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A Critique of the Christic Institute Case
Noam Chomsky, John Stockwell
Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser
Here’s the short answer to why fast food is so successful: it’s quick, cheap and tasty. Plus, you never have to leave your car. But like the reeking dumpster behind a brightly lit McDonald’s, there’s a nasty side to fast food success. It’s quick because of an assembly line kitchen that relies on low-paid, unskilled […]
Mexico After NAFTA & Chiapas
Adolfo Aguilar
For most North Americans and Europeans, Mexico is a vacation spot. It is Acapulco, Cancun, mariachi bands and Aztec and Mayan pyramids. These tourist poster images were shattered by the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas. It was a particularly rude jolt to Presidents Clinton and Salinas, who during the NAFTA debate promoted Mexico as a picture […]
Modi, Hindutva & Kashmir
Mohamad Junaid
“India’s democracy is being systematically disassembled,” says renowned writer and activist Arundhati Roy. She adds, “Any kind of dissent is just smashed with an iron fist.” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party openly espouse Hindutva, a racist ideology rooted in a mythical past and fueled by magical thinking. It’s a supremacist […]
The Cold War & the University
Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn
This is one of those rare historic events bringing two giants together. Chomsky comments: “The public is not supposed to be involved in policy. That’s true in practice, and it’s even a principle you can read about in standard texts on American politics. For example, one written a couple of years ago by Samuel Huntington […]
Public Broadcasting: Past, Present & Future
Robert McChesney
In 1967 the Carnegie Commission Report, the founding document for public broadcasting, stated unambiguously that the U.S. should have a non-commercial TV and radio system offering programming that serves as “a forum for debate and controversy” and “provide[s] a voice for groups in the community that may otherwise be unheard.” That same year, Congress passed […]
Persistent Features of U.S. Policy
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs Beyond propaganda there is the real world and in that world, Chomsky says, “the powerful make the rules and the weak abide by them.” Our work is to create a society “where a decent human being can live without shame.” Drawing on examples from Nicaragua and Guatemala to Palestine and Iran, he says […]
The Cold War: Fact and Fancy
Noam Chomsky
The New War on Terrorism: Fact and Fiction
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky’s long-awaited talk on the September 11th events and their aftermath. Speaking before an overflow crowd of 2000 people, Chomsky’s compelling lecture on U.S. foreign policy helps separate fact from fiction in the invasion of Afghanistan. His thorough historical analysis provides vital information for understanding the state of the world today following 9/11. Recorded at MIT.
Media Representations of Women
Susan Douglas
Images of women are produced in Madison Avenue advertising agencies and then refracted through the prism of media. Feel-good lines like, “You’ve come a long way baby,” and “Never underestimate the power of a woman,” mask the mixed messages which heighten feelings of inadequacy and undermine self-esteem. Young girls are particularly vulnerable and are specifically […]
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
June Jordan
June Jordan talks about some of the issues the media do not cover in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For example, Israel receives billions in U.S. aid, while aid to all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa totals $700 million. She explains why the Palestinians have had such difficulty in making their case in the U.S. She thinks they […]
The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile
Arundhati Roy
The “overall framework of power,” as Henry Kissinger calls it, consists of the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. The muscle that enforces the economic regime is the U.S. military. With a bloated budget of half a trillion dollars a year, the Pentagon’s warriors straddle the earth. The president announces that America is “the […]

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