Robert Beckford learned the Bible at his mother’s knee and grew up believing that it was literally true.
But, 20 years on from his Baptist upbringing, Beckford is no longer so sure that ‘the good book’ is the pure, unadulterated word of God untouched by human hand.
For Beckford, who wrote the Bible matters more today than perhaps at any other moment in living memory.
His journey takes him from Birmingham to the West Bank, from Jerusalem to Turkey, and from Rome to Bible Belt America.
For the Indians (Native Americans, Indigenous People) Thanks Giving Day is the Day of Mourning. The Original Thanks Giving was to cellebrate a Indian Massacre. 80% of the indians that were in North America were victims of Genocide by the Europeans. When Columbus came there were ove 12,000,000. By 1890 there were 250,000. Today there are about 250,000. That means that our country is still killing them off.
Brilliant speech by Chris Hedges “Psychological Death of the West “
Chris hedges provides an analysis of the psychopathology of contemporary America and how this dystopia eventually drives many citizens to despair and disillusionment with the current system. Note: The beginning focuses on Michale Jackson as he uses it as a parallel, then he progresses onto wall street, banksters and the corporate state, lost jobs never coming back, etc., etc.
Also Chris Hedges "Death of the Liberal Class"
Chris Hedges, whose book "Death of the Liberal Class" (Perseus) came out the day of this presentation, is also the best-selling author of "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning." Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years. Produced by The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY, this event was co-sponsored by Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace.
The crazy old man talks for the third hour
I will be talking about the sins of our country and how we need to protest and try to take the country back for the people. It is our country but it has been stolen by the 1%
Crack, Cocaine, Opium, Marijuana, Heroine, etc. – Illegal Drugs have an enormous impact on society. They make addictive, shorten our live-expectancy and change the way we interact with other people.
Drugs are therefore not only a risk for ourselves but also for others. But many drugs have not always been illegal, but were a medication against many “sicknesses”, like depressions or feeling tired.
Even “coke” got popular because it has extracts of the coca-leave in it. Also in our times the use of drugs is often a sign, that people have problems in their live they don’t know any other way to escape than through drugs that change their recognition.
This film explores the historical role of the Democratic Party as the graveyard of social movements, the massive influence of corporate finance in elections, the absurd disparities of wealth in the United States, the continuity and escalation of neocon policies under Obama, the insufficiency of mere voting as a path to reform, and differing conceptions of democracy itself.
Lifting the Veil is the long overdue film that powerfully, definitively, and finally exposes the deadly 21st century hypocrisy of U.S. internal and external policies, even as it imbues the viewer with a sense of urgency and an actualized hope to bring about real systemic change while there is yet time for humanity and this planet.
Noble is brilliantly pioneering the new film-making – incisive analysis, compelling sound and footage, fearless and independent reporting, and the aggregation of the best information out there into powerful, educational and free online feature films – all on a shoestring budget.
Original interview footage derives from Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, Michael Albert, John Stauber (PR Watch), Sharon Smith (Historian), William I. Robinson (Editor, Critical Globalization Studies), Morris Berman (Author, Dark Ages America), and famed black panther Larry Pinkney.
Do not vote Republican or Democrat unless the candidate is a progressive based on their voting record. Green party may be your best bet if Nader does not run again.
Put your money in local banks or credit unions
Nixon was the last liberal
Over the years the polititions get more anti american. Capitalism has been taken over by greed and is no longer the economic system for the American People.
The US government is destroying our country. It is time for protest. Occupy Wall Street is the beginning. It is becoming occupy the world.
We have lost our country. It is time to take it back.
The only difference between the Democrats and Republicans is that the republicans are stupid enough to tell you what they will do. The Democrats are too stupid to know what the are going to do. They just know they want to rob from the poor
Racism: A History - Episode 1/3: The Colour of Money
A documentary which is exploring the impact of racism on a global scale, as part of the season of programmes marking the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slave trade (but not slavery itself) in the British Empire. Beginning by assessing the implications of the relationship between Europe, Africa and the Americas in the 15th century, it considers how racist ideas and practices developed in key religious and secular institutions, and how they showed up in writings by European philosophers Aristotle and Immanuel Kant.
Racism: A History - Episode 2/3: Fatal Impacts
Looking at Scientific Racism, invented during the 19th century, an ideology that drew on now discredited practices such as phrenology and provided an ideological justification for racism and slavery. These theories ultimately led to eugenics and Nazi racial policies of the master race. Some upsetting scenes.
The third and final episode examines the impact of racism in the 20th Century. By 1900, European colonial expansion had reached deep into the heart of Africa. Under the rule of King Leopold II, The Belgian Congo was turned into a vast rubber plantation. Men, women and children who failed to gather their latex quotas would have their limbs dismembered. The country became the scene of one of the century's greatest racial genocides, as an estimated 10 million Africans perished under colonial rule. Contains scenes which some viewers may find disturbing.
