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Falling prey to illiberal democracies
Rubert Russel makes convincing arguments about the unravelling of the ideals of equality and rule of law and their replacement with illiberal manifestations of popular will.
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Calling All Prosecutors
SYRIA: Syria’s Dissappeared should be mandatory viewing for all of those concerned about human rights or the Middle East.
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Shin bet top guns
Director Moreh lets unrepentant and ruthless pensioners reminisce about the decades-long intelligence wars fought against Palestinians. These voices matter.
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Recover from a turbulent past and confront an uncertain future
LIBYA: The revolution in Libya was tailored for today’s preferred style of foreign military intervention.
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The rise of lobbying
For the past forty years, economic policy has been dominated by neo-liberal assumptions that have dictated trade integration, liberalization of domestic markets, de-regulation of industry, flexibility of labour markets and generally the withdrawal of the state from economic regulation. – This is not news. What has been less clear is how these policies came to…
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In the theatre of war
Pål Refsdal drew a logical conclusion from the state of contemporary war reporting: NATO military forces will not allow reporters to wander about in the theatre of war, jump on their helicopters and armoured personnel carriers and ride to the latest battle, as the U.S. did in Vietnam.
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POV IRAN: Threatened from within
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard points to fresh dissent within oppressive regime. A television film gives us first-hand testimony from recent defectors.
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It was no secret
The “secret war” takes us into the inconcievable reality of a war conducted in the shadow of the Vietnam war. As the film impies, the “secret war” is an ancestor of today’s U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
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Disaster capitalism
Is all the talk about ‘national priorities’ in the aftermath of hurricanes, coups, and wars, usually just a cover for the imposition of the of-the-shelf policies of neoliberal economics? And is the US response to Haiti following this same form?
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Corporate abuse
"Crude" tells its story with devastating understatement, wrapping the central plot of corporate negligence. But justice is not swift when Big Oil is your target.