In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrator James Braithwaite have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A spellbinding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit and timeless message, I Met the Walrus was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short.

Blackwater, once the most powerful and secretive mercenary force in the world, exemplified the complicit corruption within the military industrial complex.  A loophole in the system allowed their hired guns to operate on behalf of the State Department but exempt from U.S. military regulations governing other security firms.  Blackwater’s indiscretions with the law have finally caught up to the company, with explosive new allegations against its founder that has the internet in an uproar. (more…)

Goldman Sachs: The Great American Bubble Machine

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