Ongoing:
ACLU: HIV/AIDs
ACLU: Reproductive Freedom
AlterNet: Drugs
AlterNet: Health & Wellness
Eat Well Guide: Local/Sustainable/Organic
Expose: America's Investigative Reports
Fora TV: Health and Wellness
Health Beat (The Century Foundation)
Savoring Kentucky (Rona Roberts)
Science Cafe (University of California-San Francisco)
Science Friday (NPR)
Speaking of Faith (American Public Media)
Tara Parker Pope: On Health (The New York Times)
UChannel: Health
2008:
Maggie Mahar: How Vulnerable Are You Really to Heart Attack, Stroke or Breast Cancer?
On the Media: Money Talks/Gateway Drugs (Pharmaceutical Industry)
Tara Parker Pope: News Keeps Getting Worse for Vitamins
Health Director for the Veterans Administration: Average of 18 War Veteran Suicides a Day and 200,000 Sleep Homeless On the Streets On Any Given Night
Bill Moyers Journal: The fight the California Nurses Association (CNA) has been waging over universal healthcare
Democracy Now: Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker Michael Moore on the Election, the Bailout, Healthcare, and 10 Proposed Decrees for the New President’s
The Story: Destroyed by the War
Bernard Lowns' Prescription for Survival
R.D. Laing: The Mystification of Experience
Fora TV: The Future of Health Care--The Candidates' Plans
Alexa Kolbi-Molinas: Proposed Bush Administration Rule Fails to Strike Balance Between Religious Liberty and Access to Health Care
The Farm Bill: Understanding the Political, Agricultural, and Nutritional Impact
Speaking of Faith: Stress and the Balance Within
Thomas R. Frieden: Prevention and Primary Care
Speaking of Faith: Seane Corn on Yoga--Meditation in Action
Tom Burgis: Addicted--William Burroughs and a world in heat
Health Beat: Drug Addiction--Let Science Replace Ideology
AlterNet: School Uses Fake Drunk Driving Tragedy to Scare Students
AlterNet: Top Ten Drug War Stories of 2003
Taking Better Aim at Cancer: A Conversation with Gerard Evan
Warlord (Written and Directed by David Garrett): Short Film
Richard Preston: Panic in Level 4
BusinessWeek/Expose/Bill Moyers Journal: The Business of Poverty
Bruce E. Levine: How Teenage Rebellion Has Become a Mental Illness
Voices From the 2008 ACLU Conference: Jessica Yee
NOW on PBS: Toxic Toys?
Young Americans At High Risk of STDs: Emphasis on Abstinence Policy One of the Problems
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Robert Scheer: The Pornography of Power
The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America
By Robert Scheer, Twelve
AlterNet
The following is an excerpt from Robert Scheer's new book, The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America (Twelve, 2008).
War doesn't pay, nor does imperial ambition. That should be self-evident to anyone who has paid attention to the successful trajectory of the American experience, both politically and commercially, since the Republic's founding. It is a statement neither liberal nor conservative in orientation, and until recently it would have been accepted as a commonsense proposition by leading politicians of both political parties.
Although some leaders took us to war, they always claimed to do so reluctantly, as is reflected in the doubts expressed in their memoirs and those of their closest confidants. Lyndon Johnson, musing about the indefensibility of sacrificing even a single young American to die in Vietnam but sacrificing 59,000 of them in order to emerge victorious in his forthcoming election battle with Barry Goldwater, is all too typical. What that evidence reveals is just how intense is the political pressure to reject common sense when the specter of an enemy is raised. Those pressures have always been with us, and to the extent that they derive from national insecurities, political demagogues, economic avarice, overzealous patriotism, and religious or ideological fervor, they are a constant of the human experience in just about any given society.
The amazing thing about the American political experiment is that our system is the one most consciously designed to limit those risks of foreign military adventure, and for most of our history, it has worked out quite well. I don't intend to minimize the expansionist, indeed rapacious conquest of our own continent, or the occasional colonial adventures abroad, as in the Philippines and other outposts from Hawaii to Alaska, but in the main, with few lapses, the public remained properly suspicious of its leaders' intentions. The dominant assumption was the importance of avoiding foreign "entanglements," to use Thomas Jefferson's words of warning about the risks of intervening in the affairs of others. Indeed, that policy of nonintervention was thought by our nation's founders to be a basic demarcation between the politics of the old and new worlds.
By nonintervention, they did not intend indifference to events in the outside world or a narrow protectionist view of trade accompanied by a fortress American military posture. Such a stance, often described as isolationism, obviously is not only out of joint with our current, highly interconnected world, but it didn't make sense at the time of the nation's founding, even when the distance of oceans afforded far more secure borders than today. What nonintervention meant, as was commonly understood even on the tavern bar level, was don't go sticking your nose into other people's business, and certainly don't pick fights that you can't finish. That is a posture that has nothing to do with limiting charitable concern for others beyond your borders, missionary work abroad, humanitarian aid, and everything to do with avoiding the military expeditions that bankrupted the most pretentious and at times successful of empires. Not being like those empires was a driving force in the thinking of the nation's founders, who were in wide agreement on extreme caution as to military intervention.
That guiding idea of nonintervention -- developed by the colonists in rebellion, espoused to great effect by the brilliant pamphleteer Thomas Paine, and crystallized as a national treasure in the final speech to the nation of George Washington -- is as fresh and viable a construct as any of the great ideas that have guided our governance. Washington's Farewell Address, actually a carefully considered letter to the American people crafted in close consultation with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, is one of our great treasures, but although read each year in the U.S. Senate to mark Washington's legacy, it contains a caution largely ignored by those same senators as they gleefully approve massive spending to enable international meddling of every sort. Their failed responsibility to limit the president's declaration of war has become a farce that as much as anything mocks Congress' obligations as laid out in the Constitution.
Explaining why he, as our first president, followed "our true policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances, with any portion of the foreign World ... Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectably defensive posture," Washington shunned isolation, and instead held out a vision of peaceful international relations: "Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce but forcing nothing."
What more powerful though gentle warning could be offered against the instincts to the imperial adventures that have destroyed all great empires? Washington knew this record of imperial folly well, and he was well aware that his countrymen could fall as had others for that siren song of military power coupled with economic greed that had humbled the powers of Europe: "In offering you, my Countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend ... to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign Intrigue, to guard against the Impostures of pretended patriotism ..."
To Read the Rest of the Excerpt
By Robert Scheer, Twelve
AlterNet
The following is an excerpt from Robert Scheer's new book, The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America (Twelve, 2008).
War doesn't pay, nor does imperial ambition. That should be self-evident to anyone who has paid attention to the successful trajectory of the American experience, both politically and commercially, since the Republic's founding. It is a statement neither liberal nor conservative in orientation, and until recently it would have been accepted as a commonsense proposition by leading politicians of both political parties.
Although some leaders took us to war, they always claimed to do so reluctantly, as is reflected in the doubts expressed in their memoirs and those of their closest confidants. Lyndon Johnson, musing about the indefensibility of sacrificing even a single young American to die in Vietnam but sacrificing 59,000 of them in order to emerge victorious in his forthcoming election battle with Barry Goldwater, is all too typical. What that evidence reveals is just how intense is the political pressure to reject common sense when the specter of an enemy is raised. Those pressures have always been with us, and to the extent that they derive from national insecurities, political demagogues, economic avarice, overzealous patriotism, and religious or ideological fervor, they are a constant of the human experience in just about any given society.
The amazing thing about the American political experiment is that our system is the one most consciously designed to limit those risks of foreign military adventure, and for most of our history, it has worked out quite well. I don't intend to minimize the expansionist, indeed rapacious conquest of our own continent, or the occasional colonial adventures abroad, as in the Philippines and other outposts from Hawaii to Alaska, but in the main, with few lapses, the public remained properly suspicious of its leaders' intentions. The dominant assumption was the importance of avoiding foreign "entanglements," to use Thomas Jefferson's words of warning about the risks of intervening in the affairs of others. Indeed, that policy of nonintervention was thought by our nation's founders to be a basic demarcation between the politics of the old and new worlds.
