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Showing posts with label War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label War. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Nablus: Ciudad fantasma

Directeed by Alberto Arce
Playing time: 30 min
Una visión desde dentro y a pie de calle de lo sucedido en esa ciudad Palestina a lo largo de una semana del mes de agosto del año 2004. La cámara se acerca a la realidad de niños que juegan a ser soldados de un ejército tan solo armado de piedras y razones. En medio de las bombas y los disparos del ejército israelí se establece un diálogo con soldados que parecen a veces más asustados que sus propias víctimas. La cámara, junto a un grupo de paramédicos y activistas internacionales, sigue los pasos del ejército en su registro de la ciudad casa por casa. Al mismo tiempo la presencia internacional actúa como "testigo ocupante" del espacio de impunidad en el que Israel se comporta habitualmente.


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Monday, October 6, 2008

The oil factor: Behind the war on terror

Directed by Free-Will Productions
Playing time: 89 min
After assessing today's dwindling oil reserves and skyrocketing use of oil for fuels, plastics and chemicals, "The Oil Factor" questions the motives for the U.S. wars in the Middle-East and Central Asia where 3/4 of the world's oil and natural gas is located. With exclusive footage shot on location in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the film documents the spiraling violence now engulfing both Iraq and Afghanistan, a country conspicuously absent from the commercial media's news segments. Interviews gathered throughout the Middle-East, Europe and the United States, including a Bechtel executive in Baghdad, also expose who is cashing in on the tens of billions of dollars requested from congress by the current administration of G. W. Bush.
With detailed maps and graphics, The Oil Factor features many experts and personalities such as former Defense Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, M.I.T. professor Noam Chomsky, the Project for the New American Century Executive Director Gary Schmitt, Coalition Provisional Authority Chairman Paul Bremer, former Pentagon analyst Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, current Iraqi government official Abdel Aziz Al-Hakim and authors Ahmed Rashid and Michael C. Ruppert.

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Friday, September 12, 2008

The war on drugs

35 years after Nixon started the war on drugs, we have over one million non-violent drug offenders living behind bars.The War on Drugs has become the longest and most costly war in American history, the question has become, how much more can the country endure? Inspired by the death of four family members from "legal drugs" Texas filmmaker Kevin Booth sets out to discover why the Drug War has become such a big failure. Three and a half years in the making, the film follows gang members, former DEA agents, CIA officers, narcotics officers, judges, politicians, prisoners and celebrities.

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Bagdad Rap

Directed by Arturo Cisneros.
Bagdad rap es una película documental sobre el estallido de la segunda guerra de Iraq, en la que el rap se ha empleado como parte fundamental de su banda sonora. El documental está dirigido por el español Arturo Cisneros. La película se estrenó el 20 de mayo de 2005 y fue nominada para la XX edición de los Premios Goya en la categoría de canción original con el tema de El Sr. Rojo titulado "Llora por tus miserias".

Bagdad rap critica las razones que llevaron a iniciar esa cruenta guerra, así como critica a George Bush, Aznar y un extenso reportaje a cerca de lo que no hemos visto en nuestros televisores.

Spanish version: Here