Films on DVD

Peter Dale Scott On Thomas Merton – The Many Gated City

This is a 25 minute talk by Peter Dale Scott on Thomas Merton, the catholic priest, Trappist monk, writer of over 70 books, poet, and social activist. Scott, best known for his writings on foreign policy, the CIA and the drug trade, shares many of the complexities that have made Thomas Merton, who died in 1968, so intriguing. To this day Thomas Merton’s name and writings are associated with the acceptance of the spiritual traditions of Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Sufism by western spiritual thinkers and poets such as Thoreau, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Rilke. The spiritual and literary connections that Scott lays out in this talk are interwoven with not just Merton’s ideas on mutual respect, inner and outer peace, [ . . . ]

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Peter Dale Scott – The Road To 9/11

Peter Dale Scott is a former diplomat and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written on 9/11, the CIA involvement in South East Asia, the drug wars, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He also is an accomplished and much published poet.
His most recent book: The Road to 9-11, Wealth, Empire and the Future of America, was published by the University of California Press in late 2007. Reaching back to the 1960s Scott gives evidence of cover-ups of domestic criminal acts and momentous secret decision making by an ever smaller number of players. He investigates how policies of Presidents since Nixon have created the background for 9/11. He also shows how US intelligence [ . . . ]

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Peter Dale Scott – Saving American Politics From The Present Two-Party System

The disparity of income and wealth in this country was increased by the first round of bank bail-outs. On Jan. 27, 2009, in front of an audience of Republicans, Scott explained in great detail the necessity to construct future bail-outs to diminish that gap for the sake of democracy. This is a lucid analysis and a well researched guideline for all who want to influence future financial policies.
The Republican Round Table meets in a SF hotel. About 60 members, some with recognizable names, came to hear him. The only media in attendance were TUC Radio and, as guest, the former Ramparts editor Warren Hinkle accompanied by his basset hound. (45 minutes)
Bonus Track:
Lifting The State Of Emergency
An unresolved legacy of [ . . . ]

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George Galloway – Viva Palestina – Breaking The Siege Of Gaza

George Galloway is an outspoken Member of the British Parliament, serving since 1987. He is perhaps best known for his support of Palestine and his campaign to end economic sanctions against Iraq. When he stood up to Tony Blair and called the invasion of Iraq illegal he was expelled from the Labour Party.
After participating in daily demonstrations in England during the Israeli assault on Gaza from the end of December 2008 into January 2009, Galloway led a convoy of vehicles loaded with humanitarian aid to Gaza. Under the name VIVA Palestina the convoy began in England in February 2009, crossed from Spain into North Africa and entered Gaza from Egypt with over 200 vehicles through the Rafah crossing that is [ . . . ]

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Tom Greco – The End Of Money And The Future Of Civilization

Tom Greco demystifies money and banking and explains the destruction of the current financial system. Our dreams of a sane, just and ecologically sound future can become reality only if we change the way in which money is created and used
New Money for Healthy Communities and Money as Debt, A Solutions to the Globals Crisis are his books. Kelly Durkin and I recorded him at IONS in Petaluma, CA, on May 5, 2009.
This film is an excellent tool for community events. Greco allowed me to incorporate the slide show that he made for this presentation. Seeing and sharing this film sends you well on your way to set up credit clearing and community currencies in your community. For more details [ . . . ]

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Stephen Zarlenga – The American Monetary Act

Solving the Financial Crisis by Monetary Reform
“The U.S. monetary reform is urgently needed: It is long past time we look at the implications of the privatization of money created by the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, the bank fractional reserve system and our debt-based economic system. Unless we have dramatic reform of monetary policy, the entire economic system will continue to accelerate wealth upwards. I am currently working on drafting legislation for an ‘American Monetary Act’ to address these and other issues in order to protect the economic well being of America.”
Observers believe that this single measure has the potential of bringing together tens of millions of people who have realized that our bank-run debt-based monetary system lies at the center [ . . . ]

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The World Can’t Wait – Former Cia Analyst Ray Mcgovern On Torture & Cindy Sheehan On Ending The War

Ray McGovern’s 27-year career as a CIA analyst spanned administrations from John F. Kennedy to George H. W. Bush.  He now is co-director of the Servant Leadership School, an organization dedicated to helping the marginalized poor. In 2003 Ray McGovern co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, a group critical of Bush administration policies.
When Cindy Sheehan’s son Casey was killed in Iraq she dedicated herself to the mission of not just ending this war, but to addressing the underlying causes that lead us to accept violence and war. She is the founder of Gold Star Families for Peace, an organization of Americans who have loved ones killed in wars. She has written three well received books: “Not One More Mother’s Child”, [ . . . ]

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Robert Fisk -The Age Of The Warrior

