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Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
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Join documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed) in assessing the damage done to average Americans when corporations decide to wage war. For critics of the current administration, the connection between the war in Iraq and the private corporations who profit from the fighting is plain to see. For those who may not be so easily convinced, however, Greenwald and company not only explore the questionable motivations of the corporate decision-makers whose wartime profiteering has affected the lives of countless soldiers and their families, but also the increasingly negative international reputation of the United States as a result. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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SpoutBlogSpoutBlog The Pornification of Fox News. ...
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"Robert Greenwald, director of Iraq For Sale, Outfoxed and Xanadu, has launched a new campaign against FoxNews called Fox Attacks. A video associated with the campaign, available on its website and embedded via YouTube above, seeks to demonstrate that every single Fox News program is guilty of “pushing smut out on the airwaves.” Among other things, the video accuses Fox of adding “inappropriate sexual images to serious news stories,” exemplified by a clip of a story in which the hunt for a serial killer in Daytona Beach is illustrated with footage of a bikini contest, complete with numerous cleavage close-ups. Greenwald and friends want to inspire viewers to request “a la carte” cable packages excluding the network. There’s a quote from Gloria Steinem on the Fox Attacks page, slamming the network for showing “more sexualized violence and humiliation than probably any other network — all in the name of condemning it.” I’m no Fox News fan, but obviously, Greenwald’s clip does the exac ... " [More]
lukasblulukasblu Re: Top 5 'Fight The Power' Movies
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enareteaenaretea The Profit of Evil
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"Iraq For Sale is an extremely disturbing documentary about, what I believe, is the true reason for the Iraq War. The government of the United States, led by the Bush Administration, have started and prolonged a conflict solely for making money. Only one conclusion can be taken from this film, and that is that corporations running the war are taking gross advantage of the Iraqi people, American soldiers, and the complacency of the American public. It is a very biased view, but not a bitter one, nor does it display the mockingly dressed up patriotism of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. Where that movie failed with schoolyard name-calling, this one suceeds in presenting its case with selective evidence. However, there is only one point of view in the documentary, though in the credit roll the filmmakers make it clear that they tried very hard to get statements from companies like Halliburton, Blackwater, et al. I think an excellent companion documentary to this is The Corporation. " [More]
 



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