December 10th Edition of SJTV

On the December 10th Edition of Social Justice Television we will be featuring distinguished English Professor Bell Hooks as she deconstructs popular culture and examines how it consciously manipulates, perpetuates and reinforces old stereotypes on race and gender to serve what she calls "The White Supremacist, Capitalist, Patriarchy".

To read more about Bell Hooks go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks

She has published more than 30 books, ranging in topics from black men, patriarchy and masculinity to self-help, engaged pedagogy to personal memoirs, and sexuality (in regards to feminism and politics of aesthetic/visual culture). A prevalent theme in her most recent writing is the community and communion, the ability of loving communities to overcome race, class, and gender. In three conventional books and four children's books, she demonstrates that communication and literacy (the ability to read, write, and think critically) are the quintessential to developing healthy communities and relationships that are not marred by race, class, or gender inequalities.

Bell Hooks - Cultural Criticism & Transformation

Also included in this week' show is a message on "Personal Responsibility" from author Derrick Jensen. http://www.derrickjensen.org/

December 3rd Edition of SJTV

On This Week's Edition of Social Justice Television we'll be featuring videos exploring Human Slavery's Past.

The video is an Interview and Tour with Second Generation Storyteller, Delbert Richardson who created a powerful, moving and educational exhibit entitled 'The American History Exhibit: Unspoken Truths". The Exhibit travels from location to location and tells the story of African Americans as they journeyed from Mother Africa through Slavery in the United States, Jim Crow and ending in Still We Rise which features African American Inventors and achievements.
Below is Short version of the Video Tour.



We also recommend you visit the links to the following videos entitled "Slavery 101", from Free The Slaves.net
This 12 minute video is a powerful, succinct introduction to modern day slavery. Slaves from around the world share their stories and ultimately inspire us to end slavery. There are an estimated 27 million slaves worldwide.

Free The Slaves is an International Non-Profit whose stated mission and goal is to end all forms of Human Slavery. You can Access their website and videos directly by clicking on the links above and below.

http://www.freetheslaves.net/films/all
We recommended the following videos:

Slavery 101 ( Described above in the intro)

The Slient Revolution
This is the story of people held in slavery in the stone quarries of northern India, who risk everything to take back their lives.

One Man's Mission
Business owner, Stephen Trinkaus, is on a mission - end slavery by utilizing his organic food store, Terra Organica, and to make his hometown, Bellingham, WA a slave-free city.

Dreams Die Hard
One of them wanted to earn money so she could treat her parents like a king and queen, two of them were enticed by the promise of a good education, another one wanted to buy medicine for his sick son–none of them ever dreamed they would become slaves in the United States. But that is what happened.

http://www.youtube.com/user/freetheslaves

In Their Own Words: links to unedited transcripts of people who were freed from slavery.
http://www.freetheslaves.net/Page.aspx?pid=386


Staff from APPLE, Free the Slaves' partner in Ghana, describes the situation of this 5-year-old girl's enslavement in the Lake Volta region.


Ending Slavery What You Can Do


Slavery and Human Trafficking: What You Need to Know

The Truth About Thanksgiving

On the Thanksgiving Edition of Social Justice Television we'll be featuring The Native American Perspective on Thanksgiving and how some Tribes view it as a day to mourn the millions of native lives lost to what can only be described as a "genocide" by white settlers who purposely brought plague and disease to the native population who first inhabited what is now the United States of America.

Also featured in this week's Broadcast are "Bad Seed: The Truth About our Food". How Much genetically modified food will you eat this Thanksgiving?

Excerpt from 1-hr documentary NANI: A NATIVE NEW ENGLAND STORY (1998) produced by Dr. Jack Dempsey---featuring here NANEPASHEMET, late Wampanoag Historian on why Native Americans made treaties with and helped the Pilgrims of Plymoth Plantation









Kids from Swinomish, Lummi and Muckleshoot talk about Thanksgiving.





