Mr Newman is a brilliant and explosive mixture: comedian, historian, anarchist and activist. His show about oil is intelligent and insightful. You might learn more about this dark substance and it’s political influence than watching a whole year of CNN and the Discovery Channel together.
And it’s bloody funny too!
Don’t forget to visit Mr Newman’s great website and buy some of his stuff?!
*Update: This is a repost, because the old video was deleted.*
Just one more year with this most terrible of modern American Presidents and his evil Overlord Dick Cheney. The list of scandals and deaths in his name is incredible. But I am really wondering if a regime change will really change anything?
The military addiction and capitalist mechanism of congress and the industry won’t be changed.
Unless the US military MASSIVLY reduces it’s foreign bases - and it’s budget get’s cut in half (and it would still be the biggest on this planet) nothing will change.
While the US Americans have a hard time finding second class recruits, Canada’s armed forces get almost more applications they can handle.
The War on Terror (mostly the mission in Afghanistan) and many PR events in Canada have been spun into a very brave and positive image. Young Canadians love it and flock to the military.
But the weak Canadian politicians dislike the popularity of the military - something new and weird to the highly democratic and peace loving Canadians. But it’s also a world wide campaign - mostly via the web: Combat Camera and their own YouTube channel.
Canada and it’s dedication to help out in Afghanistan could be a new role model for most western humanitarian war efforts. Countries like Germany still have an awkward relationship with their military forces, America’s PR with embedded journalists has worked during the beginnings of the Afghanistan and Iraq war, but later was mostly despised as pure propaganda.
Democratic countries need to communicate and discuss their military endeavors. It needs to be more than ‘Support our troops’ stickers, but good financing and a good understanding of the voter why industrial nations still need well equipped and trained armed forces.
For the Canadian Military their own good PR lead to better financing and therefore combat readiness for their current missions - which is a good thing. But it should never lead to an unhealthy relationship like the military-industrial-complex in the US.
An excellent movie about America’s lust for weapons and power. Watch the trailer online or simply the whole movie.
This movie makes an excellent addition to the ‘Fog of War‘, but not so intellectual and focus on a single person (Robert McNamara) - and it gives you a much better oversight how it all developed.
Who killed the electric car? Please go and visit the website of this upcoming documentation. What an amazing site and what a chilling insight into the workings of car manufacturers and oil magnates. The go and buy a big gun and shot the bastards!
Make also sure to watch the trailer first to get into the story.