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The Newt World Order
Saul Landau
The ascendancy of Newt Gingrich and the ideology he represents is at center stage. The GOP and its Contract with America are reshaping the country. The media talk about a revolution and the sweeping mandate for the right-wing agenda. What mandate? 61% of eligible voters didn’t even turn out in the November ’94 elections. Of […]
Welfare, Scapegoating & Human Rights
Loretta Ross
This program is a provocative analysis that answers the question of why welfare reform is a national obsession and why so many middle-class people who are only a paycheck away from poverty participate in dismantling the very safety net they might need. According to international law and the UN, human rights and welfare are closely […]
The Poetry of Mirza Ghalib
Mirza Ghalib
This program features some of the most famous poems by Urdu’s greatest poet Mirza Ghalib. He was born in Agra in 1797 and died in Delhi in 1869. His birth name was Asadullah Khan. Mirza is a title indicating high rank or nobility. In his early poems, he used the pen name Asad, which means […]
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
Bushwomen
Laura Flanders
The Bushwomen have created an estrogen shield for the White House. “Theirs is the politics of masquerade,” says Laura Flanders. “They are the media friendly face of one of the most extreme administrations in U.S. history.” The mission of the Bushwomen is to cosmetically transform the Republican Party’s image without changing its policies. Are they […]
The Gulf War and the Media
Alexander Cockburn
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 […]
Economic Bill of Rights
Howard Zinn
Recorded at Gray Panthers Meeting.

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