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Force, Fraud and Favors: Politics in America
Molly Ivins
The political landscape of the United States is dotted with incongruities and contradictions. Most citizens are dissatisfied with their representatives be they in the State House or the White House. You don’t need a Richter scale to measure the discontent. Journalist Molly Ivins has been monitoring the political pulse of the country for more than […]
U.S. Anti-Communism and the Third World
Dessima Williams, Cheddi Jagan, Teboho Mafole, Guillermo Ungo
Dessima Williams (Grenada), Cheddi Jagan (Guyana), Teboho Mafole (African National Congress), Guillermo Ungo (El Salvador) speak at the Institute of Media Analysis conference.
Sustainable Agriculture
John Ikerd
There is no sanctuary from corporate conglomeration, not even our food supply. A handful of corporations now own the majority of farms. Predictably, the profits are shuttled away from where they are created, and responsibility to the land and its people is absent. The benefits heralded by the corporations fall short of their claims. Pesticide […]
Armenia in Crisis
Richard Hovannisian
The collapse of communism has seen the eruption of ethnic wars from the Balkans to the Caucasus. One of the most explosive and dangerous of these involves Armenia and Azerbaijan. Their dispute revolves around Nagorno-Karabakh, an overwhelmingly Armenian-populated enclave within Azerbaijan. Since fighting broke out in 1988, thousands have been killed and hundreds of thousands […]
The Kurdish Question & Iraq
Nubar Hovsepian
This program focuses on the long-standing Kurdish question in relation to Iraq and across the greater Middle East. Hovsepian says, “The Middle East suffers today from problems created as a result of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of the modern state system.” The Kurds, like the Armenians, got the short end of the stick. […]
Pakistani Bombshells
Pervez Hoodbhoy
For more than half of its existence, since its formation in 1947, Pakistan has been ruled by the military. A poet lamented, “Now each day is fair and balmy, Everywhere you look: the army.” The country hasn’t done much better with civilian leaders. Almost all of them have been notoriously corrupt. Today, another general, Pervez […]
Pakistan, Islam & the U.S.
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Since September 11, Pakistan is at the center of American foreign policy. Overnight, the U.S. needed Pakistan’s support for the war on Afghanistan. The payoff for the impoverished South Asian country was substantial. Sanctions were lifted, debts were forgiven and aid and loans were offered. Pakistan was created in 1947 when the British partitioned India. […]
Killing Rage: Ending Racism
bell hooks
The self-hatred among communities affected by racism manifests itself in a number of ways. Speaking specifically from an African American context, bell hooks discusses the contrasting psychologies of victim-hood and triumph and how at their extremes, both of these narratives may prove to be problematic. Providing and critiquing salient examples from both history, as well […]
Madonna: Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister
bell hooks
Recorded at Simon Fraser University.
Dreams & Sufism
Lex Hixon
In Sufism, Les Hixon says, “Dreams are a helpful way to step around our limited self because the psyche is not operating at an ordinary conscious level.” He says, “a dream is a like a lock and the interpretation is a key and when they meet together correctly then something opens and a flash of […]
The Kissinger Case
Christopher Hitchens
Henry Kissinger beware. With the detention of former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet and the arrest of Yugoslavia’s Slobodan Milosovic, no longer can tyrants hide behind the defense of sovereign immunity for their crimes against humanity. While some still consider Kissinger one of the U.S.’s most influential political power brokers, as Secretary of State and National […]
Why Bosnia Matters
Christopher Hitchens
Recorded at Carleton University.

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