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Christian
Parenti | BIO | - "Lockdown America: The Growth of the Police State"
The
19th century robber baron Jay Gould once boasted that he could "hire
half
of the working class to shoot the other half." With the rapid growth
of the
prison industry in the United States, that comment could be adapted
for a
future where half of the people are guarding the other half. Billions
are
spent every year on building new prisons; billions more go to running
them.
Over half a million people now work in the corrections industry in
the U.S.,
and about two million are behind bars. Laws are passed at the
state and
federal levels that encourage increased policing and
incarceration. The money
to pay for it all comes at the expense of social
programs. Christian Parenti
examines the social, political and economic
issues that are at the root of
the growth of the police states over the
past three decades September 26,
1999. [national broadcast]
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Michael
Parenti | BIO | - "The Bush Wars & the New World Order"
April 2, 1991.
[national broadcast]
#MPAR9
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Michael
Parenti | BIO | - "The Control of History"
The conventional view of history
is that it is neutral and impartial, written
by disinterested, objective
scholars. These lofty ideals, however, don't
stand up to scrutiny. History
is a vehicle for ideology. Its
guardians-historians-often fabricate,
distort and omit crucial facts and
events. Take President Kennedy, for
example. There's a lot written about him.
In 1962 he sent the U.S. Air
Force to bomb and defoliate South Vietnam. At
about the same time, JFK
launched a campaign of terror, sabotage, biological
warfare and
assassination against Cuba. It was called Operation Mongoose.
You'll have
to look far and wide to find those things out. And don't bother
looking in
school textbooks, because they won't be there. History is a
commodity,
manufactured like any other product. Its production, what is
selected,
emphasized or ignored, reflects not just race, class and gender
biases but
also the interests of hegemonic power. For example, just read
Henry
Kissinger or Arthur Schlesinger. May 11, 1994. [national
broadcast]
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Michael
Parenti | BIO | - "Costs of Empire"
Discussions about empire are carefully
controlled and constructed. It's fine
to talk about the Byzantine, Ottoman
and British varieties. However, the
subject of U.S. empire, when not
ignored outright, is couched in euphemisms
like the "free market" or "free
trade." Other favorites are "national
interest" and "national security."
U.S. global intervention is framed in
terms of altruism and good
intentions. The costs of empire are borne by
Americans, but the profits go
to the Fortune 500. September 28, 1995.
[national broadcast]
#MPAR16
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Michael
Parenti | BIO | - "Fascism: The False Revolution"
September 23, 1995.
[national broadcast]
#MPAR17
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Michael
Parenti | BIO | - "History as Mystery"
Michael Parenti demonstrates how
history's victors distort and suppress the
truth to perpetuate their power
and privilege. In his inimitable and incisive
style, Parenti discusses
class biases of pack historians and why they mystify
the past, historians'
debt to Marx, the strange death of Zachary Taylor,
conspiracy theories,
psychohistory, Lenin, and the NATO bombing of
Yugoslavia. Interview.
#MPAR21
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Michael
Parenti | BIO | - "The Hidden Ideology of the Mass Media"
Mass media are
owned by huge corporations that have a definite ideological
agenda. Yet it
is a staple verging on dogma that the mass media are
independent, objective
and liberal. The latter is repeated like a mantra and
never challenged.
Detailed studies and documentation refute the liberal
label. Nevertheless,
the charge of liberal bias persists and has become part
of the political
culture.. April 9, 1997. [national broadcast]
#MPAR18
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Michael
Parenti | BIO | - "Imperialism, Drugs & Social Control," "Censorship
in
America" (two tapes)
Interview. November 4, 1990.
#MPAR7b
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Michael
Parenti | BIO | - "Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media"
April
20, 1987.
#MPAR2
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Michael
Parenti | BIO | - "The Struggle for Democracy"
October 23, 1992. [national
broadcast]
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Michael
Parenti | BIO | - "The Sword & the Dollar"
The foreign policy
objectives of the U.S. sometimes seem to be in conflict
with its professed
values. On the one hand, the U.S. affirms its dedication
to democracy and
human rights, and on the other, it supports dictators and
repressive
regimes. Do the interests of large U.S.-based multinational
corporations
factor into the formulation of foreign policy? What role does
the world's
most powerful military force play? Is there an intersection
between the
sword and the dollar? January 28, 1999. [national
broadcast]
#MPAR19
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Michael
Parenti | BIO | - "The U.S. War on Yugoslavia"
Clinton says the U.S.-led
war on Yugoslavia is moral and just. A lot of
people are not convinced that
they are getting straight news on the Balkan
crisis. Some critics say that
the U.S. is selectively applying its concern
for human rights. They observe
that the bombing has turned a bad situation
into a catastrophe. They wonder
about Madeleine Albright's comment, "What's
the point of having this
magnificent military if we never use it?" Congress
voted an additional $12
billion for the Pentagon. Stocks in military
corporations are booming. May
16, 1999. [national broadcast]
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Michael
Parenti | BIO | - "Why Gulf War?"
