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Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media
Michael Parenti
Recorded at the University of Colorado.
Lockdown America: The Growth of the Police State
Christian Parenti
The 19th century robber baron Jay Gould once boasted that he could “hire half of the working class to shoot the other half.” With the rapid growth of the prison industry in the United States, that comment could be adapted for a future where half of the people are guarding the other half. Billions are […]
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Greg Palast
After Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez allegedly resigned in April, 2002 The New York Times declared, “Democracy is no longer threatened by a would-be dictator.” The U.S. media, following the Bush Administration’s lead, praised the shift in power and sidestepped the fact that Venezuela’s democratically elected President was ousted by a military coup. Was this simply […]
The Wal-Marting of America
Bob Ortega
The United States is the largest consumer-based economy in the world. Shopping is a national pastime, and how we shop, what we buy and how it is sold is high science studied by everyone from market researchers to child psychologists. But no one gets as many Americans reaching for their wallets every day as Sam […]
Resisting Monoculture, Rebuilding Community
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Giant transnational corporations are taking control of agriculture. To increase profits, uniformity is imposed. Diversity is replaced by monoculture. The transnational corporations push genetically engineered crops as the wave of the future. These crops are ecologically unstable and require huge inputs of chemicals and pesticides, thus posing health risks to consumers. The spread of monoculture […]
Rethinking Development
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Development is generally regarded as a good thing. It is often equated with progress. The prevailing pattern of development is the model to be emulated. The global economy is propelled by a relentless drive toward more exploitation of resources, more technological innovation, more markets, and more profits. Consumerism is the dominant mindset. “Development” is its […]
The Multicultural Middle East
Esmail Nooriala
The Middle East is a mix of ethnic groups, cultures, and religions that can hardly be represented as a unified world of Islam. There is not one monolithic Islamic civilization, but rather a multitude. The mentality that groups all the different cultures of the Middle East under one umbrella and then uses it as the […]
IMF & World Bank: Structural Maladjusters
Njoki Njehu
Interviewed by David Barsamian.
Breaking the Chains of Debt: Jubilee 2000
Njoki Njehu
Third World countries are reeling under staggering debt. The World Bank and the IMF impose punitive austerity programs which result in massive cuts in vital social services like education and health. Much of the debt was accrued by despots who lined their own pockets. Nearly half of the money due is from thirty destitute African […]
Interpreting Gender
Linda Nicholson
The Death Squads of Central America
Allan Nairn
East Timor: A Case of Genocide
Allan Nairn
Far from the newsrooms and awareness of North America and Europe is East Timor. It is half of an island in the Indonesian archipelago. It is east of Bali and 400 miles north of Australia. East Timor was a Portuguese colony for four hundred years. It became independent in 1975. In that same year it […]

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