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Neruda & Modern Latin American Literature
Jorge Edwards
Pablo Neruda of Chile, 1904-1973, won the Nobel Prize in 1971. Jorge Edwards, a Chilean writer, discusses Neruda’s vast literary output. Edwards, who knew Neruda, describes how his work evolved from early romantic poetry to, after the Spanish Civil War, radical and political. Edwards has great insight into Neruda and the nuances and textures of […]
Intervention
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs A tour de force. Chomsky traces American attacks on the rest of the world focusing on the post-1945 era. He begins his talk with the memorable lines: “The most recent U.S. intervention (Grenada) was yesterday, at least as of this morning.” On Israel, Chomsky says, “American liberals supported the militarization and ultimate destruction […]
TECHNOLOGY 3-Pack
Bruce Schneier, Robert McChesney, Shoshana Zuboff
Includes:
- Capitalism in the Age of Digital Technology
- The Internet, Privacy & Power
- Surveillance Capitalism
Climate Change: Tipping Point
Bill McKibben
Glaciers are retreating at a rapid rate. Within just a few years there will be no more snows on Kilimanjaro. Glaciers in the Andes, the Rockies, and the Himalayas are all shrinking. The polar ice shelves are fracturing. Sea level is rising. The permafrost is melting. Millions of people worldwide are at risk. A major […]
Globalization and Terrorism
Arundhati Roy
Since 9/11 most of the media have studiously avoided talking about the origins of terrorism. It just happens like the well-known four-letter word. The corporate networks and their overpaid talking heads mimic the Bush line: “They, the evildoers hate us.” Why? “Because of our values and freedom.” This simple formula is repeated ad nauseam even […]
The Ideology of the Entertainment Media
Michael Parenti
Some Hollywood movies are platforms for jingoistic militarism laced with racism. Take John Wayne in a Western, e.g., saying, “There’s humans and then there’s Comanches.” In a WWII movie, a GI says of the Japanese, “They’re not people. They live in the trees like apes.” Michael Parenti asks, “How can we speak of Hollywood films […]
Climate Crisis 3-Pack
Dahr Jamail, Winona LaDuke, Bill McKibben
Includes:
- Climate Disruption
- Native American Eco-Justice
- Planet in Peril
Iraq: A Trillion Here, A Trillion There
Joseph Stiglitz
Everett Dirksen, Republican Senator from Illinois in the 1950s and 60s, once said, “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you’re talking real money.” Well, if Dirksen were alive today, he’d be talking about trillions. The U.S. war on Iraq is draining the Treasury coffers to the tune of at least a $ trillion […]
Questions & Answers with Freshmen Sociology Students
Noam Chomsky
Recorded at the University of Wyoming.
Angela Davis 3-pack
Angela Davis
Includes:
- Radical Lessons: Then & Now
- Beginnings: Movements of Possibility
- Transnational Solidarities
The Long War and Resistance
Tom Hayden
President Eisenhower’s 1953 Cross of Iron speech is often not recalled. The former general said: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not […]
Demonizing Race
Elaine Brown
Ask people about racism in the US and many of its citizens will say it’s a thing of the past. People of color have equal opportunity and, if anything, there is now reverse discrimination. But how do we explain the marked difference in college attendance between whites and non-whites? The extremely disproportionate rates of incarceration […]

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