By nonintervention, they did not intend indifference to events in the outside world or a narrow protectionist view of trade accompanied by a fortress American military posture. Such a stance, often described as isolationism, obviously is not only out of joint with our current, highly interconnected world, but it didn't make sense at the time of the nation's founding, even when the distance of oceans afforded far more secure borders than today. What nonintervention meant, as was commonly understood even on the tavern bar level, was don't go sticking your nose into other people's business, and certainly don't pick fights that you can't finish. That is a posture that has nothing to do with limiting charitable concern for others beyond your borders, missionary work abroad, humanitarian aid, and everything to do with avoiding the military expeditions that bankrupted the most pretentious and at times successful of empires. Not being like those empires was a driving force in the thinking of the nation's founders, who were in wide agreement on extreme caution as to military intervention.
That guiding idea of nonintervention -- developed by the colonists in rebellion, espoused to great effect by the brilliant pamphleteer Thomas Paine, and crystallized as a national treasure in the final speech to the nation of George Washington -- is as fresh and viable a construct as any of the great ideas that have guided our governance. Washington's Farewell Address, actually a carefully considered letter to the American people crafted in close consultation with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, is one of our great treasures, but although read each year in the U.S. Senate to mark Washington's legacy, it contains a caution largely ignored by those same senators as they gleefully approve massive spending to enable international meddling of every sort. Their failed responsibility to limit the president's declaration of war has become a farce that as much as anything mocks Congress' obligations as laid out in the Constitution.
Explaining why he, as our first president, followed "our true policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances, with any portion of the foreign World ... Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectably defensive posture," Washington shunned isolation, and instead held out a vision of peaceful international relations: "Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce but forcing nothing."
What more powerful though gentle warning could be offered against the instincts to the imperial adventures that have destroyed all great empires? Washington knew this record of imperial folly well, and he was well aware that his countrymen could fall as had others for that siren song of military power coupled with economic greed that had humbled the powers of Europe: "In offering you, my Countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend ... to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign Intrigue, to guard against the Impostures of pretended patriotism ..."
To Read the Rest of the Excerpt
CFP: Exploding Genre (Deadline: December 20th, 2008)
CFP: Exploding Genre
Call for Papers
Exploding Genre
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
Deadline: 20th December 2008
Submission Guidelines
Genre has undergone radical transformations since the advent of a media society, in which popular texts are not so much literary but visual. Narrative studies of genre, such as John Cawelti's Six-Gun Mystique (1970) and Darko Suvin's Metamorphoses of Science-Fiction (1979), were quickly overturned by an increasing interest in cinematic, televisual, visual and digital textualities. Studies of different and interrelated media superceded the structuralist interest in narrative. Increasingly generic identity was conceived of as modal, or adaptable between media, consumed and produced by differently situated groups of readers, cultures and audiences.
Genre became differentiated from within itself, no longer identical but constituted at the interface of various media and readers. It was assembled from other genres, a combination of overlapping, discontinuous tropes that played ironically with its own established forms. Postmodernism had broken with both the neo-classicism of the New Criticism and with a historically minded structuralism to produce a new critical view of genre, one that fostered the emergence of hybrid and self-conscious fictions between media. Its readers were no longer seen as isolated but, in their engagement with multiple practices of interpretation, were recognized in distinct communities. Studies like Janice Radway's Reading the Romance: Women, Romance and Popular Fiction (1991) and Henry Jenkins' Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (1992) explored new ways of looking at popular texts within their contexts.
It is with a view to addressing these changes that this issue of Reconstruction will investigate the function of genre in theory and fictions alike. Papers are sought that address the fragmented state of genre theory, spread as it is across studies of new and old media, fan and reading communities, narrative and visual theory. We are interested in the function of genre in different medias, such as comics and games. Why has genre persisted in this age of multi-modal expressions? What makes it tick, travel across media, to return and coalesce in new and old forms of narrative, visuality and intertextuality?
We envisage papers covering a variety of theoretical / discursive positions, including:
- feminist theory
- queer theory
- postcolonial theory
- convergent/transformative media
- new cultural histories
- ludology
Please send completed essays, multimedial performances, etc. to Helen Merrick and Darren Jorgensen at exp.genre_at_gmail.com by 20th December, 2008. We are happy to consider abstracts and proposals prior to this date. Publication is expected in the third quarter of 2009.
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (ISSN: 1547-4348) is an innovative online cultural studies journal dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars and their audience, granting them all the ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies. Reconstruction publishes one open issue and three themed issues quarterly. Reconstruction is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.
Call for Papers
Exploding Genre
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
Deadline: 20th December 2008
Submission Guidelines
Genre has undergone radical transformations since the advent of a media society, in which popular texts are not so much literary but visual. Narrative studies of genre, such as John Cawelti's Six-Gun Mystique (1970) and Darko Suvin's Metamorphoses of Science-Fiction (1979), were quickly overturned by an increasing interest in cinematic, televisual, visual and digital textualities. Studies of different and interrelated media superceded the structuralist interest in narrative. Increasingly generic identity was conceived of as modal, or adaptable between media, consumed and produced by differently situated groups of readers, cultures and audiences.
Genre became differentiated from within itself, no longer identical but constituted at the interface of various media and readers. It was assembled from other genres, a combination of overlapping, discontinuous tropes that played ironically with its own established forms. Postmodernism had broken with both the neo-classicism of the New Criticism and with a historically minded structuralism to produce a new critical view of genre, one that fostered the emergence of hybrid and self-conscious fictions between media. Its readers were no longer seen as isolated but, in their engagement with multiple practices of interpretation, were recognized in distinct communities. Studies like Janice Radway's Reading the Romance: Women, Romance and Popular Fiction (1991) and Henry Jenkins' Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (1992) explored new ways of looking at popular texts within their contexts.
It is with a view to addressing these changes that this issue of Reconstruction will investigate the function of genre in theory and fictions alike. Papers are sought that address the fragmented state of genre theory, spread as it is across studies of new and old media, fan and reading communities, narrative and visual theory. We are interested in the function of genre in different medias, such as comics and games. Why has genre persisted in this age of multi-modal expressions? What makes it tick, travel across media, to return and coalesce in new and old forms of narrative, visuality and intertextuality?
We envisage papers covering a variety of theoretical / discursive positions, including:
- feminist theory
- queer theory
- postcolonial theory
- convergent/transformative media
- new cultural histories
- ludology
Please send completed essays, multimedial performances, etc. to Helen Merrick and Darren Jorgensen at exp.genre_at_gmail.com by 20th December, 2008. We are happy to consider abstracts and proposals prior to this date. Publication is expected in the third quarter of 2009.
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (ISSN: 1547-4348) is an innovative online cultural studies journal dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars and their audience, granting them all the ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies. Reconstruction publishes one open issue and three themed issues quarterly. Reconstruction is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.
Simon Winchester: 'The Black Death,' John Hatcher's Remarkable History of the Plague
'The Black Death,' John Hatcher's Remarkable History of the Plague
by Simon Winchester
The New York Sun
This totally absorbing book presents the best account ever written about the worst event to have ever befallen the British Isles. In the hands of John Hatcher, an English medievalist of sober and steady reputation who has for decades been squirreled away in one of the smaller, older, and least obtrusive of Cambridge colleges, the extraordinary tragedy of the great plague — which wiped out as much as 60% of the population of 14th-century Europe and killed an estimated 75 million worldwide — has been brought to life in a manner rarely attempted, and with a level of success even more rarely achieved.
To Read the Review
by Simon Winchester
The New York Sun
This totally absorbing book presents the best account ever written about the worst event to have ever befallen the British Isles. In the hands of John Hatcher, an English medievalist of sober and steady reputation who has for decades been squirreled away in one of the smaller, older, and least obtrusive of Cambridge colleges, the extraordinary tragedy of the great plague — which wiped out as much as 60% of the population of 14th-century Europe and killed an estimated 75 million worldwide — has been brought to life in a manner rarely attempted, and with a level of success even more rarely achieved.
