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Posted by Anonymous on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 01:00 inA depository for historical documents, important essays, speeches, media (video and audio).
Something like this could be set up in any number of ways and would probably require some pre-planning and maybe a few vonunteers knowledgeable or at least interested in the field of bibliotheca to provide the proper structure.
I suppose it could, and maybe should, for now, due to the sheer volume of material, be organized in the form of a links library to outside sources. The problem with this approach is keeping up with broken links.
Anyway, something else to chew on.
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Absolutely awesome! I'll be hanging out in this library. Thank you Nick for giving service to our community.
Shhhhh.....I'm reading....
Wind_Dancer
I think this would be a great topic. As I am always interested in finding information out .
A Reading List for a Free and Prosperous America
by Ron Paul
In The Revolution: A Manifesto Dr. Paul recommends this freedom reading list.
Armentano, Dominick. Antitrust and Monopoly: Anatomy of a Policy Failure, 2nd ed. Oakland, Calif.: Independent Institute, 1990.
Bacevich, Andrew J. The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006
Bamford, James. A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq and the Abuse of Americas Intelligence Agencies. New York Anchor, 2005.
Bovard, James. Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
DiLorenzo, Thomas J. The Real Lincoln. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003
Engdahl, F. William. A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order.London: Pluto Press, 2004
Fleming, Thomas. The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I. New York: Basic Books, 2004
Fleming, Thomas. The New Dealers War: FDR and the War Within World War II. New York: Basic Books, 2002.
Flynn, John T. As We Go Marching. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1944. Flynn was an accomplished journalist, analyzes facism in Italy and Germany and concludes by considering the state of America in his day.
Folsom, Burton W., Jr. The Myth of the Robber Barons: A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America. Herndon, Va.: Young Americas Foundation, 1993.
Garrett, Garet. The Peoples Pottage. Caldwell, Id.: Caxton, 1953. This is a persuasively argued and compellingly written early critique of the New Deal policies of the 1930s.
Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. New York: Modern Library, 2003 [1776-88].
Griffin, G. Edward. The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, 4th ed. Westlake Village, Calif.: American Media, 2002.
Hayek, Fredrich A. The Road to Serfdom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944.
Hazlitt, Henry. Economics in One Lesson. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1988 [1946] The classic text has helped millions of Americans understand basic economics and the free market in just a few hours. (An indication of how the world has changed: Hazlitt once wrote editorials for the New York Times.)
Hoffer, Eric. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements. New York: Harper & Row, 1951.
Holzer, Henry Mark, ed. The Golden Clause: What It Is and How to Use It Profitably. iUniverse, 2000.
Jastram, Roy William. The Golden Constant: The English and American Experience, 1560-1976. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1978.
Johnson, Chalmers. Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, 2nd ed. New York: Henry Holt, 2004.
Kwitney, Jonathan. Endless Enemies: Americas Worldwide War Against Its Own Best Interests. New York: Congdon & Weed, 1984.
Lane, Rose Wilder. The Discovery of Freedom. New York: John Day 1943.
MacKay, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1869 [1841].
Mises, Ludwig von. Human Action: A Treatise on Economics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949.
Mueller, John. Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them. New York: Free Press, 2006.
Napolitano, Andrew P. Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When Government Breaks Its Own Laws. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2006.
Napolitano, Andrew P. A Nation of Sheep. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2007
Palyi, Melchior. The Twilight of Gold, 1914-1936: Myths and Realities. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1972.
Pape, Robert. Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. New York : Random House, 2006.
Psaternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago. New York: Pantheon, 1997 [1958].
Paterson, Isabel. The God of the Machine. New York: Putman, 1943. A classic work of libertarian political theory.
Powell, Jim. Wilsons War. New York: Crown Forum, 2005.
Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. New York: Random House, 1957. I consider all of Rand's novels worth reading, in spite of my strong disagreements with her on important matters.
