Movies & Videos

Hurricane Katrina: A Man-Made Disaster

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USA, Movies, Government negligence
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August 27, 2010

U.S. actor and writer Harry Shearer has just finished a provocative documentary film “The Big Uneasy” about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans.

Shearer argues that this was not a natural disaster but a man-made one. To back this up he draws upon evidence that the Army Corps of Engineers not only failed to build adequate levées for the weather conditions that could be expected, but actually created the conditions for massive flooding through its ill-conceived MRGO shipping-canal project.

Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease & Pushing Drugs

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Pharmaceutical industry, Videos, Health care
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"Big Bucks, Big Pharma" pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain.

Focusing on the industry's marketing practices, media scholars and health professionals help viewers understand the ways in which direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising glamorizes and normalizes the use of prescription medication, and works in tandem with promotion to doctors.

Fair Game

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USA, Movies, Government ethics
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Valerie Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq. Sean Penn plays Ambassador Wilson.

Mexican Poet inspires people's movement against drug cartels, corruption

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Organized crime, Drug trafficking, Videos, Mexico
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May 22, 2011

Over 35,000 people have died in Mexico’s drug war in the past four years. Many of them were innocent civilians, killed at random by the drug cartels in retaliation for the government’s crackdown on their trade. (15 min)

Video journalist Yaara Bou Melhem meets one of the most vocal people in the fight for action: poet Javier Sicilia, whose son and six friends were victims.

Integrity Commissioner's appearance before Senate Finance Committee

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Integrity Commissioner, Videos, Watchdogs, Mario Dion, Senate National Finance Committee
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Mario Dion

January 31, 2012

Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Mario Dion appeared before the Senate Committee on National Finance on January 31, 2012 – his first meeting with the Senate committee that will examine his reports and oversee his performance.

This is an unedited recording of the full session. (60 minutes)

Original transcript on Parliamentary website

Sex, lies, and videotape at the U.N.

Sujets: 
Whistleblowers, Reprisals, Movies, United Nations
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Colum Lynch – July 28, 2011

After weeks of internal deliberations, the United Nations recently held a pair of private viewings of a controversial new film, The Whistleblower, which explores U.N.  complicity in sex crimes in Bosnia over the past two decades.

Based on real events and reviewed last month by Turtle Bay, the film recounts how U.N. peacekeepers became involved in the illegal sex trade in Bosnia in the late 1990s and the early 2000s. Top officials have been concerned that the film's imminent release -- it hits theaters in Los Angeles and New York on August 5 -- could harm the institution's international reputation.

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