This election year, documentaries have broken free of their film festival ghettos. Progressive documentary films like Super Size Me and The Corporation have been packing theaters all summer, and by mid-August, Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 had grossed $115 million. DVDs are being screened at “house parties” organized by MoveOn.org and offered as premiums for donors to progressive media projects like… return to article
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Reader Comments (8)Page 1 of 1 pagesYou need to also mention in GREAT detail and importance the newest documentary that affects all of us at a level deeper than all the other documentaries: “End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the end of the American Dream”, with Barrie Zwicker as the host, and features Peter Calthorpe, Howard Kunstler both architect/ planner, Michael Ruppert, and Matthew Simmons (former member of Cheney Task force) all talking about Peak Oil and the end of cheap oil. The peace movement has missed out on this overriding issue as the true cause of the war in Iraq, and the role that the Project for the New American Century www.newamericancentury.org played in securing world oil resources by preemptive war. GET the DVD and have many screenings!
Posted by David Wright on Aug 26, 2004 at 11:34 AM Political Realities article by Jessica Clark....
Thank you so very much for the work you are doing to defeat the Republican agenda!
You are right! They are tough, mean, smart and ruthless. No longer can we sit by and wish them away.
Keep up the good work! I support you 100%!
Posted by T. Barr on Aug 27, 2004 at 7:09 AM Two comments.
Robert Greenwald. You said: ‘They were very smart, and we weren’t. And now we will be. ... we will win over the long run.’
No, it’s too late. Even if the Democrats catch up to the Republicans in their ability to wage PROPAGANDA wars, the right have an ability to stage, and get away with, PSYCHOLOGICAL wars. By this, I am referring to psychological warfare operations like the one that, by 1972, had taken the Kennedys out of presidential politics, thereby plunging liberalism into crisis, and the recent one that has started us on a new era of global warfare (9-11).
I can’t see the Dems ever catching up in this respect - I simply can’t see what they could do to push elite opinion, and therefore the political agenda, to the left the way the GOP have succeeded since the 60s in pushing it to the right. In other words, Mr. Greenwald, much too little much too late.
(I think the Dems lost when they failed to have the assassination of their party’s leader, President Kennedy, properly investigated in 1964. We found out then when it comes to the crunch the Dems are more than willing to lie down and roll over. Everything that has happened since 1964 has confirmed that judgment.)
2) David Wright. Peak Oil could be a hoax. See the latest story at http://joevialls.altermedia.info, which argues that the Russians have mastered deep drilling techniques so that far more oil is accessible than we are being led to believe. That leads me to the conclusion that global warming, rather than oil depletion, is the most urgent problem confronting our species.
Posted by Carl Wernerhoff on Aug 27, 2004 at 6:39 PM Hello thankyou for keeping us all informed. Here is something akin to Michael Moore’s documentary-
A documentary called 9-11: In Plane Site by David vonkKleist has brought up serious questions about what really may have happened that fateful day............. people need to go to THIS website and check this information out and pass it on-website is 911inplanesite.comDave vonKleist, co-host of The Power Hour radio program, shared evidence from his video, 911: In Plane Site, which documents unexplained circumstances involving events at the Pentagon and WTC. One of the inexplicable elements of the Pentagon attack, was that only a 16 ft. hole was created at the crash site (a Boeing 757 is over 44 ft. tall and 125 ft. wide) and he suggested that it was possible a missile hit the structure rather than the commercial jet. The French book Pentagate was what first brought some of these anomalies to his attention, he said.
vonKleist also presented baffling material related to Flight 175’s crash into the South Tower, some of which he first became exposed to at the letsroll911.org site. A Fox TV employee who was interviewed live, described seeing a plane with a blue logo near the front and no windows, which does not match United’s format. But a no windows style does match a type of tanker transport, vonKleist detailed. He also described video footage which appears to show a large bulge on the bottom of the jet, which also does not conform to United’s planes.
This “completely changes everything we’ve been told about September 11th,” said vanKleist, who stated his goal was to bring this evidence forward, rather than speculate on conspiracy theories. He did however suggest that the evidence may point to a “huge clandestine operation” in which the hijacked United and American planes may not have been the ones that hit the targets.
