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Corporate Accounting vs. Corporate Accountability
Kevin Danaher
Mega-corporations now dominate the international economy. This development, under the rubric of globalization, is heralded by the White House, Wall Street, and the media. They say it’s a good thing. Villagers in poor Third World countries get the opportunity to earn and improve their lives. Critics contend that not only are those villagers exploited but […]
Independent Media in a Time of War
Amy Goodman
Millions of people are taking to the streets around the world to say no to war. Half a million recently protested in New York City alone. But who are these people? Debate in the mainstream media often reduces them to Saddam-lovers, anti-American extremists and terrorist-sympathizers. Yet if you actually go out into the streets you […]
2018 Immigration 6-Pack
Aviva Chomsky, David Bacon, Eric Foner, Juan González, Ray Suarez, Sonia Nazario
Includes:
- Who is An American?
- Migration & U.S. Policy
- Immigration & the New Illegality
- Harvest of Empire
- The Courage of Immigrants
- The Latino United States
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 […]
Cocaine Politics
Jonathan Marshall
Gary Webb’s series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News on the relationship between the CIA, the Contras, and crack reignited the issue of the Agency’s connections to drug trafficking, initially brought to light during the Vietnam War and then again by the Iran-Contra affair. Under the cover of national security and covert operations, […]
Peace in the Middle East
Edward Said
“There can be no peace in the Middle East,” Edward Said contends, “without settling the question of Palestine.” Israelis and Palestinians have no military options. The key to peace, Said argues, “is not exclusivism and unending hostility, but rather reconciliation, sharing and community.” Recorded at the University of Iowa.
Working Class Movies
Haskell Wexler, John Sayles, Kristi Jacobson, David Barsamian
Haskell Wexler recounts his experiences starting in 1946 as a filmmaker and cinematographer. “As the Cold War developed unions were decimated, all the unions that were active in favor of their workers were denuded off their militancy by calling them Reds. I jumped at the opportunity to work on John Sayles’ Matewan. To this day I […]
Code Pink: Stories from the Anti-War Movement
Jodie Evans
As public approval ratings for President Bush are lower than ever and many polls show a growing majority of Americans turning against the war in Iraq, the administration is stepping up their rhetoric, spinning the conversation away from a moral and political disaster. But there is this group of women throwing the spin off balance […]
Activism On & Off the Reservation
Winona LaDuke
Winona LaDuke recounts how she became an activist. She spoke at the UN when she was a teenager and she never looked back. She says, “The launch of my political career was a kind of baptism by fire. I was thrown right into it.” She began working on the Navajo reservation on uranium mining issues, […]
CIA Coup in Guatemala
Philip Roettinger
Interview by David Barsamian. Recorded at KGNU.
Democracy & Biodiversity
Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva discusses the corporatization of the rural economy in India and the efforts to resist it. “I have recognized that civil disobedience is a way to create permanent democracy, perennial democracy, a direct democracy. Gandhi’s idea of swadeshi, that society should put its own resources and its local capacities to use to meet its […]
Pakistan in Peril
Fatima Bhutto
Pakistan is routinely called “the most dangerous country in the world.” How it got that way is not the focus of much scrutiny. Much of history is forgotten or never told. The United States has supported military dictatorships in Pakistan. The current ruler, Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a coup in 1999, is a […]

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