To Read the Review
Friday, June 27, 2008
From Political Prisoner to Cabinet Minister: Legendary Brazilian Musician Gilberto Gil on His Life, His Music and the Digital Divide
From Political Prisoner to Cabinet Minister: Legendary Brazilian Musician Gilberto Gil on His Life, His Music and the Digital Divide
Democracy Now
Host: Amy Goodman
Forty years ago, the legendary Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil was a political prisoner. Today, he is a cabinet official in the Brazilian government. As protests raged across the globe in 1968, Gil was at the center of a cultural and political revolution in Brazil known as Tropicalia. The movement was seen as such a threat to Brazil’s military dictatorship that Gil was jailed, then forced into exile, where he would become one of the world’s most celebrated musicians as well as a spokesperson for Brazil’s emerging black consciousness movement. Today, Gil remains one of Brazil’s best known artists, as well as the country’s Minister of Culture. He is now spearheading a different kind of anti-establishment revolution. This time it’s about democratizing the distribution of intellectual property rights. We spend the hour with Gilberto Gil in a wide-ranging interview on his life, his music, the black consciousness movement and the future of the internet.
To Read/Listen/Watch
Democracy Now
Host: Amy Goodman
Forty years ago, the legendary Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil was a political prisoner. Today, he is a cabinet official in the Brazilian government. As protests raged across the globe in 1968, Gil was at the center of a cultural and political revolution in Brazil known as Tropicalia. The movement was seen as such a threat to Brazil’s military dictatorship that Gil was jailed, then forced into exile, where he would become one of the world’s most celebrated musicians as well as a spokesperson for Brazil’s emerging black consciousness movement. Today, Gil remains one of Brazil’s best known artists, as well as the country’s Minister of Culture. He is now spearheading a different kind of anti-establishment revolution. This time it’s about democratizing the distribution of intellectual property rights. We spend the hour with Gilberto Gil in a wide-ranging interview on his life, his music, the black consciousness movement and the future of the internet.
To Read/Listen/Watch
History/Social Sciences (Archive)
Ongoing:
Annenberg Media
Bill Moyers Journal (PBS)
Book TV on CSPAN: Top Nonfiction Authors
Borderlands: New Spaces in the Humanities
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
Democracy Now
Facing History and Ourselves: Helping Communities and Classrooms Worldwide Link the Past to Moral Choices Today
John Taylor Gatto: Challenging the Myths of Modern Schooling
Fora TV (The World is Thinking)
Fora TV: History
Fora TV: Law
History is a Weapon
H-NET: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
Howard Zinn
MIT World
Open Source (The Watson Institute for International Studies)
Psyche, Science and Society
Psychoanalysts for Peace and Justice
Snag Films (Free Documentaries Online)
Tapestry of the Times (Smithsonian Folkway Recordings/WYPR: Baltimore)
Time Tube
UChannel: Access to a World of Ideas
UChannel: History
2008:
Democracy Now: Ron Howard on His New Film Frost/Nixon
Michael T. Klare: The Fall of Triumphalism; GLOBAL TRENDS 2025: THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL'S 2025 PROJECT
Democracy Now: US Interrogator in Iraq Says Torture Policy Has Led to Deaths of Thousands of American Soldiers
Point of Inquiry: Jennifer Michael Hecht - Doubt
HUM 220: Peace/Conflict Studies (Historical) Supplement Pt. 6
Open Source: Douglas Blackmon - Neo-Slavery in Our Times
Excerpt from the 5th supplement for HUM 220: Peace/Conflict Studies (Historical Perspectives) course
Annenberg Media: Inside the Global Economy
Fora TV: Journalist Naomi Klein speaks with economists Joseph Stiglitz and Hernando de Soto in a conversation moderated by Anthropologist David Harvey
Tapestry of the Times #1: Leadbelly; Grupo Changui de Guantanamo; Hassan Kassayi; Woody Guthrie; Mary Lou Williams; John Cage/David Tudor; et al
Michael Wesch: A Portal to Media Literacy
Progressive Radio: Stephen Pimpare - A People’s History of Poverty in America
Point of Inquiry: Point of Inquiry: Susan Jacoby - The Age of Unreason
This Pariah-to-Messiah Moment: Anthropologist John Comaroff on the Obama Moment
Sylvère Lotringer on Paulo Virno's A Grammar of the Multitude
Bill Moyers Journal: Fred Harris on The Kerner Commission--40 Years Later
Bill Moyers Journal: International Lawyer Phillippe Sands on TORTURE TEAM: RUMSFELD'S MEMO AND THE BETRAYAL OF AMERICAN VALUES
Bill Moyers Journal: Historian Eric Foner and Legal Scholar Patricia J. Williams on the Significance of the 2008 Presidential Election
Naomi Wolf in the Documentary "The End of America" Directed by Rick Stern and Annie Sundberg
Radio West: Daniel Levitin - The World in Six Songs
MIT World: Eric Foner - “The Story of American Freedom: 1776-2005.”
Film School: PETER GALISON and ROBB MOSS co-directors of SECRECY
Sean Wilentz: The Worst President in History
BBC Documentaries: America's First Principles
Mona Domosh: On Nationalism
Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker: The Hidden Labor of Capitalism
Alma Guillermoprieto: How To Be a Mexican
Science Talk: Saddle Up That Stegosaurus--A Visit to the Creation Museum
Susan Jacoby - American Freethought Heritage
Virtual JFK: Vietnam (and us) if Kennedy had lived
H.L. Goodall: Writing the New Ethnography; Allan Irving/Ken Moffatt: The Professor as Poet; Gary Snyder: The Etiquette of Freedom
Tim Weiner: Setting the Record Straight on the CIA
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy: Philip Zimbardo on The Lucifer Effect
We the People Stories: Howard Fineman--The Thirteen American Arguments
Jane Mayer: The Dark Side/Extraordinary Rendition/Outsourcing Torture; Canadian Citizen Imprisoned By U.S. Speaks Out
M. Buck: Searching For A Primate Quintessence
Michael Benton: Why I Listen to "Common Sense with Dan Carlin"
Q and A: Peter Wallison--The History and Background of Fannie Ma and Freddie Mac
Bill Moyers Special Report: Buying the War: How Did the Mainstream Press Get it So Wrong?
Open Source: Douglas Blackmon on Neo-Slavery in Our Times
Point of Inquiry: Barbara Oakley - Social Psychology, Genes and Human Evil
Hearsay Culture: Alex Wright on Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages
After Words: Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
Roy Wagner: The Invention of Culture
Irkaly Areshidze: Democracy and Autocracy in Eurasia--Georgia in Transition
Brian Holmes: Imaginary Maps, Global Solidarities
Sandra Steingraber: Environmental Amnesia
BBC Radio Documentary: Pirates
Douglas Blackmon: The Truth About Jim Crow
Simon Winchester: 'The Black Death,' John Hatcher's Remarkable History of the Plague
Eric Hobsbawm: The Post-Imperial Historian
United States of Amnesia
2004:
Race and Collective Memory Bibliography
Annenberg Media
Bill Moyers Journal (PBS)
Book TV on CSPAN: Top Nonfiction Authors
Borderlands: New Spaces in the Humanities
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
Democracy Now
Facing History and Ourselves: Helping Communities and Classrooms Worldwide Link the Past to Moral Choices Today
John Taylor Gatto: Challenging the Myths of Modern Schooling
Fora TV (The World is Thinking)
Fora TV: History
Fora TV: Law
History is a Weapon
H-NET: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
Howard Zinn
MIT World
Open Source (The Watson Institute for International Studies)
Psyche, Science and Society
Psychoanalysts for Peace and Justice
Snag Films (Free Documentaries Online)
Tapestry of the Times (Smithsonian Folkway Recordings/WYPR: Baltimore)
Time Tube
UChannel: Access to a World of Ideas
UChannel: History
2008:
Democracy Now: Ron Howard on His New Film Frost/Nixon
Michael T. Klare: The Fall of Triumphalism; GLOBAL TRENDS 2025: THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL'S 2025 PROJECT
Democracy Now: US Interrogator in Iraq Says Torture Policy Has Led to Deaths of Thousands of American Soldiers
Point of Inquiry: Jennifer Michael Hecht - Doubt
HUM 220: Peace/Conflict Studies (Historical) Supplement Pt. 6
Open Source: Douglas Blackmon - Neo-Slavery in Our Times
Excerpt from the 5th supplement for HUM 220: Peace/Conflict Studies (Historical Perspectives) course
Annenberg Media: Inside the Global Economy
Fora TV: Journalist Naomi Klein speaks with economists Joseph Stiglitz and Hernando de Soto in a conversation moderated by Anthropologist David Harvey
Tapestry of the Times #1: Leadbelly; Grupo Changui de Guantanamo; Hassan Kassayi; Woody Guthrie; Mary Lou Williams; John Cage/David Tudor; et al
Michael Wesch: A Portal to Media Literacy
Progressive Radio: Stephen Pimpare - A People’s History of Poverty in America
Point of Inquiry: Point of Inquiry: Susan Jacoby - The Age of Unreason
This Pariah-to-Messiah Moment: Anthropologist John Comaroff on the Obama Moment
Sylvère Lotringer on Paulo Virno's A Grammar of the Multitude
Bill Moyers Journal: Fred Harris on The Kerner Commission--40 Years Later
Bill Moyers Journal: International Lawyer Phillippe Sands on TORTURE TEAM: RUMSFELD'S MEMO AND THE BETRAYAL OF AMERICAN VALUES
Bill Moyers Journal: Historian Eric Foner and Legal Scholar Patricia J. Williams on the Significance of the 2008 Presidential Election
Naomi Wolf in the Documentary "The End of America" Directed by Rick Stern and Annie Sundberg
Radio West: Daniel Levitin - The World in Six Songs
MIT World: Eric Foner - “The Story of American Freedom: 1776-2005.”
