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  • Scandals of the Reagan-Bush era / Peter Kornbluh ; interviewed by Dennis Bernstein.

    Peter Kornbluh, author of “The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History,” discusses the many levels of covert activities conducted from 1980-1992. He begins by pointing to the unpopularity of the U.S. support of the Contras, and that the Iran-Contra affair was understood as illegal from first inception. He goes on to trace specific illegalities of George…

  • Noam Chomsky on the New World Order.

    Noam Chomsky, noted MIT linguist and spokesperson on international relations, speaks on the direction of United States foreign policy following the defeat of Iraq. He discusses the United Nations peace keeping role, the U.S. dominance of the United Nations, a peculiar U.S. view of international affairs, the role of force or peace in international justice,…

  • Uncovering the scandal : popular opinion and difficulties in investigating the Iran-Contra affair / Robert Parry ; interviewed by Dennis Bernstein.

    Robert Parry, author of “Fooling America,” discusses how the political atmosphere of the Reagan administration made it very difficult to cover developments in American policy toward Central America, particularly its relationship with Nicaragua. |Parry discusses how journalists must battle Washington establishment to cover important stories. The Reagan administration manipulated public perceptions as a means to…

  • Debunking the new world order / Alexander Cockburn.

    Talk by journalist Alexander Cockburn which examines the popular immage of the Gulf War and U.S. foreign policy in the cold light of the profound domestic troubles within the United States. He covers such issues as: high popular trust of the military; the S & L crisis and dropping real wages; the Gulf Waras scapegoat;…

  • Loving country of justice : U.S. militarism and the Gulf War / Ramsey Clark.

    Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark speaks on the contradiction between the stated principles of American Democracy and the actions of the United States during the Gulf War, 1990-1991. He begins by pointing out how the celebrity status of T.E. Lawrence is false, and he actually sold out Iraq for English interests. The United States opposition…

  • 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…

  • The High cost of victory / Michael Parenti.

    Michael Parenti, author of “Democracy for the Few,” “The Sword and the Dollar,” and “Make Believe: The Politics of the Entertainment Media,” speaks on the United States reaction to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and the resulting Gulf War, 1990-1991. He examines: the false use of historical examples to justify war; the misrepresentation of…

  • Personal activism, environmental solutions, and ending war / Helen Caldicott.

    Talk by Dr. Helen Caldicott, environmentalist, anti-nuclear activist and opponent to the Gulf War, 1990-1991. She examines the aggressiveness of the United States government, male dominance which promotes war priorities which dominate Third World affairs, exploitation of world resources, control of the media to ignore domestic economic and environmental issues, and the use of money…

  • Black history : early African-American presences in America, and the historic role of African Queens / Ivan Van Sertima ; interviewed by Bari Scott and Paris Williams.

    Dr. Ivan Van Sertima provides an historical view of Africa. He lists African achievements in medicine, mathematics and astronomy, and explains the transformation of the great African empires as a result of colonization. he goes on to documents parallels between African and Latin American civilizations: pyramids, papers, scripts, rituals, and royal paraphernalia. He concludes by…

  • Water on a duck / Oliver North ; interviewed by Larry Bensky.

    Interview with Oliver North, former advisor to Ronald Reagan and main participant in the Iran-Contra scandal. He pleads lack of knowledge and 5th Amendment to specific questions concerning: Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Bolend Amendment, John Hull, the Kerry Commission, Manuel Noriega and Ronald Reagan.|WATER ON A DUCK / Oliver North| interviewed by Larry Bensky.…