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Economic Warfare: From Argentina to Iraq
Naomi Klein
Warfare does not only occur on battlefields. There’s another kind that is waged in corporate boardrooms and in the suites of the IMF and World Bank. Its lethality and casualties are different from conventional warfare. Workers lose their jobs or are forced to work for lower wages. Public services are rolled back and cut. Hard […]
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
Naomi Klein
The growth in the power and reach of multinational corporations can be traced to the idea developed by management theorists in the mid-1980s that corporations must primarily produce brands, as opposed to products. The Nikes and Hilfigers took the cue. Riding the wave of so-called trade liberalization, they moved manufacturing overseas to low-wage countries. They […]
Selma 1965
Martin Luther King
Archival sound from one of the most important actions of the Civil Rights movement. Features a 30-minute speech by Dr Martin Luther King, Jr on “The Pharaohs Never Give Up Easily.” Many consider the Selma to Montgomery marches, marred by state and local police attacks, as political and emotional peaks of the movement. The day […]
Famous Speeches & Sermons
Martin Luther King
4 of MLK’s most famous speeches: I Have Dream, I’ve Been to the Mountaintop, Drum Major Instinct & How Long? Not Long.
The Massey Lectures
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr called Canada “the North star.” CBC Radio invited King to deliver these lectures in November 1967 as part of the prestigious annual broadcasts. He called his discussion of race relations, the war in Vietnam, youth, and nonviolence as a tactic for social change “Conscience for Change.”
The Asian Tiger Economic Meltdown
Martin Khor
It began in the summer of 1997. First Thailand, then Indonesia, Malaysia and South Korea. The Asian tiger economies went into a massive freefall. Businesses went bust, millions were laid off, stock markets and currencies collapsed. The crash was rather stunning, since just before things broke loose the tigers had been hailed by the International […]
Development and the Environment
Mansour Khalid
Development along current patterns guarantees further environmental degradation with potentially catastrophic consequences. The developed North enriches itself at the expense of the resource-rich South. The gap between the haves and have-nots widens. Caught in a vise is the environment. Is development compatible with environmental protection? Can the present destructive trajectory be changed? Recorded at the […]
The Human Face of the Global Economy
Charlie Kernaghan
When you go down to your nearest mall and shop for clothes, you are looking for the best price. If you can get a name brand, all the better. Few consider who makes that shirt, sweater or pair of jeans or sneakers. Evidence has mounted in the past few years that much of the clothing […]
Report from the Global Factory
Charlie Kernaghan
More and more U.S.-based corporations are “outsourcing” their production. The new sites of the global factory are in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Haiti, El Salvador and Mexico. Clothing, shoes, toys and sporting goods are often made by youngsters working in sweatshops, where wages are inadequate, hours are long and working conditions endanger safety and health. In this […]
Gold Mining: Environmental Destruction
Danny Kennedy
Gold is history’s most coveted and celebrated element. For the Pharaohs of Egypt it had mystical status, functioning as the ultimate secular sacred object. The quest for gold propelled Columbus, Pizarro and others into a genocidal frenzy. Today gold mining, a major industry, continues unabated. And more often than not, indigenous people are affected. In […]
World Bank/IMF: Fifty Years Is Enough
Danny Kennedy
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund together have more power to influence development in the Third World than do any other institutions on the planet. For the last fifty years, tens of billions of dollars have been loaned to the poorest nations with the ostensible purpose of improving their quality of life. The […]
Iraq: Eyewitness to War
Kathy Kelly
US diplomacy has evolved into, “You do what we say, or else.” Gung-ho machismo is the order of the day. Bush intones, “Bring ’em on.” And “There will be no retreat.” The president announces that by invading and occupying Iraq the world is safer. Can anyone believe this? Sure. If you only watch corporate TV […]

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