AMERICAN INDIANS ARE PEOPLE, NOT MASCOT
A video from Mumia Abu- Jamal and Prison Radio





"Bad Seed: The Truth About our Food"

This documentary exposes a vast conspiracy to contaminate and control the world's food supply through genetic engineering of food crops. Leading scientists and activists present the facts that you need to know about genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The methods used to genetically engineer plants are imprecise and extremely dangerous. Eighty percent of food sold in North America already has ingredients made of GMOs that have not been adequately tested for safety. This program presents all the facts about this alarming controversy and features the most credible bio tech / agriculture authorities in the world today. Now on DVD, Catalog #K596 and #K652. Visit us online: http://www.UFOTV.com




AdBusters Buy Nothing Day
A short video by Adbusters making an appeal for us to give our consumerism a rest.

April 24th Edition of SJTV

On this week's edition of Social Justice Television we'll be featuring a documentary by Earth Justice .org named "Islands at Risk: Genetic Engineering in Hawai'i". This video documents how Hawaii was designated a national and international a "sacrifice area" for large Biotech companies like Monsanto where they can freely experiment with untested Genetically Modified Plants (GMOs) putting in danger the local farming economy, due to cross contamination which has already occurred, and the health of people who unknowingly eat food pollinated by genetically modified plants and organisms.

Local activists and Scientists are just starting to correlate increases in cancer, diabetes and other health problems due to consumption of GMO food. This excellent documentary was made in 2006 by Na Maka o ka Aina for Earthjustice, the non-profit public interest law firm, and is re-presented with permission.

"Islands at Risk: Genetic Engineering in Hawai'i"



Also on SJTV this week's Collateral News Episode 40- "A Bug's Life" is about remote controlled bugs, implanted micro-cameras and the Pentagon's latest attempt to spy on terrorists ... wait a few years and this new technology called 'Hybrid Insect Mems' or 'Hi-Mems' will be in the hands of domestic law enforcement flying around your living room.

Collateral is an independent weekly newsshow produced in Philadelphia, PA by Woodshop Films. The show focuses on stories that get little or no news coverage, and/or offers perspectives not typically found in the corporate media.

Collateral is produced by Marc Brodzik, Stephen Gardner, Michael Hilger, Bryan Sacks and Jeff Toner. Collateral does not belong to a media organization and is funded entirely by its producers. If you find the show worthy, please pass it on.

You can contact us at: collateralinfo@gmail.com

Other video shorts included on this week's shjow are "End of The World Song": A short movie that was included on the culture jammer's dvd released by Adbusters Media Foundation.

It features the song 'mere your pathetique light' by Mono and has the poetry of Czeslaw Maslow. The imagery is unsourced.

A simple short film all about the end of the world and how it is happening right now around us, but we don't really realise that it is because we are too busy consumed in the things that don't actually matter in the long run. The imagery and the words really hit the spot as they attempt to display the wonderful things in life that we seem to take for granted or that we have lost.

"End of The World Song"



Also Return of the Freeway Blogger

Social Justice Television is now on YOUTUBE!

SJTV now has a You Tube page that you can visit to view archives of some of our previous shows. http://www.youtube.com/user/socialjusticetv

SJTV Producer and Creator Marlin Hathaway had two conversations in 2005 with the Reverend Rich Lang of Trinity United Methodist Church www.tumseattle.org on the subject of Christian Fascism. Rev. Lang has written a booklet and is currently working on a book on the Rise of Christian Fascism. While this show is from 2005 there is a lot of relevant and useful information on the subject.

We split the show into two parts and you can view both from the embedded viewer or you can visit our YOUTUBE site and check out it and other shows as we update both sites.

http://www.youtube.com/user/socialjusticetv

Conversations on The Rise of Christian Fascism Part One:



Conversations on The Rise of Christian Fascism Part One Continued:




Other good resources on the subject are "With God on Their Side" by Ester Kaplan which documents the entry of Christian Fundamentalism into the modern era of politics.

Lawrence Britts The 14 Characteristics of Fascism
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html

Conversations on The Rise of Christian Fascism Part Two:

Conversations on The Rise of Christian Fascism Part Two Continued:

Conversations on The Rise of Christian Fascism Part Two Final:

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January 24 th Edition of SJTV

On this week's edition of Social Justice Television we will focus on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King and play tributes to him and speeches he made in their entirety. At a recent community gathering where various speeches of Dr. King were played I realized that I have never heard an entire speech from Dr. King anywhere in the media and I have only heard certain select snippets of his famous "I have a dream" speech. I started thinking about why this is and my answer was in the words of the speeches I never heard.

