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Selected Speeches
Malcolm X
Malcolm X gave African Americans a sense of dignity and pride. He ignited interest in African history and tradition. He promoted Islam and its egalitarian credo as a vehicle for Black liberation. In this recording hear one of the 20th century’s most charismatic and dynamic speakers in four presentations: Learning from Black History; Beyond Integration; […]
Creeping Fascism
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs This is one of those “must haves.” In this detailed and heavily documented talk, Chomsky illustrates how imperial U.S. foreign policy, the national security apparatus and a state capitalist economic system limits democracy and contributes to a kind of creeping fascism. Abroad, the U.S. is opposed to any form of independent nationalism whether […]
Learning from China
Richard Falk
The geopolitical checkerboard has seen, in recent years, a major shift. China, once a poor and ravaged country, is now challenging the U.S. for supremacy, and Washington doesn’t like it. The Pentagon is flexing its muscle. The U.S. military budget is over a trillion dollars and climbing. It’s triple what China spends. The Pentagon is […]
Inside Armenia
Anna Shahnazaryan
Land-locked Armenia has had a long history but as a nation state it is rather new. Armenia declared its independence from the USSR in 1991. Left with a legacy of 70 years of Soviet rule, corruption is rampant. The adoption of neoliberalism by elites, as in other countries, has produced massive inequality. Oligarchs dominate the […]
Conservatism: Making Government Fail
Thomas Frank
Ronald Reagan led the rhetorical charge against government. It was the Reagan Revolution. Remember his 1981 inaugural address when he said, “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Reagan ushered in the era of free market ideology, unfettered and unregulated capitalism, tax cuts for the wealthy, supply side economics and […]
From Empire to Earth Community
David Korten
From the beginning of the United States the prevailing ethic was not to accommodate but to dominate. Indians were called “merciless savages” in the Declaration of Independence. They would be wiped out in great numbers and their culture destroyed. Nature was seen as wild and warranted conquest. Patterns of overconsumption and environmental degradation continue today. […]
The Struggle for Democracy
Michael Parenti
Democracy is more than a set of political procedures culminating in elections. It has evolved over centuries and has many shapes and permutations. The conception and practice of democracy differ widely. Yet, everybody is for it. Pro-democracy movements are celebrated from China to Albania. However the system’s actual workings are often not clear. In a […]
I Have a Drone
David Barsamian
AR Director David Barsamian takes us around the world of U.S imperialism and rapacious capitalism. His vehicle: a discussion of the Obama Administration’s use of drone strikes. He places the drone program in a historical context of U.S. “rules of engagement.” Barsamian opens with a send up of King’s I Have A Dream speech, and closes in full-throated song based on “Home […]
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
Vandana Shiva
Multinational corporations are transforming global agriculture. Using the WTO as a wedge, they seek to patent seeds and life forms. Citizens from all over the world are questioning the impact of industrial agriculture and biotechnology on small farmers, the environment, and the quality and safety of food. Perhaps nowhere is resistance to the practices of […]
Advertising and the End of the World
Sut Jhally
It’s no accident that the rise of modern advertising coincides with the rise of mass production. As capitalism became better and better at making more and more stuff, it required new methods that would convince people to keep buying. Today’s hyper-consumerism is driven by ever more sophisticated advertising and public relations techniques. The specific product […]
2015 Harvard Trade Union Program
Noam Chomsky
The annual question and answer session does not disappoint. This is Chomsky at his best. In response to a question, “Is the middle class doomed?” he says, “The middle class, meaning the working class, has taken it on the chin during this neo-liberal period. But those are policy decisions which can be reversed. Furthermore, the […]
The Warfare State
Philip Agee
Former CIA officer Philip Agee contends that U.S. foreign policy is driven by the need for crises in order to justify military spending thus creating a warfare state. The spector and threat of overseas enemies and turmoil is a method, Agee argues, of preventing genuine democracy and reform of the domestic system.

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