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Democracy Now! Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
Description:
Today's Headlines Iran Accuses Detained Americans of Espionage CBS: Obama to Send Up to 40,000 Troops to Afghanistan 40 Democrats Threaten to Reject Healthcare Bill over Abortion Restrictions Fort Hood Shooter to Be Tried in Military Court Survey Highlights Global Concerns over Free Market Capitalism Palestinians Knock Down Part of West Bank Wall Again EPA Attempts to Silence Agency Critics of Cap and Trade Maldives President Urges Developing Nations to Become Carbon Neutral Whistleblower: Peak Oil Closer than IEA Forecasts Show China Executes Nine over Xinjiang Riots Watchdog: New York State Regulation of Natural Gas Wells Has Been "Woefully Insufficient for Decades." The New York-based Toxics Targeting went through the Department of Environmental Conservation’s own database of hazardous substances spills over the past thirty years. They found 270 cases documenting fires, explosions, wastewater spills, well contamination and ecological damage related to gas drilling. Many of the cases remain unresolved. The findings are contrary to repeated government assurances that existing natural gas well regulations are sufficient to safeguard the environment and public health. The state is considering allowing for gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale watershed, the source of drinking water for 15 million people, including nine million New Yorkers. Filmmaker Philippe Diaz on "The End of Poverty?" Earlier this year, the IMF and the World Bank warned that the financial crisis posed a serious challenge to reducing poverty. The World Bank predicted that the economic crisis could push another 53 million people in the global South into poverty. Well, according to the latest numbers from the United Nations, we’re now up to 2.7 billion people around the world who survive on less than two dollars a day, one billion of whom live on less than a dollar a day. Given the dire statistics and the widening gap between the rich and the poor, how can we see the eradication of poverty? That’s the central question of a new documentary called The End of Poverty? Hoodwinked: Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded -- and How to Remake Them John Perkins calls himself a former economic hit man. He has seen the signs of today’s financial meltdown before. The subprime mortgage fiasco, the collapse of the banking industry, the rising unemployment rate—these are all familiar to him. Perkins was on the front lines of monitoring and helping create these very events that were once just confined to the Third World. From 1971 to 1981, he worked for the international consulting firm of Chas T. Main, where he was a self-described “economic hit man.” He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Confessions of An Economic Hit Man and The Secret History of the American Empire.
Seeders: 28
Leeches: 48

TVO - Big Ideas - October 10, 2009: Lawrence Krauss on dark matter, dark energy and the end of the universe

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
Description:
TVO - Big Ideas - October 10, 2009: Lawrence Krauss on dark matter, dark energy and the end of the universe Lawrence Krauss is a professor in the Department of Physics at Arizona State University. His lecture entitled Life, the Universe and Nothing deals with dark matter, dark energy and the end of the universe as we know it. It was recorded at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto on March 27th, 2009. For more information on this episode, including information on the guests and various other resources and links, visit the episode webpage ----- Note: This is an iPod video podcast that is available for free download from the website. Quality is good. Audio podcast (mp3 format) is also available for free download. Type: m4v file Size: 174MB Runtime: 00:53:56 Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 320x240 Audio: AAC 32000Hz mono 48Kbps Download this episode using the attached torrent file or download it directly using this link: http://feeds.tvo.org/~r/tvobigideasVideo/~...20x240_404k.m4v You can also watch a flash video of this lecture through your web-browser here: http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa?..._834130_LKrauss ----- Resources and links to related material 1) PBS NOVA - The Elegant Universe (torrent for this documentary to be uploaded soon) 2) Channel 4 - What We Still Don't Know with Martin Rees (torrent for this documentary to be uploaded soon) 3) TVO - Big Ideas - May 3, 2008: Neil Turok on The Big Bang (torrent for this program to be uploaded soon) ----- TVO - Big Ideas TELEVISION FOR PASSIONATE THINKERS [quote]I had never seen your program before, in fact I had never even heard of it. I was fortunate enough to tune in today ... Nothing is quite as nourishing as food for thought. -Brian, Big Ideas viewer[/quote] [quote]I have been off and on social assistance for several years. When I watch your show, I really am in university (a place I badly miss) and I don't feel so poor. -Gillian, Big Ideas viewer[/quote] [quote]... Were it not for Big Ideas to bring this to our attention we would be clueless. You are doing important work and those of us that are fortunate enough to catch your program, greatly appreciate your efforts. -Gary, Big Ideas viewer[/quote] BIG IDEAS, now in its eighth season, has an increasingly loyal following, exemplified by viewers such as Brian, Gillian and Gary. The program started in a late, late-night time slot with - among other offerings - the literary lectures by Robert Adams. It is now an established part of our weekend schedule, airing at 4pm on Saturday, with a repeat broadcast on Sunday, also at 4:00 pm. As TVO's educational mandate grew, so did the concept for BIG IDEAS, explains producer Wodek Szemberg: "We have recognized from the passionate viewer response that there was a real niche for this kind of unapologetically intellectual programming." BIG IDEAS podcasts are among the most popular TVO web offerings. "BIG IDEAS is a showcase of ideas that shape our public debates. At their best the lectures featured on the program expose us to the differing ways of defining what matters and how that affects our understanding of the world as it is and as it is likely to be," adds Szemberg. "Each age has a set of questions by which it defines itself. If, 50 years from now, someone came across a list of BIG IDEAS shows, they would have a pretty good idea of what people thought about and debated in the early 2000s." By nature of its lecture format, pacing and inquisitive approach, it is the antithesis of the prevailing sound-bite television norm. Engaging, articulate speakers stand behind lecterns across the province addressing audiences - a stark, on-air aesthetic running counter to fast edits and whizzy sound effects. The simple, bold concept, a victory of substance over style, has found an appreciative following. The success of this public television offering is testimony to our viewers need for nothing but intelligent discussion with perhaps a dash of personality and humour. At a time when much television programming induces in many viewers feelings of guilt, BIG IDEAS is as guilt-free television experience as it is possible to imagine. BIG IDEAS offers a variety of thought-provoking topics which range across politics, culture, economics, art history, science.... The program has introduced Ontario viewers to the impressive brainpower of people like Niall Ferguson on American empire, Daniel Libeskind on architecture, Robert Fisk on the Middle East, George Steiner on the demise of literacy, Camille Paglia on aesthetic education, Tariq Ramadan on being a Western Muslim, Noam Chomsky on U.S. politics, Leon Kass on dying, Janice Stein on accountability and governance. The public face of the program is Andrew Moodie, who assumed the hosting duties for BIG IDEAS on January 7, 2006. You may recognize him as one of the three jurors who helped us to come up with the 10 finalists in 2005's Best Lecturer Competition, or you may know him as a gifted actor and playwright. TVO's Big Ideas website: http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?bigideas
Seeders: 10
Leeches: 2

