BRAVE NEW FILMS – In The Media

by Judy Gummow for AlterNet

"John Brennan to go!” That is the hard-hitting message of a new POGO petition to the White House where activists are calling upon President Barack Obama to hold CIA Director John Brennan accountable for lying to the American public.

by George Gresham for the New York Amsterdam News

Last month, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees voted to sever its ties with the United Negro College Fund over the UNCF’s decision to accept a $25 million grant and to participate in a summit with the billionaire businessmen Charles and David Koch.

By Paul Hyde for Greenville Online. 

Dismayed by the challenges facing young stage actors these days, six Clemson University theater alumni decided to make their own opportunities.

Originally appeared on Radio Dispatch on July 17th, 2014. 

John and Molly Knefel interview Brave New Film's Robert Greenwald on the 10th anniversary of Outfoxed. Listen to the Radio Dispatch podcast below. 

Interview originally appeared on The Ed Schultz Podcast. 

On Tuesday, August 5th, Robert Greenwald was a guest on the Ed Schultz podcast where they discussed the possibility of Rupert Murdoch purchasing Time Warner. Listen to the full interview below. 

From newsobserver.com

Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane will have dinner next week with a UNC professor who has the mayor’s name in her job title.

McFarlane and her husband, Ron, made a major contribution last year to UNC’s Eshelman School of Pharmacy to create the Ron and Nancy McFarlane Distinguished Professorship in Pharmacy Practice. The couple own MedPro Rx, a specialty pharmaceutical company.

By T. Keung Hui for newsobserver.com

 Add the National Education Association to those accusing the conservative Koch brothers and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) of having backed the Wake County school board's former Republican majority that won the 2009 elections.

By Marcie Gainer for Disinformation

Old Poll

Our first weekly poll was a relative success. In light of our soon-to-be released Boredom, we asked your opinions on one of the issues raised in the film. It seems the majority of you agree with director Albert Nerenberg’s conclusion. The results are below:

Are Smart Phones Making Us More Bored?

- See more at: http://disinfo.com/2014/07/weekly-poll-update-what-issue-most-important/#sthash.OZX1JmXJ.dpuf

By Robert Greenwald for AlterNet

A dozen years ago, as the U.S. was pulled into war in Iraq by President George W. Bush, Fox News was not just any television network. It proudly blared the White House’s lies coming with singular warmongering fervor. Remember? The terrorists had ties to Iraq. Saddam wanted the bomb. Saddam had the bomb. He could hit us in 45 minutes. 

By Steve1960 for DailyKos

Making the case that American capitalism oppresses the white middle class was a tough sell back when I was a wee lad. For one thing, the thirty five percent of the American workforce that belonged to a union (and most of the rest who experienced the obvious "knock on effect" of a union scale wage) would strongly disagree. Today the story is much different. Such looming threats to the US middle class as predatory lending, union busting, changes in the bankruptcy laws that favor creditors, higher regressive local taxation and the shipping of jobs overseas all pale in comparison to the one only beginning to rear its ugly head: debtors prison!  In all honesty, people aren't actually sent to prison specifically for unpaid debts. But more and more are being sent for "violating a court order" to pay or for simply failure to appear in court when being sued for debt repayment. A report by popular radio show host, Thom Hartmann contained these harrowing lines;