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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 […]
Terrorism, Climate Change & Capitalism
Arun Gupta
So far in the 21st century very little has been done in addressing three inter-related problems: terrorism, climate change and capitalism. Terrorism in mainstream discourse has a very limited meaning. It’s shootings and bombings in San Bernadino and Baghdad. We need a broader definition that encompasses climate change and the capitalist economic system. Rising temperatures […]
Media Reform
Bill Moyers
A vibrant media is the oxygen of a living democracy. When the media are dominated by a handful of big corporations, citizens of a democracy are on a respirator gasping for air. James Madison, founding father, understood this well when he said, “A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is […]
Can Capitalism be Fixed? (Debate)
Gillian Tett, Yanis Varoufakis
Capitalism’s origins, several centuries ago, can be traced to the expropriation of the commons and its transformation into private property. Since those hoary beginnings, it has evolved into an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and its operation for profit. In the last forty years or so capitalism has […]
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.
The Fight for Free Speech on Campus
Geoffrey Stone
The political landscape is increasingly intolerant of opposing views. Campuses are sometimes a battleground. Author Charles Murray was shouted down and prevented from speaking at Middlebury. Condoleezza Rice declined to speak at Rutgers because of protests. Ex-Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos’s talk at UC Berkeley was called off when a minority became violent. Professors such as […]
Inside the Middle East
Abdullah Al-Arian
Antonio Gramsci, the great Italian Marxist said, “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” That certainly seems to describe the Middle East today. Lots of morbid symptoms. After a series of uprisings, the so-called […]
Beyond Occupy
Arun Gupta
The Occupy movement caught everyone by surprise. When the first tents went up on Wall Street on 9/17, 2011, the experts and the media soothsayers and sages were befuddled. Who were these people? What did they want? After many years of class warfare waged by the haves, the have-nots, rose from their slumber and said, […]
The Manufacture of History
Michael Parenti
George Orwell recognized the key role that history plays in perpetuating power when he said, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” Today progressive historians are challenging conventional notions of mainstream history. They are shaking up the academy and its shibboleths about the past. One such example comes […]
9/11 and the Uses of Fear
Sut Jhally
9/11 is a template and trigger for a range of emotions. Who can forget the horror of that day? One shouldn’t. But at the same time we should be aware of how 9/11 is being used as a weapon of intimidation to silence critics of the Bush war on terrorism. Those who speak out are […]
Visions of the Environmental Movement
David Brower
The myriad of environmental crises is well known. Unless a comprehensive healing process is undertaken immediately to restore much of the damage done to the earth, future generations may not have much of a livable planet left. There is still time to arrest the dangerous trends, but it will require new thinking, innovative approaches and […]

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