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Economic Bill of Rights
Howard Zinn
Recorded at Gray Panthers Meeting.
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 […]
Nukes in Space: Chernobyls in the Sky
Karl Grossman
Interview by David Barsamian. Recorded at KGNU.
What Do Afghans Want?
Medea Benjamin
Afghanistan is “a war of necessity,” Obama tells us. One of the justifications for the invasion was to liberate Afghan women from Taliban oppression. As Arundhati Roy of India commented, “We are being asked to believe the U.S. marines are actually on a feminist mission.” Beyond puppets in Kabul, we hear little from Afghans themselves. […]
Cuba: Past, Present and Future
Jane Franklin
Interview by David Barsamian
Economy Up, People Down
Doug Henwood
It’s a strange phenomenon. Corporate profits are soaring while the average worker is putting in more and more hours and earning less and less. Productivity has increased while wages have been stagnant or declining for the last twenty years. The percentage of corporate income devoted to payrolls is hovering near a record low. CEO salaries […]
Ecocrisis
David Morris
Noted urban development expert and author David Morris presents an enlightening comparison between eco-crisis or sustainability as a global future. He addresses some of the most critical issues facing this country and the world today–deterioration of the planetary atmosphere and the greenhouse effect, the debt of the Third World, energy, garbage/recycling, plant-based fuels and plastics, […]
Attack Iraq: A Debate
Katha Pollitt, Peter Berkowitz, Rashid Khalidi, Raymond Tanter
Thomas Jefferson held that a “little rebellion” is the “medicine necessary for the sound health of government.” Fast forward a couple of hundred years and we have George Bush dismissing as irrelevant massive worldwide demonstrations against the impending attack of Iraq. Debate in the mainstream media avoids substantive content. It is mainly limited to discussions […]
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 […]

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