It's a biography about Hitler's mistress - only she wasn't. She was an astonishingly talented and famous athlete, and actress before she invented a form of documentary filmmaking that has been copied ever after. As a trained journalist myself, I appreciate her obsessive attention to tone and small details that put viewers "there" and her empathy. History and historical biographies always interest me, and in this case another woman ignored and deprecated for her brilliance never let anyone else define who she was, and outlived her detractors.
Leni Riefenstahl will always be remembered for her brilliant film of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin - still rated as one of the best documentaries ever made. Before that she was acclaimed for her roles in silent feature films, when German cinema was in its artistic heyday in the 1920s. She pioneered the box office success of such classic mountaineering dramas as The White Hell of Piz Palu and then began to direct her own films. The Blue Light was admired by Hitler and led to her filming the Wagnerian Nuremberg Rally of 1934. After the war she was…
The depths of depravity of most of the world leaders is not easy or pleasant to deal with. How Whitney Webb a young mother unflinchingly did so is a marvel. It is important to know just we are up against; They aren't like us. On the upside we can really love ourselves more. There is at all nothing wrong with us. We might be lazy, over-eat, be selfish, buy too many shoes. These flaws are angelic attributes next to the Zionist and Globalist agendas.
One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network known as the National Crime Syndicate. This book specifically explores how that nexus between intelligence and organized crime directly developed the sexual blackmail tactics and networks that would later enable the sexual blackmail operation and other crimes of deceased pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Other books on Jeffrey Epstein focus on the depraved nature of his crimes, his wealth, and his most famous/politically-connected friends and acquaintances. This book, in contrast,…
Robert Fisk was a war correspondent for the London Times all over the Middle East in the 80, 90s and 2000s. His stories about war, his empathy, his deep connection to his father and grandfather's memories as soldiers are peronal and often with exquisite bits of writing. It's a huge book, and one gets the impression her wrote it because otherwise he might not have been able to believe all the places he was, the danger, the crosslegged chats over the years with Osama Bin Laden. It is not easy or quick to absorb the volume of hit after hit after hit of atrocities so it took me months to get through it, but I believe it is important to understand the repeated futility of the wars our Western leaders and NATO are always dragging us into.
A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over forty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. A book of searing drama as well as lucid, incisive analysis, The Great War for Civilisation is a work of major importance for today's world.
