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Richard Wolff on Curing Capitalism - Moyers & Company 24 March 2013 Wolff returns to the show and this time answers questions sent in by viewers, diving further into economic inequality, the limitations of industry regulation, and the widening gap between a booming stock market and a population that increasingly lives in poverty stream adobe flash player
Good Italy, Bad Italy: Girlfriend in a Coma - Bill Emmott & Annalisa Piras 27 February 2013 With Italy having just gone to the polls, Bill Emmott, former editor of The Economist and a man with a special passion for Italy and Italians since his teenage years, asks where has Italy gone wrong and examines the good sides about Italy as well as the disasters stream adobe flash player
Richard Wolff on Fighting for Economic Justice and Fair Wages - Moyers & Company 24 February 2013 Wolff joins Bill Moyers to discuss the disaster left behind in capitalism's wake, and the fight for economic justice, including a fair minimum wage stream adobe flash player
Obey - Temujin Doran, Studiocanoe 23 February 2013 This is a film based on the book Death of the Liberal Class by journalist and Pulitzer prize winner, Chris Hedges. It charts the rise of the corporate state, and examines the future of obedience in a world of unfettered capitalism, globalisation, staggering inequality and environmental change stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH6UynI5m7Y
Global Capitalism: A Monthly Update, February 2013 - Professor Richard Wolff 13 February 2013 In this month's update, professor Wolff discusses bailouts, recovery, tax havens, financial transaction taxes in Europe and the US, falling wages, so-called 'progressive' income tax rates, off-shoring and its impact on the quality of higher education, austerity, democracy vs capitalism, the general rip-off that is being executed on the people, and how Marxism was never really implemented in Soviet Russia or China stream adobe flash player
Global Capitalism: A Monthly Update, December 2012 - Professor Richard Wolff 11 December 2012 In this month's update, professor Wolff breaks down the 'fiscal cliff' - how it was arrived at and its implications for the American people in the coming months stream adobe flash player
China's Ant People - Weijun Chen, Steps International 7 December 2012 What does an education get you? Education is the only way out of poverty, as it has been sold to the Chinese population since ancient times. China's economic boom and talk of the merits of hard work have created an expectation that studying is how to escape poverty. Yet it seems the system only leads to jobs for a few, and debt for all. This film, set in Wuhan in central China, looks at the realities of Chinese (privatised) education through the lives of private college tutor Wang Zehziang, high school graduate and would-be university student Wang Pan, and graduate jobseeker Wan Chao stream adobe flash player
The Great Land Rush - Hugo Berkeley & Osvalde Lewat, Normal Life Pictures and Steps International 7 December 2012 75 percent of Mali's population are farmers, but rich land-hungry nations like China and Saudi Arabia are leasing Mali's land in order to turn large areas into agri-business farms. Many Malian peasants do not welcome these efforts, seeing them as yet another manifestation of imperialism. Tackling questions such as food sovereignty, land ownership and how development is sold to Africa, this film asks who owns Africa stream adobe flash player
Four Born Every Second - Brian Hill, Century Films and Steps International 7 December 2012 130 million babies are born each year, but the circumstances and country of their birth will determine their life story. Brian Hill travels from the UK to America, Cambodia and Sierra Leone to reveal the shocking lottery of child birth across the globe stream adobe flash player
Solar Mamas - Jehane Noujaim, Plus Pictures and Steps International 3 December 2012 Solar Mamas follows the remarkable story of Rafea, a mother-of-four from Jordan who challenges the status quo of her traditional marriage by travelling to India to train as a solar engineer for six months. Along with 27 other mothers and grandmothers from poor communities around the world - many of whom are illiterate - she will learn the skills needed to bring electricity and light back to her village stream adobe flash player
Property rights vs human rights - On The Edge with Max Keiser 3 December 2012 Keiser interviews Danny Schechter who talks about the government's failure to protect their citizens against financial criminals stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHHSgcFZR_g
Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream - Alex Gibney 27 November 2012 Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney presents his take on the gap between rich and poor Americans. Gibney contends that America's richest citizens have "rigged the game in their favor", and created unprecedented inequality in the United States stream (BBC) adobe flash player stream (PBS) adobe flash player stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhCc6d4u1DM
Stealing Africa - Guldbrandsen Film and Steps International 27 November 2012 Ruschlikon is a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents. There is so much money in the public coffers that the mayor can't spend it all, largely thanks to the contribution from one resident - Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of commodities giant Glencore. However, Glencore's copper mines in Zambia don't generate similar tax windfalls for Zambians. The country has the third largest copper reserves in the world, but 60 per cent of the population live on less than $1 a day and 80 per cent are unemployed. Christoffer Guldbrandsen investigates the dark heart of the tax system employed by multi-nationals and asks how much profit is fair stream adobe flash player
