What I’ve Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy

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This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

Addicted to War

“This 2-hour 28-minute video compilation by Frank Dorrel is an excellent and invaluable educational tool that reveals the true nature of U.S. foreign policy. It’s been seen in many classrooms, churches, home screenings, on cable TV and shown by many Peace and Justice organizations.

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All Governments Lie–Film Review (must-see)

No allegiance to war, torture and lies

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Updated: April 15, 2018 (added full film)

teleSUR English on Feb 8, 2017

In this film review of the documentary “All Governments Lie”, we hear from Director, Fred Peabody, and Producer, Peter Raymont, about how the mainstream corporate media are not holding governments accountable in the way that they should, and looks at the independent, investigative journalists who are.

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Don’t Imprison Amy Goodman for Journalism by David Swanson + ND Prosecutor Seeks “Riot” Charges Against Amy Goodman

Mississippi River #NoDAPL Action

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Updated: October 17, 2016

by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
October 16, 2016

I’ve started a petition to the State of North Dakota that I would imagine and hope just about everyone would want to sign.

Here’s the whole text of the petition:
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Arrest Warrant Issued For Jill Stein + Who Is Funding the Dakota Access Pipeline? + Dept. of Justice Halts Construction + Arrest Warrant Issued For Amy Goodman

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Updated: Sept. 12, 2016

Arrest warrant issued for Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein

RT on Sep 8, 2016

When Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein joined in protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, she may have gone too far. Stein is accused of criminal trespass and criminal mischief, along with her vice presidential pick Ajamu Baraka.

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America’s Surveillance State, Part 3: The Press Versus The NSA

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Replaced video June 15, 2020

True Story Documentary Channel on Sep 7, 2019

DC Rally Against Mass Surveillance

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We live in the United States of Surveillance — with cameras increasingly positioned on street corners and with much more invisible spying online and on the phone. Anyone who is paying attention knows that privacy could be out the window. All of this is not happening by accident -well funded powerful agencies and companies are engaged in the business of keeping tabs on what we do, what we say, and what we think.

To many in the world, today, the face of America also has A BIG NOSE for sniffing and sifting mountains of data—phone calls, emails and texts. And with many mouths silenced by paranoia to keep what they decide is secret, secret. America has become a Surveillance-Industrial State where everyone’s business has become its business, and where one huge US intelligence Agency has been given the sanction and unlimited amounts of money to spy on the whole world.

Mass Surveillance is the focus of this new 6 part investigative documentary series examining who is watching whom and why.

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America’s Surveillance State, Part 1: The Surveillance Machine

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Replaced video June 15, 2020

True Story Documentary Channel on Sep 7, 2019

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We live in the United States of Surveillance — with cameras increasingly positioned on street corners and with much more invisible spying online and on the phone. Anyone who is paying attention knows that privacy could be out the window. All of this is not happening by accident -well funded powerful agencies and companies are engaged in the business of keeping tabs on what we do, what we say, and what we think.

To many in the world, today, the face of America also has A BIG NOSE for sniffing and sifting mountains of data—phone calls, emails and texts. And with many mouths silenced by paranoia to keep what they decide is secret, secret. America has become a Surveillance-Industrial State where everyone’s business has become its business, and where one huge US intelligence Agency has been given the sanction and unlimited amounts of money to spy on the whole world.

Mass Surveillance is the focus of this new 6 part investigative documentary series examining who is watching whom and why.

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Noam Chomsky’s Speech at UN General Assembly October 14, 2014 + Q&A + Gaza and the Prospects for Palestine

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Updated Oct 19, 2014

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365th Meeting of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.

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Noam Chomsky: Drones Come Home To Roost + Jeremy Scahill: Dirty Wars

Drones protest by Codepink at Senator Feinstein's home

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Amy Goodman with Jeremy Scahill and Noam Chomsky, Dirty Wars Book Event

Cambridge, MA
April 27, 2013

[…] Join investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, author Noam Chomsky, and Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman for a special discussion of Scahill’s ground breaking new book “Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield.” […]

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Amy Goodman’s Talk After Winning the Gandhi Peace Award (2012)

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May 15, 2012 by

May 2012, Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, talks after being presented the Gandhi Peace Award by Promoting Enduring Peace in New Haven. The prestigious award has been given since the early ’50’s.

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Chris Hedges and Amy Goodman: Reverse the Corporate Coup d’Etat

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Oct. 31, 2011

on Oct 25, 2011

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Amy Goodman Hosts Discussion With WikiLeaks Editor-In-Chief Julian Assange and Slovenian Philosopher Slavoj Žižek

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www.democracynow.org
July 2, 2011

Protect Free Speech Wikileaks = Pentagon Paper...

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Within the past year, whistleblower website WikiLeaks has released three of the most significant leaks of classified information in history: the Iraq War Logs, the Guantánamo Bay files and Cablegate. Since then the world has undoubtedly changed. Ambassadors have resigned amid scandals exposed by leaked cables; governments have ordered reviews of their computer security; and pro-democracy movements have swept across the Middle East and North Africa—in part fueled, some believe, by WikiLeaks revelations.

This Saturday, July 2, Amy Goodman will moderate a conversation with WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange and renowned Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Žižek. Sponsored by the Frontline Club, the event will be broadcast from The Troxy theater in London. Democracy Now will broadcast a live stream of the discussion starting at 11am EDT at www.DemocracyNow.org.

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Amy Goodman: WikiLeaks, Journalism and Modern Day Muckracking

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on Apr 29, 2011

Wikileaks has sent shockwaves through the diplomatic community worldwide. This panel, presented at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston on April 8, discusses how the release of these documents has reinvigorated the great journalistic tradition of muckraking. It also raises the fundamental questions about how journalism is done in an age of digital whistleblowers and online leaks.

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Amy Goodman: Barack Obama Must Speak Out On Bahrain Bloodshed

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Democracy Now!
April 13, 2011

One month into the pro-democracy uprising in the small Gulf state of Bahrain — where the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet is based, tasked with protecting “U.S. interests” — Bahrainis are suffering the same violent repression as Libyans.  So why does Obama have nothing to say?

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Amy Goodman: Press Needs To Be 4th Estate Instead of 4 The State

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RNC lots of cops
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on Apr 11, 2011

Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman recounts her arrest at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul Minnesota and talks about how the press has sunk to a new low by agreeing to be embedded with police to cover political conventions. She is speaking at the 2011 National Conference For Media Reform in Boston.

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