Food inc.
¿Cuánto maíz comemos? Comemos maíz no sólo cuando comemos maíz, sino también cuando tomamos una gaseosa y en muchos otros productos. En Estados Unidos se subsidia el maíz: ¿qué consecuencias tiene esto para la economía y para la salud? Las respuestas son realmente sorprendentes en su magnitud. ¿Cómo se cría un pollo? ¿Y una vaca? ¿Mueren niños por la manera defectuosa de faenar una vaca? ¿Hasta dónde llegan las presiones de las corporaciones alimenticias? Este lacerante, demoledor, abrumador documental plantea estos temas y muchos otros con datos, argumentos, declaraciones, emoción y horror. Si la versión fílmica realizada por Richard Linklater del libro Fast Food Nation de Eric Schlosser fue una gran oportunidad desaprovechada, una película finalmente tibia y que tomaba sólo lo más exterior de ese best seller, Food INC. viene a ocupar, con aplomo, el lugar de la certera denuncia fílmica actual de la locura nutricional. De hecho, Schlosser aparece profusamente, y algunos de los capítulos más complejos de su libro (como el que plantea opciones reales de correcta producción alimenticia) encuentran finalmente su adecuada forma fílmica
Food Matters is a feature length documentary film informing you on the best choices you can make for you and your family's health. In a collection of interviews with leading Nutritionists, Naturopaths, Scientists, M.D.'s and Medical Journalists you will discover...
* How to use food as medicine
* Who needs vitamins?
* Is organic better?
* How safe is our food?
* Natural treatments for lowering Cholesterol
* Foods that fight Anxiety and Depression
* Natural therapies for Cancer
* Which drugs might do more harm than good?
* The best ways to detox, lose weight and keep it off!
"Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food" - Hippocrates. That is the message from the founding father of modern medicine echoed in the controversial new documentary film Food Matters from Producer-Directors James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch.
With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what's wrong with our malnourished bodies, it's no wonder that modern society is getting sicker. Food Matters sets about uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide 'sickness industry' and gives people some scientifically verifiable solutions for overcoming illness naturally.
"With access to better information people invariably make better choices for their health..."
En torno al 37 por ciento de los niños y ado-lescentes estadounidenses tienen exceso de grasa y dos de cada tres adultos tienen kilos de más o son obesos. ¿Es un problema de autocontrol, o debemos culpar a las empre-sas? Spurlock se echó a la carretera y entrevistó a expertos de veinte ciudades de Estados Unidos, también Houston, la ciudad más obesa de América (ahora es Detroit). Directores de salud pú-blica, profesores de gimnasia, cocineros, niños, gobernantes, legis-ladores, expusieron sus investigaciones, sus opiniones y las reac-ciones viscerales que despierta en ellos el constante aumento del volumen corporal del pueblo norteamericano. Por fin, Spurlock se embarcó en un experimento de características excepcionales: pro-bó en carne propia los efectos de la comida rápida sobre el cuerpo humano. Durante treinta días consecutivos, Spurlock se alimentó a base de Cheeseburgers, Bic Macs y McNuggets, subsistiendo ex-clusivamente con productos del menú McDonald‘s. Debido al con-sumo de fritos y alimentos ricos en sodio aumentaron sus niveles de colesterol y sodio, y lo que empezó siendo un experimento di-vertido y desenfadado se convirtió en un problema grave para el hasta entonces envidiable estado de salud de Morgan Spurlock. A esta vorágine alimentaria de un mes de duración acompaña una se-rie de esclarecedoras y sinceras entrevistas con los mejores profe-sionales médicos y sanitarios, con ejecutivos de publicidad y mar-keting y con adolescentes norteamericanos. Los resultados son, cuando menos, pasmosos.
Killer at Large
Obesity rates in the United States have reached epidemic
proportions in recent years. Killer at Large shows how little is being
done and more importantly, what can be done to reverse it. Killer at
Large also explores the human element of the problem with portions of
the film that follow a 12-year old girl who has a controversial
liposuction procedure to fix her weight gain and a number of others
suffering .
The
Centers fo Diseas Control estimate that at least 110,000 people die per
year due to obesity and 1/3 of all cancer deaths are directly related to
it. Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona remarked that obesity is a
more pressing isssue than terrorism, " Obesity is a terror within and
unless we do something about it, the magnitude of the dilemma will dwarf
9/11 or any other terrorist event that you can point out.." From our
human evolution and our changing enviroment to the way our goverment's
public policies are actually causing obesity.
The film features interviews and covers events with such notable public figures as Former President
Clinton,
Ralf Nader, Senators Tom Harking and Sam Brownback, Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona and a number of
bestselling authors and renowned experts like Michael Pollan, Barry
Glassner, Dr Kelly Brownell, Dr Barry Popkin and many others.
El mundo según Monsanto
El mundo según Monsanto (Le monde selon Monsanto), de la dioxina a los OGM, una empresa que le desea lo mejor,
es un documental francés de 2008 de Marie Monique Robin sobre la
multinacional Monsanto, la historia de la compañía, sus productos
comerciales. Como el PCB, los OGM, el Agente Naranja, la Hormona bovina o
Somatotropina bovina, y su popular Roundup (Glifosato).
Conducido por Arte France, Image et Campagnie, Producctions Thalie,
Office national du Canadá, WDR, con una duración de 108 minutos.
El mundo según monsanto también es un libro de investigación escrito por la misma autora el 6 marzo del 2008, traducido a 11 lenguas. Marie Monique Robin es ganadora del premio Noruego "Rachel Carson Prize" de 2009 dedicado a mujeres ambientalistas.
El mundo según monsanto también es un libro de investigación escrito por la misma autora el 6 marzo del 2008, traducido a 11 lenguas. Marie Monique Robin es ganadora del premio Noruego "Rachel Carson Prize" de 2009 dedicado a mujeres ambientalistas.
El
documental muestra a la misma autora Marie Monique Robin, investigando y
extrayendo información de la misma Internet. Haciendo entrevistas y
reconstruyendo así un complicado puzle sobre la historia de Monsanto.
Historia judicial de Monsanto
La primera parte del
documental aborda el problema del PCB(comercializado en Francia como
Pyraléne), producido por la fábrica de Monsanto (de hecho su filial
Solutia Inc.) en Anniston
Alabama (Estados Unidos), ciudad en la que la contaminación causo y
continua causando muchas víctimas, mayoritariamente en la población
negra más pobre, donde la tasa de cáncer es notablemente más elevada.
Se le reprocha a Monsanto de haber contaminado el agua (derramando PCB en los canales de evacuación de aguas que desembocan en el canal Snow Creek), la tierra (descargado desechos contaminantes a cielo abierto en el mismo sitio de producción, cercano a barrios circundantes) y el aire de Annistan. También de haber ocultado la nocividad del PCB liberado en la población para no perder dinero, estando ellos al tanto de esta nocividad. Como lo prueban notas internas del negocio. En 1937 un estudio de la Universidad de Harvard, notifico a la empresa Monsanto que la exposición al PCB causa cloracné y lesiones en el hígado. En 1966, un estudio Sueco de Soren Jensen muestra que el PCB crea problemas medioambientales de gran magnitud, ya que tiene la capacidad de acumularse todo a lo largo de la cadena alimentaría ( bioacumulación). El reportaje esta basado en los en los archivos internos de la firma, que fueron desclasificados por un proceso legal, una Demanda colectiva de 3500 habitantes de Annistan contra Monsanto.
