Niall Ferguson's The Accent of Money: Download the MP4's or watch online

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Each part runs approx 48 minutes.

If you want to get a primer on his work click here to check out the Colbert Report episode where Ferguson was a guest.

Amazon.com:
In THE ASCENT OF MONEY, Ferguson whose series War of the World garnered critical attention last summer traces the evolution of money and demonstrates that financial history is the essential back-story behind all history. Everyone needs to understand the complex history of money and our relationship to it, he says. By learning how societies have continually created and survived financial crises, we can find solid solutions to today s worldwide economic emergency. As he traverses historic financial hot spots around the world, Ferguson illuminates fundamental economic concepts and speaks with leading experts in the financial world.

BBC Doc: Super Rich: The Greed Game: Download in MP4 and watch online

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Runs approx 58 minutes

Google Video: 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

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.

BBC doc: Daylight Robbery: Was 23 billion stolen in the Iraq war?

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From BBC's Panorama investigative reports series. Runs approx 60 minutes

Google Video: Jane Corbin investigates claims that as much as $23bn may have been lost, stolen or not properly accounted for in Iraq. Now more than 70 whistleblower cases threaten to reveal the scandals behind billions of dollars worth of waste, theft and corruption during the war. The US justice department has imposed gagging orders which prevent the real scale of the problem emerging.

Neil Gaiman for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

This just in from Neil Gaiman from the 2008 NY Comic Con

John Cleese SDP/Liberal Alliance political broadcast 1987

Youtube: John Cleese does a party political broadcast on the subject of extremism for the British centre-ist party (or parties), the SDP/Liberal Alliance. A very convincing and funny piece of propaganda it is, makes you want to vote for them. Just a shame you'll never get the chance, The Alliance got annihalated in the '87 election and had split up and disbanded within a year. Still, it's not all tears, A Fish Called Wanda was soon to do great box.

Broadcast on April Fools Day 1987

Runs approx 10 minutes

Robert Reich: On the hyper capitalist threat to democracy

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Or click here to play, right click to download in MP4, to watch direct from TVO.org

Both run approx 30 minutes

TVO.org:

Supercapitalism: Robert Reich on how the unending quest for more power and profits is threatening our democracy.

Robert Reich is professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He is the author of Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life.

The Agenda with Steve Paikin is one of Canada's best news and current events programs that looks at the issues of our time from a more academic approach than the usual.

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.

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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.

The View From Abroad: Is America Broken?

Runs: 83 minutes

UC Berkley: John Micklethwait, the newly appointed Editor of The Economist, talks with Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism about the direction he is taking the magazine, and about America's role in the world.

Presented by: The Graduate School of Journalism, The Economist, Haas School of Business, Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley, and the World Affairs Council. Credits: Producer:UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

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

John Waters on free speech

Aclu: The American Civil Liberties Union, American University Washington College of Law and American University Law Review have joined together to host a two-day symposium titled Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post-9/11 America. This clip runs 12 minutes.

Canada's premier abortionist speaks out on a womans right to choose

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Runs 8:15

CBC.ca: Throughout his life, Henry Morgentaler has been shrouded in controversy.

Morgentaler was born in Poland in 1923, he lived through Auschwitz, and survived the Holocaust. He came to Montreal, Canada at the end of World War II.

As a 'Humanist leader' he promoted the idea that people had a right to control their own sexuality and reproduction, without interference by the state.

Throughout his career he has faced several trials and was acquitted each time by a jury.

Morgentaler now operates six clinics in Canada providing care for women in need of abortions and contraceptive services.

Movie: Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism

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Google Video: 'Outfoxed' examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know.

The film explores Murdoch's burgeoning kingdom and the impact on society when a broad swath of media is controlled by one person.

Media experts, including Jeff Cohen (FAIR) Bob McChesney (Free Press), Chellie Pingree (Common Cause), Jeff Chester (Center for Digital Democracy) and David Brock (Media Matters) provide context and guidance for the story of Fox News and its effect on society.

This documentary also reveals the secrets of Former Fox news producers, reporters, bookers and writers who expose what it's like to work for Fox News. These former Fox employees talk about how they were forced to push a "right-wing" point of view or risk their jobs. Some have even chosen to remain anonymous in order to protect their current livelihoods. As one employee said "There's no sense of integrity as far as having a line that can't be crossed."

Holyland Comics

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Runs: 7:30 minutes

Arab and Jewish comics yuk it up together

36 minutes with George Carlin

WNYC: Veteran comic George Carlin looks at the humor ... Veteran comic George Carlin looks at the humor in today's politics and divorcing himself from the human race in an interview with WNYC's Brian Lehrer.



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and check out a couple minutes of the interview in video format (why not do the whole thing WNYC?) below:

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

Movie: The Trial of Tony Blair

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Runs: 72 minutes

(Naked Gord note: I love this film. It's got a subversive sense of humour to it which is remarkable since it's covering such a macabre subject so well. The mix of rip roaring comedy and stomach turning drama isn't like anything I've seen since the days of The Larry Sanders Show).

The Trial of Tony Blair is a satirical fictional documentary, based around the notion that British Prime Minister, Tony Blair is to face charges of war crimes by an international tribunal, following his departure from 10 Downing Street. Directed by Simon Cellan-Jones, it was first aired on More4 on 15 January 2007 and repeated on 5 March 2007 and during Blair's last week of leadership on 23 June 2007.

The programme is set in 2010 and stars Robert Lindsay as Tony Blair, Phoebe Nicholls as Cherie Blair, Peter Mullan as Gordon Brown and Alexander Armstrong as David Cameron

Liberals fighting for the environment with the UN

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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Runs 6:10 minutes

Former Canadian Liberal Prime Minister speaks to the CBC on the United Nation's new initiative to protect the the environment from the conservatives.

Blaired Vision: Watch online or download in MP4

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A humorous look at Tony Blair's time as prime minister; featuring mock scenarios.
Runs 46 minutes