Barbara Freedman Doyle offers some tips on how anyone entering the film industry can make sure they stop themselves from saying what they really think and stay in the good graces of those with the power to hire.Read More
When I woke up today it was morning in America, but it wasn’t until the afternoon before I realized I helped create the dawn. That’s when I saw Newt Gingrich’s “Rebuilding the America We Love” ad and noticed those images that all political pundits where dissecting where in part created by me. Read More
Thousands in Prague and many more around the world mourn the loss of Velvet Revolutionary Vaclav Havel, who has died at age 75. A playwright who led a bloodless uprising in 1989 that broke Czechoslovakia free from the shackles of Communism.Read More
“Batman” was attacked and pushed around by police agents at an impromptu checkpoint while trying to reach the house of Chen Guangcheng, the famous blind political activist, who has long been under house arrest.Read More
Love him or hate him, the late Christopher Hitchens was a masterful rhetorician with fiery wit. In this video homage by Vanity Fair,you can view a mere sampling of his brilliant ripostes. As he says, “one wouldn’t be doing one’s job if one didn’t itch to prick.”Read More
The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee visits Zuccotti Park to report on class division within the Occupy Wall Street movement.Read More
Jon Stewart warns Occupy Wall Street Optics Are Everything. “You do not want this to be your Tiananmen Square,” reffering to the image of the man shitting on a Police Car appearing first appearing in the Daily Mail.Read More
Behind the strike that killed Osama bin Laden on May 1st was one of the U.S. military’s best kept secrets: an extraordinary campaign by elite U.S. soldiers to take out thousands of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters. A six-month investigation by FRONTLINE has gone inside the “kill/capture” program to discover new evidence of the program’s impact — and its costs.Read More
Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy? In this new RSA Animate, Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on ‘cyber-utopianism’ – the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely empancipatory role in global politics.Read More
Filmmaker Brian Springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish grabbing back channel news feeds not intended for public consumption. The result of his research is SPIN, one of the most insightful films ever made about the mechanics of how television is used as a tool of social control to distort and limit the American public’s perception of reality.Read More
In this award winning documentary for the BBC Adam Curtis’ examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty. I’m not sure how much of this I agree with, but it is interesting nonetheless. “This series is about how those in power have used Freud’s theories to try and control Read MoreRead More
