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It’s In Your Hands
Noam Chomsky
An effective propaganda system encourages people to be discouraged. Hey! Worry about the Kardashian’s latest news. Leave the complicated matters of domestic and foreign affairs to the smart guys. This is a recipe for disaster because the ruling class will attend acutely to its interests at the expense of everyone and everything else including the […]
The Armenian Holocaust
Araxie Barsamian, Robert Fisk
In 1915, the Turkish government launched a premeditated organized campaign to eliminate the millennia-old Armenian people from their traditional homeland in what is now southeastern Turkey. The Turkish officials responsible for the genocide were never brought to account. This was not lost on Adolf Hitler. Just days before launching World War Two he told his […]
Restoring Earth Island
Wes Jackson
Public interest in dystopia is prevalent everywhere. Look at the popularity of films such as The Day After Tomorrow, Children of Men, The Hunger Games. Rarely are utopian visions articulated in contemporary culture, much less pursued in earnest. Artists and policymakers alike risk being labeled unrealistic, impractical, delusional. But the conjuring of utopia serves a […]
Bailouts, Greece & Capitalism
Richard Wolff
Lousy job prospects got you down? Deep in debt? Welcome to 21st century capitalism. The dominant ruling class has one mantra: More for Me, Less for You. That has certainly proven true. Workers’ incomes have gone flat while the rich have gotten richer. Maybe Desperate Housewives should be replaced with a series called Desperate Workers. […]
Free Trade and Canada
Marjorie Cohen
Interview by David Barsamian.
Immigration & the New Illegality
Aviva Chomsky
Xenophobic tendencies in U.S. immigration policy are nothing new. The creation of a “permanent impermanent status” for millions of undocumented immigrants today can be seen in a historical context when we learn about The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the Asiatic Barred Zone in 1917, and the mass deportations of Mexicans in the 1930s and […]
Cuba & the U.S.: A New Beginning
Reese Erlich
The rigid and dogmatic decades-old policy of Washington toward Havana left the U.S. in virtual total isolation internationally. The lopsided UN General Assembly votes condemning the policy made Washington a global laughing stock. Thus, Obama’s December 2014 announcement on re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries came as a relief. The diplomatic move, he […]
Transnational Solidarities
Angela Davis
Solidarity was long a term invoked by unions and working men and women. Now, alas, unions, under sustained political attack, are in acute decline. Who can forget Ronald Reagan championing the rights of workers in Poland while smashing the air traffic controllers union in the U.S.? Today from Tahrir Square in Cairo to Ferguson, Missouri […]
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 […]

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