Oliver Stone’s insightful new documentary will introduce North American viewers to the Presidents of Latin America and their leftist revolution when it becomes available on DVD and Blu-ray on October 26, 2010 with over ninety minutes of special features, including a 2010 interview with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

The film chronicles Stone’s travels to South America in the winter of 2009 and tells the story of the rise to power of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and other South American presidents responsible for sweeping changes in the region. The film features intimate conversations with Chávez, Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Néstor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba).

For Immediate Release
From Executive Producers Norman Lear and George Lopez presenting
“EL SÚPERSTAR: THE UNLIKLEY RISE OF JUAN FRANCÉS”
A musical comedy on race, ambition and family…Angeleno style
EXCLUSIVE LOS ANGELES ENGAGEMENT STARTS SEPTEMBER 17th
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LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles’ multi-cultural landscape is hilariously skewered in Amy French’s musical comedy from Executive Producers Norman Lear and George Lopez. A native angelena and first time director, French mines her Hollywood upbringing in this tongue-in-cheek narrative about music, aspiration and race.  “El Súperstar: The Unlikely Rise of Juan Francés” starts an exclusive engagement at Laemmle’s …

An excellent op-ed by The Guardian’s Seumas Milne sums up the changes underway in South America, citing “South of the Border”: “Both the scale of the transformation and the misrepresentation of what is taking place in the western media are driven home in Oliver Stone’s new film, South of the Border, which allows six of these new wave leaders to speak for themselves. Most striking is their mutual support and common commitment – from Cristina Kirchner of Argentina to the more leftist Evo Morales – to take back ownership of their continent.”

Motive Industries’ Cannabis Composite EV Satisfies Your Need for Speed, Weed
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ Fri Aug 20, 2010
Motive Industries recently announced plans for Canada’s first biocomposite electric vehicle–made of hemp. Will cops have automatic probable cause to search it?
In a move that will only strengthen the association between potheads and environmentalism, Motive Industries recently announced that it is working on Canada’s first biocomposite electric vehicle. The biocomposite in question? Hemp.
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Marijuana may cause Canada’s economic comedown
A thriving marijuana industry has aided Canada’s economy – but political shifts in the US and at home are now threatening this.
Douglas Haddow, Thursday 5th August 2010
If you’ve been paying attention to some of the more peculiar side-effects of the global recession, you may have noticed that Canadians have been behaving uncharacteristically uppity of late. This new-found swagger is a result of Canada having the dubious distinction of being the “least-bad-rich-world-economy” – an honour that would be rather unimpressive if the rest of the G8 …

Why hemp could save the world
August 10th, 2010
By: D.M.Murdock
That title probably should say, “Why hemp could have saved the world all along,” because the plant should never have been banned in the first place, and its prohibition has led to untold suffering around the globe. If we—the global human population—had been able to grow the miracle plant hemp (Cannabis genus) locally and to use it for local industries and businesses, including and especially for fuel, we would never have needed to be addicted to oil, for one, an addiction that is …

It has been generally standard fare in the media to refer to Venezuela’s Globovision as the “sole opposition-aligned television channel,” as the AP has put it.  Rarely, if ever, is the actual reporting of Globovision put into context, which makes a July 29 Los Angeles Times article all the more amazing.  Chris Kraul and Mery [...]

Mark Weisbrot’s new response to New York Times reporter Larry Rohter’s latest attacks on “South of the Border” was posted on the History News Network site yesterday…

FAIR questions why the Washington Post editorial board would cite an alleged photo of an ELN guerrilla commander drinking Venezuelan beer as evidence of Venezuelan support for the FARC, which is, after all a different armed group.

Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali: brothers in arms Eighteen months ago, Tariq Ali got a call from Oliver Stone: could he help with his new film? The result was a powerful documentary about Latin America – and a new friendship by Tariq Ali Monday 26 July 2010 21.31 BST Almost a year and a half ago I received a phone call [...]