Just in time for the holidays and straight from the Blowback Archives we give you "The Way the Eagle Sh!*s" - Al Levin's mid-1970s rant that's prescient and more timely now than ever in light of the OWS movement and its shifting of the national dialogue to income inequality, corporate power and economic justice. Happy holidays!
Dirty Old Town in Los Angeles
On this sad day, Nov. 22nd, the 48th anniversary of the JFK assassination, the subject of conspiracy inevitably comes up.
Today we harken back to the original conspiracy theory, "blame it on the Jews." Our film "Protocols of Zion" explored the resurgence of anti-semitism in the wake of 9/11. Now Umberto Eco has just come out with a new book, "The Prague Cemetery," which is a novel about a fictional forger in Paris who creates the infamous, "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," which purported to be the minutes of the secret Jewish Cabal which supposedly met in the Prague Cemetery where it plotted to control the world. An obvious and odious fraud, still it was believed and spread b…
Have you seen Hard Times: Lost on Long Island? The film won the Audience Award/Best Documentary at the Hamptons International Film Festival in October. The documentary follows a group of unemployed men and women, ranging in age from their late thirties into their sixties, who are looking for work while living in certain middle class suburbs on Long Island. I had not seen the film during the festival itself, but when I screened it the other day, I realized the true meaning, for me, of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Hard Times is a disturbing film that puts a face to the unemployment crisis in America in a rather effective way. At times, talk radio broadcasts pla…
