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The Justice System’s War on Kids
Cara Drinan
The juvenile justice system is off the rails. It is in urgent need of reform. The U.S. incarcerates roughly 2 million children every year, even though 95 percent of them have not been convicted of a violent crime. Too many of them are held in adult facilities. The systemic problems range from racism to brutality and extreme […]
Vandana Shiva 3-pack
Vandana Shiva
Includes:
- Interconnectedness
- The Pandemic Wake-up Call
- Eco-Social Justice on the Global Frontlines
The RSS: Fascism in India
Arundhati Roy
The realities of India are in sharp contrast with the image it projects internationally. For example, you probably haven’t heard of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the RSS. It is an Indian right-wing, Hindu nationalist, paramilitary organization. The RSS, with its millions of members, exerts enormous influence and power in India. Its political party is the […]
A Palestinian Perspective on the Conflict with Israel
Edward Said
The Palestinian viewpoint is rarely heard in the mainstream media and when it is, like on The O’Reilly Factor or Hardball, it is interrupted and cut off. Palestinians have been demonized and have become virtually synonymous with terrorist. They simply lust for the blood of innocents. There is little or no rational discourse. Context and […]
Edward Said Memorial Lecture 2011
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs Edward Said Memorial Lecture. Recorded at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Pushing Back at Amazon
Joe Allen
Amazon, the retail behemoth, is named after the giant river in South America. The company began in the Seattle area in 1994. Since then it has not just grown and expanded but has transformed marketing. Consumers are attracted to in some instances, lower prices but overwhelmingly it’s the sheer convenience of online shopping and home […]
Race Matters
Cornel West
“The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line,” wrote W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk in 1903. Reality and events clearly validate the continuing accuracy of that observation. Racial conflict range from the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles to black-Jewish tensions in New York. Race is […]
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
Gore Vidal
Politicians in Washington of all stripes, whatever the occasion, love to quote the Founding Fathers. But there’s one quote you’ll never hear. It’s from James Madison. He said, “Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is […]
Capitalism and the Environment
Chris Williams
James Hansen, one of the leading scientific authorities on global warming, warns: “Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril. The startling conclusion is that continued exploitation of all fossil fuels on Earth threatens not only the other millions […]
Wars, Bailouts & Elections
Noam Chomsky
In the economic meltdown the term “in history” is routine. E.g., the biggest bailout in history, the largest bank failure in history, the greatest corporate collapse in history, and the stock market’s worst week in history. There are more in histories on the horizon because the fundamental issue is not being addressed. The so-called free […]
Zinn 4-Pack
Howard Zinn
Includes:
- American Exceptionalism
- Q&A in Albuquerque
- Against Discouragement
- Second Thoughts on the First Amendment
Abolition Democracy
Angela Davis
In American history the abolitionists fought to end slavery, lynching, and segregation. In our current times, one of the greatest challenges in the work to dismantle such repressive institutions is racism, morphed and hidden within all levels of governmental structures. The U.S. now has the largest prison population in the world. 70% of its more […]

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