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The Economics of Baseball
Andrew Zimbalist
There was the graceful DiMaggio running from first to third and the Say Hey Kid Willie Mays making circus catches in centerfield. The Dodgers played in Brooklyn. Baseball, the national pastime, isn’t what it used to be. Today, the game has been transformed by strikes and lockouts, free agency, huge salaries, rising ticket prices, new […]
Afghanistan, bin Laden, and the Taliban
Nasim Zehra
In late December 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. The United States in its goal to oust them cut Faustian bargains with individuals and groups that are now implicated in terrorist attacks. The CIA organized, equipped, and financed the Afghan resistance, the Mujahideen. They were lauded as “freedom fighters” by President Reagan. Among them was […]
Vietnam: The Forever War
Marilyn Young
The Vietnam War was a pivotal event in the 20th century. Although it officially ended in 1975, it never really seems to end. The war brought us free-fire zones, strategic hamlets, carpet bombings, Agent Orange, MIAs and POWs, and the never-to-be-seen lights at the ends of tunnels. For the millions of victims the war was […]
America’s Race Problem
Malcolm X
Selected Speeches
Malcolm X
Malcolm X gave African Americans a sense of dignity and pride. He ignited interest in African history and tradition. He promoted Islam and its egalitarian credo as a vehicle for Black liberation. In this recording hear one of the 20th century’s most charismatic and dynamic speakers in four presentations: Learning from Black History; Beyond Integration; […]
The Health Care Crisis
Steffie Woolhandler
Nearly every developed country in the world provides its citizen with access to medical care. In the United States, one-third of the population has no medical insurance or is underinsured. Many of these people are effectively kept from receiving needed medical care as profit-driven hospitals, clinics and HMOs routinely turn them away. During the recent […]
The Spanish Civil War
Milt Wolff
The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) was a prelude to WWII. German and Italian forces backed General Francisco Franco. Anti-fascist Americans volunteered to fight in Spain as part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. The Luftwaffe bombing of Guernica inspired the Picasso masterpiece. Orwell, who fought with the Republic wrote Homage to Catalonia. Neruda, who was there as […]
Sovereignty, Racism and Human Rights: The Case for Indian Self-Determination
Robert Williams
The history of native peoples in this hemisphere after the arrival of European settlers is one of catastrophe and genocide. Millions of Indians were killed, their lands stolen and their culture destroyed. Today, indigenous peoples are organizing and asserting their rights. The struggle is enormously difficult, but it is being waged on many fronts, particularly […]
What is Sufism?
Peter Lamborn Wilson
Sufis and Sufism are terms bandied about. There are romantic images of whirling dervishes and mystics deep in esoteric practices. But who are they and what do they do? Sufis are said to strive to be in the world but not of it. Genuine Sufis are usually hidden. Peter Lamborn Wilson critically discusses Idries Shah, […]
Return to the Nuclear Crossroads: Resistance at Rocky Flats
David Wilson
This special two-part program produced by David Wilson received the NFCB’s Golden Reel Award for 1998’s best documentary. It explores the history of protest at Rocky Flats nuclear weapons production facility from the early 1970s through the present, using rare archival tape and recent interviews to relate stories and music of many of the nation’s […]
Black Empowerment
Cornel West
Cornel West declares, “A specter of despair haunts America. Wealth inequality and class polarization are escalating. This bleak portrait is accentuated among African Americans. The fragile black middle class fights a white backlash. And the besieged black poor struggle to survive. Nearly thirty years after Dr. King’s murder, black America sits on the brink of […]
Race Matters
Cornel West
“The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line,” wrote W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk in 1903. Reality and events clearly validate the continuing accuracy of that observation. Racial conflict range from the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles to black-Jewish tensions in New York. Race is […]

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