An Array of Utopian Flowers
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12 Reasons to Try Elliott Abrams in the International Criminal Court
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Ecological Amnesia: Life Without Wild Things
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Coup Redux in Venezuela: ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’
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Pushing Back Against the Venezuela Coup-Plotters
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Angels and Saints in Mosaic at Sicily’s Monreale Cathedral
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The CIA and Psychedelics: From Timothy Leary to the Unabomber
Posted on May 11, 2015 | 3 CommentsJeffery St. Clair and the late Alexander Cockburn wrote about the history of CIA-associated psychologists such as 1960s psychedelic pitchman Timothy Leary using LSD and psilocybin, and their effects on subjects, like the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski.
‘Selma’: Martin Luther King Jr. as Radical Peace and Anti-Poverty Activist
Posted on December 28, 2014 | No CommentsThe 2014 film controversially reinstated the radical legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., where he spoke out against war and poverty and was marginalized by the political establishment as a result. This review of Ava DuVernay's Selma is by Zaid Jilani.
Delia Derbyshire: ’60s Science Fiction Sound Art
Posted on November 8, 2014 | No CommentsWatch "The Delian Mode" a documentary on the innovative electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire, who worked from 1960 to 1973 at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. She utilized both real-life and ‘artificial’ electronic sounds in her compositions using a musical style known as Musique Concrète.
Lucifer Rising: God of Light and Color in Experimental Film
Posted on October 13, 2014 | 2 CommentsLucifer Rising is Kenneth Anger's portrait of the love generation, the dawning of a new age and morality. Inspired by the ancient solar religions and conceived with occultist Aleister Crowley's vision of the Age of Aquarius.
J. G. Ballard: Atrocity Exhibition and the Modernist Motorcar Dystopia
Posted on December 27, 2013 | 2 Comments"The Atrocity Exhibition" is J.G. Ballard’s instruction manual in how to disrupt mass media and recontextualize technology in a dystopian landscape overrun with industrial waste and technological white noise. Watch the piece on Ballard and the Motorcar, that careens across the landscape of his controversial novel, "Crash."
March on Washington: Demonstration for Freedom Continues
Posted on August 31, 2013 | 1 CommentWatch "The March," a documentary from 1964, re-released to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. At this year's ceremony in DC, Republican politicians opted to stay home. Maybe they all had prior engagements...
Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Subversive Champion of the Disinherited
Posted on March 11, 2013 | 3 CommentsAlmost forty years after his violent death, Pier Paolo Pasolini, filmmaker, poet, journalist, novelist, playwright, painter, actor, and all-around intellectual public figure, remains a subject of passionate argument. Best known for a subversive and difficult body of film work, loaded with Renaissance and Baroque iconography, he championed the disinherited and damned of postwar Italy, mingling an intellectual leftism with a fierce Franciscan Catholicism.
The Battle of Algiers: A Brutal Portrait of Urban Guerrilla Warfare
Posted on January 26, 2013 | 2 CommentsGillo Pontecorvo's 1966 masterpiece, "The Battle of Algiers," as a study of the brutality of urban guerrilla warfare, serves an Arab-street-level counterpoint to Kathryn Bigelow's US-imperialism-centered, torture-driven war propaganda film, "Zero Dark Thirty."
La Jetée – Chris Marker’s Post-Apocalyptic Time Travel
Posted on July 30, 2012 | 1 CommentChris Marker, writer, photographer, filmmaker and time-traveler created the post-nuclear-war photo-novel-film "La Jetée," an inventive melange of image and sound, politics and philosophy.
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