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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 […]
Oil & Gas Wars
Michael Schwartz
Gas prices are falling. The price of oil per barrel is at its lowest level in several years. Why? We’re told the global economy is slowing down again. Europe is sluggish. Japan is in recession. China’s growth rate is weakening. But there may be other factors. The U.S. is producing a huge amount of oil, […]
Shattered Peace: Israel-Palestine
Josh Ruebner
Outrage follows outrage in Israel and Palestine. Yesterday’s atrocity is quickly forgotten as a new one occurs. There is a dizzying vortex of kidnappings, stabbings, killings of teenagers and rabbis, attacks on synagogues and mosques, rockets, invasions, bombings, curfews, collective punishment, and demolition of homes. Meanwhile, Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land, contravening international law, […]
Race & Caste in the U.S.
Michelle Alexander
A string of shootings of young African Americans has generated national and international attention. While these killings are nothing new, the proliferation of cell phones, cameras and social media has raised public awareness of police brutality. Systemic questions are being asked. What is the role of racism? The numbers are depressingly familiar. The United States […]
UN Press Conference
Noam Chomsky
At an event organized by the Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People at the UN, Chomsky takes various questions from international journalists. He discusses moral choices. They “cannot be divorced from the tactical judgments of the consequences of actions.” We must take into account, addressing the BDS movement, the “impact on the […]

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