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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 […]
India’s Great Sitarist in Concert
Ravi Shankar
A wonderful, rare live recording featuring sitar maestro Ravi Shankar and his long-time accompanist Allah Rakha on tabla. You’ll hear two ragas in this concert. The first raga is “Pat Manjari” in jhaptal, a ten-beat rhythmic cycle. That is followed by another evening raga, “Shyam Kalyan.” The first composition, gat, is in slow vilambit teental […]
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 […]
A Syrian View of the Middle East
Muhammed Aziz Shukri
Syria is a millennia old civilization with great traditions in music, poetry, architecture and art. Damascus, its capital, is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world. Syria sided with the U.S. in the 1991 war on Iraq. Yet Americans know virtually nothing about the country. When they do hear something in the media about Syria, it is usually negative […]
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, […]
Reel Bad Arabs
Jack Shaheen
Hollywood is good at stereotypes. Simple struggles of good versus evil, heroes against villains, can be a safe bet for box office success. Those stereotypes can have a strong impact in the real world. Film is a powerful force for shaping our imagination and our perception of reality. For decades, one of Hollywood’s favorite villains […]
The Human Face of the Global Economy
Charlie Kernaghan
When you go down to your nearest mall and shop for clothes, you are looking for the best price. If you can get a name brand, all the better. Few consider who makes that shirt, sweater or pair of jeans or sneakers. Evidence has mounted in the past few years that much of the clothing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]

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