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Congo, Jazz & the CIA: Oscar-Nominated “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” Revisits Lumumba Assassination
The Oscar-nominated documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat recounts the events leading up to Black American jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach’s 1961 protest at the United Nations of the CIA-backed killing of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. The first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lumumba was an icon of the Pan-African and anti-colonial movements. He was tortured and killed shortly after the formation of the first government of independent Congo following a military coup supported by Belgium, the United States and powerful mining interests. Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat's Belgian director Johan Grimonprez explains that Lumumba's assassination was “the ground zero of how the West was about to deal with the riches of the African continent.”
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Congo, Jazz & the CIA: Oscar-Nominated “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” Revisits Lumumba Assassination (Full Interview)
Watch our full, in-depth interview with Belgian director Johan Grimonprez about his Oscar-nominated documentary, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.
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Is Elon Musk taking over the US government? Here’s how ‘state capture’ works – and why we should be concerned
Elon Musk has been accused of attempting a coup or hostile takeover of the US government. His actions could better be described as a form of ‘state capture’. Here’s what that means.
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This Supreme Court has redefined the meaning of corruption
Under Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court has made it much harder for federal prosecutors to go after corrupt state and local officials.
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Political assassinations are not just an American problem – they have been all too frequent throughout history
Killing a prominent individual rarely brings about the widespread change the act is intended to achieve.
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What QAnon supporters, butthole sunners and New Age spiritualists have in common
New Age beliefs, alternative wellness practices and political conspiracies all fall under the umbrella of stigmatized knowledge, which can be attractive to anyone, no matter their political leanings.
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Global corporate power is ‘out of control’, but reports of democracy’s death are greatly exaggerated
Multinational corporations can dictate how resources are allocated, territories are governed, and justice is defined.
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Marianne Williamson, Fusing Bernie Sanders and (Early) Jordan Peterson, Is Taking Over TikTok
Marianne mania is gripping TikTok.
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More means less: Extended copyright benefits the corporate few, not the public
Canada’s extension of copyright might be good for corporations that hold copyrights, but it’s bad news for creators and the public.
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Attention deficit disorder, the anticapitalist condition
ADHD is the neurological condition of late capitalism. But it’s also its exterminating angel
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