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Hilary Andersson - China's Secret War After months of investigating
China's covert arms trade, Panorama provides the first evidence
of how China is arming Sudan's killers. Sudan, with its vast oil reserves,
sells most of its oil to Beijing. China has officially reached 'superpower'
status - it's doing what the US has been doing for decades
Tac Presse Productions - Blood Coltan (2008) This is a story about the real costs of our need to stay in touch. Mobile phones have hidden tariffs with unimaginable human consequences: rape, murder and illegal slave labour stream google video
BooHooHooMan - TAPI or IPI? The proposed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline has a rival - the "peace pipeline" aka the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline. They both aim to supply Pakistan and India with much needed gas. This explains to some extent, the increased troop levels in Afghanistan and the increasingly aggressive stance towards Iran More detailed information can be found here and here stream youtube
Current TV - Rebels in the Pipeline Current's Mariana van Zeller travels to one of the most unstable regions in the world - Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta. She investigates what's behind the growing number of kidnappings and attacks in Africa's largest oil producer and the US's fifth largest energy supplier stream google video
Aljazeera - From Balfour to Blair This special 30 minute film investigates the role of British policy in the Middle East from the beginning of the 20th century to today stream part 1 youtube stream part 2 youtube
Chris Atkins - Taking Liberties Right to Protest, Right to Freedom of Speech. Right to Privacy. Right not to be detained without charge, Innocent Until Proven Guilty. Prohibition from Torture. 'Taking Liberties' reveals how these six central pillars of liberty have been systematically destroyed by New Labour, and the freedoms of the British people stolen from under their noses amidst a climate of fear created by the media and government itself stream google video
Nugas/Martin Productions - The Assassination of Zia Ul Haq Documentary looking at how
former Pakistan president Zia Ul Haq died in mysterious circumstances
whilst flying in a Hercules C-130 transport plane to visit a military
base in August 1988. The plane crashed into the Bahawalpur desert
with no survivors. After Pakistani and US investigators ruled out
mechanical failure, a report speculated that a low-intensity device
might have been used to release poisonous gas to incapacitate the
four-man crew
BBC Four - American Revolutionary: Noam Chomsky talks to Francine Stock Short bio on Chomsky followed by an interview with him stream google video
Dietre Scroeder and Joachiiom Schroeder - Hitler's American Business Partners This documentary uncovers
the unholy alliance between Nazi Germany and some of the biggest corporations
in the US - companies, which were indispensable for Hitler to wage
war. Henry Ford, the automobile manufacturer, James D Mooney, the
General Motors manager and Tom Watson, the IBM boss, were all awarded
the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the Nazis' highest distinction
for foreigners, for their services to the Third Reich
Jean-Pierre Beaurenaut & Yves Billon - The Epic of Black Gold (2004) The history of oil is the history of the 20th century. It is a history of corruption, violence, unimaginable profits and human suffering. In the last 100 years, oil has changed almost every part of human life in almost every corner of the globe. This series sets out to tell the tale of Black Gold, in suitably epic detail and scope; from John D Rockefeller and Henry Ford's Model-T, through both world wars, to the current US engagement in Iraq - everyone should watch this stream part 1 windows media player stream part 2 windows media player stream part 3 windows media player stream part 4 windows media player stream part 5 windows media player
BBC - Clash of the Worlds - Palestine Series exploring the history of Muslim-Western relations. This episode examines the decisions made by the British rulers of Palestine 90 years ago stream
Altemeier and Hornung Productions - Always Coca Cola Coca-Cola's exploits in Germany and India stream
Channel 4 Dispatches - Mark Thomas on Coca-Cola Mark Thomas travels to South America, India and the US to investigate the way in which Coca-Cola and its suppliers operate and the extent to which they uphold moral and ethical obligations stream (five parts)
Unreported World - China's Olympic Lie In a world exclusive, reporter
Aidan Hartley and producer Andrew Carter film inside one of Beijing's
'black jails' - which the authorities deny exist - and meet ordinary
people suffering the consequences of fighting eviction to make way
for Olympic infrastructure
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe - TV News This edition focuses on TV news and how it has changed over the years. The programme includes a special report from Adam Curtis stream/download
Richard Symons - The Ministry of Truth British film-maker Richard Symons asks members of the British government to support his campaign for truth in the Houses of Parliament, and a pledge from the MPs that they will never tell a lie; "We, the people, are sovereign. We grant this sovereignty to our elected representatives in Parliament. Whilst representing our sovereignty, our elected representatives have fundamental obligations to be honest, transparent and accountable to us. We are entitled to formal, legal, independent courses of action for a breach of these fundamental obligations." ....more stream/download
Channel 4 Dispatches - Burma's Secret War Evan Williams goes undercover
to investigate the mass ethnic cleansing, forced labour and vicious
clamping down of political opposition by a military dictatorship supported
by Unocal (Chevron) and TOTAL Oil. Additional information can be found
here
John Pilger - The War on Democracy (2007) This film explores Washington's relationship with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. It examines the theme of disenchantment with democracy, concentrating on those parts of the world where people have struggled with blood, sweat and tears to plant democracy, only to see it brutally crushed. Archive footage demonstrates how democracy has been wiped out in country after country in Latin America since the 1950s stream/download
