Ussama Makdisi, associate professor of history, talks about the historical context of the current Middle East Crisis.

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New Feature from COA News (www.coanews.org), this film explores how the media is involved in shaping public opinion during the 'War on Terrorism' and Globalisation. There's a new encoding of this on-line at commedia at very high quality! click on the View Box for the options. Globalisation and the Media A documentary exploring how the mass media shape public opinion on the 'War on Terror' and economic Globalisation. Offers a wide range of viewpoints from broadcasters, journalists, alternative media activists, and news editors. We investigate the bias of Television news during the protest blockades of the IMF and the G8 summits. Includes a shocking report on state suppression of alternative media in Europe. Discover how new technology, such as the internet and camcorders, is challenging the role of the traditional news gatherer. Director, Paul O' Connor said "The various United States administrations has spent the last 50 years constructing the present New World Order. Aided by its powerful military resources, alongside the IMF, World Bank and the World Trade Organisation, the rules of global trade have been largely imposed to serve its own interests. This documentary explores the role of the media in this corporate led take over of the Planets natural resources." Interviews and Contributions from Chris Cramer- President CNN International news George Monbiot- Investigative reporter Katharine Ainger- Editor New Internationalist Mark Covell- Indymedia.org Rick Rowley- Big <b>...</b>

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visit coanews.org Project Censored is a national research effort launched in 1976 by Dr. Carl Jensen, professor emeritus of Communications Studies at Sonoma State University. Upon Jensen's retirement in 1996, leadership of the project was passed to associate professor of sociology and media research specialist, Dr. Peter Phillips. Under Phillips's guidance, Project Censored tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters, and every year the group compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country's major national news media. Veteran broadcaster Walter Cronkite said Project Censored "is one of the organization's we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and broadcasting outlets are practicing thorough and ethical journalism." Phillips says, "the restructuring of media in the United States is creating forms of censorship that are as potentially damaging as overt censorship." "Media corporations have been undergoing a massive merging process that is realigning our sources of information in America," Phillips wrote in a an op-ed recently. "Values such as freedom of information and belief in the responsibility of keeping the public informed are adjusted to reflect policies created by bottom-line oriented CEOs. Media owners and managers are motivated to please advertisers and upper-middle-class readers and viewers. Journalists and editors are not immune from <b>...</b>

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Get more great videos: www.youtube.com Be our Myspace friend: myspace.com Few areas of the globe can match Papua New Guinea in terms of biodiversity. The country's rugged natural settings are home to a staggering array of wildlife, including more than 21000 species of higher plants, 200 species of mammals, and 700 species of birds. Papua New Guinea's indigenous clans are linguistically just as diverse; more than 800 languages are spoken within the nation's borders. These numerous clans also hold the key to conserving both their cultural and natural wealth of their country, specifically because they control approximately 90 percent of the nation's territory through a system of traditional land tenure. Because almost all of the land in Papua New Guinea is owned by its people, and not by the government, conservation efforts need to be approved and enforced by the local landowners. Crater Mountain is one of these landowner and NGO cooperative conservation initiatives in PNG.

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Get more great videos: coanews.org Or subscribe here: www.youtube.com Become a Myspace friend: myspace.com (more) (less) The story of a quintessential grassroots startup in Portland called "City Repair Project"; who transform space into place. coanews.org

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Learn more about Murder City Sparrows here: www.myspace.com Get more independent Videos Here: coanews.org Music video from independent rock band "Murder City Sparrows". Video shot in "Chopper City": "the living communal definition of gentrification. The poor are being huddled together and pushed aside to make room for more "important" citizens. The inhabitants feel left out and abandoned by their government which happens to operate only blocks from their homes. They have no voice. They are taxed without representation which is in direct opposition to the constitution their country was built upon." ~Jay Sparrow See the interview of Murder City Sparrows at coanews.org

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The First Amendment of the Internet --- Net Neutrality, which prevents telecoms from rigging the web so it is easier to visit sites that pay for preferential treatment --- took a blow from the House of Representatives Thursday. Watch the Mini-Documentary "The Death Of The Internet?" (coanews.org for background information on this issue. Visit WWW.SaveTheInternet.com to learn more about how you can get involved!

