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Lessons from Yugoslavia & E. Timor
Noam Chomsky
The U.S.-led NATO attack on Yugoslavia was carried out ostensibly to stop human rights abuses. The bombing campaign triggered a massive increase in killings and expulsions. In East Timor, the site of much greater massacres, the U.S., pursuing different policy aims, chose another course of action. Concern for human rights and international law is selectively […]
Haiti: U.S. Intervention and the Struggle for Democracy
Paul Farmer
The Caribbean nation of Haiti was once one of the richest countries in the world. Today, it ranks among the poorest. It was first colonized by the Spanish whose main contribution was to wipe out the indigenous population. In 1697, the French took over. They brought in half a million African slaves to work the sugar, coffee and cotton […]
American Theocracy
Kevin Phillips
By most standards, the Bush Administration, more than any other in U.S. history, has blurred the distinction between church and state. Never before has so much taxpayer money, some $2 billion, gone to religious groups via the “faith-based initiative” program. According to Kevin Phillips, the base of Bush’s political support is “a huge evangelical. fundamentalist, […]
Gulf, Israel, the Press, Anti-Semitism, etc.
Noam Chomsky
Interview by David Barsamian. Recorded at Episcopal Divinity School.
U.S. to UN: Do It Our Way
Noam Chomsky
Imagine someone owed you a lot of money, but before paying it back, that person insisted that you not only reduce the amount but also change the way you conduct your affairs. OK. You are broke and desperate. You go along with the debtor’s demands. Then, to top it off, you still don’t get paid. […]
Afrocentricity & Multiculturalism
Ali Mazrui
While there are some popular and unthreatening images of Africa, smiling natives dancing and playing great music, safaris and exotic animals in a National Geographic wonderland, it is the negative picture which overwhelmingly dominates. The continent is virtually synonymous with destitution and misery. Ethiopia, Angola, the Sudan, Somalia and Rwanda are part of the roll […]
Corporate Media & the Threat to Democracy
Robert McChesney
“Information,” Jefferson told us, “is the currency of democracy.” What is the impact on democracy when currency is owned, printed, packaged and distributed by a handful of megacorporations? Corporate control of media is at unprecedented levels. Bottom-line considerations dumb down the news and narrow the range of opinion. Politically, the powerful broadcasting lobby pretty much […]
Sydney Peace Prize
Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva’s powerful Sydney Peace Prize lecture “must be one of the best human rights and earth rights speeches of the year,” says Eco Walk the Talk, environmental website with an Asia focus. Shiva says in her remarks, “When we think of wars in our times, our minds turn to Iraq and Afghanistan. But the […]
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 […]
Challenging Empire: U.S Middle East Policy
Phyllis Bennis
“Saddam Hussein and his weapons are a direct threat to this country,” warned President Bush just two weeks before launching the war. U.S. troops will be greeted as “liberators,” the Vice President predicted. A servile press corps, perhaps better called a press corpse, went along and asked few questions. Washington invades Iraq on totally false […]
At Riverside Church
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky addresses a capacity audience at New York’s historic Riverside Church. In his usual style, he covers a wide range of topics such as the escalating wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, food shortages, the global economic crisis, and the fast looming threat of climate change. He concludes with an ominous warning: “Of all the crises […]
The Wal-Marting of America
Bob Ortega
The United States is the largest consumer-based economy in the world. Shopping is a national pastime, and how we shop, what we buy and how it is sold is high science studied by everyone from market researchers to child psychologists. But no one gets as many Americans reaching for their wallets every day as Sam […]

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