony is Phony
A week ago Invisible Children released a video that was immediately picked up and promoted by every corporate news and entertainment outlet till it went “viral”. Kony 2012 allegedly “promotes awareness” of and contributes to the end of child soldiering in Africa. But is that really what it’s about? Is it, like the old Save… Continue reading
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Anonymous calls for anti-ACTA rallies, Poland suspends bill — RT
A wolf in sheep’s clothing – that’s how ACTA opponents have described the international copyright treaty. Thousands are to protest in Sweden on Saturday while in Poland the legislation has been suspended after attacks on government websites. Continue reading
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Video Clip: Gaza – Where Should the Birds Fly?
The site is for a film being made by a Palestinian woman about Israel’s multiple military attacks on Gaza, esp. the 2008-2009 “operation cast lead” where Israel allowed no journalists or human rights observers into Gaza to witness the devastation (ironically Israel today is calling for UN observers to enter Syria to document the killings… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 11 June 2011
11 June 2011 — williambowles.info Will Wikileaks founder Julian Assange win Nobel Peace Prize 2011? Mirror.co.uk Julian Assange, founder of the anti-secrecy website Wikileaks, is on the long shortlist and gets a 20-1 quote from Victor Chandler to win. This is despite Assange being on a sexual assault charge – presumably for screwing the United Continue reading
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