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14th Annual State of the World Address
David Barsamian
Each September, as part of the So, You’re a Poet reading series, AR Director David Barsamian delivers a State of the World Address at one of his favorite haunts in Boulder – The Laughing Goat Coffee House. In this free ranging 55-minute talk, David time travels around the world and brings it all back home […]
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 […]
Peak Oil
Richard Heinberg
The jump at the pump got you down? While you’re paying through the nose for gas the oil companies are making record profits. In 2005, ExxonMobil recorded the largest net profit of any corporation in the history of capitalism: a cool $36 billion. But the gravy train may not last forever. The concept of peak […]
Media and Disinformation
Edward Herman, John Stockwell
Edward Herman, Jane Hunter, and John Stockwell speak on a panel at the Institute for Media Analysis conference at Harvard. Recorded at the Institute for Media Analysis conference at Harvard.
Conversations with Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs Two interviews: 24 Jan 1988 in Boulder, CO and 15 Feb 1988 in Lexington, MA
Questions & Answers with Community Activists
Noam Chomsky
Energy, Environment and the Media
Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr looks at how the media are able and unable to direct public attention to energy and environmental issues. Schorr traces the changes that have occurred in media coverage of and public interest and concern in conservation, oil, pollution, etc. He also discusses the domestic political climate which like the global one has undergone […]
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, […]
Armenian Golgotha
Peter Balakian
On April 24, 1915, the Turkish government launched the genocide of the Armenians. The state-sponsored mass murder campaign destroyed the millennia-old Armenian people in their historic homeland. Their churches and schools were razed to the ground. Their homes and lands were seized. Their culture and memories erased. Talaat Pasha, one of the architects of the […]
The Post-Cold War in Central America
Noam Chomsky
The invasion of Panama was the first U.S. military action not justified by the threat from the Soviet Union. Noriega, a former Washington “asset” and “minor drug figure” was made into the “worst monster since Attila the Hun.” The press, says Chomsky, “went along with appropriate jingoist hysteria and…rapturous enthusiasm.” He traces U.S. policy in […]
The Praetorian Guard and the New Order
John Stockwell
John Stockwell gives a long speech and takes questions from the audience at this event in Toronto, hosted by CIUT radio. 2 CDs
Activist Victories
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky describes the impact and influence of activists and solidarity movements. He says, e.g., Because of opposition “the Reagan administration was never able to intervene directly in Central America a la Kennedy and Johnson were able to do in Southeast Asia in the 1960s.” He also discusses “worthy and unworthy victims,” one of the themes […]

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