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The Worlds Within the World
Eduardo Galeano
Within Latin America’s thriving tradition of historical fiction and poetic journalism, no writer has chronicled as much of the last five centuries, nor with as much popular appeal, as Eduardo Galeano. His classic work The Open Veins of Latin America has sold over a million copies. It narrates the exploitation of innocents, from Columbus to […]
Beyond Star Wars: The Militarization of Space
Bruce Gagnon
Star Wars is back and it’s worse than ever. The Bush Administration is pushing to make space into an arena of war and the frontier for future multinational or rather multi-planetary corporations. National Missile Defense is a misnomer. The U.S. proposal is a provocative, aggressive program aimed at weaponizing space. U.S. military and government documents […]
Buried Mirror: Spain and the New World
Carlos Fuentes
Latin America and the Universality of the Novel
Carlos Fuentes
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 […]

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