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Manipulation of News
Martin Lee, Norman Solomon
Unhappy with the corporate media? You’ve good reason to be. Martin Lee says, the “U.S. media serve to take people on detours away from finding out where power really resides.” Another major media problem, Lee adds, is the over reliance on official Washington sources. Norman Solomon warns of the danger of the Fourth Estate becoming […]
The Latino United States + The Courage of Immigrants
Ray Suarez, Sonia Nazario
Includes:
- The Latino United States
- The Courage of Immigrants
KASHMIR
Angana Chatterji, Pankaj Mishra, Sanjay Kak
Includes:
- Kashmir: Buried Evidence
- Kashmir: Hell in Heaven
- India & Kashmir: Breaking the Silence
You Got to Dance: Media & Politics
Molly Ivins
Race, Education & Multiculturalism
Manning Marable
The United States is rapidly changing. Within two decades the majority of the working class between the ages of 20 and 40 will be people of color. And by 2050 we will live in a country in which whites will be a minority of the total population. The color line will be fundamentally transformed. Education, […]
Welfare Reform Revisited
Frances Fox Piven
In the years following the 1996 welfare reform act, the media were full of success stories of women on welfare who had given up their dependency and were now hard working contributors to society. Their putative laziness and promiscuity were things of the past. Welfare reform would deliver them to the workplace and dignity. It […]
Afghanistan: War & Occupation
James Ingalls, Sonali Kolhatkar
Afghanistan has always been the sideshow to the main event in Iraq. In the last year, the situation in that impoverished, war-ravaged, land-locked Central Asian country has gone from bad to worse. While U.S. favorite Hamid Karzai sits in Kabul, events outside the capital are deteriorating. Warlords divide regions into fiefdoms. Opium production is at […]
Media Concentration: Peril to Democracy
Ben Bagdikian
Information is the currency of democracy, said Thomas Jefferson. He and the founding fathers reasoned that an informed citizenry is crucial to the functioning of democracy. A pluralism of views and a multiplicity of perspectives contribute to a diverse and vital civil society. What happens when information is monopolized by a handful of giant corporations? […]
Pentagon Pork
Robert Borosage
Interview by David Barsamian.
Women, Welfare and Poverty
Diane Dujon
Many Americans live one pink slip or one medical diagnosis from financial ruin. Once, hitting bottom meant welfare, but now, with the gutting of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), many face a free-fall. To shift the national debate from how to eliminate welfare to how to eliminate poverty, Diane Dujon thinks we must […]
The Global Women’s Movement
Loretta Ross
“Women hold up half the sky and they are absolutely the equal of men,” declared the new leaders of China in 1949. Inspiring slogans aside, what is the status of women and their struggle for equality? While over the past few decades a global movement has emerged to promote women’s rights, it still faces such […]
The Poetry of Delmira Augustini
Delmira Augustini
In this program, Delmira Augustini’s poetry is read in both Spanish and in English translation as well as commentary on her life and work by Prof. Yvonne Barrett of the University of Colorado. Among the poems we hear are: “Tu Amor,” “El Intruso,” “Inefable,” “Dia Nuestro,” and “Fiera de Amor.” Produced and hosted by David […]

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