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Find out what the problem is with Big Corporate Media, and why we need new independent media. Visit www.coanews.org to become a part of the solution. Learn more about media at: freepress.net

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Video from: bigpicture.tv More great indy news media at coanews.org Professor Howard explains how the original risk assessment of chemicals grossly underestimated chemical toxicity. As an example he talks about Bisphenol A, an endocrine disrupter, which leaches from every day products such as plastic feeding bottles. This adds to the risk of cancer. He talks about the limitations of modern toxicology and welcomes Europe's first chemical hazard assessment programme, known as REACH. He calls for an immediate precautionary reduction in the production of all chemicals.

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Get more indy videos: coanews.org Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Purchase and Watch Your Every Move

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More independent media at coanews.org Truthout's Executive Director Marc Ash sat down with Father Louis Vitale, a Franciscan priest who has been active in the anti-war movement for decades. Father Vitale, an Air Force veteran, was arrested at Fort Huachuca in Arizona protesting the training of interrogators, who he believes are involved in torture. --Sent via http : Upload videos to multiple sites quickly

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For more information about the campaign to take back the web, visit freespeech.org To find an alternative, non-commercial media-sharing and social networking site, visit community.freespeech.org This is a truly crucial time for the Internet, the most powerful and interactive medium humans have ever seen. Recent actions by Facebook to monitor activity on the web and share our private information with our personal contacts and marketers, tells us quite clearly that the new media giants cannot be trusted. Background info coanews.org

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From FreeSpeech: community.freespeech.org More Independent Media coanews.org Dahr Jamail brings you a report from the streets of Bagdhad, where death squads are terrorizing civilians. Also, this segment on the growing GI resistance movement.

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Video from: bigpicture.tv More great indy news media at coanews.org The chemical industry is huge. Widely defined, it accounts for 7% of world GDP. Yet despite the ubiquity of potentially toxic man-made chemicals, consumer health protection is woefully inadequate. Professor Howard's work has revealed cancer-causing (or 'carcinogenic') effects of many manufactured chemical compounds, some of which pose particular risk to the unborn foetus. Until health and safety standards improve, Dr Howard advocates a chemical hygiene discipline, just as we have a biological hygiene discipline. With better knowledge and increased awareness of the dangers, certain steps can be -- and must be -- taken to reduce unnecessary exposure.

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Video from: bigpicture.tv More great indy news media at coanews.org Within the last fifty years the incidence of cancer has grown to almost epidemic proportions. Nearly one in two American males contract some form of cancer. Professor Howard looks at the probable reasons behind this, pointing in particular to the rapid rise in chemical pollution. The use of chemicals by industry has grown exponentially since the Second World War (see clip 3, 'Chemical Hygiene'). As a result we are led to absorb into our bodies many thousands of chemicals each year. Some of these are endocrine disrupters which interfere with hormonal activity -- especially in fetuses.

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Produced by the always interesting GNN.TV THE DIAMOND LIFE, puts the spotlight on the brutal atrocities committed by the Sierra Leone rebel forces (Revolutionary United Front) and the international diamond cartels, who have been willing to pay almost any price to maintain the artificial value of their gems. Produced in association with Witness and cut to the haunting music of Peter Gabriel, THE DIAMOND LIFE features interviews with UN officials, top political commentators and Sierra Leone television journalist-in-exile Aroun Rashid Deen. To get news videos like this sent your inbox sign up for the free COA Video Alert Service: coanews.org

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If you can't communicate, you can't fight back. In the wake of unprecedented media consolidation, grassroots resistance to corporate control of our public airwaves and the internet has been growing. Robert W. McChesney, President of Free Press, outlines the importance of media in connection to all other progressive struggles. To get news videos like this sent your inbox sign up for the free COA Video Alert Service: coanews.org net neutrality media reform indepedent media citizen media

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For more visit: coanews.org Robert Perry on the Military Commissions Act's Hidden Wording.

