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"OUTFOXED.org : Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism." -BraveNewFilms.org OUTFOXED

"Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism"

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"The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear." -BBC Documentary via Goo Tube user DemocraticMedia Power of Nightmares

"The Rise of the Politics of Fear"
"Those with the darkest fears became the most powerful."

Photos above:	Leo Strauss
Sayed Kotb	Donald Rumsfeld
(two in center) Ayman al-Zawahiri Osama bin Laden	William "Bill" Kristol

"The Power of Nightmares."
"The Rise of the Politics of Fear."

     "Part 1: Baby It's Cold Outside."
     "Part 2: The Phantom Victory."
     "Part 3: The Shadows in the Cave."

The three part BBC documentary "The Power of Nightmares" is powerfully illuminating and well worth watching for it's historical perspective on the use of fear for political purposes. Just as important is the documentation of strategic military failures going back to the 20th century.

Historian, author and radio host Thom Hartmann calls the documentary a "carefully researched and well-vetted BBC documentary...."

From Thom Hartmann's review of "The Power of Nightmares," "Hyping Terror For Fun, Profit - And Power." ... "What if there really was no need for much - or even most - of the Cold War? What if, in fact, the Cold War had been kept alive for two decades based on phony WMD threats?" ... "What if, similarly, the War On Terror was largely a scam, and the administration was hyping it to seem larger-than-life? What if our "enemy" represented a real but relatively small threat posed by rogue and criminal groups well outside the mainstream of Islam? What if that hype was done largely to enhance the power, electability, and stature of George W. Bush and Tony Blair?" ... "And what if the world was to discover the most shocking dimensions of these twin deceits - that the same men promulgated them in the 1970s and today?" ... "It happened." ... "The myth-shattering event took place in England the first three weeks of October [2004], when the BBC aired a three-hour documentary written and produced by Adam Curtis, titled "The Power of Nightmares."" -By Thom Hartmann

From the documentary's introduction to Part 1: "Both [the Islamists and Neoconservatives] were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world. And both had a very similar explanation for what caused that failure. These two groups have changed the world, but not in the way that either intended. Together, they created today's nightmare vision of a secret organized evil that threatens the world, a fantasy that politicians then found restored their power and authority in a disillusioned age. And those with the darkest fears became the most powerful."

Watch the documentary "The Power of Nightmares" via Goo Tube in multiple-parts:
      Part 1 (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6) "Part 1: Baby It's Cold Outside."
      Part 2 (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6) "Part 2: The Phantom Victory."
      Part 3 (3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6) "Part 3: The Shadows in the Cave."

Download the documentary via the Internet Archive:
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"The Battle of Algiers (La bataille d' Alger)." -French movie via Goo Tube user RuleBritannnia The Battle of Algiers

La bataille d' Alger
(French movie, subtitled in English)
Italian title: La Battaglia di Algeri

"The Battle for Algiers" is a fictional movie that addresses terrorism, military intelligence, urban guerrilla warfare, profiling, torture, and military politics, and French-Algerian history.

Set in Algiers in the late 1950's, the movie takes a cold look at both the terrorists seeking Algerian independence and the French military response.

There have been frequent comparisons between the movies representation of the French-Algerian history and the US-Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts.

Watch the complete movie in one sitting or the 13 parts via Goo Tube (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)

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"Taxi to the Dark Side." Documentary movie via Goo Tube user DemocraticMedia Taxi to the Dark Side

Movie Trailer: "Taxi To The Dark Side"
Also: "Alberto Gonzales in search of the right lie."

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The movie website was down when last checked: http://TaxiToTheDarkSide.com

"Down a Dark Road: Movie Uses Afghan's Death to Ask Tough Questions About U.S. and Torture." ... "In 2002, a young Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar, who'd never spent a night away from his dusty little village, got lost in the fog of war and took a wrong turn into an abyss from which he would never return. It was a detention center at Bagram Air Base, where he was grilled on suspicion of being a Taliban fighter. Military interrogators hung him from a cage in chains, kept him up all night and kicked him senseless, turning his legs into pulp." ... "He lasted only five days. The Army initially attributed his death to natural causes, even though coroners had ruled it a homicide. Low-level soldiers were punished. It turned out that Dilawar (who, like many Afghans, used only one name) was not an enemy fighter, had no terrorist connections and had committed no crime at all." ... ""He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was the wrong man," says filmmaker Alex Gibney, whose latest documentary, "Taxi to the Dark Side," puts the fate of one hapless, ordinary Afghan into a larger and more disturbing context. Its focus is torture, and whether torture became a deliberate component of U.S. policy at places like Bagram, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay." ... "Researchers at Human Rights First have categorized more than 70 detainee deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as homicides linked to gross recklessness, abuse or torture. The findings are based largely on the military's own records, obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, according to Hina Shamsi, an attorney for the organization." ... ""Murder's torture," Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired Army colonel and former Colin Powell aide, says in the film. "Murder's the ultimate torture."" (1, 2, 3) -By Richard Leiby -WashingtonPost