Luego de este juicio, Monsanto y su filial fueron condenados a pagar 700 millones de dólares para indemnizar a las víctimas, descontaminar el sito, y construir un hospital especializado. Aunque ningún dirigente de Monsanto fue perseguido. La Monsanto ceso la producción de PCB en EEUU en 1977. Y se prohibió la sustancia en ese país en 1978.
Se le reprocha a Monsanto de haber contaminado el agua (derramando PCB en los canales de evacuación de aguas que desembocan en el canal Snow Creek), la tierra (descargado desechos contaminantes a cielo abierto en el mismo sitio de producción, cercano a barrios circundantes) y el aire de Annistan. También de haber ocultado la nocividad del PCB liberado en la población para no perder dinero, estando ellos al tanto de esta nocividad. Como lo prueban notas internas del negocio. En 1937 un estudio de la Universidad de Harvard, notifico a la empresa Monsanto que la exposición al PCB causa cloracné y lesiones en el hígado. En 1966, un estudio Sueco de Soren Jensen muestra que el PCB crea problemas medioambientales de gran magnitud, ya que tiene la capacidad de acumularse todo a lo largo de la cadena alimentaría ( bioacumulación). El reportaje esta basado en los en los archivos internos de la firma, que fueron desclasificados por un proceso legal, una Demanda colectiva de 3500 habitantes de Annistan contra Monsanto.
Luego de este juicio, Monsanto y su filial fueron condenados a pagar 700 millones de dólares para indemnizar a las víctimas, descontaminar el sito, y construir un hospital especializado. Aunque ningún dirigente de Monsanto fue perseguido. La Monsanto ceso la producción de PCB en EEUU en 1977. Y se prohibió la sustancia en ese país en 1978.
Los productos de Monsanto
La investigación examina a los productos creados y comerciados por
Monsanto. Sus consecuencias sobre el medio ambiente y la salud: las
dioxinas como el agente naranja
en la guerra de Vietnam (y sus efectos sobre la población hasta hoy en
día: cáncer; malformaciones congénitas…). Los PCB (y sus diferentes
poluciones), la hormona (somatropina) de crecimiento bovina (que está prohibida en Europa y Canadá).
El film continúa en el
estudio de la toxicidad del herbicida Roundup
(glifosato) producido por Monsanto, que fue presentado en el negocio,
como "respetuoso del medio ambiente". En enero del 2007, la sociedad
Monsanto fue condenada por un tribunal de Lyon (Francia), por publicidad
engañosa relativa al producto Roundup, al calificarlo como
biodegradable.
Unos pocos años antes la firma había sido ya condenada en EEUU por el
mismo motivo. Entre los científicos citados en el informe, se encuentra
un equipo de la CNRS y de la Universidad Pierre y Marie Curie.
Cuyas investigadores demostraron que el Roundup tiene un efecto nefasto
sobre el ciclo celular (disfunciones características del cáncer): « de
hecho, es suficiente una gotita para afectar al proceso de división
celular. Concretamente, se puede decir que para utilizar el herbicida
sin riesgo, se necesita no solo portar un traje y una máscara, sino
también asegurarse de que no haya personas a menos de 500 metros.»
Finalmente, la periodista hace un estudio sobre los OGM
de Monsanto, especialmente la soja y el maíz diseñados por Monsanto
para resistir el herbicida Roundup, ONG llamados “Roundup Ready”. En el
documental se da la palabra a científicos alrededor del mundo. Que
cuentan sobre las presiones que han sufrido como consecuencia de
estudios sobre los OGM de Monsanto, especialmente desde el punto de
vista de sus efectos sobre la salud publica. Estos científicos afirman
haber sido incitados por sus tutelas a no comunicar lo investigado, para
no comprometer el desarrollo de los ONG. En estas entrevistas Dan Glickman secretario de agricultura de Bill Clinton
(ex presidente de USA). Declaro sobre pruebas realizadas sobre los ONG y
sus legislaciones en los EEUU: « Francamente pienso que deberíamos
haber hecho más pruebas, pero las empresas agro-industriales no
quisieron, porque habían hecho enormes inversiones para desarrollar sus
productos. Y, como responsable del servicio de reglamentación del
Ministerio de Agricultura, sufrí muchas presiones para, digamos, no ser
demasiado exigente.»
A Competent DemocracyThe current economic system does not go unquestioned either.
Transitional tools on how to attain a much more efficient, healthy, socially and technically relevant social system are summarised in relation to which way we should be heading if we want to create social sustainability on a global scale – ideas which cannot come out of our antiquated political systems today.
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We become silent
This documentary details the ongoing attempts by multinational pharmaceutical interests, giant food companies, and government agencies to limit the public’s access to vitamins, herbs and other therapies. The film highlights the U.S. government’s complicity in suppressing the truth about the effectiveness of alternative/complementary medicines, and outlines the international plan to eliminate freedom of choice in healthcare through the work of the Codex Alimentarius Commission.
WE BECOME SILENT features the only known video from a Codex meeting, exclusive interviews with delegates to the Codex Alimentarius Commission, U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials, two U.S. Congressmen, actor Mel Gibson, and consumer health activists from across the globe.
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Bananas
Bananas!* is a 2009 Swedish documentary directed by
Fredrik Gertten about a conflict between the Dole Food Company and
banana plantation workers in Nicaragua over alleged cases of sterility
caused by the pesticide DBCP.
The film was criticized by Dole for containing "patent falsehoods",
something which they have been unable to prove. After a screening at the
Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2009, Gertten was sued for defamation
by Dole on July 8. The lawsuit was preceded by threats of legal action
from Dole aimed against the LA Film Festival, which resulted in sponsors
pulling support and that the film was removed from competition. Dole
dropped their lawsuit against Fredrik Gertten and Bananas!*, on the 15th of October 2009.
In September 2009, the Swedish parliament members Mats Johansson and
Luciano Astudillo took the initiative of displaying the movie in the
Parliament of Sweden, this being its premiere in Sweden.
In late 2010 a court in Los Angeles decided in favor of the movie crew,
making it possible to release the film in the USA. A judge awarded the
filmmakers nearly $200,000 in fees and costs.
In 2011, Gertten directed the film Big Boys Gone Bananas!* about how the company was sued by Dole.
The Niger Delta is an environmental disaster zone after fifty years of oil exploitation. One and a half million tons of crude oil has been spilled into the creeks, farms and forests, the equivalent to 50 Exxon Valdez disasters, one per year. Natural gas contained in the crude oil is not being collected, but burnt off in gas flares, burning day and night for decades. The flaring produces as much greenhouse gases as 18 million cars and emits toxic and carcinogenic substances in the midst of densely populated areas. Corruption is rampant, the security situation is dire, people are dying. But the oil keeps flowing.
Poison Fire follows a team of local activists as they gather “video testimonies” from communities on the impact of oils spills and gas flaring. We see creeks full of crude oil, devastated mangrove forests, wellheads that has been leaking gas and oil for months. We meet people whose survival is acutely threatened by the loss of farmland, fishing and drinking water and the health hazards of gas flaring.