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Get Independent Media coanews.org Tracking the covert history of CIA drug smuggling from Nicaragua to Arkansas and South Central Los Angeles, GNN sheds light on the darkest secret of the Agency's operational directorate. Cut to the ambient Hip Hop loops of DJ Trek-e, Crack The CIA features explosive footage of Mike Ruppert's historical televised confrontation with CIA Director John Deutch. Don't blink!

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Get Truth: www.coanews.org Sheila Watt-Cloutier "defending the right to be cold". Video From TruthOut truthout.org

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Get Truth: www.coanews.org Video from: democracynow.org The United States is entering the fifth year of its occupation of Iraq. To mark the fourth anniversary of the US invasion, tens of thousands of people in cities across the US and the world have taken to the streets in the past few days to protest. The largest US demonstration took place in Washington DC on Saturday where thousands braved below freezing weather to march on the Pentagon

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coanews.org made by Avaaz.org (whose name means "Voice" or "Song" in several languages including Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, Nepalese, Dari, Turkish, and Bosnian). It's a terrific call for us all to get past the stereotypes, fear and misinformation about the differences between ourselves and the Middle East. If we really think about it, our cultures are not that far apart. It's up to all of us, to make our voices heard. Demand real, serious Mideast peace talks now, sign avaaz.org petition.

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More indy videos at: coanews.org Produced by: www.bignoisefilms.com In July 2006, Israel attacked Lebanon in an attempt to weaken Hezballah and push it North of the Litani River, creating a buffer zone along Israel's northern border. Israeli warplanes pounded Lebanon from the air, dropping 5000 bombs a day for 33 days. 130000 homes were destroyed and over 1 million refugees created, but Israeli ground troops took heavy casualties and were unable to reach the Litani River. This Big Noise video report originally aired on Al Jazeera International.

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Visit: coanews.org Bolivia's impoverished farmers who swept Morales to power are desperate for change. They want the old white elite thrown out immediately. Evo Morales' promised revolution is not going to plan. In the city of Cochabamba, riots have left several dead. Protestors are calling for the dismissal of Mayor Manfred Reyes -- a man democratically elected but seen as personifying the hated old elite. "All of Cochabamba must physically crush the Right Wing!", exhorts a speaker. Maintaining order and ensuring there is no more violence is the biggest challenge facing Morales' government. Native Voice Films

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-See the article that goes with this video at: www.coanews.org Large corporations own many of the most popular participatory media websites on the Internet. We're talking about spaces that could end up becoming one of the most important tools to reinvigorate our democracy. What makes us so willing to trust corporations with online participatory media?

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From: truthout.org Find more independent News coanews.org By Geoffrey Millard and Scott Galindez Evidence grows that the White House fired US attorneys because they balked at using the enormous power of federal law enforcement to serve the partisan ends of the Republican Party.

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Get more indy videos: coanews.org The media spends so much time and energy focusing on problems, but how can they do a better job at empowering citizens towards a vision of hope and possibility?

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big-picture.tv -Find more great videos like this. http Judge Weeramantry gives reasons why nuclear disaster is a very real and present danger to us all. In terms of manufacturing weaponry, practical instructions are freely available and technical expertise can be bought at a price. To make matters worse, international non-proliferation laws are disregarded by the nuclear powers. At the same time these powers dictate to non-nuclear states. In such a situation few moral restraints prevent further proliferation. coanews.org

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From: truthout.org Find more independent News coanews.org Willie Nelson talks to TruthOut.org about changing his tour bus so that it runs on vegetable oil, keeping conservative country music fans despite his political views, and the division between rural and urban citizens.

