Video: The Century of the Self – Episode Three: There is a Policeman Inside All Our Head: He Must Be Destroyed

In the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the influence of Freudian ideas in America. They were inspired by the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, a pupil of Freud’s, who had turned against him and was hated by the Freud family. He believed that the inner self did not need to be repressed and controlled. It should be encouraged to express itself. Out of this came a political movement that sought to create new beings free of the psychological conformity that had been implanted in people’s minds by business... Read article

Video: The Century of the Self – Episode Two: The Engineering of Consent

The programme explores how those in power in post-war America used Freud’s ideas about the unconscious mind to try and control the masses. Politicians and planners came to believe Freud’s underlying premise – that deep within all human beings were dangerous and irrational desires and fears. They were convinced that it was the unleashing of these instincts that had led to the barbarism of Nazi Germany. To stop it ever happening again they set out to find ways to control this hidden enemy within the human... Read article

Video: The Century of the Self – Episode One: Happiness Machines

The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud’s ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn’t need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires. Bernays was one of the main architects of the modern techniques of mass-consumer persuasion, using every trick in the book,... Read article

Video: The Bible Code

Michael Drosnin is an American journalist and best selling author. He has written two books claiming that he can see into the future using a 3000 year old code, hidden in the Bible. What he can see is truly horrific; according to Drosnin, the world could end in an atomic holocaust – in 2006. It sounds preposterous yet Drosnin claims to have serious scientific backing. Behind his findings lies the work of one of the world’s most brilliant theoretical mathematicians, an Israeli professor called Eliyahu Rips. In... Read article

Video: Plan Colombia – Cashing In on the Drug War Failure

Free-Will Productions is a Los Angeles-based husband-and-wife team of independent documentary-filmmakers. Since 1995, Gerard Ungerman and Audrey Brohy have specialized in stories involving primarily wars and human-right abuses resulting from wars. Gerard comes from a dual background as a military officer in the infantry and a print media journalist. Audrey studied motion picture directing after attending Paris’ renown “Conservatoire des Arts Dramatiques” and then becoming a theater actress. 53 min 32 sec www.plancolombia.org Click... Read article

Video: Democracy For Sale – Mr Abramoff Goes to Washington

Abramoff’s testimony threatens not only the most senior politicians in the country but it is also exposing the corrosive influence of lobbyists’ money on American democracy. A scandal involving a lobbyist, and his dodgy multimillion-dollar payments to US politicians, is beginning to engulf the Bush Administration. Many commentators are saying that the case of Jack Abramoff strikes at the very heart of representative democracy in the US where astonishingly most of what he did is not just common place, it’s perfectly... Read article

Video: The Truth About Vitamins

Are vitamins doing us any good? Could they even be dangerous? Every year we spend millions of dollars on vitamin supplements, but do they actually do us any good? Some believe they offer the promise of preventing or even curing some of the world’s biggest killers, such as heart disease and cancer. Others claim that taking large doses of some vitamins may in certain cases be harmful. So what are the facts? BBC – Science & Nature  Read More →

Video: Ripples Cross

Ripples Cross is a full length documentary about experiences of international human rights activists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in Palestine. The film follows activists with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and covers issues such as collective punishment, city closures and curfews, housing demolitions, Rachael Corrie and Tom Hurndall, and violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention on Human Rights. Ripples Cross Producer: Mark Turner, David Schler www.ripplescross.com Loading... You may need to update /... Read article

Video: Total Information Awareness Inside the NSA

More than two years ago Congress halted plans for a controversial plan called Total Information Awareness to create the world’s largest surveillance database to track your phone calls, purchases, Internet usage, reading material, banking transactions. The National Journal has now revealed the program has quietly continued inside the National Security Agency (NSA). Democracy Now! – 02/27/06 You may need to update / download Free Real Player to view this video. In 2003, lawmakers voted to shut down Total... Read article

Video: Shows Bush warned before Katrina

President George W Bush was warned a day before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could swamp New Orleans, it was claimed last night. Leaked video footage and transcripts of top-level briefings in the six days before the storm showed federal officials telling Mr Bush the storm could breach levees and overwhelm rescuers. He did not ask a single question in the final briefing on Aug 29 last year, the day before Katrina made landfall. But he told officials in Louisiana: “We are fully prepared”. The footage,... Read article

Video: Monopoly Men – The Distant Murmuring of a Secret Government

Governments, multinational corporations & religious organizations have secretly wielded tremendous power, by holding back critical data or spreading misinformation to further their own aims. This video exposes the almost inconceivable stories of deceit, conspiracy, sanctioned piracy and scientific knowledge hidden from the world for far too long! During the Wilson presidency, the U.S. government sanctions the creation of the Federal Reserve. Thought by many to be a government organization maintained to provide financial... Read article

Video: Albert Nerenberg – Stupidity

This documentary film sets out to determine whether our culture is hooked on deliberate ignorance as a strategy for success. Stupidity examines the “dumbing down” of contemporary culture, and reveals that, despite our extensive access to knowledge and information, humans continue to choose stupidity. Loading... You may need to update / download Free Real Player to view this video.  Read More →

Video: Harold Pinter – Art, Truth and Politics

Winner of ‘The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005′. Pinter’s excellent lecture sets the record straight regarding America’s sordid past of imperial devastation. Loading... You may need to update / download Free Real Player to view this video.  Read More →

Video: Conspiracy of Silence

Conspiracy of Silence – this documentary was to be aired on the Discovery Channel, on May 3, 1994. The documentary exposed a network of religious leaders and Washington politicians who flew children to Washington D.C. for sex orgies, a child sex ring that reached Bush Sr’s White House. Loading...  Read More →

Video: “Go F*** Yourself, Mr. Cheney!”

Vice President Dick Cheney, in Gulfport, Mississippi on a tour of the Katrina hurricane zone, was told to “go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney” twice on live television  Read More →

Video: New Orleans Police Looting A Wal-Mart

Funny or pathetic? You decide.  Read More →

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