Undercover: How to Dodge Tax - Panorama, BBC 27 November 2012 Panorama goes undercover to investigate corporate service providers - the people and companies who sell corporate anonymity and access to offshore tax havens. Undercover reporters discover a world that specialises in secrecy, sells services which bend and breach UK law, is happy to help tax dodgers and even turns a blind eye to crime stream adobe flash player
Where Has Your Aid Money Gone? - Dispatches, Channel 4 27 November 2012 Jonathan Miller travels to Rwanda to investigate what British taxes have paid for, and to ask what our government has achieved with the influence our aid supposedly buys us. David Cameron personally backs increasing aid to Rwanda. The Conservatives have a particularly close relationship with the architect of Rwanda's success, President Paul Kagame. But Dispatches has found that Kagame has established a repressive regime with a worrying disregard for human rights. Is British aid to Rwanda helping create Africa's next tyrant? stream adobe flash player
Getting Rich on the NHS - Dispatches, Channel 4 30 October 2012 Under the new health reforms, private firms are being awarded millions of pounds-worth of NHS contracts. One of the major new players is Virgin Care. Morland Sanders examines whether the rapid handover of services to private contractors is really good for the public purse, and good for patient care stream adobe flash player
Vodafone's Swiss Swizz: A Tax Avoidance Special - Bureau of Investigative Journalism & Private Eye 9 October 2012 The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Private Eye went to Switzerland to investigate how British firms can use Swiss companies and branches to legally avoid billions in UK tax stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAenlYsV7A4
The Light Bulb Conspiracy: The Untold Story of Planned Obsolescence - Cosima Dannoritzer 15 August 2012 Once upon a time... products were made to last. Then, at the beginning of the 1920s, a group of businessmen were struck by the following insight: 'A product that refuses to wear out is a tragedy of business'. Thus Planned Obsolescence was born stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sme1KmA8nRc
Capitalism in Crisis? - Charlie Rose 31 July 2012 Capitalism in Crisis with geographer David Harvey and economist Richard Wolff stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rduGIQfJ39g
97 Percent Owned - Queue Politely 24 July 2012 97% owned present serious research and verifiable evidence on our economic and financial system. This is the first documentary to tackle this issue from a UK-perspective and explains the inner workings of Central Banks and the Money creation process stream adobe flash player
Secrets of the Taxman - Dispatches, Channel 4 11 July 2012 An undercover report partly filmed in the Channel Islands presents new revelations about tax avoidance stream adobe flash player
Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali - The Julian Assange Show 27 June 2012 A surprise Arab drive for freedom, the West's structural crisis and new hope coming from Latin America. That's the modern world in the eyes of Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali, two prominent thinkers and this week's guests on Julian Assange's show stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iJjtEMamjc
Global Capitalism: A Monthly Update, June 2012 - Professor Richard Wolff 18 June 2012 In the latter part of this month's update, Wolff reports on the Mondragon Corporation in the Basque region of Spain. This unified community of worker cooperatives is now the world's most successful, large scale and long-lasting experiment in workers owning and directing their enterprises. It competes successfully with capitalist enterprises, innovates technologically in systematic ways and operates its own major bank and university stream adobe flash player
The Mondragon Experiment (1980) - Horizon, BBC 18 June 2012 This documentary examines the Mondragon Corporation in northern Spain, where a federation of worker cooperatives have proved that an alternative to capitalism can indeed thrive stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-obHJfTaQvw
Surviving Progress (2011) - Mathieu Roy & Harold Crooks 5 June 2012 Film about the risks we pose to our own survival in the name of progress, connecting financial collapse, growing inequality and global oligarchy with the sustainability of mankind stream adobe flash player
The Truth About Tax - Panorama, BBC 15 May 2012 Darragh MacIntyre investigates how some of the UK's most famous companies are using a tax haven at the heart of Europe to save millions in tax. Armed with a cache of secret documents, the programme reveals how global names have received big tax breaks on billion-pound transactions in the tiny country of Luxembourg. more >> stream adobe flash player
Occupy the Mind: Progressive Moral Agenda for the 21st Century - Professor Richard Wolff 19 March 2012 Professor Wolff gives a talk where he looks at capitalism from a moral perspective, highlighting the struggle between employers and employees. Wolff suggests that democracy within the workplace should become a priority at this critical time of economical crisis. In a true democracy, all employees would equally share the directorship of their enterprises - this being fundamentally different from private or state capitalism, where employees or workers are treated like commodities. more >> stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HP0L8vxAhc
Global Capitalism: A Monthly Update, March 2012 - Professor Richard Wolff 12 March 2012 Covered in this month's update are: Europe and Greece's default scenario; the upcoming French and US elections; wealth inequality in the US; the apparent US economic recovery; and an open Q&A session stream adobe flash player
