Two Classics from Clint Eastwood
(the 1st director to show both sides of a conflict)
Flags of our Fathers |
Letters from Iwo Jima |
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The New World |
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| This epic adventure, The New World, retells the first recorded encournter between the Jamestown colony and Native Americans in 1607. Definately worthwhile! |
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OTHER MENTIONED MOVIES:
Two movies that touch upon radical or progressive themes or themes of personal courage, standing up against bad leaders, are: 1984 about the threats of 'Big Brother,' that have become all too real, and the classic Farenight 451 about a time in the future
when all 'subversive writing' is banned and history is rewritten to suit the government.
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The Quiet American
Very impressive because it spelled out the whole politics about what was happening in Vietnam before my Americans knew where the country was. (USA Americans seem to learn most of their geography by wars.) |
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Dr. Zhivago
An epic overview of trying to live through war and revolution. |
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Professor, author and political activist, Samatha Power as an advisor to the Barack Obama campaign until harsh criticism of Hillary Clinton and a little too much honest in a British radio interview forced her to resign. She is extraordinarily insightful, clear and comprehensive on many major issues of the day.
Sergio Vieira was an inspirational and hard-work UN official working to bring UN relief to Iraq, but was killed in a bombing.
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Witty and insightful media critic, Dana Milbank, continues his rampage against the Establishment status-quo: New School.
Milbank's latest book, Homo Politicus, is another 'tell it like it is,'
slash & burn, 'no holds barred,' savage screed,
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This book review by a leading Jewish liberal rabbi not only makes some strong points about the warmongering neo-cons but also offers ideas about resolving current war issues. |
Famous curmudgeon broadcaster, Jack Cafferty,
cuts into the Establishment status-quo: Old School.
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"Braindead Mainstream Media!?
OMG ! ! Say it ain't so."
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Written by the former and long-term head of the Federal Reserve Commission, Mr. Greenspan says in this book: "The war (in Iraq) is about oil, and everybody knows it."
Exactly. |
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Words and ideas I never thought I would hear from any politician. |
Fromer Vice-President Al Gore has been on the most incredibe personal and political journey. He got the most popular vote in the 2000 election. If all the votes were actually counted in Florida, rather than being hindered cynically by the Supreme Court he would have won.
But he has gone on to make the issue of global warming real in people's minds while before it was only a joke. Now this books cuts to the heart of flaws and hopes in USA politics.
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From the streets of Harlem to the halls of Congress. |
Congressman Charles B. Rangel became a hero in the Korean war. When he came back from that war he was very unsatisfied with the jobs offered to him; he wanted to be more.
Now he is the Chairman of the most powerful House Ways and Means Committee, bring not only the experience of growing up poor in tough times and places, but the well-learned lessons of pragamatic politics. |
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A book of hope, rather than Republican 'fear and smear.' |
| The first black, Afro-American U.S. Senator, with thoughts about reclaiming the American dream, a dream that with hard work and belief became a reality for him and shows how it's a potential for others. |
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| Can be found at: Amazon.com |
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While documenting beyond refutation more evidence of deliberate USA plans to 'fix the facts,' to go to War in Iraq, Carl Ross also takes a broader view of the entire charade of diplomacy, a crisis in world politics he attributes to an 'Unaccountable Elite.' |
A British diplomats account of how the "facts" were being shaped falsely justify the War in Iraq, focusing on the British 'Dearborn Papers," also called the 'Downing Street memo,' even in 2002. For more info, see our website link to: 'False Intel to Start War
The Smoking Gun.' |
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It's becoming clearer to everyone that the War in Iraq was started for deliberate false reasons. This is the first book that attempts to document one of those false reasons. |
How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for War in Iraq, following the trail of the 'hardest,' piece of false evidence, documents purportedly showing that Iraq wanted to buy uranium from Niger; documents that were later proved to be forgeries. For more info, see our website link to: 'False Intel to Start War
The Smoking Gun.' |
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An honest look at the core, one of the root causes of the Middle East Wars. |
| President Carter dares to take on a sensitive and controversial subject . "To solve the Israeli Paelstinian conflict," he concludes, "there must be two states, one for Israel and one for the Palestinians. But the latter must be viable, one for which peace is worth making. Th US should urge Israel to encourage such a Palestinian state to emerge and help it prosper |
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"State of Denial"
Significant analysis of the War for Oil, the Iraq War |
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Number One in our questionaire results and #2 in the October list of NYT best books, this critical insight into the Bush Administrations confusion and discord is striking a national nerve. Highly recommended, esp. the plans revealed for 'generations of war.' |
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OTHER MENTIONED BOOKS:
Touching Peace, is a specific and practical instruction booklet on how to really meditate. Author Nhat Hanh claims this practice of meditation will transform the roots of violence, war, alcoholism and family strife; a 90-min. DVD is also available. |
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