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End the Drug War
Sanho Tree
In 1971, Nixon launched a war on drugs calling drug use “public enemy number one.” Since then like a recurring nightmare, various presidents have continued the war on drugs. Four decades on, a consensus has emerged that the war has not only failed but it has ruined countless lives and wasted tons of money. More […]
The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein
Catastrophes from Katrina to Iraq from Afghanistan to the Asian Tsunami clear the way for corporations to move in and operate in newly privatized zones, pushing local government overboard. Kind of like shock and awe economics. Privatize, privatize, privatize is intoned like a mantra by the economic high priests of neoliberalism. The belief in the […]
Kicking People When They’re Down
Barbara Ehrenreich
The rise in New York’s poverty rate as a result of the ongoing recession has pushed nearly half of the city’s population into the ranks of the poor or near-poor. Ironically, the nation’s largest city is run by a multi-billionaire. Almost on the same day, another report came out saying “Hedge Fund Titans Get Lavish […]
Idle No More
Clayton Thomas-Muller
In this program recorded at the 8th Annual Traditional Agriculture & Sustainable Living Conference, Clayton Thomas-Muller talks about his role in the Idle No More movement and indigenous-led environmental activism in Canada and around the world. Interview by David Barsamian. Recorded at Northern New Mexico College.
What is Language?
Noam Chomsky
Every five years the International Permanent Committee of Linguists (CIPL) organizes The International Congress of Linguists (ICL). The Société Suisse de Linguistique (SSL) hosted the 19th congress in Geneva. The theme was The Language-Cognition Interface. Noam Chomsky gave this jocular keynote address in which he marches through evolving definitions of terms in the field of […]
The Illusion of Growth
Vandana Shiva
In this interview with David Barsamian following her Seeds of Freedom keynote speech at the 8th Annual Traditional Agriculture & Sustainable Living Conference in New Mexico, Dr. Shiva questions the notion of growth and the idea of the world as a machine.
Whistleblowers
Ray McGovern
What is one to do when confronted by blatant criminal actions and illegalities? Look the other way? Punch out at 5 and go home? That’s not what Edward Snowden did. His disclosures have informed and educated the people of the United States and the world about secret surveillance and massive data-gathering that the NSA and […]
The Unfinished Arab Revolutions
Rami Khouri
Lenin was reported to have said, “You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.” Revolutions are never simple affairs. The multiple Arab revolts are still in flux. Take Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood in that country was long declared illegal. After the fall of the Mubarak dictatorship, they came out in the open and ran in […]
Migration & U.S. Policy
David Bacon
In the wake of disastrous neo-liberal economic policies, millions of people around the world are on the move looking for work. There is a backlash. In 2012 more than 400,000 people were deported from the U.S. The Obama administration deportation numbers exceed George W. Bush’s. The border today is like an armed camp with 20,000 […]
Mohamed Bouazizi & the Arab Revolts
Rami Khouri
After being humiliated by state authorities, Mohamed Bouazizi, an unknown street vendor in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouaziz, set himself on fire on December 17, 2010. Just a few weeks before, WikiLeaks published revelations confirming what virtually every Tunisian knew: The regime of Ben Ali was thoroughly corrupt and operated like a mafia family. […]
The U.S. as a Rogue State
Noam Chomsky
When you hear the term rogue state what country do you think of? North Korea? The U.S. as a rogue state cannot be uttered in media commentary and in the polite discussions of the political illuminati. It is almost unthinkable. But it is routine almost to the point of banality that the U.S. exempts itself […]
Slow Democracy
Susan Clark
Conventional democracy is being eviscerated. Frustration is mounting with business-as-usual models dominated by centralized institutions. But there are new initiatives. Local solutions to local problems which incorporate decision-making processes that are inclusive, deliberative and citizen powered are growing increasingly popular. From control of utilities to water and school issues to resisting fracking, communities are asserting […]

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