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The Lessons of Vietnam
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs The U.S. war on Vietnam and Laos and Cambodia is shrouded in mythology. After the massive death and destruction, President Carter was asked about reparations and he said there would be none. Why? Because “the destruction was mutual.” In this detailed and brilliant lecture, Chomsky traces the tenets of U.S. imperialism. The rationale […]
What’s the Matter with Kansas?
Thomas Frank
Why are so many white working class Americans supporting the party that’s killing the estate tax, passed massive tax cuts for the rich, gutted workplace safety standards and represses unions? Republicans have succeeded in framing themselves as the party of the people and Democrats as the party of the elite. Democrats have passively accepted their […]
The Young Lords
Juan González
Puerto Rico. The U.S. seized the Caribbean island from Spain in 1898. Officially it is “a locally self-governing unincorporated territory of the United States.” Since 1917 those born in Puerto Rico have U.S. citizenship but they can’t vote in federal elections. Today, more Puerto Ricans live in the U.S. than on the island. The Young Lords […]
Armenia, Artsakh & Azerbaijan
Bedross Der Matossian
Quickly lost in media coverage was the conflict between the Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh, Artsakh in Armenian, and Azerbaijan. It resulted in the ethnic cleansing of the overwhelmingly Armenian enclave. For many months, their land was under siege and blockade by Azerbaijan. Putin and his so-called peacekeepers did nothing. The international community was silent. On […]
On Imperialism
Noam Chomsky
“Our fingers will be in every pie,” declared Sen. Robert Taft. “Our frontiers today are on every continent,” announced JFK. And indeed it has come to pass. In mainstream media and scholarship it has been rare to find the noun imperialism preceded by the adjective American. The cover for aggression is cloaked in the lofty […]
Emma Goldman: A Dangerous Woman
Howard Zinn
Recorded at Radcliffe College.
Kashmir in Crisis
Sanjay Kak
The stunningly beautiful land of Kashmir, nestled in the Himalayas, has seen much bloodshed and suffering. Over the decades the Indian state in attempts to stifle resistance to its rule in Kashmir has deployed hundreds of thousands of troops, imposed curfews, clampdowns and crackdowns. But nothing approaches the current situation. On August 5 the Hindu-nationalist […]
Health Care in America
Stephen Bezruchka
The United States today has the dubious distinction of being the only major country not to guarantee health care for its population. Some 85 million Americans are uninsured, half a million go bankrupt every year because of medically related debt and we have one of the lowest life expectancy rates of any rich country. One […]
Pascal’s Wager
Noam Chomsky
Recorded at MIT.
They Don’t Even Know That They Don’t Know
Noam Chomsky
Telephone interview
War, Journalism & the Middle East
Robert Fisk
Revelations that President Bush proposed bombing Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based Arabic satellite station stunned the world. But should it have? The U.S. since it launched its war on Iraq has often singled out Al-Jazeera’s coverage as anti-American. What’s anti-American about it? Al-Jazeera reports on the war from the perspective of Iraqis who see their country occupied. […]
Journalism and the Crisis of Democracy
Robert McChesney
Stop the presses! Breaking News! Journalism is dying! The terms seismic shifts and tectonic plates moving are overused but they certainly apply to journalism today. The venerable fourth estate is an endangered species. Newspapers, like the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, which was around for 150 years, have closed. Many others are threatened. Foreign reporting, […]

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