Krugman is an outspoken critic of the George W. Bush administration and its foreign and domestic policy. Unlike many economic pundits, he is also regarded as an important scholarly contributor by his peers. He has written over 200 scholarly papers and 20 books—some academic, and some written for the layperson.
2. David Ray Griffin - 911 Commission Report: Ommissions and Distortions
A lecture by David Ray Griffin about the “9/11 Commission Report” and his latest book “The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions“. Here he debunkd the entire Kean commission and the report as an enourmous lie through ommissions.
3. Louis Theroux: “Under The Knife”
Louis Theroux travels to California to explore the obsessive world of plastic surgery.
4. Dispatches - Iraq Reckoning
A documentary created by Dispatches for Channel four in the UK. This is an interesting look at the image portrayed about Iraq by the politicians and the general media and then what is the actual truth.
Equally comedic and insightful, Letting Go of God is Sweeney’s brilliant one-woman show about her struggle with her faith. Grappling with the seeming contradictions in Adam and Eve, Noah, the Ten Commandments, and even the teachings of Jesus - and trying to understand the Bible’s messages about morality, family values, and human suffering while faced with door-knocking Mormons and wise-cracking priests - Sweeney takes listeners on her very personal journey from God to “not-God”.
6. A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
In A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror, McCoy briefly relates that the US historically engaged in systematic torture in the Vietnam Phoenix program and taught Central American governments the CIA methods, to name just two examples. This history was largely ignored in discussions of Abu Ghraib as some commentators simply refused to believe that Americans would do such things.
7.Penn And Teller Bullshit - Breast Hysteria
This one, you just have to see.
8. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Journalist Klein (No Logo) chronicles decades of such disasters, including the Chicago School makeovers launched by South American coups; the corrupt sale of Russia’s state economy to oligarchs following the collapse of the Soviet Union; the privatization of New Orleans’s public schools after Katrina; and the seizure of wrecked fishing villages by resort developers after the Asian tsunami. Klein’s economic and political analyses are not always meticulous. Likening free-market shock therapies to electroshock torture, she conflates every misdeed of right-wing dictatorships with their economic programs and paints a too simplistic picture of the Iraq conflict as a struggle over American-imposed neo-liberalism.
A documentary created by Disptaches for Channel 4 in the UK. This report clearly highlights the massive ineptitudes involved with handling the Iraqi billions. This has to be the single and largest fraud ever.
10. Dick Cheney: The unauthorized biography
Cheney’s remarkable life story involves the relentless accumulation of power in every form. Elected for a second term, he continues to be one of the most powerful and well-connected men in the world.
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