Showing posts with label Documentary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Documentary. Show all posts

Sunday, September 12, 2010

The chilling truth behind the book "The Man who Stare at Goats" - From the Hawaiian Islands to Fort Bragg , Abu Ghraib and the world

A look at the revelations about a top-secret wing of the U.S. military and the real men and real events that inspired Jon Ronson's book "The Men Who Stare at Goats". From music as a form of torture to "terminal human experiments", Project MKULTRA, Project Artichoke and more.




PS: Jim Channon, Sergeant Glenn Wheaton and Major Ed Dames were all living in the Hawaiian Islands when they were interviewed for the book.
More about Jon Ronson's book "The Men Who Stare at Goats" at:

Psychic Spies, Acid Guinea Pigs, New Age Soldiers: the True Men Who Stare at Goats - by David Humbling - Wired- Danger Room - Nov 6, 2009
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/11/psychic-spies-acid-guinea-pigs-new-age-gis-the-true-men-who-stare-at-goats/

Inside the Army's Far-Out Acid Tests - by David Humbling - Wired- Danger Room - Nov 5, 2009
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/11/inside-the-armys-far-out-acid-tests/


"Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the all-highest?"
CIA agent George White's resignation letter to Sidney Gottlieb, one of the architects of Projects Mkultra and Artichoke

Saturday, June 12, 2010

From El Salvador to Kandahar - Death Squads

Death Squads are armed military, police,insurgent, or terrorist squads that conducts extra-judicial killings, assassinations, and forced disappearances of persons as part of a terror campaign, war or insurgency. The killings are conducted in ways meant to ensure the secrecy of the killers' identities, so as to avoid accountability.

March 2010 - News on Óscar Romero - Archbishop of San Salvador - 30 Years after his Assassination on March 24, 1980.



Kandahar Death Squads - DOCUMENTARY BY Stephen Gray - May 2010

Monday, June 7, 2010

Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews in World War II

The BESA Project


"For over 6 years I have been traveling to Muslim Albania and Kosovo documenting and doing portraits of Muslim families that saved Jews in WW2. Although Besa is a traditional Albanian code of honor many Muslim families have incorporated Besa in their religious beliefs and often were inspired by their faith in saving Jews from the Nazis. The rescue of Jews in Albania was a unique experience in Holocaust history as Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler were welcomed not as refugees but as guests."
Norman H. Gershman


BESA is a long held tradition of the Albanian people which is their code of honor. According to the code of Besa an Albanian will lay down their life for another in need of their assistance, friend or enemy.

The Eye Contact Foundation promotes religious, political, cultural and economic understanding and tolerance among people worldwide through the use of portrait photography.

http://www.eyecontactfoundation.org/node/16

Through its financial support of photographic projects, The Eye Contact Foundation seeks to bring together people of radically diverse backgrounds and beliefs in an effort to advance humanitarianism into the future.

Upcoming Exhibitions at:
http://www.eyecontactfoundation.org/Exhibitions/Upcoming


Monday, April 12, 2010

CIA sponsored "terror vigilants" in the recent years - Articles on "Parallel Police" - Italy probes 'parallel police'

Italian Art:

Ratto delle Sabine (1574-82), Giambologna, Florence, Italia
Rape of the Sabine Women (1574-82), by Giambologna, Florence, Italy

The Rape of the Sabine Women is an episode in the legendary History of Rome, Italy. In the context, rape means abduction - RAPTIO - as in the "extraordinary renditions" American program, rather than its prevalent modern meaning of sexual attack.



More on Italy:
Italy probes 'parallel police'
Italy - BBC News - Friday, 1 July, 2005
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Italian police have launched a big inquiry into a "parallel" intelligence agency, say Italian news reports. "
HERE - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4640247.stm

The Department of Anti-terrorism Strategic Studies (DSSA) was reportedly created after the 2004 Madrid bombings to combat Islamic extremism.

Genoa-based investigators carrying out a probe into the DSSA have arrested two people and placed more than two dozen others under investigation.

Anti-terror squads have also carried out raids in nine Italian regions.

'Regular employees'

Many of those under investigation are said to be employed by regular law-enforcement bodies. Prosecutors believe that DSSA "employees" were sometimes using official police badges and other equipment to carry out their own investigations.

The alleged parallel force is also accused of illegally using the Interior Ministry database for its own purposes.

The DSSA operated its own website, which was disabled after the arrests were reported on Friday morning.

Reports say the site was available in four languages - Italian, English, French and Spanish - and profiled terror organisations as well as urging the public to come forward with information.

Kidnap inquiry

Italian state radio Rai later reported that the two arrested men may have had links with Gladio, the Italian branch of a secret paramilitary network set up in post-war Europe with the backing of the CIA.

There are also reports of a possible connection with a far-right political group.

The investigation that uncovered the alleged parallel structure is an offspring of a previous inquiry into the death of Fabrizio Quattrocchi, one of four Italians kidnapped in Iraq in April 2004.

Mr Quattrocchi was shot dead by the abductors, while his colleagues were eventually released.


MORE ON ITALY:

Italian PM Berlusconi demands respect as CIA rumbles on - EURONEWS - 01/07/2005

http://www.euronews.net/2005/07/01/berlusconi-demands-respect-as-cia-row-rumbles-on/


CIA spondored "parallel police"? The Department of Anti-terrorism Strategic Studies - The Times onLine

HERE - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article539727.ece

ARTISTIC :

TROJAN HORSE in "The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy" by Domenico Tiepolo (1773) ; The gorgeous Helena de Troia by Jacques-Louis David(1788) in "The Love of Helen and Paris"

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Thursday, March 4, 2010

Finding Dawn

March 8th, 2010 - Centennial of International Women's Day

Finding Dawn is a 2006 documentary film by Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh. The film begins with the story of Dawn Crey: one of 60 women, a third of them Aboriginal, who have disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside over a 20 year period. Crey's remains were among those found on property of British Columbia serial killer Robert Pickton.




See also: Highway of Tears - Project of Doors for Hope - http://www.highwayoftears.ca

Friday, November 20, 2009

Documentary: "AMERICAN FAUST: From Condi to Neo-Condi"

American Faust - A documentary that covers the career of American Condoleezza Rice - from the weapons of mass destruction lies to the torture program, she regrets nothing....

Worldwide Release December 2nd, 2009

DVD and download at:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvxjn4_american-faust_news

The trailer of "AMERICAN FAUST: From Condi to Neo-condi"

Saturday, May 30, 2009

"I want to be absolutely clear with our people, and the world: The United States does not torture. It's against our laws, and it's against our values"

George Bush - United States of America President declares, in September 6, 2006:
"I want to be absolutely clear with our people, and the world: The United States does not torture. It's against our laws, and it's against our values. I have not authorized it - and I will not authorize it."

On Thursday, April 16, President Barack Obama authorized the release of four documents written by the Office of Legal Counsel in Bush administration’s Department of Justice.
The memos construct a legal justification for "The Torture Program" ("enhanced interrogation techniques").

As "the torture program" is exposed, more will come to light about those who participated in it.

An overview of the "torture program" is given in the documentary "Torturing Democracy" - HERE

Trailer:



And some interesting interviews about the topic with Bill Moyers- PBS - can be watched HERE .
Bill Moyers has spoken with many legal and policy experts: international lawyers Phillipe Sands and Scott Horton, investigative journalist Jane Mayer, former Bush administration official Jack L. Goldsmith, reporter Mark Danner and constitutional scholar Bruce Fein, and others.

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL's complete coverage of torture and the rule of law can be watched at:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05292009/profile2.html