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...]
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...]
Building Collapse in Bangladesh Leaves Scores Dead
There is a very heavy human cost to the many products made in third world countries for Western markets. These costs are very real and very much hidden until a tragedy like the recent factory collapse in Bangladesh. Big multinational companies haul their PR machines out to tip-toe around the issues, claim ignorance and make public apologies. Who is ultimately responsible? … [Read more...]