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17th Annual State of the World Address
David Barsamian
David Barsamian’s Annual State of the World Address has been a regular event hosted by Thom Peters and the So, You’re a Poet Reading Series since September 11, 2001.
Rethinking Growth
Sunita Narain
In water-stressed India, women walk for miles to fetch water. A stunning illustration of the problem is in the Himalayas. Its millennia-old glaciers are the source of many of Asia’s great rivers. They are shrinking at such a rapid rate that in a quarter of a century they may disappear. The official response in India? […]
Aid to the Nicaraguan Contras
Noam Chomsky, John Silber
from WGBH-TV
Poetry Reading
Ernesto Cardenal
This program features some of Ernesto Cardenal’s most famous poems including: “The Arrival,” “Zero Hour,” Marilyn Monroe,” and “Ecology.” Some of the poems were recorded during Cardenal’s 1985 tour of the U.S. “Zero Hour” has original music composed by Bob Ellis. The poems are recited first in Spanish and then in English. Latin American poetry […]
World Bank/IMF: Fifty Years Is Enough
Danny Kennedy
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund together have more power to influence development in the Third World than do any other institutions on the planet. For the last fifty years, tens of billions of dollars have been loaned to the poorest nations with the ostensible purpose of improving their quality of life. The […]
The Columbian Era: The Next Phase
Noam Chomsky
The European and U.S. cultural, political and economic conquest of the world characterized the 1492-1992 period. Today the United States, although weakened economically, remains the dominant military power. Surveying the past, Noam Chomsky outlines what the coming era may bring. He contends the the current global, political and economic situation is unstable and perilous. Impending […]
Zionism and Israel
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi talks about five crucial concepts: Jewishness, Jews, Judaism, Zionism and Israel. He says, “The settlers who came to Palestine in the late 19th century had clear ideas about creating a state.” He gives the historical background for how Israel came into being. Theodor Herzl, often considered the father of Zionism, was an assimilated […]
The First Amendment Under Attack
Erwin Knoll
The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech and the press. Its language is clear and unambiguous. Nevertheless, in a political climate informed by fear and intolerance, it is being challenged more and more. Under the rubric of family values such books as Diary of Anne Frank and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are removed from […]
National Insecurity
David MacMichael
Interview by David Barsamian.
Wealth and Democracy
Kevin Phillips
The French have a theory that behind every great fortune lies a great crime. The recent corporate crime wave certainly lends credence to that idea. Corporations & the individuals who own them use their money and power to exert an inordinate influence on national politics, thus undermining democracy. Rather than government of, for and by […]
Wealth, Poverty and Power
Holly Sklar
In the 1980s, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. That’s a fact, not a slogan. The decade of greed saw the greatest accumulation of wealth in history. According to Forbes, the conservative magazine, the combined net worth of the 400 richest Americans increased three times. A Brookings study showed that the top […]
2001 Harvard Trade Union Program
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs The latest in a series recorded at the Harvard Trade Union Program. The ability of intellectuals and the propaganda system to avoid and miss crucial stories takes a tremendous amount of training and discipline. One cannot rise to the pinnacles of power and respectability in the academy or the media without mimicking the […]

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