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George Carlin: You Are All Diseased – Live at the Beacon Theatre, New York City
The late George Carlin at his best – this being the show where he famously spends 10 minutes at the end tearing into religion.
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Atheism: Jonathan Miller’s Brief History of Disbelief
1. Shadows of Doubt. Jonathan Miller visits the absent Twin Towers to consider the religious implications of 9/11 and meets Arthur Miller and the philosopher Colin McGinn. He searches for evidence of the first ‘unbelievers’ in Ancient Greece and examines some of the modern theories around why people have always tended to believe in mythology and magic. 2. Noughts and Crosses. With the domination of Christianity from 500 AD, Jonathan Miller wonders how disbelief began to re-emerge in the 15th [...]
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Death in Gaza
In spring 2003, award-winning filmmaker James Miller and reporter Saira Shah, set out to take a first-hand look at the culture of hate that permeates the Middle East. They captured the lives of three Palestinian children growing up in the bullet-riddled streets of Gaza. Although James and Saira had planned to film the lives of Israeli children as well, in the midst of production, Miller was shot to death by an Israeli tank, falling victim to the very conflict he covered.
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Clash of Worlds
Clash of Worlds was a series of three documentaries broadcast between 2007 and 2008, which explored how past conflicts between a Christian West and Islam can help explain more recent violence.
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Should Capitalism Have a Future?
Public debate: Should Capitalism Have a Future? ‘ Yes’ – Professor John Meadowcroft (University of East London) ‘No’ – Richard Headicar (the Socialist Party)
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Poles Apart? – Capitalism or socialism … as the planet heats up
Featuring Glenn Morris of ‘Arctic Voice’ and Brian Gardner, The Socialist Party Conway Hall, London, April 5th 2008.
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Business growth in conflict with the environment
A public talk by Glenn Morris.
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The Fourth World War
From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, and the North; from Seattle to Genova, and the War on Terror in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq, The Fourth World Waris the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated in this war.
While our airwaves are crowded with talk of a new world war, narrated by generals and filmed from the noses of bombs, the human story of this global conflict remains untold. The Fourth World War brings together the images and voices of the war on the ground. It is a story of a war without end and of those who resist… -
The Genius of Charles Darwin
The Genius of Charles Darwinis a three-part television documentary, written and presented by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.
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CULTURE JAM – Hijacking Commercial Culture – CBC Rough Cuts
Culturejam: Hijacking Commercial Culture delivers a fascinating rap on the 20th Century movement called Culture Jamming. Pranksters and subversive artists are causing a bit of brand damage to corporate mindshare. Jammers, cultural commentators, a billboard advertiser and a constitutional lawyer take us on a wild roller coaster ride through the back streets of our mental environment. Stopping over in San Francisco, New York’s Times Square, and Toronto, we catch the jamming in action with Batman-inspired Jack Napier of the Billboard Liberation Front, Disney arch-enemy Reverend Billy from the Church of Stop Shopping and Media Tigress Carly Stasko. Culturejam asks: Is Culture Jamming civil disobedience? Senseless vandalism? The only form of self defense left?
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John Pilger: Obama and Empire
Author, journalist, film maker John Pilger speaks at Socialism 2009. (Nothing at all do do with the World Socialist Movement).Filmed by Paul Hubbard at the Womens Building in San Francisco 7-4-09.
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War is a Racket: The real speech re-created by an actor
If you know your history, you know that in 1934 there was an attempted coup in the United States that was thwarted largely due to the efforts of U.S. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler (ret.). Look it up.
Among other things, Butler was only one of 19 people ever awarded the Medal of Honor twice and the only person to be awarded a Marine Corps Brevet Medal and a Medal of Honor for two different actions. After it dawned on him how his heroism and the heroism of the troops under his command had been misused, he wrote a book called “War is a Racket” which is certainly not to be found on the curriculum in US schools.The patriotic overtones aside, this is a worth watching video. -
Orwell Rolls in his Grave (Full 3HR Documentary)
3 Hour Documentary explaining a portion of the information about media censorship, consolidation and propaganda.
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Asch Conformity Experiment
The Asch conformity experiments were a series of studies published in the 1950s that demonstrated the power of conformity in groups. These are also known as the Asch Paradigm.
