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Real History

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
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Ward ChurchillVandana ShivaArundhati RoyMichael ParentiJeremy ScahillHoward ZinnJohn Taylor GattoJohn TrudellBill McKibbenBill MoyersChalmers JohnsonChris Hedges Noam ChomskyRichard HeinbergRobert FiskRobert McChesneyScott RitterTariq AliP. SainathZia Mian911 InquiryAmy GoodmanAlan WattsAnthony ArnoveAlexander CockburnAzmi BisharaBertolt BrechtGreg PalastGary WebbHelen CaldicottDerick JensenColonel Fletcher ProutyCynthia McKinneyDavid Ray GriffinDowning Street MemoEdward SaidNaomi KleinMichael RuppertPNACWTORalph NaderRamsey ClarkNative NationsHome SchoolingHistory of FascismEnvironmental IssuesFood and water issuesNeo-conUnwelcome Guests.orgTUCRADIO.orgAlternativeRadio.org
Seeders: 11
Leeches: 9

PBS Frontline - The Tank Man (2006)

Category: Documentary
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PBS Frontline - The Tank Man (2006) 763.52 MB/86mn On June 5, 1989, one day after the Chinese army's deadly crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, a single, unarmed young man stood his ground before a column of tanks on the Avenue of Eternal Peace. Captured on film and video by Western journalists, this extraordinary confrontation became an icon of the struggle for freedom around the world. Seventeen years later, veteran filmmaker Antony Thomas goes to China in search of "The Tank Man." Who was he? What was his fate? And what does he mean for a China that today has become a global economic powerhouse? Drawing on interviews with Chinese and Western eyewitnesses, Thomas recounts the amazing events of the spring of 1989, when a student protest that began in Tiananmen Square, the symbolic central space of the nation, spread throughout much of the rest of China. Several weeks later, when the government sent in the army to end the demonstrations, the citizens of Beijing poured into the streets in support of the students. The demonstrations ended in a massacre on the night of June 3-4, when the government sent the troops into the city with orders to clear Tiananmen Square. Eyewitnesses recount what happened -- from the first shots fired in the city's outskirts, to the students' withdrawal from the square in the early hours of June 4, to the Tank Man's courageous stand the following day. From there, Thomas looks at what the Tank Man's life might be like in today's China. China observers and scholars, including Orville Schell, talk about the turning point the nationwide unrest of 1989 represented. Almost two decades later, the educated elite who led the protests of 1989 have benefited handsomely from China's rapid economic growth, but many Chinese workers still face brutal working conditions and low wages. In fact, some experts see the emergence of two Chinas: one modern, wealthy and urban; the other rural, poor and disenfranchised. There is evidence that unrest among workers and peasants is growing; in 2005, there were more than 87,000 "civil disturbances" in the country. The Chinese government has responded to this threat by cracking down on dissent, and on the media. The regime has managed to erase the Tank Man's image, famous throughout the world, from Chinese memory. Thomas shows the iconic picture to undergraduates at Beijing University, the nerve center of the 1989 protests; none of them recognize it. Central to the regime's struggle to control information is its filtering of the Internet, a complex undertaking that raises serious issues about the role of Western IT companies in China's censorship strategy." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/ Support your local PBS Station by making a contribution or by purchasing their DVDs. Source: http://tracker.conspiracycentral.net/torrents-details.php?id=7143 Cap: anon Other shunster posts at:http://www.bt-chat.com/browse.php?category=11
Seeders: 11
Leeches: 31

Audiobook - Wage-Labour and Capital by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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Orignally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give a short overview, for popular consumption, of Marx’s central threories regarding the economic relationships between workers and capitalists. These theories outlined include the Marxian form of the Labour Theory of Value, which distinguishes “labour” from “labour-power”, and the Theory of Concentration of Capital, which states that capitalism tends towards the creation of monopolies and the disenfranchisement of the middle and working classes. The Theory of Alienation, which describes a dehumanising effect of capitalist production, in which an immediate social signifcance of labour to the worker is absent, is also touched upon. These theories were later elaborated in Volume 1 of Capital, published in 1867. This edition of Wage-Labour and Capital, published in 1891, was edited and translated by Friedrich Engels, and remains one of the most widely read of Marx’s works. (Description by Carl Manchester). For more free Audiobooks vist www.librivox.org
Seeders: 3
Leeches: 0