John Pilger - Freedom Next Time Pilger addressed the 'Socialism 2007' conference in Chicago on 16 June. He spoke about what Edward Bernays called the "invisible government which is the true ruling power" - the media - and how propaganda so often disguises itself as journalism stream
Unreported World - Israel's Wild West On the West Bank, where a quarter-of-a-million Israelis live cheek-by-jowl with over two million Palestinians, ideologically driven Israeli settlers are exploiting political weaknesses to take back settlements the Israeli government expelled them from only two years before. ....more stream/download
BBC Panorama - Princes, Planes and Pay-offs Jane Corbin reveals details of the mechanism involving BAE Systems with the approval of the British Ministry of Defence in the transfer of hundreds of millions of pounds into accounts controlled by Prince Bandar "Bush", former Saudi ambassador to the US. ....more Newsnight 'BAE arms inquiry' archive here Of course, this has never happened before to a British company stream
Empowerment Project - Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair (1988) Coverup exposes several of the most disturbing chapters in the history of US covert foreign policy. It presents a tale of politics, drugs, hostages, weapons, assassinations, covert operations and the ultimate plan to suspend the US Constitution. This is the only film which presents a comprehensive overview of the most important stories suppressed during the Iran Contra hearings. It is the only film that puts the entire Iran Contra affair into a meaningful political and historical context stream part 1 google video part 2 google video part 3 google video
Fiona Scott (BBC) - Playing God with the Weather Film highlighting the benefits and consequences of weather modification, from its humanitarian roots to its dark history of military involvement stream
Unreported World - Zambia & Congo: China's African Takeover China's economic boom is resulting in the biggest scramble for Africa since the end of European colonialism. Trade between Beijing and Africa has more than quadrupled since 2000 and hundreds of new companies, many partly owned by the Chinese State, have set up. Thousands of Chinese workers are now in Central Africa, buying up copper and cobalt stream/download
Channel 4 - Dispatches: Murdering the Truth When world-famous investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, one of President Putin's fiercest and most effective critics, was assassinated last October in Moscow, there was international outrage. Her colleagues at her newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, were determined that the investigation into her murder was not going to run into the sand, like so many before. So they set up their own private investigation. Dispatches has been granted exclusive access to that investigation stream/download
Transparences Productions – Assassination of Russia (2002) This film examines the series of apartment block bombings in Moscow and Volgodonsk in 1999, and an incident that took place less than a week later, where another explosive device was found in the basement of an apartment block in the Russian city of Ryazan. The authorities initially announced that they had prevented another major bombing, but later changed their mind, saying the device was actually only an imitation bomb, planted to test the security service's readiness stream
Clare Bradshaw (ITV) - The Perverted World of Marc Dutroux The case surrounding the Belgian paedophile who served less than half of a 13-year prison sentence in the 1980s for the rape and torture of five girls. Released in 1992, he continued to follow a path marked by cruelty and violence toward others before receiving life imprisonment in 2004 for charges including kidnapping and murder. The trial raised many questions about the police investigation into his crimes, pointing toward a high level cover-up stream google video
BBC Newsnight - SFO Head on bribery probe Why was the Serious Fraud Office investigation into British Aerospace (BAE) bribery allegations so controversially dropped? It seems that the Swiss bank accounts of the Saudis are off limits Newsnight 'BAE arms inquiry' archive here stream/download
Adam Curtis (BBC) - The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007) A series of films by BAFTA-winning producer Adam Curtis, that tells the story of the rise of today's narrow idea of freedom Part 1 - F**k You Buddy stream/download real player Part 2 - The Lonely Robot stream/download real player Part 3 - We Will Force You to be Free stream/download real player
AlJazeera - Oil Prospects: Scramble for Oil in Darfur It's not often you see a news report covering the real reasons for the conflict in Darfur, Sudan. Chinese and American oil companies are scrambling to extract this region's rich oil reserves stream/download
Helmut Grosse (WDR) – Africa: US Oil's New Target (2005) America has set its sights on Africa, which, according to a White House national energy policy document, is predicted to be - together with Latin America - "one of the fastest growing sources of oil and gas" for the future American market. But in the global hunt for oil, America has to compete with an increasingly successful and aggressive major competitor - China stream/download real player
CBS News - FBI knew in advance of first World Trade Centre attack in 1993 The FBI may have been able to prevent the WTC bomb attack in 1993. They discussed secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, but they didn't, according to the FBI's own informant who recorded many of his conversations with his handlers stream
Unreported World - Afghanistan: Never Mind the Taliban Five years after the fall of the Taliban, western intervention has produced a mafia-style state. Reporter Kate Clark travels to northern Afghanistan to discover a fractured country and an economy dominated by the drugs trade stream/download
Henry Porter - Suspect Nation How is information being
collected? Could new identity technology actually put at risk the
very people it seeks to protect?
