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Drug Trafficking, Drug Wars & the CIA
Peter Dale Scott
The decades-old drug war never seems to end. The promised light at the end of the tunnel may be the train heading towards us. Billions are spent and millions are incarcerated. Colombia is the latest venue of the war on drugs. If Vietnam, Afghanistan and Central America are any indications, then we can expect a […]
The Politics of Global Drug Trafficking
Peter Dale Scott
Crusades against drugs are a routine part of the political landscape. Wars are declared. Czars are appointed. Billions are appropriated. More and more prisons are built. The untold and amazing part of the drug war is that there is considerable evidence that covert U.S. involvement with regimes and movements has exacerbated the problem. Afghanistan, Pakistan, […]
Sleaze Journalism
Sydney Schanberg
The wave of corporate media mergers has changed the business of news-gathering. Investigative journalism, which takes time and money, is largely replaced by McNews. The public is titillated with coverage of crime and sex scandals. There are endless features about the lives of rich and famous Hollywood celebrities and sports stars. Recorded at NYU.
Home Economics: The Sweat Off Her Brow
Phoebe Schellenberg
Even though the Commerce Department puts the value of housework to the U.S. economy at $1.46 billion, women at home with children are not working hard enough to register in the hearts and minds of Congress, who still equate staying home with being lazy. Oddly enough, if a mother gets a job outside the home […]
The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
Juliet Schor
Working more hours, if you are working at all, and enjoying it less? Why, contrary to all expectations, do Americans enjoy less leisure today than at any time since the end of WWII? In the last twenty years, employed Americans have seen their working hours increase by the equivalent of one month a year. Manufacturing […]
Digital Capitalism
Dan Schiller
The telephone seems to be everywhere, not just in the home and workplace, but in the car and in the pockets of millions of telephone customers. The growing use of the telephone is increasingly a global phenomenon. Less than half of the world’s main telephone lines are in Western Europe and the United States. Asian, […]
The Corporate Packaging of the Public Mind
Herbert Schiller
Corporate control of media is rapidly expanding. The new Telecommunications Act allows media giants to own even more radio, TV, cable and phone services than before. Herbert Schiller contends that the capability of private resource rich conglomerates constitutes the true levers of contemporary power. Their influence and impact on shaping public opinion is enormous.
Information Inequality
Herbert Schiller
This program covers such key topics as the evolution of media in the U.S.; global economics; “big government,” the private sector and more. Schiller says information, over the past few decades, has become a commodity. He says, “Today, more and more information is organized in privately-owned databases. And to be able to even get at […]
Ideology of Communications
Herbert Schiller
Recorded at Harvard.
The More You Watch the Less You Know
Danny Schechter
The news media provide less and less information and more and more “infotainment” and a steady diet of the trial of the century, sexcapade of the year and multiple car crash of the week. It is fluff over matter. And it is all served up by the “prettiest hair on the air,” as Schechter calls […]
The Business of Books
Andre Schiffrin
Many bemoan the quality of much of the offerings of TV, print & radio. Well then, pick up a book and be freed from the tyranny of the homogenized mass media. Hold on, not so fast. We may still assume that books are the stronghold of intellectual and political independence, but the same pressures are […]
Single Payer Health Care
Bernie Sanders
The health care debate is in full swing. The statistics are well known. Tens of millions of Americans have no coverage at all; many more have huge gaps in their benefits. The Clintons crisscross the country promoting their managed competition plan. Others offer varying counterproposals. One alternative is the Canadian model. Canada has a single […]

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