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Terrorism: Theirs and Ours
Eqbal Ahmad
Terrorism is the scourge of the era. It is a fearsome symbol conjuring up images of ferocious-looking, bearded men brandishing AK-47s. The media focus on the terrorism of official enemies like Saddam Hussein, bin Laden, and Zarqawi. After they were done away with, new demons appear to justify war and bloat the Pentagon budget. Be […]
The Black Panther Party
Bobby Seale
In the sixties and seventies, the Black Panther Party captured the imagination of millions in the U.S. and around the world. The organization also attracted the rapt attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI launched a sustained counterintelligence program to infiltrate, disrupt and destroy the Panthers. The media and popular history […]
The Broken Politics of the Middle East
Nader Hashemi
From Yemen to Iraq and from Libya to Syria, the Middle East is drenched in chaos and violence. The bright promises of the Arab Spring uprisings have disappeared into a dark winter. Egypt, where a popular revolt overthrew Mubarak, is once again under the thumb of a military dictator with, are you sitting down, support […]
The Center Cannot Hold
Noam Chomsky
About seven million households are facing possible foreclosure while Citigroup raked in almost $4.5 billion for the first quarter. Unemployment both short and long term are at levels not seen since the Great Depression. The U.S. has deep structural economic problems which cannot be masked over with upbeat reports on a so-called recovery. The line […]
The Clinton Vision
Noam Chomsky
Bill Clinton assumed the Presidency of the United States heralded as a New Democrat. He would do things differently. He wouldn’t kowtow to powerful lobbies. He would break the bureaucratic gridlock. After a year in office, a Clinton vision has taken shape. Its lenses and frames suggest that it’s business as usual in Washington. President […]
The Courage of Immigrants
Sonia Nazario
Emma Lazarus in her poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty wrote: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Bedros, my father might have seen those words in 1914 when he landed at Ellis Island and Araxie, my mother too, seven years later when she arrived. My parents were […]
The Dark Side of United States Foreign Policy
John Stockwell
2 CDs In one of AR’s earliest and greatest hits, veteran CIA agent, John Stockwell turns on the klieg lights to illuminate the dark side of Washington’s policies. He takes us through U.S. covert actions and black operations with a focus on Central America. He discusses Reagan’s destabilization campaign and low intensity war to overthrow […]
The End of Caring
Barbara Ehrenreich
The politics of the Clinton-Gingrich era have rewritten the social contract and have shredded portions of the safety net. The poor and needy are lectured about responsibility and character. The rich and powerful, with their subsidies, tax breaks and easy access to all branches and agencies of government, are doing quite well. The gap between […]
The Kissinger Case
Christopher Hitchens
Henry Kissinger beware. With the detention of former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet and the arrest of Yugoslavia’s Slobodan Milosovic, no longer can tyrants hide behind the defense of sovereign immunity for their crimes against humanity. While some still consider Kissinger one of the U.S.’s most influential political power brokers, as Secretary of State and National […]
The Making of The Panama Deception
Barbara Trent
In December 1989, just a month after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the U.S. invaded Panama. It was called Operation Just Cause. The Bush Administration cited “the inherent right of self- defense” in Article 51 of the UN Charter to justify its action. The U.S. intervention in Panama, just one of many in Latin […]
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 National Security Beast
Jeremy Scahill
The national security beast is a terrifying behemoth that extends its tentacles across the globe. Like a many-headed hydra it grows and grows. It has an insatiable appetite for weaponry. For example, in late 2013, the navy launched the Zumwalt, the largest destroyer ever built. It came in for a cool $3 billion. But that’s […]

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