Read, Leonard E. The Love of Liberty. Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y: Foundation for Economic Education, 1975.
Rees-Moog, William. The Reigning Error: The Crisis of World Inflation. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1974.
Roberts, Paul Craig, and Lawrence M. Stratton. The Tyranny of Good Intention: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice.Rosville, Calif.: Prima 2000.
Rockwell, Llewellyn H., Jr. Speaking of Liberty. Auburn Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2005.
Rothbard, Murray N. Americas Great Depression. 5th ed. Auburn Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2000.
Rothbard, Murray N. What Has Government Done to Our Money?
Auburn Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1990. The entire text is available for free here.
Rueff, Jaques. The Monetary Sin of the West.
New York: Macmillan, 1972.
Scheuer, Michael. Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror. Washington D.C.: Potomac Books, 2004.
Sennholz, Hans F. Age of Inflation. Belmont, Mass.: Western Islands, 1979.
Soloman, Norman. War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death. New York: Wiley, 2006.
Sterns, Jessica. Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill. New York: Harper Perennial, 2004.
Tansill, Charles Callan. Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy, 1933-1941. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1952.
Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002 [1835, 1840].
Tuchman, Barbara J. The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam. New York Ballantine, 1985
Weaver, Henry Grady. The Mainspring of Human Progress. Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Foundation for Economics Education, 1953.
God bless,
Nick
Quotable quote:
"Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment"~?
Here is a very small example of what we could put together. There are a bunch of broken links here, but I will repair them as soon as I get a chance...this is just a simple example of what I'm talking about.
Freedom Documents
The Magna Carta - 1215
Mayflower Compact - 1620
First Thanksgiving Proclamation - 1676
Stamp Act - 1765
Rights of the Colonist - 1772
"Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death" - 1775
Declaration of the Causes & Necessity of Taking Up Arms - 1775
Virginia Bill of Rights - 1776
The Times That Try Men's Souls - 1776
Declaration of Independence - 1776
Articles of Confederation - 1781
Paris Peace Treaty - 1783
Franklin's Call to Prayer - 1787
Constitution of the United States - 1787
Bill of Rights - 1787
Other Amendments - 1787
Federalist Papers - 1787-88
Anti-Federalist Papers - 1787-89
George Washington's First Inaugural Address - 1789
George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation - 1789
George Washington's Farewell Address - 1796
Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address -1801
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - 1849
Texas Declaration of Independence - 1836
Constitution of the Confederate States - 1861
General Lee's Farewell Address - 1865
Patriot News and Organizations
Acton Institute
Advocates for Self-Government
America First Party
American Heritage Party
American Liberty Foundation
American Partisan
American Reformation Project
Arizona Republic
Center for the Advancement of Paleo Orthodoxy
Conservative Caucus
Constitution Party
Constitution Society
Constitutionalist Party
Contra Mundum
Dixie Daily News
Drudge Report
Eagle Forum
Enter Stage Right
Ether Zone
Ever Vigilant
Free Congress Foundation
Free Market
Free Republic
Freedom Page
Freedom Site
Freedom-USA.net
Friends for America
Friends of Liberty
Frontiers of Freedom
God Bless America
Gun Owners of America
Heritage Foundation
International Society for Individual Liberty
LewRockwell.com
Libertarians for Life
March Across Dixie
MarkDankof.com
Mustard Seed
National Rifle Association
Patriotist
Reason Online
Reclaiming America
Republican
RepublicUSA
Second Amendment Foundation
Sierra Times
Southern Heritage News and Views
Sovereign American
Sovereign Southron
Swiss Gnomes
Tax Truth 4 U
Toogood Reports
Townhall
VDARE
Wall Builders
Washington Times>
We the People
World Net Daily
Young Americans for Freedom
Opinion & Analysis
Chuck Baldwin
Harry Browne
Ann Coulter
Lewis Goldberg
Devvy Kidd
Michelle Malkin
Ron Paul
Charley Reese
Lew Rockwell
Phyllis Schlafly
Paul Scates
Joseph Sobran
Thomas Sowell
Walter Williams
Immigration Reform
American Patrol
American Immigration Control Foundation
American Lawyers for Immigration Law Enforcement
Americans for Better Immigration
Border Solution Task Force
California Coalition for Immigration Reform
Californians for Population Stabilization
Center for Immigration Studies
Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus
English First
English Language Advocates
Federation for American Immigration Reform
National Grassroots Alliance
Numbers USA
Project USA
Protect Our Borders
United to Secure America
Voice of Citizens Together
God bless,
Nick
Quotable quote:
"Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment"~?
