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Multinationalism in Chiapas
John Ross
The War Against Oblivion
John Ross
New Latin American Poetry
Yvonne Barrett
Three CDs. The Influence of Indigenous Cultures on Contemporary Latin American Poets Bi-lingual poetry reading featuring Homero Aridjis of Mexico reading Nuevo Fuego, a long poem inspired by Aztec motifs and symbols. Eliot Weinberger translates. Women Figures of Contemporary Latin America Poetry Bi-lingual poetry reading featuring Marjorie Agosin of Chile reciting poems from her collection Brujas y Algo […]
2000 Years of Chinese Poetry
Bill Doub
As part of AR’s World Poetry Series, this program covers classical and modern Chinese poetry from 700 BC to the present. David and Bill discuss the differences between ancient and contemporary Chinese language, the relationship between Chinese poetry and music, recent discoveries of authentic ancient poetry texts, and the influences of both Buddhism and 20th-century […]
From Black Power to the New Jim Crow
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The gains achieved by the Civil Rights movement are fond memories and are celebrated by holidays, memorials and pious speeches. Today, the U.S. has its first black president but while he’s attained political power many other African Americans are behind bars. The eternal war on drugs has resulted in the incarceration of many blacks. As […]
2015 Harvard Trade Union Program
Noam Chomsky
The annual question and answer session does not disappoint. This is Chomsky at his best. In response to a question, “Is the middle class doomed?” he says, “The middle class, meaning the working class, has taken it on the chin during this neo-liberal period. But those are policy decisions which can be reversed. Furthermore, the […]
Living Memory
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky discusses the rise of ISIS, how U.S. policies are “creating jihadis,” the film American Sniper, the Charlie Hebdo attack, free speech, and how memory is filtered to allow certain facts to be foregrounded while obscuring other vital information. “Living memory,” Chomsky says, “is the terrorism done against us, not what we do to others.” Interview […]
The Grand Area
Noam Chomsky
A classic Chomsky for your “must have” list. “It is transparent,” Chomsky says, “in any society the main foreign policy directions flow or are heavily influenced by the distribution of power in the domestic society. It doesn’t mean the U.S. is worse than any country in the world. It means the U.S. is like every […]
Spying, Secrecy & Suppression
Nadine Strossen
There is an assault on civil liberties and fundamental rights. State spying, secrecy and suppression have vastly increased. 9/11 is the pretext for surveillance that never stops giving. Both Democrats and Republicans have greatly expanded the powers of the multiple government agencies who watch and monitor us. What is called oversight is a joke. We […]
Inside the Middle East
Abdullah Al-Arian
Antonio Gramsci, the great Italian Marxist said, “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” That certainly seems to describe the Middle East today. Lots of morbid symptoms. After a series of uprisings, the so-called […]
Armenia, Kurdistan & Palestine: Unhealed Wounds
Rashid Khalidi
World War I, 1914-1918, was called the war to end all wars. Alas, that was hardly the case. The Versailles Treaty turned the peace into pieces. It led directly to an even more destructive world war in 1939. The imperial cartographers of Britain and France drew lines in the sand and created new states and […]
Understanding the Middle East
Chris Giannou
Large parts of the Middle East today are engulfed in violence. Why? What historical factors shape the current conflicts? Take Iraq for example, a country in chaos. The U.S. has been intervening in Iraq non-stop for decades. What has it produced? Sectarianism and strife. Death and destruction. Actual U.S. policy in the Middle East is […]

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