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Edward Said - Palestine: Memory, Inequality & Power
18 Sep, 2023 | 0:57:04 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The 1993 Oslo Accords between Israelis and Palestinians. You might recall the scene. Arafat, Rabin and Clinton at the White House beaming away and shaking hands. It was a euphoric moment. Peace and stability were at long last at hand. Did that happen? Take a look at a map. Oslo enabled greater Israeli control and expansion of colonies, euphemistically called...
18 Sep, 2023 | 0:57:04 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The 1993 Oslo Accords between Israelis and Palestinians. You might recall the scene. Arafat, Rabin and Clinton at the White House beaming away and shaking hands. It was a euphoric moment. Peace and stability were at long last at hand. Did that happen? Take a look at a map. Oslo enabled greater Israeli control and expansion of colonies, euphemistically called...
Nader Hashemi - Iran: The Struggle for Democracy
11 Sep, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Zhou Enlai of China once said, "One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory." Perhaps the former Chinese premier was being too harsh but then again maybe he wasn’t. Take the case of Iran. Some people remember the 1979 hostage crisis when Iranians stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 53 Americans...
11 Sep, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Zhou Enlai of China once said, "One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory." Perhaps the former Chinese premier was being too harsh but then again maybe he wasn’t. Take the case of Iran. Some people remember the 1979 hostage crisis when Iranians stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 53 Americans...
Peter Kornbluh – The Other September 11th: Chile 1973
04 Sep, 2023 | 0:57:02 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
September 11 is now engraved on the consciousness of Americans. Yet for the South American country of Chile, the date has a different and much more tragic significance. It was on that day in 1973 that the democratically-elected government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in a CIA-backed military coup. Augusto Pinochet seized power. In the ensuing years, tens of thousands...
04 Sep, 2023 | 0:57:02 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
September 11 is now engraved on the consciousness of Americans. Yet for the South American country of Chile, the date has a different and much more tragic significance. It was on that day in 1973 that the democratically-elected government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in a CIA-backed military coup. Augusto Pinochet seized power. In the ensuing years, tens of thousands...
Vandana Shiva - Interconnectedness
14 Aug, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The corporate takeover of food with its toxic chemical inputs poses serious health and environmental problems. Corporate agriculture, The New York Times states unequivocally "is causing irreparable harm to the planet." It is "ravaging the air, soil and water, destroying wildlife habitats and spurring climate chaos. The system, a vast web of industries and processes that stretches from seed to...
14 Aug, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The corporate takeover of food with its toxic chemical inputs poses serious health and environmental problems. Corporate agriculture, The New York Times states unequivocally "is causing irreparable harm to the planet." It is "ravaging the air, soil and water, destroying wildlife habitats and spurring climate chaos. The system, a vast web of industries and processes that stretches from seed to...
Koohan Paik-Mander – Arms Race = Suicide Race
07 Aug, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The “Oppenheimer” movie and the Ukraine war have brought much-needed attention to the possibility of terminal war. The arms race will end the human race. To call nukes weapons of mass destruction comes nowhere near describing the level of devastation that their use would result in. To be clear, these are weapons of annihilation that would make Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
07 Aug, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The “Oppenheimer” movie and the Ukraine war have brought much-needed attention to the possibility of terminal war. The arms race will end the human race. To call nukes weapons of mass destruction comes nowhere near describing the level of devastation that their use would result in. To be clear, these are weapons of annihilation that would make Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
Mary Wood - Environmental Law & the Defense of Nature
31 Jul, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
As ecosystems collapse and the climate emergency intensifies, the government often uses its authority to allow the very harm that it is supposed to prevent. Sound crazy? It is. The granting of permits is a battleground where corporations, with their oodles of money to buy influence, have the upper hand over nature. In the face of corporate greed and the...
31 Jul, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
As ecosystems collapse and the climate emergency intensifies, the government often uses its authority to allow the very harm that it is supposed to prevent. Sound crazy? It is. The granting of permits is a battleground where corporations, with their oodles of money to buy influence, have the upper hand over nature. In the face of corporate greed and the...
Victor Navasky – Naming Names: The Hollywood Blacklist
24 Jul, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The anti-Communist hysteria rampant in the U.S. in the 1940s and 1950s is often called the McCarthy period. But the red-baiting and persecution started even before McCarthy was elected to the Senate in 1946. The notorious House Un-American Activities Committee, HUAC, led the crusade to ferret out alleged Communists in the U.S. They struck gold when they took on Hollywood,...
