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Crashing the Party
Ralph Nader
The Enron scandal again focuses attention on corporate malfeasance and greed. Enron did not pay taxes in 4 of the last 5 years as it stashed away money in offshore accounts. As hotelier Leona Helmsley famously said, “Only little people pay taxes.” She wasn’t kidding. A recent report says the IRS is much more inclined […]
Portrait of Ghalib
Begum Akhtar, Muhammad Rafi
Mirza Asadullah Khan Baig known by his pen name Ghalib was Urdu’s finest poet and master of the ghazal, love poem. He was born in Agra in 1797 and died in Delhi in 1869. His range, imagery, and command of language are stunning. Today his poems are recited by South Asians everywhere. This recording was […]
Why to Care About Y2K?
Helen Caldicott
Some computer programs, especially the older ones, might fail when the date changes to 2000. Because the programs were written to recognize only the last two digits of a year, such programs could read the digits 00 as 1900, potentially causing a whole range of problems affecting financial transactions, airline schedules and electrical grids. Other […]
Inside the Media Monopoly
Ben Bagdikian
The concentration of the media into fewer and fewer Multinational corporations is one of the major developments of this era. What hundreds of millions of people around the world see, hear and read each day is determined by a handful of media giants. The trend is toward ever increasing political and cultural homogenization: McNews.
Afghanistan, bin Laden, and the Taliban
Nasim Zehra
In late December 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. The United States in its goal to oust them cut Faustian bargains with individuals and groups that are now implicated in terrorist attacks. The CIA organized, equipped, and financed the Afghan resistance, the Mujahideen. They were lauded as “freedom fighters” by President Reagan. Among them was […]
The Greenbelt Movement of Kenya
Wangari Maathai
The Greenbelt Movement of Kenya is an indigenous, grassroots environmental campaign with tree planting as its basic activity. Although its objectives are many and varied, the tree has been used as a focal point around which other environmental issues are discussed and brought to the attention of the public and decision makers. Interview by David […]
Another World is Possible
Noam Chomsky
Jihad vs. McWorld
Benjamin Barber
The Bush administration’s tired refrain to explain terrorist acts against the U.S. continues to be that they hate us for our freedoms. Invasion and occupation of rogue nations will lead them out of their darkness and bring them U.S.-style democracy. But will that truly put an end to terrorism or create a cycle that only […]
Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines
Robin Broad
Reports of environmental degradation and eco-crises in the Third World are all too commonplace. The Philippines, a vast island chain in Southeast Asia, is a case in point. Its lush land has undergone devastating destruction. Its people have been impoverished. But there’s another aspect to this story. Filipinos are organizing to defend their interests. They […]
The Media Manufacturing Consent
Alexander Cockburn
Recorded at Baseline Junior High School.
The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide
Peter Balakian
Milan Kundera, the great Czech writer said, “The struggle of humankind against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” Writing in the 1970s, he acknowledges how events get passed over and passed by. “The bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned […]
Class, etc.
Noam Chomsky
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