Dr. King said many radical and revolutionary things that most us have never heard. Right before he was assassinated by rogue elements of the U.S. Government, Dr king. made a speech telling why he was against the Vietnam War. Many people believe that it was this opposition to the war and the potential unification of the anti-war and civil rights movements, with Dr.King leading the way, that the U.S Government and those in control of it feared most and therefore decided to take his life by murdering him.

The words he spoke against the Vietnam War could just as easily be applied to the current Iraq War as many of the same conditions exist today. I have to question how far have we really come but I refuse to give in to despair and negative thinking because those are unproductive pursuits and luxuries we cannot afford. We must be the generation who rises to the challenge with eyes and hearts wide open and bring forth into existence the promised land that Dr Martin Luther King foretold.

Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam"




Martin Luther King "I have a dream" in it's entirety...

January 17th Edition of SJTV

This week's Edition of Social Justice is all about Election Fraud Past and Present. We'll be seeing video clips from BlackBoxVoting.org and excerpts from the HBO Docmentary "Hacking Democracy
If you thought that problems from the 2000 elections were a thing of the past think again. If you wan your vote to be counted in 2008 you are going to have to demand it and fight for your vote.



DEMANDING AN END TO TORTURE
Also Declare It! from World Can't Wait.org. Declare yourself against torture and demand the shut down of U.S. Military Concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay Cuba.

January 10th Edition of SJTV

In a remarkable example of arrogance and disregard for the democratic process in media, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin decided to move forward changing existing rules which banned cross ownership 0f media outlets. Despite massive public outcry against this change and requests from a a congressional committee to delay the decision until the matter can be studied further Martin officially changed the rules on December 18th 2007.

What this means for you and me is that one of a few large companies can now own own newspapers, radio, tv and other media outlets in any given region and across the country thereby controlling ALL the news and information you and I have access to.

On the January 10th edition of Social Justice Television we will view two videos the first of which is a video how to guide from www.freepress.net on organizing Media Reform and why it's important. Check out their website for lots of good info and ways you can become active.

The Second video is a report from Bill Moyers Journal and gives a good account of what has occurred on this issues to date.



Two other good online resources to learn more about media reform are

http://www.stopbigmedia.com

What's So Bad about Big Media?

• Big Media fail local communities. Big Media companies get a sweet deal from the government. They get to use the public airwaves � for free � to make billions in profits. In exchange for this government handout, broadcasters are supposed to serve the public by offering quality programs that meet the needs of local communities. Instead, Big Media companies gut local newsrooms and ignore local issues.

• Big Media ignore diversity. Big Media have limited ownership opportunities for women and people of color, pushing them off the public airwaves and stifling vital voices. Coverage of issues that matter to people of color, women, the middle and working class, and rural communities has disappeared. The result? Media that fail to represent our nation's diversity.

• Big Media are bad for democracy. Democracy can't exist without an informed public. We rely on unbiased news from independent sources to stay informed and to hold our government accountable. But media consolidation means fewer sources of news, opinion and information. Instead of hard-hitting critical journalism, Big Media give us a junk diet of celebrity gossip and sensationalism.

http://www.reclaimthemedia.org/

Washington State pushes ahead to reverse FCC decision

Washington State Congressmen Jay Inslee and Dave Reichert have introduced legislation that will counteract the FCC's decision to allow further consolidation of media companies. The Media Ownership Act would retroactively prevent the FCC’s rushed decision from becoming law by requiring more time for public comment. In the Senate, Senator Maria Cantwell is cosponsoring a similar bill.

Take action to urge your elected officials to reverse the FCC!

» read more

November 1st Edition of SJTV

On this weeks edition of Social Justice TV we will be featuring the Oct 27th , 2007 Protest. Over 100,000 people protested nationwide demanding to END THE WAR NOW!

If you missed the Seattle protest you can see some of what happened that day.
We also have some very moving testimony from Iraq Vets Against The War Marine Corporal Grant Collins and an interview with Iraq Army Vet Evan Knappenberger.

