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Fascism, the FBI & Native Americans: Historical & Current Perspectives
Ward Churchill
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 […]
Talking About Rape
Sohaila Abdulali
Rape. From Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein to Wall Street financier Jeffrey Epstein to NFL star Antonio Brown, this ancient crime is in the news. The #MeToo movement has enabled many women to tell their stories for the first time. Who can forget Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony under oath at the Brett Kavanaugh hearings? Forever, women […]
Health & Wealth
Stephen Bezruchka
Health and longevity are based upon factors we can all acknowledge: genetics, lifestyle and luck among them. They are also largely taken for granted. But as Stephen Bezruchka explains, social class has a far more profound effect in the US than we realize, in ways we wouldn’t guess, even for the many of us who […]
On Power & Ideology
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky is at his best during this stand-and-deliver keynote address in Chicago. He discusses the persistent and largely invariant features of U.S. foreign policy — in the words of State Department planners, “the overall framework of order” — and its intimate relationship with domestic policy. Recorded at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, University of Chicago.
Howard Zinn 3-pack
Howard Zinn
Includes:
- American Exceptionalism
- Three Holy Wars
- Second Thoughts on the First Amendment
Native American Women & Environmental Struggles
Winona LaDuke
Native American women are in the frontlines of numerous struggles to protect and save the environment. Indian reservations are the sites of much environmental degradation. Native American women lead resistance to mining operations, clearcutting, dam projects and toxic and nuclear waste dumps. Their underfunded and mostly volunteer efforts barely make the news, reflecting the larger […]
Clash of Civilizations
Edward Said
Said refutes the work of Samuel Huntington, contending that Huntington’s much-touted book Clash of Civilizations, thinly disguised as cultural study, actually advances a divisive policy agenda. Said shuns these “driveby cultural studies” and challenges Huntington to a higher standard. Recorded at the University of Massachusetts.
How TV Exploits its Audience
Sut Jhally
In a 1958 speech, legendary broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow said about TV, “This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and even it can inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise, it is nothing but wires and lights in a […]
The Power of Community Media
Amy Goodman
In a time of polarized politics, independent community media plays an increasingly important role. Big media are owned and controlled by large corporations. Their salient interest? To make as much profit as possible for their shareholders. That is its political economy. Given that acute limitation, it makes it difficult for most people to get information […]
Inside Kashmir
Mohamad Junaid
Kashmir, renowned for its incredible beauty, is the site of a decades long military occupation mostly hidden from worldview. Adjectives like “intractable” and “protracted” often precede Kashmir. What do the Kashmiri people want? The answer usually is “Azaadi. Freedom.” Angana Chatterji, the noted scholar, in her essay “Kashmir: A Time for Freedom,” writes, “‘Freedom’ represents […]
Roots of Terrorism
George Galloway
Ever since September 11, the Bush administration and its corporate media allies have scrupulously denied the possibility that the terrorist attacks were motivated by anything other than hatred of America. Even a hint that terrorism could be connected to U.S. policy is immediately greeted by jingoists and their noise machine with howls of derision and […]
I Am a Trade Unionist
Howard Zinn
Recorded at the Harvard Trade Union Program.

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