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The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute: Japan and China on the Brink?
Could Japan and China go to war over something as small as the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands? Al Jazeera explores this question in the above video documentary. Background China’s Future Leader Warns Japan Over the Senkaku Islands Dispute Riots in China [Al Jazeera]
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Documentary Video Inside North Korea – The World’s Most Secretive State
- September 25, 2012
- Asia
- Authoritarian regimes
- China
- Cold War
- Communism
- Dear Leader
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- dictator
- Dictatorship
- Documentary
- East Asia
- Juche
- Kim Il-sung
- Kim Jong-il
- Kim Jong-Un
- Korea
- Korean War
- People's Republic of China
- PRC
- Pyongyang
- Republic of Korea
- Supreme Leader
- Suryong
- Video
This documentary video takes the viewer inside of one of the world’s most repressive regimes. While internationally North Korea is known for bringing relations between it and the South to the brink, among human rights workers it is the most brutal regime on Earth. Individuality, freedom of expression, religion, or any basic human rights are […]
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Caracas: Venezuela’s Capital and Most Violent City
Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, is one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Dozens are murdered every week and numbers are typically higher than in Baghdad, Iraq with less than 7% of cases going to court. The Guardian‘s Sean Smith reports from a hospital in Caracas in the above documentary.
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Wall Street: The Intersection of Money and Power in the American Empire, Part 1
- May 8, 2012
- 2008 financial crisis
- academics
- Austerity
- Bank of America
- Bear Stearns
- business
- Business & Finance
- Citibank
- Continental Politics
- Debt Crisis
- Democrats
- Documentary
- Economic Crisis
- Finance
- financial crisis
- Goldman Sachs
- Great Recession
- i banking
- international finance
- investment banking
- Lehman Brothers
- leverage
- Monetary Union
- money
- mortgage crisis
- PBS
- politics
- power
- Republicans
- Video
- Wall Street
Watch Money, Power and Wall Street: Part One on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. Politics, money, and power are three concepts typically associated together, particularly with regard to the American political system. Often cited by critics as one of the main democratic deficiencies of the American political system, the convenient marriage of money and power […]
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“If Harry Potter were in the Old Testament he would have been put to death.”
I’m quite sure Harry Potter could hold his own, but this woman’s attempts at the Imperius Curse may give him pause. Watch this if you don’t want to sleep for a while. The above is part of the documentary “Jesus Camp” which follows Becky Fischer, the founder of Kids in Ministry International. What is contained […]
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Japan’s Killer Quake.
Follow PBS’s NOVA as they explore the effects of Japan’s largest recorded earthquake, the 2011 Touhoku Earthquake in the above documentary collated by TopDocumentaryFilms. 東日本大震災 (Higashi Nihon Daishinsai) was a magnitude 9.0 earthquake that occurred on Friday, March 11, 2011 around 2:45 PM JST. According to Wikipedia it was one of the most powerful earthquakes […]
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