TVO - Big Ideas, September 26, 2009: A Crisis in Leadership (with Naomi Klein)

Category: News & Current Affairs
Description:
TVO - Big Ideas, September 26, 2009: A Crisis in Leadership Intellectual heavyweights John Ralston Saul, Naomi Klein, Margaret MacMillan and Adam Gopnik discuss 'A Crisis in Leadership' at the Globe and Mail Open House Festival. The panelists reflect on what constitutes a good leader and why some leaders fail while others thrive. Journalist Carol Off is the moderator. For more information on this episode, including information on the guests and various other resources and links, visit the episode webpage ----- Note: This is an iPod video podcast that is available for free download from the website. Quality is good. Audio podcast (mp3 format) is also available for free download. Type: m4v file Size: 177MB Runtime: 00:54:50 Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 320x240 Audio: AAC 32000Hz mono 48Kbps Download this episode using the attached torrent file or download it directly using this link: http://feeds.tvo.org/~r/tvobigideasVideo/~5/Ui6FzonOCW0/BI_Full_20090926_834128_LeadershipCrisis_320x240_404k.m4v You can also watch a flash video of this lecture through your web-browser here: http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa?video?BI_Full_20090926_834128_LeadershipCrisis ----- This program was taped in May of this year, and Naomi Klein is the best thing about it. Viewing this a couple of months later after it was taped, Naomi Klein's comments in this discussion and her wariness about The Hope-and-Change Messiah, Obama turn out to have been incredibly prescient now that has become quite apparent that "The Obama, who won an election by treating America to a year-long self-help seminar and then made off with the registration fees", to quote IOZ, or to be less glib, now that American liberals are "confronted with the titanic failure of the Obama administration to live up to a single one of his progressive supporters' more or less fervent dreams". Not only does Naomi Klein correctly identify the main problem as structural rather than a question of "leadership" but she also correctly identifies the need for the existence of a strong left consisting of social movements and organizations to apply pressure on the Democrats and on Obama to force the Democrats to actually enact progressive policies. Otherwise, as the events of the last few months have demonstrated, the Democrats do what they and other political parties always do by default, i.e., side with capital, wealth and power. Unfortunately, because because most intellectuals and media elites are themselves an elite class who are beneficiaries of the system as it exists, none of the the so-called "intellectual heavyweights" on the panel, with the slight exception of perhaps John Ralston Saul, are particularly interested in or even ideologically capable of understanding Naomi Klein's substantial critiques about structural problems of that said system, such as the ability of elites with wealth and power to corrupt and rig the political and economic system to benefit themselves at the expense of everyone else. Intellectuals move around the same circles of power with other political, corporate and media elites, and so they view the world through the very elitest, ideological blinders that Klein is trying to critique and shatter. She deserves credit for putting up a good fight though. And this bears repeating: she was right. Resources and links to related material 1) TVO - Big Ideas, May 16, 2009: John Ralston Saul on what defines Canada as a nation 2) Building on Naomi Klein's points in this discussion, read this excellent piece to understand how the American political system really works, to understand American political history and the long, sordid history of the Democratic party and its long track-record of betrayals of the left, and to understand how crucial bottom-up grass-roots activism, existence of third parties and pressure from a strong left were in bringing about civilizing, social progress like civil rights and in forcing the Democratic party to push through progressive policies like the New Deal and the Civil Rights Act 3) Dennis Perrin - That Thing With Feathers 4) Sam Smith - Can We Talk About The Real Obama Now? 5) Chris Floyd - Beyond Here Lies Nothing: Surging Further Into the Abyss 6) Chris Hedges - The Idiots Who Rule America Chris Hedges - Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama 7) Digby - Making Him Do It ----- TVO - Big Ideas TELEVISION FOR PASSIONATE THINKERS [quote]I had never seen your program before, in fact I had never even heard of it. I was fortunate enough to tune in today ... Nothing is quite as nourishing as food for thought. -Brian, Big Ideas viewer[/quote] [quote]I have been off and on social assistance for several years. When I watch your show, I really am in university (a place I badly miss) and I don't feel so poor. -Gillian, Big Ideas viewer[/quote] [quote]... Were it not for Big Ideas to bring this to our attention we would be clueless. You are doing important work and those of us that are fortunate enough to catch your program, greatly appreciate your efforts. -Gary, Big Ideas viewer[/quote] BIG IDEAS, now in its eighth season, has an increasingly loyal following, exemplified by viewers such as Brian, Gillian and Gary. The program started in a late, late-night time slot with - among other offerings - the literary lectures by Robert Adams. It is now an established part of our weekend schedule, airing at 4pm on Saturday, with a repeat broadcast on Sunday, also at 4:00 pm. As TVO's educational mandate grew, so did the concept for BIG IDEAS, explains producer Wodek Szemberg: "We have recognized from the passionate viewer response that there was a real niche for this kind of unapologetically intellectual programming." BIG IDEAS podcasts are among the most popular TVO web offerings. "BIG IDEAS is a showcase of ideas that shape our public debates. At their best the lectures featured on the program expose us to the differing ways of defining what matters and how that affects our understanding of the world as it is and as it is likely to be," adds Szemberg. "Each age has a set of questions by which it defines itself. If, 50 years from now, someone came across a list of BIG IDEAS shows, they would have a pretty good idea of what people thought about and debated in the early 2000s." By nature of its lecture format, pacing and inquisitive approach, it is the antithesis of the prevailing sound-bite television norm. Engaging, articulate speakers stand behind lecterns across the province addressing audiences - a stark, on-air aesthetic running counter to fast edits and whizzy sound effects. The simple, bold concept, a victory of substance over style, has found an appreciative following. The success of this public television offering is testimony to our viewers need for nothing but intelligent discussion with perhaps a dash of personality and humour. At a time when much television programming induces in many viewers feelings of guilt, BIG IDEAS is as guilt-free television experience as it is possible to imagine. BIG IDEAS offers a variety of thought-provoking topics which range across politics, culture, economics, art history, science.... The program has introduced Ontario viewers to the impressive brainpower of people like Niall Ferguson on American empire, Daniel Libeskind on architecture, Robert Fisk on the Middle East, George Steiner on the demise of literacy, Camille Paglia on aesthetic education, Tariq Ramadan on being a Western Muslim, Noam Chomsky on U.S. politics, Leon Kass on dying, Janice Stein on accountability and governance. The public face of the program is Andrew Moodie, who assumed the hosting duties for BIG IDEAS on January 7, 2006. You may recognize him as one of the three jurors who helped us to come up with the 10 finalists in 2005's Best Lecturer Competition, or you may know him as a gifted actor and playwright. TVO's Big Ideas website: http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?bigideas
Seeders: 6
Leeches: 0