We also meet meet with Jonah Gbemre, who took Shell to court over the gas flaring in his village and won a surprise victory in the court.
Ifie Lott travels to the Netherlands to attend Shell's Annual General Meeting. She wants to ask a simple question: Is Shell going to obey the court order and stop flaring? There is a demonstration outside the meeting hall. Shell’s CEO shows up for the photo op and shakes her hand, and she meets the MD of Shell-Nigeria, Basil Omiyi. She asks him about the spills and the flaring. He patiently explains Shell’s policies and efforts for social development, but what he says is at odds with reality on the ground.
Back in the Delta, Ifie returns to the communties and shows the taped interview with Omiyo to the victims of the oil industry...
Shell ignored the federal high court ruling. The oil companies continue the illegal gas flaring. Shell has set its own “flares out” deadline to end of 2009. But they have kept saying “next year” for a decade, and in the Delta nobody believes them.
Meanwhile, the oil keeps flowing.
We Feed the World es un documental
austríaco que muestra una imagen crítica sobre el aumento de la
industrialización y de la masificación de la producción de alimentos.
El hilo conductor del documental es una entrevista con Jean Ziegler
(ponente especial de Naciones Unidas para el derecho a la alimentación),
informador especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre el derecho a la
alimentación. La película, que ya es el documental de mayor éxito de las
últimas décadas en Austria, cuestiona el comportamiento de consumo y la responsabilidad de cada uno.
El film nos lleva por Francia, España, Rumania, Suiza, Brasil
y de vuelta a Austria. Además de Jean Ziegler, en este documental se
entrevista al Director de Producción de Pioneer, la mayor empresa de
semillas del mundo, y a Peter Brabeck, Director de Nestle Internacional,
la mayor empresa alimenticia del mundo además de a pescadores,
agricultores y biólogos.
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An Inconvenient Death
A documentary wake up call to all families, regardless of political affiliation, to end America’s spending and debt crisis. Let us not engage in the wrong argument, at the wrong time, between the wrong people, in the wrong country, while the real problems of our time grow and multiply, fertilized by our own neglect. – John F. Kennedy’s ever insightful quote ushers in a haunting warning in this film’s walk through America’s new struggle for economic survival in the 21st century.
For
those who enjoyed the documentaries: Capitalism: A Love Story and Enron:
The Smartest Guys in the Room comes a film that highlights the ongoing
economic collapse from the working class perspective. An Inconvenient Death
documents the death of the American middle class and the catastrophic
debt that is crushing American society from all directions.
From
the ever mounting Federal U.S. deficit, the oblivious inability to
conquer spending, to the ticking time bomb of unfunded liabilities, An Inconvenient Death: of the middle class explores the greatest challenges and threats to today’s working class.
Written and produced by Canadian Andrew Materi, An Inconvenient Death
presents the historical, governmental, political, and personal issues
on how the middle class is slowly fading. This non-partisan,
non-political film investigates the complexities of the deteriorating
American economy and attempts to spread the blame not merely across poor
government policy but also corporations and individual consumers, while
maintaining the central focus of the film sympathetically on the middle
class.
Broadly speaking, financial crises are protracted affairs. More often than not, the aftermath of severe financial crises share three characteristics.
First, asset market collapses are deep and prolonged. Real housing price declines average 35 percent stretched out over six years, while equity price collapses average 55 percent over a downturn of about three and a half years.
Second, the aftermath of banking crises is associated with profound declines in output and employment. The unemployment rate rises an average of 7 percentage points over the down phase of the cycle, which lasts on average over four years.
Output falls (from peak to trough) an average of over 9 percent, although the duration of the downturn, averaging roughly two years, is considerably shorter than for unemployment.
Third, the real value of government debt tends to explode, rising an average of 86 percent in the major post–World War II episodes. Interestingly, the main cause of debt explosions is not the widely cited costs of bailing out and recapitalizing the banking system.
For three consecutive years, the group meets in Lisbon to discuss the crisis. While banks are back in business, societies are struggling with anger, lack of trust and a budget crisis, bringing about rising unemployment and instability, leading in their turn to social protests and a widespread lack of trust in politcial parties and financial institutions.
In this documentary, thinkers involved in the project present original perspectives on the aftermath of the crisis to recognize its multiple faces. With Sarah Banet-Weiser, Craig Calhoun, Joao Caraca, Gustavo Cardoso, Manuel Castells, Pekka Himanen, Terhi Rantanen, John Thompson, Michel Wieviorka and Rosalind Williams.
Noam Chomsky: The responsibility of privilege
Linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky remains as vigorous as ever at the age of 84.
His popularity - or notoriety as some would say - endures because he is still criticising politicians, business leaders and other powerful figures for not acting in the public’s best interest. At the heart of Chomsky’s work is examining the ways elites use their power to control millions of people, and pushing the public to resist.
In this episode of Talk to Al Jazeera, Noam Chomsky sits down with Rosiland Jordan to talk about the two main tracks of his life: research and political activism.
And it is his activism that keeps this US scholar engaged in the public discourse well into his ninth decade.
"The activism for me long antedates the professional work," Chomsky says. "I grew up that way. So I was a political activist as a teenager in the 1940s before I ever heard of linguistics."
Discussing US politics, he attributes the growing popularity of the Tea Party movement, and the fanatical opposition to President Barack Obama in some quarters, to what he calls "pathological paranoia".
"It’s something that exists in the country. It’s a very frightened country, always has been," he says.
At the same time, Chomsky sees Obama himself as a man without a "moral centre".
"If you look at his policies I think that’s what they reveal. I mean there’s some nice rhetoric here and there but when you look at the actual policies … the drone assassination campaign is a perfectly good example, I mean it’s just a global assassination campaign."
On Israel's continued expansion of settlements in the West Bank, Chomsky says "there was no effort" by Obama to even try and curb it.
"[Obama's] telling Netanyahu and the other Israeli leaders: I’ll tap you on the wrist but go ahead and do what you like .... So in fact, Obama is actually the first president who hasn’t really imposed restrictions on Israel."
Chomsky also criticises neoliberal programmes which, he says, have played a large part in the ongoing global financial crisis and are "pretty harmful" almost everywhere they have been implemented.
"[In] the 1950s and the 1960s, which was the biggest growth period in American history, financial institutions were regulated. The New Deal regulations were in place and there were no financial crisis, none .... Starting in the 1970s it changed pretty radically. There were decisions made - not laws of nature - to reconstruct the economy."
And decades later, these decisions have resulted in a situation which "really is a catastrophe," he says.
But Chomsky also feels that "nothing’s ever gone too far. Anything can be reversed; these are human decisions."
He emphasises: "The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have."
When you have had enough. When you decide to take matter into your own hands and don’t care what’s going to happen to you. When you know that from now on you will resist with whatever tactic you think is most effective.
A film about the dark side of civilization, why we should bring it down and why most civilized people don’t.
People from civilization are fast to point out that we cannot “go back” to hunting and gathering “stone age life”, there isn’t enough wild game left for us all and wild fruits and plants cannot fill our stomachs.
