Michael Moore

Michael Moore          (Director, Producer, Writer, Author, Journalist, Political activist, Actor)
Born	Michael Francis Moore 23 April 1954 Flint, Michigan, United States
Spouse	Kathleen Glynn
Interests	Consumerism
American documentary film-maker and author, called talking about the 9-11 NORAD stand-down "'un-American".

Not to be confused with the UK Ditchley member, Michael Kevin Moore.

Michael Francis Moore is an American documentary filmmaker and author. He commented about the 2016 US presidential election that:

“Trump is the human hand-grenade of the dispossessed”.

Blockbusting filmmaker

Michael Moore is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), a critical look at the presidency of George W. Bush and the War on Terror, which is the highest-grossing documentary at the American box office of all time and winner of the Palme d'Or. His film Bowling for Columbine (2002), which examines the causes of the Columbine High School massacre, won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

Both Fahrenheit 9/11 and Sicko (2007), which examine health care in the United States, are among the top ten highest-grossing documentaries. In September 2008, he released his first free movie on the Internet, Slacker Uprising, which documented his personal quest to encourage more Americans to vote in presidential elections. He has also written and starred in the TV shows TV Nation, a satirical newsmagazine television series, and The Awful Truth, a satirical show.

Globally influential

Moore's written and cinematic works criticise topics such as globalisation, large corporations, assault weapon ownership, U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, the Iraq War, the American health care system, and capitalism. In 2005, Time magazine named Moore one of the world's 100 most influential people.

Opinions

911

Once questioned by Alex Jones on the street why he does not talk about the NORAD stand down, he answered:

"Because it would be Un-American".

Gaza Genocide

Document:In the Holy Land, Just a Couple of Dead Catholics

Document:A Boxing Day Reply to a Friendly Reader about Israel:

Dear Aron -

Because you’re smart and you know the truth, one day you will write to me and say you are sorry for sending me this on Christmas. But you don’t have to. You wrote me this note because you were upset. You were assured by many people throughout the years that Israel would always be there as a place of refuge and safety for you. And that we non-Jews would always be there to protect you, protect Israel and ensure that never again would there be another Holocaust perpetrated upon the Jewish people of this planet.

But never in a million years did we think that the greatest threat to Israel would be its own leader who would not only turn to fascism and genocide, but he would actually see to it that Hamas received secret funding in the billions of dollars — and that he, Benjamin Netanyahu, would pull the Israeli Army back from the Gazan border in the days before October 7, 2023 — and leave thousands of Israelis unprotected in their kibbutzim thus making it possible for Hamas to attack these unprotected Israeli areas. And while these innocent Israeli citizens were being massacred, their cries and phone calls to Israeli police and authorities went unanswered — some for up to 14 hours! — as they desperately tried to fend off the attack. I know people who live in these kibbutzim, an area full of peaceniks and anti-Netanyahu sentiment. Netanyahu’s criminal activities had months earlier led to his multiple felony indictments — and he was scheduled to stand trial just weeks after the slaughter. This preventable Hamas attack and subsequent Israeli-staged one-sided "war" was just what Netanyahu needed to halt all proceedings against him, to declare a sort of martial law to distract the citizenry, and to form a new “War Council” that would rule Israel and do something his right-wing Likud coalition had wanted to do for decades: Conduct a full scale annihilation and/or forced removal of the Palestinian people in Gaza — complete with carpet bombing the areas where 240 Israeli hostages were being held! Who would bomb and kill their own people? Half of those hostages are now dead!

The whole thing is sick. It’s utter madness! Aron, you will reluctantly realise this some day. That the Israel that was supposed to last forever came to be something else, not at the hands of terrorists or its sworn enemies, but rather at the hands of its own leader and his cabal of fascists, right-wingers, ethnic cleansers, religious fanatics and their American Christian nationalist allies — the 'Original Masters of Genocide': the US military-industrial complex.

Aron, I want you to know that when you do get this all figured out I will be here as your ally and friend — and grateful to you and your ancestors who for many millennia provided a powerful moral compass to the world insofar as how we should live our best lives and how we must all stand for justice and conscience. Thank you for writing me on this first night of Hanukkah. You’ve made me realise that to help save and protect my Jewish sisters and brothers, I must say more and perhaps share what I've learned from my Jewish friends over the years, from my travels to Israel and Palestine, from the people I've met by belonging to Jewish Voice for Peace, and perhaps a few personal stories, including the one of my niece’s bat mitzvah at Masada where a rabbi assured me in advance that all of us jumping off the cliff would not be part of the ceremony.

Michael

(Hebrew for “he who is like G-d”. Nice.)

 

Documents by Michael Moore

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:A Boxing Day Reply to a Friendly Reader about Israel	blog post	26 December 2024	"Terrorism" Benjamin Netanyahu Military-industrial-congressional complex Genocide Israel/Defense Forces Christian Zionism Ethnic cleansing 2023-2025 Israel-Hamas War	"Aron, you will reluctantly realise this some day. That the Israel that was supposed to last forever came to be something else, not at the hands of terrorists or its sworn enemies, but rather at the hands of its own leader and his cabal of fascists, right-wingers, ethnic cleansers, religious fanatics and their American Christian nationalist allies — the 'Original Masters of Genocide': the US military-industrial complex."
Document:In the Holy Land, Just a Couple of Dead Catholics	blog post	25 December 2024	"Terrorism" Gaza Benjamin Netanyahu Genocide Israel/Defense Forces Ethnic cleansing	"One year later I thought we should not forget them. We should offer up to their memory, their souls, our promise that not only will they not be forgotten, we will not give up our fight for their freedom and the freedom of their families. Say their names. Place this photo of them somewhere special."

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