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Public Relations: Corporate Spin & Propaganda
Stuart Ewen
Current events are routinely packaged by spin doctors and image consultants. The U.S. has the largest public relations industry in the world. It is a major societal force in influencing and shaping public opinion. The number of PR workers far exceeds that of journalists. Professional spinmeisters churn out stories that are favorable to the corporations […]
Zapata’s Disciple
Martin Espada
What is the relationship between poetry and politics? Martin Espada makes the connection. He says, Progressive politics must be imagined first, and poetry is a great way to do it. Oppressive social conditions, before they can be changed, must be named and condemned in words that persuade by stirring the emotions and awakening the senses. […]
Israel’s War on Gaza
Noura Erakat
Interview by David Barsamian.
The Growth of the National Security State
Daniel Ellsberg, Richard Falk
Daniel Ellsberg and Richard Falk speak at the Institute of Media Analysis conference. Recorded at Harvard.
Nickel & Dimed: Women, Welfare & Work
Barbara Ehrenreich
The “reform” of welfare is an historic shift in public policy. One of the central linchpins of the New Deal has been undone. Millions, mostly women and many of them with children, have been thrown off the welfare rolls. Many have landed in dead end low wage jobs. Their quiet lives of desperation are not […]
The End of Caring
Barbara Ehrenreich
The politics of the Clinton-Gingrich era have rewritten the social contract and have shredded portions of the safety net. The poor and needy are lectured about responsibility and character. The rich and powerful, with their subsidies, tax breaks and easy access to all branches and agencies of government, are doing quite well. The gap between […]
A Progressive Vision for Social Change
Barbara Ehrenreich
Political and economic trends point increasingly to the growth not of democracy but plutocracy, a system by and for the rich. The upper crust benefits at the expense of the many. And it’s not about Democrats or Republicans. They both know and play the game. Most people are aware of what’s going on. A recent […]
Militias & the Shift to the Right
Barbara Ehrenreich
Recorded at the Z Media Institute’s annual gathering, this is Ehrenreich at her incisive best. She spoke on the heels of the Oklahoma City bombing. She points out that if that had been carried out by the Black Panthers or the Weathermen twenty years ago, “We wouldn’t be meeting here.” She traces the origins of […]
The Welfare Debate
Barbara Ehrenreich
Trash Media: The Tabloidization of the News
Barbara Ehrenreich
Once upon a time sleaze stories were associated with the likes of the National Enquirer. They would confront you while you were in line at supermarket checkout counters. Now, sexcapades, sensationalism and infotainment are pervasive. Step right up, it’s showtime! Media circuses feature such big-time acts as Amy and Joey, Nancy and Tonya and of […]
Feminism in the ’90s
Barbara Ehrenreich
Speaking before a university audience in Montreal, Barbara Ehrenreich talks about feminism in the U.S., how it is perceived abroad, and what a just and humane vision for a new feminism might look like. According to her thesis, we are now in a post-patriarchal society in which the power of men over women in the […]
Political Correctness
Barbara Ehrenreich
Political correctness and Multiculturalism are volatile and controversial issues in the United States today. We would be led to believe by the likes of Allan Bloom and Dinesh D’Souza and by Newsweek and The New Republic that western civilization, as represented by the U.S., is under attack. Its basic institutions, the colleges and universities have […]

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