24 Jul, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The anti-Communist hysteria rampant in the U.S. in the 1940s and 1950s is often called the McCarthy period. But the red-baiting and persecution started even before McCarthy was elected to the Senate in 1946. The notorious House Un-American Activities Committee, HUAC, led the crusade to ferret out alleged Communists in the U.S. They struck gold when they took on Hollywood,...
Noam Chomsky – Censorship, Free Speech & the Media
17 Jul, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
States want to dominate the narrative with their version of events. There are two basic models. One follows Aldous Huxley, the other George Orwell. The latter is best known for 1984. Big Brother is brutal. He wields a big stick while Huxley uses a much softer carrot. Censorship is self-imposed because the journalist knows the boundaries of permissible thought. Essential...
17 Jul, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
States want to dominate the narrative with their version of events. There are two basic models. One follows Aldous Huxley, the other George Orwell. The latter is best known for 1984. Big Brother is brutal. He wields a big stick while Huxley uses a much softer carrot. Censorship is self-imposed because the journalist knows the boundaries of permissible thought. Essential...
Norman Solomon - War Crimes & War Criminals
10 Jul, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
At the end of World War Two, the victorious Allies decided to try leading officials of the Nazi regime as war criminals. A tribunal was convened in Nuremberg. Some of the top Nazis were hanged and others were given jail sentences. Today, Nuremberg is largely forgotten. The clear evidence of that was the March 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, an...
10 Jul, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
At the end of World War Two, the victorious Allies decided to try leading officials of the Nazi regime as war criminals. A tribunal was convened in Nuremberg. Some of the top Nazis were hanged and others were given jail sentences. Today, Nuremberg is largely forgotten. The clear evidence of that was the March 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, an...
Stephen Kinzer – Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain & American Empire
03 Jul, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Why has the United States intervened so often in foreign lands? What are its origins? Having expanded its borders largely through its destruction of Indigenous peoples the U.S. went on to project its power globally. Today, its empire of bases rings the Earth. According to Monthly Review the U.S. “has at least eight hundred military bases located in eighty-five countries.” Historically, military interventions and invasions...
03 Jul, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Why has the United States intervened so often in foreign lands? What are its origins? Having expanded its borders largely through its destruction of Indigenous peoples the U.S. went on to project its power globally. Today, its empire of bases rings the Earth. According to Monthly Review the U.S. “has at least eight hundred military bases located in eighty-five countries.” Historically, military interventions and invasions...
Daniel Ellsberg - Origins of the Vietnam War
26 Jun, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
In this program, Daniel Ellsberg discusses early U.S. support for France’s effort to retain control of its Indochina colony. In a little-known and scary fact of history, he describes Eisenhower’s offer of nuclear weapons to the French to stave off defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Within a few years, the U.S. supplanted the French and expanded the war...
26 Jun, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
In this program, Daniel Ellsberg discusses early U.S. support for France’s effort to retain control of its Indochina colony. In a little-known and scary fact of history, he describes Eisenhower’s offer of nuclear weapons to the French to stave off defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Within a few years, the U.S. supplanted the French and expanded the war...
Nick Estes – Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: Indigenous Resistance
19 Jun, 2023 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
In South Dakota, in 1973, hundreds of Native American activists led by members of the American Indian Movement occupied the Pine Ridge Reservation village of Wounded Knee— which was also the site of a notorious massacre in 1890 in which federal troops killed 300 Lakota men, women and children. The months-long action in 1973 helped galvanize the movement for Indigenous...
19 Jun, 2023 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
In South Dakota, in 1973, hundreds of Native American activists led by members of the American Indian Movement occupied the Pine Ridge Reservation village of Wounded Knee— which was also the site of a notorious massacre in 1890 in which federal troops killed 300 Lakota men, women and children. The months-long action in 1973 helped galvanize the movement for Indigenous...
Omar Shakir – Israel/Palestine: A Threshold Crossed
12 Jun, 2023 | 0:00:07 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Thirty years ago, the Oslo Accords between Israelis and Palestinians were signed. There was widespread fanfare and jubilation. There was Clinton standing between Rabin and Arafat bringing them together at the White House. It was a new dawn. Finally, peace in the Holy Land. The pundits and the pols told us it was a miracle. Where is that miracle today?...
12 Jun, 2023 | 0:00:07 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Thirty years ago, the Oslo Accords between Israelis and Palestinians were signed. There was widespread fanfare and jubilation. There was Clinton standing between Rabin and Arafat bringing them together at the White House. It was a new dawn. Finally, peace in the Holy Land. The pundits and the pols told us it was a miracle. Where is that miracle today?...
