Arundhati Roy: It started in 1922

Posted on July 24, 2006 by Sappho

We is a fast-paced 64 minute doc­u­men­tary that cov­ers the world pol­i­tics of power, war, cor­po­ra­tions, decep­tion and exploitation.

A must see:

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8 Responses to Arundhati Roy: It started in 1922

  1. Grigory Rasputin says:
    July 24, 2006 at 03:57

    re video,

    would that a lit­tle flat thin reed of a voice move even a grain of sand it would be remarkable.

    ~~~~
    tip LB, trans­fer­ence, see a doc­tor and let her/them sup­port you until you are well enough to resolve.

  2. kitcho says:
    July 24, 2006 at 05:08

    pow­er­ful movie. this should be seen by everyone.

  3. Jon says:
    July 24, 2006 at 09:26

    FACTBOX-Developments in Iraq on July 22
    22 Jul 2006 19:58:53 GMT

    The fol­low­ing are secu­rity and other devel­op­ments in Iraq on Sat­ur­day as of 2000 GMT.

    Aster­isk denotes a new or updated item.

    *BAGHDAD — In three sep­a­rate mor­tar attacks in the cap­i­tal after dark, police said, four civil­ians were killed and five wounded in a street in the south­west­ern Amil dis­trict, one was killed and one wounded in the Ur dis­trict of east Bagh­dad and five peo­ple were wounded when a mor­tar struck a police com­mando base in the south of the city.

    *FALLUJA — Five mor­tars landed in Fal­luja, west of Bagh­dad, killing six peo­ple and wound­ing seven, police and hos­pi­tal sources said.

    KIRKUK — U.S forces detained Lieutenant-Colonel Ata al– Jobouri, deputy police chief of Haw­ija, 60 km (40 miles) south­west of Kirkuk. It was unclear why he was detained.

    MOSUL — Gun­men shot dead an Iraqi man in the city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Bagh­dad, med­ical sources said.

    BAGHDAD — Gun­men opened fire on work­ers in a house in west­ern Bagh­dad, killing seven and wound­ing one, police sources said.

    BAQUBA — Three police­men were wounded when a road­side bomb tar­get­ing their patrol exploded in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Bagh­dad, police sources said.

    BAQUBA — Four police­men and three civil­ians were killed when a road­side bomb went off in a local mar­ket in Baquba, police sources said.

    KUT — A road­side bomb tar­get­ing an Iraqi army con­voy exploded in the city of Kut, 170 km (105 miles) south­east of Bagh­dad, killing one sol­dier and wound­ing four oth­ers, police said.

    FACTBOX-Developments in Iraq on July 23
    23 Jul 2006 14:29:32 GMT

    The fol­low­ing are secu­rity and other devel­op­ments in Iraq on Sun­day as of 1400 GMT.

    Aster­isk denotes a new or updated item.

    * MOSUL — Gun­men shot dead a taxi dri­ver in the city of Mosul 390 km (240 miles) north of Bagh­dad, police sources said.

    BAGHDAD — A car bomb exploded near a police sta­tion by an open-air mar­ket in the impov­er­ished Sadr city dis­trict of the cap­i­tal killing 33 civil­ians and wound­ing 60, police and Inte­rior Min­istry sources said.

    KIRKUK — At least 20 peo­ple were killed and 70 wounded when a car bomb exploded near a court house in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Bagh­dad, police said.

    SUWAYRA — Iraqi police retrieved the bod­ies of seven peo­ple, includ­ing a 13-year-old boy, from the Tigris river in Suwayra, 40 km (25 miles) south of Bagh­dad, police said. The bod­ies were hand­cuffed and blind­folded with shot­gun wounds in the head and chest, police added.

    MOSUL — Mah­moud Homadi, a judge, was wounded when gun­men attacked him in Mosul, police said.

    BAGHDAD — Gun­men killed Hamid al-Nouman, a tribal leader, in a drive by shoot­ing in the south­ern Dora dis­trict of the cap­i­tal, police said.