Interview, call-in. January 24, 1991.
#MPAR8
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Robert
Parry | BIO | - "The Art of Investigative Journalism: Iran/Contra,
October
Surprise, etc."
As newsrooms shrink and budgets are slashed, fewer and
fewer reporters do
serious investigative journalism. Award-winning reporter
Robert Parry is part
of a vanishing breed. Interview. March 2, 1996.
[national broadcast]
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Robert
Parry | BIO | - "Iran/Contra Scandal, Colin Powell, and
Cover-ups"
Interview. September 20, 1995.
#RPAR1
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Matti
Peled - "Israeli-Palestinian Peace: Prospects and Obstacles"
May 5, 1992.
[national broadcast]
#MPEL1
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Frances
Fox | BIO | - "Labor in a Global Economy"
The pundits say globalization is
the wave of the future. If you're against
it, says Tom Friedman of the
NewYork Times, then you are part of a "Noah's
ark of flat earth advocates."
Workers are the cogs in the global economy. Yet
when it comes to the media,
labor is an afterthought. Programs like Moneyline
and Marketplace and whole
sections of newspapers are devoted to business.
Elections are when workers'
concerns are discussed. As soon as they are over
the politicians return to
their traditional role of keeping labor on a tight
leash. February 22,
2000. [national broadcast]
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Frances
Fox | BIO | - "The Politics of Rich & Poor"
The political system is
largely the captive of special interests and
lobbyists who dole out bushels
of money. In the old days it used to be called
influence peddling. Today it
is simply politics as usual. In the din of
ringing cash registers the
voices of ordinary people cannot be heard. Voters
don't vote and democracy
atrophies. Among industrialized countries the U.S.
has the sharpest levels
of income and wealth inequality. Are the times ripe
for
change?
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Frances
Fox Piven | BIO | - "Welfare: Myths & Facts"
The public discourse on
welfare is often characterized by hyperbole and
falsification. Ronald
Reagan was a great one for making up stories. He spoke
of a welfare queen
in Chicago with eighty names, thirty addresses and a dozen
social security
cards who collected thousands of dollars in checks. Another
Reagan
fabrication had people buying vodka with food stamps. These kinds of
myths,
echoed by the media, enter the political culture and influence
people's
perceptions. Today, right-wing demagogues equate poverty and being
on
welfare with criminality. Pseudo-scientific books like The Bell
Curve
suggest that welfare dependency is genetic. The facts about welfare
are
obscured. For example, only 1% of the budget goes to Aid to Families
with
Dependent Children (AFDC). Whites, not blacks, are the majority
recipients of
benefits. April 8, 1995. [national broadcast]
#FPIV1
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Frances
Fox Piven | BIO | / Richard Cloward | BIO | - "The Politics of
Family
Values"
"Family values" is a political football thrown all over
the field. It's a
rich vein of rhetoric mined by poiticians who can't seem
to finish a
paragraph without denouncing "deadbeat dads" and "welfare
moms." What are the
underlying impulses that drive both Democrats and
Republicans in making
family values such a contentious issue? How do
worsening economic conditions
affect families? These are some of the topics
addressed in this important
program. January 22, 1996. [national broadcast]
#FPIV/RCLO1
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Sandra
Postel | BIO | - "Water & Security: Challenges for the 21st
Century"
Water. It is essential to all plant and animal life. In developed
countries,
turn on a faucet and water flows with seemingly unending
abundance. For those
who have adequate access, water is so basic it's easy
to forget its
importance. As world populations increase, tensions between
nations which
share rivers is growing. How to equitably share such a vital
yet finite
resource? Sandra Postel predicts that the increasing competition
for water
will prove a major influence in global affairs in this century.
November 15,
1999. [national broadcast]
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Sister
Helen Prejean | BIO | - "Death Row: Into the Belly of the Beast"
Gandhi
said, "An eye-for-an-eye leaves everyone blind." None seem so blind
toward
capital punishment as Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, China and the U.S.,
the
only five countries to withhold their votes from a moratorium on the
death
penalty. An Amnesty International investigation concluded that the
death
penalty in the United States is applied arbitrarily and is subject to
bias
based on the defendant's race and economic status. Sept. 17,
1998.
