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Frankenfood: Genetically Altered Cuisine
Marc Lappe, Britt Bailey
While cloned sheep and biomedical applications of DNA technology make headlines world-wide, the genetic modification and corporate takeover of our food supply is a quiet revolution. In the U.S., genetically altered foods are exempted from normal FDA and EPA testing of their effects on human health and the environment. Complete labeling is not required. You […]
Priorities: Indochina
Noam Chomsky
A philosophical talk on freedom and responsibility given while Indochina was burning under a massive U.S. assault. He talks admiringly about Randolph Bourne and his essay “The Twilight of the Idols.” It was Bourne, writing around WW1, who said “War is the health of the state.” Chomsky observes that some intellectuals gravitate to power resulting in the “degrading of political […]
Roots of U.S. Intervention in Central America
Noam Chomsky
The U.S. invasion of Panama and its continuing involvement in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Honduras are deeply rooted in our foreign policy. Chomsky traces the systematic pattern of U.S. intervention which he contends has promoted and served two goals: making the region safe for U.S. investment and thwarting independent development. The political, social and […]
Planetary Tipping Points
Lester Brown
Author and critic Susan Sontag once wrote, “A permanent modern scenario: apocalypse looms, and it doesn’t occur . Apocalypse has become an event that is happening, and not happening. It may be that some of the most feared events, like those involving the irreparable ruin of the environment, have already happened. But we don’t know […]
Questions & Answers with Freshmen Sociology Students
Noam Chomsky
Recorded at the University of Wyoming.
Globalization: The New Face of Capitalism
Noam Chomsky
Globalization is hailed by the pundits as an irresistible natural force. It’s like gravity, they say. Just accept it and go on with your life. A contrary view says this international economic order is nothing more than old wine in a new bottle. Powerful transnational institutions like the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund […]
The Destruction of Yugoslavia
Christopher Hitchens, Branka Magas
The collapse and disintegration of Yugoslavia, which began in 1991, has resulted in a war with hundreds of thousands of deaths and several million refugees. Atrocities and massacres envelop the Balkans on a scale not seen in Europe in fifty years. Croats and Serbs, in large numbers, have lost their lives and homes but it […]
The Post-Corporate World
David Korten
The claim that capitalism is the embodiment of democracy and that open markets are the equivalent to freedom is constant and goes virtually unchallenged. The way the story goes is, unleashed from the oppressive hand of government regulation, the invisible hand of the market enables corporations to bring prosperity to all. In this period of […]
When Elites Fail
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs Chomsky gives the keynote at the Econvergence conference. “What to do when elites fail? There is a simple answer. Get rid of them. It’s going to be a long struggle. But the first question to ask is do they really fail?” Adam Smith pointed out, The principal architects of policy in England make […]
U.S. Mideast Policy: Motives and Consequences
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky examines the roots and underlying impulses that inform, guide and direct U.S. policies in the Middle East. Within the regional context, he focuses on U.S. relations with Iran and Israel. He explores the background of the Iran/contra scandal and documents that secret arms shipments were going to Iran via Israel since the early 1980s. […]
Language & Nature
Noam Chomsky
Science Super Lecture Series, Australian Museum
Kashmir: The Struggle for Freedom
Sanjay Kak
In 1947, the British partitioned India into India and Pakistan. One unsettled issue was then and remains now Kashmir. Once compared by a Moghul emperor to heaven on earth, today it is highly militarized zone with armed troops in the streets of the capital Srinagar. Kashmir’s towns and villages are dotted with garrisons, checkpoints, roadblocks, […]

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