Welcome back to the History of the CIA. Today we dive into the first operation of the newly formed CIA in Italy in 1948.

HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex "real world" and instead established a simpler "fake world" for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments.

https://earthsgreatestenemy.com/

• The Lobby Part 1: Young Friends of Israel
• The Lobby P2: The Training Session
• The Lobby P3: An Anti-Semitic Trope
• The Lobby P4: The Takedown

Documentary showing how students flooded the lawn of Columbia University to create the Gaza Solidarity Camp in order to pressure their university to divest from US and Israeli arms companies.

Six years after making “The Communes of Rojava” (2018), and in the face of some of the most dire attacks yet faced by the pluralist, women-led, radically democratic project in North and East Syria, I am releasing this “sequel.” Though deeply inspired by the Rojava Revolution, this video is not about Syria directly. It is about America. For the last six years, I have been trying my best to build practical examples of grassroots, neighbor-powered democracy, inspired by Rojava, on blocks and in apartment buildings in various states in the US. Here I share the lessons I’ve learned, models that have inspired me, and point to some very practical steps to organize a small-sized, face-to-face forum of neighbors on your block to discuss, dream, decide, and act together, ie. neighborocracy, or grassroots governance from below. This video covers topics like neighboring, sociocracy, neighborocracy, Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD), and Abdullah Ocalan’s theories of democratic nation, democratic modernity, democratic autonomy, and democratic confederalism.

This excellent documentary takes us into another world; the world of rogue loggers and firefighters turned eco-warriors. The story begins as an arsonist burns 9000 acres of protected old-growth public forest in Oregon that can not be logged unless it burns. To stop the proposed "salvage" logging of this incredible ancient forest, citizens are moved to blockade a road and keep the government out. After facing down a bulldozer and the State Police, the fort now known as the gateway to the Cascadia Free State becomes the focus for a developing community dedicated to protecting ancient forests throughout the mountains of Oregon.

The film shows confrontations with disgruntled loggers, mass arrests and a 75 day hunger strike. Back at Warner Creek activists build teepees and remain a living blockade on the logging road through the winter and ten feet of snow. Political pressure begins to shift and the White House promises a deal but not before Federal Agents come to bust the camp and destroy the fort. The story resolves with incredible footage of a mass jail break-in and unconditional victory for the forest. This inspiring documentary is two years in the making, and crafted from footage shot by more than two dozen people involved in the struggle to save Warner Creek. Principal photography and direction are by guerilla videographer Tim Lewis, award winner at WorldFest in 1998. Codirector/producer Tim Ream was involved in the action on and off the screen.

An interesting documentary showcasing the potential of coops as means of prefiguration, and the dangers of entryism.

Wikipedia Article about the period and events, for those who cannot rent the doc:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Food_Cooperative_Wars