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Questions & Answers with Freshman Honors Students
Noam Chomsky
Recorded at the University of Wyoming.
Orientalism Revisited
Edward Said
Edward Said looks at various issues facing the Palestinians and the persistence of Orientalism in slightly different garb. He says of his birthplace Jerusalem, “that it has a kind of universality to it. Jerusalem is the center of the world. It has a unique status and an extraordinary exfoliating power which has been betrayed by […]
Reflections on Democracy
Noam Chomsky
Interviewed by David Barsamian.
The MIT Interviews
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs In Part One, Chomsky discusses the real reasons for the U.S. invasion of Panama, the process of how and why Noriega went from being a “good guy” to a “bad guy” who had to be deposed, the media support and cooperation with the Bush Administration and, most riveting of all, the grotesque hypocrisy […]
The Legacy of Nuclear Weapons
Michio Kaku
The Cold War is over. The U.S. reigns supreme, yet it deploys 9,000 operational nuclear weapons. Price tag aside, the arms program has produced millions of tons of toxic and radioactive waste, massive damage to the environment and untold effects on human health. There is widespread contamination of land and water. Budget monies earmarked for […]
Rachel Corrie, Solidarity & Palestine
Edward Said
A fiery and eloquent presentation to the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s annual meeting. Said says, “One shouldn’t be surprised that Americans, in the main, have a very low opinion of Arabs and Palestinians” because “citizens of this country are fed an atrociously biased diet of ignorance and misrepresentation by the media. All the established main media […]
The Politics of Torture
Alfred McCoy
Bush Administration claims of moral superiority are becoming increasingly difficult to sustain. Its record is littered with ghost detainees, ghost flights, kidnappings, extraordinary rendition, black sites, secret prisons, extrajudicial executions. And a pattern of torture. From Guantanamo to Iraq to Afghanistan, the U.S. has created an archipelago of gulags. Incidents of torture, when they are […]
Economics 3-Pack 2019
Noam Chomsky, David Harvey, Richard Wolff
Includes:
- Neoliberalism: An Accounting
- The State/Finance Nexus
- Capitalism: Fantasies & Realities
The Coming Conflict with China
Michael Klare
With the decline in U.S. economic power, a similar decline in its political influence inevitably follows. In the military arena the U.S. reigns supreme. No country comes even close in matching its lethal firepower and massive Pentagon budgets. As its economic position weakens, Washington may be tempted to turn even more to its trump card-guns-in […]
Debate on the CIA
Howard Zinn, Richard Haass
Recorded at the JFK Presidential Library.
Asphalt Nation: The Paving of America
Jane Holtz Kay
The “Open Road” is part of the mystique of American culture: hit the highway in your car and travel the great, big country. There is plenty of road to drive – about two and a half million miles worth. We have more cars in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world and some of […]
Behind the War on Terror
Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed
The Bush-led war party of vulcans drive the war on terror. These born-again nationalists have an agenda that was announced several years ago. They formed the Project for a New American Century. Read their key document “Rebuilding America’s Defenses.” It is a blueprint for America as Sparta and a formula for permanent war. It says what was required to achieve […]

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