The U.S. media is all but completely ignoring the confirmation process of Mark Feierstein to head up Latin America programs for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Feierstein’s nomination is problematic because, as Bolivia scholar Doug Hertzler notes, “Feierstein, of the firm Greenberg, Quinlan and Rosner served as a political adviser to former Bolivian president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada during his 2002 Presidential campaign…”

Oliver Stone, Mark Weisbrot and Tariq Ali respond to Larry Rohter’s piece, “Oliver Stone’s Latin America, ” published in The New York Times on June 26, 2010.

Will the Real Devil Please Stand Up? Oliver Stone’s Political Road Trip “South of the Border”
By Michelle Fawcett
June 25, 2010 | Posted in Film , IndyBlog , Reviews | Email this article
Will the Real Devil Please Stand Up? Oliver Stone’s Political Road Trip
“South of the Border”
Opens Friday, June 25, Angelika Theater, NY
By Michelle Fawcett
 In the [...]

June 25, 2010
Oliver Stone, Tour Guide

By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: June 25, 2010

Political documentaries shadowed by paranoia and apocalyptic foreboding are so commonplace nowadays that “South of the Border,” Oliver Stone’s celebration of the leftward tilt of South American politics, comes as a cheerful surprise. As anyone who remembers “JFK,” his 1991 film about the Kennedy assassination, [...]

Will the Real Devil Please Stand Up? Oliver Stone’s Political Road Trip “South of the Border”
By Michelle Fawcett
June 25, 2010 | Posted in Film , IndyBlog , Reviews | Email this article
Will the Real Devil Please Stand Up? Oliver Stone’s Political Road Trip
“South of the Border”
Opens Friday, June 25, Angelika Theater, NY
By Michelle Fawcett
In the early 1940s, stymied by striking artists at his Hollywood studios back home, Walt Disney sallied to Latin America to collect raw material for his cartoons. Under the auspices of Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy, he made …

Robert Naiman
Policy Director, Just Foreign Policy
Posted: June 23, 2010 12:59 PM

On April 13, 2002, an event occurred in Venezuela which was as world-historical for South America as the fall of the Berlin Wall was for Eastern Europe: a U.S.-backed coup against the democratically-elected government of Venezuela collapsed. The Bush Administration’s efforts to promote the coup [...]

Movie Review
South of the Border (2010)
Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Jun 23, 2010 EW’s GRADE: B+

Oliver Stone goes on a political tour of South America, interviewing its new wave of socialist leaders in an eye-opening documentary. In earlier projects about Fidel Castro and Yasser Arafat, Stone made the political too personal, but in South of [...]

June 24, 2010
Oliver Stone won Oscars for blockbuster films like Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July. He has also been a controversial political commentator and documentary film maker.
His latest film, South of the Border, explores Latin America’s shift toward socialism led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Stone tells NPR’s Neal Conan what it was [...]

ACTIVIST AND FILMMAKER JOSH TICKELL TO ‘FUEL’ PUSH FOR SOLUTIONS ON DEEPWATER OIL SPILL

With Launch of DVD on June 22nd, the FUEL team of Energy Experts
Began a National Dialogue on Solutions for the DeepWater Oil Spill
Events to Span from Los Angeles to New Orleans and Canada
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LOS ANGELES, CA (June 23, 2010) –   To coincide with the two month anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that triggered the worst environmental disaster in American history and the June 22nd DVD release of the Sundance Award winning documentary, FUEL, …

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Oliver Stone’s new documentary SOUTH OF THE BORDER
Opens Friday June 25th in NEW YORK CITY !!

“ I loved this documentary”
-Bill Maher

“I think this film should be mandatory viewing for every high school student in America …”
- Jesse Ventura, former Governor of Minnesota

“…a VALUABLE and INTERESTING CORRECTIVE to the mainstream media’s often-atrocious coverage of Latin America ,
and a fascinating account of the …