Film School: PETER GALISON and ROBB MOSS co-directors of SECRECY
Sean Wilentz: The Worst President in History
BBC Documentaries: America's First Principles
Mona Domosh: On Nationalism
Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker: The Hidden Labor of Capitalism
Alma Guillermoprieto: How To Be a Mexican
Science Talk: Saddle Up That Stegosaurus--A Visit to the Creation Museum
Susan Jacoby - American Freethought Heritage
Virtual JFK: Vietnam (and us) if Kennedy had lived
H.L. Goodall: Writing the New Ethnography; Allan Irving/Ken Moffatt: The Professor as Poet; Gary Snyder: The Etiquette of Freedom
Tim Weiner: Setting the Record Straight on the CIA
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy: Philip Zimbardo on The Lucifer Effect
We the People Stories: Howard Fineman--The Thirteen American Arguments
Jane Mayer: The Dark Side/Extraordinary Rendition/Outsourcing Torture; Canadian Citizen Imprisoned By U.S. Speaks Out
M. Buck: Searching For A Primate Quintessence
Michael Benton: Why I Listen to "Common Sense with Dan Carlin"
Q and A: Peter Wallison--The History and Background of Fannie Ma and Freddie Mac
Bill Moyers Special Report: Buying the War: How Did the Mainstream Press Get it So Wrong?
Open Source: Douglas Blackmon on Neo-Slavery in Our Times
Point of Inquiry: Barbara Oakley - Social Psychology, Genes and Human Evil
Hearsay Culture: Alex Wright on Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages
After Words: Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
Roy Wagner: The Invention of Culture
Irkaly Areshidze: Democracy and Autocracy in Eurasia--Georgia in Transition
Brian Holmes: Imaginary Maps, Global Solidarities
Sandra Steingraber: Environmental Amnesia
BBC Radio Documentary: Pirates
Douglas Blackmon: The Truth About Jim Crow
Simon Winchester: 'The Black Death,' John Hatcher's Remarkable History of the Plague
Eric Hobsbawm: The Post-Imperial Historian
United States of Amnesia
2004:
Race and Collective Memory Bibliography
Science/Technology (Archive)
Ongoing:
ACLU: Privacy and Technology
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy: IP and Tech Law
Boing Boing
Center for Inquiry: A Global Federation Committed to Science, Reason, Free Inquiry, Secularism, and Planetary Ethics
Chris Mooney: The Intersection
Craphound
Creative Commons
The Eclectic Review: Where Science and Science Fiction Collide
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Expose: America's Investigative Reports
First Monday: Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet
Fora TV: Technology and Science
Framing Science (Matthew Nisbet)
Health Beat (The Century Foundation)
Hearsay Culture (Center for Internet and Society)
Living on Earth: Sound Journalism for the Whole Planet
Media Shift: Your Guide to the Digital Media Revolution (PBS)
Neurophilosophy
New York Times: Technology
Point of Inquiry
Save the Internet: Fighting for Internet Freedom
Science Blogs
Science Cafe (University of California-San Francisco)
Science Friday (NPR)
Science Talk (Scientific American)
Tech President
Time Tube
UChannel: Science
UChannel: Technology
Wikidgame
Wikiscanner
Wired News
2008:
Counterspin: Kali Akuno, Andy Worthington and Francesca Grifo on the Bush legacy
Science Talk: Kayaking Antarctica with Jon Bowermaster
Wikidgame/Wikiscanner: Tracking Self-Interested Edits on Wikipedia
Michael Wesch: A Portal to Media Literacy
Tara Parker Pope: News Keeps Getting Worse for Vitamins
A.O. Scott: The Way We Live Now--The Screening of America
Science Friday: Primatologist/Anthropologist Jane Goodall
Nancy Scola: Obama Puts Well-Known Internet Advocate in Charge of FCC Review
Radio West: Daniel Levitin - The World in Six Songs
Open Court Books: Regina Arnold - "Podcrastination"
FCC to Vote on Opening Up “White Spaces” on TV Spectrum To Expand Broadband Access
Science Talk: Saddle Up That Stegosaurus--A Visit to the Creation Museum
James Bamford: “The Shadow Factory -- The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America”
Joan Hamilton: The Electronic Activist
Laurence Krauss: The Fear of Physics
Bernard Lowns' Prescription for Survival
Eddy Ramírez: Blogging from the Classroom, Teachers Seek Influence, Risk Trouble
The Farm Bill: Understanding the Political, Agricultural, and Nutritional Impact
Paul Kurtz: The New Atheism and Secular Humanism
M. Buck: Searching For A Primate Quintessence
Taking Better Aim at Cancer: A Conversation with Gerard Evan
In Our Time: Materialism
Point of Inquiry: Barbara Oakley - Social Psychology, Genes and Human Evil
On the Media: One for the Books
James Der Derian: Virtuous War
Jay Rosen: The News About the News
Richard Preston: Panic in Level 4
Science Friday: Higher-Res Eye in the Sky
The Eclectic Review: Electronic Voting and Voter Fraud
Hearsay Culture: Alex Wright on Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages
Mathhew Nisbet: What is Framing?/Popular Science vs Framing
Living On Earth: Ah, Wilderness; Endangered Again; Invasion of the Invasives; Wireless Science; Amazing Rare Things; Spider Conversations
Annenberg Media: Environmental Science
Annenberg Media: Mathematics Illuminated
NOW on PBS: Toxic Toys?
