Slashdot reports:  "A new folksonomy website that seems to be catching on is YouTube, a service similar to Flickr, except that it is for sharing and hosting short video clips instead of photos. Like Flickr, its core functionality is implemented in Flash. Videos can be tagged, searched, discussed, etc through a social network. YouTube has developer APIs, RSS feeds, and the ability to embed videos directly into other web pages. The website was recently profiled on TechCrunch as an up-and-coming Web 2.0 application."  Of course i’ve already signed up and I must say it seems...

Iraq In The Name Of Freedom Warning Video contains images depicting the reality and horror of war and should be viewed by a mature audience. YOU MUST WATCH THIS VIDEO  Stream Video ICH article + Video

By: Greg Palast  Reporting for BBC Newsnight  03/17/05 – "BBC" – The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq’s oil before the 9/11 attacks sparking a policy battle between neo-cons and Big Oil, BBC’s Newsnight has revealed. Watch the video here Click read more to read the transcript.  Continue reading “Secret U.S. Plans For Iraq’s Oil” »

Yahoo! News  Get ready to toast your Flaming Moes to some excellent news. The Simpsons movie is off the drawing board and in preproduction. "You know what? We’ve just done the table read for The Simpsons movie, so although we’ve been promoting that we’re going to do it, now we’re actually doing it and are in production," Nancy Cartwright, who gives voice to Bart Simpson, told BBC Radio 1 this week. Cartwright, in London doing publicity for her one-woman show, My Life as a Ten-Year-Old Boy, indicated that the movie is still in the preliminary script...

Amnesty International USA urged foreign governments Wednesday to use international law to investigate Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other alleged American "architects of torture" at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and other prisons where detainees suspected of ties to terrorist groups have been interrogated. Watch the video here or read the transcript here: Continue reading “Amnesty International Wants U.S. Officials Arrested and Investigated” »

Were 5 Unarmed and Wounded Iraqi’s Murdered By U.S. Marines? The truth about the U.S. Army is revealed… Shoot the Messenger Last November when a US marine shot dead an unarmed, wounded Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque, the story created international headlines. In fact, it was the biggest scandal to hit the US military in Iraq since Abu Ghraib. What we still don’t know is what actually went on outside the frame of that now infamous image? Explosive Video Report From SBS Australia – Broadcast 04/20/05 In his first international interview, the journalist responsible for...

An interesting video that was on BBC 4 and is now availiable to watch on the ICH website: What are the forces that shape and propel American militarism? This award-winning film provides an inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine. Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Related Links: ICH [ page/video ] BBC4 [ website ]

And I thought Americans were nice!! (sarcasm) Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq? By Deborah Davies They are just some of the victims of wholesale torture taking place inside the U.S. prison system that we uncovered during a four-month investigation for BBC Channel 4 . It’s terrible to watch some of the videos and realise that you’re not only seeing torture in action but, in the most extreme cases, you are witnessing young men dying....