Daily Archives: May 3, 2016

How Do We End the So-Called ‘Free’ Trade Deals?


thomhartmann

Published on May 3, 2016

Thom Hartmann says the way to undo 30 years of job killing so-called ‘free trade’ deals is to gradually raise tariffs and make it cheaper for American companies to bring their manufacturing back to the U.S.

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U.S. Drone Operators Open Up About What They Did


Secular Talk

Published on Dec 19, 2015

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Clip from The Kyle Kulinski Show, which airs live on Blog Talk Radio and Secular Talk Radio Monday – Friday 4:00 – 5:30 PM Eastern time zone.

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The drone operator who said ‘No’


Sandwellnews

Published on Jan 21, 2015

For almost five years, Brandon Bryant worked in America’s secret drone programme bombing targets in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

He was told that he helped to kill more than 1,600 people, but as time went by he felt uneasy with what he was doing. He found it hard to sleep and started dreaming in infra-red.

Brandon Bryant told Witness about his doubts and the mission that convinced him it was time to stop.

Witness is a World Service programme of the stories of our times told by the people who were there.

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Jeremy Scahill Remembers His Longtime Friend, Father Daniel Berrigan: “The Man was a Moral Giant”


Democracy Now!

Published on May 3, 2016

http://democracynow.org – “I may not be here if it wasn’t for Dan Berrigan,” says journalist Jeremy Scahill as we remember the legendary antiwar priest, Father Daniel Berrigan, who spent his lifetime nonviolently protesting militarism, nuclear proliferation, racism and poverty. Berrigan died Saturday in the Bronx, just short of his 95th birthday. Scahill was a college student when he first met Berrigan, and went on to become close friends with him and his brother, Philip. The conversations they had inspired him to pursue fiercely independent journalism. “This man was just a moral giant,” Scahill says, “the closest thing we have in our society to a prophet.”

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Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars


Brave New Films

Published on Apr 1, 2015

“Unmanned” investigates the impact of U.S. drone strikes at home and abroad, observing their effect on the War on Terror, the lives of individuals, and U.S. foreign policy. SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/1JUX3Xv DONATE: http://bit.ly/1CnMVEG

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Exclusive: Air Force Whistleblowers Risk Prosecution to Warn Drone War Kills Civilians, Fuels Terror


Democracy Now!

Published on Nov 20, 2015

Has the U.S. drone war “fueled the feelings of hatred that ignited terrorism and groups like ISIS”? That’s the conclusion of four former Air Force servicemembers who are speaking out together for the first time. They’ve issued a letter to President Obama warning the U.S. drone program is one of the most devastating driving forces for terrorism. They accuse the administration of lying about the effectiveness of the drone program, saying it is good at killing people—just not the right ones. The four drone war veterans risk prosecution by an administration that has been unprecedented in its targeting of government whistleblowers. In a Democracy Now! exclusive, they join us in their first extended broadcast interview.

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DRONE Documentary Official Trailer #2 (Norwegian subs)


Drone Documentary

Published on Feb 16, 2015

Trailer for the upcoming documentary DRONE, about the secret CIA Drone wars.

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National Bird – Films Picked Up For Distribution at Tribeca 2016

National Bird
Director: Sonia Kennebeck

Sonia Kennebeck takes on the controversial tactic of drone warfare, and demands accountability through the personal accounts—recollections, traumas, and responses—of three American military veterans whose lives have been shaken by the roles they played in this controversial method of attack. Executive produced by Wim Wenders and Errol Morris.

Picked up by: FilmRise (release date TBD)

  1. Sonia Kennebeck, Producer/Director

    Sonia Kennebeck is an independent documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist who has worked for CNN and for German public television’s (ARD) highest-rated and longest-running current affairs program, Panorama. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she runs her own production company, Ten Forward Films, that makes films about international politics and human rights. Her most recent documentary about the German brothel industry, Sex – Made in Germany, was an Official Selection of the Montreal World Film Festival 2013 and the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo 2014. Kennebeck has over 12 years of production experience. She received a Master’s degree in International Affairs from American University in Washington, D.C. and was born in Malacca, Malaysia. National Bird is her first feature-length documentary film.

  2. Ines Hofmann Kanna, Producer

    Ines Hofmann Kanna has worked as television producer and director in the United States for the past 20 years. She began her career at Boston’s PBS station, WGBH, where she worked for ten years, most notably on the hit series Antiques Roadshow. She has also worked as Supervising Producer for ITVS, guiding more than thirty filmmakers from production to broadcast, and acted as Series Producer on two ITVS documentary series, Global Voices and Women of the World. She now focuses on making social-issue documentaries with independent filmmakers from around the world. Ines has a Master’s degree in mass communication from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. She was born and raised in East Germany.

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Pirate Television: Inside America’s Secret Wars with Jeremy Scahill


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Published on Jan 14, 2014

Jeremy Scahill is a special correspondent for ‘Democracy Now!’, writes for ‘The Nation’ magazine, best-selling author of ‘Blackwater’ and ‘Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield’.

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Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill (2014) “Death By Metadata


Glenn Greenwald

Published on Feb 27, 2014

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