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The U.S. and Latin America
Carlos Fuentes
Fuentes, one of Mexico’s leading writers, points out the inadequacies of the term Latin America. A more accurate description would encompass the indigenous, African, and Iberian components which make the continent polycultural. He reviews the history of Mexico and the U.S. Highly critical of the “imperial designs of the U.S.” he warns Washington not to […]
A Case of Censorship on NPR’s Fresh Air
Robert Friedman
Interviewed by David Barsamian. Recorded at KGNU.
Cuba: Past, Present and Future
Jane Franklin
Interview by David Barsamian
Workers & the Challenge of Globalization
Dana Frank
Globalization poses acute challenges for workers. While corporations go transnational, workers remain national. In a race to find cheap labor, businesses move to Third World countries. Unions are largely defenseless in the new economic order. Along with a decline in membership has come an erosion in the standard of living for most workers, whose real […]
M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America
Bruce Franklin
A persistent right-wing myth for decades after the U.S. left Vietnam was that some soldiers were left behind and that treacherous politicians in Washington were doing nothing about it. The phantom captives were designated as MIA: missing in action. There was no evidence to support the claim but it helped to demonize the Vietnamese and […]
Mexico: The Chiapas Uprising
Jonathan Fox
On New Year’s Day 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army launched a series of coordinated attacks on government facilities in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. The insurgents, largely indigenous, invoked the name and spirit of the revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata and his slogan “Tierra y Libertad” (land and liberty). The uprising stunned the Clinton […]
In Defense of the Wild
Dave Foreman
The Endangered Species Act is a lightning rod for political attack and the symbolic centerpiece of efforts to dismantle U.S. environmental law. Despite tough odds, proponents of species conservation have scored some victories: California condors, black-footed ferrets in Wyoming, the current project to reintroduce wolves to Yellowstone National Park. Recorded at the University of Colorado […]
The Struggle for Freedom
Eric Foner
Few concepts are as emotionally and politically charged as freedom. It is the guiding principle of almost all nation states. But the word is hardly dry on paper before the struggle for its application and very definition begins. Over the course of history, freedom has been a living truth for some and a cruel mockery […]
Union Organizing: New Strategies & Tactics
Bill Fletcher
The number of U.S. workers in unions is the lowest of any industrialized country. In the 1950s more than 35% of workers belonged to unions. Today that figure has dropped to 14%. The AFL-CIO is making efforts to reverse that decline.
Media and the Contract with America
Laura Flanders
George Bush once described Ronald Reagan’s fiscal agenda as “voodoo economics.” You’ll recall that Reaganomics was a great success story. The U.S. in the 1980s went from the world’s #1 creditor nation to the world’s #1 debtor. There were massive budget deficits. Remember the famous “trickle-down” theory? It never happened. It was a flood up […]
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 Imperialism in the Middle East
Richard Falk
Just a few years ago to use the word imperialism to describe the U.S. would have automatically branded you as a member of the fringe left. Now the term is openly embraced. The New York Times Magazine lead said it all: “American Imperialism: Get Used to It.” The pundits assure us, we’re different from previous […]

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