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Democracy & Biodiversity
Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva discusses the corporatization of the rural economy in India and the efforts to resist it. “I have recognized that civil disobedience is a way to create permanent democracy, perennial democracy, a direct democracy. Gandhi’s idea of swadeshi, that society should put its own resources and its local capacities to use to meet its […]
Women’s Power
Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva talks about the central role of women in resistance struggles in India and throughout the Third World. She says, “On the other side of India in Orissa there was a movement. The women’s slogan is, soil is our goddess, it’s our religion.” She adds, “A new steel plant is coming up. This really […]
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature & Knowledge
Vandana Shiva
Shiva describes the impact that giant agribusiness is having on global food production and the effects that intellectual property rights and patents are having on traditional communities. Recorded at the University of Colorado.
Reel Bad Arabs
Jack Shaheen
Hollywood is good at stereotypes. Simple struggles of good versus evil, heroes against villains, can be a safe bet for box office success. Those stereotypes can have a strong impact in the real world. Film is a powerful force for shaping our imagination and our perception of reality. For decades, one of Hollywood’s favorite villains […]
Shattering Stereotypes: Media Images of Arabs
Jack Shaheen
Popular depictions of Arabs range from a menacing Saddam Hussein to camel caravans and oil-rich sheikhs to the movie Aladdin. The World Trade Center bombing fills the news. Arab terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism, we are informed, threaten Western civilization. There is a decisive connection between media representations and public attitudes. Repetitive distortions defame an entire […]
Backlash: Community or Chaos in the Twenty-First Century
Mab Segrest
Racism, sexism and homophobia are deeply entrenched. While some legal provisions provide a patina of protection, the problems persist. During periods of economic decline, there is a tendency not to examine root causes but to scapegoat individuals and groups who are most vulnerable and powerless. Politicians and editorial writers sanitize and mask their attitudes. The […]
Guatemala: 1954
Stephen Schlesinger
The destruction of democracy by the U.S. In Guatemala in 1954 was a seminal event in 20th-century Latin American history. The CIA overthrow of the democratically-elected Jacobo Arbenz government ushered in a decades-long reign of terror for the Guatemalan people and in particular for the indigenous Mayan population. Among the most infamous and brutal of […]
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 […]

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