The eurozone, the ant and the grasshopper - Yanis Varoufakis 22 February 2012 The Greek economist explains why the Euro crisis should not simply be seen through the prism of a famous Aesop fable. more >> stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-ObYARk-30
Global Capitalism: A Monthly Update, January 2012 - Professor Richard Wolff 27 January 2012 Basic prospects for the US economy in 2012, opened this month's update. Twenty minutes in, Wolff turns to the problems now shaking European capitalism: (1) the financial and social costs and implications of European governments' debts and austerity programs aimed to alleviate those debts, and (2) conflicts over Greece's debts and default scenarios. Emphasis was placed on the impact of Europe's crises on the US economy in 2012 stream (two parts) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgmiIXDBaHo
The Crisis of Capitalism - Marin Commons 12 January 2012 Noted author, political economist and activist, Richard Wolff in conversation with Robert Ovetz PhD at San Rafael CA, on 7 January 2012 stream YouTube
Yanis Varoufakis: A Modest Proposal for Transforming Europe - TEDxAcademy 12 January 2012 Professor Varoufakis proposes a decentralized system for europe in order to transform it before the crisis of the system crashes Europe. He studies all the different possibilities of actions that can be taken and explains why his proposal is the best option stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRRWaEPRlb4
The End of Capitalism? (Penn Humanities Forum, 30 November 2011) - David Harvey 12 December 2011 Three years after the near collapse of global financial markets, America is still struggling with unemployment, debt, and foreclosure. European governments are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy - and the world's billionaires are getting richer faster than ever before. The current situation is not sustainable; but what changes need to be made to overcome this mounting crisis of our world economic system? How radical an adaptation will be required? David Harvey, the brilliant theorist and scathing critic of postmodern society, looks at what the future holds for global capitalism stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYzKsiev43Q
Richard Wolff on the current Eurozone Crisis - Democracy Now 4 December 2011 Wolff is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and visiting professor at New School University. He is the author of several books, including Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It. more >> stream adobe flash player
Interview with Greg Palast - Media Roots TV 20 November 2011 Palast discusses his new book Vultures' Picnic, corporate collusion, the bought-and-paid-for-media establishment, the role of citizen journalism around the Occupy Wall Street Movement and the value of organisations such as Project Censored stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2q1PTJsv7g
Call for Jersey to block $100m DR Congo 'vulture' debt - Greg Palast 19 November 2011 Charities are calling for Britain's Privy Council to block an American speculator from taking $100m (£62.86m) from the Democratic Republic of Congo. more >> stream adobe flash player
Occupy London talk (12 November 2011) - David Harvey 17 November 2011 The Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York gave a talk to Occupy London protestors stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht8W30gkVac
The Warning - Frontline, PBS 10 November 2011 Long before the meltdown, one woman tried to warn about a threat to the financial system... stream adobe flash player
Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Financial Collapse - Doc Zone, CBC 15 October 2011 The story of the bankers who crashed the world, the leaders who struggled to save it and the ordinary families who got crushed. more >> stream adobe flash player
Danny Schechter - On The Edge with Max Keiser 18 September 2011 Max Keiser interviews the 'News Dissector' stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sREw5szm3Jc
The Curse of Tina - Adam Curtis, BBC 18 September 2011 Carry on Thinking: the rise of the modern 'Think Tank' and how they have made thinking impossible stream adobe flash player
Banking Looters - Keiser Report 17 August 2011 Stacy Herbert and Max Keiser observe the British shock that there is no society, followed by a talk with former bank regulator William K Black about the absence of justice for banking crimes and whether or not the population plays a role in demanding this justice stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUyutryL_SY
Riots, Recession & Resistance - John McDonnell 17 August 2011 Coalition of Resistance and BARAC public meeting, Central London, 11 August 2011 stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM-p-ZZVkYo
Cashing In On Degrees - Dispatches, Channel 4 4 August 2011 With students facing massive increases in their fees, Dispatches investigates the pay, perks and privileges enjoyed by universities' top earners. Journalist Laurie Penny reveals the increasing commercialisation of higher education and the subsequent lowering of standards, and asks what happens when universities scour the globe for students and funds stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xocSc4YWxZ4
Inside Job (2010) - Charles Ferguson 30 June 2011 Why are countries having austerity measures imposed upon them? This film provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation and academia stream adobe flash player
