Truth
and Lies of 9-11
a Film by Michael Ruppert
Background: Ever since the horrifying deaths
of thousands on September 11, in the attacks on the World Trade towers and
the Pentagon, disturbing questions have been raised about the possible involvement
of some parts of the U.S. security apparatus or Administration. These questions
have been supported by extensive circumstantial evidence and are currenly
being investigated by several U.S. Congressional Committees. Furthermore,
the U.S. media have reported on the well known relationship which exists
between President George W. Bush, the Carlyle Group, several oil companies
and the Bin Laden Family.
As yet, there is not conclusive proof either of the correctness or error
of such allegations with respect to potential U.S. involement in the events
of September 11, 2001. Accordingly, while Science for Peace takes no position
as to their truth, the matter is an important one. Thus, however dismaying
these propositions may be, it seems incumbent to understand the arguments
in this regard. For this reason we are are showing the film by Michael Ruppert
entilted "Truth and Lies of 9-11".
Michael Ruppert has been one of those arguing that the case is strong for
some kind of complicity. The film records a lecture he gave in Portland State
University on November 28. It goes over much of the evidence and the known
relationships between some of the principle figures using verifiable sources
for his statements.
What I've
Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy
a Film by Frank Dorrell
A compilation of excerpts from 10 different
professional documentaries, edited together by Frank Dorrel.
1. Public speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. (3 min) for civil rights and
against the US war in Vietnam.
2. Interview with John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief (6 min), who gives
a short history of CIA covert operations and estimates that over 6 million
people have died in CIA covert actions.
3. "The Secret Government" (22 min) by Bill Moyers (aired on PBS in 1987).
Moyers interviews many different people involved with the CIA and other government
agencies providing an overview of the CIA history.
4. "Coverup: Behind the Iran-Contra Affair" (23 min) directed by Barbara
Trent (about Pentagon, arms sale, drugs trafficking).
5. "School of Assassins" (13 min) narrated by Susan Sarandon and features
Father Roy Bourgeois, talking about School of America (Fort Benning, Georgia,
USA) and its graduates.
6. "Genocide by Sanctions" (13 min) produced by Gloria La Riva, features
former Attorney General of the United States, Ramsey Clark, as he goes to
Iraq.
7. "Genocides in Indonesia and East Timor" (4 min) by Amy Goodman, journalist
and host of "Democracy Now" on Pacifica^(1)s WBAI FM Radio in New York. She
is talking about two genocides Indonesia has committed. First against it^(1)s
own people in 1965, then against the people of East Timor in 1975. Both of
these mass slaughters were sanctioned by the United States government and
aided by the CIA.
8. "The Panama Deception" (20 min) directed by Barbara Trent. How the US
attacked Panama and killed 3 or 4 thousand people in an invasion that the
rest of the world was against.
9. Public speech of Ramsey Clark (7 min), former Attorney General of the
United States (1998, Los Angeles, evening "Save the Iraqi Children"), the
sorry truth about US foreign policy.
10. "The healing of Brian Wilson" (10 min), the Vietnam veteran, who Wages
Peace against US foreign policies.
Copies of WHAT I'VE LEARNED ABOUT U. S. FOREIGN POLICY can be ordered
in Canada on line from www.globaloutlook.ca or by calling
Global Outlook at 1-888-713-8500.
In the U.S.: The War Against the Third World ("What I've Learned
About U.S. Foreign Policy")
http://www.addictedtowar.com/dorrel.html
Iraq
Then and Now: The Unheard Voices of Iraqi Women
a Film
by Amira Elias (45 min, 2001)
In this powerful documentary, Amira, an Iraqi Canadian living in
Montreal, takes us on a journey to Iraq under sanctions. Through the
journey, we meet her family, medical experts, the ill and the poor. Some
of the most heart-wrenching impressions are the visits to the hospital
wards where children lie dying of malnutrition and cancer and women give
birth to malformed babies-a result of 12 years of sanctions, toxic
chemicals and depleted uranium used in the 1991 Gulf War. A somber
portrayal of Iraqis in the face of seemingly insurmountable crisis.