TVO - Big Ideas, December 2, 2002: Noam Chomsky on international policy continuity in the wake of 9-11

Category: Chomsky
Description:
TVO - Big Ideas, December 2, 2002: Noam Chomsky on international policy continuity in the wake of 9-11 MIT professor of Linguistics, Noam Chomsky, delivers his 2002 lecture on international policy continuity in the wake of 9-11. ----- Note: ;; This is an iPod video podcast that is available for free download from the website. ;; Quality is good. ;; Audio podcast (mp3 format) is also available for free download. ;; Type: mp4 file Size: 100MB Runtime: 01:00:27 Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 320x240 Audio: AAC 32000Hz mono 48Kbps Download this episode using the attached torrent file or download it directly using this link: http://feeds.tvo.org/~r/tvobigideasVideo/~5/OZCL5RnysHk/BI_Lecture_20021202_855330_NChomsky_320x240_304k.mp4 You can also watch a flash video of this lecture through your web-browser here: http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa?video?BI_Lecture_20021202_855330_NChomsky ----- Please note I'm well aware that this is an older lecture from December 2002. My reasons for posting this are multi-purpose. First, although this lecture is from December 2002 and probably aired on TVO's Big Ideas program in early 2003, TVO only very recently made this video podcast available. Secondly, this is Chomsky, and Chomsky is always worth listening to. ;; If you're interested in this subject, you'll find this a worthwhile and informative lecture, not to mention incredibly prescient. ;; As usual, Chomsky demonstrates just how ahead of the curve he is of everyone else, which he is rewarded for by being slandered against and marginalized in the American mainstream media and the mainstream American intelligentsia, both liberal and of course conservative, even as establishment pundits and "intellectuals" on American mainstream media such as the war-mongering, NeoCon propagandist David Brooks and the truly vile, racist pompous-buffoon Tom Friedman with his racist, genocidal fever-dreams, not to mention those endless number of American corporate-funded right-wing think-tankers and pundit superstars like Bill Kristol continue to enjoy prominent positions in the media, and are even rewarded and promoted to higher positions and prestigious venues for being repeatedly, completely, and utterly wrong about everything. ;; It is also quite telling that this discussion doesn't lose much from being a couple of years old. ;; The issue of American foreign policy continuity, only with better PR and a smarter, better managed form of imperialism that Obama, the Democrats and American liberals specialize in, remains relevant given "the continuity that has become the hallmark of our so-called Age of Change," to quote the great Chris Floyd. ;; Of course, this was all completely predictable to those like Chomsky who actually understand the operations of power in the real world that lie behind the facade of elections and politics, who actually understand the American imperial power-structure and the actual motivations behind, and the long bipartisan continuity of, American foreign policy, in the Middle-East and elsewhere; to those who actually know and understand American political history, who know the long, sordid, war-mongering, murderous history of the Democratic party and its long track-record of betrayals of the left, and who understand how crucial and important bottom-up grass-roots activism, existence of third parties and pressure from a strong left were in bringing about civilizing, social progress like civil rights and in forcing the Democratic party to push through progressive policies like the New Deal and the Civil Rights Act; and to those who were actually paying attention to Obama's track record and who were listening to what Obama was actually saying instead of projecting their own (and in many cases, quite sincere and heartfelt) wishes for "Hope and Change" (tm) into Obama's deliberately vague, market-tested slogans (Yes We Can! yes we can .. what??) and "soaring rhetoric" that the dim-witted, shallow and sycophantic talking-heads and pundits on American media were easily dazzled and wowed by. ----- TVO - Big Ideas TELEVISION FOR PASSIONATE THINKERS [quote]I had never seen your program before, in fact I had never even heard of it. I was fortunate enough to tune in today ... Nothing is quite as nourishing as food for thought. -Brian, Big Ideas viewer[/quote] [quote]I have been off and on social assistance for several years. When I watch your show, I really am in university (a place I badly miss) and I don't feel so poor. -Gillian, Big Ideas viewer[/quote] [quote]... Were it not for Big Ideas to bring this to our attention we would be clueless. You are doing important work and those of us that are fortunate enough to catch your program, greatly appreciate your efforts. -Gary, Big Ideas viewer[/quote] BIG IDEAS, now in its eighth season, has an increasingly loyal following, exemplified by viewers such as Brian, Gillian and Gary. The program started in a late, late-night time slot with - among other offerings - the literary lectures by Robert Adams. It is now an established part of our weekend schedule, airing at 4pm on Saturday, with a repeat broadcast on Sunday, also at 4:00 pm. As TVO's educational mandate grew, so did the concept for BIG IDEAS, explains producer Wodek Szemberg: "We have recognized from the passionate viewer response that there was a real niche for this kind of unapologetically intellectual programming." BIG IDEAS podcasts are among the most popular TVO web offerings. "BIG IDEAS is a showcase of ideas that shape our public debates. At their best the lectures featured on the program expose us to the differing ways of defining what matters and how that affects our understanding of the world as it is and as it is likely to be," adds Szemberg. "Each age has a set of questions by which it defines itself. If, 50 years from now, someone came across a list of BIG IDEAS shows, they would have a pretty good idea of what people thought about and debated in the early 2000s." By nature of its lecture format, pacing and inquisitive approach, it is the antithesis of the prevailing sound-bite television norm. Engaging, articulate speakers stand behind lecterns across the province addressing audiences - a stark, on-air aesthetic running counter to fast edits and whizzy sound effects. The simple, bold concept, a victory of substance over style, has found an appreciative following. The success of this public television offering is testimony to our viewers need for nothing but intelligent discussion with perhaps a dash of personality and humour. At a time when much television programming induces in many viewers feelings of guilt, BIG IDEAS is as guilt-free television experience as it is possible to imagine. BIG IDEAS offers a variety of thought-provoking topics which range across politics, culture, economics, art history, science.... The program has introduced Ontario viewers to the impressive brainpower of people like Niall Ferguson on American empire, Daniel Libeskind on architecture, Robert Fisk on the Middle East, George Steiner on the demise of literacy, Camille Paglia on aesthetic education, Tariq Ramadan on being a Western Muslim, Noam Chomsky on U.S. politics, Leon Kass on dying, Janice Stein on accountability and governance. The public face of the program is Andrew Moodie, who assumed the hosting duties for BIG IDEAS on January 7, 2006. You may recognize him as one of the three jurors who helped us to come up with the 10 finalists in 2005's Best Lecturer Competition, or you may know him as a gifted actor and playwright. TVO's Big Ideas website: ;; http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?bigideas
Seeders: 6
Leeches: 0

A People's History of American Empire (comic) [cpdl]

