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Energy Efficiency
Amory Lovins
Interview by David Barsamian. Recorded at Rocky Mountain Institute.
Bosnia: A Question of Genocide
Winston Nagan
The breakup of Yugoslavia triggered a catastrophe in the Balkans. Bosnia, which declared its independence in 1992, has become synonymous with death and destruction on a scale not seen in Europe since the Nazi era. Unlike the genocide of the Jews, the killings in Bosnia are a matter of near universal knowledge. Under media observation, […]
Seymour Hersh speaks at Iowa State University
Seymour Hersh
Seymour Hersh gives a talk at Iowa State University, Ames.
Haiti and Freedom
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Ancient Meso-America
David Carrasco
3 CDs Ancient Meso-America 1st CD: Myths of Meso-America – Explores some of the myths which guided and inspired the Aztecs and their precursors the Mayans, Toltecs and Olmecs. 2nd CD: The Peoples & Cultures of Pre-Colombian America – Focuses on the peoples and cultures of the region and their sophisticated and complex urban centers. 3rd […]
Sanctions in Iraq: A Human Rights Catastrophe
Denis Halliday
The U.S. and its allies supported Saddam Hussein during the 1980s. He fell quickly out of favor with his 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The result was the Gulf War and the imposition of sanctions. The human cost of these sanctions has been staggering. Millions of Iraqis are without food, clean water and medicine. At least […]
Class, Race, Personal History, etc.
Manning Marable
Interviewed by David Barsamian. Recorded at KGNU.
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 […]
Home Economics: The Sweat Off Her Brow
Phoebe Schellenberg
Even though the Commerce Department puts the value of housework to the U.S. economy at $1.46 billion, women at home with children are not working hard enough to register in the hearts and minds of Congress, who still equate staying home with being lazy. Oddly enough, if a mother gets a job outside the home […]
Mad Cow USA
John Stauber, Sheldon Rampton
Mad cow disease. Could the nightmare happen here? Since its outbreak in Britain, concerns have arisen about the disease spreading to the United States. Although Europe has banned most of the feeding practices linked to mad cow, animal cannibalism—the feeding of animal remains to animals—continues more extensively in the U.S. than anywhere in the world. […]
The Real Mother Jones
Sender Garlin
Mary Harris Jones, (1830-1930), widely known as Mother Jones, achieved fame by her role in organizing textile workers in Pennsylvania and coal miners in West Virginia and Colorado. Her radicalism resulted in frequent jailings. She was a fiery speaker and a crusader against child labor. Her imprisonment during the historic 1912-13 mine strikes in Colorado […]
The Media: And Then There Were Six
Ben Bagdikian
2 CDs The first edition of Bagdikian’s classic The Media Monopoly identified 50 corporations that controlled the media. In subsequent editions, the number went from 29 to 23 to 14 to 10. In the newly-released sixth edition, there are now 6 corporations that dominate TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, movies and the Internet. Their power, wealth and […]

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