I like movies that make you think.
According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.
The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased. . . . No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment.
Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.
Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.
The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.
For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over the talent, the science, the technology, how to buy out the human capital, how to acquire the intellectual property rights?
For stand-up comedians that go onstage and get to write and perform and direct, and do all these things, the allure of a television show is still there but if it doesn't offer a level of creative fulfillment, it's oddly unappealing.
Just out here workin' hard and doin' what we do best: grind, hustle, and anything possible to create new opportunities.
We are creatures of story.
I have two loves: my country and Paris.