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East Timor: Western Complicity in Genocide
Noam Chomsky
Recorded at MIT.
The Media and the Environment
Alexander Cockburn
The public’s perception and understanding of environmental issues, be they oil tanker spills, rain forests or spotted owls, are largely shaped and formed by the media. How and why are certain stories selected? What are their emphases and spins? The media are becoming increasingly concentrated and controlled by corporate conglomerates whose interests in the environment […]
Klein 2-Pack
Naomi Klein
Includes:
- Holocausts: An Historical Reckoning
- Conspiracy Culture
Aid to Dependent Corporations
Chuck Collins
It should be a national scandal that so much welfare goes to the rich and powerful. But you hardly hear about it. Instead we are bombarded with stories about fictitious welfare queens driving Cadillacs and getting multiple Social Security checks. Meanwhile, fat cats feed at the public trough demanding and getting tax breaks and all […]
The New Face of Conquest: GATT and NAFTA
Kristin Dawkins
GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, are the broadest and most far-reaching trade pacts of this era. GATT, on a global level, and NAFTA, on a regional one, will structure and determine North/South economic relations in the 21st century. Advocates claim the agreements will generate […]
Free Trade: NAFTA and GATT
David Morris
Free trade constitutes one of the most important and explosive issues of this era. NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, are the two major instruments of an emerging global economic order. Advocates of free trade contend that it will generate economic growth and create jobs. […]
Greatest Ghazals – Live!
Begum Akhtar
3 CDs. Begum Akhtar recorded at Aiwan-e-Ghalib in Delhi singing her heart and soul out in a 1973 concert less than a year before she died. Excellent tabla and sarangi accompaniment. Musicians are unknown alas. I have finally digitized the tapes that the Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) gave me years and years ago. […]
Class Time
Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti engages students in a college classroom setting. He opens with a presentation and then takes questions. He implores the students to be aware of how power operates and its “rational use of irrational symbols like the flag.” He says, the corporate media “pursues trivia. PBS has cooking shows and how to crochet but […]
The Press and the Gulf War
Noam Chomsky
with Mark Hertsgaard/Robin Morgan
The Clash of Barbarisms
Gilbert Achcar
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter’s national Security Advisor and frequent talk show guest, contends that the main task facing the managers of American empire is “to prevent collusion and maintain dependence among the vassals, keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.” Pax Americana, America uber alles is the order of the […]
The Future of Progressive Politics
Todd Gitlin
Opinion polls and surveys indicate broad discontent with the two existing political parties. Voter participation continues to nosedive. The 1996 election had the lowest turnout since 1924. Is there an opening for a new progressive-based politics? Todd Gitlin thinks so.
The Case for Affirmative Action
Nadine Strossen
Few government programs are more maligned and misunderstood than affirmative action. What it does and doesn’t do is shrouded in misconceptions. Few realize that women benefit most from the program. Women doing the same work still earn considerably less than their male counterparts. The percentage of women in senior management positions is minuscule. Racial discrimination […]

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