Michael Ruppert
Actor · 1951 – 2014 · Washington, District of Columbia, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michael Craig Ruppert (February 3, 1951 – April 13, 2014) was an American author, a former Los Angeles Police Department officer and investigative journalist and peak oil theorist. Until 2006, he published and edited From The Wilderness, a newsletter and website covering a range of topics including (international) politics, the C.I.A., peak oil, civil liberties, drugs, economics, corruption and 9/11 alternative theories. He is also the author of Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil and was the subject of the 2009 documentary film Collapse. He passed away on April 13th, 2014 after committing suicide, and was found dead in his home in Napa County, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Ruppert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie8.0DocumentaryLiberty Bound takes an entertaining look at America's ongoing struggle to keep a comfortable balance between democracy, capitalism, and fascism. This is a film about historic events that shape history. It is a film about courage and fear; ignorance and knowledge; propaganda and rhetoric. Through original footage, archived footage, and interviews with people such as Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, and Michael Ruppert, Liberty Bound explores the state of the union and its ostensible move toward fascism. We talk with people who have been interrogated by the Secret Service and threatened with arrest for doing such benign things as sending an email, turning around during a Bush speech, and having a philosophical discussion on a train.
Liberty Bound
2004 · 1 votes
Movie7.2DocumentaryDramaFrom the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter Michael Ruppert. He recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out his apocalyptic vision of the future, spanning the crises in economics, energy, environment and more.
Collapse
2009 · 109 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryA presentation of a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society. This subject matter will transcend the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the core, empirical 'life ground' attributes of human and social survival, extrapolating those immutable natural laws into a new sustainable social paradigm called a 'Resource-Based Economy'.
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
2011 · 243 votes
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Examines the link between oil interests and current U.S. military interventions. It includes original footage shot over a four-month period in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan as well as many interviews with a large array of personalities including Bush administration officials.
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror
2005 · 5 votes
Movie8.3DocumentaryThis documentary addresses the plethora of issues that have been raised in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001. Turning a critical eye to the actions of George W. Bush's government before, during, and after the tragedy, director Stephen Marshall has assembled a collection of experts to address questions that have been overlooked in the turbulence of the times. He exposes connections between the hijackers, Pakistani intelligence (ISI), and the CIA, and examines the role that a hunger for oil has played all along.
Aftermath: Unanswered Questions from 9/11
2003 · 3 votes
Movie6.2DocumentaryAfter condemning America's oil dependency in his 2004 documentary The End of Suburbia, filmmaker Gregory Greene here addresses the solutions that will avert catastrophe, outlining the issues actively moving the energy crisis from theory to reality. Spurred to action by the realities of peak oil, Greene focuses his camera on individuals across the country brave enough to challenge and instigate their communities into serious change.
Escape from Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream
2007 · 4 votes
MovieDocumentaryContemporary prophets have begun to emerge to suggest that today's problems might be signs of the demise of the modern world. They are historians as well, using all information and patterns from the past to provide context for where we are going.
Prophets of Doom
2011