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Global Apartheid: Race & Religion in the New World Order
Ali Mazrui
Diet for a New America
John Robbins
Vegetarianism is increasingly in the forefront of public consciousness. For health, environmental and moral reasons, more people are choosing meatless diets, and they are no longer considered quirky. Restaurants offer vegetarian options. Salad bars are popping up everywhere. A revolution in eating is evolving. In this spirited presentation, John Robbins lays out his philosophy of […]
New Latin American Poetry
Yvonne Barrett
Three CDs. The Influence of Indigenous Cultures on Contemporary Latin American Poets Bi-lingual poetry reading featuring Homero Aridjis of Mexico reading Nuevo Fuego, a long poem inspired by Aztec motifs and symbols. Eliot Weinberger translates. Women Figures of Contemporary Latin America Poetry Bi-lingual poetry reading featuring Marjorie Agosin of Chile reciting poems from her collection Brujas y Algo […]
Worker Solidarity & Human Rights
Elaine Bernard
An injury to one is an injury to all has long rallied workers. It’s not merely a slogan but a basis for organizing and action. When workers are being denied basic human rights, solidarity is the vehicle for recovering eroded rights and winning new ones.
Brazil: Economic Miracle or Disaster?
Ken Silverstein
Allen Ginsberg and Friends
Allen Ginsberg
Media Coverage of the Gulf War
Jeff Cohen
Many Americans have a strong sense that they are not getting the real news. Walter Cronkite has publicly complained about media manipulation. Jeff Cohen, Executive Director of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), delivers a stinging critique of mainstream media coverage of the Gulf War. He demonstrates, with many examples, how National Public Radio, Nightline, […]
Media and the Contract with America
Laura Flanders
George Bush once described Ronald Reagan’s fiscal agenda as “voodoo economics.” You’ll recall that Reaganomics was a great success story. The U.S. in the 1980s went from the world’s #1 creditor nation to the world’s #1 debtor. There were massive budget deficits. Remember the famous “trickle-down” theory? It never happened. It was a flood up […]
Armenia in Crisis
Richard Hovannisian
The collapse of communism has seen the eruption of ethnic wars from the Balkans to the Caucasus. One of the most explosive and dangerous of these involves Armenia and Azerbaijan. Their dispute revolves around Nagorno-Karabakh, an overwhelmingly Armenian-populated enclave within Azerbaijan. Since fighting broke out in 1988, thousands have been killed and hundreds of thousands […]
The Drug War Conspiracy Against Afro-Americans
Wazir Mohammed
Recorded at the University of Colorado.
Media and Politics
Daniel Schorr
Egypt: Culture and History
Fred Denny
Pharaohs, the Sphinx, Cleopatra and the pyramids are the popular images Egypt evokes. Few countries have a more storied past. Called “The Gift of the Nile,” it has played a pivotal role in the cultural, religious, economic and political life of the Middle East. This program explores aspects of the country’s long history from Coptic […]

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