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Why We Fight
Posted by D-Rock on 02/06/06 (Shite)

Last night I watched a documentary by Eugene Jarecki called Why We Fight, which is seeing theatrical release in North America right about now. Although I’ve seen a lot of movies about various aspects of U.S. foreign policy and the like, this one looks at the roots of those policies, and the ideology and economic machinery that sustains them, in a particularly illustrative way. This shit is powerful, and should be required viewing. Movies like this impart me with the feeling that film has far greater capacity to transform a person’s conciousness than music could ever hope to.
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Comment by interesting on February 6th, 2006 at 3:17 pm:
http://www.question911.com/links.php
Comment by Josh on February 6th, 2006 at 7:28 pm:
Interesting as well…
http://news.yahoo.co..._prweb/prweb339303_5
Comment by StErn on February 6th, 2006 at 8:36 pm:
“Why we fight” is excellent! But you have will definetely to watch the “Power of Nightmares” by the BBC, kids! It’s not one of these mild conspiracy-movies that keep you busy pretending you’re some sort of internet-detective. It’s the real shit and it’s very frightening!
“Should we be worried about the threat from organised terrorism or is it simply a phantom menace being used to stop society from falling apart?
In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares.
The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not true, neither are these nightmares.”
Download the “Power of Nightmares (BBC)” for free!
Comment by marc on February 7th, 2006 at 8:12 am:
I was planning on seeing this very soon, actually..just gotta find a theatre in the Boston area.
PS: This radio thing is fucking brilliant.
Comment by interesting on February 7th, 2006 at 9:17 am:
The BBC… is just as bad as CNN Stern…
I ve seen the power of nightmares on CBC and its nothing special. ( i will watch it again)terroism is manufactured by CIA, MI5, and promoted and planned by other agencies such as PNAC ( project for a new american century) CFR (council on foreign relations.) GO and check these groups out there all full of neo-cons and by the way check out something called the bilderberg meetings ( Thats were BBC, CNN and all the other news papers and TV channels figure out what messages they want to promote along with politicians from left and right and bankers barons and nonbility) If 300 of the worlds biggest celebrities attended a 3 day meeting behind close doors the media would be all over the event trying to get scoops. The mainstream media cannot be trusted
Comment by ridebike on February 7th, 2006 at 10:10 pm:
i will definitely check this out. thanks for posting this.
“Movies like this impart me with the feeling that film has far greater capacity to transform a person’s conciousness than music could ever hope to.”
i know what you mean, but dont lose faith in music!!!!!! ( i know you havnt, im just saying…..) . music has definitely impacted and transformed me more than any movie could, but as the lame saying goes, “different strokes for different folks.”
Comment by ridebike on February 7th, 2006 at 10:12 pm:
yes, g7 radio is fucking brilliant! its the best thing thats happened to the internet since…umm..myspace?
Comment by LJ on February 8th, 2006 at 10:22 am:
yeah, ridebike, music has impacted more on me than any film too… specifically G7 Radio :D
Comment by ridebike on February 8th, 2006 at 3:34 pm:
haha, most definitely!
Comment by connor on February 8th, 2006 at 8:29 pm:
those awesome arm band tattoos you have change the world one laugh at a time, derek lachey
Comment by david on February 10th, 2006 at 12:06 am:
could you possibly create more dead air on your radio show? because that would be awesome.
Comment by Phil on February 10th, 2006 at 11:47 am:
This has absolutely nothing to do with this post, but there was nowhere else to say it. Is it just me, or did Chris call Nuclear Assault “Nucular Assault” on the radio show?
Jeeeez Chris. We mock Bush for these kinds of things. ;)
Comment by mikea on February 17th, 2006 at 6:48 am:
“This shit is powerful, and should be required viewing. Movies like this impart me with the feeling that film has far greater capacity to transform a person’s conciousness than music could ever hope to.”
(Along with books) movies are the best way to “spread the word” and change one’s conscience or strengthen one’s convictions, i totally agree with you on that point, Derek.
But music can do so as well, and i believe it did so for most people here on the blog, no?
As far as i’m concerned, i can’t remember one movie matching the power of lines like “behind the sandbags, a legless foreman pulls the trigger on a red megaphone. Squelching feedback. Drunken laughter. Broken English. His dead daughter’s picture. Time and tide, no one can anticipate the inevitable waves of change”
Comment by I Enter Canada on March 2nd, 2006 at 4:08 pm:
found this homophobe US video tape on archive.org and ripped this hilarious soundclip of it.
http://www.10thplanet.be/1965.mp3
forgot the name of the video, “persversion… ” or something
‘power of nightmares’ is pretty cool
Comment by Lazypete on March 6th, 2006 at 12:03 pm:
I must agree, it’s music, in my case, that was the focal point of my change.
One sentence I will remember: There’s no point in democracy when ignorance is celebrated.
Ignorance is not just the lack of knowledge.. its also the lack of truth.