An Interview with Cenk Uygur
By Ed Rampell, August 2012 issue "I was told I needed to act more like the Establishment."read more
View ArticleOliver Stone, John Travolta Denounce War
By Ed Rampell, September 24, 2012 “We don’t seem to learn from our mistakes,” said Stone, who called the war on drugs ‘a 42-year-old farce, a disaster of immense proportions.’ ”read more
View ArticleSandra Fluke: Women Won the Election
By Ed Rampell, November 20, 2012 “Women have the power to put people in office and we have the power to take them back out.”read more
View ArticleKen Burns Interview
By Ed Rampell, December 1, 2012 America’s preeminent television documentarian, Ken Burns, returned to the little -- and big -- screen in November with a proverbial bang.read more
View ArticleAn Interview with Oliver Stone
By Ed Rampell, December 10, 2012 “This project has sapped me. It took almost five years. But I’m very proud of it. It’s an accumulation of the themes of my films.”read more
View ArticleSlavery and Emancipation in the Movies
By Ed Rampell and Luis Reyes, December 22, 2012 Filmmakers have gradually caught up to the movement to end slavery of every form. Here is a tour of the horizon of motion picture human bondage.read more
View ArticleProgressives Score with Academy Award Nominations
By Ed Rampell, January 10, 2013 Anti-slavery movies, along with films celebrating revolution, the Enlightenment, and the fight against AIDS have all been nominated.read more
View ArticleA Hollywood Protest Against "Zero Dark Thirty"
By Ed Rampell, February 19, 2013 David Clennon and others denounced the film’s “despicable message.”read more
View ArticleHow the Oscars, and Michelle Obama, Saluted the CIA
By Ed Rampell, February 25, 2013 With liberal propagandists like this, who needs reactionaries?read more
View ArticleThe Hollywood Left Says Goodbye to Hugo Chavez
By Ed Rampell, March 7, 2013 Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, Sean Penn, and Michael Moore pay their respects.read more
View ArticleJane Fonda Cements the Peace Sign
By Ed Rampell, April 29, 2013 She places her hand next to her father’s at a ceremony on Saturday in Hollywood.read more
View ArticleCenk Uygur Celebrates a Billion Views
By Ed Rampell, May 13, 2013 “FOX is propaganda for the Republicans. MSNBC is propaganda for the Democrats. CNN is propaganda for both.”read more
View ArticleRevenge Fantasy in “Assault on Wall Street”
By Ed Rampell, May 15, 2013 Like “Django Unchained,” this film lets the victims take on their victimizers.read more
View ArticleHeckler-In-Chief: CodePink’s Medea Benjamin
By Ed Rampell, May 24, 2013 “It’s our right as U.S. citizens to know what our government has done in our name.”read more
View ArticleLA Film Festival Full of Political Work
By Ed Rampell, June 20, 2013 There are some truly tasty treats here.read more
View ArticleCosta-Gavras
By Ed Rampell, September 2013 Issue "Cinema has changed the world," says the legendary political filmmaker.read more
View Article“GMO OMG”—Watch What You Eat!
By Ed Rampell, September 13, 2013 A new documentary opens today.read more
View ArticlePsychoanalyst Interprets Obama on Syria
By Ed Rampell, September 14, 2013 How he brought opposites together.read more
View ArticleGo See “The Trials of Muhammad Ali”
By Ed Rampell, September 21, 2013 And find out what his greatest fight was.read more
View ArticleGo See the Movie about MOVE: “Let the Fire Burn”
By Ed Rampell, October 7, 2013 Who ordered the cops in Philly to drop a bomb on a black nationalist group? And who made the decision not to put out the blaze?read more
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