While the US media is focused on the latest political scandal, civil rights in the United States continue to be eroded. Here is a likely incomplete list of some of the things the government is now allowed to do, essentially because they say they can. … [Read more...]
Park Avenue, Money, Power and the American Dream
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) presents his take on the gap between rich and poor Americans in Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream. Gibney contends that America’s richest citizens have “rigged the game in their favor,” and created unprecedented inequality in the United States. Nowhere, … [Read more...]
Modern Art was CIA ‘Weapon’
Revealed: how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural Cold War For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a … [Read more...]
The Secret of the Seven Sisters: A Time for Lies, Part 4 of 4
A four-part series that reveals how a secret pact formed a cartel that controls the world's oil. Peak oil – the point in time at which the highest rate of oil extraction has been reached, and after which world production will start decline. Many geologists and the International Energy Agency say the world's crude oil output reached its peak in 2006. But while there may be … [Read more...]
Money & Life
Money & Life is a passionate and inspirational essay-style documentary that that asks a provocative question: can we see the economic crisis not as a disaster,but as a tremendous opportunity? This cinematic odyssey connects the dots on our current economic pains and offers a new story of money based on an emerging paradigm of planetary well-being that understands all of … [Read more...]