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In the absence of strong government in Lebanon, Hezbollah has become a major political force. Many Lebanese believe only Hezbollah can defend the country from an Israeli invasion. To get news videos like this sent your inbox sign up for the free COA Video Alert Service: coanews.org

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Students at The Automotive High School in Brooklyn convert a diesel car into one that runs on grease from their cafeteria. Find more great Independent media at: www.coanews.org

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Produced by gnn.tv Get more great videos coanews.org Become a Myspace friend: myspace.com It has been over 50 years since Adolf Hitler took his life in a small underground bunker near Berlin. And while, for many, the Holocaust that he planned and executed against the Jewish population of Europe is a thing of the past -- a dark chapter of our history that serves a reminder of man's inhuman potential -- for others, it is a subject of unrelinquished sorrow and tireless investigation. It is in the latter camp that we find Edwin Black, author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated international bestseller IBM and the Holocaust. The book, which documents IBM's direct links to Hilter and his so-called 'Final Solution' by providing the Third Reich with census machines and punch card technology, caused IBM to issue a formal statement claiming that the Nazis controlled the operations of IBM Germany during the war. But Edwin's research shows that Thomas J. Watson, founder and president of IBM during the company's financial relationship with the Nazis, exercised more hands-on control of the operation than they care to admit. In his Guerrilla News directorial debut, Paul Shore interviews the author and deploys GNN's trademark design aesthetic in what is sure to be one of the most controversial documentaries about US corporate complicity with the Nazi regime. Credits Directed / Produced by: Paul Shore Music by: Mitchell Akiyama

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Visit: breakdownfilm.tv More Excerpts From the Documentary youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com A serious political documentary charting, with unique footage and insight, the strategy and role of US Foreign Policy and its breakdown in the Middle East. For more information visit myspace.com

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EAT ORGANIC!! www.sustainabletable.org If you're looking for a way find wholesome, fresh, sustainable food in the US and Canada, try the The Eat Well Guide http Sustainable Table (www.sustainabletable.org) and Free Range Studios just released The Meatrix II 1/2 for Participant Productions at www.moremeatrix.com. The story continues from The Meatrix II: Revolting and takes place in a slaughterhouse. If you haven't watched The Meatrix movies yet, check them out at www.themeatrix.com. Produced by Free Range Studios, www.freerangestudios.com

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Visit defendthepress.org Footage from this video came from the provocative DemocracyNow! http -please check them out, they have great news video every weekday! The US Army has subpoenaed independent journalist Sarah Olson to testify at the upcoming hearing. Sarah Olson interviewed Lt. Watada last May -- the Army says statements he made during Olson's interview constitute one charge of conduct unbecoming an officer. Learn more at: defendthepress.org

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Videos of smiling suicide bombers and insurgent attacks have become as important a weapon as explosives in Al Qaeda's global jihad against the West. The jihadis have seized on the power of the internet and their message cannot be silenced. But who actually watches these videos and what effect are they having on young people in the Muslim world?

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A group of citizens providing Malaria education and prevention in the form of subsidized mosquito netting for rural communities in Ugandawho who would otherwise have no opportunity to have this service.

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Torture and Disappearances in the 'War on Terror' Get more great videos: www.youtube.com Be our Myspace friend: myspace.com (more) (less)

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Alison Weir interviews "Israel Lobby" authors Steven Walt and John Mearsheimer during a panel on The Israel Lobby and the US Response to the War in Lebanon, August 28 at the National Press Club.

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Visit the website: breakdownfilm.tv More Excerts From the Documentary www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com A serious political documentary charting, with unique footage and insight, the strategy and role of US Foreign Policy and its breakdown in the Middle East. For more information visit myspace.com

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Learn more and Take Action: www.pvcfree.org You know PVC and you don't know PVC "New car smell? New shower curtain smell? That's the smell of poisonous chemicals off-gassing from the PVC." Produced by Free Range Studios (freerangestudeios.com and Center for Health, Environment and Justice-CHEJ (www.chej.org

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While the Bush Administration has not been committed to curbing our "addiction to oil," legislators from around the world are coming together to try to stop climate change from increasing. SourceCode reports from the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Montreal, where world leaders are enacting the next step of the Kyoto Protocol. And we'll show you how American mayors are taking the steps to stop carbon emissions despite the hesitations of the executive branch.

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Political blogger Wokusch covers biological weapons, white phosphorus deployment in Fallujah and the use of US WMD against Americans.

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Visit: breakdownfilm.tv More Excerpts From the Documentary www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com A serious political documentary charting, with unique footage and insight, the strategy and role of US Foreign Policy and its breakdown in the Middle East. For more information visit myspace.com (more) (less)

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