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Double Take (2009) Director: Johan Grimonprez With: Ron Burrage, Mark Perry Not quite a documentary, not quite a work of fiction.  More like a meditation on the Cold War as seen through a fictional version of Alfred Hitchcock, his work in movies (especially The Birds) and... Read more

  [For the 21 May 12 Old Mole, posted 5/20/2012] We all know money in politics is a problem.  As Marx noted, "The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie." One of the strongest links between capital and th... Read more

*****************************************************************************8 Friday June 3rd,  2011   *SKATALITES*                                  DANTE'S  PORTLAND Thursday June 9th         *DANNY I & ABJA*                 TED'S (formerly Berbati's Pan) PORTLAND Fri,... Read more

Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon uses archival materials, documentary footage and interviews with community members, activists and organizers to uncover Portland’s unique history of policing and race relations, emphasizing its rich history o... Read more

A briefer audio version of this was broadcast on the Old Mole Variety Hour January 18, 2010. The Well-read Red has been reading up on Haiti. As many in the progressive press have noted, last week's earthquake was a natural disaster made much more disastrous by the poli... Read more

  Tuesday, January 15, 2008 BLOWBACK FOLLIES: INTERVIEW OF ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKINational Security Adviser in the Carter AdministrationQ: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs   ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to a... Read more

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