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The Dogs of War: From Afghanistan to Iraq
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky talks about the U.S. drive to war from Afghanistan to Iraq and media and propaganda play a crucial role in manufacturing popular support for policies that are contrary to the best interests of the people. Using examples from Goering, Goebbels and Orwell, Chomsky puts on another virtuoso performance. Interview by David Barsamian.
Naming Names: The Hollywood Blacklist
Victor Navasky
The anti-Communist hysteria rampant in the U.S. in the 1940s and 1950s is often called the McCarthy period. But the red-baiting and persecution started even before McCarthy was elected to the Senate in 1946. The notorious House Un-American Activities Committee led the crusade to ferret out alleged Communists in the U.S. They struck gold when […]
Gagging Democracy India-Style
P. Sainath
India, the world’s most populous country, is ruled by Narendra Modi who is the head of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the BJP. He first became prime minister in 2014 and has been reelected twice since though in 2024 with much lower margins. Before coming to power in Delhi he was chief minister of the state […]
Afghanistan, Pakistan & Iran
Ahmed Rashid, Ervand Abrahamian
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran have extensive historical and cultural links. Peoples, languages, music, and food spill over borders. The U.S. is deeply involved in all three nations. It has occupied Afghanistan since October, 2001. It’s pulled Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s military dictator and former patron of jihadi groups, into its orbit. In Iran, U.S. saber-rattling raises […]
Iraq: A Failure of Intelligence
Ray McGovern
When is a lie a lie? What if the Bush Administration deliberately lied about the reasons to attack Iraq? What if intelligence was “cooked”? We know for certain that documents were forged and that outdated information was plagiarized off the Internet and then presented as evidence. Remember Colin Powell’s address to the UN before the […]
The Israel/PLO Accord: A Critical Assessment
Edward Said
The agreement signed by the Israeli government and the Palestine Liberation Organization in Washington on September 13, 1993 has been broadly hailed as a seminal event. Time described it as “one of the greatest miracles of all.” The New York Times called it “the Middle East equivalent of the fall of the Berlin Wall.” The […]
The Athletic-Industrial Complex
Dave Zirin
Sports play a central role in many societies, perhaps nowhere more so than in the United States. From Michael Vick to T. O., to Barry Bonds and A-Rod, athletes are under the microscope. They are multi-millionaire gladiators. Their every dropped ball, at-bat, comment, and gesture are grist for the sports talk mill. There are hours […]
History of the Southeast Asia Drug Trade
Alfred McCoy
The Future of History
Howard Zinn
4 CDs Interview by David Barsamian. Recorded at Harvard.
Interview/call-in
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky calls in to David Barsamian’s program live on KGNU radio.
At Columbia Journalism School
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs Chomsky mixes it up with the next generation of “the best and the brightest” at one of the country’s premier journalism schools. After making some introductory remarks, Chomsky fields questions on various media topics as well as foreign policy issues such as the Test Ban Treaty, Bolivia, Cuba, international terrorism, WTO, Vietnam and […]
Chomsky at Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, 1973
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky speaks at Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, July 13, 1973.

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