Downsize This!

The burden of welfare reform falls overwhelmingly on poor women of color, yet discussions in Washington, state capitals and in the media scrupulously avoid mentioning gender, race and class. The public is told that support for the needy is dangerous and corrupting and furthermore there is no money for such programs. The new welfare law […]

8 CDs Ranking among the most important interviews Barsamian has ever done, this six-hour-plus discussion with the noted Pakistani intellectual focuses on India, Gandhi, Tagore, Pakistan, Islam, Middle East, globalization, imperialism and encounters with Fanon, Said and Chomsky, a virtuoso performance by an original thinker. Interview by David Barsamian. Recorded at Hampshire College.

Eqbal Ahmad examines the origins of the current Gulf crisis. He presents an indigenous perspective that provides valuable insights into Saddam Hussein’s actions, the politics of oil, the role of the U.S. media, Israel and the Palestinian issue. Ahmad is a passionate and incisive speaker. His analysis is virtually excluded from mainstream media coverage. As […]