Michael Kirk

"Secrets, Politics and Torture" screen grab.

How the CIA helped make ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ — and shape the torture debate

May 19, 2015Conflict

The 2012 blockbuster about the hunt for Osama bin Laden reflected the CIA’s narrative that torture, euphemistically called “enhanced interrogation techniques,” was key in finding the terrorist leader. But was that version of history true? A new documentary from PBS Frontline shows it wasn’t.

Michael Kirk on “Money, Power and Wall Street”

August 15, 2013

Inside the Meltdown: A new film illuminates the economy’s collapse

August 14, 2013Global Politics

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