I recently attended a showing of Oliver Stone’s new documentary film, “South of the Border”, which concerns seven present-day government leaders of Latin America -– in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay, Cuba and Brazil — who are not in love with US foreign policy.
I just saw “The Karate Kid 2010” tonight in Bangkok, and I feel like I am 43 going on 16. I have one of those feel-great movie highs that prompts you to make life altering decisions, which you will never follow through on when you wake up with a hangover. But for those brief moments [...]
I of course received the usual right-wing frothing at the mouth, but I also heard from five or six people on the left who expressed political criticism of it, two of them asking to be removed from my mailing list. All of them were upset for the same reason –- The video makes no mention of Israel.
A brief overview of U.S. foreign policy produced and directed by Charle Mauch and William Blum.
The two wars in Chechnya have brought unprecedented loss of lives on the Chechens with their economy in tatters. There is not a single family in Chechnya that has not suffered terrible loss during the 15 year old conflict. You will not find one single neighborhood that does not bear the scars of the wars.
The two wars in Chechnya have brought unprecedented loss of lives on the Chechens with their economy in tatters. There is not a single family in Chechnya that has not suffered terrible loss during the 15 year old conflict. You will not find one single neighborhood that does not bear the scars of the wars.
Linguist and author Antonio Graceffo uses ALG concepts to learn Khmer language through picture stories. The pictures and an English retelling of the story create a context to make the foreign language input comprehensible. There is no actual translation, but there is contextualization.
A promotional short film for a new book on Gaza is being released worldwide today, days before the official book launch in the U.K., to commemorate the first anniversary of the Gaza massacre.
There are very few movies or documentaries that show just how severe life is for civilians in Burma. It is only fitting that a group of committed local Burmese reporters from the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) fill this void by capturing the footage of the 2007 uprising led by monks, otherwise known as the Saffron Revolution.
Yesterday, as part of its “Accountability for Torture” project (to which I contributed here), the ACLU launched a new campaigning video, “Tortured Logic,” in which ten people (including Oliver Stone, Philip Glass and a relative of one of the 9/11 victims) read out passages from the notorious torture memos, issued by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), which were released by the Obama administration in May.
FPJ Blog – Between the Lines
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