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
Description:
Copy Paste title: A People's History of American Empire Digital |> author: Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, Paul Bohle Librarian | `> isbn: 0805087443 _______| `____________ || | | | ||infor-| |control + a|| pages: 288 ||mation| | || format: cbz ||wants | |control + c|| version: 1 ||to be > | || CPDL ||free `> |control + v|| release no.: 00008 ||__________`|___________|| |___________><____________| _______________________________________________________ If you have always been the type of person to question the history textbooks you grew up with as a kid, this is your graphic non-fiction masterpiece. Adapted from Zinn's acclaimed grassroots history of the USA, this book is well illustrated and serves to select specific episodes and periods of our own countrys history that for some reason, we do not know correctly. There is much more to explore about history than to accept what is "commonly, automatically" assumed and that is propagated by the corporate news networks and ideologically-charged education censorship committees that select history texts at the state level...Howard Zinn opens the door towards the truth. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8126969472754875702 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/163625223 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Book_Archive_file
Seeders: 12
Leeches: 3

Anti-Authoritarian Politics Books - Anarchism, Democratic Socialism

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
Description:
|-- Acharya S - Zeitgeist - Christian Mythlogy - Jesus and Horus - Companion Guide.pdf |-- Ahmed - The War on Freedom - How and Why America Was Attacked [911, WTC, Bush, neocons] (2002).pdf |-- Albert - Liberating Theory [poor layout] (South End, 1986).pdf |-- Antipsychiatry | |-- Cleckley - The Mask of Sanity.pdf | |-- Farber - Madness, Heresy and The Rumor of Angels.pdf | |-- Foucault - Madness and civilization.pdf | |-- Laing - The Divided Self - An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness.pdf | |-- Pridmore - Madness of Psychiatry.pdf | |-- Szasz - Psychiatric Slavery.djvu | `-- Szasz - The Theology of Medicine.djvu |-- Avrich - The Russian Anarchists.pdf |-- Bamford - NSA - Body of Secrets - Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency [possibly unreliable] (2002).pdf |-- Bertrand Russell - In Praise of Idleness (1932).html |-- Bertrand Russell - Political Ideals (1917).pdf |-- Bertrand Russell - Political Ideals (1917).txt |-- Bertrand Russell - Proposed Roads To Freedom (1919).pdf |-- Bertrand Russell - Proposed Roads To Freedom (1919).txt |-- Bolz - The Counterterrorism Handbook - Tactics, Procedures and Techniques 2e (CRC, 2001).pdf |-- Bregman - Israel's Wars 1947-1993 (Routledge, 2000).pdf |-- Brown - Web of Debt - The Shocking Truth about our Money System 3e (Third Millenium, 2007).pdf |-- Carlisle - Encyclopedia of Politics (Sage, 2005) | |-- Carlisle - Encyclopedia of Politics - The Left (Sage, 2005).pdf | `-- Carlisle - Encyclopedia of Politics - The Right (Sage, 2005).pdf |-- Chomsky Noam | |-- Chomsky - 5 books.pdf | |-- Chomsky - America's war on terror.pdf | |-- Chomsky - An Open Media Book (9-11).pdf | |-- Chomsky - An exchange on Manufacturing Consent 2002.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Anarchism & Marxism.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Class Warfare.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Confronting the Empire.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Democracy And Education.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Deterring Democracy.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Fateful Triangle - The United States, Israel and the Palestinians.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival - America's Quest for Global Dominance.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Imperial Ambitions.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Iraq is a Trial Run (04.02.2003).pdf | |-- Chomsky - Keeping The Rabble In Line (1994).pdf | |-- Chomsky - Liberating the Mind from Orthodoxies.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - The Political Economy of Mass Media.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Media Control.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Necessary Illusions.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Nine Eleven (9-11).pdf | |-- Chomsky - On Osama Bin Laden.pdf | |-- Chomsky - On War in Afganistan.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Philosophers and Public Philosophy.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Philosophy of Cognitive Science.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Pirates and Emperors, Old and New.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Powers and Prospects.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Preventive War - The Supreme Crime.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Profit over People.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Secrets Lies And Democracy.pdf | |-- Chomsky - The Culture of Terrorism.pdf | |-- Chomsky - The Iraq war and contempt for Democracy.pdf | |-- Chomsky - The Propaganda System.pdf | |-- Chomsky - The prosperous Few and the restless Many (1994).pdf | |-- Chomsky - Torturing Democracy.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Turning the Tide U.S. intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Understanding Power (2002).pdf | |-- Chomsky - War Against People.pdf | |-- Chomsky - What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream.pdf | |-- Chomsky - What Uncle Sam Really Wants.pdf | |-- Chomsky - What the Linguist is Talking About.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Who are the Global Terrorists.pdf | |-- Chomsky - Year 501 The Conquest Continues.pdf | `-- Chomsky - You Are Being Lied To (The Disinformation Guide).pdf |-- Cook - The Long Sexual Revolution (Oxford, 2004).pdf |-- Creveld - The Rise and Decline of the State (1999).pdf |-- Crook - Revolutionary France 1788-1880 (Oxford, 2002).pdf |-- Dasgupta - Economics - A Very Short Introduction.pdf |-- Dawisha - Arab Nationalism in the 20th Century (Princeton, 2003).pdf |-- Dawkins Richard | |-- Dawkins - The God Delusion.pdf | |-- Dawkins - The Selfish Gene (1976).pdf | |-- Richard Dawkins - A Devil's Chaplain (2003).pdf | |-- Richard Dawkins - Extended Phenotype (2004).pdf | |-- Richard Dawkins - River Out Of Eden (1995).pdf | |-- Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker.pdf | `-- Richard Dawkins - Unweaving The Rainbow.pdf |-- Dissident Voice - Intellectual Cleansing I - Keeping the Media Safe for Big Business.html |-- Dissident Voice - Intellectual Cleansing II - Jonathan Cook Responds.html |-- Edward Bernays - Propaganda (1928).pdf |-- Emma Goldman | |-- EMMA GOLDMAN.gif | |-- Emma Goldman - 1908 - What I Believe.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - 1909 - A New Declaration of Independence.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - 1910 - Anarchism What It Really Stands For.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - 1911 - Francisco Ferrer and The Modern School.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - 1914 - Voltairine De Cleyre.