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Documentaries, Daily Right & Left Wing Irrationality Award

Time for a documentary from the US. In the previous pages you are welcome to browse international documentaries on unique topics.

Thursday April 14th - 2022:

Bush's War | PBS Frontline

Film examines the war in Iraq and offers an inside look at a number controversies surrounding the war including September 11, al-Qaida, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraid, WMDs, and Fallujah.

 
Friday April 15th - 2022:

Why Global Supply Chains May Never Be the Same | A WSJ Documentary

Every day, millions of sailors, truck drivers, longshoremen, warehouse workers and delivery drivers keep mountains of goods moving into stores and homes to meet consumers’ increasing expectations of convenience. But this complex movement of goods underpinning the global economy is far more vulnerable than many imagined.

 
Saturday, April 16th - 2022:

The caliph

For almost 13 centuries, from the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632 to the overthrow of the last Ottoman caliph in 1924, the Islamic world was ruled by a caliph.

Translated from the Arabic ‘Khalifa’, the word ‘caliph’ means successor or deputy.

The caliph was considered the successor to the Prophet Muhammad.

This is the story of the caliph, a title that originated 1,400 years ago and that spanned one of the greatest empires the world has ever known.





 
Sunday, April 17th - 2022:

The Virus that shook the world | PBS

Showing the impact of COVID-19 across the globe, from lockdowns to funerals to protests, and how people and countries responded to the virus.



 
Monday, April 18th - 2022:

A Thousand Cuts | PBS

How Maria Ressa, who would go on to win a Nobel Peace Prize, became a prime target of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on the press. A 90-minute documentary.\

 
Tuesday, April 19th - 2022:

Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 financial crisis | HBO

A documentary on the roots of the 2008 financial crisis, how the crisis itself unfolded, and most importantly, the unintended long-term consequences of it all.

 
Wednesday, April 20th - 2022:

In the Age of Artificial Intelligence | PBS

Frontline investigates the promise and perils of artificial intelligence, from fears about work and privacy to the rivalry between the U.S. and China. The documentary traces a new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jobs, and our world, and allow the emergence of the surveillance society.

 
Thursday, April 21th - 2022:

Today, the documentaries will be on an unusual topic. The group mob thinking of Football (Soccer) fans.

The Real Football Factories | Bravo

Turkey:



Argentina:



Italy:



U.K. :

 
Friday, April 22th - 2022:

City of the Future: Singapore - Full Episode | National Geographic

With visionary thinkers and innovators as the guides, City of the Future: Singapore dives deep into the latest innovations and technology being created and implemented to blaze a path into the future.

 
Saturday, April 23rd - 2022:

The history of the Red Army | Deutsche Welle (German Public TV)

In 1918, Leon Trotsky founded the Red Army. Before long, the army would be used not only against the outside world, but also against the Soviet people. Worried about the great power of the army, Stalin initiated purges in 1937 and 1938.



After the Second World War ended, the glory of the Red Army waned. Then, as the Cold War raged, Khrushchev burnished the army’s reputation once more. But from then on, the army had a purely repressive function.

 
Sunday, April 24th - 2022:

Hong Kong: Is The City Still Free? | CNA Documentary (Singaporean public media)

Hong Kong is often seen as Asia’s freest city, a thriving semi-autonomous region, and an open economy that has become the world’s envy. But of late, sweeping changes to its internal security and electoral laws appear to have sapped the vitality and freedom that the city is once famous for. The new laws have granted Beijing sweeping powers to exert its control over the city, launch a crackdown on dissent and stop the growth of anti-China sentiment in the territory.

 
Monday, April 25 - 2022:

Professors Day

a) → Right Wing Irrationality Award = Right-wing radical Professor Jörg Baberowski

Next Wednesday, the main hearing against the right-wing radical professor Jörg Baberowski for causing bodily harm and damage to property will take place at the Tiergarten District Court in Berlin. On January 30, 2020, the professor had destroyed large amounts of student election campaign material at Humboldt University, physically assaulted Sven Wurm, an IYSSE member of the student parliament, knocking a mobile phone out of his hand and threatening him, saying, 'Do you want me to punch you in the face?'

www.wsws.org

Right-wing radical Professor Jörg Baberowski faces trial for causing bodily harm and damage to property

In early 2020, Professor Baberowski physically assaulted an IYSSE member of the student parliament at Berlin’s Humboldt University and destroyed large amounts of student election campaign material.
www.wsws.org

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b) ← Left Wing Irrationality Award = Left-wing radical Professor Melissa Click (from 2016)

A University of Missouri professor whose shout of “I need some muscle over here,” to remove a student journalist from a demonstration sparked an international debate over the limits of protest and a free press, has been fired. When a young man making a video recording identified himself as a journalist, she told him to leave, grabbed at his camera and called out, “Hey, who wants to help me get this reporter out of here? I need some muscle over here.”

www.nytimes.com

University of Missouri Fires Melissa Click, Who Tried to Block Journalist at Protest (Published 2016)

An assistant professor who called for “some muscle” as she tried to remove journalists from a campus protest last year was dismissed.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

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Tuesday, April 26th - 2022:

Netanyahu at War

The inside story of the bitter clash between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Amid violence in the Middle East, the film traces Netanyahu's rise to power and his high-stakes fight with the president over Iran's nuclear program.

