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For the past 20 years, renowned filmmaker, author and activist Michael Moore has been one of the most politically active, provocative and successful documentary filmmakers in the business.
Moore visited the Democracy Now studio last night for their special live Election Night broadcast to discuss the midterm election results, the Tea Party movement, and the future of the Democratic and Republican parties.
Anastasia Churkina of Russia Today interviews Tom Engelhardt, author of the book American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's about the extent of America's military presence throughout the world.
Engelhardt is also founder of the blog TomDispatch, which tries to make sense of the post 9/11 world and is described as "a regular antidote to the mainstream media."
According to Engelhardt, the United States of America (US) has more or less set up bases of varying sizes all over...
Brazilians have voted in Dilma Rousseff of the Worker's Party as the country's next president. She takes over from wildly popular outgoing president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has an approval rating of 83%. Rousseff, who was Lula's chief of staff, says she intends continuing Lula's legacy by carrying on with nearly all of his programmes.
Rousseff officially takes up her post as president of the country on 1 January 2011.
Rousseff defeated Jose Serra of the Social Democratic Party to...
Almost two thirds of world nations suffer from significant levels of corruption. Transparency International (TI) released a new corruption index on Tuesday.
Lack of transparency, accountability and good governance are behind record levels of global corruption, says the TI report.
This year, TI also mentions the global financial crisis and climate change as phenomena that have fueled corruption in some countries.
For example, for the first time in the 15-year history of the league table,...
The online whistleblower WikiLeaks has released some 390,000 classified US documents on the Iraq war - the largest intelligence leak in US history and the greatest internal account of any war on public record. The disclosure provides a trove of new evidence on the violence, torture and suffering that has befallen Iraq since the 2003 US invasion. Despite US government claims to the contrary, the war logs show the Pentagon kept tallies of civilian deaths in Iraq. The group Iraq Body Count...
Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources, and author of a range of books on the subject.
In this hugely entertaining and funny talk about changing paradigms in education, Robinson argues that we need a revolution in education.
The great challenge for education is the tyranny of common sense.
Many of our ideas have been formed not to meet the circumstances of this century, but to meet the...