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - 1917 - Address To The Jury.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - 1918 - The Truth About the Bolsheviki.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - 1923 - My Disillusionment in Russia.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - 1924 - My Further Disillusionment in Russia.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - 1931 - Living My Life.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - 1934 - Was My Life Worth Living.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - Anarchy Defended by Anarchists.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - Socialism Caught in the Political Trap.pdf | |-- Emma Goldman - The Social Importance of the Modern School.pdf | |-- Hippolyte Havel - 1911 - EMMA GOLDMAN (Biography).pdf | |-- aandofrontpiecesm.gif | |-- anarchism.jpg | `-- socsigdra.gif |-- Federal Reserve - Modern Money Mechanics.pdf |-- Feenberg - Transforming Technology - A Critical Theory Revisited (Oxford, 2002).pdf |-- Flaschel - Macrodynamics of Capitalism - Synthesis of Marx, Keynes and Schumpeter 2e (Springer, 2009).pdf |-- Fromm - Art of Loving [bw] (Harper, 1956).pdf |-- Fromm - Haben oder Sein (1976).pdf |-- Fromm - Marx's Concept of Man [poor layout] (1961).pdf |-- Fromm - The Art of Loving [dp, no ocr] (1957).pdf |-- Fromm - To Have or To Be (Continuum, 1976).pdf |-- Ganser - NATO's Secret Armies - Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe (2005).pdf |-- Guerin - Anarchism - From Theory to Practice (1970).pdf |-- Hahnel - ABCs of Political Economy - Modern Primer.pdf |-- Heller - Bojite se socialismu (Periskop, 2007).pdf |-- Illich - Deschooling Society [html] (1970).pdf |-- Karl Marx and Marxism | |-- Albritton - New Dialectics and Political Economy (Palgrave, 2004).pdf | |-- Blakeley - Marx and Other Four-Letter Words (Pluto, 2005).pdf | |-- Carver - The Cambridge Companion to Marx (1991).pdf | |-- Collier - Marx - Beginner's Guide (Oneworld, 2004).pdf | |-- Fine - Marx's Capital 4e (Pluto, 2004).pdf | |-- Glasser - Twentieth Century Marxism - Global Introduction (Routledge, 2007).pdf | |-- Hollander - The Economics of Karl Marx - Analysis and Application (Cambridge, 2008).pdf | |-- Hutnyk - Bad Marxism - Capitalism and Cultural Studies (Pluto, 2004).pdf | |-- LeBaron - Mao, Marx and The Market (Wiley, 2002).pdf | |-- Marx - Capital Vol 1.pdf | |-- Marx - Capital Vol 2.pdf | |-- Marx - Capital Vol 3.pdf | |-- Marx - Communist Manifesto.pdf | |-- Marx - Grundrisse.pdf | |-- Marx - The Civil War in France.pdf | |-- Marx - The Class Struggle in France.pdf | |-- Marx - Wage Labour and Capital.pdf | |-- Musto - Karl Marx's Grundrisse - Foundations (Routledge, 2008).pdf | |-- Newman - Socialism - Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2005).pdf | |-- Resnick - New Departures in Marxian Theory (Routledge, 2006).pdf | |-- Rosa Luxemburg - The Accumulation of Capital (Routledge, 1913,2003).pdf | |-- Singer - Marx - Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 1980).pdf | |-- Thomas - Marxism and Scientific Socialism (Routledge, 2008).pdf | |-- Uchida - Marx for the 21st Century (Routledge, 2006).pdf | |-- Walker - Historical Dictionary of Marxism (Scarecrow, 2007).pdf | `-- Wolfenstein - Psychoanalytic-Marxism Groundwork [dp,bw] (Free Association, 1993).pdf |-- Kelly - Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault (Taylor, 2009).pdf |-- Kinna - Anarchism - A Beginner's Guide (Oneworld, 2005).pdf |-- Knight - The Kennedy Assassination (Edinburgh, 2007).pdf |-- Konner - The Atheist's Bible.pdf |-- Laing - The Divided Self - An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness.pdf |-- Le Bon - The Crowd - A Study of the Popular Mind (1895,2002).pdf |-- Lippmann - Public Opinion (1921).txt |-- Lynd - Wobblies and Zapatistas - Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History (PM, 2008).pdf |-- Macrakis - Seduced by Secrets - Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World (Cambridge, 2008).pdf |-- Maga - The 1960s - Eyewitness History (Infobase, 2003).pdf |-- Marcuse Herbert | |-- Feenberg - Essential Marcuse - Introduction - Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse (2007).pdf | |-- Marcuse - Aggressiveness in Advanced Industrial Society (1967).html | |-- Marcuse - An Essay on Liberation (Beacon, 1969).pdf | |-- Marcuse - Collected Papers I - Technology, War and Fascism (Routledge, 1998).pdf | |-- Marcuse - Collected Papers II - Towards a Critical Theory of Society (Routledge, 2001).pdf | |-- Marcuse - Heideggerian Marxism (Nebraska, 2005).pdf | |-- Marcuse - Liberation from the Affluent Society (1967, Lecture in London).html | |-- Marcuse - One-Dimensional Man [html, ocr errors] (1964).pdf | |-- Marcuse - Repressive Tolerance (1965).html | |-- Marcuse - Soviet Marxism - A Critical Analysis (Columbia, 1958).pdf | `-- Marcuse - The End of Utopia (1967).html |-- Marshall - Demanding the Impossible - History of Anarchism (Harper, 2008).pdf |-- Maschke - The Lie Behind the Lie Detector 4e (antipolygraph.org, 2005).pdf |-- McFadden - On the Federal Reserve (Congressional Record, 1934).html |-- McKibben - Deep Economy - Economics As If the World Mattered (Oneworld, 2007).pdf |-- Mikhail Bakunin | |-- Aldred, Guy A. - Michel Bakunin, Communist.pdf | |-- Bakunin - God and the State.pdf | |-- Bakunin - Integral Education 2.pdf | |-- Bakunin - Integral Education.pdf | |-- Bakunin - Marxism Freedom and the State.pdf | |-- Bakunin - Power Corrupts The Best.pdf | |-- Bakunin - Revolutionary Catechism.pdf | |-- Bakunin - Rousseau's Theory of the State.pdf | |-- Bakunin - Selected writings.pdf | |-- Bakunin - Stateless Socialism = Anarchism.pdf | |-- Bakunin - THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM.pdf | |-- Bakunin - The Commune, the Church & The State.pdf | |-- Bakunin - The Immorality of the State.pdf | |-- Bakunin - The Organization of the International.pdf | |-- Bakunin - The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State.pdf | |-- Bakunin - The Policy of The International.pdf | |-- Bakunin - Where i stand.pdf | |-- J. M. W. - Mikhail Bakunin (The Torch of Anarchy).pdf | |-- bakunin.gif | |-- bakuninhunt.jpg | |-- bakuninper.jpg | `-- bakuninphoto.jpg |-- Miller - From Difficult to Disturbed - Understanding and Managing Dysfunctional Employees (AMACOM, 2008).pdf |-- Miller - Political Philosophy - A Very Short Introduction.pdf |-- Minogue - Politics - A Very Short Introduction.pdf |-- Mises - Theory of Money and Credit (1912).pdf |-- Newman - Socialism - A Very Short Introduction.pdf |-- Orwell George | |-- 1933 - Down And Out In Paris And London | | `-- Down And Out In Paris And London.txt | |-- 1934 - Burmese Days | | `-- Burmese Days.txt | |-- 1935 - A Clergyman's Daughter | | `-- A Clergyman's Daughter.txt | |-- 1936 - Keep the Apidistra Flying | | `-- Keep The Apidistra Flying.txt | |-- 1937 - The Road To Wigan Pier | | `-- The Road To Wigan Pier.txt | |-- 1938 - Homage To Catalonia | | `-- Homage To Catalonia.txt | |-- 1939 - Coming Up For Air | | `-- Coming Up For Air.txt | |-- 1945 - Animal Farm | | `-- Animal Farm.txt | |-- 1949 - Nineteen Eighty-Four | | `-- 1984.txt | |-- George Orwell - 1984.pdf | `-- Miscellaneous