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Yaman & Bageshri
Debu Chaudhuri
Yaman, an evening melody is one of the most popular of all ragas and a Debu Chaudhuri specialty. In this recording, the sitar maestro renders a delicate and detailed musical tapestry. After the alap, where the contours of raga are explored, he plays slow and fast compositions. The second performance in this recording is raga […]
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Sender Garlin
From the time she mounted a soapbox at the age of 15, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a fiery advocate of social justice and the rights of working people. She was a charismatic speaker and journalist. As editor of The Labor Defender in 1930s she worked with Sender Garlin. She was the author of I Speak My Own Piece and the Alderson […]
Real Terror Network, Disinformation: Plot to Kill the Pope, Demonstration Elections
Edward Herman
Interviewed by David Barsamian.
Manipulation of News
Martin Lee, Norman Solomon
Unhappy with the corporate media? You’ve good reason to be. Martin Lee says, the “U.S. media serve to take people on detours away from finding out where power really resides.” Another major media problem, Lee adds, is the over reliance on official Washington sources. Norman Solomon warns of the danger of the Fourth Estate becoming […]
The U.S. versus the Third World
Noam Chomsky
Questions & Answers teleconference with Staff, Students, and Community
Noam Chomsky
Afghanistan: Two Interviews
Louis Dupree
Because of the refugee crisis precipitated by the Soviet invasion, Louis Dupree says, “Afghanistan will never be the same again.” He calls it “migratory genocide.” Afghan expert and Louis’ partner Nancy Hatch Dupree, joins the discussion. She talks about Afghan women and the role they play in society. She says, “A central theme of Afghan […]
Sugar: How Sweet It Isn’t
Gary Taubes
Sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making some people very sick. There is growing evidence that sugar triggers chronic diseases such as diabetes that are likely to kill us, or at least hasten our deaths. In the U.S. and Canada about 30% of the population […]
Native American Sacred Architecture
Peter Nabokov
What is the relationship between sacred geography and architecture? Peter Nabokov explores the Native American worldview in its reverence for land and water as spiritual geography. He gives the example of Taos Blue Lake and its significance in the cosmology of the Taos Pueblo Indians. Then he discusses architecture which he says, “is an important […]
The BBC Interview
Noam Chomsky
Invasions & Evasions
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky talks about tinkerers vs. overhaulers. He says, “We should be in favor of both. Sometimes tinkering with the system can be of great help to people.” And addressing media reform, he says, “If you can induce the media to give a somewhat fairer treatment of significant issues, that’s all to the good. It doesn’t […]
Sephardic Culture
Samuel Avital
Interviewed by David Barsamian. Recorded at KGNU as part of David Barsamian’s Ganges to the Nile series.

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