Barbara Lubin addresses the ongoing Palestine-Israel issue. She talks about the origins of the conflict going back to the 1917 Balfour Declaration. She discusses the Holocaust and the guilt felt by Europe and the U.S. She says, “The European Christian community was looking for a way to deal with the ‘Jewish problem.’” The focus was […]

Orwell’s influence is extensive. An entire vocabulary has been coined from Big Brother to thought crime to Newspeak. Renowned Orwell scholar, Bernard Crick calls him “the finest political writer in English since Swift, and not only a political writer but a political thinker of genuine stature.” Crick traces his formative early days as a policeman […]

Molly Ivins, Peter Dale Scott and Adam Hochschild in a panel discussion on Contragate and the Mainstream Press. Moderated by David Barsamian. Recorded at the Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado.

The international economy has been transformed by the growth of transnational corporations. Three hundred of them now own about one-quarter of the productive assets of the world. Of the top 100 economies, 47 are corporations. Businesses lay off workers here and then they subcontract the work to low-wage, non-union Third World countries. A major consequence […]