Gulf War, 1990-1991 — Social aspects.

  • Black Americans need a domestic desert storm / William Gibson.

    Talk by Dr. William Gibson in which he points to the reality of African-Americans going to fight in the Desert Storm operation, only to come home to a country where they are denied political and social rights. Gibson begins by comparing the war fervor of the Persian Gulf to that of World War I, including…

  • Threats to our democracy / Noam Chomsky.

    Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at MIT, speaks about American concepts of Democracy, tracing the development of those ideas. |r.1. modern propaganda; the anti-war attitudes of 1916; slander toward Germans; liberal democrat participation in propaganda, such as Walter Lippman and Rhinehold Nebor; the breakup of the labor movement during the Great Depression; decline of unions…