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The Global Media System
Robert McChesney
The wave of media mergers and takeovers has created a global system of near awesome dimensions. What many people see, hear and read is produced and controlled by a handful of private multinational corporations. Critics, such as Robert McChesney, contend that monopoly control of media threatens the communication needs of democratic societies. Recorded at the […]
July 2019
Lawrence Wilkerson, Nader Hashemi, Shoshana Zuboff, Stephen Bezruchka
Includes:
- The Slide to War with Iran
- U.S. Empire & Latin America
- Economic Inequality Kills
- Surveillance Capitalism
Creating a New Party: Learning from Canada
Elaine Bernard
In 1992 billionaire Ross Perot, running as an independent, received almost twenty percent of the presidential vote. Many Americans are clearly discontented with the traditional Republican and Democratic parties. Citizens, if they vote at all, often cast their ballots against rather than for candidates. Can a new party take root in the United States? Perhaps […]
Interpreting Gender
Linda Nicholson
Nike in Indonesia: Just Do It!
Jeff Ballinger
Interview by David Barsamian
Prospects for Democracy
Noam Chomsky
Malkauns
Debu Chaudhuri
What happens when a father and son, both sitar masters, collaborate in a jugalbandi, a duet? A powerhouse performance of Malkauns, the classic late night raga. Malkauns is an aadi raga, one of the original five ragas from which all other ragas derive. Its pentatonic scale make it particularly challenging for sitarists. The more than 50-minute recording of […]
Kalila wa Dimna: Fables from the Arab World
David Barsamian
Kalila wa Dimna of the Arab World is one of our great literary treasures. It has been translated into some 50 languages. The collection of fables express humankind’s frailties and strengths. By employing a variety of animals such as the lion and the ox and the mouse and the cat, the stories explore the consequences of […]
What is Sufism?
Peter Lamborn Wilson
Sufis and Sufism are terms bandied about. There are romantic images of whirling dervishes and mystics deep in esoteric practices. But who are they and what do they do? Sufis are said to strive to be in the world but not of it. Genuine Sufis are usually hidden. Peter Lamborn Wilson critically discusses Idries Shah, […]
Ancient Meso-America
David Carrasco
3 CDs Ancient Meso-America 1st CD: Myths of Meso-America – Explores some of the myths which guided and inspired the Aztecs and their precursors the Mayans, Toltecs and Olmecs. 2nd CD: The Peoples & Cultures of Pre-Colombian America – Focuses on the peoples and cultures of the region and their sophisticated and complex urban centers. 3rd […]
Media Monopolies: Corporate Merger Mania
Jeff Cohen
Many of you have played Monopoly. Well, it’s not just a board game. Monopoly is a big part of the business world. New and ever-larger media mergers and takeovers are becoming almost routine. Each new deal seemingly dwarfs the previous one. Fewer and fewer corporations dominate more and more media. But does the public benefit […]
Media Muckrakers
Christopher Hitchens, Martin Lee

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