The Quiet Mutiny (1970)

1970 Documentary by John Pilger with interviews with disillusioned Vietnam conscript soldiers

American Autumn: An Occudoc

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Viv Albertine, Keith Levene & Mick Jones

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EMPowered to Kill

♪♫ Chaka Khan - Some Love

Some of you may know the New Age Steppers version...

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Gene Simmons VW Bug

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Sam Shepard: 'Speed and booze together make you quite . . . omnipotent'

INTERVIEWER

Have you struggled with drinking?

SHEPARD

My history with booze goes back to high school. Back then there was a lot of Benzedrine around, and since we lived near the Mexican border I’d just run over, get a bag of bennies and drink ripple wine. Speed and booze together make you quite . . . omnipotent. You don’t feel any pain. I was actually in several car wrecks that I don’t understand how I survived.
At any rate, for a long time I didn’t think I had a problem. Alcoholism is an insidious disease; until I confronted it I wasn’t aware that it was creeping up on me. I finally did AA in the hardcore down on Pico Boulevard. I said, “Don’t put me in with Elton John or anything, just throw me to the lions.”
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Portrait of the Artist: Sam Shepard and the Anxiety of Identity

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Russia halts sales of new weapons to Syria

The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama

Sure, we as a nation have always killed people. A lot of people. But no president has ever waged war by killing enemies one by one, targeting them individually for execution, wherever they are. The Obama administration has taken pains to tell us, over and over again, that they are careful, scrupulous of our laws, and determined to avoid the loss of collateral, innocent lives. They're careful because when it comes to waging war on individuals, the distinction between war and murder becomes a fine one. Especially when, on occasion, the individuals we target are Americans and when, in one instance, the collateral damage was an American boy.

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Warren Ellis on The Dirty Three

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Those early gigs were just brilliant! Somewhere in storage I still have their first cassette which I got at a gig at The Corner Hotel...