Also on tonight's show we have Poets Against The War featuring a poetry reading at Seattle's Radical Women's New Freeway Hall featuring local Poet and Author Georgia McDade and Julene Tripp Weaver. Last but not least we will be showing a video Poem by Poet Taalam Acey called "True Lies".

Welcome to the New Season of Social Justice Television

Social Justice Television is back with our new broadcast season of locally produced Public Affairs. We will be bringing you a new and exciting variety of programming from the Pacific Northwest and around the World.

We started off the New Season on October 11th with Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine.The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

From Pinochet's coup in Chile to the massacre in Tienanmen Square to the collapse of the Soviet Union and September 11th, 2001 and The war on Iraq and the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. Award-winning investigative journalist Naomi Klein brings together all of these world-changing events in her new book, "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism." Klein writes, "The history of the contemporary free market was written in shocks." She argues that "Some of the most infamous human rights violations of the past thirty-five years, which have tended to be viewed as sadistic acts carried out by anti-democratic regimes, were in fact either committed with the deliberate intent of terrorizing the public or actively harnessed to prepare the ground for the introduction of radical free-market reforms."

http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/short-film




Interview with Naomi Klien
http://books.guardian.co.uk/video/2007/sep/05/naomi.klein1


We continue with this weeks October 18th Edition of SJTV first with a report from Geoffrey Millard of Truthout.org on the Tide of Growing Resistance in the Military against the War in Iraq. Truthout.org is currently having their fall Pledge drive. Please consider making a donation at their website.


We also have video from Iraq Veterans Against the War entitled "Bringing the War Home"
http://www.ivaw.org/

Wrapping things up we have a video how to guide on How to Impeach a President from the Center for Constitutional Rights.



Thanks
Michael - Producer of Social Justice Television

July 17th Edition of SJTV

SJTV Founder and Producer Marlin Hathaway is back with an in depth and personal interview with outspoken and controversial former Air America Radio Host Mike Malloy. Mike will be breaking it down and telling it like it is on a variety of topics from the Bush Crime Family to the current state of the Peace Movement. Don't miss it!

For more info on Mike Malloy check out his website http://www.mikemalloy.com/
and you can listen to him every Monday -Friday @ 8:00 p.m. on KPTK-AM 1090 AM

Mike Malloy can be heard every night at 9PM ET, on affiliates of the Nova M Radio Network! and on the internet http://www.novamradio.com/

Also on this weeks Edition of Social Justice Television we have Deek Jackson with the Fucking NEWS (FKN NEWS) http://www.circusfantasticus.com

a historical speech by Malcolm X on Black Nationalism and Public Enemy's Shut It Down.

July13th Edition of SJTV

On this weeks edition of Social Justice Television we will viewing Part Two of HipHop 101 as presented by MC, activist and philosopher KRS-ONE.

As one of hip-hop's pioneers, KRS-One has reached audiences from around the world with his beats and incredible rhymes that vividly detailed life in the ghetto. At the same time, he also sought to raise the consciousness of all who would listen. KRS-One's days as a member of Boogie Down Productions have helped to establish him as an innovator who still continues to deliver to his fans.

http://templeofhiphop.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRS-One

June 14th Edition of Social Justice Television

We begin this edition of SJTV with a video short from KillerCoke.org who are organizing a campaign against the Coca Cola Company over allegations they hired death squads to suppress Union Organizing activities in it's Columbian bottling plants in South America.

In July 2001, the United Steelworkers of America and the International Labor Rights Fund (www.laborrights.org) filed a lawsuit on behalf of SINALTRAINAL, several of its members and the estate of Isidro Gil, one of its murdered officers. The lawsuit and campaign aim to force Coca-Cola to prevent further bloodshed and to provide safe working conditions.

Coca-Cola bottlers “contracted with or otherwise directed paramilitary security forces that utilize extreme violence and murdered, tortured, unlawfully detained or otherwise silenced trade union leaders,” the lawsuit states. It also notes that Colombian troops connected with the paramilitaries have trained at the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas (SOA) at Fort Benning, Ga., where trainees were encouraged to torture and murder those who do “union organizing and recruiting;” pass out “propaganda in favor of workers;” and “sympathize with demonstrators or strikes.” This was made public when the Pentagon was forced to reveal the contents of training manuals used at the school. (For more information, see www.soaw.org, the website of SOA Watch.) The year that the lawsuit was filed, The Coca-Cola Co. made $4 billion in profits and paid its CEO, Douglas Daft, more than $105 million. Coca-Cola continues to rake in billions each year, yet the frightening conditions at the Coke plants remain unchanged. Labor unions and human rights advocates in the United States can stop these atrocities at Coca-Cola’s bottling plants.