But look at societies with “stone age” techniques; their minimum consumption, their ability to self sustain without degrading the land or make non-human species go extinct and their ability to survive extreme conditions.
In contrast it is blatantly obvious that if the civilized continue the path they are on we are all heading for disaster.
There seem to be no way to sustain civilization any longer, but that might not be such a bad thing for the rest of the world, because its collapse is taking place due to a larger collapse: the collapse of cultural diversity and the loss of biodiversity famously called earths sixth major extinction event which is the dark side of the progress of civilization.
Owned & Operated
Owned and Operated is a mosaic of the world through the lens
of the internet. Showing our lives as consumers, under the thumbs of
privileged individuals and their methods of control.
But
the world is awakening, and the experience is something outside the
normal rules of social interaction, causing excitement in those who are
not served by the current system… and fear in those who are pampered by
it.
This documentary attempts to present these events using the
video, audio and written content uploaded to the internet by the
collective human consciousness comprised of every individual
participant.
An Inconvenient Truth es un documental estadounidense presentado por el ex Vicepresidente de los Estados Unidos durante el mandato de Bill Clinton, Al Gore, sobre los efectos del calentamiento global generado por la actividad humana sobre el planeta Tierra. El documental fue publicado en DVD por Paramount Home Entertainment el 21 de noviembre de 2006 en Estados Unidos.
Por la autoría de este documental, Al Gore obtuvo el Premio Nobel de la
Paz en octubre de 2007, premio que comparte con el Grupo
Intergubernamental de Expertos sobre el Cambio Climático (IPCC,
por sus siglas en inglés) de Naciones Unidas. Al Gore ya había ganado en
2007 el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de Cooperación Internacional, así
como el Oscar en 2006 a Mejor Documental y Mejor Canción Original para I Need to Wake Up.
The Century of the Self
This series is about how those in power have used
Freud’s theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of
mass democracy. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, changed
the perception of the human mind and its workings profoundly.
His
influence on the 20th century is widely regarded as massive. The
documentary describes the impact of Freud’s theories on the perception
of the human mind, and the ways public relations agencies and
politicians have used this during the last 100 years for their engineering of consent.
Among the main characters are Freud himself and his nephew Edward
Bernays, who was the first to use psychological techniques in
advertising. He is often seen as the father of the public relations industry.
Freud’s
daughter Anna Freud, a pioneer of child psychology, is mentioned in the
second part, as well as Wilhelm Reich, one of the main opponents of
Freud’s theories. Along these general themes, The Century of the Self
asks deeper questions about the roots and methods of modern
consumerism, representative democracy and its implications. It also
questions the modern way we see ourselves, the attitude to fashion and
superficiality.
Happiness Machines. Part one documents the story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays who invented Public Relations in the 1920s, being the first person to take Freud’s ideas to manipulate the masses.
The Engineering of Consent.
Part two explores how those in power in post-war America used Freud’s
ideas about the unconscious mind to try and control the masses.
Politicians and planners came to believe Freud’s underlying premise that
deep within all human beings were dangerous and irrational desires.
There is a Policeman Inside All of Our Heads, He Must Be Destroyed.
In the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the
influence of Freudian ideas, which lead to the creation of a new
political movement that sought to create new people, free of the psychological conformity that had been implanted in people’s minds by business and politics.
Eight People Sipping Wine In Kettering.
This episode explains how politicians turned to the same techniques
used by business in order to read and manipulate the inner desires of
the masses. Both New Labor with Tony Blair and the Democrats led by Bill
Clinton, used the focus group which had been invented by psychoanalysts
in order to regain power.
Afghan Heroin: The Lost WarAfghan Heroin: The Lost War is a documentary which investigates how the war on terror in Afghanistan has unleashed heroin into the mainstream.
Heroin
is one of the most addictive drugs on Earth. Some 90 per cent of the
drug is grown in Afghanistan and this hard hitting documentary
investigates how the War on Terror has inadvertently unleashed a massive
supply of the deadly drug.After the Western coalition troops started their hunt for terrorist Osama Bin Laden and his Taliban allies in late 2001, the country torn apart from decades of war once more became the world’s opium growing capital.
Many impoverished farmers had no choice but to grow the opium poppy to feed their families.
The documentary delve into the devastating effects of addiction that includes shocking scenes of a young Norwegian couple hustling, scoring and shooting up several times a day in order to appease the monster inside them.
Beating the Bomb
A story about the biggest weapons of mass destruction ever created, the people who use them and, more importantly, the people who fight them. 'Beating the Bomb' charts the history of the British peace movement against the backdrop of the atomic age. The film also frames the nuclear weapons issue within the wider context of global justice.
The narrative follows the now called 'nuclear deterrent', starting at the dawn of the nuclear age in WWII to present day. Nuclear weapons shaped the power structures that rose out of the rubble of WWII and underpin them to this day. It is widely argued that the pressing issues of the day, from poverty to climate change cannot be tackled without addressing the underlying economic system.
Our film evidences the claim that the foundations of our economic system are 'straight power concepts'. The most straightforward of these concepts being the bomb, both in its physical manifestation and also in the mindset it engenders and stems from.
The film charts the efforts of individuals and organizations to rid Britain of its nuclear weapons system from past to present. It also frames the nuclear weapons issue within the wider context of global justice.
The film is a tribute to peace campaigners and accordingly features interviews with Tony Benn, Mark Thomas, Walter Wolfgang,Naomi Klein, George Monbiot, Kate Hudson, Helen John and Vivienne Westwood, bringing into special focus the UK based Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). It is an attempt to mediate their spirit & commitment and to thus empower & inspire the viewer.
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Big Brother, Big Business
Every day technologies are being used to monitor Americans with
unprecedented scrutiny -- from driving habits to workplace surveillance.
Shoppers and diners are observed and analyzed; Internet searches are
monitored and used as evidence in court.
It is big business that collects most of the data about us. But increasingly, it's the government that's using it.
In a Special Report airing Thursday at 9pm and midnight ET, "Big
Brother Big Business," CNBC takes a look at the companies behind the
powerful business of personal information and the people whose lives are
affected by it, including: a woman who lost her job due to mistaken
identity; a man whose cell phone records were stolen by his former
employer; a woman whose personal information was stolen from a company
she had never heard of; a man who discovered his rental car company was
tracking his every move.
The documentary also looks at how the FBI, the Border Patrol, police
departments and schools are using biometric technologies to establish
identity as well as an inside peek at an AOL division that works solely
to satisfy the requests of law enforcement for information about AOL's
members.
Interesante documental, sobre cómo se especula en el sector agrícola, dirigiéndose los inversores hacia la explotación de las tierras del tercer mundo. Desde la bolsa de Chicago hasta las afueras de Montevideo, las imágenes de "Planeta en Venta" ilustran el fenómeno de la deslocalización agrícola desde diversos puntos de vista. Realizado por Alexis Marant, el documental ha llevado a cabo una rigurosa investigación para informar al público sobre los entresijos de esta carrera por el oro verde, que puede convertirse en la tercera ola de deslocalizaciones después de la industria y los servicios.
Motivaciones
También conocido como No logo, el libro es un ensayo que trata de analizar la influencia de las marcas en la sociedad actual.
