Programs with the subject 'Iraq'

• A Conversation: Howard Zinn and Woodly Harrelson
  Famed people's historian Howard Zinn died at the end of January 2010. A rigorous scholar, tireless advocate for economic and social justice, and a man of great good humor and generosity, he will be greatly missed. This delightful and engaging conversation with actor Woody Harrelson reveals Howard's rigorous scholarship and profound, gentle wisdom.
• Anchors Away!
  Pilot for a Deep Dish TV news show that skewers the broadcast media. Art Jones and Tom Poole of Not Channel Zero present a different way of making news. Ellen Spiro, a camcorder commando recruits newsmakers who care.
• Bring the Troops Home!
  Bring the Troops Home! looks at grassroots organizing and resistance. Includes Jesus Papoletto Melendez, Puerto Rican poet; Grace Paley, author; Joseph Lowery, Southern Christian Leadership Conference and many war resisters.
• Bush Crimes Commission
  Bush Crimes Commission
• Conversations in Tehran
  A film by Persheng Vaziri Will the United States attack Iran? This film explores the views of diverse Iranians in Tehran.
• Dance of Death
  The American military in Iraq: lambs led to slaughter or centurions for the Empire? Either way, U.S. troops are locked in a deadly interaction with the people of Iraq. This program is also available with Spanish subtitles.
• Fallujah
  In November 2004 the United States aerial and artillery bombing destroyed Fallujah, the Iraqi City of Mosques. In 1968 the U.S. destroyed the Vietnamese city of Ben Tre. A U.S. major told CNN reporter Peter Arnett: "It became necessary to destroy the city in order to save it."
• Forging Ties for Peace
  The Dilemmas facing the Iraqi people due to the currently imposed sanctions.
• Getting Out of the Sand Trap
  Looks at US foreign policy in a post-cold war world. Includes Daniel Ellsberg, David Morrison, Edward Said, Michael Ratner and Dessima Williams.
• Global Dissent
  Reactions to the first Gulf War from across the globe.
• Guantanamo, Int'l Law and the War on Terror
  Barbara Olshansky is an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights. This piece is drawn from her speech at the World Tribunal on Iraq, which took place from June 23-25, 2005 in Istanbul, Turkey. She covers the range of legal and political measures employed by the U.S. government in the "global war on terror" both within the United States and outside. Including a discussion of anti-immigrant measures, enemy combatant status, detentions around the world, and the treatment of detainees.
• Human Security and International Law
  Professor Chinkin addresses "state centered security" upon which the United Nations, as an assembly of states, bases much of its legal framework often contrasts sharply with the human right to individual and community security, which international law addresses, but which is more often honored in the breach.
• Iraq: On Losing a Despotic War
  The U.S. becomes more vicious and brutal as it struggles to maintain its global economic and political dominance by military force.
• Iraqi Refugees - Ikhlass Story
  The interview focuses on one Iraqi survivor and her two young daughters. Ihklass recounts the tragic story that detrmined her fate as a refugee, and she speaks out against American occupiers who destroyed her world. This surviving small family continues to seek resettlement in a third country. Please make donations for this project to: IRAQI STUDENT PROJECT and COLLATERAL REPAIR PROJECT
• Iraqi Women Speak Out
  In March 2006, Code Pink invited eight Iraqi women to the U.S. to speak about their experiences under U.S. invasion and occupation. Two of the women had their entire families killed by U.S. troops. These two women were denied visas on the grounds they did not have sufficient family to guarantee they would return to Iraq.
• Lines in the Sand
  Gulf Crisis TV Project: made in collaboration with Paper Tiger. This program reviews the history of colonialism and intervention in the Middle East.
• Manufacturing the Enemy
  Gulf Crisis TV Project: made in collaboration with Paper Tiger. Manufacturing the Enemy includes interviews with Arab Americans victimized by violence and racism during and after the first Gulf War. Their experiences are compared with those of Japanese Americans during and after the Second World War.
• Privatization of War
  Niloufer Bhagwat describes the economic interests behind the U.S. war on Iraq and the complicity of corporations and the corporate economic system. Testimony from the World Tribunal on Iraq, final session, Istanbul Turkey 2005
• Radiation Contamination In Iraq
  Souad Naji Al-Azzawi, an environmental engineer and Dr. Thomas Fasy MD testify at the 16th and final session of the World Tribunal on Iraq, Istanbul Turkey, June 2005. Witnesses from around the world examined the war crimes and violations of international law committed by the United States and allies during the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
• The Art of Resistance
  Picasso responded to the fascist takeover of Spain in the 1930s with his famous painting Guernica. Artists today are responding the the U.S. occupation of Iraq and domestic repression with music, murals, street performance, comedy, cartoon animations and giant puppets. This program is also available with Spanish subtitles.
• The Economy of Militarization
  Samir Amin examines the dynamic reconfiguration of imperial exploitation in the 21st century.
• War Crimes and Iraq
  In June 2005 at the 16th and final session of the World Tribunal on Iraq held in Istanbul, Turkey, Dahr Jamail presented a meticulous and systematic case that the United States is guilty of war crimes in Iraq.
• War on the Homefront
  An accelerated decline of the US economy, labor, housing and healthcare lie in the wake of the first Gulf War.Gulf Crisis TV Project: made in collaboration with Paper Tiger Part 10 of the 10-part "Gulf Crisis TV Project" series. The billions of dollars spent on mass destruction in the war is paralleled to the decline of the US economy, budget cuts in labor, healthcare, housing and education. It examines the military treatment of public lands within the US, the ecological devastation that occurs in the production of weapons and the grassroots movements efforts to change this nation's priorities. An accelerated decline of the US economy, labor, housing and healthcare lie in the wake of the first Gulf War.
• War, Oil and Power
  Part 1 of the 10-Part "Gulf Crisis TV Project" Series. "War, Oil and Power" investigates the military and energy industries and explores the interlocking interests between the two. Features Alexandra Allen (Greenpeace), Joe Stork (Middle East and North Africa Division of Human Rights Watch), Abbas Al-Nasravi (emeritus professor of economics at the University of Vermont), Dessima Williams (former Ambassador to Grenada), Catherine Tompa (Daughters of Mother Jones) and economist Jon Naar.
• Winter Soldier - Iraq and Afghanistan
  A remarkable one-hour DVD of selected testimony from the Winter Solder - Iraq and Afghanistan Eyewitness Testimonies held in March 2008.
• World Tribunal On Iraq - The Final Session
  The WTI sessions were held in 16 countries around the world. Deep Dish TV traveled to Istanbul, Turkey in June 2005 to broadcast the final session live to the world. The resulting two one-hour programs form a beautifully edited account of the Tribunal held in the ancient Topkapi Palace of the Ottoman Empire to judge the war crimes of the U.S. Empire. This three-disc set also includes the New York session, and interviews of tribunal participants by David Barsamian.
• World Tribunal on Iraq-New York Session
  The whole world is watching, and the whole world is judging as well. Testimony from the New York Tribunal on Iraq, part of a worldwide series of hearings that concluded in Istanbul, Turkey, in June 2005.