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Stop the Death Penalty!
Howard Zinn
The U.S. ranks number one in capital punishment. More and more states are imposing the death penalty. Politicians line up calling for more and more executions. Yet, evidence shows that the death penalty is racist, targets the poor, kills innocent people and fails to deter crime. Recorded at Harvard.
Reform or Revolution
Howard Zinn, William Buckley
3 CDs This amazing “must have” set features radical historian Howard Zinn and William F. Buckley, one of the icons of the Right, in a debate on Vietnam, the morality of war, economic inequality, crime and punishment, and a vast range of other issues. It is a rare opportunity to hear two such eloquent and […]
Iraq Under Siege
Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove
Iraq is under siege. A decade-long sanctions regime has caused massive suffering and hundreds of thousands of deaths. While Saddam Hussein and his cohorts live in luxury, the once-burgeoning middle class is wiped out. In addition, U.S & U.K. planes routinely bomb the country. An international movement is calling for the lifting of sanctions.
Black Nationalism
Kwame Ture
Lebanese Resistance Movement: Hezbollah
Naim Qassem
Hezbollah, the Party of God, was formed in 1982 in the wake of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Naim Qassem, Hezbollah’s second in command, talks about the Lebanese resistance group which is routinely described as “terrorist” by Washington and Tel Aviv. What are its origins, politics and goals? Interview by David Barsamian. Translator: Mohammed Obeid.
Vietnam Voices
John Clark Pratt
Vietnam Voices features audio clips, history, music, poetry, as well as some GI latrine graffiti, among which the most memorable was, “This is a war of the unwilling, led by the unqualified, dying for the ungrateful.” Hear the voices of JFK, LBJ, McNamara, Lodge, Thieu, Cronkite, Fulbright, Morse, Kennan, et al. Music by Joan Baez, […]
No More What We Say Goes
Noam Chomsky
Edward Said and Resisting Imperialism
Noam Chomsky
Recorded at Princeton University.
On Iran
Noam Chomsky
Linguistics and Politics
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky’s linguistic theory has been widely successful in transforming the field and establishing it as a natural science. Chomsky claims that the acquisition of language is an intrinsic part of our biology and that this facility has acquired near-perfect computational efficiency through natural selection. In this talk, Chomsky elaborates on this property of language as […]
When Elites Fail
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs Chomsky gives the keynote at the Econvergence conference. “What to do when elites fail? There is a simple answer. Get rid of them. It’s going to be a long struggle. But the first question to ask is do they really fail?” Adam Smith pointed out, The principal architects of policy in England make […]
Persistent Features of U.S. Policy
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs Beyond propaganda there is the real world and in that world, Chomsky says, “the powerful make the rules and the weak abide by them.” Our work is to create a society “where a decent human being can live without shame.” Drawing on examples from Nicaragua and Guatemala to Palestine and Iran, he says […]

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