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Mighty Movie Podcast: Lars von Trier's Antichrist: A Conversation

Dan Persons | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Earth, Justice, Repression, World, Murder, Horror, Emotion, Lars Von Trier, Sex, Drama, Suspense, Controversy, Death, Indie, Environment, Gore, Antichrist, Acting Legend, Fantasy, Off Beat, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe, Art, Love, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

"Lars von Trier isn't going to talk to a lot of press." Yeah, yeah; yadda-yadda. But just because he isn't talking to us doesn't mean we can't talk about him, particularly about his childhood.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Ben Whishaw and Paul Schneider on Jane Campion's Bright Star

Dan Persons | Posted 09.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Fanny Brawne, Australia, Jane Campion, Film, Poets, Courtship, Repression, Poetry, Exclusive, Romance, 19th Century, Ben Whishaw, London, Charles Brown, Movies, Paul Schneider, England, Interview, The Piano, Great Britain, John Keats, Love, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

The film, in short, is sweet, sad, and moving but with Campion's astringent edge keeping the proceedings from lapsing into sentimentality. And that makes all the difference.

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Pakistan Passes Law Against Domestic Violence

Daily Times | Posted 09.07.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistani Woman, Pakistani Families, Violence Against Women, Repression, Pakistan Court, Pakistan, Violence, Family Violence, Pakistani Women, Domestic Violence, Repressed Women, Domestic Abuse, World News

The National Assembly on Tuesday passed a bill on protection against domestic violence covering all types of repressive and abusive behavior against v...

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CIA, Pelosi, Dems, Repubs, Media: All Guilty

Chip Berlet | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Intelligence Agency Abuses, Civil Liberties, Repression, Cia, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News
Chip Berlet

Liberal denial gives silent permission to authoritarian aggression and violence by our government. The bogeyman has shifted from communism to terrorism, but the dynamics remain the same.

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The Iranian Crackdown: Who's Really Afraid of Whom?

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Chile, Mir Hossein Mousavi, South Africa, Nonviolence, World, Repression, Middle East, Violence, Serbia, Nonviolent Action, People-Power, Iran, Hannah Arendt, Philippines, Iranian Election, World News, World News
Cynthia Boaz

Every time the regime represses, it further undermines its own power while simultaneously helping to recruit new members to the resistance.

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Where Left, Right, and Center Collide in Civility

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Civil Liberties, God, Repression, Religion and Politics, Boulder-Colorado, Politics News
Chip Berlet

A bunch of clueless mainstream media scribes want you to believe that a handful of centrist Democrats have just devised a way that political discussio...

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Sole Supporters Enduring this "Repression"

Lea Lane | Posted 04.10.2009 | Style

Read More: Recession Fears, Living Alone, Depression, Divorce, Solo, Stress, Repression, Economic Crisis, Recession, Style News
Lea Lane

Who's in a mood to flirt and wonder? I mean, there's enough anxiety and uncertainty without having your heart broken on top of everything else.

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Let a Thousand Blogs Bloom: Young Cubans Voice Their Discontent

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 03.04.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Santiago De Cuba, Cuban Olympic Athletes, Ernest Hemingway, Repression, Fidel Castro, Political Prisoners, Politics, Havana, Virgin of Charity, Raul Castro, Cuba, World, Cachita, Dissidents, Dissent, Blogging, Technology, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Young people filled with discontent and with desires to make things change, received us to hear about the Cuban blogosphere.

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Laughing in the Teeth of My New "Minders": Two Security Agents who Follow me Everywhere

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

Read More: Communism, Raul Castro, Secret Police, Repression, World, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Politics, World News
Yoani Sanchez

There is nothing more paralyzing than a woman's calf flashing in the sun in the middle of the street.

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Lieberman's Very Serious Muslim-Bashing Senate Report

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Civil Liberties, The Internet, Lieberman Islamic Extremism, Repression, Terrorism, Homeland Security Report, Leberman Report, Liberman Homeland Security, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, And the Homegrown Terrorist Threat, Susan Collins, Witch Hunt, Violent Islamic Extremism, Almontaser, Violent Islamist Extremism, Muslims, Joe Lieberman, Home News
Chip Berlet

Joe Lieberman's homeland security committee lobbed a biased bombshell last week in its report on the domestic threat of violent Islam. U.S. Islamophobia has consequences. Take the case of Debbie Almontaser.

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Lieberman Gift To McCain: Senate Islamist Terrorism Report

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Witch Hunt, Muslims, Repression, Terrorism, Civil Liberties, Lieberman Islamic Extremism, Susan Collins, Violent Islamic Extremism, Homeland Security Report, Leberman Report, Liberman Homeland Security, Joe Lieberman, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, The Internet, And the Homegrown Terrorist Threat, Violent Islamist Extremism, Home News
Chip Berlet

A stacked senate committee on homeland security today issued the first of a series of reports on "homegrown terrorism and violent Islamist extremism." It's readymade election-year swiftboating material.

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