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How Welfare Became a Dirty Word
Linda Gordon
Although welfare takes up only a small part of the budget, it generates an enormous amount of political and media attention. One Beltway pundit says it’s “the most despised government program.” Talk show hosts feed their listeners a steady diet of rhetoric about welfare queens. Welfare recipients are stigmatized as lazy and dependent. The larger […]
2012 Harvard Trade Union Program
Noam Chomsky
Ever mischievous, when Chomsky saw me recording this session he said, “You’re like a bad penny. You keep showing up.” Ever since 1984 I’ve kept showing up to record him. In this presentation and exchange with trade union activists from around the world, Chomsky discusses a broad range of issues such as: why is the labor movement unable to […]
The Poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Sor Juana
Features poetry by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz read in Spanish and in English translation. Prof. Yvonne Guillon Barrett provides commentary on her life and work. Produced and hosted by David Barsamian as part of his Pyrenees to the Andes Poetry Series series broadcast on KGNU. Funded by a grant from the Colorado Endowment […]
Al-Qa’ida
Abdel Bari Atwan
Al-Qa’ida, the base in Arabic, first emerged in an embryonic form in 1988. Its core consisted of the Arab mujahedeen fighters who went to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets. It was established and led by the Saudi, Osama bin Laden. The mujahedeen gave their “bayat” (oath of allegiance) to bin Laden, the “emir” or leader. […]
The Life and Times of Joe Hill
Sender Garlin
Join veteran journalist Sender Garlin in an exploration of Joe Hill’s life, the legendary Swedish-born union activist and organizer and talented songwriter. Hill was executed in 1915 in Utah where he was framed on murder charges. His Last Will is famous: “My will is easy to decide For I have nothing to divide My kin […]
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, […]
Washington Rules
Ralph Nader
There is an extraordinary confluence of corporate and political power in the nation’s capital. The right-wing surge, called a revolution by some, seems to be predicated on the notion of: Take from the needy and give to the greedy. The wallets of the big boys are bulging as they climb into their Lear jets. Back […]
The Food Revolution
John Robbins
Two-thirds of the products on supermarket shelves now contain genetically engineered ingredients that are not labeled. Do corporations have a responsibility to inform consumers about what’s in their food? With livestock shot full of hormones and antibiotics to combat the disease generated in filthy crowded factory farms, and with much of soybean and corn genetically […]
The Economics of Baseball
Andrew Zimbalist
There was the graceful DiMaggio running from first to third and the Say Hey Kid Willie Mays making circus catches in centerfield. The Dodgers played in Brooklyn. Baseball, the national pastime, isn’t what it used to be. Today, the game has been transformed by strikes and lockouts, free agency, huge salaries, rising ticket prices, new […]
Dateline: Middle East
Rami Khouri
It’s embarrassing. Despite decades of military invasions, occupations and intervention it is remarkable how little most Americans know about the Middle East. Do people recall how the Eisenhower administration destroyed democracy in Iran or Washington’s close alliance with Saddam Hussein? Do people realize that Arabs are Semites and to call them anti-Semitic is an oxymoron? […]
Spoils of War: The Human Cost of America’s Arms Trade
John Tirman
The U.S. now exports more weapons than all other countries combined. The President and his trade negotiators actively promote arms sales. The deals are huge money-makers for U.S. corporations. But the buck doesn’t stop with profits. Regimes like Turkey and Indonesia turn those weapons against their own citizens. The price of moral degradation, human rights […]
Dateline: Baghdad
Dahr Jamail
All journalists have perspectives that color and shape their reporting. Many factors influence not just what questions get asked but what issues get reported on in the first place. It takes much more work to remain objective when some of the people journalists cover are similar to them in terms of class and culture while […]

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