    MUSSAYAB — A civil­ian from one fam­ily was killed and three oth­ers wounded when a mor­tar round landed at their house in Mus­sayab, 60 km (40 miles) south of Bagh­dad, police said.

    MOSUL — Gun­men killed a man in Mosul, police said.

    HISAYBA — Gun­men killed Abdulil­lah al-Rawi, a mem­ber of the Iraqi Islamic Party, the main Sunni bloc, in the town of Hisayba, 350 km west of Bagh­dad, the Civil Defence direc­tory said.

    NEAR RAMADI — Gun­men attacked three trucks car­ry­ing fuel on the main road west of Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Bagh­dad, killing the dri­vers, police said.

    BAGHDAD — Iraqi and U.S. forces con­ducted two raid and search oper­a­tions in east­ern and north­west­ern Bagh­dad detain­ing 10 peo­ple believed to be involved in “death squads” and freed two hostages, the U.S. mil­i­tary said in a statement.

    NEAR KIRKUK — Iraqi and U.S. forces arrested 150 sus­pects dur­ing a 10-day raid and search oper­a­tion in the towns of Riyadh, Haw­ija and Rashad, south­west of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Bagh­dad, the U.S. mil­i­tary said on Sun­day. They seized 350 weapons of vary­ing kinds.

    MOSUL — Two Iraqi sol­diers were wounded when a road­side bomb went off near their patrol in the north­ern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Bagh­dad, the army said.

    OTHER DEVELOPMENTS

    * BAGHDAD — Sad­dam Hus­sein was taken to hos­pi­tal and given food after 16 days on hunger strike and will not attend court on Mon­day, the chief pros­e­cu­tor in the for­mer Iraqi leader’s trial for crimes against human­ity said.

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  5. Truth About Iraqis says:
    July 24, 2006 at 20:19

    From the Asso­ci­ated Press:

    The group Human Rights Watch said in a report released Sun­day that U.S. mil­i­tary com­man­ders encour­aged abu­sive inter­ro­ga­tions of detainees in
    Iraq, even after the Abu Ghraib prison scan­dal called atten­tion to the issue in 2004.

    Between 2003 and 2005, pris­on­ers were rou­tinely phys­i­cally mis­treated, deprived of sleep and exposed to extreme tem­per­a­tures as part of the inter­ro­ga­tion process, the report said. “Sol­diers were told that the Geneva Con­ven­tions did not apply, and that inter­roga­tors could use abu­sive tech­niques to get detainees to talk,” wrote John Sifton, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch. The orga­ni­za­tion said it based its con­clu­sion on inter­views with mil­i­tary per­son­nel and sworn state­ments in declas­si­fied documents.

  6. Stephen says:
    July 25, 2006 at 09:01

    Strong and truth­ful mes­sage. A “must see” for every American.…..A “must see” by the world. A mes­sage of the heart.……a voice of tears.

  7. Jarn says:
    July 25, 2006 at 13:18

    (Some­what off-topic, or maybe not)..

    I was in Philadel­phia yes­ter­day (first time), and went to see the Lib­erty Bell and Inde­pen­dence Hall. The secu­rity there was as tight as an air­port — a sign of the times. I was reminded that the rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies that signed the Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence did so even though it was high trea­son against the British Empire. The risks they took for their ideals were enor­mous, and most of them were either impris­oned, exe­cuted, or died in poverty for their efforts. Com­pared to the aver­age lazy Amer­i­can today, these guys were incredible.

    I won­der how they’d feel if they saw today’s spin doc­tor­ing, swift boat­ing, pres­i­den­tial sign­ing orders, lob­by­ists, wars of aggres­sion, and ille­gal wire­taps. We destroy what’s noble with greed and power grabbing.

  8. Michael says:
    July 25, 2006 at 13:56

    I think the Lib­erty Bell was cracked some time ago.