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Biology, Religion – Richard Dawkins – “The blind Watchmaker”
The Blind Watchmaker Produced in 1987 by Jeremy Taylor and Richard Dawkins for BBC’s HORIZON series.
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design is a 1986 book by Richard Dawkins in which he presents an explanation of, and argument for, the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. He also presents arguments to refute certain criticisms made on his previous book, The Selfish Gene. (Both books espouse the gene-centric view of evolution). An unabridged audiobook edition was released by Audible Inc in 2011, narrated by Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward. -
History of Oil – Robert Newman
As shown on Ch4 and repeated several times on More4, available at IndyBay on the web and many other places, now on google video (not great video quality) Robert’s stand-up act examines the history of the last 100 years or so but putting oil center-stage. Brilliant!
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The Road to Guantanamo
Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross? “The Road to Guantanamo” is the terrifying first-hand account of three British citizens who were held for two years without charges in the U.S: military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Known as the “Tipton Three” in reference to their home town in Britain, the three were eventually returned to Britain and released, still no formal charges were made against them at any time during their ordeal.
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Santa’s Workshop
SANTA’S WORKSHOP takes you to the real world of China’s toy factories. Workers tell us about long working hours, low wages, and dangerous work places. Those who protest or try to organize trade unions risk imprisonment. Low labour costs attract more and more companies to China. Today more than 75% of our toys are made in China. But this industry takes its toll on the workers and on the environment. The European (and American) buyers blame bad conditions on the Chinese suppliers. But they say that increasingly hard competition gives them no option. Who should we believe? And what can you do to bring about a fairer and more humane toy trade?
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Howard Zinn – You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
From the Guardian’s obituary of 29/1/10:
Howard Zinn, who has died of a heart attack aged 87, was a much-loved and much-vituperated icon of the American left. He was an activist and historian, and later a dramatist, but always a courageous and articulate campaigner for his vision of a just and peaceful America.
As a white teacher at the black Spelman College for women in Atlanta, Georgia, he was a mentor to and later the historian of the Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC), the radical student wing of the civil rights movement. In 1963 he was dismissed from Spelman for advocating a less “ladylike” concept of women’s education, and moved to Boston University, where he taught political science for 24 years. -
The New American Century
he untold history of The Project for the New American Century is no more. This film exposes how every major war in US history was based on a complete fraud with video of insiders themselves admitting it. This film shows how the first film theatres in the US were used over a hundred years ago to broadcast propaganda to rile the American people into the Spanish-American War; the white papers of the oil company Unocal which called for the creation of a pipeline through Afghanistan and how their exact needs were fulfilled through the US invasion of Afghanistan; how Halliburton under their “cost plus” exclusive contract with the US Government went on a mad dash spending spree akin to something out of the movie Brewster’s Millions…
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Aldous Huxley – The Ultimate Revolution
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.” Aldous Huxley
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9/11, Globalization, and Total War
Though a bit dated, this video is worth watching. Michel Chossudovsky, (who has some good articles on the Global Research site) a professor at the University of Ottawa, demonstrates how the US attack on Yugoslavia in the 1990s were the prelude to and part of a larger plan to destabilize and invade Afghanistan and Iraq…
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Mark Bittman on what’s wrong with what we eat
In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what’s wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it’s putting the entire planet at risk.
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The Story of Bottled Water
The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film explores the bottled water industrys attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces. The film concludes with a call to take back the tap, not only by making a personal commitment to avoid bottled water, but by supporting investments in clean, available tap water for all.