Fisk is Britain’s most celebrated foreign correspondent and has been named International Journalist of the Year seven times. He is currently the Middle East correspondent for The Independent of London and has covered eleven major wars in over three decades. He lives in Beirut and was one of only two journalists who had the courage to remain there through the duration of the Lebanese civil war. I filmed him at his most recent, rare, visit to the US as he spoke in front of a capacity audience in Berkeley, CA. He was greeted with a standing ovation.
Anybody writing on current events or making policy decisions for the Middle East needs to take Fisk’s analysis into account. Fisk argues for an [ . . . ]

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Robert Fisk – The Armenian Holocaust & Civil War In Iraq And Lebanon

Robert Fisk, foreign correspondent for the London Independent, received an exuberant welcome when he came to the Bay Area in December 2006. He spoke on civil war in Iraq and Lebanon and the ongoing denial of the genocide of one and a half million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks in 1915.
Even though he consistently criticizes the New York Times they described him as “probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain” He has over thirty years of experience in international reporting. His best-selling books, based on his field notes and recordings, offer strong criticisms of Middle Eastern governments as well as British and United States government foreign policy. He spoke on December 14, 2006, in Oakland, CA.

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Robert Fisk: The Great War For Civilization

The Conquest of the Middle East
In his talk about his new book, The Great War for Civilization, Robert Fisk offers his thoughts on the most urgent issues of our day: From the Algerian war, the Palestine Israel war, the invasion of Afghanistan, the sanctions on Iraq and the spread of depleted uranium, each invasion by the new and old colonial powers has made Muslims more angry of the West. In light of decades of bloodshed Fisk says how surprised he is “how restrained Muslims have been with us.”
Robert Fisk has lived in and reported on the Middle East since 1976 and has seen or tracked down firsthand accounts of all the major events of the last quarter century. He speaks [ . . . ]

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Bill Mckibben On Deep Economy

A talk and conversation with Michael Pollan
Bill McKibben’s book: ‘The End of Nature’ is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change. Published in 1989, it has been printed in more than 20 languages.  He has since written on localization, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. In his most recent book: ‘Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future’ he envisions a transition to local-scale enterprise.
McKibben and his family live in Vermont. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College where he launched the campaign: stepitup2007, demanding that global warming pollution be cut 80 percent by 2050. McKibben spoke in Berkeley in March 2007. The church was filled to [ . . . ]

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Dr. Lonnie Thompson – Abrupt Climate Change And Our Future

Dr. Thompson issues a warning that the mountain glaciers he knows and loves are melting ever more dramatically just within the year of 2007. He is the leading expert on glaciers with 30 years of on location research.
In three decades he has explored most of the mountain glaciers of this world, has learned their history going back tens of thousands of years via the ice cores he and his team drilled at altitudes that no helicopter can reach. He came to San Francisco in early December 2007 to issue this warning.
Thompson was the honored speaker at the December 2007 meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The hotel where Dr. Thompson spoke recorded the event for the AGU. This is the [ . . . ]

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Interviews With Dr. James Hansen, Nasa And Dr. Hermann Scheer

World Council for Renewable Energy and member of the German Parliament
Dr. James Hansen is one of the few climate scientists who has consistently warned that the impact that humans have on the climate is bringing about changes that are faster than we ever believed and maybe irreversible if action is not taken now. Hansen is Director of the NASA Institute for Space Studies in New York City, a division of the Goddard Space Flight Center.
I interviewed Hansen  after his lecture at the December 2006 meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
Dr. Hermann Scheer
A large industrialized country already gets 10% of their electricity from renewable sources. And if the present rate of conversion is maintained, this country will have [ . . . ]

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Daniel Ellsberg – The Threat Of War On Iran

When Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers in 1971 they revealed the US Government’s lies about the war on Vietnam. 35 years later Ellsberg received the Right Livelihood Award, the so-called alternative Nobel Price, for “… dedicating his life to inspiring others to follow his example.”
For the last 6 years Ellsberg has campaigned against the exercise of executive power by the Bush administration. He calls for action to end the expansion of the war in the Middle East and an attack on Iran. He urges government insiders to come up with the new set of Pentagon papers, to act now and not wait until they write their memoirs. The American public needs to see the current attack plans on Iran [ . . . ]

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John Nichols – The Impeachment Of Bush And Cheney

The acclaimed author, Washington correspondent for the Nation, and media critic John Nichols wrote a book entitled: The Genius of Impeachment. The author Studs Terkel said about this book: “Never within my memory has the case for impeachment of Bush and his equally crooked confederates been so clearly and fervently offered as John Nichols has done in this book. They are after all our public SERVANTS who have rifled our savings, bled our young, and challenged our sanity. And Nichols has given us the history, the language and the arguments we will need to do so.”
John Nichols had come to San Francisco just before the November 2006 election to urge the group of friends who had gathered to meet him [ . . . ]

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