COKE CAN'T HIDE ITS CRIMES IN COLOMBIA

Isidro Segundo Gil, an employee at a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Colombia, was killed at his workplace by paramilitary thugs. His children, now living in hiding with relatives, understand all too well why their homeland is known as "a country where union work is like carrying a tombstone on your back." Read More...

Killer Coke's Casualties

Listed below are union leaders at Coca-Cola's Colombian bottling plants who have been murdered. Hundreds of other Coke workers have been tortured, kidnapped and/or illegally detained by violent paramilitaries, often working closely with plant managements.

Date	Name	Coca-Cola Plant
1989	Avelino Achicanoy	Pasto
4/8/94	Jose Elaseasar MancoDavid	Carepa
4/20/94	Luis Enrique Giraldo Arango	Carepa
4/23/95	Luis Enrique Gomez Garado	Carepa
12/5/96	Isidro Segundo Gil	Carepa
12/26/96	Jose Librado Herrera Osorio	Carepa
6/21/2001	Oscar Dario Soto Polo	Monteria
8/31/2002	Adolfo de Jesus Munera Lopez	Baranquilla

Voting Machine Security Demo
We will also see a brief Security Demonstration from Princeton University Computer Scientists who claim they created a demonstration on vote stealing software that can be installed in under one minute. For more information go to http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting or http://engineering.princeton.edu/news/felten06




In the second half of todays show we will hear from visionary designer and architect William McDonough as he calls for us to to rethink how we make things and incorporate sustainable design into human industry http://www.mcdonough.com

“I believe we can accomplish great and profitable things within a new conceptual framework—one that values our legacy, honors diversity, and feeds ecosystems and societies . . . It is time for designs that are creative, abundant, prosperous, and intelligent from the start.”

William McDonough is a world-renowned architect and designer and winner of three U.S. presidential awards: the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development (1996), the National Design Award (2004); and the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2003). Time magazine recognized him as a "Hero for the Planet" in 1999, stating that "his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that—in demonstrable and practical ways—is changing the design of the world."

Mr. McDonough is the founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, Architecture and Community Design, an internationally recognized design firm practicing ecologically, socially, and economically intelligent architecture and planning in the U.S. and abroad. He is also the cofounder and principal, with German chemist Michael Braungart, of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC), which employs a comprehensive Cradle to Cradle design protocol to chemical benchmarking, supply-chain integration, energy and materials assessment, clean-production qualification, and sustainability issue management and optimization.

Author of Cradle to Cradle

Now in its fifth printing . . .

By William McDonough & Michael Braungart

North Point Press, 2002

March 29th Edition of SJTV

On this edition of Social Justice Television we will be exploring expression of social justice and activism through the arts with the Seattle Slam Poets who will be covering a variety of themes including War, Racism, Sexism and Sexuality, Addiction and issues of Class to name a few.

Featured in this show will be the extraordinary Poet and Spoken Word Performance Artist, Christa Bell http://www.christabellonline.com/ . Hopefully by the end of the show you will be enchanted with her own special brand of "Coochie Magic" and you'll feel inspired to invoke the primal incantation of "Coochie! Coochie! Now say it with me Coochie".

You can catch Seattle Poetry Slam Every Tuesday night at @ 7:00p.m. at TOST 516 North 36 th Street in Freemont. For more information go to http://www.poetryfestival.org/

March 15th Edition of SJTV

On this edition of Social Justice Television we travel down to the Northwest Detention Center at 1623 East J Strteet Tacoma, Washington to talk with family members of detainees who are being held at the this privately owned immigration prison. We also speak with activists who are trying to draw attention to their plight by holding vigils on the second Saturday of every month outside the prison.

