Martin Luther King Jr called Canada “the North star.” CBC Radio invited King to deliver these lectures in November 1967 as part of the prestigious annual broadcasts. He called his discussion of race relations, the war in Vietnam, youth, and nonviolence as a tactic for social change “Conscience for Change.”

2 CDs This is Howard Zinn at his best. His sense of humor is mixed with a sharp intellectual critique. He says: “There’s no free marketplace of ideas any more than there is a free marketplace of goods. People talk about the free market. There’s no such thing. Every market is dominated by those people […]

Few people realize that Hitler’s genocidal policies in Europe were influenced by the U.S.’ treatment of Native Americans. An essential component of genocide is to denigrate and dehumanize the target group. Indians were defined by their conquerors as “sub-human beasts of burden.” Germany has accepted its responsibility. In North America, by contrast, no such admission […]