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Beyond the War Economy
Seymour Melman
TWA and Macy’s are but two of U.S. corporations to file for bankruptcy. There are daily announcements of new layoffs. Key industrial centers are turning into rust belts. Serious problems plague the economy. Instead of rational planning, we have Asia-bashing. The military sector absorbs a huge amount of money, resources, and talent. Until and unless […]
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 […]
Civil Rights 3-Pack
David Cole, Glenn Greenwald, Bryan Stevenson
Includes:
- Guardians of Liberty
- In Defense of Civil Liberties
- Justice for Some
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? […]
Haiti: U.S. Policy
Noam Chomsky
Media
Ben Bagdikian, Norman Solomon
Two respected media scholars hold forth.
Target Iraq
Scott Ritter
The U.S. is holding military aid hostage, and for ransom they want immunity in the International Criminal Court. This deal, put forward by Bush, would halt military aid to countries unless they agree not to use the Court to try Americans for war crimes. The International Criminal Court, the ICC, was created to try individuals […]
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 […]
Prospects for the Middle East
Noam Chomsky
Media 3-Pack
Craig Aaron, Janine Jackson, Jeff Chester, Jeff Cohen, Kathryn Montgomery
Includes:
- The Future of Media
- Commercial Surveillance Culture
- Cutting Through Corporate Media BS
Visions of Freedom
Noam Chomsky
Recorded at the Visions of Freedom Conference Festival at Sydney University.
A Critique of Nightline, MacNeil/Lehrer and NPR
Jeff Cohen
Jeff Cohen is the Executive Director of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), a media watch group based in New York. FAIR has published stinging reports on Nightline and MacNeil/Lehrer. FAIR charges that these two highly-touted TV news programs overwhelmingly rely on white male present and former government officials. Dissident and minority voices are consistently […]

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