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The Right Turn of the Supreme Court
Nadine Strossen
The Supreme Court is at the center of numerous controversies ranging from freedom of speech to reproductive rights. No issue is more volatile than Roe v. Wade, which guarantees women the right to an abortion. The Court is currently hearing a case which may decide the fate of Roe. Nadine Strossen contends that the Court […]
Invasions & Evasions
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky talks about tinkerers vs. overhaulers. He says, “We should be in favor of both. Sometimes tinkering with the system can be of great help to people.” And addressing media reform, he says, “If you can induce the media to give a somewhat fairer treatment of significant issues, that’s all to the good. It doesn’t […]
GI Resistance
Dahr Jamail
At Nuremberg the plea of, “I was just following orders” was not accepted by the tribunal. That raises the question: What are soldiers to do when faced with orders they know to be against international law and basic morality? Today, reports of U.S. troops refusing orders, of active duty soldiers refusing deployment and speaking out […]
If You Love This Planet
Helen Caldicott
lecture, interview
2001 Z Media Institute Seminar
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky’s latest foray at the Z Media Institute 2001. His almost usual off-the-cuff tour de force. Two seminars and a lecture covering such topics as terrorism – theirs and ours, human rights and relativism, democracy and transparency, Kyoto protocol, Al-Aqsa intifada, war criminals, Bob Kerrey, Vietnam, Kosovo, Colombia, Turkey, threats of war, militarization of space, […]
Araxie, Armenia, 1915
Araxie Barsamian
WTO Debate
Ralph Nader
2 CDs The World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Seattle generated an enormous amount of media attention, controversy and some of the biggest protests in decades. WTO supporters say that free trade, the unimpeded flow of goods, services and capital, results in broad economic and social benefits. The elimination of trade barriers lifts poor people […]
Rubbish: What Garbage Tells Us About Ourselves
William Rathje
Whether it comes in the form of papers, bottles, cans, phone books or diapers, our collective trash constitutes a serious environmental problem. Landfills get bigger and bigger. Trains crisscross the land and barges roam the seas in search of dumping sites. There is much to be learned about our culture and patterns of consumption from […]
Timor: Lessons of a Tragedy
Noam Chomsky
Corporate Control of Information
Herbert Schiller
In his classic work The Media Monopoly, Ben Bagdikian documents the continuing trend of media concentration in the hands of fewer and fewer corporations. The latest megamerger has Viacom taking over Paramount. Expanding corporate control of media poses serious social and political consequences to the functioning of a pluralistic democratic society. Major technological breakthroughs promise to […]
Mohamed Bouazizi & the Arab Revolts
Rami Khouri
After being humiliated by state authorities, Mohamed Bouazizi, an unknown street vendor in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouaziz, set himself on fire on December 17, 2010. Just a few weeks before, WikiLeaks published revelations confirming what virtually every Tunisian knew: The regime of Ben Ali was thoroughly corrupt and operated like a mafia family. […]
The BBC Interview
Noam Chomsky

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