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Deterring Democracy
Noam Chomsky
Deep Economy
Bill McKibben
Public opinion on global warming has dramatically shifted. Perhaps it was the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” or people finally feeling the heat. Eleven out of the dozen years from 1995-2006 were among the 12 hottest on record. A recent poll reveals 86% of respondents favored action to deal with the problem. An authoritative UN report […]
American History 3-Pack
Eric Foner, David Stannard, Adam Winkler
Includes:
- The Legacy of Reconstruction
- Native American Holocaust
- Corporate Constitutional Rights
The New American Militarism
Andrew Bacevich
In a famous exchange, in the 1990s, Madeleine Albright demanded of General Colin Powell, “What’s the point of having this superb military that you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?” Well, the U.S. is using that military all over the world and has constructed an empire of more than 700 bases. Not only […]
Telling It Like It Is
Studs Terkel
Memory is not simply recalling events. It is, as poet Peter Balakian notes, a moral act. Beyond that, how society constructs and represents the past is profoundly political. What is celebrated, denigrated or omitted has widespread ideological implications.
What Next in the Middle East?
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs Chomsky goes over the record of the salient issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with particular attention to the relevant facts omitted from history. For decades the overwhelming international consensus has been in favor of a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders. Despite Obama’s “soaring rhetoric” he deviates little from the long-standing U.S. […]
Technology, Spirituality & the Future of the Planet
Helen Caldicott
The planet is not in good shape. As a 1995 World Watch Institute report states: “Evidence that the world is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable can be seen in shrinking fish catches, falling water tables, declining bird populations, record heat waves and dwindling grain stocks, just to name a few.” In various […]
The Emerging Global Economic Order
Noam Chomsky
Interviewed by David Barsamian. Recorded at MIT.
The Shrinking Horizon of Hope
Edward Said
2 CDs The peace process between Israelis and Palestinians is teetering. The current round of negotiations began in Madrid and culminated with the Oslo Accords and the much-celebrated 1993 signing in Washington. The pundits assured us that the long-time rivals had finally come to terms. Today, few express such optimism. Large parts of the West […]
Feminism in the ’90s
Barbara Ehrenreich
Speaking before a university audience in Montreal, Barbara Ehrenreich talks about feminism in the U.S., how it is perceived abroad, and what a just and humane vision for a new feminism might look like. According to her thesis, we are now in a post-patriarchal society in which the power of men over women in the […]
The Poetry of Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg
Features two 1985 recordings of Ginsberg reading his poetry. The first is at Naropa University in Boulder, CO. The second is a field recording of Ginsberg reading his poem “Plutonian Ode” at the Rocky Flats Peace Camp, a protest encampment just outside the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons production facility eight miles south of Boulder. The program […]
From Afghanistan to Iraq: The Bush Wars
Medea Benjamin
In 2001, George W. Bush promised liberation and a better life for people in Afghanistan. In 2003, he pledged the same thing to the people of Iraq. It’s 2004 and both nations struggle with daily violence, poverty, extremely high unemployment rates, and a lack of basic health and safety infrastructure. The aftermath of these Bush […]

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