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The Basques, Portrait of a People and Culture
Mikel Morris, David Barsamian
David Barsamian interviews Mikel Morris, author of a Basque-English dictionary. Several different types of Basque music are also featured in this program.
On George Orwell
Bernard Crick
Orwell’s influence is extensive. An entire vocabulary has been coined from Big Brother to thought crime to Newspeak. Renowned Orwell scholar, Bernard Crick calls him “the finest political writer in English since Swift, and not only a political writer but a political thinker of genuine stature.” Crick traces his formative early days as a policeman […]
Media and Politics
Marc Cooper
Interview by David Barsamian. Recorded at KGNU.
World Hunger: Myths and Realities
Joseph Collins
The emaciated images of the hungry in Somalia, Ethiopia and the Sudan are shockingly all too familiar. But hunger is not just limited to Africa and other parts of the Third World. It exists and is on the rise in the United States as well. Paradoxically, or so it seems, global food production is at […]
Economic Inequality: The Growing Divide
Chuck Collins
The old saying goes: The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. Numerous studies and reports document a sharp escalation in the gap in income. The average worker’s hourly wages were higher in 1973. Meanwhile, executive compensation has soared. As the conservative Forbes magazine notes, “Billionaires have become a dime a dozen.” Chuck Collins […]
Aid to Dependent Corporations
Chuck Collins
It should be a national scandal that so much welfare goes to the rich and powerful. But you hardly hear about it. Instead we are bombarded with stories about fictitious welfare queens driving Cadillacs and getting multiple Social Security checks. Meanwhile, fat cats feed at the public trough demanding and getting tax breaks and all […]
Ending Corporate Welfare
Chuck Collins, Felice Yeskel
The real welfare scam is not AFDC, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, but ADC, aid to dependent corporations. Tens of billions in federal dollars go to some of the largest corporations and wealthiest individuals. They benefit through all kinds of bailouts, loans and subsidies and a tax code designed to keep money in their […]
Shifting Fortunes: The Wealth Gap
Chuck Collins, Holly Sklar
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said, “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great concentrated wealth in the hands of the few, but we can’t have both.” What might Brandeis think as he viewed the current economy? Behind the hoopla of the economic boom, many Americans have actually lost ground. […]
The Myth of the Liberal Media
Jeff Cohen
One of the central tenets of contemporary political discourse is that the media are liberal. Well-paid pundits from wealthy conservative foundations and think tanks produce a steady drumbeat alleging liberal bias. What’s curious about this view is that there’s virtually no evidence to support it. The media are owned by a few large corporations. They […]
Media Monopolies: Corporate Merger Mania
Jeff Cohen
Many of you have played Monopoly. Well, it’s not just a board game. Monopoly is a big part of the business world. New and ever-larger media mergers and takeovers are becoming almost routine. Each new deal seemingly dwarfs the previous one. Fewer and fewer corporations dominate more and more media. But does the public benefit […]
Rush Limbaugh’s Reign of Error
Jeff Cohen
In the cosmology of media, no planet looms as large as Rush Limbaugh. He is often given credit as a major factor in the ascendancy of the right wing. The New York Times calls him “a national precinct captain” of the Republican Party. He’s an electronic ward boss who fervently promotes the right-wing agenda. Limbaugh’s […]
Media Coverage of the Gulf War
Jeff Cohen
Many Americans have a strong sense that they are not getting the real news. Walter Cronkite has publicly complained about media manipulation. Jeff Cohen, Executive Director of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), delivers a stinging critique of mainstream media coverage of the Gulf War. He demonstrates, with many examples, how National Public Radio, Nightline, […]

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