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The Media Monopoly
Ben Bagdikian
Ben Bagdikian describes the growing concentration of media ownership in the U.S. and how it is increasingly determining the news we read, hear and see. He discerns a “steady pattern of the media looking the other way, of avoiding obvious causes and consequences, so as not to weaken or threaten the status quo.” He contends […]
Platoon and Vietnam
Anthony Herbert
Interview by David Barsamian. Recorded at KGNU.
GATT: Global Corporation
Ralph Nader
GATT is the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. The 100+ member Geneva-based organization sets international tariff and trade rules.The so-called Uruguay round of GATT was concluded in December 1994. GATT has a profound impact on the global economy. It provides the framework of an emerging economic order. Yet far more media attention is paid […]
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 […]
McWorld & the Free Market Threat to Civic Culture
Benjamin Barber
After hustling to be a responsible employee and a smart consumer, is there any time, money, and energy left each week to be a good citizen? The global free market does a great job of creating a worldwide demand and desire for products and services, but does it simultaneously undermine the ability of civic society […]
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
Alicia Littletree
On May 24, 1990, a motion-triggered car bomb ripped through Earth First!-er Judi Bari as she and co-organizer Darryl Cherney were driving through Oakland, California. They were heading to Santa Cruz to promote a campaign called Redwood Summer of nonviolent actions to stop old-growth forest logging in Northern California. It was proving incredibly successful in […]
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 […]
Dismantling the Cold War Economy
Ann Markusen
For almost five decades the United States spent trillions of dollars in waging the Cold War. It is now apparent that that effort has created serious structural problems and distortions. While U.S. industry can produce Stealth bombers, it can no longer manufacture cameras, VCRs, TVs and many other consumer items. Pentagon-driven priorities have drained and weakened the economy thus compromising […]
The Divine Right of Capital
Marjorie Kelly
Ordinary people work all their lives, expecting their pensions upon retirement. Instead, they’re handed pink slips, then told their pensions are worthless. Corporate executives rake in millions while shady accounting practices hide the fact that they are at the helm of ships in trouble. When news of massive corporate scandals at Enron, WorldCom and Global […]
1994 Harvard Trade Union Program
Noam Chomsky
Recorded at Harvard Trade Union.
Corporate Power: Profits Before People
Ralph Nader
“Hats off! It was a heck of a year,” trumpets Fortune magazine. “Productivity gains and relentless restructuring generated impressive profits for the Fortune 500.” Sounds great, doesn’t it? But there’s a disturbing paradox: while corporate profits are soaring, people are getting poorer. Workers are putting in longer hours and earning less. Poverty rates and inequality […]
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 […]

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