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Sir, No Sir
Sir! No Sir! is a 2005 Displaced Films/BBC documentary film about the little-known anti-war movement within the ranks of the United States Military during the Vietnam War. It is subtitled “the suppressed story of the GI movement to end the war in Vietnam.” It was completed in 2005 and won the audience award at the Los Angeles Film Festival and the Golden Starfish Award for best documentary in 2005. The film is also a part of the Iraq Media Action Project film collection…
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The Corporation
In short, THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate propaganda, illuminates the corporation’s grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a “person” to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist’s couch to ask “What kind of person is it?” Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative, The Corporation includes forty interviews with corporate insiders and critics – including Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Michael Moore – plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change. ..
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Manufacturing Consent : Noam Chomsky and the Media
Chomsky’s response to the film was mixed; in a published conversation with Achbar and several activists, he stated that film simply doesn’t communicate his message, leading people to believe that he is the leader of some movement that they should join. In the same conversation, he criticizes the New York Times review of the film, which mistakes his message forbeing a call for voter organizing rather than media critique.
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Loose Change 2nd Edition Recut
Loose Change 2nd Edition Recut sets out to prove the official story of 9/11 – ‘that the impact of two planes flying into two World Trade Center towers and the resulting fires caused three World Trade Center steel framed buildings to collapse’ – is false. Using witness testimony, expert analysis, news footage, and corroborating evidence this film is one of the most explosive and important films of the decade. Starring George W Bush, Condoleeza Rice, Dick Cheney, Philip Zelikow, Dan Rather, the late Peter Jennings, contributors from Fox News, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, firefighters, first responders and 9/11 victims, the film exposes the inconsistencies and lies put forward by the Bush administration in the hours, days and weeks after 9/11, and their role in hoaxing the American people that 19 islamic terrorists were the sole perpetrators of 9/11, the crime of the century.
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Zeitgeist: The Movie, Addendum, Moving Forward
Anyone watching the online documentary film Zeitgeist (2007) would be advised to borrow Occam’s razor for some editorial cutting. A well-made and interesting film, Zeitgeist nonetheless makes history more mysterious than it needs to be. You can explain what goes on in capitalism quite easily without making a giant secret conspiracy of it. So, when the sequel, Zeitgeist Addendum, came out in October of this year, socialists were expecting more conspiracy stuff and dodgy bank-credit economics…
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Nineteen-Eighty-Four
From the IMDB site:
In the year 1984, rocket bombs and rats prey on the inhabitants of the crumbling metropolis of London. Far away on the Malabar Front, a seemingly interminable war rages against Eastasia. The Ministry of Truth broadcasts ceaselessly to the population via its inescapable network of telescreens. These devices, which pervade all aspects of peoples’ lives, are also capable of monitoring their every word and action. They form part of an elaborate surveillance system used by the Ministry of Love, and its dreaded agents the Thought Police, to serve their singular goal: the elimination of ‘thoughtcrime’… -
Judgement Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
PBS Nova Documentary on the Dover school district trial (Kitzmiller v. Dover) and the ramifications it has for being able to keep Intelligent Design (creationism) out of science classrooms. Ken Miller and many others.
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The Labour Government 1945-51
Speaker: Steve Trott, London Day School, 25th June 2005
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The Labour Party and the Atom Bomb
Speaker: Richard Headicar, London Day School, 25th June 2005
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Who Killed the Electric Car?
Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 documentary film that explores the creation, limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the 1990s. The film explores the roles of automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the US government, the Californian government, batteries, hydrogen vehicles, and consumersin limiting the development and adoption of this technology…
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War Made Easy
War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.
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Capitalism and Other Kids’ Stuff
Capitalism & Other Kids’ Stuff was made by four members of the Socialist Party on a freezing Saturday afternoon in a church hall at Hebburn in the north east of England, and on a budget of £80 which was spent on travel expenses, the cost of hiring the hall and some cold cheese pasties. The film may be rough and ready but it’s hoped that it says something real to you. The ideas it proposes are those you’re unlikely to see on any TV show, art house play or even the news networks. A cursory Google search will reveal the extent of this film’s global popularity. Not only has it appeared on TV as far away as the USA and New Zealand, it is now on the syllabus of university courses.