Norman Solomon - War Crimes & War Criminals
05 Jun, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
At the end of World War Two, the victorious Allies decided to try leading officials of the Nazi regime as war criminals. A tribunal was convened in Nuremberg. Some of the top Nazis were hanged and others were given jail sentences. Today, Nuremberg is largely forgotten. The clear evidence of that was the March 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, an...
05 Jun, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
At the end of World War Two, the victorious Allies decided to try leading officials of the Nazi regime as war criminals. A tribunal was convened in Nuremberg. Some of the top Nazis were hanged and others were given jail sentences. Today, Nuremberg is largely forgotten. The clear evidence of that was the March 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, an...
Greg Grandin – Kissingerism
29 May, 2023 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Turning 100, the accolades for Henry Kissinger are pouring in. He is a legend. Over decades, he has assiduously cultivated and constructed the image of the sagacious elder statesman. Corporate journalists hang on his every word. Politicians seek his advice. But what is his record to deserve such respect and reverence? He is one of the most notorious characters of...
29 May, 2023 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Turning 100, the accolades for Henry Kissinger are pouring in. He is a legend. Over decades, he has assiduously cultivated and constructed the image of the sagacious elder statesman. Corporate journalists hang on his every word. Politicians seek his advice. But what is his record to deserve such respect and reverence? He is one of the most notorious characters of...
Khurram Parvez - Kashmir: Telling the Story
22 May, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
I interviewed Khurram Parvez in Srinagar, Kashmir in February 2011. When I returned to India that September to follow up on reporting on the mass graves in Kashmir, I was denied entry by the Indian government. I’ve been banned from India ever since. Sadly, this interview is still relevant. Since August 2019 the Hindu nationalist regime ruling India has imposed...
22 May, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
I interviewed Khurram Parvez in Srinagar, Kashmir in February 2011. When I returned to India that September to follow up on reporting on the mass graves in Kashmir, I was denied entry by the Indian government. I’ve been banned from India ever since. Sadly, this interview is still relevant. Since August 2019 the Hindu nationalist regime ruling India has imposed...
Omer Aziz - Fascism in America
15 May, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The term fascism is loosely bandied about. When most people think of it the images that come to mind are of stormtroopers and Hitler ranting and raving. It is often automatically assumed that fascism developed in Europe in the 1920s. But it had its origins earlier in the United States. The United States was built on genocidal attacks on Indigenous...
15 May, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The term fascism is loosely bandied about. When most people think of it the images that come to mind are of stormtroopers and Hitler ranting and raving. It is often automatically assumed that fascism developed in Europe in the 1920s. But it had its origins earlier in the United States. The United States was built on genocidal attacks on Indigenous...
Arundhati Roy - India: On the Road to Theocracy
08 May, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Hindutva is theocratic Hindu nationalism. It is a powerful force in what is now the world’s most populous country. Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, is a lifelong member of the RSS, an openly Hindu supremacist organization. Le Monde Diplomatique reports: Hindutva “followers regard India as a Hindu country. Non-Hindus are at best guests, at worst invaders, and must be identified,...
08 May, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Hindutva is theocratic Hindu nationalism. It is a powerful force in what is now the world’s most populous country. Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, is a lifelong member of the RSS, an openly Hindu supremacist organization. Le Monde Diplomatique reports: Hindutva “followers regard India as a Hindu country. Non-Hindus are at best guests, at worst invaders, and must be identified,...
Bernie Sanders – You Can Save the Planet
01 May, 2023 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The crises facing humankind are, to use a much overused but accurate word – unprecedented. Plutocratic power in the hands of the few is a disaster for democracy and our ecosphere. The ruling class is driven by its voracious lust for domination and money. It’s an old American story. Over a century ago Theodore Roosevelt warned against “a small class...
01 May, 2023 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The crises facing humankind are, to use a much overused but accurate word – unprecedented. Plutocratic power in the hands of the few is a disaster for democracy and our ecosphere. The ruling class is driven by its voracious lust for domination and money. It’s an old American story. Over a century ago Theodore Roosevelt warned against “a small class...
Stephen Bezruchka – Inequality Kills Us All
24 Apr, 2023 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
In the 1950s the United States had among the lowest mortality rates and highest life expectancy in the world. Today, other rich nations and quite a number of poor ones have better health outcomes than Americans. Why? How can the U.S., probably the wealthiest country in history do so poorly? Starting with Reagan in the 1980s and the fervent embrace...
24 Apr, 2023 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
In the 1950s the United States had among the lowest mortality rates and highest life expectancy in the world. Today, other rich nations and quite a number of poor ones have better health outcomes than Americans. Why? How can the U.S., probably the wealthiest country in history do so poorly? Starting with Reagan in the 1980s and the fervent embrace...
