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Race 3-Pack
Michael Eric Dyson, Jeffery Robinson, Eddie Glaude, Cornel West
Includes:
- Chaos or Community?
- The South, Slavery & the Lost Cause
- James Baldwin’s Legacy
Cable News Confidential
Jeff Cohen
The advent of CNN, the first 24/7 news channel in 1980, was hailed as a revolutionary development in media. It was soon to be followed by others. The results have not been encouraging. Most of the so-called news consists of fluff pieces on celebrity deaths, divorces, marriages, adoptions, babies, affairs and kidnappings. Recall Fox’s Geraldo […]
History & Memory
Noam Chomsky
A two-part interview conducted on May 9 and May 12, 1995. Interview by David Barsamian. Recorded at MIT.
Sea Shepherds
Paul Watson
They fire chocolate pies and stink bombs from cannons. They also sink docked ships. They’ve dismantled the illegal Icelandic whaling industry and have been attacked by the Norwegian Navy. Governments and the corporate media call them terrorists, but these activists call themselves the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Their sole mission is to defend marine wildlife.The […]
Testimonies from Iraq War Veterans
Winter Soldier
The Winter Soldier investigation originally took place in Detroit in 1971. Vietnam War veterans testified about war crimes they had committed or witnessed. In 2003 the United States invaded Iraq on false pretenses. Not one of the many allegations to justify the attack was true. In an endless war and occupation no one has been […]
One Step Ahead of the Landlord
Howard Zinn
Join Howard Zinn as he talks about his background, formative experiences and the path he took. He says, “I grew up in the slums of Brooklyn, a working class family. My parents were immigrants. My father came from Austria, my mother from Asiatic Russia, Siberia. I remember moving all the time. We were always one […]
Chile: State of Siege
Francisco Gonzalez
A chilling eyewitness account of the terror in Chile in the wake of the 1973 coup. Branded as one of the ten most wanted men in Chile, Gonzalez describes his incarceration and the internal resistance to the Pinochet dictatorship. He says the U.S./CIA involvement was “decisive in the overthrow of Salvador Allende.” The UN and […]
Gold Mining: Environmental Destruction
Danny Kennedy
Gold is history’s most coveted and celebrated element. For the Pharaohs of Egypt it had mystical status, functioning as the ultimate secular sacred object. The quest for gold propelled Columbus, Pizarro and others into a genocidal frenzy. Today gold mining, a major industry, continues unabated. And more often than not, indigenous people are affected. In […]
The Corporate Takeover of Broadcasting
Robert McChesney
Radio broadcasting emerged dramatically in the early 1920s. By the end of the decade the modern network-dominated, advertising-supported system had become established. By 1935 radio was entrenched economically, politically and ideologically, and it would provide the basis for the eventual development of television in the 1940s and 1950s. What is generally not known is that […]
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 […]

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