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  • THE IRON WALL
    3 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mohammed Alatar (2007, 57’)
    In 1923 Vladimir Jabotinsky, leading intellectual of the Zionist movement and father of the right wing of that movement, wrote:
    "Zionist colonization must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population. Which means that it can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population - behind an The Iron Wall , which the native population cannot breach." First published in Russian under the (…)

  • Top Hollywood Studios now Terrorist organizations
    7 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hollywood studios (Warner, Sony, Disney, Fox, Viacom, Universal) have been manipulating the justice system in America for decades. First of all Edward Jay Epstein’s book "The Big Picture" publised by Random House (a company owned by one of the six studios) states how the studios worked together to avoid the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. And they continue to this day working together to keep out competition. They now are coordinating with Yahoo and Microsoft in business strategy in an illegal (…)

  • Get Out of the Valley of Elah
    26 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    I spent a day meeting with Congress Members and their staffers, urging them to end the occupation of Iraq, and having them tell me they would never "defund our troops." In the evening I watched Paul Haggis’s new film "In the Valley of Elah." I walked out stunned, shaken, far more angry than I’d been, and convinced that we shouldn’t be asking Congress Members to end the occupation, we should be asking them to watch this movie. If any Congress Member were to watch this (…)

  • International Human Rights Film Festival of Paris
    23 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Press release for immediate distribution - Paris, Sept. 20th 2007
    Day -10 before deadline !
    You still have until Oct.1st to submit your film to the 2008 edition of the International Human Rights Film Festival of Paris .
    Please go to our homepage at www.festival-droitsdelhomme.org or click directly on http://festival-droitsdelhomme.org/docs/2008.doc
    The 6th International Human Rights Film Festival of Paris will take place from March 26th until April 1 st 2008.
    We look forward (…)

  • “Resisting the Empire”: Documentary Filmmaker John Pilger (DemocracyNow)
    11 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Resisting the Empire”: Documentary Filmmaker John Pilger on Struggles for Freedom in Israel-Palestine, Diego Garcia, Latin America and South Africa
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    The renowned investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger has spent the better part of his life documenting American empire and the resistance it has met. Pilger has made over fifty documentaries and is the author, most recently, of "Freedom (…)

  • Hollywood plans strategy for promotion of war-based films
    28 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Two of the marketing strategies on which most of the studios seem to have decided to rely on are non-concealment of the subject matter and tailoring the campaign to the film. The continuing support from Hollywood studios is also a factor behind producers’ inclination towards such themes. Saturday 28th July, 2007 (ANI)
    Washington, July 28 : The not so good reception of ’A Mighty Heart’, a film about late Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, by the audiences has prompted Hollywood (…)

  • Paying The Price: Killing The Children Of Iraq
    10 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    A documentary film by John Pilger
    Sanctions enforced by the UN on Iraq since the Gulf ... all » War have killed more people than the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945, including over half a million children - many of whom weren’t even born when the Gulf War began.

  • "Why Net Neutrality is Hollywood’s Secret Enemy"
    11 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.chycho.com/?q=neutrality
    On February 8th, the independent movie known as “The Secret” was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show. What was of significance about this event was not the information that this movie shared, but about this movie becoming a member of an elite and very significant group of films to have had a successful transition from the Internet to the mainstream media.
    The first major movie to have successfully used the Net to propel itself to the spotlight was the (…)

  • Dr. King Would Be On YouTube! E-Advocacy Tools for the Activist
    15 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Paramount Inks Deal With Spike Lee to Direct James Brown Biopic By The Associated Press
    LOS ANGELES - The late "Godfather of Soul" James Brown will rise again - on screen.
    Spike Lee has signed on to direct a feature film about the singer produced by Brian Glazer and Imagine Entertainment, Paramount Pictures announced Wednesday.
    "It’s an authorized biography done with the cooperation of Mr. Brown before his passing," Paramount spokeswoman Nancy Kirkpatrick said without further (…)

  • G.ATZMON :Some Things To Keep In Mind While Watching Borat
    20 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Borat, An Alternative Discourse Analysis
    Some Things To Keep In Mind While Watching Borat
    Gilad Atzmon, 8 November 2006 Proposed by the author
    The film Borat : Cultural learnings of America for make benefit glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, the funniest film of the year, has just come out. ItI will surely become a cult movie. It is not a film on Kazakhstan . Kazakhstan is only a pretext for Sacha Baron Cohen. An other adept of politcal satire, jazz musician and writer Gilad Atzmon, who is (…)