VIDEO:
Conspiracy Goes Mainstream:
CNBC's Big Brother, Big Business
Part 1: Street camera’s and GPS spying-10 min.
Part 2: Employers tracking employees via cell phones & Spy cams-10 min.
Part 3: Identity Theft, collection of personal info by private industry-11 min.
Part 4: Inside the Largest company ‘Acxiom’ that gathers private info on people.-10 min.
Part 5: Google searches can be used against you in court-11 min.
Part 6: Cell phone records-11 min.
Part 7: Biometric Identification, Fingerprints, Iris, Face recognition-11 min.
Part 8: Wire Taps, Veri-chip implants-10 min.
Full Length Version (2 hours)
FRONTLINE: Spying on the Home Front
9/11 has indelibly altered America in ways that people are now starting to earnestly question: not only perpetual orange alerts, barricades and body frisks at the airport, but greater government scrutiny of people's records and electronic surveillance of their communications. The watershed, officials tell FRONTLINE, was the government's shift after 9/11 to a strategy of pre-emption at home -- not just prosecuting terrorists for breaking the law, but trying to find and stop them before they strike.
President Bush described his anti-terrorist measures as narrow and targeted, but a FRONTLINE investigation has found that the National Security Agency (NSA) has engaged in wiretapping and sifting Internet communications of millions of Americans; the FBI conducted a data sweep on 250,000 Las Vegas vacationers, and along with more than 50 other agencies, they are mining commercial-sector data banks to an unprecedented degree.
Even government officials with experience since 9/11 are nagged by anxiety about the jeopardy that a war without end against unseen terrorists poses to our way of life, our personal freedoms. "I always said, when I was in my position running counterterrorism operations for the FBI, 'How much security do you want, and how many rights do you want to give up?'" Larry Mefford, former assistant FBI director, tells Smith. "I can give you more security, but I've got to take away some rights. … Personally, I want to live in a country where you have a common-sense, fair balance, because I'm worried about people that are untrained, unsupervised, doing things with good intentions but, at the end of the day, harm our liberties."
Although the president told the nation that his NSA eavesdropping program was limited to known Al Qaeda agents or supporters abroad making calls into the U.S., comments of other administration officials and intelligence veterans indicate that the NSA cast its net far more widely. AT&T technician Mark Klein inadvertently discovered that the whole flow of Internet traffic in several AT&T operations centers was being regularly diverted to the NSA, a charge indirectly substantiated by John Yoo, the Justice Department lawyer who wrote the official legal memos legitimizing the president's warrantless wiretapping program. Yoo told FRONTLINE: "The government needs to have access to international communications so that it can try to find communications that are coming into the country where Al Qaeda's trying to send messages to cell members in the country. In order to do that, it does have to have access to communication networks."
Spying on the Home Front also looks at a massive FBI data sweep in December 2003. On a tip that Al Qaeda "might have an interest in Las Vegas" around New Year's 2004, the FBI demanded records from all hotels, airlines, rental car agencies, casinos and other businesses on every person who visited Las Vegas in the run-up to the holiday. Stephen Sprouse and Kristin Douglas of Kansas City, Mo., object to being caught in the FBI dragnet in Las Vegas just because they happened to get married there at the wrong moment. Says Douglas, "I'm sure that the government does a lot of things that I don't know about, and I've always been OK with that -- until I found out that I was included."