[national broadcast]
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José
Ramos-Horta | BIO | - "East Timor, Indonesia & the U.S."
East Timor is
an island east of the fabled Bali and north of Australia. It
was invaded by
Indonesia in 1975. The ensuing occupation has resulted in the
greatest
proportional genocide since the Holocaust. The U.S. was a long-time
ally of
the Suharto-led Indonesian dictatorship. The East Timorese, with
increasing
international support, are continuing their struggle for
self-
determination. February 20, 1997. [national broadcast]
#JRAM1
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William
Rathje | BIO | - "Rubbish: What Garbage Tells Us About Ourselves"
Whether
it comes in the form of papers, bottles, cans, phone books or
diapers, our
collective trash constitutes a serious environmental problem.
Landfills get
bigger and bigger. Trains crisscross the land and barges roam
the seas in
search of dumping sites. There is much to be learned about our
culture and
patterns of consumption from what we throw away. Recycling is
crucial in
processing and reducing waste, but a lot of what we dispose of is
not
recyclable. Sometimes those newspapers you put on your curb become
just
another layer at a landfill. December 9, 1992. [national broadcast]
#WRAT1
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Jeremy
Rifkin | BIO | -"Genetic Engineering"
Genetic engineering is being
trumpeted as one of the greatest scientific
developments in history. GE is
not only revolutionizing agriculture but it is
unlocking the secrets of
life itself. Its proponents predict that it will
cure diseases and feed the
world. What does it mean when the natural world is
replaced by laboratory
experiments and corporations control the process?
[national broadcast]
#JRIF1
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John
Robbins | BIO | - "Diet for a New America"
Vegetarianism is increasingly in
the forefront of public consciousness. For
health, environmental and moral
reasons, more people are choosing meatless
diets, and they are no longer
considered quirky. Restaurants offer vegetarian
options. Salad bars are
popping up everywhere. A revolution in eating is
evolving. In this spirited
presentation, John Robbins lays out his philosophy
of eating and living.
October 6, 1997. [national broadcast]
#JROB1
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Tania
Rosario/Mateo Roose - "Organize! Union Summer"
Much of the current economic
malaise is attributed to a weak union movement.
Corporations downsize and
restructure with virtual impunity because there is
no countervailing force
to defend and protect workers' rights. There is now a
major effort to
recruit new members into unions. Tania Rosario and Mateo
Roose are
Recruitment Coordinators for the AFL-CIO's Organizing Institute's
Union
Summer. They are both in their early twenties. They crisscross the
country
meeting with thousands. Their energy and enthusiasm are
inspiring.
Interview. March 12, 1996. [national broadcast]
#TROS/MROO1
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Loretta
Ross | BIO | - "The Global Women's Movement"
"Women hold up half the sky
and they are absolutely the equal of men,"
declared the new leaders of
China in 1949. Inspiring slogans aside, what is
the status of women and
their struggle for equality? While over the past few
decades a global
movement has emerged to promote women's rights, it still
faces such
obstacles as the persistence of patriarchy and traditional notions
of
subordination and gender roles. February 7, 1998. [national
broadcast]
#LROS2
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Loretta
Ross | BIO | - "Welfare, Scapegoating and Human Rights"
This program is a
provocative analysis that answers the question of why
welfare reform is a
national obsession and why so many middle-class people
who are only a
paycheck away from poverty participate in dismantling the very
safety net
they might need. According to international law and the U.N.,
human rights
and welfare are closely connected. February 26, 1997. [national
broadcast]
#LROS1
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Nawal
El Saadawi - "Women, Politics and Religion in the Arab World"
Interview.
March 12, 1995.
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "The Arabs and the West"
In addition to being in opposition
to Arafat's increasingly tyrannical rule,
Professor Said is an outspoken
critic of Islamic formations such as Hamas and
an advocate of secular
democracy. Positive solutions still exist, he says,
but the horizon of hope
in the Mideast is shrinking. December 4,
1992.
#ESAI10
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "Clash of Civilizations"
Said refutes the work of Samuel
Huntington, contending that Huntington's
much-touted book Clash of
Civilizations, thinly disguised as cultural study,
actually advances a
divisive policy agenda. Said shuns these "driveby
cultural studies" and
challenges Huntington to a higher standard. October 3,
1997.
