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Solutions: Israel/Palestine
Ilan Pappé
The winds of change are sweeping across the Middle East. Decrepit and sclerotic regimes are crumbling. A constant however is the unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Will the broader political upheavals in the region help bring about a solution? Perhaps. But round after round of U.S.-led failed peace talks and a simultaneous huge increase in illegal Israeli […]
Racism: Then and Now
Angela Davis
Radio shock jock Don Imus’s racist and misogynistic remarks about the Rutgers Women’s basketball team ignited protest that resulted in his being taken off the air. Another radio host, Neil Boortz, called former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney a “ghetto slut.” Defenders of such of such outrages say, Hey, They do it. Just listen to gangsta rapper […]
Corporatization of the University
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs The University of Michigan Graduate Employees’ Organization AFT Local 3550, the Lecturers Employee Organization and the Michigan Conference of the American Association of Professors hosted Noam Chomsky for a lengthy discussion of the corporatization of the university and the impact of student debt on the quality of opportunity offered to college graduates. This […]
The Limits of Academic Freedom
Steven Salaita
The groves of academe in Athens where Plato and other Greek scholars gave lectures, has long been idealized as an intellectual oasis, and a model for universities around the world, a place where free thinking without fear or favor would be forever encouraged. But today on college campuses from U.C. Santa Cruz to Yale outspoken professors […]
Confronting Government Lies
Howard Zinn
Humpty Dumpty, that great social philosopher, told Alice in a scornful tone, “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less.” Alice replied, “The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things.” To which Humpty Dumpty responded, “The question is to be master-that’s […]
Native America: All Our Relations
Winona LaDuke
The United States is the wealthiest and most powerful nation on the planet. It has been responsible for great acts of compassion and for supporting despots for their perceived temporary value. It has left a trail of broken treaties at home and abroad. The wealth gap increases as workers are exploited and left unemployed, with […]
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs Noam Chomsky, Howard Gardner, and Bruno della Chiesa discuss noted Brazilian educator Paolo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed on the 45th anniversary of the publication of one of the most important books of the 20th century. Recorded at Harvard.
Artists in a Time of War
Howard Zinn
The role of artists, writers, poets, actors, and musicians have an enormous impact on society. Because of the special place they occupy in people’s hearts and minds their influence is central. Artists shine light into the dark crevices of the human psyche. They question, nudge and agitate. Bonnie Raitt, Michael Franti, Arthur Miller, Alice Walker, […]
The Politics of Hate
Arjun Singh Sethi
There is a stench in the air. Hate is out in the open. The number of hate crimes has dramatically escalated in the last couple of years. Recall Dylann Roof who killed nine in an African-American church in South Carolina or Gregory Bush who murdered two black shoppers in a grocery store in Kentucky. The […]
Native America: A Little Matter of Genocide
Ward Churchill
In the Balkans in the 1990s, vast areas were targeted for “ethnic cleansing.” The world recoiled in horror. In Rwanda, the killing was even worse. There was intense media coverage and much hand-wringing. Absent from the discussion is any acknowledgment that when it comes to ethnic cleansing, the U.S. takes a back seat to no […]
White Supremacy, Patriarchy, & Capitalism
Robert Jensen
There is a close connection between who rules and who benefits. Today in the U.S the gap between rich and everyone else has reached levels not seen since the 1890s. Tax breaks and tax cuts have enabled the top 1% to corner 20% of the nation’s income and more than 40% of the wealth. Those […]
Commercial Surveillance Culture
Jeff Chester, Kathryn Montgomery
Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web, once described the internet as a “permissionless space for creativity, innovation and free expression.” In the early days, you may recall, the internet was also called the “information superhighway.” It would be open, free and with no advertising. It hasn’t quite worked out that way. Tech […]

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