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A Latino Response to Cultural Cleansing
Ruben Blades
Census figures are in. The Latino population in major U.S. cities has grown 43% in ten years. Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago had the largest growth. Market researchers are fully aware of the Latino market, but when will the Latino presence be heard in the voices of policymakers? In California, 73% of the voters who […]
India: States of Resistance
Vandana Shiva
Washington and its echo chambers in the media like Thomas Friedman never cease to extol the virtues of so-called free trade. So-called because it is heavily dependent on taxpayer subsidies. While well-paying jobs disappear in the United States and wages are stagnant, citizens fork over billions of dollars to top corporations to export their products. […]
The Drug War, Colombia & U.S. Policy
Noam Chomsky
The Case for Vegetarianism
Howard Lyman
In August 1997, E. coli bacteria in hamburgers resulted in the largest meat recall in U.S. history. More than 25 million pounds of beef were pulled from the market. Major chains such as Burger King, Wal-Mart and Safeway halted sales of suspect patties. Despite this incident and others, meat-eating remains a central part of many […]
Science of Coercion: Psychological Warfare
Christopher Simpson
During the Cold War, a battle raged for control of people’s minds. U.S. military, intelligence and propaganda agencies saw mass communication as an instrument of persuasion and domination. To achieve their goals, they enlisted top professors and universities. The legacy of that relationship between the government and the academy was profound, and it continues today. The academic studies provided an […]
Barbara Ehrenreich 3-pack
Barbara Ehrenreich
Includes:
- Kicking People When They’re Down
- Nickel & Dimed: Women, Welfare & Work
- A Progressive Vision for Social Change
Robbing People Blind: U.S. Economic Policy
Noam Chomsky
Wall Street is on a roll. Profits are going through the roof. Yet, paradoxically workers just had their worst year on record. The US leads in the dubious category of income inequality. Of all the industrialized nations, not one has as great a gulf between the rich and poor as the US, and the situation […]
Race, Power & Prisons Since September 11th
Angela Davis
In 1992, an all-white jury acquitted 4 white police officers after they brutally beat Rodney King, a black man, as he lay prone on the ground. The United States was sitting on a racial tinderbox. Fueled by enormous inequality between whites and people of color, it erupted. L.A. burned. 55 people died, 2300 were injured, […]
Jihad: Theirs and Ours
Tariq Ali
Now in its fifth year, how is “mission accomplished” in Iraq going? The National Intelligence Estimate says, “The Iraq conflict has become the ’cause celebre’ for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of U.S. involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement.” A newly released study “Iraq Effect” reports the war […]
Thought Control
Noam Chomsky
Strategies for a Just Peace
Noam Chomsky
In the U.S. “elite elements across the board agree we are a violent lawless state not subject to international law.” Unless the peace movement addresses “real institutional changes we are putting band aids on cancers.” How to change things? Chomsky reminds people “it’s basically in our hands.” Good discussion on the Iraq-Iran War and U.S. […]
The Color Line in the 21st Century
Ron Daniels
W. E. B. DuBois, the great African American scholar and activist in his classic 1903 work The Souls of Black Folk wrote, “The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line.” Now with a new century where has the line moved. Racism today is far more complex than it was in […]

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