The Covert Origins of ISIS (Storm Clouds Gathering, August 2014) # "Evidence exposing who put ISIS in power, and how it was done." Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMjXbuj7BPI (SCG) Transcript and Sources: https://stormcloudsgathering.com/posts/the-covert-origins-of-isis/ # Read more: [The Syria Deception](https://swprs.org/the-syria-deception/) (SPR) # ***

The Gate Of Heavenly Peace - Tiananmen Square Protests (PBS Frontline, 1995) # "The Gate of Heavenly Peace is a three-hour 1995 documentary film, produced by Richard Gordon and Carma Hinton, about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. The film uses archival footage and contemporary interviews with a wide range of Chinese citizens, including workers, students, intellectuals, and government officials, to revisit the events of “Beijing Spring.” In addition, The Gate of Heavenly Peace examines the deeper history behind the demonstrations, providing historical and cultural context for the famous images that the Western media flashed around the world. The Gate of Heavenly Peace received a George Foster Peabody Award, both the International Critics Prize and Best Social and Political Documentary at the Banff World Television Festival, and a National News & Documentary Emmy Award Nomination. Other awards include: Award for Excellence, American Anthropological Association, Golden Spire, San Francisco International Film Festival, and Best of Festival, New England Film & Video Festival." ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gate_of_Heavenly_Peace_%28film%29)) # Chai Ling interview: At 02:08:10, the film shows the famous interview of Chinese student leader, Chai Ling, by American journalist Philip Cunningham. In this interview, which took place on 28 May 1989, Chai Ling stated that they hoped for an escalation and bloodshed: "The students keep asking, "What should we do next? What can we accomplish?" I feel so sad, because how can I tell them that what we are actually hoping for is bloodshed, for the moment when the government has no choice but to brazenly butcher the people. Only when the Square is awash with blood will the people of China open their eyes. Only then will they really be united. But how can I explain any of this to my fellow students?" # Sources: Source (2014): https://www.youtube.com/@miculmasten8171/videos Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gate_of_Heavenly_Peace_%28film%29 Film website and transcript: http://tsquare.tv/ # Read more: WikiSpooks: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Tiananmen Columbia Journalism Review (1998): https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.php World Affairs (2019): https://worldaffairs.blog/2019/06/02/tiananmen-square-massacre-facts-fiction-and-propaganda/ # Playlist: [Tiananmen Square Protests (1989)](https://odysee.com/@swprs:3/Tiananmen-Square-%281989%29:f) (SPR) ***

Checkmate – The Strategy of a Revolution (2003 documentary) A 2003 ARTE documentary about the 1989 Romanian revolution. Written and directed by Susanne Brandstaetter. # Description: "How do you fabricate a revolution? Susanne Brandstaetter worked for almost three years on her documentary film "Checkmate - Strategy of a Revolution", in order to understand the background of the Romanian revolution in 1989 and the overthrow of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Her film shows how and why Germany, Hungary and above all the United States acted behind the scenes. This was not just about the well-being of the Romanian people. Europe's unification and Germany's reunification were at stake - and America's supremacy. Susanne Brandstaetter places the events in Romania in an international context and reveals the their full dimension. It was an international chess game - a power game with far-reaching consequences for Europe and the United States." Source: https://www.susannebrandstaetter.com/schachmatt.html ***

Tantura: Interview with Director Alon Schwarz (2022) | Israel & Palestine # "Hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated in 1948. To Israelis, it was the War of Independence, to Palestinians it was 'Al Nakba' - the Catastrophe. Director Alon Schwarz revisits former Israeli soldiers as well as Palestinian residents in an effort to re-examine what happened in Tantura, the location of an alleged, Israeli-perpetrated massacre, and find out why 'Al Nakba' is still a taboo in Israeli society." # Full documentary: https://archive.org/details/tantura_2022 Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUUPc9gE4o8 Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNtrUjUNkJw # Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killings_and_massacres_during_the_1948_Palestine_war # Playlist: [Israel and Mossad](https://odysee.com/@swprs:3/Israel---Mossad:f) (SPR) # ***