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Introducing the SPGB
This short film, made a few years ago, was recorded in an hour and edited within an other hour. It was unrehearsed and unscripted, being produced on the spur of the moment. Those taking part were SPGB members: Carol Taylor (opening narration), Simon Wigley, Danny Lambert and Bill Martin (interviews), John Bissett (camera), Carol Taylor and John Bissett (editing). The sound on your pc may have to be turned up during the interviews with SPGB members.
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The Internationale
The classic socialist song, sang here by Alistair Hulett and Jimmy Gregory.
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The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares. The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But, as Curtis argues, just as the dreams were not true, neither are these nightmares.
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Patent for a Pig: The Big Business of Monsanto
Documentary concerning the controversy surrounding the experimental science of genetic modification by biotechnology corporations and the food industry. This idea of patenting life is not new, but begs the question – if they want to patent life, then what next? The air we breathe? Water? Relax, there’s profits to be had!
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History of Racism
This three-part documentary, originally shown on BBC 4, examines the history of racism, covering its origins with the enslavement of Africans in the sixteenth century, its overt nature in the colonial projects of the European powers and its appearance within twentieth century western societies. Featuring interviews with European, American and African academics and cultural commentators as well as employing strong images, the programme is a detailed and far-reaching assessment into the way in which racism has been constructed over the last five hundred years…
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Dying For Drugs
A powerful international investigation of the global pharmaceutical industry.
Every year, many new drugs come to market which offer hope to the sick and dying. They also bring billions of pounds into the coffers of the pharmaceutical industry, making Big Pharma the most profitable and powerful business on earth. Two years in the making, this film investigates just how far drug companies are prepared to go to get their drugs approved; what they will do to make sure they get the prices they want and what happens when profits are put before people… -
Eyes of a Child
It is a frightening fact that in today’s affluent Britain almost one in three children live in poverty. Their childhood has been stolen: they are denied a childhood free of adult cares and worries. Poverty and lack of social support forces them to make adult decisions and bear adult responsibilities long before they should…
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Return To Dying Rooms
In 1996 Producers/directors Brian Woods and Kate Blewett uncovered the systematic neglect of abandoned babies in Chinese state-run orphanages. This film led directly to the creation of the charity COCOA – Care of China’s Orphaned and Abandoned
It is a film that nobody can ever forget or not be deeply touched by. The films have been seen in over 37 countries worldwide, with an estimated audience of over 100 million people. Such has been the outcry to these human rights abuses that the issue has been one of the most talked about subjects for years. -
A world without water
Every day, thousands of children die due to lack of water and poor sanitation. Billions of people do not have access to safe water. Environmental change threatens to make this situation worse but a more immediate danger is emerging. Control of the world’s water is falling into the hands of the rich and water may soon take the place of oil as the world’s most tradeable – and coveted – commodity – not a basic human right (indeed, the US argued this at the UN). In a future when market forces set the price of a glass of water, will many more people be left too poor to drink?
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Salt of the Earth
Tells the tale of a real life strike by Mexican-American miners. The story is set in a remote New Mexico town where the workers live in a company town in company owned shacks without basic plumbing. Put at risk by cost cutting bosses, the miners strike for safe working conditions. As the strike progresses the issues at stake grow beyond that, driven by the workers’ wives….
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Responding to the Crisis: How to Generate Millions of Jobs Now
A talk by Bill Barclay of DSA and the Chicago Political Economy Group on a program to create 4,000,000 jobs a year.
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Stop Wage Theft: Kim Bobo Keynote 2010 Atlanta DSA Douglass-Debs Dinner
Kim Bobo, executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice, gave the keynote address to the 2010 Atlanta DSA Douglass-Debs Dinner on November 6, 2010.
