Movies -
Suggested Viewing:
A Crude Awakening
(2006)
Produced by
award-winning filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, this documentary
examines the world's dependency on oil and the impending chaos that's sure to
follow when the resource is depleted. Straight from the headlines, this
hot-button topic may represent the world's most dire crisis. Through expert
interviews, the film spells out in startling detail the challenge we all face
and underscores our desperate need for alternative energy.
John Adams(2008)
NR
Paul Giamatti stars in this sweeping Emmy and Golden Globe winner for Best
Miniseries that chronicles the astonishing life of founding father John Adams:
revolutionary leader, America's first ambassador to England, the first vice
president and the second president. The iconic cast of characters includes
Abigail Adams (Laura Linney), George Washington (David Morse), Thomas Jefferson
(Stephen Dillane), Benjamin Franklin (Tom Wilkinson) and many more.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media(1993)
NR
Funny and provocative, this 1992 documentary explores the political life and
ideas of Noam Chomsky, a world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political
activist. Chomsky illustrates how the media tacitly manipulates public opinion
to further the agendas of the powerful. A compelling examination of the
suppression of news about the U.S.-supported Indonesian invasion and subjugation
of East Timor brings home the point.
Why We Fight
(2005)
Filmed during the Iraq War, this documentary
dissects America's military machine with a keen eye to answering the question:
Why does America engage in war? Through personal stories of soldiers, government
officials, scholars, journalists and innocent victims, the film examines the
political and economic interests and ideological factors, past and present,
behind American militarism. Winner of the 2005 Sundance Grand Jury Award.
Books - Suggested
Reading:
The Toledo War: The First Michigan-Ohio Rivalry
The conflict started with a
long-simmering dispute over a narrow wedge of land called the Toledo Strip.
Early maps were famously imprecise, adding to the uncertainty of the true
boundary between the states. When Ohio claimed to the mouth of the Maumee River,
land that according to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 fell in the territory of
Michigan, the "Toledo War" began.
Liberal Fascism
What really distinguished
fascists from other mainstream movements of the time were proud, "principled" --
as they saw it -- violence and authoritarianism. Fascists took their model of
governance from their experience as soldiers and officers in World War I. They
believed that disciplined violence, military comradeship and obedience to
leaders could solve society's problems.
The Creature from Jekyll Island
The secret meeting on Jekyll
Island in Georgia at which the Federal Reserve was conceived and the birth of
the banking cartel to protect it’s members from competition was formed. The
strategy of how to convince Congress and
the public that this cartel was an
agency of the United States Government for which it is not!
In Liberty and Tyranny Mark
doesn't talk so much about Right versus Left, or Republican versus
Democrat, as he does about the free individual in contrast to the
state - which will always be as constrictive as it might be
benevolent. If you believe, as I and many conservatives and
libertarians do, that we find ourselves at a potential pivot point
in American History, Mark's book offers up a frame of reference, a
language, solid arguments and a manifesto to inform and empower a
forward path.
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