“I can’t even get the photographs out there, that was all surprising to me,” he said. “What is going on here? These are war photographs. … You see these and you go ‘oh boy, this shouldn’t be happening.’”
“I can’t even get the photographs out there, that was all surprising to me,” he said. “What is going on here? These are war photographs. … You see these and you go ‘oh boy, this shouldn’t be happening.’”
Please, no serious Iraq war fiction for us, we might be a bit discomfitted:
“…when people come out of a movie that is serious, provocative and disturbing, it’s hard for them to recommend that other people see it.”
On seeing and not seeing Rendition and other Iraq war or related films: “Marketing a War Film..”
Dimslow in ’08 never had a chance. As this CNN article makes clear, he can’t even afford to get on the ballot.
So, he throws his support to Colbert, and hopes for the Vice Presidential nod.
Moore’s “threat” is his unerring view from the ground. He abrogates the contempt in which elite America and the media hold ordinary people. This is a taboo subject among many journalists, especially those claiming to have risen to the nirvana of “impartiality” and others who profess to teach journalism. Continue reading
Reuters
Hollywood‘s latest take on kidnapping and torture in the war on terror is surprisingly bold and realistic but won’t change people’s views overnight, a prominent lawyer for Guantanamo Bay prisoners says.
From English PEN:
Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, has spent most of the last eighteen years under house arrest in Burma. Her example continues to inspire other Burmese writers, whose names are rarely celebrated. John Pilger will be joined by other Aung San Suu Kyi supporters including Maureen Lipman and Rhys Ifans to pay tribute to all those writers of conscience in Burma whose voices have been silenced. New footage of interviews with Burmese writers living on the Thai border will also be shown. All proceeds will go to the Writers in Prison programme.
Incomplete lists:
Iraq War Fiction Films, Movies, Video
Lions for Lambs
Over There
Valley of the Wolves Iraq
The Tiger and the Snow
Stop-Loss
The Situation
G.I. Jesus
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I took Martin Amis to task for advocating the hounding of Muslims, but this has been reduced to an academic spat.
In an essay entitled The Age of Horrorism published in September 2006, the novelist Martin Amis advocated a deliberate programme of harassing the Muslim community in Britain.
by Andre Vltchek
All of you probably read Catch 22, one of the greatest antiwar novels of all time. And perhaps you remember Captain Yossarian’s friend Nino, an insane bloke, who in a moment of thorough insanity, in order to sell to Germans his planeload of rotten eggs, agreed to bomb his own airport during WWII. I read Heller’s masterpiece when I was a kid, about fifteen years old, growing up in occupied Czechoslovakia.
Narrative situations on the ground: stories of injustice spanning North and South America, Asia and Africa.
Laurie Heifetz:
A seething feud between Brian De Palma, director of the fictional Iraq war documentary Redacted, and the film’s financiers, billionaire Mark Cuban’s Magnolia Pictures, erupted at a New York Film Festival press event Monday.
Blood-strewn quarters of the Police State and the struggle against it.
Recent stories at Liberation Lit journal:
The Publisher – by Joe Emersberger
A Canadian newspaper publisher confronts his complicity in the Canadian, US and corporate backed coup and mass murder in Haiti.
The shape of tomorrow
“Now that you have the President of the United States hostage,” said the President of the United States to Private Jones two days into his holding, “what do you wish to know?”
Private Jones stuck out his peg leg. “Are you human?” And that was the end of that conversation.
Black gold and gun gold
Oil and the Department of Defense
The entire continuing Deadline Iraq series: here
When it was learned that the President of the United States was missing, and presumed kidnapped by Iraqi resitance fighters, the US corporate media went berserk – even more berserk than it usually is.
Guardian review:
Indra Sinha has been shortlisted for his second novel, Animal’s People, a powerful fictionalisation of the Bhopal disaster of 1984 in which a gas escape from a US-owned chemical factory killed thousands in the central Indian city.
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