Interview with Danny Schechter - Democracy Now 23 June 2011 Investigative journalist, filmmaker and author, Danny Schechter discusses his latest movie, Plunder: The Crime of Our Time. It features interviews with industry insiders to reveal how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity. more >> stream adobe flash player
All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace (2011) - Adam Curtis, BBC 9 June 2011 New three-part documentary series by Adam Curtis that claims that computers have failed to liberate us, and instead, have "distorted and simplified our view of the world around us". more >> part 1: Love and Power http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX5jImWRREc part 2: The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjEsk2lBj8c part 3: The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IpxjE53bn4
The Story of Stuff - Annie Leonard 9 June 2011 From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. This short film looks at the underside of our production and consumption patterns stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM
As Gold As Gold - The Keiser Report 24 April 2011 Max Keiser talks to Taki
Oldham, director of The Billionaires Tea Party, about tea
parties, astroturfing and Ayn Rand. Find out more about Oldham's film
here: http://www.billionairesteaparty.com/
The Yes Men Fix The World - P2P Edition (2009) - Andy Bichlbaum & Mike Bonanno 19 March 2011 True story about two gonzo
political activists who, posing as top executives of giant
corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull
off the world's most outrageous pranks. The culture jamming activist-duo
raise awareness around social problems caused by corporations
Britain's Banks: Too Big to Save? - Robert Peston, BBC 20 February 2011 It's more than two years since the giant banks were bailed out with billions of pounds of tax-payers' money, yet little has been done to reform or regulate these vast institutions. Robert Peston looks at how the international regulators, a little-known and secretive committee that sits in the Swiss city of Basel, have consistently failed to curb the excesses of the giant banks and how new proposals fall short of the root-and-branch reform promised after the crash. more >> stream adobe flash player
Welcome to Fakeville - The Keiser Report 17 February 2011 Max Keiser talks to author
and documentary filmmaker Greg Palast about whether it is peak oil
or oil dictatorships that are the bigger threat to the global economy
How The Rich Beat The Tax Man - Dispatches, Channel 4 23 October 2010 With more than twenty millionaires in the Conservative cabinet, reporter Antony Barnett examines the financial affairs of some ministers and others who have helped the coalition. George Osborne says "we're all in this together" but are ministers and top Tories paying the same rates of tax as the rest of us? Barnett visits a number of offshore tax havens around the world still under British control, to find out more about tax avoidance ploys stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oElLtJ00Po
The Scramble for Africa - Aljazeera 7 September 2010 50 years ago, independence in Africa was supposed to usher in an era of prosperity and an end to the colonial scramble for resources. But why didn't it? more >> stream adobe flash player
Professor Greg Philo: Privatise The National Debt - The Real Deal 25 August 2010 George Galloway interviews
Glasgow University professor Greg Philo, who has an ingenious way
to pay off the national debt: privatise it. In a YouGov poll, 74%
of the population would favour a one-off tax of the wealthiest six
million people in the UK. Philo is research director of the Glasgow
Media Group. more
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Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) - Michael Moore 5 April 2010 Moore's latest film comes
home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous
impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans stream part 2 http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/4ppZzI0wBxg/
'Vultures' prey on Liberia's debt - Greg Palast, BBC 9 March 2010 Some vultures have feathers, but some have fancy offices and huge homes. Greg Palast follows the trail of one "vulture fund" chief, from a locked office door in New York to mud-brick houses in Africa stream adobe flash player
Drug firms made 'false H1N1 claims' - Tarek Bazely 5 February 2010 The severity of the H1N1 outbreak was deliberately exaggerated by pharmaceutical companies that stood to make billions of dollars from a worldwide scare, a leading European health expert has claimed stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoQN1to3C2U
The Man Who Knew Too Much - FrenchTV 13 October 2009 This film gives a journalist's
account of the interactions between some European banks and Clearstream
in Luxembourg which, according to Denis Robert, are a safe haven for
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The Shock Doctrine - Renegade Pictures/Revolution Films 2 September 2009 Based on Naomi Klein's bestselling
book, The Shock Doctrine argues that America's 'free market'
policies have come to dominate the world through the exploitation
of disaster-shocked people and countries. Both the film and book argue
that governments all over the world exploit natural disasters, economic
crises and wars to push through radical free market policies. Klein
calls this 'disaster capitalism'. The film concludes that the result
is often catastrophic for ordinary people and hugely beneficial to
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William K Black: CSI Bailout - Bill Moyers, PBS 5 April 2009 Fraud, corruption, incompetence,
cover-up; these 'banksters' and their cronies in government should
be prosecuted and jailed - that would help restore confidence in the
system. Bill Moyers interviews William K Black on what caused the
economic meltdown and what can be done to begin solving the crisis.