Copies of "Iraq Then and Now" can be ordered in Canada on line from www.globaloutlook.ca or by calling Global Outlook at 1-888-713-8500.
Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
a Film by Audrey Brohy & Gerard Ungerman
(60 min, 2000)
An account of America's involvement in Iraq during the Desert Storm
conflict in 1990
On August 2nd, 1990, Saddam Hussein launched his troops against Kuwait,
triggering the first major international crisis of the post-Soviet Union
era. Was the invasion really a surprise? Were all diplomatic means
really utilized to try to resolve the issue peacefully? Was there any
threat from the part of Iraq against Saudi Arabia or any of the other
Gulf States? Why wasn't Washington's rhetoric against Saddam ever
matched by any real support to the Iraqi opposition groups? What purpose
can the embargo over Iraq serve if it is not to weaken Saddam, a result
it has evidently failed to achieve to this day? What is behind the
mysterious 'Gulf War Syndrome' that goes on affecting thousands of Gulf
War veterans and local populations?
The result of a two year investigation, with documents never before seen
on television and backed by interviews with the likes of Desert-Storm
Commander General Norman Schwarzkopf, former Attorney General Ramsey
Clark, former UN Iraq Program Director Dennis Halliday, archival
footage, and moving images recently brought back from Iraq.
- "Hidden Wars" emerges as an uncommonly sober, well researched film of
its type." - The New York Times
- Grand-Prize winner at the 2000 Cine Eco International Film Festival in
Seia, Portugal
- Selected among the ten best documentaries at the 2000 Vancouver
International Film Festival
Video
available from www.hiddenwars.org or by calling
818-487-2879
A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict
A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict, a new two-part
documentary, premiered on PBS stations.
The riveting three-hour documentary — narrated by Academy Award
winning actor Ben Kingsley — explores how, during a century of extreme violence,
millions around the world chose to battle the forces of oppression and
brutality with nonviolent weapons — and won.
A co-production for PBS by York Zimmerman Inc. and WETA of Washington,
DC, A Force More Powerful is written and produced by award-winning
filmmaker Steve York. Einstein Institution Board member Peter Ackerman is the series
editor and its principal content advisor. Jack DuVall is the executive
producer for the documentary, Miriam Zimmerman its managing producer,
Dalton Delan its executive in charge of production.
Acclaimed filmmaker Steve York bypasses the clichés that commonly
surround nonviolent movements and skillfully portrays the hard-edged
planning, strategy, and discipline that often determine success or failure.
The film also gives voice to several pioneering, though lesser known,
leaders of these powerful nonviolent campaigns.
The idea for the film emerged from several of the themes and case
studies that Einstein Institution Board member Peter Ackerman and former
Einstein Institution President Christopher Kruegler developed in their book
Strategic Nonviolent Conflict (1994).
The Einstein Institution is one of a number of underwriters for the
television series. In addition, the Institution contributed extensive
research materials and comments to the filmmakers during the film’s
researchphase. In 1997 the Institution received a grant from the U.S. Institute of
Peace to coordinate preliminary archival film research by the filmmakers.
The new PBS series is the centerpiece of a global media and
educational project intended to elevate understanding of how nonviolent action can
succeed in overturning dictators and securing democracy and human rights.
St. Martin’s Press has just published a companion book of the same name by
Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall.
A Force More Powerful uses stunning archival footage to present six
stories of successful movements around the world. Each includes interviews
with witnesses, survivors and unsung heroes who contributed to these
century-changing events. The stories include:
• The 1960 Nashville, Tennessee campaign to desegregate the city's downtown
business district, which profiles the Rev. James Lawson Jr., who studied
Gandhi’s techniques in India and later joined forces with Martin Luther
King Jr. His intensive workshops on nonviolent resistance drove the sit-ins and
boycotts and became what King called “the model of the movement.”
• Mohandas Gandhi’s famous Salt March of 1930, during which he enjoined
Indians to protest the British salt monopoly—a turning point that paved the
way for India’s independence from Britain. Gandhi steered a shrewdly
strategic, ever-escalating course of “noncooperation” with British rule.