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "Culture & Imperialism"
Imperial power is constructed on
a bedrock not only of force but of letters
as well. Culture provides the
underpinning, justification and validation of
empire. Its crudest
manifestation is perhaps Kipling's "white man's burden."
A more refined
version is the French "mission civilisatrice," or "civilizing
mission."
Imperialism is often thought of as a European phenomenon of the
past. In
fact, it continues today in new shapes and forms. Culture and
politics
cooperate to produce a system of control that transcends military
power to
include a hegemony of representations and images that dominate
the
imaginations of both the oppressor and the oppressed. February 10,
1993.
[national broadcast]
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "Empire and Literature"
September 27, 1990.
#ESAI5
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "The Gulf Crisis, the Question of Palestine and
United
States Policy" (two tapes)
Edward Said describes the matrix from
which Saddam Hussein evolves, the U.S.
involvement in the Middle East and
ways to resolve not only the current Gulf
crisis but the long-simmering
Isareli-Palestinian issue. Said contends that
U.S. policy and public
attitudes are jaundiced by "hostility and ignorance
towards the Arabs,
Islam and their culture." The media present the Arab world
as "either an
empty desert or terrorists." Said exposes these reductive
clichés and
stereotype and opens the way for a genuine understanding of the
present
situation. September 26, 1990. [national broadcast]
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "Gulf War Aftermath: The Tasks Ahead"
May 4, 1991.
#ESAI6
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "Historical Experiences with Multiculturalism"
(two
tapes)
November 3, 1993.
#ESAI14b
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "Israel & Palestine: The Challenge Ahead"
The
Israeli-Palestinian conflict appears at once intractable and
unsolvable.
The cycle of outrages affecting both communities seems endless.
The
much-vaunted peace process is in shambles. In this program, Edward
Said
proposes a radical solution that cuts through the current impasse with
a
promise of reconciliation and peace for both peoples. November 2,
1997.
[national broadcast]
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "The Israel/PLO Accord: A Critical Assessment"
Interview.
September 27, 1993. [national broadcast]
#ESAI13
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "Nationalism, Human Rights and Interpretation"
(two
tapes)
April 29, 1992.
#ESAI9b
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "A One-State Solution"
Interview. February 8, 1999.
#ESAI22
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "Orientalism Revisited"
Interview. October 8, 1991.
#ESAI8
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "Palestine: Betrayal of History"
Interview. February 17,
1994.
#ESAI15
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "The Palestinian Future"
September 13 marked the fifth
anniversary of the Oslo Accords. Hardly anyone
noticed. Peace still seems
distant. Fifty years after Israel's founding, the
status of the
Palestinians remains unclear. What is the Palestinian future?
March 26,
1998. [national broadcast]
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "The Palestinian Perspective" (two tapes)
October 26, 1989.
[national broadcast]
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "Peace in the Middle East"
September 25, 1991. [national
broadcast]
#ESAI7
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "The Pen & the Sword: Culture &
Imperialism"
Interview. January 18, 1993.
#ESAI11
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "The Politics of Discord"
April 15, 1994.
#ESAI16
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "The Question of Palestine," "The Culture and Politics
of
Palestinian Exile"
Lecture, interview. March 18, 1987. [national broadcast]
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "The Shrinking Horizon of Hope: The Mideast
Peace
Process" (two tapes)
The peace process between Israelis and
Palestinians is teetering. The current
round of negotiations began in
Madrid and culminated with the Oslo Accords
and the much-celebrated 1993
signing in Washington. The pundits assured us
that the long-time rivals had
finally come to terms. Today, few express such
optimism. Large parts of the
West Bank and Gaza remain under Israeli military
occupation. Elections,
like troop withdrawals, have been postponed again and
again. Expansion of
settlements continues. There is repression, terrorism,
violence and
counterviolence. The central issue remains: two peoples lay
claim to the
same land. Will there be a just compromise where both groups can
live in
peace and dignity? The alternative is a permanent prescription
for
conflict. Lecture, interview. April 20 & 25, 1995. [national
broadcast]
#ESAI17b
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "A Tribute to Eqbal Ahmad"
October 4, 1997.
#ESAI20
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "Unresolved Geographies, Embattled Landscapes"
The standard
imperial strategies of "divide and rule" and "partition and
quit" have had
disastrous consequences in Ireland, Palestine and India. The
ravages of
identity politics and skewed nationalist impulses have further
contributed
to turmoil and war. Independence for many post-colonial states
has meant
little more than replacing a foreign system of oppression with a
local one.
What are the ways to create new forms of affiliation and communal
existence
in order to overcome difference and resolve conflicts? September
17, 1999.
