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The Midnight Soldiers
Daniel Sheehan
The Midnight Soldiers, according to Daniel Sheehan, are a secret team of former CIA agents, retired military officers, anti-Castro Cubans, and others, with connections to the White House, who run guns, smuggle drugs, and carry out political assassinations. The Midnight Soldiers network has airlines, airstrips, depots, bank accounts, and all the trappings of a major […]
IRAN 3-Pack
Ervand Abrahamian, John Ghazvinian, Nader Hashemi
Includes:
- U.S. & Iran: Four Decades of Hostility
- Hidden History of U.S.-Iran Relations
- Retargeting Iran
Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal
Anthony Arnove, Amy Goodman, Howard Zinn
Four decades ago the Vietnam War led to millions of deaths throughout Indochina. 58,000 Americans were killed. The war generated enormous opposition in the U.S. Today the U.S. is in another war of aggression in Iraq. Mirroring the Vietnam happy talk of lights at ends of tunnels, General Peter Pace, the head of the Joint […]
Kosovo and Iraq
Noam Chomsky
The hypocrisy quotient runs particularly high as moral standards are invoked to justify indiscriminate bombing campaigns. In this talk, Chomsky reveals how, under the cover of humanitarian concerns, NATO gets built up as an international police force in Kosovo, and in Iraq, the United Nations becomes the conduit for U.S. intervention.
Third World and the New World Order
Michael Manley
The collapse of the Soviet Union ushered in what is trumpeted as a NewWorld Order. The Cold War has melted down. What does the end of theEast-West conflict mean for the Third World? The Third World refers to developing countries, many of them former colonies, which were not aligned with either of the superpower blocs.
Korten 3-Pack
David Korten
Includes:
- Our Planetary Existential Crisis
- Beyond Money
- Toward an Ecological Civilization
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 […]
Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories
Richard Falk
Richard Falk delivers the 11th Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture. Since Edward Said’s death in 2003 a number of institutions around the world have sponsored talks by renowned academics in his honor. This lecture is by Richard Falk. He says of Edward Said, that he “addresses the challenge of apparent defeat and the accompanying feelings of […]
Give Em Hell 3-Pack
Ralph Nader
Includes:
- Corporatism’s Threat to Democracy
- Land of the Lawless
- Sovereignty of the People
With Donahue
Noam Chomsky
Going Local: Self-Reliant Communities
Michael Shuman
Some say that small business is a prerequisite to democracy in the Americas. But the current trend is to attract multinational corporations with tax abatements, reduced environmental standards and a plethora of goodies offered in an ever-escalating bidding war. The results: communities that are vulnerable to remote decisions and capital flight and an at-risk local […]
Activism and the Media
Noam Chomsky
What are the issues faced by alternative media sources, and how can these be overcome? How does the mainstream media function, and what are its goals? In this discussion with Canadian media activists, Noam Chomsky uses his own experiences to provide some insight into these questions and others about media, and activism in general.

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