El objetivo de la autora en la presente obra es analizar y documentar
las primeras fases de resistencia al dominio empresarial y explicar el
conjunto de condiciones económicas y culturales que han dado origen a
dicha resistencia.
Su hipótesis básica es que a medida que la gente conoce la verdad
sobre las prácticas empresariales, su oposición a las mismas aumenta.
Por lo tanto, en la medida en que esta obra descubre y difunde dichas
prácticas, la autora puede llegar a considerarla como uno de los
factores que estimule dicho rechazo.
Comienza narrando el origen y crecimiento de las grandes empresas que
basan su negocio en la imagen de marca, y prosigue analizando los
efectos en todo el mundo, desde el mercado de trabajo, tanto en el
primer como en el tercer mundo, como el mercado de consumo. Explica las
tácticas que las marcas siguen para expandirse y relata muchos actos de
rebeldía surgidos como respuesta.
En el primer mundo analiza fundamentalmente la situación en Estados Unidos y Canadá y, en menor medida, en Europa occidental.
El enfoque es de crítica feroz al comportamiento de las empresas.
Comportamiento actual de las multinacionales
Klein analiza una tendencia muy clara en el comportamiento de las
corporaciones multinacionales: Esta tendencia se resume en que las
corporaciones estarían cada vez menos interesadas en vender productos, sino que lo que venden
son modos de vida e imágenes. Así observa como en muchos casos la
manufactura de mercancías con el nombre de famosas marcas, como Nike por
ejemplo, son subcontratadas a otras compañías, mientras la corporación
en sí se enfoca exclusivamente en el marketing de marca. El objetivo
principal es asociar la marca a una imagen de prestigio o de vida
atractiva.
Así se puede asociar la marca con una celebridad, por ejemplo, o inclusive invadir el espacio público con publicidad
omnipresente. A veces se llega a nombrar edificios públicos con nombres
de marcas, realizando así una penetración de las marcas y la publicidad
en niveles de claro autoritarismo y colonización de los espacios públicos.
Por otra parte, la creciente concentración del capital a través de
fusiones de empresas, crea corporaciones cada vez más grandes capaces de
acaparar mercados y consumidores. Así cita los ejemplos de Wal-Mart o
Starbucks.
En estas fusiones se suelen perder muchos empleos localmente y la
tendencia de muchas corporaciones multinacionales es el moverse desde
sus países de origen en el "primer mundo" hacia el "tercer mundo" en
donde pueden pagar salarios menores, ofrecer condiciones de trabajo
peores, hacer trabajar a sus empleados más horas y evitar la formación
de sindicatos y en algunos casos, como la corporación Nike, inclusive
emplear a menores de edad.
Así pues, termina analizando movimientos diversos alrededor del mundo
que se han rebelado contra la invasión de las marcas y la publicidad en
el espacio público. Por otro lado analiza movimientos que protestan
contra las prácticas laborales deplorables que aplican a los
trabajadores que manufacturan mercancías para las corporaciones
multinacionales. Así mismo a movimientos ecologistas y de trabajadores.
En muchos anticipa al movimiento alterglobalización que convergería en
la Batalla de Seattle.
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Dark Side Of The MoonHow could the flag flutter when there’s no wind on the moon? During an interview with Stanley Kubrick’s widow an extraordinary story came to light. She claims Kubrick and other Hollywood producers were recruited to help the U.S. win the high stakes race to the moon.
In
order to finance the space program through public funds, the U.S.
government needed huge popular support, and that meant they couldn’t
afford any expensive public relations failures. Fearing that no live
pictures could be transmitted from the first moon landing, President
Nixon enlisted the creative efforts of Kubrick, whose 2001: a Space
Odyssey (1968) had provided much inspiration, to ensure promotional
opportunities wouldn’t be missed.
In return,
Kubrick got a special NASA lens to help him shoot Barry Lyndon (1975). A
subtle blend of facts, fiction and hypothesis around the first landing
on the moon, Dark Side Of The Moon illustrates how the truth can be twisted by the manipulation of images.
With
use of ‘hijacked’ archival footage, false documents, real interviews
taken out of context or transformed through voice-over or dubbing,
staged interviews, as well as, interviews with astronauts like Buzz
Aldrin and others, Dark Side Of The Moon navigates the viewer
through lies and truth; fact and fiction. This is no ordinary
documentary. Its intent is to inform and entertain the viewer, but also
to shake him up – make him aware that one should always view television
with a critical eye.
An anonymous woman, covered from head to toe in a
blue burka, is dragged across a football pitch and shot in front of
30,000 spectators. This haunting image of Taliban justice was filmed
secretly in Channel 4′s award-winning documentary Beneath the Veil broadcast in June 2001. The woman was Zarmina, 35-year-old mother of seven. In a new Dispatches film, Lifting the Veil,
Carla Garapedian went to Afghanistan to discover her story and see
whether women’s lives have improved since the fall of the Taliban.
After
a secret trial, Zarmina was jailed with her six-month-old twins. They
were confined to one room for three years. She confessed that her
husband, Alozai, had discovered she had committed adultery saying: ‘He
said, “Tomorrow I will go to the Taliban and they will stone you to
death.” That night I was afraid. I hit him over the head with a mallet.’
Money
could have saved Zarmina’s life. The final Supreme Court ruling stated
that her life would have been spared if she paid 10,000 dirhams ($8,000
dollars) to her seven children for the loss of their father. But she had
no money. Under Taliban law, Zarmina was judged by her own children.
Children often participated in Taliban justice and witnessed executions.
Alozai’s brother brought the couple’s children to court. Zarmina’s
mother says: ‘They were always beating the children to say their mother
had killed.’
Propaganda
On a trip to visit family in Seoul in April, I was approached by a man and a woman who claimed to be North Korean defectors. They presented me with a DVD that recently came into their possession and asked me to translate it. They also asked me to post the completed film on the Internet so that it could reach a worldwide audience. I believed what I was told and an agreement was made to protect their identities (and mine).Despite my concerns about what I was viewing when I returned home, I proceeded to translate and post the film on You Tube because of the film’s extraordinary content. I have now made public my belief that this film was never intended for a domestic audience in the DPRK. Instead, I believe that these people, who presented themselves as ‘defectors’ specifically targeted me because of my reputation as a translator and interpreter.Furthermore, I now believe these people work for the DPRK. The fact that I have continued to translate and post the film in spite of this belief does not make me complicit in their intention to spread their ideology. I chose to keep posting this film because – regardless of who made it – I believe people should see it because of the issues it raises and I stand by my right to post it for people to share and discuss freely with each other.
According to Sabine the above is the formal statement she gave to Federal Police on 16 June 2012.Sabine: I have translated this film, laid in the English voice over and subtitles, and on legal advice have blurred the identity of the presenter and/or blacked out certain elements.
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War is hell, but for Hollywood it has been a Godsend, providing the
perfect dramatic setting against which courageous heroes win the hearts
and minds of the movie going public.
The Pentagon recognises the power of these celluloid dreams and
encourages Hollywood to create heroic myths; to rewrite history to suit
its own strategy and as a recruiting tool to provide a steady flow of
willing young patriots for its wars.