Essays | |-- 1931 - A Hanging.txt | |-- 1931 - The Spike.txt | |-- 1936 - Bookshop Memories.txt | |-- 1936 - Shooting An Elephant.txt | |-- 1937 - Spilling The Spanish Beans.txt | |-- 1939 - Marrakech.txt | |-- 1940 - Boys' Weeklies And Frank Richards's Reply.txt | |-- 1940 - Charles Dickens.txt | |-- 1940 - Charles Reade.txt | |-- 1940 - Inside The Whale.txt | |-- 1941 - The Art Of Donald McGill.txt | |-- 1941 - The Lion And The Unicorn - Socialism And The English Genius.txt | |-- 1941 - Wells, Hitler, And The World State.txt | |-- 1942 - Looking Back On The Spanish War.txt | |-- 1942 - Rudyard Kipling.txt | |-- 1943 - Mark Twain - The Licensed Jester.txt | |-- 1943 - Poetry And The Microphone.txt | |-- 1943 - W B Yeats.txt | |-- 1944 - Arthur Koestler.txt | |-- 1944 - Benefit Of Clergy - Some Notes On Salvador Dali.txt | |-- 1944 - Raffles And Miss Blandish.txt | |-- 1945 - Antisemitism In Britain.txt | |-- 1945 - Freedom Of The Park.txt | |-- 1945 - Future Of A Ruined Germany.txt | |-- 1945 - Good Bad Books.txt | |-- 1945 - In Defence Of P. G. Wodehouse.txt | |-- 1945 - Nonsense Poetry.txt | |-- 1945 - Notes On Nationalism.txt | |-- 1945 - Revenge Is Sour.txt | |-- 1945 - The Sporting Spirit.txt | |-- 1945 - You And The Atomic Bomb.txt | |-- 1946 - A Good Word For The Vicar Of Bray.txt | |-- 1946 - A Nice Cup Of Tea.txt | |-- 1946 - Books Vs. Cigarettes.txt | |-- 1946 - Confessions Of A Book Reviewer.txt | |-- 1946 - Decline Of The English Murder.txt | |-- 1946 - How The Poor Die.txt | |-- 1946 - James Burnham And The Managerial Revolution (Second Thoughts On Burnham).txt | |-- 1946 - Pleasure Spots.txt | |-- 1946 - Politics Vs. Literature - An Examination Of Gulliver's Travels.txt | |-- 1946 - Politics and the English Language.txt | |-- 1946 - Riding Down From Bangor.txt | |-- 1946 - Some Thoughts On The Common Toad.txt | |-- 1946 - The Prevention Of Literature.txt | |-- 1946 - Why I Write.txt | |-- 1947 - Lear, Tolstoy, And The Fool.txt | |-- 1948 - Writers And Leviathan.txt | |-- 1949 - Reflections On Gandhi.txt | `-- 1952 - Such, Such Were The Joys.txt |-- Passmore - Fascism - A Very Short Introduction.pdf |-- Perkins - Confessions of an Economic Hitman (BK, 2004).pdf |-- Perlman - Manufacturing Discontent - The Trap of Individualism in Corporate Society (Pluto, 2005).pdf |-- Peter Kropotkin - The Anarchist Prince | |-- Anarchism - 1910 - from The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - 1880 - The Commune of Paris.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - 1880 - The Spirit of Revolt.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - 1890 - Brain Work and Manual Work.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - 1892 - Revolutionary Studies.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - 1898 - Anarchism its philosophy and ideal.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - 1901 - Communism and Anarchy.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - 1913 - The Coming War.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - 1920 - The Wage System.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - Anarchist Morality.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - On Order.pdf | |-- Peter Kropotkin - The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution.pdf | |-- anarchism.jpg | |-- kropotkin3.gif | |-- memfront.jpg | `-- szabl032.jpg |-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | |-- 180px-Hw-proudhon.jpg | |-- D.W. Brogan - 1934 - Proudhon.pdf | |-- Proudhon - 1840 - What is Property.pdf | |-- Proudhon - 1845 - Interest and Principal (letters).pdf | |-- Proudhon - 1846 - The Philosophy of Misery.pdf | |-- anarchism.jpg | |-- proudhon.gif | `-- proudhon3.gif |-- Piper - Final Judgment - The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy 6e [Kennedy] (AFP, 2004).pdf |-- Prouty - Secret Team - The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World (1973).pdf |-- RAND - Deterrence - From Cold War to Long War (2008).pdf |-- Rapport - 1848 - Year of Revolution (Basic Books, 2008).pdf |-- Reed - The Art of Protest (Minnesota, 2005).pdf |-- Roncaglia - The Wealth of Ideas - A History of Economic Thought (Cambridge, 2005).pdf |-- Rothbard Murray | |-- America's Great Depression - Rothbard.pdf | |-- For a New Liberty - Rothbard.pdf | |-- History Of Money And Banking In The United States - Rothbard.pdf | |-- Making Economic Sense - Rothbard.pdf | |-- Man Economy and State - Rothbard.pdf | |-- Power And Market Government And The Economy - Rothbard.pdf | |-- Rothbard - The Case Against the Federal Reserve.pdf | |-- The Anatomy of the State - Rothbard.pdf | |-- The Ethics of Liberty - Rothbard.pdf | |-- The Mystery Of Banking - Rothbard.pdf | `-- What has Government done to our Money - Rothbard.pdf |-- Ruppert - Crossing the Rubicon - The Decline of the American Empire (New Society, 2004).pdf |-- Sherratt - Adorno's Positive Dialectic (Cambridge, 2002).pdf |-- Smail - Power, Responsibility and Freedom - Internet Publication (2005).pdf |-- Smith - Red Barcelona - Social Protest and Labour Mobilization in the 20th Century (Routledge, 2002).pdf |-- Stackelberg - Routledge Companion to Nazi Germany (2007).pdf |-- Stone - Prime Green - Remembering the Sixties (2007).pdf |-- Tarpley - 911 Synthetic Terrorism Made in USA (2004).pdf |-- Tarpley - Barack H. Obama - The Unauthorized Biography (Progressive, 2008).pdf |-- Tarpley - George Bush - The Unauthorized Biography.pdf |-- Tarpley - Surviving the Cataclysm - Your Guide Through the Greatest Financial Crisis in Human History (1999).pdf |-- Tawney - The Acquisitive Society (1921).pdf |-- Thrift - Knowing Capitalism (Sage, 2005).pdf |-- Tietje - Is Lookism Unjust (Journal of Libertarian Studies vol. 19-2, 2005).pdf |-- US Government - 911 Commission Report.pdf |-- Vail - A Theory of Power (iUniverse, 2004).pdf |-- Vance Packard - The Hidden Persuaders (IG, 1957,2007).pdf |-- Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class (Oxford, 1899,2007).pdf |-- Voegelin - From Enlightenment to Revolution (Duke, 1975).pdf |-- Ward - Anarchism - A Very Short Introduction.pdf |-- Wilkinson - International Relations - A Very Short Introduction.pdf |-- Zerzan John | |-- Zerzan - Against Civilization - Readings and Reflections (1999).pdf | |-- Zerzan - Agriculture.html | |-- Zerzan - Future Primitive.html | |-- Zerzan - Globalization and Its Apologists.html | |-- Zerzan - No Way Out (2003).html | |-- Zerzan - Number - Its Origin and Evolution.html | |-- Zerzan - Patriarchy, Civilization, and the Origins of Gender.html | |-- Zerzan - Running on Emptiness - The Failure of Symbolic Thought.html | |-- Zerzan - Seize the Day (2006).html | |-- Zerzan - The Mass Psychology of Misery.html | |-- Zerzan - The Modern Anti-World.html | |-- Zerzan - The Origins of War.html | |-- Zerzan - Time and Its Discontents.html | |-- Zerzan - Too Marvelous for Words.html | |-- Zerzan - Twilight of the Machines.html | |-- Zerzan - We Have To Dismantle All This.html | `-- Zerzan - Why Primitivism.html `-- Zinn - People's History of the United States (Harper, 2003).pdf
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TVO - Big Ideas, January 10, 2009: Margaret Atwood's 2008 Massey Lecture, "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth"

