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Richard Forer – Blaming the Victim: Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
30 Sep, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Blaming the victim is as old as the hills. It occurs when the victim of a crime or tragedy is held at fault for the harm that befell them. In other words, you had it coming to you. The great scholar Edward Said ruefully remarked that the Palestinians were the victims of the victim hence it was very difficult for them to generate...
30 Sep, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Blaming the victim is as old as the hills. It occurs when the victim of a crime or tragedy is held at fault for the harm that befell them. In other words, you had it coming to you. The great scholar Edward Said ruefully remarked that the Palestinians were the victims of the victim hence it was very difficult for them to generate...
Mohamad Junaid - Modi, Hindutva & Kashmir
01 Apr, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
"India's democracy is being systematically disassembled,” says renowned writer and activist Arundhati Roy. She adds, “Any kind of dissent is just smashed with an iron fist." Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party openly espouse Hindutva, a racist ideology rooted in a mythical past and fueled by magical thinking. It’s a supremacist doctrine that privileges and elevates...
01 Apr, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
"India's democracy is being systematically disassembled,” says renowned writer and activist Arundhati Roy. She adds, “Any kind of dissent is just smashed with an iron fist." Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party openly espouse Hindutva, a racist ideology rooted in a mythical past and fueled by magical thinking. It’s a supremacist doctrine that privileges and elevates...
Eugene Puryear – From Birmingham to Bethlehem (Part two of a special two-part program)
18 Mar, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
From Birmingham to Bethlehem. Two iconic places saturated with meaning. As segregation and Jim Crow were described as intractable so too is Palestine today. How can the Palestinian struggle for freedom and dignity take lessons from the Black Liberation Movement? Historical circumstances are clearly different yet there are similarities. Both are located in a colonial-like situation, where a powerful oppressor...
18 Mar, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
From Birmingham to Bethlehem. Two iconic places saturated with meaning. As segregation and Jim Crow were described as intractable so too is Palestine today. How can the Palestinian struggle for freedom and dignity take lessons from the Black Liberation Movement? Historical circumstances are clearly different yet there are similarities. Both are located in a colonial-like situation, where a powerful oppressor...
Eugene Puryear – From Birmingham to Bethlehem (Part one of a special two-part program)
11 Mar, 2024 | 0:57:04 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
From Birmingham to Bethlehem. Two iconic places saturated with meaning. As segregation and Jim Crow were described as intractable so too is Palestine today. How can the Palestinian struggle for freedom and dignity take lessons from the Black Liberation Movement? Historical circumstances are clearly different yet there are similarities. Both are located in a colonial-like situation, where a powerful oppressor...
11 Mar, 2024 | 0:57:04 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
From Birmingham to Bethlehem. Two iconic places saturated with meaning. As segregation and Jim Crow were described as intractable so too is Palestine today. How can the Palestinian struggle for freedom and dignity take lessons from the Black Liberation Movement? Historical circumstances are clearly different yet there are similarities. Both are located in a colonial-like situation, where a powerful oppressor...
Ralph Nader - Corporate Autocracy, Fascism, Trump & the Election
26 Feb, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Corporate power is more concentrated than ever before. The rich are significantly richer. And the poor? Well, they know their place. There’s an odor of fascism in the air. FDR once warned, “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state...
26 Feb, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Corporate power is more concentrated than ever before. The rich are significantly richer. And the poor? Well, they know their place. There’s an odor of fascism in the air. FDR once warned, “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state...
Sarah Leah Whitson - Gaza, International Law & the Biden Presidency
12 Feb, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Julia Conley, staff writer for Common Dreams writes, “Along with persistent protests at public events held by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, recent polling is continuously demonstrating that the White House's vehement support for Israel's bombardment of Gaza despite the rising civilian death toll is not winning them accolades among the voters whose backing they depend on...
12 Feb, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Julia Conley, staff writer for Common Dreams writes, “Along with persistent protests at public events held by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, recent polling is continuously demonstrating that the White House's vehement support for Israel's bombardment of Gaza despite the rising civilian death toll is not winning them accolades among the voters whose backing they depend on...
Noam Chomsky - When Lunatics Run the Asylum
04 Dec, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The future of humankind and the planet are in danger from the twin existential threats of terminal nuclear war and climate catastrophe. The response? The Biden administration is following through on Pentagon plans to “modernize” its nuclear arsenal. Instead of eliminating these weapons of mass destruction we are upgrading them. And the clock is ticking louder and louder on the...
04 Dec, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The future of humankind and the planet are in danger from the twin existential threats of terminal nuclear war and climate catastrophe. The response? The Biden administration is following through on Pentagon plans to “modernize” its nuclear arsenal. Instead of eliminating these weapons of mass destruction we are upgrading them. And the clock is ticking louder and louder on the...
