Just three weeks since No Other Land won Best Documentary Feature Film at the Academy Awards, the film’s Palestinian co-director Hamdan Ballal was beaten, kidnapped and tortured by Israeli settlers and the Israeli Defense Forces. But the deafening silence from the Academy has drawn condemnation, reports Isaac Nellist.
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The Writers Guild of America (WGA) secured a tentative agreement with the major Hollywood studios and streaming companies on September 24, ending its nearly five-month-long strike, reports Malik Miah.
How to Read Donald Duck
By Ariel Dorfman & Armand Mattelart, translated by David Kunzle
Pluto Press, 2019Â
192 pp, $17.00
Today, as the streets of Chile burn with rebellion, it is timely to look back on this book, which was burned by the military during the 1973 overthrow of the socialist Salvador Allende presidency.