What does Hollywood get out of this 'deal with the devil'? Access to
billions of dollars worth of military kit, from helicopters to aircraft
carriers, enabling filmmakers to make bigger and more spectacular battle
scenes, which in turn generate more box office revenue. Providing they
accept the Pentagon's advice, even toe the party line and show the US
military in a positive light.
So is it a case of art imitating life, or a sinister force using art
to influence life and death - and the public perception of both?
Empire will examine Hollywood, the Pentagon, and war.
Joining us as guests: Oliver Stone, the eight times Academy
Award-winning filmmaker; Michael Moore, the Academy Award-winning
filmmaker; and Christopher Hedges, an author and the former Middle East
bureau chief of the New York Times.
Our interviewees this week are: Phil Strub, US Department of Defense Film Liaison Unit; Julian Barnes, Pentagon correspondent, LA Times; David Robb, the author of Operation Hollywood; Prof Klaus Dodds, the author of Screening Terror; Matthew Alford, the author of Reel Power; Prof Melani McAlister, the author of Culture, Media, and US Interests in the Middle East.
Reel
Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People is a documentary film
directed by Sut Jhally and produced by Media Education Foundation in
2006. This film is an extension of the book of that name by Jack Shaheen
which also analyzes how Hollywood
corrupts or manipulates the image of Arabs. This documentary argues
that the slander of Arabs in American filmmaking has existed since the
early days of the silent cinema and is present in the biggest Hollywood
blockbusters today. Jack Shaheen analyzes a long series of demeaning
images of Arabs through his presentation of various scenes from
different American movies which he has studied. This image that is
characterized by showing Arabs either as bandits or as a savage, nomadic
race, or shows Arab women as shallow belly dancers serving evil, naïve,
and greedy Arab sheiks. Most important is the image of the rifle in the
hands of Arab "terrorists". The film then explains the motivations
behind these stereotypes about Arabs, and their development at key
points in American history, as well as why it is so important today. The film showed for the first time in Washington in 8 June 2007 and then in Los Angeles in the 20 June 2007. The run time of the film is 50 minutes, with Arabic and English subtitles. Soon after, the film was shown successively in more than a dozen of international film festivals between the years 2006 - 2009
Militainment, Inc. – Militarism and Pop Culture
  Militainment,
Inc. offers a fascinating, disturbing, and timely glimpse into the
militarization of American popular culture, examining how U.S. news
coverage has come to resemble Hollywood film, video games, and "reality
television" in its glamorization of war. Mobilizing an astonishing range
of media examples - from news anchors' idolatry of military machinery
to the impact of government propaganda on war reporting - the film asks:
How has war taken its place in the culture as an entertainment
spectacle? And how does presenting war as entertainment affect the
ability of citizens to evaluate the necessity and real human costs of
military action? The film is broken down into nine sections, each
between 10 and 20 minutes in length, allowing for in-depth classroom
analysis of individual elements of this wide-ranging phenomenon.Written, produced & narrated by Roger Stahl Based on his forthcoming book by the same title. Roger Stahl is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia. His work has appeared in publications such as Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Encyclopedia of Political Communication, and Critical Studies in Media Communication. |
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More than any generation in history, people who are young today are not free to create an authentic culture of their own. Instead their hopes and desires are intensively studied by marketers, then amplified and sold back to them in a diabolical feedback loop.
That’s the premise of the PBS Frontline documentary “The Merchants of Cool”, which makes a chillingly compelling case for the distortion of youth culture by its massive commercialization.
Of course marketing is happening to all of us all the time, and no
one is completely immune to its influence nor exempt from its reach. But
the sheer size and purchasing power of the present generation of teens –
and thus the money to be made by getting inside their heads – has
created a gold rush of relentlessly agressive brand messaging that’s
both ubiquitous and goes to great lengths to adhere to the most
important rule in persuading this demographic – don’t let your marketing
show.“Teenagers are the hottest consumer demographic in America. At 33 million strong, they comprise the largest generation of teens America has ever seen–larger, even, than the much-ballyhooed Baby Boom generation. Last year, America’s teens spent $100 billion, while influencing their parents’ spending to the tune of another $50 billion.”The film describes a feedback loop in which marketers conduct exhaustive ethnographic studies of teens to figure out what’s cool, then amplify it and feed it back to them via media that is controlled by fewer and fewer hands. Ultimately this process not only affects, but in fact creates the culture it’s studying.
“What this system does is it closely studies the young, keeps them under constant surveillance to figure out what will push their buttons,” says media critic Mark Crispin Miller. “And it blares it back at them relentlessly and everywhere.”I found “The Merchants of Cool” to be an incredibly powerful documentary, well worth watching. Three comparisons keep occurring to me as I turn it over in my mind:
“It’s one enclosed feedback loop,” Rushkoff says. “Kids’ culture and media culture are now one and the same, and it becomes impossible to tell which came first–the anger or the marketing of the anger.”
1. Quantum physics.
There’s idea in quantum physics, called the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which states that the act of observing something changes it. One take-away message from this film is that the intense scrutiny we’re all under to figure out how to sell things to us fundamentally changes our lives.2. Colonization.
Colonization occurs when an external power comes in and exploits a nation for its natural resources, then packages those resources and sells them back to the native people at a dramatically increased price. The colony becomes a market for finished products that are made from raw materials that were stolen from them in the first place. That process is eerily similar to exploitation of youth culture that’s portrayed in “Merchants”. One person interviewed in the film actually uses the term colonization, describing the youth market as “Africa.”
3. The Borg.
This evil race Star Trek race consumes the mind and will of every
being it encounters, adding that individual’s unique experiences to its
collective hive mind and while leaving the former owner a mechanized
zombie. As they say, “Resistance is futile; you will be assimilated!”
While
the Fox News cable network has promoted itself as a "fair and balanced"
news outlet -- so much so that they've even trademarked the phrase --
not everyone believes that they're living up to their slogan, and this
activist documentary by filmmaker Robert Greenwald takes a close look at the political perspective of Fox's coverage. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
examines the right-wing slant of Fox News' reporting, as represented in
stories the network chooses to cover and their shoehorning of editorial
opinion into stories, revealed in interviews with former Fox employees
and several noted journalists (including Walter Cronkite)
who discuss the pro-conservative, anti-Democratic views of the
channel's management and how they're manifested in their programming.
Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect
The Daily Mirror was the best of them. It was a tabloid when tabloids still meant a peoples’ paper that respected its’ readers and earned their trust and affection…This film is a personal tribute, but it’s also the story of what happened to the once popular Mirror. How the reporting of the blood, sweat, and tears of ordinary people has changed out of all recognition. Above all, it’s the story of a rise of a new kind of tabloid and a new kind of media power now set to dominate much of the world.
The British public
were told that the new information technology, heralded by The Sun’s
move to Wapping, would bring a greater variety of newspapers and a more
diverse media. But it produced a contracted press controlled by ever
fewer proprietors. John Pilger describes the downfall of his old paper
and the all-pervasive influence of Rupert Murdoch.
The Big Picture
For every question regarding our world, there is a conspiracy theory offered from some quarter claiming to address it. These conspiracy theories number into the hundreds and they are nearly always dead ends, or at best, lead to another conspiracy and so on, ad infinitum. Even though it’s become obvious to most that something is not quite right, and that some sort of global conspiracy does indeed exist, it is still hard to see exactly what it is, and where the truth really lies.
