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Harvard Trade Union Program
Howard Zinn
2 CDs Recorded at Harvard.
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. […]
India & Market Fundamentalism
P. Sainath
India, once colonized by the British, is now in danger of answering to a new foreign master. But this time it’s not a country that seeks to dominate it; rather, it’s an economic system. The so-called free market has taken on an almost religious-like aura. Its evangelists sing its praises from the pulpits of the […]
Vietnam: War Crimes
Deborah Nelson
Vietnam never really goes away and one should never forget Laos and Cambodia. It’s a huge stain on the American conscience. The Vietnamese were reduced to gooks and dinks who lived in hooches in Indian country. They were herded into strategic hamlets. Their lands were turned into free-fire zones and carpet bombed. They were subjected […]
Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations
John Cavanagh
A new global economic order is coming into focus. The political empires of old are being replaced by giant transnational corporations, TNCs. A 1993UN report says, “The universe of TNCs is large, diverse and expanding,”and that they “are increasingly potent features of the world economy.”Reflecting the mobility of capital, national boundaries are less and less […]
Guatemala: Bridge of Courage
Jennifer Harbury
Guatemala is the largest and most populous of the Central American republics. It was the center of the great Mayan civilization. The country was conquered by Spain in 1524 and remained a colony for more than three centuries. A pivotal event in its modern history was the 1954 CIA- sponsored coup which overthrew its democratically […]
The Health Care Crisis
Steffie Woolhandler
Nearly every developed country in the world provides its citizen with access to medical care. In the United States, one-third of the population has no medical insurance or is underinsured. Many of these people are effectively kept from receiving needed medical care as profit-driven hospitals, clinics and HMOs routinely turn them away. During the recent […]
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 […]
The Case for Impeaching Bush
John Bonifaz
On May 1, 2005, the Sunday Times of London published a secret memo that summarized meetings between top British officials and the Bush Administration. Dubbed the “Downing Street Memo” it instantly became front-page news in Britain but not in the United States. The memo’s explosive content reveals that by July 2002 George W. Bush had […]
The Diversion of Discontent
Ralph Nader
Polls indicate widespread public discontent with the political system. Fewer and fewer people bother to vote for what Ralph Nader calls the “Tweedledum and Tweedledee” options of the Republicans and Democrats. People are diverted from the real issues of political economy and corporate power and privileges. Much of the media are devoted to “infotainment” and […]
The Post Carbon World
Julian Darley
As our lives have become ever more complex so too has our food chain. Where once people ate food grown fairly close to them now it is being shipped literally from around the world. From grapes in Chile to water from Fiji much energy is expended in filling our fridges. These products arrive in containers […]
East Timor: Western Complicity in Genocide
Noam Chomsky
Recorded at MIT.

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