A new report by the Center for American Progress called, “Fear Inc: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America,” shows how a small group of self-proclaimed experts backed by a host of donors are spreading fear and hostility toward Muslims in the United States.
In the following clip, Faiz Shakir, an author of the report, speaks with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now.
Bertrand Russell, interviewed in 1959 for the BBC’s Face to Face program, talks a little about his life as a political activist and delivers a message to future generations.
Eduardo Galeano shares insight into how activists can “keep the Gods inside.” Clip found after the jump.
The following is an old episode of the BBC’s Hardtalk featuring Edward Said.
The American Holocaust is the topic of the following lecture by David Stannard, professor and chair of the American Studies Department at the University of Hawaii. Specifically, he examines the manufactured controversy in discussing the history of Native Americans with the terms genocide and holocaust.
During the course of his argument, Stannard criticises modern day apologists for the genocide of Native Americans including Christopher Hitchens and Benny Morris. Morris, in particular, for his justification of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians using the example of the American Indians: quoting Morris, “[t]here are circumstances in history that justify ethnic cleansing,” he adds “[e]ven the great American democracy could not have been created without the annihilation of the Indians. There are cases in which the overall, final good justifies harsh and cruel acts that are committed in the course of history.” Or as he also, rather disturbingly, put it, “You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs. You have to dirty your hands.” Therefore the terms and significance given to the crimes against the Native Americans also take on international importance as the example of America is used to justify current and, perhaps, future crimes against humanity.
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Ali Abunimah and Chris Gunness on RT’s CrossTalk discussing the Freedom Flotilla’s mission to break the siege of Gaza.
The War of 33, a Big Noise Film production, is “an intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in Lebanon.”
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, by the great documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis, is a “series of films about how humans have been colonised by the machines they have built. Although we don’t realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.”
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Al Jazeera reports that at least 20 people have been killed along the Syrian frontier during a pro-Palestinian rally marking the “Day of Defeat” in the 1967 war.
Adam Curtis’ new film series All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace completes tomorrow night with the screening of the third and final episode. Around three weeks ago, Little Atoms recorded this illuminating interview with Adam on the new show, which examines power and political organisation.
Little Atoms’ interview with Adam Curtis: MP3
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