Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and a Stolen Election	Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology and Cultural Studies at the 3rd Millenium

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on Grand Theft 2000

Grand Theft 2000 recounts the story of a stolen election and Republican coup d'etat, focusing on the flaws of the system of democracy in the United States that allowed this event to take place. The book examines what the events of Election 2000 tell us about politics in the U.S. today and the alarming consequences for democracy in the battle for the White House. Concluding sections on "Lesson and Conclusions" suggests some solutions to the problems revealed and a final section critically dissects the first 100 days of the Bush presidency.   [Find out more]

Read: Introduction to Grand Theft 2000 &
          Chapter Eleven: The First 100 Days

The Postmodern Adventure argues that massive geopolitical shifts and dramatic developments in computerization and biotechnology are heralding the transformation from the modern to the postmodern age. We are confronted with altered modes of work, communication, and entertainment; new postindustrial and political networks; novel approaches to warfare; genetic engineering; and even cloning. This book explores the challenges to theory, politics, and human identity that we face on the threshold of the third millennium.   [Find out more]

Read Chapter: Introduction (in PDF)   (in HTML) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Bibliography

The Persian Gulf TV War Revisited

Throughout the 1970's to the 1990's Frank Morrow and I were associated with an experiment in the progressive use of cable television as a critical public access media. The show Alternative Views ran nationally, on a weekly basis, presenting critical information and video footage that went unaired by the major networks. Further information about this experiment in radical media can be found in the article: Public Access Television: Alternative Views.

Over the coming months, relevant episodes of Alternative Views will be digitized and provided here freely as streaming videos. We begin by offering two episodes from July, 1991 that present globalization, state-sponsored terrorism, and the political machinations of trans-national corporations in a light wholly different than found in the mass-media of the time.

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Inside Alternative Views is a 5-year retrospective program that includes footage of many top left personalities and issues, including powerful segments on abortion, nuclear war, and alternative media sources. In many respects it is amazing to see how the pieces aired on this program remain as timely as ever.

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Another Unknown War features a film on the struggle of the indigenous people of West Papua to remain sovereign in the face of an Indonesian invasion backed by world capital. Footage of Noam Chomsky on Western involvments in the region and the relation to East Timor.

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Censured Casualties (58 mins):
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New! The CIA, Mafia, and George Bush (Part 1) is the first part of a two part interview with author Pete Brewton who documented in his book of the same name the connection during the Ronnie Ray-gun era between the deregulation of the savings and loans, the S&L collapse, the funding of subversive CIA projects, and the profiteering of a circle of friends around Bush Sr. that included the mafia.

The CIA, Mafia, and George Bush (58 mins):
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New! The CIA, Mafia, and George Bush (Part 2) is the 2nd part of a two part interview with author Pete Brewton. He connects the deregulation of the savings and loans, the S&L collapse, the funding of subversive CIA projects, and the profiteering of a circle of friends around Bush Sr. that included the mafia.                                     

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New! The de Antonio Legacy (Part 1) features the great documentary film maker Emile de Antonio in a candid interview in which he talks about and shows clips from his films Point of Order, on Joe McCarthy and the Red scare, and Rush to Judgment, concerning the Kennedy assassination and the Warren Report.

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New! The de Antonio Legacy (Part 2) continues the interview with the great documentary film maker Emile de Antonio as he engages and shows clips from two of his famous films -- Vietnam: In the Year of the Pig and Millhouse: A White Comedy on Richard Nixon.                   

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New! Bank Bailout II contains two segments -- first, Doug provides a detailed analysis of an alternative version of events concerning the environmental disaster during the first Gulf War (covered also in his The Persian Gulf TV War), and then Rob Widdowson explains the meaning behind Bush sr.'s plan to bail out the big commercial banks.

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New! Nazi Fascists and Republicans is a startling look into the international connection between nazi fascists reborn as neoliberal leaders, the Republican party, and even the White House (then occupied by Bush sr.).  The interview is with Chip Berlet, who documents this story with a wealth of source information.

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New! Power and Profits vs. the Earth is a June 1992 interview with environmental activist and writer Lanny Sinkin in which topics such as the Earth Summit, the growing ecological catastrophe, ozone depletion, global warming, and destruction of the rain forests are examined in connection with the programs of action by powerful and profiteering government and corporate institutions. An important historical document of one of the key moments in recent ecological history, this episode sadly shows us how (amidst a few positive signs!) the anti-Earth forces at work then remain, and indeed -- with the recent moves by this Bush administration, are more regressive than ever.

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