I have been meaning to sit down and watch Urbanized, Gary Hustwit’s feature length urban design documentary, and I finally got around to doing it today, over a year after its release. It is an excellent film exploring one of the most intriguing, and core phenomena of the 21st century, the rapid urbanization of planet earth. A couple of...
Free Press’ SavetheNews.Org initiative has had one of its organizing videos pulled from YouTube at the insistence of the Newport Television corporation, one of the more egregious offenders involved in the current scam of circumventing FCC media ownership regulations in order to increase their market power. The FCC ownership...
Adam Curtis’ new documentary, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace, gives hope that at least some of the world is waking up from the mass hallucination of disembodied information. The documentary, which is subtitled, “The Rise of the Machines,” explores how in the later part of the...
Peace Activist Art Gish, 70, Dies And the longtime peace activist Art Gish has died at the age of seventy after a tractor accident on his farm in Ohio. He had been a longtime member of the Christian Peacemaker Team and made yearly visits to Hebron in the occupied...
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