Clint Eastwood’s 2008 psychological thriller, Changeling tells the true-life story of mistaken identity, political corruption, and the marginalization of women in 1920’s Los Angeles. A single-mother, Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie), is told by the police she will be reunited with her missing son, only to discover the boy is not really her son. He claims [...]
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The New York Times makes the story Honduran President Zelaya NOT the coup, repeating lies by coup leaders
Apparently the real story isn’t about the coup or democracy, it’s about that dangerous friend of Chavez, the deposed president of Honduras, Jose Manuel Zelaya.With the US government “mediating” between the deposed president of Honduras, Zelaya and the US trained coup leaders, the story has sunk from the headlines, caught up in much more serious [...]
Star Trek (2009) captures the democratic impulse but misses the bigger picture.
While tremendous fun for both fans and the wider audience, the new Star Trek movie fails to satisfy on a deeper level, unlike the best of the franchise. The idea behind the movie was a clever one, taking us back in time to the period leading up to Classic Trek and giving many [...]