Unreported World - Nigeria: Fire in the Delta One of Nigeria's most unstable
regions is home to one of the richest oil fields in the world, but
its people are living in extreme poverty and a polluted environment,
caught in the crossfire between armed gangs sabotaging the oil production
and harsh reprisals from security forces
Unreported World - West Papua: Rainforest Warriors Reporter Evan Williams spends
three weeks undercover in West Papua, an outlying province of Indonesia,
which is home to the world's biggest copper and gold mine
Unreported World - India's Hidden War Government funded militias
are battling Maoist guerillas for control of India's mineral resources,
and hundreds of thousands of tribal villagers are caught in the crossfire
Channel 4 Dispatches - The Killing Zone Reporter Sandra Jordan and
producer Rodrigo Vasquez risk their lives to reveal the shocking level
of daily violence and murderous hate in the Gaza Strip
BBC Panorama - Sex Crimes and the Vatican Panorama investigates a
secret document which critics say has been used to silence child abuse
victims. Crimen Sollicitationis was enforced for 20 years by
Cardinal Ratzinger before he became Pope
John Pilger - Palestine is Still the Issue (2002) Pilger returns to the Occupied
Territories of the West Bank and Gaza where he filmed a similar documentary
in 1974. He finds the basic problems unchanged: a desperate, destitute
people whose homeland is illegally occupied by the world's fourth
biggest military power
John Pilger - Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy (1994) The exposure of another
terrible human tragedy to which governments turned a blind eye, East
Timor is ruled by bloodshed and fear. More than 200,000 people were
wiped out by neighbouring Indonesia. Since East Timor's liberation
in 1999, this film's contribution has been recognised worldwide
Adam Curtis (BBC) - The Century of the Self Four-part series that examines
the manipulation of the public by those with power. Freud introduced
a technique to probe the unconscious mind and provided useful tools
for understanding the secret desires of the masses. Edward Bernays
then went on to create 'public relations'
Media Education Foundation - Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land (2004) US Media and the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict. This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy
interests of American political elites - oil, and a need to have a
secure military base in the region, among others - work in combination
with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a powerful influence
over how news from the region is reported
John Pilger - The New Rulers of the World (2001) Pilger explores the impact
of globalisation, taking Indonesia as his prime example, a country
that the World Bank described as a 'model pupil' until its 'globalised'
economy collapsed in 1998. Under scrutiny are the increasingly powerful
multinationals and the institutions that back them, notably the IMF
and The World Bank
Adam Curtis (BBC) - Pandora's Box: Black Power (1992) A look at how former Ghanaian
leader Kwame Nkrumah set Africa ablaze with his vision of a new industrial
and scientific age. At the heart of his dream was to be the huge Volta
dam, generating enough power to transform West Africa into an advanced
utopia. It brought with it dangerous forces Nkrumah couldn't control,
and he slowly watched his metropolis of science sink into corruption
and debt
Adam Curtis (BBC) - Pandora's Box: The League of Gentlemen (1992) Forty years ago, a group
of economists managed to convince British politicians that they had
foolproof technical means to make Britain great again. This film tells
the saga of how their experiments led the country deeper into economic
decline
Adam Curtis (BBC) - Pandora's Box: To the Brink of Eternity (1992) Focusing on the men of the
Cold War on whom 'Dr Strangelove' was based. These were people who
believed that the world could be controlled by the scientific manipulation
of fear - mathematical geniuses employed by the American Rand Corporation.
In the end, their visions were the stuff of science fiction fantasy |
