Douglas Kellner
Professor
Ph.D., Philosophy, Columbia University

George F. Kneller Philosophy of Education Chair
Division of Social Sciences & Comparative Education
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, UCLA
 
 
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Alternative Views (Video)


Throughout the 1970's to the 1990's Frank Morrow and I were associated with an experiment in the progressive use of cable television as a critical public access media. The show Alternative Views ran nationally, on a weekly basis, presenting critical information and video footage that went unaired by the major networks. Further information about this experiment in radical media can be found in the article: Public Access Television: Alternative Views.


Inside Alternative Views is a 5-year retrospective program that includes footage of many top left personalities and issues, including powerful segments on abortion, nuclear war, and alternative media sources. In many respects it is amazing to see how the pieces aired on this program remain as timely as ever.

Another Unknown War features a film on the struggle of the indigenous people of West Papua to remain sovereign in the face of an Indonesian invasion backed by world capital. Footage of Noam Chomsky on Western involvments in the region and the relation to East Timor.

Censured Casualties features rare footage of war crimes against the Iraqi people suffered during and after the Gulf War. The footage is from former Attorney General Ramsey Clark in his attempt to document the injustice of United States military actions in the region.

The CIA, Mafia, and George Bush (Part 1) is the first part of a two part interview with author Pete Brewton who documented in his book of the same name the connection during the Ronnie Ray-gun era between the deregulation of the savings and loans, the S&L collapse, the funding of subversive CIA projects, and the profiteering of a circle of friends around Bush Sr. that included the mafia.

The CIA, Mafia, and George Bush (Part 2) is the 2nd part of a two part interview with author Pete Brewton. He connects the deregulation of the savings and loans, the S&L collapse, the funding of subversive CIA projects, and the profiteering of a circle of friends around Bush Sr. that included the mafia.                                     

The de Antonio Legacy (Part 1) features the great documentary film maker Emile de Antonio in a candid interview in which he talks about and shows clips from his films Point of Order, on Joe McCarthy and the Red scare, and Rush to Judgment, concerning the Kennedy assassination and the Warren Report.

The de Antonio Legacy (Part 2) continues the interview with the great documentary film maker Emile de Antonio as he engages and shows clips from two of his famous films -- Vietnam: In the Year of the Pig and Millhouse: A White Comedy on Richard Nixon.                   

Bank Bailout II contains two segments -- first, Doug provides a detailed analysis of an alternative version of events concerning the environmental disaster during the first Gulf War (covered also in his The Persian Gulf TV War), and then Rob Widdowson explains the meaning behind Bush sr.'s plan to bail out the big commercial banks.

Nazi Fascists and Republicans is a startling look into the international connection between nazi fascists reborn as neoliberal leaders, the Republican party, and even the White House (then occupied by Bush sr.).  The interview is with Chip Berlet, who documents this story with a wealth of source information.

Power and Profits vs. the Earth is a June 1992 interview with environmental activist and writer Lanny Sinkin in which topics such as the Earth Summit, the growing ecological catastrophe, ozone depletion, global warming, and destruction of the rain forests are examined in connection with the programs of action by powerful and profiteering government and corporate institutions. An important historical document of one of the key moments in recent ecological history, this episode sadly shows us how (amidst a few positive signs!) the anti-Earth forces at work then remain, and indeed -- with the recent moves by this Bush administration, are more regressive than ever.