SciFiDimensions: Cory Doctorow on Little Brother
Jeff Vandermeer Interview of Paul Barnett aka John Grant: Science Has Been Corrupted
Speaking of Faith: Einstein and the Mind of God
The World of Chemistry
Earth Revealed: Geology
The Habitable Planet: A Systems Approach to Environmental Science
To the Best of Our Knowledge: Boredom
Mike Davis: Living on the Ice Shelf--Humanity's Meltdown
NPR: 'Doomsday' Seed Vault Opens in the Arctic
Digital DIY: Web Helps Do-It-Yourselfers Share Ethic
Nicholas Carr: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
In Our Time: The Multiverse
In Our Time: Ada Lovelace
Speaking of Faith: Einstein's God; Einstein's Ethics
Point of Inquiry: Chris Mooney on The Republican War on Science
Michael Benton/Lauren Elkin: Theories/Practices of Blogging
Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community and Culture of Weblogs
ACLU: Privacy and Technology
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy: IP and Tech Law
Boing Boing
Center for Inquiry: A Global Federation Committed to Science, Reason, Free Inquiry, Secularism, and Planetary Ethics
Chris Mooney: The Intersection
Craphound
Creative Commons
The Eclectic Review: Where Science and Science Fiction Collide
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Expose: America's Investigative Reports
First Monday: Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet
Fora TV: Technology and Science
Framing Science (Matthew Nisbet)
Health Beat (The Century Foundation)
Hearsay Culture (Center for Internet and Society)
Living on Earth: Sound Journalism for the Whole Planet
Media Shift: Your Guide to the Digital Media Revolution (PBS)
Neurophilosophy
New York Times: Technology
Point of Inquiry
Save the Internet: Fighting for Internet Freedom
Science Blogs
Science Cafe (University of California-San Francisco)
Science Friday (NPR)
Science Talk (Scientific American)
Tech President
Time Tube
UChannel: Science
UChannel: Technology
Wikidgame
Wikiscanner
Wired News
2008:
Counterspin: Kali Akuno, Andy Worthington and Francesca Grifo on the Bush legacy
Science Talk: Kayaking Antarctica with Jon Bowermaster
Wikidgame/Wikiscanner: Tracking Self-Interested Edits on Wikipedia
Michael Wesch: A Portal to Media Literacy
Tara Parker Pope: News Keeps Getting Worse for Vitamins
A.O. Scott: The Way We Live Now--The Screening of America
Science Friday: Primatologist/Anthropologist Jane Goodall
Nancy Scola: Obama Puts Well-Known Internet Advocate in Charge of FCC Review
Radio West: Daniel Levitin - The World in Six Songs
Open Court Books: Regina Arnold - "Podcrastination"
FCC to Vote on Opening Up “White Spaces” on TV Spectrum To Expand Broadband Access
Science Talk: Saddle Up That Stegosaurus--A Visit to the Creation Museum
James Bamford: “The Shadow Factory -- The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America”
Joan Hamilton: The Electronic Activist
Laurence Krauss: The Fear of Physics
Bernard Lowns' Prescription for Survival
Eddy Ramírez: Blogging from the Classroom, Teachers Seek Influence, Risk Trouble
The Farm Bill: Understanding the Political, Agricultural, and Nutritional Impact
Paul Kurtz: The New Atheism and Secular Humanism
M. Buck: Searching For A Primate Quintessence
Taking Better Aim at Cancer: A Conversation with Gerard Evan
In Our Time: Materialism
Point of Inquiry: Barbara Oakley - Social Psychology, Genes and Human Evil
On the Media: One for the Books
James Der Derian: Virtuous War
Jay Rosen: The News About the News
Richard Preston: Panic in Level 4
Science Friday: Higher-Res Eye in the Sky
The Eclectic Review: Electronic Voting and Voter Fraud
Hearsay Culture: Alex Wright on Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages
Mathhew Nisbet: What is Framing?/Popular Science vs Framing
Living On Earth: Ah, Wilderness; Endangered Again; Invasion of the Invasives; Wireless Science; Amazing Rare Things; Spider Conversations
Annenberg Media: Environmental Science
Annenberg Media: Mathematics Illuminated
NOW on PBS: Toxic Toys?
SciFiDimensions: Cory Doctorow on Little Brother
Jeff Vandermeer Interview of Paul Barnett aka John Grant: Science Has Been Corrupted
Speaking of Faith: Einstein and the Mind of God
The World of Chemistry
Earth Revealed: Geology
The Habitable Planet: A Systems Approach to Environmental Science
To the Best of Our Knowledge: Boredom
Mike Davis: Living on the Ice Shelf--Humanity's Meltdown
NPR: 'Doomsday' Seed Vault Opens in the Arctic
Digital DIY: Web Helps Do-It-Yourselfers Share Ethic
Nicholas Carr: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
In Our Time: The Multiverse
In Our Time: Ada Lovelace
Speaking of Faith: Einstein's God; Einstein's Ethics
Point of Inquiry: Chris Mooney on The Republican War on Science
Michael Benton/Lauren Elkin: Theories/Practices of Blogging
Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community and Culture of Weblogs
Eric Hobsbawm: The Post-Imperial Historian
Eric Hobsbawm: The Post-Imperial Historian
Open Source
Host: Christopher Lydon
An historian of ever widening scope, Eric Hobsbawm has been taking the long view for a very long time. His definition of the historian’s trade is: “how and why Homo sapiens got from the paleolithic to the nuclear age.” Born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, Hobsbawm is 90 now, but in his pungent writing and talk, the species is young, and the future is everything.
To Listen to the Episode
Open Source
Host: Christopher Lydon
An historian of ever widening scope, Eric Hobsbawm has been taking the long view for a very long time. His definition of the historian’s trade is: “how and why Homo sapiens got from the paleolithic to the nuclear age.” Born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, Hobsbawm is 90 now, but in his pungent writing and talk, the species is young, and the future is everything.
To Listen to the Episode
Jay Rosen: The News About the News
The News About the News
Jay Rosen of PressThink
Open Source
Host: Christopher Lydon
Jay Rosen was the prophet of people-first “civic journalism” twenty years ago, before the Web gave citizen-bloggers the tools to be press lords, or at least publishers, on the cheap. In our first podcast nearly five years ago, Jay was among the first to see the breadth of the upheaval. “The terms of authority are changing,” he put it then. His website PressThink has become the real Press Club of thinking practitioners in this drawn-out existential crisis. In James Der Derian’s Global Media class at Brown last week, Jay Rosen gave his account of the Web stars becoming institutions: Instapundit, the first distributed newsroom; DailyKos, “by far the most vibrant community I know”; The Huffington Post, rising on the power of aggregation; and “the first Web-born media company,” Joshua Micah Marshall’s Talking Points Memo and its offspring. But Jay was at his most compelling on the bad news: what feels like the inexorable, personal, cosmic, professional, civic tragedy unfolding in front of our eyes at the New York Times.
To Listen to the Episode
Jay Rosen of PressThink
Open Source
Host: Christopher Lydon
Jay Rosen was the prophet of people-first “civic journalism” twenty years ago, before the Web gave citizen-bloggers the tools to be press lords, or at least publishers, on the cheap. In our first podcast nearly five years ago, Jay was among the first to see the breadth of the upheaval. “The terms of authority are changing,” he put it then. His website PressThink has become the real Press Club of thinking practitioners in this drawn-out existential crisis. In James Der Derian’s Global Media class at Brown last week, Jay Rosen gave his account of the Web stars becoming institutions: Instapundit, the first distributed newsroom; DailyKos, “by far the most vibrant community I know”; The Huffington Post, rising on the power of aggregation; and “the first Web-born media company,” Joshua Micah Marshall’s Talking Points Memo and its offspring. But Jay was at his most compelling on the bad news: what feels like the inexorable, personal, cosmic, professional, civic tragedy unfolding in front of our eyes at the New York Times.
To Listen to the Episode
Talk of the Nation: 'Doomsday' Seed Vault Opens in the Arctic
'Doomsday' Seed Vault Opens in the Arctic
Talk of the Nation (NPR)
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, nicknamed "the doomsday seed vault" by some, aims to preserve samples of seeds from around the world to protect the planet's crop diversity. The frozen vault has begun accepting seeds for storage.
The structure is located near the village of Longyearbyen, Svalbard, a group of islands nearly 1,000 kilometers north of mainland Norway. The vault was dug into the side of a mountain and is surrounded by permafrost and thick rock.
Cary Fowler, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, says the opening of the seed vault "marks a historic turning point in safeguarding the world's crop diversity."
To Listen to the Episode
Talk of the Nation (NPR)
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, nicknamed "the doomsday seed vault" by some, aims to preserve samples of seeds from around the world to protect the planet's crop diversity. The frozen vault has begun accepting seeds for storage.
The structure is located near the village of Longyearbyen, Svalbard, a group of islands nearly 1,000 kilometers north of mainland Norway. The vault was dug into the side of a mountain and is surrounded by permafrost and thick rock.
Cary Fowler, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, says the opening of the seed vault "marks a historic turning point in safeguarding the world's crop diversity."
To Listen to the Episode
Jon Kalish: Digital DIY
Digital DIY: Web Helps Do-It-Yourselfers Share Ethic
by Jon Kalish
NPR
There's a corner of the Internet now that functions like an old-fashioned general store, where farmers might swap advice on how to fix an ailing tractor. A host of highly interactive Web sites cater to a growing number of do-it-yourselfers who want to do everything from hack cell phones to make their own furniture.
Take 35-year-old Joel Sprayberry. His kitchen countertops are made from granite he salvaged from discarded billiard tables. When Sprayberry's beloved dachshund became disabled, the Dallas musician gathered some aluminum tent poles, some webbing and some wheels, and made a mini-chariot to immobilize the dog's hind legs.
