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Recommended References

US Truth Emergency Refernces: Books
US Truth Emergency Refernces: Films
US Truth Emergency Refernces: Online

FOLLOWING THE MONEY TO AND FROM WAR


Why We Fight

By filmmaker Eugene (The Trials of Henry Kissinger) Jarecki. Featuring John McCain, Gore Vidal, Richard Perle and others, Why We Fight explores a half-century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War, revealing how, as Eisenhower warned, political and corporate interests have become alarmingly entangled in the business of war.

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Iraq for Sale

By Robert Greenwald. The story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war. Takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of war and reconstruction profiteering in Iraq. Iraq for Sale uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq (Blackwater, Halliburton/KBR, CACI and Titan) and the decision makers who allow them to do so.

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No End in Sight

By Charles Ferguson. NY Times: “Offers an emphatic, well-supported answer to a question that has already begun to be mooted on television talk shows and in journals of opinion: Who lost Iraq? On Mr. Ferguson’s short list are Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and L. Paul Bremer III.” LA Times: “As lucid as it is level-headed, the film has a clear thematic focus — what went wrong in Iraq — and it identifies the catastrophic turning points with steely precision and a wealth of context. The result, narrated in a grave monotone by Campbell Scott, is a catalog of horrors so absurd and relentless it verges on farce, or Greek tragedy.” The question never asked, however, is whether all these uniformly disastrous decisions did not admirably serve another purpose: ensuring that Iraq would always need our occupation and the enraged Muslim world would birth the perpetual enemy the militant corporatists needed to justify endless war.

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MEDIA MALFUNCTION


Orwell Rolls in his Grave

Orwell Rolls in his Grave By Robert Kane Pappas. “A marvel of passionate succinctness, this documentary critically examines the Fourth Estate, once the bastion of American democracy and asks, “Could a media system, controlled by a few global corporations with the ability to overwhelm all competing voices, be able to turn lies into truth?…”

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Outfoxed

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.

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Press for Truth

Out of the grieving thousands left behind on September 11th, a small group of activist families emerged to demand answers. In 9/11 Press For Truth, six of them (including three of the famous “Jersey Girls”) tell for the first time the powerful story of how they took on the powers in Washington—and won!—compelling an investigation, only to subsequently watch the 9/11 Commission fail in answering most of their questions.

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“We felt the country was at risk from terrorists and from incompetence…and maybe worse.”

— Lorie Van Auken, September 11th Widow

Coverup: Behind the Iran-Contra Affair

Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair is the third feature-length documentary produced by the Empowerment Project.
The shadow government of assassins, arms dealers, drug smugglers, former CIA operatives and top US military personnel who were running foreign policy unaccountable to the public, revealing the Reagan/Bush administration’s plan to use FEMA to institute martial law and ultimately suspend the Constitution. Strikingly relevant to current events.


Coverup: Behind the Iran-Contra Affair
The famously unreported back stories and whitewash of the Iran-Contra scandal


ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION


Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections

Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections One of the finest and most uplifting (yes, uplifting) Election Integrity documentaries to date by Nashville filmmaker David Earnhardt. The film features segments on and original interviews with citizen heroes of all sorts, including election whistleblowers Stephen Heller and Clint Curtis, Election Reformer champions such as the heroic Emery County, Utah, (and now former) Registrar of Voters, Bruce Funk, Rep. John Conyers, and many many more of the patriots taking action in the EI movement.

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INSPIRING PRECEDENTS


Bringing Down a Dictator

Bringing Down a Dictator documents the spectacular defeat of Slobodan Milosevic in October, 2000, not by force of arms, as many had predicted, but by an ingenious nonviolent strategy of honest elections and massive civil disobedience. Milosevic was strengthened by patriotic fervor when NATO bombed Yugoslavia in early 1999, but a few months later, a student movement named Otpor! (“Resistance” in Serbian) launched a surprising offensive. Their weapons were rock concerts and ridicule, the internet and email, spray-painted slogans and a willingness to be arrested. Otpor students became the shock troops in an army of human rights, pro-democracy, anti-war, women’s groups, and opposition political parties. Their slogan: “He’s Finished!”

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