Eduardo Galeano reads his work El Derecho al Delirio, The Right to Delirium.
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The Age of Unequals
One of Britain’s leading social epidemiologists, Richard Wilkinson, looks at what it means to live in a new age of inequality. Wilkinson is the co-author of the groundbreaking, international bestseller The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone.
The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
In August, at Marxism 2011, Richard Wilkinson gave the following talk on his book, co-authored with Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone.
Africa’s Odious Debts
Boyce and Ndikumana, authors of ‘Africa’s Odious Debts’, argue that under international law, debts incurred by dictators should not be enforceable.
Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy
Award-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz, author of Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy, lays out not only the course of the financial crisis which began in 2007, but its underlying causes, and shows why much more radical reforms are needed than are currently being contemplated if we are to avoid similar ‘systemic’ crises in the future. Showing why the bailout has been only marginally effective and how it could have been much more so, and outlines the enormous opportunity – not yet taken – to design a new global financial architecture.
The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
The following is a lecture by John Bellamy Foster, Editor of Monthly Review and Co-Author (with Fred Magdoff) of The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI6M0UBNDV4%5DGlenn Greenwald on the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki
For more on the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, see Glenn Greenwald’s article The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality.
Syria: Inside the Secret Revolution
After Libya, will Syria be the next Arab dictatorship to fall to people power? For months, a popular uprising has been fighting an unseen and bloody battle against the Syrian regime. Panorama has been filming inside Syria, and can now tell the full story of those struggling against President Assad and the truth about his brutal crackdown against his own people.
NPR Music with special guest Manu Chao
The following is an NPR Music radio interview with Manu Chao.
http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/altlat/2011/09/20110907_altlat_fullshow.mp3?dl=1US cable tells of Israel’s ‘harsh measures’
US government officials have been well aware of Israel’s harsh methods of dealing with peaceful protests in the occupied Palestinian territory of West Bank for quite some time, according to a recently leaked WikiLeaks diplomatic cable.
A cable from the embassy in Tel Aviv from February 16, 2010, titled “IDF plans harsher methods with West Bank demonstrations”, reveals a premeditated effort by the Israeli army to use force against peaceful demonstrators in the West Bank.
In the cable, the US ambassador to Israel noted that government officials considered any rally as grounds for use of military force.
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