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Parenti 3-Pack
Michael Parenti
Includes:
- Capitalism
- Fascism: The False Revolution
- Imperialism
Anti-Semitism, Anti-Black Racism & Misogyny
Doris Bergen
Bigotry and hatred, fear and loathing, are on the rise. Vulnerable groups are being targeted. It’s happened before. Decades ago, speaking to the National Jewish Congress, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr said, “My people were brought to America in chains. Your people were driven here to escape the chains fashioned for them in Europe. There […]
Latin America: Stirrings in the Servants’ Quarters
Noam Chomsky
In his first full-length interview since Hugo Chavez’s UN speech which made his book Hegemony or Survival a bestseller, Noam Chomsky talks about developments in Latin America and challenges to U.S. hegemony. Since the Monroe Doctrine, the U.S. has viewed Latin America as an area it could easily dominate and control. With the elections of Chavez in […]
Cambodia
Noam Chomsky
Not the best audio but the content is rich, particularly Chomsky’s exchange with Anthony Lewis of The New York Times.
Dinosaurs, Extinctions & Nuclear War
Brian Toon
Millions of years ago, a huge asteroid hit what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The global forests and grasslands burned. The smoke from the resulting fires marks one of the greatest extinctions in Earth’s history, including not just dinosaurs but also fish, plankton, ammonites, and plants. A decade-long Ice Age ensued. A war […]
The Case of Sacco & Vanzetti
Howard Zinn
From Massachusetts to California, immigrants today are the target of government raids and deportations. A massive wall is being built between Mexico and the United States. Armed vigilantes, self-styled Minutemen, patrol the border. U.S. history has been marked by periodic outbursts of anti-immigrant racism fueled by jingoism. One notorious example was the case of the […]
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 […]

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