[national broadcast]
#ESAI23
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Edward
Said | BIO | - "Western Power and the Literary Canon"
October 27, 1989.
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Edward
W. Said | BIO | / Christopher Hitchens | BIO | - "The
Palestinians:
Blaming the Victims"
Moderated by Alexander Cockburn.
February 6, 1988.
#ESAI/CHIT1
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William
Sales | BIO | - "Malcolm X and the Struggle for Black Liberation"
Malcolm X
is one of the towering figures in the struggle for black
liberation. He has
been identified as an articulator of the rage of black
youth and a symbol
of pride and defiance. But he was much more than that.
Malcolm X was a
major thinker and theoretician of black liberation. In the
year before his
assassination in February 1965, he underwent enormous
intellectual growth
and transformation. He moved from being a narrow
nationalist to embrace a
much more global perspective. October 17, 1995.
[national broadcast]
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Bernie
Sanders | BIO | - "Single Payer Health Care"
The health care debate is in
full swing. The statistics are well known. Tens
of millions of Americans
have no coverage at all; many more have huge gaps in
their benefits. The
Clintons crisscross the country promoting their managed
competition plan.
Others offer varying counterproposals. One alternative is
the Canadian
model. Canada has a single payer health care system where costs
are
controlled. Single payer rids health care of private insurance
companies,
along with deductibles, costly bureaucracy, excessive profits
and wasteful
advertising. According to a Harris poll, Americans, by a huge
majority,
prefer the Canadian system. Yet there is virtually no media
discussion of it.
April 23, 1994. [national broadcast]
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Sydney
Schanberg | BIO | - "Sleaze Journalism: The Decline & Fall of
the
Press"
The wave of corporate media mergers has changed the business
of
news-gathering. Investigative journalism, which takes time and money,
is
largely replaced by McNews. The public is titillated with coverage of
crime
and sex scandals. There are endless features about the lives of rich
and
famous Hollywood celebrities and sports stars. March 3, 1999.
[national
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Danny
Schechter | BIO | - "The More You Watch The Less You Know"
The news media
provide less and less information and more and more
"infotainment" and a
steady diet of the trial of the century, sexcapade of
the year and multiple
car crash of the week. It is fluff over matter. And it
is all served up by
the "prettiest hair on the air," as Schechter calls the
anchors. Interview.
April 18, 1998. [national broadcast]
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Phoebe
Schellenberg | BIO | - "Home Economics: The Sweat Off Her Brow"
Even though
the Commerce Department puts the value of housework to the U.S.
economy at
$1.46 billion, women at home with children are not working hard
enough to
register in the hearts and minds of Congress, who still equate
staying home
with being lazy. Oddly enough, if a mother gets a job outside
the home and
someone else cares for her children, they are both considered
productive
workers. But if mom stays home with the kids, there is no
compensation.
Some other countries acknowledge the value of this work and pay
a family
allowance to women with children. But in the U.S., with the
strongest
economy in the world, women work a double day. February 8, 1999.
[national
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Dan
Schiller | BIO | - "Digital Capitalism"
The telephone seems to be
everywhere, not just in the home and workplace, but
in the car and in the
pockets of millions of telephone customers. The growing
use of the
telephone is increasingly a global phenomenon. Less than half of
the
world's main telephone lines are in Western Europe and the United
States.
Asian, South American and the Middle Eastern countries have also
expanded
their telecommunications infrastructure. Dan Schiller says that
this rapid
growth didn't occur just so we could all talk to each other.
Behind all these
phones is a network that moves money and information
around the globe in a
blink of an eye. It's the electronic infrastructure
of economic
globalization. October 28, 1998. [national broadcast]
#DSCH1
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Herbert
Schiller | BIO | - "Corporate Control of Information"
Media mergers are
larger and more common than ever: Viacom/CBS, Disney/ABC
and AOL/Time
Warner. When will the acceleration of corporate control of media
stop? On
the heels of the successful anti-trust suit against Microsoft,
politicians
from as opposite sides of the spectrum as Senator Paul Wellstone
and Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani agree that media monopolies ought to be the
Justice
Department's next target. Herbert Schiller, author of
Information
Inequality, discusses how a lack of a communications policy
regulating media
conglomerates poses serious consequences to the
functioning of a democratic
society. November 12, 1993. [national
broadcast]
#HSCH2
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Herbert
Schiller | BIO | - "The Corporate Packaging of the Public Mind"
Corporate
control of media is rapidly expanding. The Telecommunications Act
allows
media giants to own even more radio, TV, cable and phone services
than
before. Herbert Schiller contends that the capability of
private,
resource-rich conglomerates constitutes the true levers of
contemporary
power. Their influence and impact on shaping public opinion
are enormous.