"It was less than $50 that I spent," Sprayberry says, estimating that the doggy-wheelchair took him two hours to build. "And it didn't really take any special tools other than a drill and some normal tools you have around the house."
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to read/listen to the rest
by Jon Kalish
NPR
There's a corner of the Internet now that functions like an old-fashioned general store, where farmers might swap advice on how to fix an ailing tractor. A host of highly interactive Web sites cater to a growing number of do-it-yourselfers who want to do everything from hack cell phones to make their own furniture.
Take 35-year-old Joel Sprayberry. His kitchen countertops are made from granite he salvaged from discarded billiard tables. When Sprayberry's beloved dachshund became disabled, the Dallas musician gathered some aluminum tent poles, some webbing and some wheels, and made a mini-chariot to immobilize the dog's hind legs.
"It was less than $50 that I spent," Sprayberry says, estimating that the doggy-wheelchair took him two hours to build. "And it didn't really take any special tools other than a drill and some normal tools you have around the house."
...
to read/listen to the rest
Richard Dawkins: An Argument for Atheism
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Remembering Utah Phillips (May 15, 1935 - May 23, 2008)
Independent Media Center Memorial
Free Radio Santa Monica: Amy Goodman Interviews Utah Phillips (This is an amazing interview that sent chills through me--a very wise and generous person!)
Democracy Now: Supreme Court Slashes Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Fine to One-Tenth of Original $5 Billion Ruling
Supreme Court Slashes Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Fine to One-Tenth of Original $5 Billion Ruling
Democracy Now
Hosts: Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez
The Supreme Court handed corporate America a major victory this week when it sharply reduced the amount of money Exxon Mobil has to pay in punitive damages for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. An Alaskan jury had initially ruled Exxon should pay five billion dollars in punitive damages but in 2006, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court cut the award of punitive damages in half. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court cut the amount of punitive damages again and ordered Exxon Mobil to pay just $500 million in punitive damages – one tenth of the original jury’s ruling.
To Watch/Listen/Read
"The Supreme Court ruled that in maritime cases punitive damages should be no more than the actual damages. 32,000 Alaskan plaintiffs have been waiting for their compensation since 1994. The Supreme Court’s action will reduce the average award from $75,000 to about $15,000.
Last year Exxon Mobil made just over $40 billion in profits. This means the oil company will be able to pay the punitive damages in about four days. Sen. Patrick Leahy, chair of the Judiciary Committee, accused the court of giving Exxon Mobil a $2billion windfall."
More:
Conservation GIS Center: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill - Affected Area
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council: History
AlterNet: Shocking: 18 Years on and Exxon Still Won't Pay $2.5 Billion for Valdez Oil Spill
15 Year Anniversary of the Exxon Valdez Environmental Disaster
NOW on PBS: Torture Tactics--Interview with Alex Gibney
Torture Tactics: Interview with Alex Gibney
Host: David Branccacio
NOW (PBS)
This year's Oscar-winning feature documentary, "Taxi to the Dark Side," tells the story of an innocent Afghan taxi driver who died while being interrogated and tortured by U.S. soldiers. NOW interviews the film's director, Alex Gibney, about torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantánamo Bay, and how the issue is playing out in the presidential race. At the intersection of human rights, civil liberties, and national security, how should America respond?
To Listen/Watch the Episode
More on Taxi to the Dark Side:
Bluegrass Film Society Archive
Host: David Branccacio
NOW (PBS)
This year's Oscar-winning feature documentary, "Taxi to the Dark Side," tells the story of an innocent Afghan taxi driver who died while being interrogated and tortured by U.S. soldiers. NOW interviews the film's director, Alex Gibney, about torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantánamo Bay, and how the issue is playing out in the presidential race. At the intersection of human rights, civil liberties, and national security, how should America respond?
To Listen/Watch the Episode
More on Taxi to the Dark Side:
Bluegrass Film Society Archive
10th Anniversary Screening of 100 Proof
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I would like to invite you to the re-release premiere of the independent film 100 PROOF, by George Maranville and Jeremy Horton. Please take a look at the write-up at the link below.
Herald-Leader Article
THURSDAY JUNE 26
5:30 - 7:30 AND 9:30 showings
All the best,
Arthur Rouse
BCTC Filmmaking Certificate Program
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Business/Labor/Economics (archive)
Ongoing:
16 Beaver Group
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy: Economic, Workplace and Environment
AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and the Workplace
The American Conservative
American Rights at Work
Audio Anarchy
Big Vision: Interviews with Individuals & Organizations Creating Positive Change
Bill Moyers Journal
The Business (Film)
Business and Financial News (New York Times)
BusinessWeek
Columbia Journalism Review
Crimethinc.: Ex-Workers Collective
Democracy Now
Economic Policy Institute
The Epoch Times
Ethics Bites (Open University)
Expose: America's Investigative Reports (PBS)
Fora TV: Business
Fora TV: Giving
Have Fun, Do Good
Institute for Policy Studies
Institute for Policy Studies: Reports
Job Watch: Tracking Jobs and Wages
Jobs With Justice
Labor Notes
Landscapes of Global Capital: Representing Time, Space, & Globalization in Corporate Advertising
Lenin's Tomb
Libr.org: Supporting Progressive Librarians Since 1998
LRIS: Labor Relations Information System (Police/Firefighters)
Multinational Monitor
The Nation
NPR: Economy
Provoke Radio: Where Faith and Social Justice Meet
Reason Magazine: Free Minds and Free Markets
The Street: The Real Story with Frank Curzio
Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
UChannel: Economy
United Auto Workers
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE)
Wall Street Journal
Washington Babylon (Ken Silverstein/Harper's)
Who Owns What: Media
Worldview (WBEZ: Chicago Public Radio)
2008:
Robert Weissman: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008
Bill Moyers Journal: Ken Silverstein on Influence Peddling in Washington DC
Michael T. Klare: The Fall of Triumphalism; GLOBAL TRENDS 2025: THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL'S 2025 PROJECT
John Nichols: Hands off the United Auto Workers (UAW)
Open Source: Douglas Blackmon - Neo-Slavery in Our Times
Institute For Policy Studies: Executive Excess 2008 (report)
Institute for Policy Studies: Understanding the Economic Crisis
Associated Press: Laid-off workers occupy Chicago factory; Jobs With Justice: Hold Bank of America Accountable; UE Updates on the Occupation
On the Media: Money Talks/Gateway Drugs (Pharmaceutical Industry)
David Moltz: Tenure on the Chopping Block in the Kentucky Community and Technical College System
Annenberg Media: Inside the Global Economy
Fora TV: Journalist Naomi Klein speaks with economists Joseph Stiglitz and Hernando de Soto in a conversation moderated by David Harvey
Democracy Now: Naomi Klein, Robert Kuttner and Michael Hudson Dissect Obama’s New Economic Team & Stimulus Plan
Democracy Now: Naomi Klein on the Bailout Profiteers and the Multi-Trillion-Dollar Crime Scene
Barack Obama Considering Eric Holder for Attorney General: Why We Should Be Concerned About His Role Defending Chiquita Brands in Columbia?
Provoke Radio #87: The Spiritual Lessons of the Financial Crisis
Margaret Trost - On That Day Everybody Ate: One Woman’s Story of Hope and Possibility in Haiti
Progressive Radio: Naomi Klein, the author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Progressive Radio: Stephen Pimpare - A People’s History of Poverty in America
London Review of Books: Slavoj Žižek - Use Your Illusions
NOW on PBS: Prisons for Profit
Sylvère Lotringer on Paulo Virno's A Grammar of the Multitude
Chi-Yun Shin: Art of branding--Tartan "Asia Extreme" films
Health Director for the Veterans Administration: Average of 18 War Veteran Suicides a Day and 200,000 Sleep Homeless On the Streets On Any Given Night
Bill Moyers Journal: Fred Harris on The Kerner Commission--40 Years Later
Bill Moyers Journal: The fight the California Nurses Association (CNA) has been waging over universal healthcare
Economic Question: Who Is Abusing Government Welfare?
Institute for Policy Studies: Understanding the Economic Crisis
Sam Pizzigati: A Whole Lot of CEO Pay Shaking Going On
BBC World Service Documnetaries: Failure or Fraud?