In investigating this story we found out that not only is this facility owned and operated by one of the most notorious providers of corporate owned and operated privatized detention prisons but that the facility was built upon the highly toxic remains of a meat packing plant were benzene was discovered in the ground resulting in it being designated a U.S. Superfund cleanup site. We discovered a common pattern of people who end up in this facility is that they were found guilty of some petty transgression like overstaying a Visa or traffic violations which gave law enforecment a legal opening to enter their lives and incarcerate. Very few of the detainees are there because of commiting serious crimes worthy of this type of harsh treatment.

The private corporation GEO Group Inc,. http://www.thegeogroupinc.com/global.asp has a contract with the Department of Homeland Security and I.C.E ( Immigration Customs and Enforecment) to operate this detention facility on behalf of the U.S. Government. This is part of a new disturbing trend of what people are calling the new "Prison Industrial Complex", where private corporations are making profits from imprisoning citizens and non-citizens. The GEO Group has facilities world-wide including Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Here is alink to a list of their facilities http://www.thegeogroupinc.com/global.asp

The following article Home-Grown Gitmo By William Fisher at Truthout.org http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020907K.shtml
details the origins of this company and others like it and how they profit from the suffering of the detaineeds and exploit their labor to keep the cost of opoerations abnormally low resulting it profits for it's investors and shareholders. It also documnents the numerous allegations of torture, beatings, theft and sexual abuse of detainees by guards.

In the second part of today's show we go to the Port of Tacoma to witness the growing protest of the Stryker Brigades being loaded onto ships for deploymnent to Iraq as part of the Bush Administrations troop surge.

February 22nd Edition of SJTV

On today's episode of Social Justice Television we will hear Democracy Now's Amy Goodman speak about the importance of an Independent Media and other stories when she addressed the crowd at Seattle Town Hall last September 2006.

For more information about Democracy Now visit www.democracynow.org

February 15th Edition of SJTV

On this weeks Edition of Social Justice Television we will be covering the Topic of the Patriot Act and Security in post 911 Amerika.
We will start the show with a brief video clip from "Beyond the Patriot Act" a video documentary produced by the ACLU. You can get their entire series at www.aclu.tv

http://www.aclu.tv/producersclub

We will also hear a lecture from renowned security expert Bruce Schneier as he talks about getting Beyond Fear and thinking sensibly about security in an uncertain world. You can also check out his book of the same title "Beyond Fear".
http://www.schneier.com/book-beyondfear.html

Wrapping things up we will see a video clip from Unconstitutional - The War on Civil Liberties. A documentary by Robert Greenwald also available at www.unconstitutionalthemovie.org

February 8th Edition of SJTV

This Edition of Social Justice Television was produced by SJTV producer Lynnda Solfield, who journeyed down to Northern California to speak with renowned Peace Activist, Vietnam Veteran and author Brian Willson

Brian Willson has written extensively on Challenging Patriotism, Root Causes of War, Non-Violent Alternatives. You can read all his essays at http://www.brianwillson.com/

February 1st Edition of SJTV

On this edition of Social Justice Television we start with testimony from Marine Corporal Cloy Richards as he describes his participation in the taking of Fallujah and the thoughts of suicide that now haunt for the things he has seen and done in service of his country in the U.S. War on Terror.

Our feature is a documentary named Shock and Awe Produced by Sean Logan and Sam Seedorf, who visited Iraq with the Human Shields Project two weeks before U. S Forces invaded Iraq in March 2003. This is an eye opening and touching glimpse into the lives of ordinary Iraqis and what conditions were like before the War began.

January 25th Edition of SJTV

On this weeks Edition of Social Justice we will be showing the documentary Hidden Wars of Desert Storm.

Made in the year 2000 and taking two years of investigation, this film by Gerard Ungerman and Audrey Brohy brings answers to questions not only about The Gulf War I in 1991 but also the history of Western involvement and influence in the Middle East that continues right up until today.

You cannot truly understand the conflict in the Middle East and the current Iraq War without going back to 1921 and the beginning of the quest for oil in that region and how World War I and II affected the regional dynamics as former colonial powers struggle to maintain their grip on colonized. This documentary manages to explains all this in one feld masterful swoop.

Check out the website
http://www.hiddenwars.com/