Category: News & Current Affairs
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TVO - Big Ideas, January 10, 2009: Margaret Atwood's 2008 Massey Lecture, "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth" Preeminent author, Margaret Atwood, delivers the 2008 Massey Lecture, "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth". Always surprising and wickedly entertaining, Atwood takes us on a highly imaginative journey, with Scrooge as her central character, to illustrate what she refers to as "the debtor/creditor twinship in the broadest sense." Atwood continues, "What we owe and how we pay is a feature of all human societies and profoundly shapes our shared values and our cultures". For more information on this episode, including information on the guests and various other resources and links, visit the episode webpage ----- Note: This is an iPod video podcast that is available for free download from the website. Quality is good. Audio podcast (mp3 format) is also available for free download. Type: mp4 file Size: 115MB Runtime: 00:55:56 Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 320x240 Audio: AAC 32000Hz mono 48Kbps Download this episode using the attached torrent file or download it directly using this link: http://feeds.tvo.org/~r/tvobigideasVideo/~5/W_Ol860KAlM/BI_Lecture_20090110_834112_MargaretAtwood_320x240_304k.mp4 You can also watch a flash video of this lecture through your web-browser here: http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa?video?%20BI_Lecture_20090110_834112_MargaretAtwood ----- TVO - Big Ideas TELEVISION FOR PASSIONATE THINKERS [quote]I had never seen your program before, in fact I had never even heard of it. I was fortunate enough to tune in today ... Nothing is quite as nourishing as food for thought. -Brian, Big Ideas viewer[/quote] [quote]I have been off and on social assistance for several years. When I watch your show, I really am in university (a place I badly miss) and I don't feel so poor. -Gillian, Big Ideas viewer[/quote] [quote]... Were it not for Big Ideas to bring this to our attention we would be clueless. You are doing important work and those of us that are fortunate enough to catch your program, greatly appreciate your efforts. -Gary, Big Ideas viewer[/quote] BIG IDEAS, now in its eighth season, has an increasingly loyal following, exemplified by viewers such as Brian, Gillian and Gary. The program started in a late, late-night time slot with - among other offerings - the literary lectures by Robert Adams. It is now an established part of our weekend schedule, airing at 4pm on Saturday, with a repeat broadcast on Sunday, also at 4:00 pm. As TVO's educational mandate grew, so did the concept for BIG IDEAS, explains producer Wodek Szemberg: "We have recognized from the passionate viewer response that there was a real niche for this kind of unapologetically intellectual programming." BIG IDEAS podcasts are among the most popular TVO web offerings. "BIG IDEAS is a showcase of ideas that shape our public debates. At their best the lectures featured on the program expose us to the differing ways of defining what matters and how that affects our understanding of the world as it is and as it is likely to be," adds Szemberg. "Each age has a set of questions by which it defines itself. If, 50 years from now, someone came across a list of BIG IDEAS shows, they would have a pretty good idea of what people thought about and debated in the early 2000s." By nature of its lecture format, pacing and inquisitive approach, it is the antithesis of the prevailing sound-bite television norm. Engaging, articulate speakers stand behind lecterns across the province addressing audiences - a stark, on-air aesthetic running counter to fast edits and whizzy sound effects. The simple, bold concept, a victory of substance over style, has found an appreciative following. The success of this public television offering is testimony to our viewers need for nothing but intelligent discussion with perhaps a dash of personality and humour. At a time when much television programming induces in many viewers feelings of guilt, BIG IDEAS is as guilt-free television experience as it is possible to imagine. BIG IDEAS offers a variety of thought-provoking topics which range across politics, culture, economics, art history, science.... The program has introduced Ontario viewers to the impressive brainpower of people like Niall Ferguson on American empire, Daniel Libeskind on architecture, Robert Fisk on the Middle East, George Steiner on the demise of literacy, Camille Paglia on aesthetic education, Tariq Ramadan on being a Western Muslim, Noam Chomsky on U.S. politics, Leon Kass on dying, Janice Stein on accountability and governance. The public face of the program is Andrew Moodie, who assumed the hosting duties for BIG IDEAS on January 7, 2006. You may recognize him as one of the three jurors who helped us to come up with the 10 finalists in 2005's Best Lecturer Competition, or you may know him as a gifted actor and playwright. TVO's Big Ideas website: http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?bigideas
Seeders: 1
Leeches: 1

