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How To Detect Biases in the Media
David Barsamian
The Emerging Global Economic Order
Noam Chomsky
Interviewed by David Barsamian. Recorded at MIT.
Dissolving Plutocracy
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader spoke at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Plutocracy evolves as power concentrates itself when citizens neglect to exercise their civic power daily. Nader cites examples of plutocracy in the United States: the savings and loan rescue by the FDIC, secret defense contracts, and other forms of corporate welfare. The public assets that […]
Keeping the Rabble In Line
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs
Human Rights in India: Binayak Sen
Satya Sivaraman
Touted as an emerging superpower and the world’s largest democracy, India is a very complex country with enormous internal problems such as desperate economic inequality, hunger, racism, casteism and religious bigotry. There are pogroms of Christians in Orissa and Muslims in Gujarat. Not surprisingly, the oppressed are fighting back. There is a series of mini-wars […]
Democracy Now!
Amy Goodman
Democracy requires an effective system of communication that informs and engages the citizenry. Without broad-based, diverse media, the key issues of power and resource allocation are deflected and ignored. James Madison had a keen sense of this. He said, “A popular government without proper information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue […]
In Pakistan
Begum Akhtar
When Begum Akhtar traveled to Pakistan in 1971 she made one of her greatest recordings. Hear her sing these classic ghazals written by the legendary Urdu poets Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869) and Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984). Bas ke dushwaar hai (Ghalib) Ah ko chaye ek umer (Ghalib) Chasm-e-maigoon zara (Faiz) Sham-e-firaq ab na pooch (Faiz) Phir […]
Imperialism 3-pack
Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali
Includes:
- U.S. Imperialism & the War with Spain
- On Imperialism
- Imperialism: Then & Now
1998 Z Media Institute Seminar
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs For several years each June, at Woods Hole on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, the Z Media Institute (ZMI) was convened by Z Magazine to bring together media activists to network, learn new media skills and hear some of the most important voices on the progressive left. This is the first part of Chomsky’s […]
The Multilateral Agreement on Investment
Noam Chomsky
MAI, the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, crafted in virtually secrecy, is a sweeping new international trade pact. Critics call it, NAFTA on steroids. It is designed to give investment bankers and transnational corporations unprecedented power and privileges over governments and local communities. If enacted its rules would allow foreign investors to challenge national laws and […]
Trash Media: The Tabloidization of the News
Barbara Ehrenreich
Once upon a time sleaze stories were associated with the likes of the National Enquirer. They would confront you while you were in line at supermarket checkout counters. Now, sexcapades, sensationalism and infotainment are pervasive. Step right up, it’s showtime! Media circuses feature such big-time acts as Amy and Joey, Nancy and Tonya and of […]
Media Matters: Monopolies, Pacifica, NPR & PBS
Robert McChesney
2 CDs Robert McChesney talks about the corporatization of the newsroom, monopolies and mergers, NPR, PBS and Pacifica. McChesney also explains the exponential growth of trash media at the expense of investigative journalism. Interview by David Barsamian.

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