Website Coming Soon! An Interview with Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men Pranksters Fixing the World By MARK ENGLER Foreign Policy in Focus Over the past ten years, the Yes Men have emerged as an infamously daring and creative duo of anti-corporate pranksters. In their new movie, The Yes Men Fix the World, Andy Bichlbaum [...]
Archive for October, 2009
The Yes Men Fix The World (2009)
Posted: October 24, 2009 in Mark EnglerTags: dark comedy, globalization, independent filmmaking, media, pranks, The Yes Men
A Week of Government Propaganda About “Service” on TV
Posted: October 18, 2009 in Joe GiambroneTags: Obama, propaganda, service, Television
Source: The Entertainment Industry Foundation Apparently, the Obama administration has made a deal with all the major TV networks to push “service” conceptually onto Americans. “Campaign Elements – Unprecedented week long of television programming on all four leading broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, and all affiliated broadcast and cable properties as well – [...]
American Casino (2009)
Posted: October 16, 2009 in Andrew CockburnTags: capitalism, corruption, documentary, financial fraud, regulation
DVD: American Casino Andrew and Leslie Cockburn have produced an investigation into the housing / financial crisis, and in particular the mortgage company “product” called “subprime mortgages.” “We meet the players. A banker explains that the complex securities he designed were “fourth dimensional” and sold to “idiots.” A senior Wall Street ratings agency executive describes [...]
Obama’s War (2009)
Posted: October 15, 2009 in Joe GiambroneTags: Afghanistan, documentary, propaganda, war
Obama’s War (Free Online) How can “we” best dominate Afghanistan? That seems to be the question that most of the talking heads seek to answer in this PBS Frontline film. Several of the speakers allude to pulling out and letting the Afghans fix their own country, but that idea is not seriously considered, not without [...]
TORTURED LAW (2009) Free Online
Posted: October 9, 2009 in Joe GiambroneTags: fascism, free online, Iraq, torture, war
Call on A.G. Holder to Launch a Full-Scale Investigation of the “Torture Memos” The Alliance For Justice has produced this call for accountability. Full Petition Text: Dear Attorney General Holder: For more than five years, we have known that senior lawyers in the Bush Administration wrote the infamous “torture memos” to provide legal cover for [...]
RIP! A Remix Manifesto (2009)
Posted: October 9, 2009 in Joe GiambroneTags: artists, copyright, corporations, documentary, free online, independent filmmaking, media
On DVD: Rip! A Remix Manifesto “My point is copyright is out of control. It’s been manipulated for profit at everyone’s expense.” -Brett Gaylor Free Online at Hulu (Temporarily) Also here. See: Open Source Cinema RIP! is an important film. Technically, it’s an illegal film without copyright permissions for numerous song samples and video clips [...]
The Emperor of Hemp (1999)
Posted: October 3, 2009 in Joe GiambroneTags: documentary, drug war, hemp, legalisation, marijuana, propaganda, reefer madness
DVD: The Emperor of Hemp Free Online at Hulu (temporarily) Jack Herer is a driven man, driven by a vision to save the world in the following way. Use a naturally growing substance to– – manufacture paper from, instead of cutting down forests full of trees, and – use the oil from the seeds for [...]