TVO - Big Ideas, January 24, 2009: Lewis Lapham on education

Category: News & Current Affairs
Description:
TVO - Big Ideas, January 24, 2009: Lewis Lapham on education Drawing from his online essay, "Playing with Fire", Lewis Lapham laments the state of the American education system wherein schools are producing a generation of young people incapable of asking questions or assuming the basic obligations of citizenship. He notes a startling fact: that history has been dropped from the curriculum in 35 states. From an educational point of view, he says, "history is the great teacher. It tells you something about where we are now, and where we are going." The lecture is followed by a lengthy Q & A. For more information on this episode, including information on the guests and various other resources and links, visit the episode webpage ----- Note: This is an iPod video podcast that is available for free download from the website. Quality is good. Audio podcast (mp3 format) is also available for free download. Type: mp4 file Size: 94MB Runtime: 00:44:09 Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 320x240 Audio: AAC 32000Hz mono 48Kbps Download this episode using the attached torrent file or download it directly using this link: http://feeds.tvo.org/~r/tvobigideasVideo/~5/FHCd7NeRgfk/BI_LectureQA_20090124_834114_LewisLapham_320x240_304k.mp4 You can also watch a flash video of this lecture through your web-browser here: http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa?video?BI_LectureQA_20090124_834114_LewisLapham ----- TVO - Big Ideas TELEVISION FOR PASSIONATE THINKERS [quote]I had never seen your program before, in fact I had never even heard of it. I was fortunate enough to tune in today ... Nothing is quite as nourishing as food for thought. -Brian, Big Ideas viewer[/quote] [quote]I have been off and on social assistance for several years. When I watch your show, I really am in university (a place I badly miss) and I don't feel so poor. -Gillian, Big Ideas viewer[/quote] [quote]... Were it not for Big Ideas to bring this to our attention we would be clueless. You are doing important work and those of us that are fortunate enough to catch your program, greatly appreciate your efforts. -Gary, Big Ideas viewer[/quote] BIG IDEAS, now in its eighth season, has an increasingly loyal following, exemplified by viewers such as Brian, Gillian and Gary. The program started in a late, late-night time slot with - among other offerings - the literary lectures by Robert Adams. It is now an established part of our weekend schedule, airing at 4pm on Saturday, with a repeat broadcast on Sunday, also at 4:00 pm. As TVO's educational mandate grew, so did the concept for BIG IDEAS, explains producer Wodek Szemberg: "We have recognized from the passionate viewer response that there was a real niche for this kind of unapologetically intellectual programming." BIG IDEAS podcasts are among the most popular TVO web offerings. "BIG IDEAS is a showcase of ideas that shape our public debates. At their best the lectures featured on the program expose us to the differing ways of defining what matters and how that affects our understanding of the world as it is and as it is likely to be," adds Szemberg. "Each age has a set of questions by which it defines itself. If, 50 years from now, someone came across a list of BIG IDEAS shows, they would have a pretty good idea of what people thought about and debated in the early 2000s." By nature of its lecture format, pacing and inquisitive approach, it is the antithesis of the prevailing sound-bite television norm. Engaging, articulate speakers stand behind lecterns across the province addressing audiences - a stark, on-air aesthetic running counter to fast edits and whizzy sound effects. The simple, bold concept, a victory of substance over style, has found an appreciative following. The success of this public television offering is testimony to our viewers need for nothing but intelligent discussion with perhaps a dash of personality and humour. At a time when much television programming induces in many viewers feelings of guilt, BIG IDEAS is as guilt-free television experience as it is possible to imagine. BIG IDEAS offers a variety of thought-provoking topics which range across politics, culture, economics, art history, science.... The program has introduced Ontario viewers to the impressive brainpower of people like Niall Ferguson on American empire, Daniel Libeskind on architecture, Robert Fisk on the Middle East, George Steiner on the demise of literacy, Camille Paglia on aesthetic education, Tariq Ramadan on being a Western Muslim, Noam Chomsky on U.S. politics, Leon Kass on dying, Janice Stein on accountability and governance. The public face of the program is Andrew Moodie, who assumed the hosting duties for BIG IDEAS on January 7, 2006. You may recognize him as one of the three jurors who helped us to come up with the 10 finalists in 2005's Best Lecturer Competition, or you may know him as a gifted actor and playwright. TVO's Big Ideas website: http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?bigideas
Seeders: 1
Leeches: 0

Democracy Now! Monday, July 6, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
Description:
Today's Headlines Coup Regime Blocks Zelaya Return, Shoots Protesters Obama in Russia for Nuke Talks At Least 140 Killed in China Clashes Report: Health Industry Employing Hundreds of Ex-Gov. Officials Judge OKs GM Bankruptcy Sale Washington Post Cancels Sponsored Events With Journalists, Lobbyists, Lawmakers Palin to Resign Later This Month Biden Suggests U.S. Won’t Stop Israeli Attack on Iran U.S. Peace Activists Head to Gaza as Boat Delegation Deported 10 Killed in U.S. Drone Attack in Pakistan 2 U.S. Troops Killed in Afghanistan Honduran Coup Regime Blocks Ousted President Zelaya's Return; Troops Open Fire on Supporters at Airport Killing Two One week after a military coup in Honduras, soldiers and riot police blocked the airport runway Sunday evening preventing ousted President Manuel Zelaya from returning to the country. Heavily armed Honduran soldiers also used tear gas and machine guns to disperse an unarmed crowd of tens of thousands of people who had come from all over the country, despite military blockades, to wait at the airport and welcome back their ousted President. At least two people were reportedly killed and more wounded. We go to Tegucigalpa to speak with Andres Conteris, who was at the scene. [includes rush transcript] John Pilger on Honduras, Iran, Gaza, the Corporate Media, Obama's Wars and Resisting the American Empire Award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker, John Pilger, joins us for a wide-ranging conversation on on Honduras, Iran, Gaza, the media, health care, and Obama’s wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pilger has has written close to a dozen books and made over 50 documentaries on a range of subjects including struggles around the world for a more just and peaceful society and against Western military and economic intervention. [Includes rush transcript]
Seeders: 13
Leeches: 2

Democracy Now - 03.07.09 - Noam Chomsky Riverside Church - GCJM

Category: Chomsky
Description:
Noam Chomsky on “Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours” Noam Chomsky, the MIT professor, author and dissident intellectual, just turned eighty years old this past December. He has written over 100 books, but despite being called “the most important intellectual alive” by the New York Times, he is rarely heard in the corporate media. We spend the hour with Noam Chomsky. He spoke recently here in New York at an event sponsored by the Brecht Forum. More than 2,000 people packed into Riverside Church in Harlem to hear his address, titled “Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours.” In his talk, Chomsky discussed the global economic crisis, the environment, wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, resistance to American empire and much more.
Seeders: 11
Leeches: 1