Mark Twain's The War Prayer MP3 download

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Runs approx 20 minutes




Archive.org: Mark Twain wrote The War Prayer in 1904. Since then, every gerneration facing war has found it as fresh and timely as when it was written. This radio drama version was produced and directed by W.D. Sherman Olson and stars Abbie Williams and folk singer/song writer Billy Krause.

Groucho Marx on his films and opposing war at Cannes circa 1972 + Alfred Hitchcock

It's a bevy of a track we've got here folks with the great Groucho Marx commenting on how the later generations appreciate his anti-establishment work throughout his career and openly criticizing the Vietnam war at a press conference in France.

The Groucho portion runs approx 90 seconds with a nice capper of the wonderful Alfred Hitchcock on a deck of a ship speaking french (so I can't tell you what the hell he's saying lol).

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Niall Ferguson - Selling Peace Short

Wikipedia: Niall Ferguson specializes in financial and economic history as well as the history of empire. He is a professor of History at Harvard University and a professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Google Video: Part one of the HarperCollins History lecture, in conjunction with CELL. Niall Ferguson explains how a risk-assessment approach to diplomacy might have changed the course of the Second World War. Runs approx 28 minutes

Sammy Davis Jr. speaks with Vietnam war deserters

Sammy Davis Jr. while paying a visit to Toronto stops by the headquarters of The Canadian broadcasting Corporation and meets with Vietnam war deserters living in Canada to discuss their mutual opposition to the war.

Click here to play in streaming video direct from The Canadian Broadcasting Corportion

Run approx 10 minutes. From 1968

Peter Sellers in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove: Watch online

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and click here to check out the two disc special edition DVD or click here to check out the digital download over at Amazon.com

Richard Belzer challenges you to act on gun violence

14 minutes with "Chicago 10" director Brett Morgen

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wnyc.org: Director Brett Morgen mixes animation, archival footage, and current music in his new documentary, "Chicago 10," which focuses on the trial of the leaders of the 1968 protests during the Democratic convention in Chicago.

FYI from Naked Gord: Simpsons fans take note since Hank Azara is part of the voice cast along with a bevy other stars including Nick Nolte (wow..it's been years since he's been in anything good aside from his mugshot photo)

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David Barsamian: Targeting Iran: Interviews with Chomsky

Runs: 115 minutes

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Google Video:
David Barsamian presents his new book, Targeting Iran: with Noam Chomsky, Ervand Abrahamian & Nahid Mozaffari

Iran and the United States are on a collision course. David Barsamian presents the perspectives of three experts on Iran and U.S. foreign policy who discuss the 1953 CIA coup and the rise of the Islamic regime; Iran's internal dynamics and competing forces; relations with Iraq and Afghanistan; and the consequences of U.S. policy

Story of a handgun: Firestar .45

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Runs approx 45 minutes

The story of a legal handgun that traveled from the U.S. to Canada, where it's illegal, and then was used to kill a six year old child. A full length doc of an event that happens often in Canada and a disturbing amount in the United States.

CBC.ca: The story of two journeys--a .45 calibre handgun from Jonesboro, Georgia and a young boy from Jamaica--and how their fates collide tragically in a home in suburban Toronto, is the subject of the fifth estate's season premiere. The Firestar .45 that killed six-year-old Michael James is just one of the illegal handguns that flood across the U.S. border and end up in Canadian cities where they become weapons of mayhem and murder.

Bob McKeown takes us from the gun dealer to the violent streets of American cities, through the halls of power in Washington and into the heart of America's gun industry, a National Rifle Association convention, and illuminates a story that is filling today's headlines.

Middle East Peace: Missed Opportunities?

From TVO, Canada's largest educational public broadcaster, comes a provocative debate on if we've let peace slip through our fingers for the Middle East moderated by one of Canada's most respected journalists Steve Paikin.

Click here to play, right click to download in MP3, direct from TVO.org
Runs approx 60 minutes

TVO.org: 90 years ago: the Balfour Declaration. 60 years ago: Resolution 181. 40 years ago: the Six Day War. What if these anniversaries were markers of optimism? What if Jew and Arab had grasped opportunities ... instead of wasting them? What if history had unfolded differently?

Guests

Amir Gissin is the consul general of Israel in Toronto. Most recently, Mr. Gissin served as director of the Public Affairs Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he coordinated public relations policy and activities in Israeli missions worldwide. For three years, he headed Israel’s branding project.

Hanadi Loubani is a producer with therealnews.com. She also has been involved with Kairos, a social-justice advocacy organization, as their program coordinator for Middle East Partnerships.

Derek Penslar is director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Toronto. His areas of expertise include Jewish political, economic and cultural life in modern Europe, the history of the Zionist movement, and the state of Israel.

Samah Sabawi is the executive director of the National Council on Canada-Arab Relations.

Janice Stein is TVO's international affairs analyst, the Belzberg professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto.

Elia Zureik is professor emeritus of Sociology at Queen's University. He is the author of The Palestinians in Israel: A Study of Internal Colonialism (1979) and Palestinian Refugees and the Peace Process (1996). Professor Zureik has also provided expert testimony on the Middle East to United Nations agencies, the Canadian Senate, and several other organizations.

George Soros: The Consequences of the War on Terrorism

Runs: 104 minutes

Introduced by Chancellor of UC Berkley Robert J. Birgeneau

George Soros:
Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Institute, Financier, Philanthropist, and author of The Age of Fallibility: The Consequences of the War on Terrorism

Lowell Bergman:
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for Public Service, and the Reva and David Logan Distinguished Professor of Investigative Reporting at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism

Dana Priest:
Author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Security Correspondent for The Washington Post

Mark Danner:
Author of "The Secret Way to War" and "Torture and Truth," MacArthur Fellow and Professor of Journalism, UC Berkeley

Movie: Why We Fight

Naked Gord: A scathing film. A must see.

Youtube: We Fight The BBC presents Why We Fight by Charlotte Street, a documentary on the commerce of war, and how the military industrial complex profits so much from war, that it must create wars to continue the growth of it's business.

Moshe and Munir

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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Runs: 19:43

CBC.ca: Adrienne Arsenault reports the story of an unlikely friendship between two men, one Palestinian, the other Israeli

Bill Moyers Journal - "Buying the War"

Mainstream U.S. media bought it hook line and sinker. What reason do we have to believe that things are any different today? - Michael Moore

Click here to watch the entire "Buying the War" Bill Moyer's Journal broadcast direct from PBS.org

Jewish and Muslim comedians find common ground