It is time the people of the world stood up
and paid heed to the urgency and importance. Yet, you say, even if one
were to do so, then how do we the ordinary individual, ever get to the
bottom of this? And if we do ever get to the bottom of it, then what are
we to do then? And those are both very good questions.
Well,
the best way to start is to get all fluoride out of your diet and gain
an understanding of history. Then learn to look at each news story from a
global perspective. Disregard most of what the announcer tells you to
believe, and place the event where it belongs, on the Global stage. Then
ask yourself that old Greek adage – Cu Bono.
Who
Benefits? And more importantly, when you discover a truth, uncover a
lie, or find an anomaly, tell your friends. Spread the information as
far and wide as you can reach because the media most certainly will not.
However the most important thing of all in order to be able to do
either of the above is to be aware of your surroundings in a global
sense. See the BIG Picture.
After the Vietnam War, hundreds of thousands of U.S. veterans suffered
toxic reactions, neurological damage, and rare cancers due to exposure
to 2,4,5,-D and 2,4,5-T dioxin that was used in the form of the
defoliant Agent Orange. Unfortunately, the U.S. military denied the
problem and failed to heed any of the lessons of this chemical butchery.
Instead, it expanded its harmful legacy to the current generation of
soldiers and civilians exposed to new, more deadly chemical toxins in
the Persian Gulf. Join accomplished filmmaker Gary Null, PhD, as he
explores the real truth about Gulf War Syndrome and the secrets about
chemical and germ warfare that the U.S. government is hiding from its
veterans and the public. Dr. Null uncovers the hidden truths about Gulf
War Syndrome, including the deadly and toxic effects of armor-piercing
radioactive depleted uranium, the use of experimental and risky vaccines
on over 1,100,000 U.S. troops, and the indescribable chemical
contamination and environmental devastation that the military caused
during the Persian Gulf Wars. In this film, Dr. Null relies on
compelling testimony from eyewitnesses who served in the military,
leading doctors and scientists who specialize in chemical exposure, and
those veterans still suffering from the effects of their tours of duty.
Dr. Null goes further than ever before to explain the illnesses of Gulf
veterans, including their rare cancers, neurological diseases, cardiac
ailments, genetic mutations, and autoimmune conditions, ranging from
chronic fatigue syndrome to lupus and scleroderma. "Post Traumatic
Stress Syndrome" is the glib and demeaning explanation that the U.S.
Government likes to give to injured veterans and their families. By
revealing the truth about how and why American soldiers became ill while
fighting overseas, this film sets the record straight and holds the
government accountable for trivializing and covering up some of the
major causes and consequences of Gulf War Syndrome. This film is also a
scathing indictment of the practices and policies of modern warfare, and
how they are causing massive illnesses that have never been seen before
and which do not recognize political or geographic boundaries.
Written by
Anonymous
Gulf War Syndrome-Killing Our Own After the Vietnam War, hundreds of
thousands of U.S. veterans suffered toxic reactions, neurological
damage, and rare cancers due to exposure to 2,4,5,-D and 2,4,5-T dioxin
that was used in the form of the defoliant Agent Orange. Unfortunately,
the U.S. military denied the problem and failed to heed any of the
lessons of this chemical butchery. Instead, it expanded its harmful
legacy to the current generation of soldiers and civilians exposed to
new, more deadly chemical toxins in the Persian Gulf. Join accomplished
filmmaker Gary Null, PhD, as he explores the real truth about Gulf War
Syndrome and the secrets about chemical and germ warfare that the U.S.
government is hiding from its veterans and the public. Dr. Null uncovers
the hidden truths about Gulf War Syndrome, including the deadly and
toxic effects of armor-piercing radioactive depleted uranium, the use of
experimental and risky vaccines on over 100,000 U.S. troops, and the
indescribable chemical contamination and environmental devastation that
the military caused during the Persian Gulf Wars. In this film, Dr. Null
relies on compelling testimony from eyewitnesses who served in the
military, leading doctors and scientists who specialize in chemical
exposure, and those veterans still suffering from the effects of their
tours of duty. Dr. Null goes further than ever before to explain the
illnesses of Gulf veterans, including their rare cancers, neurological
diseases, cardiac ailments, genetic mutations, and autoimmune
conditions, ranging from chronic fatigue syndrome to lupus and
scleroderma. "Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome" is the glib and demeaning
explanation that the U.S. Government likes to give to injured veterans
and their families. By revealing the truth about how and why American
soldiers became ill while fighting overseas, this film sets the record
straight and holds the government accountable for trivializing and
covering up some of the major causes and consequences of Gulf War
Syndrome. This film is also a scathing indictment of the practices and
policies of modern warfare, and how they are causing massive illnesses
that have never been seen before and which do not recognize political or
geographic boundaries.
Written by
Gary Null & Associates
Starsuckers
is a feature documentary about the celebrity obsessed media, that
uncovers the real reasons behind our addiction to fame and blows the lid
on the corporations and individuals who profit from it. Made by the
same team behind BAFTA nominated Taking Liberties, it will be released
in cinemas on the 30th October - unless Rupert Murdoch shuts us down
first. Or Max Clifford. And perhaps Bob Geldof.Made completely independently over 2 years in secret, the film journeys through the dark underbelly of the modern media. Using a combination of never before seen footage, undercover reporting, stunts and animation, the film reveals the toxic effect the media is having on us all and especially our children. It shows how truth has become a distant memory in the modern news and climaxes with a shocking and startling revelation of just how bad things can get when we let entertainment reach out into politics and charity.
The first rule of working in the media is - do not critisise the media. Well, we've decided to break this golden rule, and if we ever work in this town again we won't have done our jobs properly. A film so controversial it will never be shown uncut on TV, and will pull the rug underneath a string of untouchables.
Occupation 101: Voice of the Silenced Majority is a 2006 documentary film on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict directed by Sufyan Omeish and Abdallah Omeish, and narrated by Alison Weir, founder of If Americans Knew. The film focuses on the effects of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and discusses events from the rise of Zionism to the Second Intifada and Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, presenting its perspective through dozens of interviews, questioning the nature of Israeli-American relations — in particular, the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and the ethics of US monetary involvement. Occupation 101 includes interviews with mostly American and Israeli scholars, religious leaders, humanitarian workers, and NGO representatives — more than half of whom are Jewish — who are critical of the injustices and human rights abuses stemming from Israeli policy in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.
PEACE PROPAGANDA & PROMISED LAND This
video shows how the foreign policy interests of American political
elites-working in combination with Israeli public relations
stratgies-influence US news reporting about the Middle East conflict.
Combining American and British TV news clips with observations of
analysts, journalists and political activists, Peace, Propaganda &
the Promised Land provides a brief historical overview, a striking media
comparison, and an examination of factors that have distorted U.S.
media coverage and, in turn, American public opinion.