Democracy Now: Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker Michael Moore on the Election, the Bailout, Healthcare, and 10 Proposed Decrees for the New President’s
BBC Documentaries: The Lost Veterans
Bill Moyers Journal: George Soros
Bill Moyers Journal: James K. Galbraith
50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World
Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker: The Hidden Labor of Capitalism
Ex-Asst. Treasury Sec. Paul Craig Roberts on Wall St. Bailout: “Has Deregulation Sired Fascism?”
Eamonn Fingleton: Getting the American economy back on solid ground will require new financial regulations.
Democracy Now: European, Asian Markets Plunge as Recession Fears Spread Worldwide
Martial Law Threatened to Politicians If They Did Not Pass the Bailout Bill
Naomi Klein: Naomi Klein: On Milton Friedman's Links to the Current Economic Crisis
Linda Blimes and Joseph Stiglitz - The Iraq War in dollars and cents
Fora TV: The Future of Health Care--The Candidates' Plans
Sara Robinson: 11 Racist Lies Conservatives Tell to Avoid Blaming Wall Street for the Financial Crisis
Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners
Word for Word: David Cay Johnston--How the Rich Get Richer
Bernie Sanders: A Voice of Reason in the Economic Panic
Stephen Power and Gary Fields: How Voter Fury Stopped Bailout
University of Illinois: THE AAUP REAFFIRMS GRAD EMPLOYEE AND STAFF RIGHTS
Katrina vanden Heuvel & Eric Schlosser: America Needs a New New Deal
John R. MacArthur, the author of You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America
The Farm Bill: Understanding the Political, Agricultural, and Nutritional Impact
We the People Stories: The Legacy of 1808--Modern-Day Slavery
Mark Achbar's The Corporation Available for Free Online
James s. Henry: Socialism for Bankers, Savage Capitalism for Everyone Else?
Adam Fields -- Getting Rid of the (Production) Shingles
Al Ruddy: Shrugging Off Atlas Shrugged
Fora TV: Bill Clinton in conversation with moderator James Fallows at the Aspen Institute's 2006 Aspen Ideas Festival
Film School: Irene Salina on FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER
Amy Goodman: The Party Police
Amy Goodman: Wall Street Socialists
Q and A: Peter Wallison--The History and Background of Fannie Ma and Freddie Mac
Frida Berrigan: Military Industrial Complex 2.0; Craig Kielburger, Marc Kielburger and Chris Mallinos: Cheated into Working in a War Zone
Open Source: Douglas Blackmon on Neo-Slavery in Our Times
Worldview: Catholic Priests' Strategy for Peacemaking; Global Activism--Making Rugs and Improving Lives in Pakistan
Worldview: Zimbabwe--Power-sharing Deal Reached?; Burmese Refugees Find Work in Meat-Processing Plants; Resettling Refugees in the U.S.
On the Media: Instruments of War; Cooking the Books
On the Media: Text Me
NPR Economy: How to Know If You're Rich
FilmSchool: Tom Stern on This is a Business
Media Matters: Myths and falsehoods about oil policies
Kirby Dick on This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Richard Posner: Copyright
After Words: Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
BusinessWeek/Expose/Bill Moyers Journal: The Business of Poverty
Bill Moyers Journal: Andrew J. Bacevich on The Limits of Power
Bill Moyers' Journal: The Middle Class Squeeze
Online Storytelling & Cause Marketing: An Interview with Jonah Sachs of Free Range Studios
To the Best of Our Knowledge: The New Abolitionists
Annenberg Media: Ethics in America
Steven Wishnia: Both of My Grandfathers Were Illegal Immigrants
ABC News/Feministe/Curvature: Justice for Jamie Leigh Jones
Aditya Chakrabortty: Internal World Bank study delivers blow to plant energy drive
Democracy Now: Groundbreaking Lawsuit Accuses Big Oil of Conspiracy to Deceive Public About Climate Change; "Global Disruption" More Accurately Describes Climate Change, Not "Global Warming" - Leading Scientist John Holdren
Ken Mondschein: Diamond Engagement Rings
Democracy Now: Supreme Court Slashes Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Fine to One-Tenth of Original $5 Billion Ruling
EU To Raise Working Week To 65 Hours
PBS: Mapping the Media Giants
Free Radio Santa Monica: Folksinger/Activist Utah Phillips on the Labor Movement
Mother Jones: Medicare's Hidden Bonanza--After millions in campaign contributions, an insurance magnate's 10-year lobbying campaign finally pays off
AlterNet: Exxon Valdez Disaster 101
Michael Benton: Downloading Music--Serious Crime? Welcome to Bizarro World?
Walmart: Paragon of Freedom and Justice
Jeff Epton: Mainstream Media's Anti-Union Bias
2003:
Kari Lyderson: Bottled Water Blues
Linda Ocasio: Home Girls in the House
AlterNet: Ten Worst Corporations of 2003
16 Beaver Group
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy: Economic, Workplace and Environment
AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and the Workplace
The American Conservative
American Rights at Work
Audio Anarchy
Big Vision: Interviews with Individuals & Organizations Creating Positive Change
Bill Moyers Journal
The Business (Film)
Business and Financial News (New York Times)
BusinessWeek
Columbia Journalism Review
Crimethinc.: Ex-Workers Collective
Democracy Now
Economic Policy Institute
The Epoch Times
Ethics Bites (Open University)
Expose: America's Investigative Reports (PBS)
Fora TV: Business
Fora TV: Giving
Have Fun, Do Good
Institute for Policy Studies
Institute for Policy Studies: Reports
Job Watch: Tracking Jobs and Wages
Jobs With Justice
Labor Notes
Landscapes of Global Capital: Representing Time, Space, & Globalization in Corporate Advertising
Lenin's Tomb
Libr.org: Supporting Progressive Librarians Since 1998
LRIS: Labor Relations Information System (Police/Firefighters)
Multinational Monitor
The Nation
NPR: Economy
Provoke Radio: Where Faith and Social Justice Meet
Reason Magazine: Free Minds and Free Markets
The Street: The Real Story with Frank Curzio
Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
UChannel: Economy
United Auto Workers
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE)
Wall Street Journal
Washington Babylon (Ken Silverstein/Harper's)
Who Owns What: Media
Worldview (WBEZ: Chicago Public Radio)
2008:
Robert Weissman: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008
Bill Moyers Journal: Ken Silverstein on Influence Peddling in Washington DC
Michael T. Klare: The Fall of Triumphalism; GLOBAL TRENDS 2025: THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL'S 2025 PROJECT
John Nichols: Hands off the United Auto Workers (UAW)
Open Source: Douglas Blackmon - Neo-Slavery in Our Times
Institute For Policy Studies: Executive Excess 2008 (report)
Institute for Policy Studies: Understanding the Economic Crisis
Associated Press: Laid-off workers occupy Chicago factory; Jobs With Justice: Hold Bank of America Accountable; UE Updates on the Occupation
On the Media: Money Talks/Gateway Drugs (Pharmaceutical Industry)
David Moltz: Tenure on the Chopping Block in the Kentucky Community and Technical College System
Annenberg Media: Inside the Global Economy
Fora TV: Journalist Naomi Klein speaks with economists Joseph Stiglitz and Hernando de Soto in a conversation moderated by David Harvey
Democracy Now: Naomi Klein, Robert Kuttner and Michael Hudson Dissect Obama’s New Economic Team & Stimulus Plan
Democracy Now: Naomi Klein on the Bailout Profiteers and the Multi-Trillion-Dollar Crime Scene
Barack Obama Considering Eric Holder for Attorney General: Why We Should Be Concerned About His Role Defending Chiquita Brands in Columbia?
Provoke Radio #87: The Spiritual Lessons of the Financial Crisis
Margaret Trost - On That Day Everybody Ate: One Woman’s Story of Hope and Possibility in Haiti
Progressive Radio: Naomi Klein, the author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Progressive Radio: Stephen Pimpare - A People’s History of Poverty in America
London Review of Books: Slavoj Žižek - Use Your Illusions
NOW on PBS: Prisons for Profit
Sylvère Lotringer on Paulo Virno's A Grammar of the Multitude
Chi-Yun Shin: Art of branding--Tartan "Asia Extreme" films
Health Director for the Veterans Administration: Average of 18 War Veteran Suicides a Day and 200,000 Sleep Homeless On the Streets On Any Given Night
Bill Moyers Journal: Fred Harris on The Kerner Commission--40 Years Later
Bill Moyers Journal: The fight the California Nurses Association (CNA) has been waging over universal healthcare
Economic Question: Who Is Abusing Government Welfare?