Norman Finkelstein - A Brief History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
13 Nov, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The world’s eyes are on Gaza. It is ruled by Hamas. Hamas is an acronym in Arabic for the Islamic Resistance Movement. A bit of history. Gaza came under Israeli military control in 1967. That continued for thirty-eight years until 2005. Since then, it has been subjected to an Israeli-imposed siege and blockade and a series of bloody wars. Israel...
13 Nov, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The world’s eyes are on Gaza. It is ruled by Hamas. Hamas is an acronym in Arabic for the Islamic Resistance Movement. A bit of history. Gaza came under Israeli military control in 1967. That continued for thirty-eight years until 2005. Since then, it has been subjected to an Israeli-imposed siege and blockade and a series of bloody wars. Israel...
Bedross Der Matossian - Armenia, Artsakh & Azerbaijan
23 Oct, 2023 | 0:52:04 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Quickly lost in media coverage was a conflict that ended recently between the Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh, Artsakh in Armenian and Azerbaijan. It resulted in the ethnic cleansing of the Armenian enclave. This is a huge blow to the millennial old Armenian people. Their land was under siege by Azerbaijan. On September 19th Azerbaijan invaded. The outnumbered and outgunned Armenians...
23 Oct, 2023 | 0:52:04 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Quickly lost in media coverage was a conflict that ended recently between the Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh, Artsakh in Armenian and Azerbaijan. It resulted in the ethnic cleansing of the Armenian enclave. This is a huge blow to the millennial old Armenian people. Their land was under siege by Azerbaijan. On September 19th Azerbaijan invaded. The outnumbered and outgunned Armenians...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Medea Benjamin – System Change
10 Apr, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The multiple problems facing the U.S. can no longer be swept under the rug. Modest so-called reforms are not sufficient given the magnitude of the crises we face from imperialism and militarism to war and the climate emergency. Our dollar-driven politics is corrupt. We need system change not cosmetic change. Individually, we can do small things but connecting with kindred...
10 Apr, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The multiple problems facing the U.S. can no longer be swept under the rug. Modest so-called reforms are not sufficient given the magnitude of the crises we face from imperialism and militarism to war and the climate emergency. Our dollar-driven politics is corrupt. We need system change not cosmetic change. Individually, we can do small things but connecting with kindred...
Noam Chomsky - When Lunatics Run the Asylum
03 Apr, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The future of humankind and the planet are in danger from the twin existential threats of terminal nuclear war and climate catastrophe. The response? The Biden administration is following through on Pentagon plans to “modernize” its nuclear arsenal. Instead of eliminating these weapons of mass destruction, we are upgrading them. And the clock is ticking louder and louder on the...
03 Apr, 2023 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The future of humankind and the planet are in danger from the twin existential threats of terminal nuclear war and climate catastrophe. The response? The Biden administration is following through on Pentagon plans to “modernize” its nuclear arsenal. Instead of eliminating these weapons of mass destruction, we are upgrading them. And the clock is ticking louder and louder on the...
Noam Chomsky – Racing to the Precipice
12 Dec, 2022 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The warnings about the climate emergency are coming in fast and furious yet public awareness and political action remain at a low level. The latest report is from the World Meteorological Organization, a UN agency. Its director said, “The impacts of climate change” are "often felt through water—more intense and frequent droughts, more extreme flooding, more erratic seasonal rainfall and...
12 Dec, 2022 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The warnings about the climate emergency are coming in fast and furious yet public awareness and political action remain at a low level. The latest report is from the World Meteorological Organization, a UN agency. Its director said, “The impacts of climate change” are "often felt through water—more intense and frequent droughts, more extreme flooding, more erratic seasonal rainfall and...
Marie Ranjbar - Iran: Zan, Zendegi, Azadi / Woman, Life, Freedom
05 Dec, 2022 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Since mid-September, tens of thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets across the country to protest the government's treatment of girls and women and in particular mandatory dress codes. These historic demonstrations center on women's socio-political rights and democratic governance in Iran. The government has brutally responded. Hundreds have been killed, including children. Many thousands have been arrested. Despite...
05 Dec, 2022 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Since mid-September, tens of thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets across the country to protest the government's treatment of girls and women and in particular mandatory dress codes. These historic demonstrations center on women's socio-political rights and democratic governance in Iran. The government has brutally responded. Hundreds have been killed, including children. Many thousands have been arrested. Despite...
Vijay Prashad - History Lessons (Part two of a special two-part program)
28 Nov, 2022 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Is history just a bunch of innocuous cold facts and dates? Or is it something more? What can we learn from the past? History is not neutral. It’s an ideological battleground. Witness the vitriolic attacks by establishment figures on those who want a reckoning of the enslavement of African Americans. They want to obfuscate that sordid history. Or take the...
28 Nov, 2022 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Is history just a bunch of innocuous cold facts and dates? Or is it something more? What can we learn from the past? History is not neutral. It’s an ideological battleground. Witness the vitriolic attacks by establishment figures on those who want a reckoning of the enslavement of African Americans. They want to obfuscate that sordid history. Or take the...