A check of all 250,000 Las Vegas visitors against terrorist watch lists turned up no known terrorist suspects or associates of suspects. The FBI told FRONTLINE that the records had been kept for more than two years, but have now all been destroyed.
In the broad reach of NSA eavesdropping, the massive FBI data sweep in Las Vegas, access to records gathered by private database companies that allows government agencies to avoid the limitations provided by the Privacy Act, and nearly 200 other government data-mining programs identified by the Government Accounting Office, experienced national security officials and government attorneys see a troubling and potentially dangerous collision between the strategy of pre-emption and the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
Peter Swire, a law professor and former White House privacy adviser to President Clinton, tells FRONTLINE that since 9/11 the government has been moving away from the traditional legal standard of investigations based on individual suspicion to generalized suspicion. The new standard, Swire says, is: "Check everybody. Everybody is a suspect."
PART 1
PART 2
PART 3
PART 4
PART 5
Watch Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism(1:17)
"Outfoxed" examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know.
The film explores Murdoch's burgeoning kingdom and the impact on society when a broad swath of media is controlled by one person.
Media experts, including Jeff Cohen (FAIR) Bob McChesney (Free Press), Chellie Pingree (Common Cause), Jeff Chester (Center for Digital Democracy) and David Brock (Media Matters) provide context and guidance for the story of Fox News and its effect on society.
This documentary also reveals the secrets of Former Fox news producers, reporters, bookers and writers who expose what it's like to work for Fox News. These former Fox employees talk about how they were forced to push a "right-wing" point of view or risk their jobs. Some have even chosen to remain anonymous in order to protect their current livelihoods. As one employee said "There's no sense of integrity as far as having a line that can't be crossed."
Interview's Only (48 minutes)
The Oil Factor
After assessing today‚s dwindling oil reserves and skyrocketing use of oil for fuels, plastics and chemicals, The Oil Factor questions the motives for the US wars in the Middle East and Central Asia where three quarters of the world‚s oil and natural gas is located.
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror
With exclusive footage shot on location in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the film documents the spiraling violence now engulfing both Iraq and Afghanistan, a country conspicuously absent from the commercial media‚s news segments. With detailed maps and graphics, The Oil Factor features many experts and personalities such as former Defense Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, MIT professor Noam Chomsky, the Project for the New American Century Executive Director Gary Schmitt, Coalition Provisional Authority Chairman Paul Bremer, former Pentagon analyst Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, current Iraqi government official Abdel Aziz Al-Hakim, and authors Ahmed Rashid and Michael C. Ruppert.
Iron Mountain
Blueprint for Tyranny
Watch Iron Mountain: Blueprint for Tyranny 2 hrs. 21 mins
The Video that started it all - written about in the WALL STREET JOURNAL and the subject of an NBC DATELINE. This is a 2:40 hour documentary investigating the little known IRON MOUNTAIN REPORT, leaked to the press in 1967. Purports to be a top-secret government plan to bring in the New World Order and the ultimate plans for American citizens. Declared a hoax, it was later verified by a top Pentagon official as real. The agenda is being carried out right under the noses of the American people. UFO’s play a major role in the Iron Mountain NWO. It is all about people control via deception and manipulation. Deep into Eugenics, birth control and hideous plans for a tyrannical slave state. It is all coming true after OKC and 9-11 with the Patriot Act, Homeland Security and the military police operating in America. Airports first, railroads, then highways, and finally a complete LOCKDOWN under the pretense of “security”. A MUST SEE VIDEO
TerrorStorm (1 hr. 52 min.)
False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to appear as if they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one's own. - Wiki
Throughout history, criminal elements inside governments have carried out terror attacks against their own populations as a pretext to enslave them. TerrorStorm reveals how, in the last hundred years, Western leaders have repeatedly murdered their own citizens while posing as their saviors.
