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Corporate Media & U.S. Empire
Abby Martin
Renowned Indian writer Arundhati Roy once assured an American audience that the United States might enjoy a collective sigh of relief when it finally gives up on being an empire. But empires die hard. In response to eroding economic predominance, military spending in the U.S. has skyrocketed. Simultaneously, as if in response to legal matters that encircle […]
U.S. Interventions: A History of Excuses
Michael Parenti
U.S. intervention. Michael Parenti states, “A lot of people don’t know that there is such a thing. i.e. “the forceful violent intervening in the affairs of other countries. The U.S. has been the greatest interventionist force in the post-war era.” Washington has backed “some of the most notorious military autocracies in history;” “Over the last […]
To the People Who Live in Darkness
Michael Parenti
The battle to shape and control people’s minds is waged aggressively and forcefully by elites. Big bucks go toward molding the consciousness of working people. Antonio Gramsci, the great Italian Marxist and an influence on Michael Parenti, advocated for what he called “organic intellectuals,” i.e., a well-educated cadre who connects their knowledge with people and […]
Choosing the News: Who Sets the Agenda
Howard Zinn, Bill Schaap, Joanne Ball, Alexander Cockburn, Karl Mayer, William Styron, Terry Shaw, Wilbert Tatum
Corporate Control of Information
Herbert Schiller
In his classic work The Media Monopoly, Ben Bagdikian documents the continuing trend of media concentration in the hands of fewer and fewer corporations. The latest megamerger has Viacom taking over Paramount. Expanding corporate control of media poses serious social and political consequences to the functioning of a pluralistic democratic society. Major technological breakthroughs promise to […]
Who is An American?
Eric Foner
Definitions of who is an American have been constantly shifting for more than two centuries. Parameters expand and contract as the political winds vary. Historically, race and racism have been central factors in determining who is an American. With changing demographic and immigration patterns, what are the implications of this important issue for the 21st […]
Islam in Asia
Fred Denny
Interviewed by David Barsamian. Recorded at KGNU.
The Quran
Fred Denny
Interviewed by David Barsamian. Recorded at KGNU.
Islam
Fred Denny
Interviewed by David Barsamian. Recorded at KGNU.
Facing the Truth about Native America
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortíz
It is difficult to overstate the ferocity of the attack on the indigenous people of North America by the settler colonizers. The genocidal campaign had its roots in New England. In the 1600s the first seal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony showed a naked Native American with a bush covering his groin. A scroll came […]
Working Class Movies
Haskell Wexler, John Sayles, Kristi Jacobson, David Barsamian
Haskell Wexler recounts his experiences starting in 1946 as a filmmaker and cinematographer. “As the Cold War developed unions were decimated, all the unions that were active in favor of their workers were denuded off their militancy by calling them Reds. I jumped at the opportunity to work on John Sayles’ Matewan. To this day I […]
Can the Democratic Party Live Up to its Name?
Norman Solomon
Humorist Will Rogers used to quip: “I’m not a member of any organized political party. I’m a Democrat.” We can all have a good chuckle at that. But the deep problems with politics in the U.S. are too serious to laugh at. The Democratic Party has in recent decades abandoned to a great extent its […]

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