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Raga Adana, Lalit, Desh & Bhairavi
Debu Chaudhuri
Adana and Lalit were recorded in Delhi with Fayyaz Khan on tabla. Desh and Bhairavi were recorded in Kolkata in 1964 with Chatur Lal on tabla. These four masterpieces are each about 7 minutes but within that time frame Sitar Maestro Chuadhuri packs in a stunning amount of musical information. If there was ever an […]
Armenia: The Forgotten Genocide
Gar Alperovitz, Michael Hagopian
Red October: The Russian Revolution
Todd Chretien
The upheaval and regime change in Russia in 1917 “shook the world” in the words of journalist John Reed. In place of the feudal czarist monarchy came radical revolutionaries. A civil war ensued pitting former regime elements against the communists. In addition, a number of countries, including the U.S., Britain and France didn’t like what […]
Making America Healthy Again
Stephen Bezruchka
The U.S. pays more for health care than any other country yet has shamefully poor results. People are paying through the nose for their hospital stays, surgeries and prescription drugs. An MRI in the U.S. costs five times what it costs in Australia. Instead of quality affordable health care we are building absurdly expensive F-35s, […]
15th Annual State of the World Address
David Barsamian
Barsamian’s Annual State of the World Address has been a regular event hosted by Thom Peters and the So, You’re a Poet Reading Series.
Capitalism: Getting Past It
Cynthia Kaufman
The present phase of capitalism is a great success story for the uber rich. Torrents of wealth flow overwhelmingly to a sliver of the population. Millennials in large numbers are seriously questioning the existing economic order. They are even willing to, hold your breath, consider a socialist alternative. The Bernie Sanders campaign made a huge […]
Humanizing Public Education
Jonathan Kozol
The Austrian-born economist Friedrich von Hayek may be intellectual godfather of neoliberalism: present-day right-wing economics. His book, The Road to Serfdom, is considered to be the bible of anti-government, free market ideas and the privatization of just about everything. From war to prisons, a core goal of neoliberalism is: Let the private sector do it. […]
The Country that Voted for Trump
Thomas Frank
The election of Donald Trump was a stunning political upset. His victory defied the predictions of almost every pundit and pollster. Though he received about 3 million fewer votes than his opponent, the antiquarian Electoral College system in the U.S. gave him the presidency. The New York real estate mogul, TV celebrity and billionaire ran […]
The Ideology of the Entertainment Media
Michael Parenti
Some Hollywood movies are platforms for jingoistic militarism laced with racism. Take John Wayne in a Western, e.g., saying, “There’s humans and then there’s Comanches.” In a WWII movie, a GI says of the Japanese, “They’re not people. They live in the trees like apes.” Michael Parenti asks, “How can we speak of Hollywood films […]
Where was America During the Holocaust?
David Wyman
The U.S., during WWII, under FDR did little to help European Jews who were seeking to flee from the Nazis. Very few Jewish refugees were allowed into the U.S. Roosevelt would not bomb the rail lines leading to Auschwitz. The lack of compassion and the refusal to increase quotas for endangered Jews made this one […]
Toward an Ecological Civilization
David Korten
Will Rogers, a famous U.S. humorist once said, “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” Good advice. Wish that it were heeded when it comes to climate change. Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, says, “there’s tremendous disagreement” about climate change. Is there? The scientific consensus is close to 100%. […]
Mobilizing Resentment
Chip Berlet
Us versus them politics, pitting one group against another, is as old as the hills. Vulnerable groups are targeted. Language is weaponized. And resentment is mobilized along race, class and gender lines. Unbridled nationalism with lots of flag waving is the soundtrack. The rise of the right in the U.S. did not occur overnight. It […]

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