Movimiento Sin Tierra propone una " reconquista" del campo del cual fueron expulsados y la creación de asentamientos auto sostenidos. En un país con una de las mayores superficies agrícolas del mundo, la tierra no solo es un derecho sino que es una garantía de vida. Amparados por la constitución Brasileña de finales de los años 80, este movimiento ocupa latifundios improductivos reivindicando su justo reparto entre aquellas familias que lo necesiten. De esta forma y con una organización siempre asamblearia el MST ha ido retomando millones de hectáreas en los últimos años y creando asentamientos con escuelas y atención medica. En otras palabras, los integrantes de este movimiento han conseguido recuperar la dignidad robada por los grandes latifundistas y las oligarquías dominantes. Brasil, hoy en día, todavía no ha tenido una verdadera reforma agraria. Esta lucha por la tierra ha generado cientos de muertes entre el campesinado. Pero el MST sigue creciendo y organizándose.
Palestine Is Still the Issue is a 2002 Carlton Television documentary, written and presented by John Pilger, and directed by Tony Stark, inspired by the book Drinking The Sea at Gaza by Amira Haas. Pilger visits the Middle East and tries to discover why peace is elusive.Pilger returns to the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza where he filmed a documentary with the same title in 1974. He believes the basic problems are unchanged: a desperate, destitute people whose homeland is illegally occupied by the world's fourth biggest military power. He hears extraordinary stories from Palestinians, though most of his interviews are with Israelis whose voices are seldom heard, including the remarkable witness of a man who lost his daughter in a suicide bombing.
As decades of bitter conflict between Israel and Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority reached a fever pitch in 2002, director Oliver Stone Arrived in the Middle East in search of some truths—and found them as elusive as Arafat himself. The result is this blistering verite documentary in which Stone set his sights on interviewing leaders of both Israel and the Palestinian Authority—during one of the most violent eras in their history. Shot over the course of five explosive days, the film allows well-known principals of the conflict to speak their minds, ultimately demonstrating just how far apart the two sides stand. Interviews include former Israeli Prime Ministers Shimon Perez, Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu,
Palestinian Authority Minister of
Information and Culture Yasser Abed Rabbo, and a group of masked
fighters from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.
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Kenneth es un carismático personaje que tiene por oficio hacer
fotografías a sus vecinos del barrio de Curundú. “Un maleante casi
retirado” y también, un hombre con talento para contar historias. A
través de Kenneth y de sus fotos, el documental nos habla de Curundú;
uno de los barrios más pobres y marginados de la Ciudad de Panamá.
Diez años después de la invasión de Panamá por los Estados Unidos (en lo que se denominó rimbombantemente "Operación Causa Justa", ¿recuerdan?), Herrera se infiltró en esas bandas con la intención de documentar, según sus palabras, "la adicción a las drogas, el culto a la violencia, lo poco que vale la vida y la absoluta obsesión por ser el más respetado y temido.
Con animo de lucro
“Con ánimo de lucro” es un documental que habla sobre la pobreza del tercer y el primer mundo, analizando las dos sociedades desde las ONG, la televisión, la educación, los políticos y la religión, poniendo en duda la aplicación de los 8 objetivos del milenio y proponiendo una solución.
“Con ánimo de lucro” no pretende dañar a ninguna persona ni medio, solo mostrar los errores que se cometen para reflexionar como solucionarlos.
“Con ánimo de lucro” te hará reflexionar sobre tu actitud, y la importancia de cambio que un solo individuo puede poseer.
El documental se filmó en dos partes: En Nicaragua entre finales de Enero y principios de Febrero, y en Barcelona a finales de Abril hasta Agosto.-Cada 24 horas 25.000 personas mueren de hambre.
-1000 millones viven con menos de 1 dolar al día.
-Las guerras y la violencia matan a 900.000 humanos al año. ¿Por qué?
Actualmente Wikileaks es uno de los portales más conocido del mundo y es han conseguido ponerse en la portada de todos los periódicos del mundo por uno y otro motivo y en especial desde que comenzaron a dar a conocer a todo el mundo los 250,000 cables internos de las embajadas de Estados Unidos.
¿Pero que es Wikileaks? ¿Quién es Julian Assange? STV ha creado un completo documental que ayudará a resolver todas esas dudas.
En
el documental hay varias grabaciones que ensenan el otro lado de la
moneda y ensena tambien el tentativo por parte de grande autoridades, de
bloquear de cualquier manera, esta emission de informaciones que mettìa
en malaluz varios gobiernos.
This documentary presents footage of the first contact between the highland tribes of Papua New Guinea, and European explorers. In the 1930s three Australian's, Michael, Daniel and James Leahy were the first white people to venture into the vast New Guinean interior. They searched for gold and found 1 million highland tribespeople who had previously had no contact with the outside world. Amazingly, they took a film camera with them.
Original footage of the 'first contact' between Papuan highlanders and Australian gold prospectors in the 1930's, together with reflections from surviving participants on their swift introduction to Western colonialism.
A history of the tobacco industry’s lies and scams.
From the US in 1953 to Africa today, the controversy between individual
responsibility and corporate greed is portrayed in a lucid, undaunted
manner.
From scientific frauds to working with
organized crime, tobacco companies show their hidden agenda more clearly
than ever in this theatrically released documentary.
More
than three years of investigating all over the world has allowed Nadia
Collot to decipher the attitudes of an industry that, in spite of many
prevention campaigns still expands its power at the cost of public
health. Three aspects of industry behavior are studied:
1.
Scientific subversion: proof of the manipulation of scientific evidence
and buying out of scientists to maintain controversy over the health
issues related to smoking, but even more so today, related to
environmental tobacco smoke.
2. Ideological
subversion: whether it be through clever and disguised product
placements on screen or TV, creating its own biased health messages,
implementing subtle and ingenious marketing tactics or using political
lobbying manoeuvres, the tobacco industry has gone to unbelievable
extents to do what it says it never will.
3.
Economic strategies: to develop as fast as possible, to infiltrate
closed-market countries, to better reach the young and the poor,
smuggling is one of the ways the industry has chosen to organize its
international growth.
A love of nicotine unites all peoples across the globe, regardless of colour, wealth or creed. Where religion and politics have failed tobacco has succeeded, but at what cost? For over 50 years people have been knowingly paying for the pleasure of tobacco with their lives, making man's fatal tryst with the cigarette one of the strangest love affairs ever.
But as smoking bans in the US and Europe abound, what is happening in poorer nations? Their love affair is still in its first flush - one third of the world's cigarettes are smoked in China alone. And globally the tobacco industry is still worth $430 billion and going strong.
Intrigued by our planet's obsession with the cigarette, we decided to capture our love affair with nicotine across the world on one single day - 20 January 2006.
Exit Through The Gift Shop es una obra de arte en sí. Un ensayo sobre nosotros mismos y nuestra relación con el arte. La historia es fantástica, haciéndonos pensar en una Being There teniendo lugar en la vida real (créanme, ya sabrán de lo que hablo). Cada escena es interesante desde una perspectiva diferente, después de todo estamos hablando de arte, ¿no? Incluso si no se sienten motivados por la historia se deleitarán desde el principio con las increíbles secuencias de asombrosas intervenciones urbanas en desarrollo. Exit Through The Gift Shop es un filme que tiene de todo, ironía, drama, ingenio, e incluso nos tiene a nosotros preguntándonos cual es el remate del chiste.
