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Money or Life?
David Korten
“They strutted up and down the avenue, throwing out their chests and bidding the world stand to one side. They were 100 percent American big businessmen who took back talk from nobody. Now they take a handout wherever they can get it. Billions will be ladled into the mouths of these very individualistic big businessmen […]
What Movements Do
Frances Fox Piven
The ruling class is organized and well-funded. What can be done to confront and defeat concentrations of power? As a veteran activist once said, “Organized people can beat organized money.” There is a rich history of ordinary people getting together and doing extraordinary things. Take the disability rights movement. Who gave that a chance? Oh, […]
Origins of Terrorism
Edward Said
Columbia University Professor Edward Said talks with AR’s David Barsamian about the roots of terrorism to help give some understanding to the September 11th events. He integrates culture and politics in a unique way. He compares the U.S. to Captain Ahab and bin Laden to Moby Dick.
War & the Media
Norman Solomon
In times of war the corporate media play a salient role in shaping public opinion. There are worthy and unworthy victims. Muslims, Arabs, and Iranians generally fall into that latter category whereas Washington and its allies are worthy victims that we support and empathize with. The current phase of the Gaza war did not begin […]
Facts Matter: The War on Terror
Noam Chomsky
Doris Lessing, the eminent British writer, once said of Tony Blair: “He believes in magic. That if you say a thing, it’s true.” She could describing George Bush. The American president, who has commented that he has “war on his mind,” proudly proclaims that he goes by his “gut” instinct when he makes decisions. That’s […]
The Fate of Legal Abortion
Katha Pollitt
There are few issues more divisive than abortion. Vitriolic rhetoric denouncing Planned Parenthood is part of a larger agenda: eliminating legal access to abortion. The historic 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision declared: “We recognize the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwanted government intrusion into matters so fundamentally […]
Framing The Debate: Politics & Language
George Lakoff
Behind every catchy right-wing slogan, there are a set of facts that tell a different story. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind Act” has never been fully funded. The “Clear Skies Act” weakens mercury pollution control, poisoning our air. The “Healthy Forests Initiative” allows the lumber industry to plunder our forests.. And “The War on Terror,” […]
A Palestinian American Speaks
Linda Sarsour
It’s axiomatic that anything dealing with Palestine is deemed controversial. And if it is Palestinian American women speaking out even more so. Look at the vitriol and death threats directed at Michigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib. She is Palestinian American and is speaking out as is Maryam Alwan, a Palestinian American student at Columbia. She is […]
Rolling Back Corporate Power: Lessons from the Past
Richard Grossman
It seems that corporations have been part of the scene forever. Not the case really. An 1886 landmark Supreme Court decision elevated corporations to its current special legal status. In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, the Court ruled that a private corporation was a person and as such, under the Constitution, was protected […]
Debate on Israel/Palestine
Noam Chomsky, Alan Dershowitz
2 CDs The much-anticipated encounter between two long-time adversaries. Dershowitz dismisses Chomsky as inhabiting his own “planet” where “the news reflects his perspective on reality.” He claims Chomsky relies on, “selective quotes and picking tidbits out of context.” And “If you check his sources, they are false. He makes it up as he goes along.” […]
The Re-emergence of Fascism in Europe and Its Links to Postwar U.S. Policy
Philip Agee
Fascist movements are increasingly active throughout Europe and the former Soviet Union. Areas of the Balkans are “ethnically cleansed.” Asians are attacked in Britain. Arabs are assaulted in France. Turks are murdered in Germany. While the targets of racism and hate have mostly changed, the rhetoric of vituperation is basically the same. What is startling […]
What Will You Say in 2030?
Angela Davis
Imagine it is 2030. A youngster asks you, What was is like back then at the turn of the century? What will you say about capital punishment, the drug war, guns or why more money was spent on prisons than education? What will you say about racism, the criminal justice system and the vast discrepancies […]

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