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Kashmir: Hell in Heaven
Sanjay Kak
Kashmir is spectacularly gorgeous but the travel magazine spreads and tourist brochures mask a less than heavenly reality. An ongoing conflict has taken the lives of tens of thousands of Kashmiris. The Himalayan region is divided by India and Pakistan but claimed in its entirety by both. And trapped between these states are the Kashmiri […]
Women & Resistance
Arundhati Roy
During the worst years of the dirty war in Argentina, thousands of people were disappeared by the junta. In response, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo was formed. Their weekly vigils demanding answers brought global attention to the situation in Argentina. In some instances, a modicum of justice was achieved. Half a world away in […]
Sexual Violence
Victoria Banyard
Sexual violence occurs from New York to New Delhi and from Denver to Durban. It wasn’t that long ago when even mentioning the subject was taboo. The stigma and shame were overwhelming. Help lines, counseling and rape crisis centers did not exist. In some countries, legal and cultural changes have made reporting easier. But in […]
Genocide: A Problem from Hell
Samantha Power
From Rwanda to Darfur, modern history is haunted by acts of systematic state violence. In 1915 when Turkey sent its Armenian population on death marches into the desert, U.S. ambassador Henry Morgenthau denounced what he called “race murder.” Raphael Lemkin, a Polish lawyer, was appalled by the Turkish destruction of the Armenians and tried to […]
Corporations, Communities & the Environment
Thomas Linzey
Communities across the country, trying to stop a wide range of threats and unwanted projects such as gas drilling and fracking, mining, pipelines, factory farming, sewage sludging, landfills, coal shipments and GMOs, all run into the same problem: they don’t have the legal authority to say “no” to them. With their high priced lawyers and […]
War and Peace
Dennis Kucinich
The U.S. has the world’s most powerful military machine. Its navy controls the seas, its air force the skies. Almost 70 years after the end of World War Two, its armies occupy bases from Germany and Italy to South Korea and Japan. Its CIA-operated drones attack Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan. Its multiple intelligence agencies […]
Fracking and Public Health
Sandra Steingraber
Fracking doesn’t sound like something the earth, or any community, or any language would wish upon itself. What is it exactly? Fracking is a technique that involves the injection of enormous volumes of water and chemicals underground at very high pressure in order to create fractures in underlying shale rock formations in order to extract […]
Corporate Coup d’Etat
Chris Hedges
Corporations constitute the most powerful force in society. Their influence has seeped into our classrooms, our newsrooms, our entertainment systems, our consciousness and crucially into our politics. Big money buys access to lawmakers. For sheer arrogance perhaps Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment giant, takes the cake. Its CEO Lloyd Blankfein, blithely advises citizens they […]
An Evening of Literature & Politics
Ariel Dorfman
Ariel Dorfman reads from Last Waltz in Santiago, Widows, The Last Song of Manuel Sendero, and My House is on Fire. Always in the background is Chile, a land of “short memories and long knives.” Recorded at City Center, with a brilliant introduction by Christopher Hitchens.
Democracy at Work
Richard Wolff
Cascading economic problems and crises, coupled with dysfunctional political responses, have plunged many societies into deepening turmoil. Capitalism, the dominant economic system of our time, has once again become the subject of criticism and opposition. A global capitalist system that no longer meets most people’s needs has prompted social movements to arise and coalesce in […]
Fifty Years of Linguistics at MIT
Noam Chomsky
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Incarceration Nation
Michelle Alexander
From the auction block to the cell block there is a trajectory from slavery to Jim Crow to the Drug War. The latter has resulted in mass jailings characterized by deep racial disparities. About one-third of young black men are likely to go to jail. The criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of […]

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