Herbert Schiller, professor emeritus at UC/San Diego, is a
authority on
corporate power and the media. He is professor emeritus of
communications at
the University of California at San Diego and the author
of Culture Inc.: the
Corporate Takeover of Public Expression and
Information and the Crisis Economy
. His latest book is. April 18, 1996.
[national broadcast]
#HSCH3
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Juliet
Schor | BIO | - "The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline
of
Leisure"
Working more hours-if you are working at all-and enjoying it
less? Why,
contrary to all expectations, do Americans enjoy less leisure
today than at
any time since the end of WWII? In the last twenty years,
employed Americans
have seen their working hours increase by the equivalent
of one month a year.
Manufacturing employees work 320 hours longer a
year-that's two months-than
their counterparts in Germany and France.
Interview. January 20, 1993.
[national broadcast]
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Peter
Dale Scott - "The Politics of Global Drug Trafficking"
Crusades against
drugs are routine now, but the untold and amazing part of
the story is the
growing evidence of how covert U.S. involvement with regimes
and movements
has exacerbated the problem. In this revelatory program, Peter
Dale Scott,
author of Cocaine Politics and The Iran Contra Connection,
documents the
politics of drug traffic. April 4, 1995. [national
broadcast]
#PSCO1
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Bobby
Seale | BIO | - "The Black Panther Party"
In the sixties and seventies, the
Black Panther Party captured the
imagination of millions in the U.S. and
around the world. The organization
also attracted the rapt attention of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Herbert Hoover's FBI launched a sustained
counterintelligence program to
infiltrate, disrupt and destroy the
Panthers. The media and popular history
have focused on gun-toting Panther
militancy and ignored the group's
dedication to community organizing and
providing much-needed services.
Seale's candid eyewitness account of the
Panthers' rise and fall makes for a
memorable program. February 2, 1995.
[national broadcast]
#BSEA1
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Mab
Segrest | BIO | - "Backlash: Community or Chaos in the
Twenty-First
Century?"
Racism, sexism and homophobia are deeply
entrenched. While some legal
provisions provide a patina of protection, the
problems persist. During
periods of economic decline, there is a tendency
not to examine root causes
but to scapegoat individuals and groups who are
most vulnerable and
powerless. Politicians and editorial writers sanitize
and mask their
attitudes. The real issues, they inveigh, are crime,
welfare, single women of
color having children and gays and lesbians who go
too far-whatever "far"
might be. Ballot initiatives and amendments seek to
limit rights. Are we
moving toward greater equality and tolerance or in the
opposite direction?
September 21, 1994. [national broadcast]
#MSEG1
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Jack
Shaheen | BIO | - "Shattering Stereotypes: Media Images of Arabs"
Popular
depictions of Arabs range from a menacing Saddam Hussein to camel
caravans
and oil-rich sheikhs to the movie Aladdin. The World Trade Center
bombing
fills the news. Arab terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism, we are
informed,
threaten Western civilization. There is a decisive connection
between media
representations and public attitudes. Repetitive distortions
defame an
entire group. History is replete with examples of the dangers of
prejudice.
January 26, 1993. [national broadcast]
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Amal
Shamma - "Beirut: 1982"
Interview, poem "The Beirut Hell Express," music by
Fairuz. October
1982.
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Vandana
Shiva | BIO | - "Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature & Knowledge"
Vandana
Shiva of India is one of the Third World's most eloquent voices on
the
environment, women's rights and sustainable development. She directs
the
Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology in New Delhi.
In this
program, she describes the impact that giant agribusiness is having
on global
food production and the effects intellectual property rights and
patents are
having on traditional communities. April 29, 1997. [national
broadcast]
#VSHI2
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Vandana
Shiva | BIO | - "Democracy and Biodiversity"
Vandana Shiva discusses the
corporatization of the rural economy in India and
the efforts to resist it.
"I have recognized that civil disobedience is a way
to create permanent
democracy, perennial democracy, a direct democracy.
Gandhi's idea of
swadeshi, that society should put its own resources and its
local
capacities to use to meet its needs as a basic element of freedom,
the
economic pillar of political freedom, is becoming increasingly
relevant."
Interview. June 20, 1997.