 
Wednesday, April 27th - 2022:

Why aren’t more women in politics? | DW Documentary

Angela Merkel was the first woman ever to become German chancellor and spent 16 years in office. But women remain underrepresented in the Bundestag - and German politics, in general. Why is that?

 
wow, when @Craig234 likes a post on this thread, you know it's like a rare meteorite passing by. :D Time to recognize the moment.
 
Centrist said:
wow, when @Craig234 likes a post on this thread, you know it's like a rare meteorite passing by. :D Time to recognize the moment.
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I criticized the false implication of false equivalency between 'right' and 'left'; which doesn't mean I can't also say you link a good documentary as well, as you bundled the two together. Frontline is perhaps the best documentary series on tv that deserves more attention, glad to see you promote it.
 
Thursday, April 28th - 2022:

The Great Divide: Sunni vs. Shi'a

From the conflicts in Iraq and Syria to the tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia, the struggle between Sunni and Shi‘a groups for hegemony is tearing apart the region and shows no signs of abating. But for all the religious discourse permeating the conflict, much of its roots are political, not religious. How does sectarianism fit into a larger narrative of the Middle East?

 
Centrist said:
Monday, March 21 - 2022:

→ Right Wing Irrationality and ← Left Wing Irrationality Award: Extremes of the political spectrum.

It revealed a tendency evident on both extremes of the political spectrum - the far-left and far-right - to side with the Russian President as an expression of their discontent with the state of the modern Western world.

This trend, which is evident around the world, exemplifies the so-called “horseshoe theory” of politics attributed to French writer Jean-Pierre Faye. The theory holds that the far-left and far-right can end up closer to each other than they do to the political centre, with both tending to gravitate towards authoritarianism.

Full article:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe...right-can-t-resist-putin-20220304-p5a1rw.html

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Thanks for the link- excellent read.
 
Friday, April 29th - 2022:

Afghanistan: Inside the Taliban's Emirate | France 24 English

Since the Taliban swept to power in Afghanistan, something they did faster than anyone anticipated.

They have had to make a rapid transition to running the day-to-day business of a struggling state.

From Kabul to the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar and the mountainous Wardak province, our team have witnessed the grim reality of Taliban rule.

France 24's senior reporters Catherine Norris Trent and Roméo Langlois bring us this exclusive full-length documentary.

 
Saturday, April 30th - 2022:

The Facebook Dilemma | PBS Frontline

The promise of Facebook was to create a more open and connected world. But from the company’s failure to protect millions of users’ data, to the proliferation of “fake news” and disinformation, mounting crises have raised the question: Is Facebook more harmful than helpful?



 
Sunday, May 1st - 2022:

Dictator's Dilemma | National Geographic

Examining the mind of Kim Jong Un, we explore the unpredictable leader as he forges a future for his country while maintaining control of its people. An intimate archive takes us inside the Kim family including his ascendant sister, and with an exclusive interview with a duped assassin, we learn how Kim arranged the assassination of his half-brother in an audacious airport attack.

 
Monday, May 2nd - 2022

The Mystery of the Sherman Murders from 2017 | The Fifth Estate

Barry Sherman was Canada’s top pharmaceutical executive, worth over $4 billion dollars. His wife, Honey was a philanthropist who raised millions for charities. They were loved and admired for their success and generosity. But Barry also had a long list of enemies which had grown over time as he battled rivals in courtrooms and boardrooms, always determined to win, whatever the cost… So when the couple was found strangled in their Toronto home in December, the whispers began. Did someone really hate them enough to kill them? Was it a professional hit, an act of bitter vengeance from someone known to the Shermans, or was there another explanation? The Fifth Estate uncovers new leads in the mystery of the Sherman murders.



Update in 2021:

 
Tuesday, May 3rd - 2022:

Judicial Branch Day

a) → Right Wing Irrationality Award = Bush appointee comparing an AR-15 to a Swiss Army knife (from 2021).

The decision by Benitez, an appointee of President George W. Bush, gained nationwide attention when he called the state’s ban a “failed experiment” and said the assault weapons that Californians are barred from using are not “bazookas, howitzers or machine guns” but rather “fairly ordinary, popular, modern rifles.” But it was his comparison of an AR-15 to a Swiss Army knife that received the most attention.

“Like the Swiss Army knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment,” Benitez said in the 94-page ruling.


b) ← Left Wing Irrationality Award = Canadian liberal Justice minister accidentally tweets that one of his campaign donors will become a judge (from 2021).

The Justice minister accidentally tweets that one of his campaign donors will become a judge. Officially, Justice Minister David Lametti appointed five new judges across the country this week. On Twitter, however, Lametti announced three additional appointments — including that of Montreal lawyer Daniel Urbas to Quebec's Superior Court. The tweets were subsequently deleted. The minister's office says they were posted by mistake by the civil servants managing the account. In fact, Urbas — who has made political donations to Lametti in the past — has not completed the judicial appointment process. "These tweets were removed and we have contacted those mentioned to apologize for this very unfortunate error and the inconvenience that this may have caused," said David Taylor, a spokesperson for Lametti.

 
Wednesday, May 4th - 2022:

The Crusades | British Broadcasting Corporation

BBC Select has made the first episode of The Crusades history documentary available for free on YouTube.

 
Thursday, May 5th - 2022:

The Power of Big Oil, Part Three: Delay | FRONTLINE

Watch the final episode of “The Power of Big Oil,” a three-part FRONTLINE docuseries investigating what scientists, corporations, and politicians have known about human-caused climate change for decades — and the missed opportunities to mitigate the problem.

 
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