Everyone should watch this excellent discussion and then put your
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Plain Old Greed - Yorgos Avgeropoulos 15 March 2009 Investigating the US financial
meltdown, this film reveals the ruined lives, crooked banks and the
stupidity that brought it all about. Lays bare the bankers' addiction
that drove world markets into recession. It was obvious what was happening
but Wall Street couldn't stop itself. more
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Silly Money - Bremner Bird & Fortune 3 November 2008 A satirical four-part look
at the global financial system stream part 2 google video stream part 3 google video stream part 4 google video
The Crash of 1929 - Ronald H Blumer 2 July 2008 Originally produced in the
mid-1990s, this film remains the most authoritative account of the
Crash of 1929, and includes rare testimony from the people who worked
on Wall Street at the time
Super Rich: The Greed Game - Robert Peston, BBC 5 April 2008 As the credit crunch bites
and a global economic crisis threatens, Robert Peston reveals how
the super-rich have made their fortunes, and the rest of us are picking
up the bill
Hitler's American Business Partners - Dietre Scroeder and Joachiiom Schroeder 2 March 2008 This documentary uncovers
the unholy alliance between Nazi Germany and some of the biggest corporations
in the US - companies which were indispensable for Hitler to wage
war. Henry Ford, the automobile manufacturer; James D Mooney, the
General Motors manager; and Tom Watson, the IBM boss were all awarded
the Grand Cross of the German Eagle - the Nazi's highest distinction
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The Great African Scandal - Robert Beckford & Ken Kirby 24 September 2007 Beckford undertakes a hard-hitting,
emotional journey to Ghana in Africa to discover the hidden costs
of three high-street goods: rice, chocolate and gold. He looks at
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Life Running Out of Control (2004) - Bertram Verhaag & Gabriele Krober 5 May 2007 In the mid-1980s, scientists
unlocked genetic keys to manipulating our world. Suddenly everything
seemed possible. There would be no more hunger or malnutrition; diseases
would be vanquished and poverty wiped out. But twenty years on, the
situation looks very different. From the loss of biodiversity to health
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White King, Red Rubber, Black Death - Peter Bate 5 April 2007 The story of King Leopold
II of Belgium's brutal colonisation of central Africa, turning it
into a vast rubber-harvesting labour camp in which millions died
Behind the Labels: Garment Workers on US Saipan - Tia Lessin 19 March 2007 Exposes the harsh conditions
of the garment industry in Saipan, a US territory in the Northern
Mariana Islands of the Pacific. Although the island flies the American
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Looting the Russian Economy (2001) - ABC Australia 11 March 2007 This is a story about the
money-laundering game involving Russian gangsters, corrupt officials,
impoverished South Pacific islands and some of the world's most reputable
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Bolivia for sale - Dylan Howitt 4 March 2007 Damian Lewis travels to
Bolivia to investigate the effects of privatisation in three key markets:
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Flying the Flag, Arming the World (1994) - John Pilger 26 February 2007 David Munro and John Pilger
look behind the political rhetoric and discover the world of international
arms dealing
'Vulture Funds' threat to developing world - Greg Palast, BBC 15 February 2007 Vulture funds are companies
which buy up the debt of poor nations cheaply, when it is about to
be written off, and then sue for the full value of the debt plus interest
- which might be ten times what they paid for it. Filmed for BBC
Newsnight
Here's an update to the
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War by Other Means (1992) - John Pilger 10 February 2007 Pilger examines the policy
of First World banks agreeing loans with Third World countries, who
are then unable to meet the crippling interest charges, resulting
in the systematic stripping of natural resources and a steep rise
in poverty
Blood Diamonds (2007) - A&E Television Networks 7 February 2007 This documentary examines
Africa's most brutal civil wars, revealing the role played by the
illicit diamond trade in funding conflicts in Sierra Leone, Angola,
Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Looks at the bloody
history of the diamond industry and the virtual monopoly De Beers
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The Price of Blood - Panorama, BBC 9 October 2006 On the eve of his appearance
in an Italian court on tax, money laundering and potentially corruption