#VSHI4
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Vandana
Shiva | BIO | - "Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of Global
Food"
Multinational corporations are transforming global agriculture. Using
the WTO
as a wedge, they seek to patent seeds and life forms. Citizens from
all over
the world are questioning the impact of industrial agriculture
and
biotechnology on small farmers, the environment, and the quality and
safety
of food. Perhaps nowhere is resistance to the practices of giant
agribusiness
as strong as in India, where hundreds of thousands protest and
demonstrate.
March 16, 2000. [national broadcast]
#VSHI5
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Vandana
Shiva | BIO | - "The Recovery of the Commons"
It is almost a given that the
industrialized countries, the North, are the
epitome of progress and
wisdom. The South, the Third World, is a place of
backwardness and
ignorance, but it does have lots of resources. The North
wants to use those
resources to continue to enrich itself. Today parts of the
South are
redefining and challenging conventional notions of growth and
development.
There is resistance to the destructive effects of
transnational
corporations and global capitalism and a new awareness of the
value of
indigenous knowledge and centuries-old diverse agriculture.
September 25,
1994. [national broadcast]
#VSHI1
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Vandana
Shiva | BIO | - "Women's Power"
In this interview, Vandana Shiva talks
about the central role of women in
resistance struggles in India and
throughout the Third World. David
Barsamian: "On the other side of India in
Orissa there was also another
movement that you write about. The women's
slogan is, Soil is our goddess,
it's our religion." Vandana Shiva: "A new
steel plant is coming up. This
really tells the story of the perversion of
the global economy. Bethlehem
Steel is closing down. U.K. steel mills have
closed down. In Gopalpur, Nippon
is involved with Tata (an Indian
conglomerate) in setting up this new steel
plant, for which they have to
displace twenty very prosperous villages. And
the women are saying, We will
not let you move into our villages. We will not
give up our land. The earth
is our mother. She has looked after us in this
part of the earth, and we
are going to die here. Because uprooted from here
we would die anyway.
They're not allowing either the government or the
company to enter, to even
start doing the surveys. They have this tremendous
direct action. They have
a stri shakti watch. Basically the defense committee
is run a hundred
percent by women." Interview. April 29, 1997.
#VSHI3
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Michael
Shuman | BIO | - "Going Local: Self-Reliant Communities"
Some say that
small business is a prerequisite to democracy in the Americas.
But the
current trend is to attract multinational corporations with tax
abatements,
reduced environmental standards and a plethora of goodies offered
in an
ever-escalating bidding war. The results: communities that are
vulnerable
to remote decisions and capital flight and an at-risk local
workforce
relying on a job source with loyalties limited to the bottom line.
Michael
Shuman proposes another approach. By placing the focus on
locally-owned and
-operated businesses and creating incentives for staying in
business, a
community's vulnerability can be significantly reduced . May 13,
1998.
#MSHU1
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Ken
Silverstein | BIO | - "Media Reporting on the Third World"
For many in the
privileged North, or the First World, the Third World
consists of beaches,
swaying palm trees, tropical weather and exotic women.
It is a place to get
a tan and maybe learn a few words of Spanish, Tagalog or
Indonesian. Much
of our information and many of our attitudes are shaped by
media images.
Reporting generally reflects and promotes biases and hegemonic
impulses.
The First World monopoly of representation contributes to a lack
of
understanding and awareness of the realities of the Third World.
Interview.
December 10, 1993. [national broadcast]
#KSIL2
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Christopher
Simpson | BIO | - "Science of Coercion: Psychological Warfare"
During the
Cold War, a battle raged for control of people's minds. U.S.
military,
intelligence and propaganda agencies saw mass communication as
an
instrument of persuasion and domination. To achieve their goals,
they
enlisted top professors and universities. The legacy of that
relationship
between the government and the academy was profound, and it
continues today.
The academic studies provided an important part of U.S.
psychological warfare
not just internationally but domestically as well.
Interview, April 14, 1994.
[national broadcast]
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Holly
Sklar | BIO | - "The Economics of Greed"
The dramatic growth in income
inequality and wealth is a defining feature of
this era. Wages are
stagnant, workers are laid off, profits zoom, CEOs rake
in millions and the
stock market soars. The economics of greed prevails. How
does it happen?
Holly Sklar explains how the political economy really works
and what can be
done to change it. June 13, 1996. [national broadcast]
#HSKL4
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Holly
Sklar | BIO | - "Scapegoating the Poor"
Scapegoating is a classic technique
of manipulation and control. It deflects
attention from those who benefit
from the economic system. Right-wing
politicians rail against welfare
queens. Their counterparts on radio talk
shows target the poor for causing
economic decline. One thing is certain,
there are serious problems, but
scapegoating doesn't explain them. The
economy has undergone drastic
changes. The middle class is shrinking. Workers
are putting in longer hours
and earning less. Wages have been in a downward
spiral for twenty years.