Please have this person on your show. This has been reviewed as being the film Michael Moore should have made!!!!!!!!!!!!His website is-911inplanesite.com-contact info-
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Posted by Stella on Aug 27, 2004 at 7:41 PM Re: Pod planes, missile hitting pentagon, etc. I believe these stories are planted, and those believing will eventually look foolish following said conspiracy theory. Stories to distract, confuse, muddle and muddy the stream. Although I believe 911 was a joint operation by well-known intel acronyms, I know planes struck the targets. One of my sons is MI and has seen sufficient proof of the plane which hit the pentagon so I’ve no doubt it was a plane. (His question was why hit the section that was under construction and reinforced.) I have no doubt 911 was NOT carried out by Al-Qaidapatsy. I’m trying to discern the long-term agenda of the real perpetrators, but possibly this level of thugs and thieves have none, other than more power and Oxxford suits.
Posted by elita rr on Aug 28, 2004 at 11:00 PM Randolph Bourne (’Another World, Possibly’) definitely has the right kind of hero stuff that movies are made of. He’s bona fide. The only question remains, who’ll play his Esmerelda? Though any such dramatic production based on his experience would necessarily have to be a tragedy. Not the sort of project that would so capture the hearts and minds of Americans as to start a revolution—and not that the movie going public has all that much reverence for journalists, for that matter.
Now, you take the legend of Knute Rockne and the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame...combine that with the #1 fight song on a saturday afternoon in September, pitting the Fighting Irish against a gridiron foe like the Michigan Wolverines, and “whooooa, Nelly!”, you’ve got national attention (and sponsors). Millions of viewers silently cheering for some miracle to happen. All hoping for some small glimpse, per chance, of that stuff that legends are made of.
Unfortunately, there wasn’t much of the stuff legends are made of at last months Democratic Convention, either, I’m sorry to say, though I did get a kick out of the “Ridin’ the Donkey” part; Al Sharpton’s, “Carpe Diem, ya’ll, but take my wife, please!” Still, progressive liberals like myself did go on to interpret the main event as: It’s a beautiful day...now, get behind the mule and plow.
And I loved John Kerry’s convention speech even though the premise has since been shot down by a well financed group of Texas Longhorns—all hat no cattle. (Cut from the shower scene at the Bates Motel to Bob Dole relentlessly stabbing John Kerry in the back with a sharpie.) Hope for the synergistic miracle then, rests on the battle cry: “Anybody But Bush; Or, “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant —except Nadar.” And this hope springs external, not from the mainline Democratic party, you see.
Right now, real progressives, with real progressive ideas, and with real talent to pull this thing off, are taking charge of the City Lights brigade and the total affect has yet to be uncovered by the Associated Press. This is Custer’s (Bush’s) last stand, it’s the battle of the Little Big Horn all over again.
And meanwhile, back at the ranch...all those phony, hackneyed tricks of Republican campaign operative’s used to garner a countrified constituency have begun to wither on the vine and die just like Lonesome Rhodes got his comeuppance in ‘A Face in the Crowd.’ “Win one for the Gipper” has about as much relevance anymore as another mediocre season from the Golden Domer’s. The Dixie Chicks are alive and well...and multiplying.
And I’ve always appreciated Bill Clinton’s headline statement on a visit here in Palm Beach County: GOVERNMENT IS NO SAVIOR. And so it goes, that the true soul of America is discovering the true nature of democracy...and the true reality of this political battle.
Election Day, 2004...it’s a good day to die.
Posted by Tim Christopher on Sep 2, 2004 at 10:02 PM I agree we need to have people question “what we are told” but when we continually waste time on “did a plane actually strike” & such conspiracy theories it makes those on the left look even more ridiculous.
Posted by dinosnert on Sep 7, 2004 at 11:00 AM “in Plane Site” is blatant disinformation that distracts from real evidence of complicity
see http://www.oilempire.us/bogus.html and http://www.oilempire.us/inplanesite.html for the details
It is a Karl Rove type trick to take a real conclusion (911 was an inside job) and pollute the message with fake “evidence” (photoshopped claims, misrepresented material, etc.)
There WAS a plane at the Pentagon - http://www.oilempire.us/pentagon.html
The REAL issue is how it zeroed in on the nearly empty, recently reconstructed sector - http://www.oilempire.us/remote.html
and WHY the Pentagon was not defended - http://www.oilempire.us/wargames.htmlI agree - End of Suburbia is an excellent film, one of the best released in 2004. Perhaps now that Baby Bush has stolen another election the liberal left will wake up to the reality of Peak Oil.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com
http://www.peakoil.net
http://www.museletter.com
http://www.energycrisis.org
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net
http://www.postcarbon.org
http://www.oilempire.us
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