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Conversion from a War Economy
Seymour Melman
Seymour Melman argues that “the decline of the U.S. as an economic industrial system is now well underway. This is a consequence of the permanent war economy.” He traces how and why this country’s ability to be competitive in the world’s marketplace is eroded and corroded by the relentlessly predatory effects of the military economy. […]
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Steven Pinker
Interviewed by David Barsamian.
CIA-DRUG CONNECTION 3-Pack
Peter Andreas, Stephen Kinzer, Peter Dale Scott
Includes:
- Drugs & War
- The CIA Search for Mind Control
- Drug Trafficking, Drug Wars & the CIA
U.S. & Iran: Collision Course
Stephen Zunes
Iran and the United States are on a collision course. The U.S. has never forgiven or accepted the 1979 Islamic revolution. The overthrow of its satrap, the shah was a major blow to U.S. hegemony in the Middle East. That it came in a country with some of the world’s largest oil and natural gas […]
CIA Panel Discussion with Stockwell et al.
John Stockwell
Moderated by David Barsamian. Features John Stockwell as well as Arthur Macy Cox (former OSS/CIA agent), Blase Bonpane (director Office of the Americas), Andrew Redding (World Policy Institute) and Ronald Klein (FBI-Intelligence Division). Recorded at the World Affairs Conference at the University of Colorado. 2 CDs.
Vietnam: The Forever War
Marilyn Young
The Vietnam War was a pivotal event in the 20th century. Although it officially ended in 1975, it never really seems to end. The war brought us free-fire zones, strategic hamlets, carpet bombings, Agent Orange, MIAs and POWs, and the never-to-be-seen lights at the ends of tunnels. For the millions of victims the war was […]
Media Criticism 3-Pack
Edward Herman, Matt Taibbi, Jeff Cohen, Janine Jackson
Includes:
- The Propaganda Model
- Media: Monetizing Anger
- Cutting Through Corporate Media BS
Report from the Global Factory
Charlie Kernaghan
More and more U.S.-based corporations are “outsourcing” their production. The new sites of the global factory are in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Haiti, El Salvador and Mexico. Clothing, shoes, toys and sporting goods are often made by youngsters working in sweatshops, where wages are inadequate, hours are long and working conditions endanger safety and health. In this […]
Race in America
Studs Terkel
Where was America During the Holocaust?
David Wyman
The U.S., during WWII, under FDR did little to help European Jews who were seeking to flee from the Nazis. Very few Jewish refugees were allowed into the U.S. Roosevelt would not bomb the rail lines leading to Auschwitz. The lack of compassion and the refusal to increase quotas for endangered Jews made this one […]
Oil: Blood of the Earth
Dilip Hiro
Since the end of WWII, a central tenet of U.S. foreign policy is control of the world’s oil. And since much of the oil was in the Middle East, the U.S. began a concerted effort to dominate the region. First, it displaced the old imperial powers, Britain and France. Then it established a series of […]
The Gulf Crisis, the Question of Palestine and U.S. Policy
Edward Said
Edward Said describes the matrix from which Saddam Hussein evolves, the U.S. involvement in the Middle East and ways to resolve not only the current Gulf crisis but the long-simmering Israeli-Palestinian issue. Said contends that U.S. policy and public attitudes are jaundiced by “hostility and ignorance towards the Arabs, Islam and their culture.” The media […]

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