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Imperialism, Drugs & Social Control
Michael Parenti
2 CDs Lecture. Interview by David Barsamian.
Marxism and the Crisis in Eastern Europe
Michael Parenti
Recorded at California State University.
Media Myths and U.S. Foreign Policy
Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti, in another of his brilliant lectures, discusses why media experts, commentators and columnists ignore or distort the connections between U.S. foreign policy and its interventions in the Third World. U.S. actions, invasions, coups, blockades, resource extraction, are invariably cloaked in the myths of benevolence and good intentions. Events are framed, packaged and presented […]
On Propaganda
Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti says, “The first premise of propaganda in the United States today is that it doesn’t exist, that there is no propaganda from the established media and from the government and that we have only ‘information.’ Propaganda is something that other people do.“ If you say that there is propaganda in the U.S. you […]
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.

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