In TerrorStorm you will discover that September 11th, the attacks of 7/7 in London, and many other terrorist events were self-inflicted wounds. You will witness British Special Forces troops caught in the act of staging terror attacks in Iraq and see official US government documents laying out plans to hijack passenger planes by remote control. You will learn how the Reichstag fire, the Gulf of Tonkin, and the US-backed Iranian coup of 1953 are all interconnected false-flag terror events.
This powerful documentary explores the mindset of the average brainwashed Westerner. It delves deeply in to the systems of control which have been scientifically-crafted to imprison their minds and keep their eyes closed to the realities of the world around them.
The Money Masters:
How International Bankers Gained Control of America3 ½ hrs.
THE MONEY MASTERS is a 3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. The development of fractional reserve banking practices in the 17th century brought to a cunning sophistication the secret techniques initially used by goldsmiths fraudulently to accumulate wealth. With the formation of the privately-owned Bank of England in 1694, the yoke of economic slavery to a privately-owned "central" bank was first forced upon the backs of an entire nation, not removed but only made heavier with the passing of the three centuries to our day. Nation after nation, including America, has fallen prey to this cabal of international central bankers.
The success of the central banking scheme developed into a far-reaching plan described by President Clinton's mentor, Georgetown Professor Carroll Quigley, "to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank....sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the levels of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."
Several short-lived attempts to impose the central banking scheme on the United States were defeated by the patriotic efforts of Presidents Madison, Jefferson, Jackson, Van Buren and Lincoln. But with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, America was firmly lashed to the same yoke, so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the masses a yoke little better than slavery itself. That yoke inevitably grows heavier with ever-compounding interest, and totals over $20 trillion of debt owed by the American people today ($80,000 per American) ultimately to these bankers.
This vast accumulation of wealth concentrates immense power and despotic economic domination in the hands of the few central bankers "who are able to govern credit and its allotment, for this reason supplying, so to speak, the life-blood to the entire economic body, and grasping, as it were, in their hands the very soul of the economy so that no one dare breathe against their will." A worldwide tyranny is gradually being imposed, hidden to most, by THE MONEY MASTERS.
Segments:
The Problem; The Money Changers; Roman Empire; The Goldsmiths of Medieval England; Tally Sticks; The Bank of England; The Rise of the Rothschilds; The American Revolution; The Bank of North America; The Constitutional Convention; First Bank of the U.S.; Napoleon's Rise to Power; Death of the First Bank of the U.S. / War of 1812; Waterloo; Second Bank of the U.S.; Andrew Jackson; Abe Lincoln and the Civil War; The Return of the Gold Standard; Free Silver; J.P. Morgan / 1907 Crash; Jekyll Island; Fed Act of 1913; J.P. Morgan / WWI; Roaring 20s / Great Depression; FDR / WWII / Fort Knox; World Central Bank; Conclusions.
War by other Means
Watch War by Other Means
John Pilger and David Munro examine the policy of First World banks agreeing loans with Third World countries, who are then unable to meet ... all » the cripling interest charges. Won Geneva International TV Award at the North-South Media Encounters event, Geneva, 1993;Gold Medal in the 'Best Documentary Production category' of the International Television Movie Festival, Mount Freedom, New Jersey 1993; Gold Award in the 'Political/International Issues category' at WorldFest-Houston (Houston International Film & Video Festival), 1993; Silver Hugo Award in the 'Documentary - Social/Political category' of the 29th Chicago International Film Festival, 1993.
FIAT EMPIRE:
Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution
Watch FIAT EMPIRE 59 min
Find out why some feel the Federal Reserve System is a "bunch of organized crooks" and others feel some of its practices "are in violation of the U.S. Constitution." Discover why experts agree the Fed is a banking cartel that benefits mainly bankers, their clients in need of easy money and a Congress that would rather increase the Gross National Debt than seek funding from its constituents.