Institute for Policy Studies: Understanding the Economic Crisis
Sam Pizzigati: A Whole Lot of CEO Pay Shaking Going On
BBC World Service Documnetaries: Failure or Fraud?
Democracy Now: Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker Michael Moore on the Election, the Bailout, Healthcare, and 10 Proposed Decrees for the New President’s
BBC Documentaries: The Lost Veterans
Bill Moyers Journal: George Soros
Bill Moyers Journal: James K. Galbraith
50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World
Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker: The Hidden Labor of Capitalism
Ex-Asst. Treasury Sec. Paul Craig Roberts on Wall St. Bailout: “Has Deregulation Sired Fascism?”
Eamonn Fingleton: Getting the American economy back on solid ground will require new financial regulations.
Democracy Now: European, Asian Markets Plunge as Recession Fears Spread Worldwide
Martial Law Threatened to Politicians If They Did Not Pass the Bailout Bill
Naomi Klein: Naomi Klein: On Milton Friedman's Links to the Current Economic Crisis
Linda Blimes and Joseph Stiglitz - The Iraq War in dollars and cents
Fora TV: The Future of Health Care--The Candidates' Plans
Sara Robinson: 11 Racist Lies Conservatives Tell to Avoid Blaming Wall Street for the Financial Crisis
Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners
Word for Word: David Cay Johnston--How the Rich Get Richer
Bernie Sanders: A Voice of Reason in the Economic Panic
Stephen Power and Gary Fields: How Voter Fury Stopped Bailout
University of Illinois: THE AAUP REAFFIRMS GRAD EMPLOYEE AND STAFF RIGHTS
Katrina vanden Heuvel & Eric Schlosser: America Needs a New New Deal
John R. MacArthur, the author of You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America
The Farm Bill: Understanding the Political, Agricultural, and Nutritional Impact
We the People Stories: The Legacy of 1808--Modern-Day Slavery
Mark Achbar's The Corporation Available for Free Online
James s. Henry: Socialism for Bankers, Savage Capitalism for Everyone Else?
Adam Fields -- Getting Rid of the (Production) Shingles
Al Ruddy: Shrugging Off Atlas Shrugged
Fora TV: Bill Clinton in conversation with moderator James Fallows at the Aspen Institute's 2006 Aspen Ideas Festival
Film School: Irene Salina on FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER
Amy Goodman: The Party Police
Amy Goodman: Wall Street Socialists
Q and A: Peter Wallison--The History and Background of Fannie Ma and Freddie Mac
Frida Berrigan: Military Industrial Complex 2.0; Craig Kielburger, Marc Kielburger and Chris Mallinos: Cheated into Working in a War Zone
Open Source: Douglas Blackmon on Neo-Slavery in Our Times
Worldview: Catholic Priests' Strategy for Peacemaking; Global Activism--Making Rugs and Improving Lives in Pakistan
Worldview: Zimbabwe--Power-sharing Deal Reached?; Burmese Refugees Find Work in Meat-Processing Plants; Resettling Refugees in the U.S.
On the Media: Instruments of War; Cooking the Books
On the Media: Text Me
NPR Economy: How to Know If You're Rich
FilmSchool: Tom Stern on This is a Business
Media Matters: Myths and falsehoods about oil policies
Kirby Dick on This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Richard Posner: Copyright
After Words: Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
BusinessWeek/Expose/Bill Moyers Journal: The Business of Poverty
Bill Moyers Journal: Andrew J. Bacevich on The Limits of Power
Bill Moyers' Journal: The Middle Class Squeeze
Online Storytelling & Cause Marketing: An Interview with Jonah Sachs of Free Range Studios
To the Best of Our Knowledge: The New Abolitionists
Annenberg Media: Ethics in America
Steven Wishnia: Both of My Grandfathers Were Illegal Immigrants
ABC News/Feministe/Curvature: Justice for Jamie Leigh Jones
Aditya Chakrabortty: Internal World Bank study delivers blow to plant energy drive
Democracy Now: Groundbreaking Lawsuit Accuses Big Oil of Conspiracy to Deceive Public About Climate Change; "Global Disruption" More Accurately Describes Climate Change, Not "Global Warming" - Leading Scientist John Holdren
Ken Mondschein: Diamond Engagement Rings
Democracy Now: Supreme Court Slashes Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Fine to One-Tenth of Original $5 Billion Ruling
EU To Raise Working Week To 65 Hours
PBS: Mapping the Media Giants
Free Radio Santa Monica: Folksinger/Activist Utah Phillips on the Labor Movement
Mother Jones: Medicare's Hidden Bonanza--After millions in campaign contributions, an insurance magnate's 10-year lobbying campaign finally pays off
AlterNet: Exxon Valdez Disaster 101
Michael Benton: Downloading Music--Serious Crime? Welcome to Bizarro World?
Walmart: Paragon of Freedom and Justice
Jeff Epton: Mainstream Media's Anti-Union Bias
2003:
Kari Lyderson: Bottled Water Blues
Linda Ocasio: Home Girls in the House
AlterNet: Ten Worst Corporations of 2003
Sexuality/Relationships (archive)
Ongoing:
ACLU: HIV/AIDs
ACLU: Lesbian Gay Rights
ACLU: Reproductive Freedom
AlterNet: Sexuality & Relationships
The Carnival of Feminists
Kentucky Fairness Alliance
Nerve: Original Essays and Photography on Sex, Arts and Culture
2008:
Lisa Miller: Our Mutual Joy
Radio West: Responding to Prop 8
Film Couch #93: Kiss of the Spider Woman
Milk (Gus Van Sant)
Republicans Against 8
Voices From the 2008 ACLU Conference: Jessica Yee
Jessica Valenti: The Sexual Double Standard
Rachel Kramer Bussel: Sexual Math
Humanist Network News #13: Sex & Humanism
Marty Klein: The War on Sex
Ken Mondschein: Diamond Engagement Rings
2007:
Michael Benton: Response to I Am a Sexual Addict
2004:
Texas Saleswoman Faces Trial for Selling Sex Toys
Young Americans At High Risk of STDs: Emphasis on Abstinence Policy One of the Problems
1892:
Emma Goldman: Marriage and Love
ACLU: HIV/AIDs
ACLU: Lesbian Gay Rights
ACLU: Reproductive Freedom
AlterNet: Sexuality & Relationships
The Carnival of Feminists
Kentucky Fairness Alliance
Nerve: Original Essays and Photography on Sex, Arts and Culture
2008:
Lisa Miller: Our Mutual Joy
Radio West: Responding to Prop 8
Film Couch #93: Kiss of the Spider Woman
Milk (Gus Van Sant)
Republicans Against 8
Voices From the 2008 ACLU Conference: Jessica Yee
Jessica Valenti: The Sexual Double Standard
Rachel Kramer Bussel: Sexual Math
Humanist Network News #13: Sex & Humanism
Marty Klein: The War on Sex
Ken Mondschein: Diamond Engagement Rings
2007:
Michael Benton: Response to I Am a Sexual Addict
2004:
Texas Saleswoman Faces Trial for Selling Sex Toys
Young Americans At High Risk of STDs: Emphasis on Abstinence Policy One of the Problems
1892:
Emma Goldman: Marriage and Love
A Musician's Life: Bob Mould
Bob Mould
A Musician's Life (WXPN: Philadelphia)
Host: Tracey Tannebaum
Bob Mould co-founded Hüsker Dü in 1979 . The punk band paved the way for the rise of 1990's indie rock, and for bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam. His later work with Sugar, as well as his more acoustic solo releases, cemented Mould's reputation as an iconic figure in modern rock. Bob Mould's new album is called "District Line."
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A Musician's Life (WXPN: Philadelphia)
Host: Tracey Tannebaum
Bob Mould co-founded Hüsker Dü in 1979 . The punk band paved the way for the rise of 1990's indie rock, and for bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam. His later work with Sugar, as well as his more acoustic solo releases, cemented Mould's reputation as an iconic figure in modern rock. Bob Mould's new album is called "District Line."
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