Unions are fast disappearing, and with them workers'
rights. Income
inequality is increasing at a dramatic rate. In Manhattan, the
income gap
between rich and poor is greater than in Guatemala. People are
suffering.
So who is to blame? It must be unmarried black teenagers who are
having too
many babies and getting too many welfare checks. Or maybe it's
gays and
lesbians or immigrants? The entire public discourse is marked by
distortion
and propaganda. For example, Aid to Families with Dependent
Children
accounts for 1% of the budget, while aid to dependent corporations,
which
is much larger, is not even discussed. October 29, 1994.
[national
broadcast]
#HSKL3
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Norman
Solomon | BIO | - "False Hope: The Politics of Clinton"
After twelve years
of Reagan and Bush, some people were hoping the election
of Bill Clinton
would represent positive change. He was, after all, a new
Democrat. He
wouldn't kowtow to corporate lobbyists. He would break the
bureaucratic
gridlock in Washington. So far, President Clinton, with a few
exceptions,
has not significantly departed from his predecessors. He has
fervently
promoted NAFTA and GATT, the regional and global trade pacts. To
win NAFTA,
for example, he forked over much pork to secure wavering
congressional
votes. His crime bill is long on enforcement and punishment and
short on
addressing the roots of the problem. On other issues-gays in the
military,
the environment, the economic stimulus package, Haiti and
Bosnia-Clinton
has vacillated and backtracked. Health care reform has been
compromised and
diluted. February 7, 1994. [national broadcast]
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Normon
Solomon | BIO | - "The Orchestration of News"
Surveys and polls indicate
that few institutions are as distrusted and
disliked as the media. Many
people, without knowing the details, sense that
what they see, hear and
read is orchestrated. August 11, 1997. [national
broadcast]
#NSOL2
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John
Stauber | BIO | - "Lies, Damn Lies and Public Relations"
Public relations
is a multi-billion dollar industry. There are now more PR
agents than
working journalists, and the gap is widening as Madison Avenue
continues to
expand. PR wizards sometimes not only spin the news but actually
invent it.
They organize campaigns to influence public opinion and shape
legislation
that benefits their corporate patrons. February 8, 1997.
[national
broadcast]
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John
Stauber | BIO | / Sheldon Rampton - "Mad Cow USA"
Mad cow disease. Could
the nightmare happen here? Since its outbreak in
Britain, concerns have
risen about the disease spreading to the United
States. Animal
cannibalism-the feeding of animal remains to animals-continues
more
extensively in the U.S. than anywhere in the world. John Stauber
and
Sheldon Rampton work at the Center for Media and Democracy in
Madison,
Wisconsin. November 12, 1997. [national broadcast]
#JSTA/SRAM1
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John
Stockwell - "The Dark Side of US Foreign Policy" (two tapes)
April 10,
1987.[national broadcast]
#STO1b
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John
Stockwell - "Inside the CIA"
John Stockwell, the highest-ranking CIA
officer to go public, exposes the
inner workings of the Agency. He
descirbes in vivid and precise detail how
CIA propagandists concoct stories
and then plant them in the media. He
demonstrates that Agency-directed
covert operations in the Hird World are
expressions of deep impulses in
U.S. foreign policy. Stockwell documents
long- rumored CIA involvement in
drug smuggling. He also reveals startling
information about George Bush's
tenure as Director of the CIA. Interview,
April 9, 1989. [national
broadcast]
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John
Stockwell - "The 'New' World Order and the Gulf War"
Interview and call-in.
January 23, 1991.
#JSTO7
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John
Stockwell - "U.S. Invasion of Panama"
With Blase Bonpane. Interviews.
December 29, 1989.
#JSTO6
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Nadine
Strossen | BIO | - "The Right Turn of the Supreme Court"
The Supreme Court
is at the center of numerous controversies ranging from
freedom of speech
to reproductive rights. No issue is more volatile than Roe
v. Wade, which
guarantees women the right to an abortion. The Court is
currently hearing a
case which may decide the fate of Roe. Nadine Strossen
contends that the
Court has taken an activist turn to the right in ignoring
established legal
precedents. March 19, 1992. [national broadcast]
#NSTR1
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Nadine
Strossen | BIO | - "The Case for Affirmative Action"
April 22, 1997.
[national broadcast]
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