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Norman Solomon – The Madness of Militarism
11 Dec, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Many are familiar with Eisenhower’s 1961 warning of “the military industrial complex.” Veteran CIA analyst Ray McGovern has expanded on Ike’s phrase. He coined the term MICIMATT, the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Inteligence-Media-Academia-Think Tank complex. How does it work? The notorious revolving door syndrome links the Pentagon to the arms manufacturers to Congress. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is a perfect example. Before being...
11 Dec, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Many are familiar with Eisenhower’s 1961 warning of “the military industrial complex.” Veteran CIA analyst Ray McGovern has expanded on Ike’s phrase. He coined the term MICIMATT, the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Inteligence-Media-Academia-Think Tank complex. How does it work? The notorious revolving door syndrome links the Pentagon to the arms manufacturers to Congress. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is a perfect example. Before being...
Joseph Stiglitz - Democracy & the Failure of Neoliberal Globalization
27 Nov, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Neoliberal economics has exposed the dark side of the American dream. It took off with Reagan and Thatcher. For most workers incomes have stagnated except for the very rich, whose incomes have more than quadrupled. Biden correctly points out that millions of people have gotten new jobs. But despite that, the typical family is actually getting paid less taking inflation into...
27 Nov, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Neoliberal economics has exposed the dark side of the American dream. It took off with Reagan and Thatcher. For most workers incomes have stagnated except for the very rich, whose incomes have more than quadrupled. Biden correctly points out that millions of people have gotten new jobs. But despite that, the typical family is actually getting paid less taking inflation into...
Russell Means – Knowing Who You Are: Lessons from Native America
20 Nov, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
For years the indigenous peoples of the U.S., after having been dispersed and decimated and relegated to reservations, were reduced to caricatures. We all knew Indians and their culture. There was the familiar medicine man, the trading post, Geronimo and Crazy Horse, papooses and squaws, tepees and tomahawks, war dances and war parties. Tonto was the epitome of faithfulness and...
20 Nov, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
For years the indigenous peoples of the U.S., after having been dispersed and decimated and relegated to reservations, were reduced to caricatures. We all knew Indians and their culture. There was the familiar medicine man, the trading post, Geronimo and Crazy Horse, papooses and squaws, tepees and tomahawks, war dances and war parties. Tonto was the epitome of faithfulness and...
Vandana Shiva – Real Food, Real Farming
30 Oct, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
We live in a time where our connection with food and with the farmers that grow it has been undermined. The root of the problem is a growing dependence on a dysfunctional paradigm based on pesticides and monocultures, and a separation between humans and nature. How we produce, distribute, and consume food is increasingly becoming the center of the multiple...
30 Oct, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
We live in a time where our connection with food and with the farmers that grow it has been undermined. The root of the problem is a growing dependence on a dysfunctional paradigm based on pesticides and monocultures, and a separation between humans and nature. How we produce, distribute, and consume food is increasingly becoming the center of the multiple...
Richard Wolff – The Resurgent U.S. Labor Movement
16 Oct, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
n 1970 unions represented about 30% of private-sector workers. Today that number is just 6%. As unions declined over the past half-century, workers suffered. They were paid poorly. They lost health care, retirement benefits and control over their schedules. Deaths of despair from drugs, alcohol and suicide surged among blue-collar workers. And the bosses and fat cats got even fatter....
16 Oct, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
n 1970 unions represented about 30% of private-sector workers. Today that number is just 6%. As unions declined over the past half-century, workers suffered. They were paid poorly. They lost health care, retirement benefits and control over their schedules. Deaths of despair from drugs, alcohol and suicide surged among blue-collar workers. And the bosses and fat cats got even fatter....
Brian Becker - Cold Wars: Old & New
09 Oct, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
We are in the midst of a new cold war. In this go-round, the principal adversary is China with Russia taking second place. In the old Cold War, it was the reverse. Today, Russia is nowhere near China economically. And Moscow’s performance in Ukraine suggests its military has serious problems. China is already an economic superpower and is seen by...
09 Oct, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
We are in the midst of a new cold war. In this go-round, the principal adversary is China with Russia taking second place. In the old Cold War, it was the reverse. Today, Russia is nowhere near China economically. And Moscow’s performance in Ukraine suggests its military has serious problems. China is already an economic superpower and is seen by...
Naomi Klein - Conspiracy Culture
02 Oct, 2023 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Conspiracy. Conspiracy culture. Conspiracy theories. Just hearing those words can make some people cringe and others to embrace them. Conspiracy theories are as old as the hills. But today, thanks to social media algorithms that push users toward ever more emotional, fact-adverse content, it's never been easier for wild implausible ideas and hate to go viral. It’s a rabbit hole...
02 Oct, 2023 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Conspiracy. Conspiracy culture. Conspiracy theories. Just hearing those words can make some people cringe and others to embrace them. Conspiracy theories are as old as the hills. But today, thanks to social media algorithms that push users toward ever more emotional, fact-adverse content, it's never been easier for wild implausible ideas and hate to go viral. It’s a rabbit hole...
Michael Parenti - Class Struggle from Roman Times to Today
25 Sep, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
A constant throughout history from Ancient Rome to today is the rich and powerful seek ever more wealth and control. If a popular leader innovates reforms that help the poor they come under sustained attack or worse they are killed. Go back to Caesar in Rome. The standard view is he was a power-hungry tyrant who was slain by the...
25 Sep, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
A constant throughout history from Ancient Rome to today is the rich and powerful seek ever more wealth and control. If a popular leader innovates reforms that help the poor they come under sustained attack or worse they are killed. Go back to Caesar in Rome. The standard view is he was a power-hungry tyrant who was slain by the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
