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The Latino United States
Ray Suarez
Juan González, in his classic book, Harvest of Empire, writes, “We are all Americans of the New World, and our most dangerous enemies  are not each other, but the great wall of ignorance between us.” Sadly, instead of walls coming down, walls are literally going up. The border is militarized. The tens of millions of […]
Real Politics, Real Poetry
Amiri Baraka
The role of creative people in society has long been debated. Should they focus on their art and stay away from politics? Poets, writers, painters, filmmakers, musicians, artists in general occupy a unique position. Their impact and influence extend far and wide. They illuminate realities in imaginative ways that expand awareness and understanding. Think of […]
Corporatization of the University
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs The University of Michigan Graduate Employees’ Organization AFT Local 3550, the Lecturers Employee Organization and the Michigan Conference of the American Association of Professors hosted Noam Chomsky for a lengthy discussion of the corporatization of the university and the impact of student debt on the quality of opportunity offered to college graduates. This […]
The Olympics: Celebration Capitalism
Jules Boykoff
The Olympics are perhaps the crown jewels of sports. The pomp and circumstance, the pageantry and international competition make the games special. They began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, Greece. They were held in honor of Zeus, king of the gods. Today, the gods are fame, fortune, and national pride. The Olympics are a multi-billion dollar […]
Generative Grammar
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs Chomsky begins by describing a formative experience in his early linguistics career. In 1946 he realized that The Bible was mistranslated. The Bible begins “In the beginning god created…“ That’s a mistranslation due to grammatical errors by Masoretic scholars who put the vowels in around the 8th century. Young Noam at 18 years old […]
The Internet, Capitalism & Democracy
Robert McChesney
Remember the information superhighway and all the hype about the Internet? The wonders of the Digital Age would be liberating. A utopian bliss was at hand. Now it sometimes looks more like a dystopia. A handful of monopolies dominate the Internet. Google garners 97% of the mobile search market. Microsoft’s operating system is used by […]
Politics, Poetry & the Blues
Amiri Baraka
Interview by David Barsamian.
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 […]

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