• The consumer boycott campaigns against apartheid in the Eastern Cape
Province of South Africa in the mid 1980s, led by the young Mkhuseli
Jack—radicalized at the age of 18 by laws that kept him from enrolling in
school. These and other campaigns proved instrumental in defeating
apartheid and freeing Nelson Mandela.
• The courage and endurance of Denmark’s citizens during the Nazi
occupation of World War II. Their noncooperation undermined Nazi attempts to exploit
Denmark for food and war materiel. In addition to committing sabotage and
staging general strikes, the Danes’ underground resistance rescued all but
a few hundred of Denmark’s seven thousand Jews from the Holocaust.
•The 1980 Gdansk Shipyard strike that won Poles the right to organize free
trade unions launched the Solidarity movement and catapulted Lech Walesa, a shipyard electrician, on a path of leadership—and led to the fall of communism in Poland and the election of Walesa to the presidency of the country.
• The national protest days led by Chilean copper miners in 1983 showed
that public opposition to the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet was
possible. Brutally suppressed, opposition forces persisted and eventually removed
Pinochet’s military government in a 1988 referendum.
Invisible War: Depleted Uranium and the Politics of Radiation
Directed by Martin Meissonnier/64 min
Invisible War investigates the use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the UN, NATO forces, and in particular, by the US in Iraq and Kuwait in 1991, Bosnia in 1995, and Serbia and Kosovo in 1999.
DU, a radioactive substance with a half-life of 4.5 billion years, is used mainly in armour-piercing munitions. About 270 tonnes were used in the first Gulf War, and about 20 tonnes in the Balkans in 1995 and 1999. When ingested or inhaled, the uranium dust produced when DU shells hit armoured vehicles may cause kidney failure and a range of cancers including various forms of leukemia.
Through interviews of American Gulf War veterans, scientists from the U. S., France and Germany, and high-ranking officials at the Pentagon and the U.S. Department of Defense, this film skillfully tackles the complicated debates surrounding the health effects of depleted uranium's radioactivity and heavy metal toxicity, and exposes a systematic cover-up by the UN, the US, and NATO.
The Great Deception by Barrie Zwicker
The Great Deception is made by Mr. Barrie Zwicker, a media critic and a
host of Vision TV Insight:Mediafile. The film critically examines what
happened on 9-11, and challenges the official explanation behind the
attacks.
Walter Connell Live-"Invasion of Iraq"
Walter Connell Live, "The Invasion of Iraq" features a 30 min TV
interview with Mr. Ian Woods, the editor of Global Outlook, who will
give us an insightful view of the circumstances surrounding the invasion
of Iraq as well as the history of the Global Outlook magazine.
Jenin, Jenin
directed and co-produced by Palestinian (and Arab Israeli) Mohammed Bakri
“Jenin, Jenin”, the controversial documentary directed and
co-produced by Palestinian (and Arab Israeli) Mohammed
Bakri, presents testimony from residents of the Jenin
refugee camp, taken after the Israeli army's Defensive Shield
operation in April, 2002.
While initial reports of Israeli atrocities proved to be
greatly exaggerated, the operation ended with parts of
Jenin flattened, dozens of Palestinians dead, well over
1,000 injured, and 4,000 homeless. Numerous human rights
groups have accused Israel of committing war crimes in the
course of this attack, and of human rights abuses in its
immediate aftermath.
The Pinochet Case
(110 min.)
This film investigates and gives the history of the legal case against Augusto Pinochet for crimes against humanity.
Life and Debt
(87 min.)
Set in Jamaica, this film examines how contemporary free trade policies and global financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and World Trade Organisation affect the economies of developing nations. It includes interviews with IMF Deputy Director Stanley Fischer, Haitian president Jean-Bartrand Aristide, Jamaica's former Primer Minister Michael Manley as well as tourists, farmers, Rastafarians, factory workers and others.
Globalisation 101
Globalisation 101 (18 min), looks at the impact of corporate led globalization on workers, indigenous people and the environment, both locally and globally. It traces the history of transnational organizations such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund and charts the origins of third world debt.