charges, Panorama examines the career of David Mills. His
links to Silvio Berlusconi are well known and form the basis of next
month's charges. But after examining many hundreds of documents here
and in Italy, Panorama looks at a less well known episode
literally involving bad blood
The New Rulers of the World (2001) - John Pilger 27 August 2006 Pilger explores the impact
of globalisation, taking Indonesia as his prime example, a country
that the World Bank described as a "model pupil" until its
"globalised" economy collapsed in 1998. Under scrutiny are
the increasingly powerful multinationals and the institutions that
back them, notably the IMF and The World Bank
Pandora's Box: Black Power (1992) - Adam Curtis, BBC 15 August 2006 A look at how former Ghanaian
leader Kwame Nkrumah set Africa ablaze with his vision of a new industrial
and scientific age. At the heart of his dream was to be the huge Volta
dam, generating enough power to transform West Africa into an advanced
utopia. It brought with it dangerous forces Nkrumah couldn't control,
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Pandora's Box: The League of Gentlemen (1992) - Adam Curtis, BBC 15 August 2006 Forty years ago, a group
of economists managed to convince British politicians that they had
foolproof technical means to make Britain great again. This film tells
the saga of how their experiments led the country deeper into economic
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After School Arms Club - Dispatches, Channel 4 3 April 2006 This special edition of
Dispatches puts the arms trade under the spotlight, asking
how easy it is to broker arms. Working his way through a spider's
web of vast and, in some cases, archaic legislation, Mark Thomas unearths
a series of dangerous loopholes, inconsistencies and, even more shocking,
simple omissions that would have the most avaricious arms broker salivating
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The Pope and the Mafia Millions - Redback Films 16 March 2006 Italian
banker Roberto Calvi was found dead in 1982 in London. Known as God's
banker for his links with the Vatican, Calvi was the chairman of Banco
Ambrosiano and a central figure in a complex web of international
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The Mayfair Set - Adam Curtis, BBC 16 October 2005 Four-part series that looks at the rise of business and the decline of political power. Adam Curtis reveals massive corruption of the British government by corporations and the global markets
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Britain's Heroin Fix - Panorama, BBC 25 July 2005 Jane Corbin travels through Afghanistan to find out why opium production is out of control. She talks to farmers to discover why the opium crop has risen twenty-fold since the Taleban cracked down on it, virtually eradicating it in 2001. The smugglers get off scot-free and powerful officials within the government take their cut of the drug trade. (DynCorp couldn't possibly be involved... could they?. Who benefits from the trade in opium? click here) stream real player download real player
Why We Fight - Eugene Jarecki 24 March 2005 What are the forces that shape and propel American militarism? This award-winning film provides an inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine. Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd & intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions stream real player
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Interview with John Perkins - Democracy Now 12 March 2005 Former respected member
of the international banking community, John Perkins describes how
he helped the US cheat third-world
countries out of trillions of dollars
The Dollar a Day Dress - Panorama, BBC 7 March 2005 Panorama travelled
the world to create "The dollar a day dress" - a symbol
of how the world trade system harms the poor. Steve Bradshaw travelled
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Banking with Hitler - Timewatch, BBC 23 January 2005 The US Secretary of the
Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, began investigating Nazi finances 60 years
ago and found Allied banks, including many British and American high
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Breaking the Bank - Independent Media Center 25 December 2004 An account of the April 2000 protests against the IMF and World Bank. Looks into the issues behind the protests such as IMF/World Bank policies and international militarism, ecologically devastating development projects, food production and poverty within the First World stream adobe flash player
The Carlyle Connection - Shuchen Tan, VPRO Backlight 25 April 2004 A revealing documentary about the international world of private equity banking stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B55RozuF0WM
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