"Taking a Long, Bumpy Ride to Systematic Brutality." ... "A year from now, the presidency of George W. Bush will end, but the consequences of Mr. Bush’s policies and the arguments about them are likely to be with us for a long time. As next Jan. 20 draws near, there is an evident temptation, among many journalists as well as politicians seeking to replace Mr. Bush, to close the book and move ahead, an impulse that makes the existence of documentaries like Alex Gibney’s “Taxi to the Dark Side” all the more vital. If recent American history is ever going to be discussed with the necessary clarity and ethical rigor, this film will be essential." ... "“Taxi to the Dark Side,” however, does not simply recount a single, awful anecdote from the early days of the war on terror; rather, it traces the spread of a central, controversial tactic in that war. The burden of Mr. Gibney’s argument, laid out soberly and in daunting detail, is that what happened to Dilawar was not anomalous, but rather represented an early instance of what would soon be a widespread policy." ... "From Bagram in 2002, “Taxi to the Dark Side” charts a path to Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, all the while insisting that the brutal treatment of prisoners in those places was hardly the work of a few “bad apples,” as Pentagon officials said. Instead, the sexual humiliation, waterboarding and other well-documented practices were methods sanctioned at the very top of the chain of command." -By A. O. Scott -NYTimes

"Taxi to the Dark Side." ... "On the Sunday following Sept. 11, 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney told the truth. On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he said regarding plans to pursue the perpetrators of that attack: “We have to work the dark side, if you will. We’re going to spend time in the shadows.” The grim, deadly consequences of his promise have, in the intervening six years, become the shame of our nation and have outraged millions around the world. President George Bush and Cheney, many argue, have overseen a massive global campaign of kidnapping, illegal detentions, harsh interrogations, torture and kangaroo courts where the accused face the death penalty, confronted by secret evidence obtained by torture, without legal representation." ... "Cheney’s shadows saw a moment of sunlight recently, as Alex Gibney won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Feature for his film “Taxi to the Dark Side.” The film traces the final days of a young Afghan man, Dilawar (many Afghans use just one name), who was arrested in 2001 by the U.S. military and brought to the hellish prison at Bagram Air Base. Five days later, Dilawar was dead, beaten and tortured to death by the United States military." -By Amy Goodman -TruthDig
 
"“Taxi to the Dark Side”: Exposé on US Abuses in “War on Terror” Wins Oscar for Best Documentary." ... "Alex Gibney joins us to talk about his Academy Award win for his documentary Taxi to the Dark Side. The film investigates some of the most egregious abuses associated with the so-called “war on terror.”" -DemocracyNow.org

"Taxi to the Dark Side: Oscar-Nominated Documentary Film Explores U.S. Abuses in “War on Terror”." -DemocracyNow.org

""Taxi to the Dark Side": How Did America Become a Country That Tortures?" ... "As detailed in Alex Gibney's devastating documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side, Dilawar's demise was officially termed a homicide, like the first detainee to die at Bagram, Habibullah. Captured by a warlord and handed over to the U.S. just days before Dilawar, Habibullah as deemed "an important prisoner," hooded, shackled, and isolated, periodically beaten for "noncompliance." Autopsies showed that Dilawar and Habibullah suffered similar abuses, including deep bruises all over their bodies; according to the Army coroner, Dilawar suffered "massive tissue damage to his legs ... his legs had been pulpified." And yet, despite initial concerns among the guards and interrogators at Bagram over an investigation, instead, the officer in charge of interrogation at the prison, Captain Carolyn Wood, was awarded a Bronze Star for Valor and, following the Iraq invasion in 2003, she and her unit were sent to Abu Ghraib." -By Cynthia Fuchs -PopMatters -AlterNet

"Torture film wins Tribeca award: Taxi to the Dark Side, about the Bush administration's policies on prison torture, has won best documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival." ... "Alex Gibney's film looks at the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan." -BBC

"Taxi to the Dark Side." Watch movie, eight parts via Goo Tube: (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

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"Fahrenheit-9-11." Documentary movie via Goo Tube user DemocraticMedia Fahrenheit 9-11

Michael Moore's controversial film "Fahrenheit 9/11" goes where main stream media investigators feared to tread: a direct look at Republican George Bush and his fellow Republican's extensive involvement with the bin Laden family, the Saud Kindgdom, the Taliban, and the financial relationships that infected all of it.

"One of the most controversial and provocative films of the year, Fahrenheit 9/11 is Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore's searing examination of the Bush administration's actions in the wake of the tragic events of 9/11. With his characteristic humor and dogged commitment to uncovering the facts, Moore considers the presidency of George W. Bush and where it has led us. He looks at how - and why - Bush and his inner circle avoided pursuing the Saudi connection to 9/11, despite the fact that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis and Saudi money had funded Al Qaeda. Fahrenheit 9/11 shows us a nation kept in constant fear by FBI alerts and lulled into accepting a piece of legislation, the USA Patriot Act, that infringes on basic civil rights. It is in this atmosphere of confusion, suspicion and dread that the Bush Administration makes its headlong rush towards war in Iraq - and Fahrenheit 9/11 takes us inside that war to tell the stories we haven't heard, illustrating the awful human cost to U.S. soldiers and their families." -DemocraticMedia

"Fahrenheit-9-11." Watch movie, 12 parts via Goo Tube: (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)

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"Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." Documentary movie via Goo Tube user DemocraticMedia Bush Family Fortunes

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

"Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." Watch movie, 12 parts via Goo Tube: (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

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