Politics & History
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posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 4,047 viewsWithout words, cameras show us the world, with an emphasis not on "where," but on "what's there." It begins with morning, natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes, water falls, veldts, and forests;... continue reading
posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 5,175 viewsWho has controlled and conquered the Middle East over the course of history? Egyptians, Turks, Kurds, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Persians, Europeans... the list goes on. The modern Middle East is still being... continue reading
posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 2,771 viewsAn extraordinary award winning documentary on the plight of people of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean - secretly and brutally expelled from their homeland by British governments in the late 1960s... continue reading
posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years 9 months ago • 2,511 viewsWhat really happens in Iraq, without bias or spin, a rare glimpse at the situation without the usual rose colored glasses. Well worth the time.
posted by ren 1 decade 7 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 1,688 viewsThe Art Of Flight is a guerrilla documentary - shot illegally on camcorders and a laptop - about the plight of Sudanese refugees in Egypt. It highlights the failure of the UNHCR, and the brutality of the... continue reading
posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 1,508 viewsIn 1977, the award-winning journalist and film-maker, John Pilger, made a documentary called Palestine Is Still The Issue (1977). He told how almost a million Palestinians had been forced off their land... continue reading
posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 3,638 viewsWhich country in the Middle East has undeclared Nuclear Weapons? Which country in the Middle East has undeclared biological and chemical capabilities? Which country in the Middle East has no outside inspections?... continue reading
posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 6,795 views"Who after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" Hitler posed this question on Aug. 22, 1939 before embarking on the Holocaust. This documentary tells the story of the Armenian Genocide... continue reading
posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 1,443 viewsDavid Christopher Kelly CMG (17/5/1944 - 17/7/2003) was an employee of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD), an expert in biological warfare, and a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq.... continue reading
posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 3,547 viewsIn order to examine the true effects of globalization, Pilger turns the spotlight on Indonesia, a country described by the World Bank as a model pupil until its globalized economy collapsed in 1998. The... continue reading
posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 3,660 views • 53:12