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Jazz & African American Culture
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka talks about how bebop put Africa back in jazz, and the significance of culture in understanding U.S. history.
What They Want Is My Silence
Edward Said
Edward Said talks about the Al-Aqsa intifada, the biased U.S. media coverage and how the Holocaust is used as a weapon to intimidate critics of Israeli occupation and annexation policies. He describes the ongoing campaign to prevent him from publicly addressing Middle East issues and the scandalous behavior of the Freud Society of Vienna, which […]
With William F. Buckley on Firing Line
Noam Chomsky
William F. Buckley: the reason I do raise this — and I rejoice in your disposition to argue the Vietnam question, especially when I recognize what an act of self-control this must involve… Noam Chomsky: It does. It really does. Sometimes I lose my temper. WFB: Maybe not tonight… NC: Maybe not tonight… WFB: Because if […]
The Use & Abuse of History
Howard Zinn
Thomas Carlyle, the 19th century English essayist, described history as a “distillation of rumor.” How is the past constructed? Who does the constructing? What is included, occluded and omitted? What values and attitudes are promoted? Is history, as some would contend, a collection of neutral observations amassed by disinterested scholars? History is in fact a […]
Enablers of Empire
Tariq Ali
Every imperial system needs a specialized class of collaborators and informants. As Edward Said pointed out, a group of scholars and cultural workers gave gravitas and legitimacy to European conquests of centuries past. They were the instruments and the enablers of empire. Knowledge and power intersected with the former subordinated to the latter. Today, with […]
Preventing Nuclear Apocalypse
Lilly Adams, Bruce Amundson
You may know Apocalypse as a Marvel Comics supervillain. It is a word of Greek origin, meaning the catastrophic final destruction of the world. The use of nuclear weapons would be apocalyptic. It is difficult to imagine extinction. Understandably, most people would rather not think about it. The term nuclear war is misleading and false. […]
From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
Seymour Hersh
After World War Two the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal declared:”Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience…and have the duty to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring.” The defense of “I was just following orders” was judged to be legally unsupportable and morally reprehensible. The Geneva Conventions have specific rules […]
Climate Wars
Gwynne Dyer
An increase in just two degrees Celsius in average global temperature could trigger conflicts over scarce food and water. Scientists are predicting we will see in this century an increase in heat waves, floods, droughts, and storms 10 times more powerful than Katrina. As the planet gets hotter, glaciers will melt and there will be […]
The More You Watch the Less You Know
Danny Schechter
The news media provide less and less information and more and more “infotainment” and a steady diet of the trial of the century, sexcapade of the year and multiple car crash of the week. It is fluff over matter. And it is all served up by the “prettiest hair on the air,” as Schechter calls […]
Union Power
Sara Nelson
There’s power in a union is not just an empty slogan or the title of a song it’s a shared reality for many working people. When labor organizes itself into a union it can exert power over bosses. It can demand higher wages and better working conditions and benefits. The CEO class offers workers crumbs […]
Capitalism 3-Pack
David Harvey, Joseph Stiglitz, Yanis Varoufakis,
Includes:
- The End of Capitalism
- A New Social Contract
- How Capitalism Works
From Corporate Rule to Civil Society
David Korten
In 1995, former international development insider David Korten published his influential book, When Corporations Rule the World. At the time, corporate globalization went largely unopposed. That has changed over the last few years as hundreds of thousands of people across the globe have taken to the streets to protest the growing power of transnational corporations […]

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