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Howard Zinn on History American Culture, Wealth, Democracy, Hate Crimes and Education 1999 2 clip22
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Howard Zinn on History American Culture, Wealth, Democracy, Hate Crimes and Education 1999 2 clip7
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September 4, 2014|8:12 am
How should we refer to the radical, barbaric terrorist group sweeping through Iraq and Syria? Some call them ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria). Our government refers to them as ISIL (The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant), the Levant referring to a wider geographic area including Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, and the Palestinian territories.
In June, this emerging terrorist force declared a caliphate and began referring to itself as IS (The Islamic State), which more accurately signals its global ambitions to establish a universal world-wide caliphate, imposing by brute force its extremely harsh understanding of sharia law on the entire world.
This is what makes IS such a grave threat to the civilized world. The closest analogy to IS in modern history is the U.S.S.R. (The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), which was dedicated to imposing communism worldwide, heedless of national boundaries. It was an existential threat to all nations and peoples who wanted to decide for themselves how they would be governed, rather than have a particular ideology imposed on them by brute force. And make no mistake, neither Soviet Communism nor IS had, or has, a remote interest in democracy or elections.
In communism you had adherents from all over the world willing to subvert their own national governments in support of the worldwide cause. So we should not be surprised when people from across the globe flock to join IS (The Islamic State) as it seeks to impose its vision of Islam over the entire world, including planting its black flag over the White House.
All freedom loving people have a stake in this struggle as all did in the struggle against Soviet Communism. Whether the totalitarian dictatorship is imposed by atheistic communists or radical jihadists, the result is the same loss of freedom imposed with savage barbarity.
This is why IS is a far more grave civilizational threat than either Vladimir Putin's Russia or the totalitarian rulers of China. Putin's ambitions pre-date the Bolshevik Revolution. He is a Russian imperialist seeking to channel the spirit of Peter the Great, attempting to establish a regional Russian hegemon over what he perceives to be "greater Russia" and the "near-abroad." He does not harbor dreams, or articulate a universal ideology, which would lead to world conquest. Likewise, China dreams of being the world's number one economic power with a regional hegemon over all of Asia, not world conquest.
We are witnessing the birth pangs of a worldwide revolution, and IS's similarities to Lenin, Stalin, and the Bolsheviks are both instructive and alarming.
The free world desperately needs a new President Truman and Secretary Marshall to emerge among Western leaders, to lead a worldwide diplomatic, cultural, economic, and military alliance to defeat this lethal threat. And the time is now.
The civilized world must confront and defeat this barbaric cancer before it metastasizes like Soviet communism, bringing with it horrific human suffering on a heart-breaking and breath-taking scale.
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IS (Islamic State): A Civilizational Threat
It was a small sensation that the premiere of a documentary film - "From Caligari to Hitler" - took place at one of the world's most significant film festivals. The film was screened as part of the Venice Classics series, alongside restored historical cinematic masterpieces like "Mouchette" by Robert Bresson and "Stolen Kisses" by Francois Truffauts.
"From Caligari to Hitler" is film critic Rdiger Suchsland's directorial debut. The title is a reference to the 1920 silent film, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," largely regarded as the first horror film. Suchsland's documentary focuses on the 1920s and 30s - the heyday of German cinema - and examines journalist and film theorist Sigfried Kracauer's famous thesis that German filmmakers supposedly predicted the rise of National Socialism in their works.
DW: Mr. Suchsland, were you surprised to receive an invitation to the Venice Film Festival?
'From Caligari to Hitler" is film critic Rdiger Suchsland's directing debut
Rdiger Suchsland: Yes, I was very surprised. It's my first film. It's hard to say how it's going to turn out when a film critic who wasn't trained as a filmmaker makes a film. I think my invitation to Venice can be attributed to the wonderful historical footage by camera professionals like Karl Freund. Excerpts from well known films like "Metropolis" (1927) and "Nosferatu" (1922) are included. It didn't have a whole lot to do with my directing.
The film was screened as part of the Venice Classics series, which mainly presented restored masterpieces and rediscoveries.
There are many documentary films about cinema. The historical consciousness in cinema is not as strong as, let's say, in literature, where a new edition of a book by Fontane or Schiller would be covered by the newspapers and compared with previous editions. In cinema, television, and motion pictures, we don't have this kind of tradition of dealing with the history of the medium. That's of course because it's the newest medium.
There should be a lot more [attention paid to film history] because all of the new films are based on the classics. Today, many people's knowledge of film, even at film schools, begins with Quentin Tarantino.
What does the title "From Caligari to Hitler" mean?
That was the title of a book by Sigfried Kracauer. He was the leading film critic during the Weimar Republic. To some extent, he invented the field of film criticism in post-war Germany. Kracauer wrote for the daily newspaper "Frankfurter Zeitung," the most important newspaper of the time, and wrote about this period.
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