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Hackers and Democracy
Maureen Webb
The digital age has given birth to hackers who carry out cyberattacks on our personal data, on pipelines, energy grids and meat processing plants. There are also hackers who practice the sharing of software, open sourcing and the secure free flow of information. Maureen Webb says those hackers “are making some of the most important […]
Stephen Bezruchka 3-Pack
Stephen Bezruchka
Includes:
- Consequences of COVID-19
- COVID-19 & Capitalism
- The Coronavirus Pandemic
Workable Solutions to the Climate Crisis
Bill McKibben
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change uses stark and dire language in its latest report. It says, “The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal: Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health. Any further delay in concerted anticipatory global action on adaptation and mitigation will miss a brief and rapidly closing window […]
Extinction Rebellion, the Climate Crisis & Civil Resistance
Roger Hallam
Extinction Rebellion, also simply known as XR, is a global environmental movement. It was founded in the UK with the explicit aim of using nonviolent civil resistance to compel government action to avoid ecological collapse. The latest UN IPCC report paints a dire picture of what the future will bring. By 2050, a billion people […]
Martin Luther King Jr & the FBI
Jules Boykoff
The FBI, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was once called by American Indian movement activist John Trudell, as the Federal Bureau of Intimidation. The FBI has a long history of persecuting people for thought crimes, having the wrong political ideas. J. Edgar Hoover was the Bureau’s first director and he served in that post for […]
The Saudi-U.S. Sinister Alliance
Medea Benjamin
The Saudi-U.S. relationship takes crucial shape in 1945 when FDR meets with Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, the king of Saudi Arabia, on a U.S. destroyer in the Suez Canal. The essence of the get together was to insure Saudi’s vast oil reserves would be the special preserve of U.S. oil companies. In return Washington would […]
End the Drug War
Sanho Tree
In 1971, Nixon launched a war on drugs calling drug use “public enemy number one.” Since then like a recurring nightmare, various presidents have continued the war on drugs. Four decades on, a consensus has emerged that the war has not only failed but it has ruined countless lives and wasted tons of money. More […]
Notes on Resistance
Noam Chomsky
Resistance. How does one move from a position of dissent to resistance, direct action? As a political tactic resistance requires careful thought and must be freely undertaken. Practitioners include most famously Gandhi and Dr. King. It can come with a price. Both Gandhi and King were assassinated. Dolores Huerta, a major organizer and leader of […]
ISIS, Syria & Journalism
Idrees Ahmad
Ever since the uprising against the Assad regime in Syria began in 2011 the country and its people have endured one horror after another. The carnage has led to not only a quarter of a million dead, and many more wounded, but the worst refugee crisis in recent memory. Adding to the mix of chaos […]
Taking Control of Our Lives
Noam Chomsky
On the occasion of Noam Chomsky’s 96th birthday on December 7, we are honored to broadcast for the first time this classic recording of a talk he gave in Albuquerque in the year 2000. Many of the issues he addressed then remain salient today. Chomsky says that the right of sovereignty is fundamental to the […]
Rights of Nature: An Indigenous View
Winona LaDuke
Indigenous peoples often see themselves as an integral part of nature, not separate from it, and recognize the interconnectedness of all living beings and nature. Indigenous perspectives on the rights of nature emphasize a deep spiritual bond with the natural world, viewing it as a sacred entity and an essential part of their cultural and social […]
Speaking to 8th Grade Students
Howard Zinn
Spend an hour with Howard Zinn and more than 200 students and teachers at Ephraim Curtis Middle School in the Boston suburb of Sudbury. Howard Zinn speaks and then students ask questions. A delightful morning assembly.

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