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The Palestinians: Blaming the Victims
Edward Said, Christopher Hitchens
A great encounter with two of this era’s most interesting figures. Hitchens declares, “As the taxpayers of the paymaster state for the occupation we have to commit and engage and to be free of the moral blackmail that is often the answer to those who criticize Israel and its doings.” Said tells a great New […]
South America Rising
Noam Chomsky
From one end of the continent to the other, South America is rising. After centuries of colonial, semi-colonial rule and Monroe Doctrine U.S. gunboat diplomacy and coups, the erstwhile “banana republics” are saying, “Basta!” With Chavez in Venezuela and Morales in Bolivia taking the lead, they are being joined by Correa in Ecuador, and to […]
2020 Chomsky Interviews 3-pack
Noam Chomsky
Includes:
- Class Struggle or Get It in the Neck
- The President, The Pandemic & the Election
- The Politics of the Pandemic
Gunboat Diplomacy: Then & Now
Aviva Chomsky
The United States has a long history of intervening in the internal affairs of Latin American and Caribbean countries. From Cuba to Chile, from Grenada to Panama, the U.S. has invaded, occupied, staged coups, carried out assassinations, and imposed sanctions. Today, Washington has oil-rich Venezuela in its gunsights. It has deployed an armada of warships, […]
CIA Covert Actions & Drug Trafficking
Alfred McCoy
2 CDs Investigative journalist Gary Webb’s series in the San Jose Mercury News gave new life to the charge of CIA drug running. Rep. John Conyers, Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus, convened a special seminar on Capitol Hill to focus on the issue. This panel of experts discusses the new revelations as well as […]
Principles of Language Structure
Noam Chomsky
U.S. Media as Propaganda System
Noam Chomsky
Event sponsored by FAIR. Moderated by Jeff Cohen. Recorded at Culver City High School.
Out of Place
Edward Said
A fatal medical diagnosis prompted Edward Said to leave a record of his youth in Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt. “The start of chemotherapy had been a point of no return,” he says, “but a memoir would be the opposite – a going back, an effort to rescue from oblivion a time and place that had […]
Debate on U.S. Foreign Policy
Noam Chomsky, Richard Perle
2 CDs The legendary encounter between Chomsky and Richard Perle. For years there were rumors that a tape of their 1988 debate at Ohio State University in Columbus existed. Finally, it was Edward Herman who tracked it down. It was worth the wait. Rarely do establishment figures take on Chomsky in a debate format. After […]
The Chinese Economic System
Keyu Jin
China is a paradoxical global power. It’s run by the Communist Party and at the same time it has a huge private sector which includes the world’s largest number of billionaires. Its economy has been described as a mix of state capitalism and market socialism. Internationally its Belt & Road Initiative has spread its economic and […]
UN Press Conference
Noam Chomsky
At an event organized by the Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People at the UN, Chomsky takes various questions from international journalists. He discusses moral choices. They “cannot be divorced from the tactical judgments of the consequences of actions.” We must take into account, addressing the BDS movement, the “impact on the […]
The Future of Nuclear Weapons
Sarah Scoles
The award-winning Oppenheimer film has brought attention to the origins of the atomic bomb and the anguish of its inventor. Almost 80 years after that first explosion in New Mexico, the threat of global Armageddon not only remains but has increased. Until and unless nuclear weapons are abolished, humankind will always be in danger of […]

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