Several celebrities, including J Robert Oppenheimer’s grandson, have signed an open letter pleading for nuclear disarmament, days before Christopher Nolan’s epic 'Oppenheimer' is expected to sweep up at the Oscars.
Recension av "Oppenheimer" i Jacobin: [av Leigh Phillips is a science writer and EU affairs journalist. He is the author of Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts.]
"But even if in the film it’s the radicals who appear to have the first misgivings, it would be a mistake to think that it was the political right that approved of the bombing and only the Left who opposed it. The newspaper of the CPUSA, the Daily Worker, declared after the bombing that the Allies were lucky to have found struck “before the enemy can devise countermeasures.” The paper went on: “So let us not greet our atomic device with a shudder, but with the elation and admiration which the genius of man deserves.” Perhaps, one might counter, such calculation is to be expected from Stalinists. Yet the non-Stalinist but still progressive magazines The Nation and the New Republic felt little differently. Nation editor Freda Kirchwey wrote at the time: “The suffering, the wholesale slaughter it entailed, have been outweighed by its spectacular success.”
Few escaped the twentieth century with their honor intact, although it’s noteworthy that it was the more religious side of the liberal-left who was the first to mark their disquiet at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As historian Paul Boller noted, it was in fact the social gospel–oriented Catholic weekly Commonweal and its protestant counterpart Christian Century that straight out of the gate argued that the bombings had destroyed the nation’s moral position in the world.
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sista stycket: Det finns återigen en antydan i Nolans film. Det ursprungliga löftet om gränslös frigörelse från dominans - vare sig från andra människor eller från resten av naturen - som gavs när modernitetens tre världar förenades under 1900-talets första år, har inte svikits så mycket som det har lämnats ouppfyllt. Det som Oppie och Rabi och resten av efterkrigstidens progressiva motståndare till kärnvapenspridning strävade efter - en internationalistisk egalitarism utan CPUSA:s dogmer och falska vissheter, där hela världen drog nytta av kärnkraften men kärnvapen var förbjudna - förblir målet.
While it’s always refreshing to see the lives of working people centered in our media, the docuseries Working: What We Do All Day is hampered by the limitations of its host and narrator, former president Barack Obama.
Eric Schlosser's article in The New Yorker , January 17, 2014
"In retrospect, Kubrick’s black comedy provided a far more accurate description of the dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems than the ones that the American people got from the White House, the Pentagon, and the mainstream media."
Narrated by esteemed actor Emma Thompson, the documentary "The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science" reveals how the Koch Brothers have used their vast wealth to ensure the American political system takes no action on climate change, and are attempting to buy the 2016 Congressional elections
Nick Turse, The Intercept, October 13 2016 on
“Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity,” a video created by the Army and used at the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations University.
ca 12 min film om bibliotekarieyrket: Filmen orienterer om bibliotek, bibliotekaryrket og utdannelsen og viser moderne bibliotek i 1966. Det understrekes at bibliotek er for alle: barn, ungdom, voksne og eldre. Bibliotekarens oppgave er "riktig bok i
riktig hånd til riktig tid". Men bibliotek er ikke bare bøker; vi ser også aktiviteter som plateutlån, lytting, studieringer, språkundervisning og også bokbussen. På Statens bibliotekskole i Inkognitogaten 7 i Oslo underviser Else Granheim, og det nyeste innen bibliotekteknologi er tatt i bruk i biblioteket ved Studieselskapet for Norsk Industri: IBM-hullkortmaskin og UNIVAC 1107 maskin.
Da pengene tok slutt, måtte regissør Tonje Hessen Schei lete etter andre måter å finansiere dokumentarfilmen sin på. Hun fant folkefinanisering. Crowdfunding.
The main character, Umbra is a hyper sensitive romanticist deep inside “..when those kind of people are being deceived, they will become the biggest tyrant.” (Oscar Wilde) -- but this is not Krohn's Umbra
Arriva nelle sale il film di Marco Amenta, ispirato alla vera, tragica storia della Atria Figlia di criminali, collaboratrice di Borsellino, si suicidò 7 giorni dopo la sua morte Storia di Rita, "La siciliana ribelle" che a 17 anni osò sfidare la mafia Parla il regista: "Mostro gli uomini d'onore così come sono, senza romanticismo E sui gruppi Facebook pro-Riina: "Colpa di certe fiction televisive" di CLAUDIA MORGOGLIONE la Repubblica 25.2.2009
About Metanoia Films "Metanoia is brilliantly pioneering the new film-making -- incisive analysis, compelling sound and footage, fearless and independent reporting, and the aggregation of the best information out there into powerful, educational and free online feature films - all on a shoestring budget." - John Stauber, Center for Media and Democracy
DN 2004-01-19 av Anna-Pya Sjödin och Lina Sjöberg: "Att läsa "Matrix" som en metafor för en buddistisk verklighetsuppfattning ligger nära till hands och det är förvånande att ingen har uppmärksammat sambandet."
Andrzej Wajda: “The Russians must face their own past. They must stop with their tales about their history full of glory and with their speeches on ideal systems. They should follow the example of Solgenitsin and of Memorial. Here, we are not speaking about the forgiveness of one person, but of the entire Polish society. After the end of World War II Polish bishops wrote a letter to the German episcopate. They pardoned German people, because they saw convincing steps from the other side. You may forgive when the others recognize their sins.” interview by Giuseppe D'Amato