Tag Archives: Guantanamo Bay

Taxi to the Dark Side DVD Review

The winner of 2008′s Best Feature Documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side looks at procedures (see: torture methods) used by the US forces in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay. The story is framed by the death of innocent Afghan cab driver Dilawar, who was taken into custody at the Bagram Air Base and beaten to death by US soldiers. Continue reading

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Harold and Kumar Review

At the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas on March 8, “Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay” opened to a favorable crowd of 2,100. While the film premiered four years after the sleeper hit “Harold and Kumar go to White Castle,” the film opens the next day after their burger run. Harold and Kumar have planned a trip to Amsterdam to meet the girl of Harold’s dreams but due to a misunderstanding on their flight the duo ends up en route to spending life in Guantanamo Bay. After a vulgar but comical scene, the pair escapes (hence the title) and the adventure begins. Continue reading

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Sicko is Sickeningly Good – Movie Review – Sicko (2007)

What is Michael Moore up to now? Something that every American should be thinking about, whether they have health insurance or not: whose money and whose health care system is it, anyway? By getting some real first person views of the Canadian, UK, French and even (gasp!) Cuban systems, he puts together an expose that should get us all hopping mad. Continue reading

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Where Does It End

We have already had a call on the floor of the US House of Representatives this week calling for impeachment of President George W Bush, with on of the sited laws broken was his refusal to comply with federal rulings … Continue reading

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Say What You Mean

I have so had it with politicians never saying what they mean.  Oh I don’t expect them to ever tell the truth about anything, or at least the complete truth.  That is how the game is played, so I can … Continue reading

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