This Telly Award winning documentary features presidential candidate RON PAUL
(R-Texas) and is inspired by the book, The Creature From Jekyll Island, by well-known author, G. Edward Griffin.
Also featured is Dr. Edwin Vieira
, Ph.D., J.D. from Harvard (a foremost authority on the Constitution and the author of Pieces of Eight) who discusses the Fed and various long-term studies which indicate that the Federal Reserve System encourages war, destabilizes the economy, generates inflation (a hidden tax) and is the supreme instrument of unjust enrichment for a select group of insiders. Dr. Theodore Baehr (founder of MOVIEGUIDE®) rounds out the documantary by discussing the relationship between the Media, the Fed and the Government and why you never see these issues discussed on network TV or in the mainstream media.
Accordingly, the government-licensed networks and those living off the fiat money system are probably not going to distribute FIAT EMPIRE so the burden may fall upon word-of-mouth distribution from people like you -- responsible citizens that care.
Bear in mind that twice before in our nation's history, the People have voted down a central bank similar to the Federal Reserve System. We can do it again if we are able to explain to enough people why the national debt, and the trade deficit -- currently at $700 billion a year -- are going to crash the fiat empire sooner or later.
FIAT EMPIRE defines the problem and proposes a number of solutions to correct the situation and bring back a Constitutional monetary system to the United States.
Breaking the Silence
Award-winning journalist John Pilger investigates the discrepancies between American and British claims for the 'war on terror' and the facts on the ground as he finds them in Afghanistan and Washington, DC.
Watch Breaking the Silence
In 2001, as the bombs began to drop, George W. Bush promised Afghanistan "the generosity of America and its allies". Now, the familiar old warlords are regaining power, religious fundamentalism is renewing its grip and military skirmishes continue routinely. In "liberated" Afghanistan, America has its military base and pipeline access, while the people have the warlords who are, says one woman, "in many ways worse than the Taliban".
In Washington, Pilger conducts a series of remarkable interviews with William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, and leading Administration officials such as Douglas Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and John Bolton, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. These people, and the other architects of the Project for the New American Century, were dismissed as 'the crazies' by the first Bush Administration in the early 90s when they first presented their ideas for pre-emptive strikes and world domination.
Pilger also interviews presidential candidate General Wesley Clark, and former intelligence officers, all the while raising searching questions about the real motives for the 'war on terror'.
While President Bush refers to the US attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq as two 'great victories', Pilger asks the question - victories over whom, and for what purpose? Pilger describes Afghanistan as a country "more devastated than anything I have seen since Pol Pot's Cambodia". He finds that Al-Qaida has not been defeated and that the Taliban is re-emerging. And of the "victory" in Iraq, he asks: "Is this Bush's Vietnam?"
The New rulers of The World
In order to examine the true effects of globalization, Pilger turns the spotlight on Indonesia, a country described by the World Bank as a model pupil until its globalized economy collapsed in 1998. The film examines the use of sweatshop factories by famous brand names, and asks some penetrating questions. Who are the real beneficiaries of the globalized economy? Who really rules the world now? Is it governments or a handful of huge companies? The Ford Motor Company alone is bigger than the economy of South Africa. Enormously rich men, like Bill Gates, have a wealth greater than all of Africa.
Watch The New rulers of The World
Pilger goes behind the hype of the new global economy and reveals that the divisions between the rich and poor have never been greater -- two thirds of the world's children live in poverty -- and the gulf is widening like never before.
The film looks at the new rulers of the world -- the great multinationals and the governments and institutions that back them -- the IMF and the World Bank. Under IMF rules, millions of people throughout the world lose their jobs and livelihood. The reality behind much of modern shopping and the famous brands is a sweatshop economy, which is being duplicated in country after country.
The film travels to Indonesia and Washington, asking challenging questions seldom raised in the mainstream media and exposing the scandal of globalization, including revealing interviews with top officials of the World Bank and the IMF.
God bless,
Nick
Quotable quote:
"Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment"~?