(Video) Keith McHenry: Food Not Bombs! An American Saga

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
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/************************************************************ A Brand New Video from ** Pirate TV ** !!! *************************************************************/ Keith McHenry: Food Not Bombs! An American Saga, Monday 3/30/09 12-1 & 8-9pm PST Keith McHenry: Food Not Bombs! An American Saga. Recorded 3/21/09 The Food Not Bombs movement began in 1980 by a group of anti-nuclear activists from the Clamshell Alliance in Cambridge MA who were organizing against the Shoreham Nuclear Power project. The organizers stumbled upon the revolutionary tactic of distributing free speech with free food. Of course no good turn goes unanswered and although last time I checked, free speech and free food were not illegal; this transgression against the established order has not escaped the ire of the authorities. The loose affiliation of social justice anarchist collectives dedicated to nonviolence has been repeatedly attacked by police in the United States and has been under investigation by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, Pentagon and other intelligence agencies. It has been designated one of the 10 top “terrorist threats” by the FBI. A number of Food Not Bombs volunteers have been arrested on terrorism charges. Of coarse none of this has ever stood up in court because as I said, handing out free speech and free food is not illegal. Government repression has only resulted in the rapid spread of Food Not Bombs collectives throughout the world. As we will see, the powers that be have good reason to feel “terrorized” because not only is this movement spreading out of control but it has spawned many offshoots such as Pirate Radio and the Indymedia movement, Rainforest Action, the Direct Action Network and other anti-corporate globalization operations, as well as recent by-products such as Food Not Lawns, Bikes Not Bombs, and the Homes Not Jails project. Keith McHenry, one of the original 8 instigators of Food Not Bombs tells the story of the 30 year struggle on Pirate TV this week. The entire 60 minute talk plus an additional half hour of Q&A is posted on the Pirate TV website. Food Not Bombs http://www.foodnotbombs.net/ Pirate TV and SCAN need your help! Production of high quality independent, socially relevant television like Pirate TV is labor intensive and expensive. I estimate conservatively that since I began producing my own show in 1996 that I have put well over a half a million dollars of my time into this media activism project. Each week by the time I finish a show, post it on the web and do a write up, I have put in anywhere from 10-30 hours of my time. I also have to pay out of my pocket for expenses such as web hosting, supplies, hardware and software. This costs thousands of dollars. In the past generous friends have helped offset some of the expenses for equipment purchases. This week my camera started eating tapes. Last time that happened it cost me 3 or 400 dollars for a new head, the time before that I had to buy a new camera. Soon I need to upgrade my system to HDTV. This means HD camera(s) and new very expensive editing software. I don’t mind donating my time but I don’t see why viewers shouldn’t be asked to help out from time to time with the expenses. A donation of $10 a year from everyone who watches Pirate TV on line will help get me through the current crisis and start me on my way to the needed upgrade to HDTV. I want to move eventually to a situation where I can start to cover the cost of my own labor and hire people to do some of the videotaping and editing. To do this including expenses, I will need to raise about 25 thousand dollars a year. A check of 10 or 20 dollars from each of you will help keep Pirate TV on the air. However if you would like to donate larger amounts, say $100 or more, you can get a tax write-off by making the check to SCAN and writing “for Pirate TV” in the memo line. SCAN is a 501c3 and Pirate TV qualifies for non-profit status under the SCAN umbrella. 10% will go to SCAN and you will receive a receipt that you can use for your tax return. Please make your check out to me or SCAN, not Pirate Television. Send all checks to: Ed Mays 6057 3rd NW Seattle, WA 98107 For cable viewers: Other ways you can help SCAN Public Access Television and other Community Access (PEG- public, educational, or governmental) cable channels were a concession won from giant media conglomerates such as AT&T, TCI, Comcast, or Viacom by local franchising authorities (municipalities) at the behest of media activists and consumer lobbies in exchange for what amounts to monopoly control of cable transmission in any given local area. Another concession in this regard was the creation of C-Span. It was thought that this would keep people who complain about a lack of programming in the public interest off their back. People who would watch programming like Pirate Television most likely will have recognized long ago that there is very little on the cable channels that you pay for what would qualify as information that is actually in the public interest. Most of what you get in the form of “news” or informational programming is either right wing or corporate propaganda, or has been filtered to remove anything that even hints at what is important for the public to know in order to effectively govern themselves in their own best interest. For that reason the corporate media monopolies rightly see programming such as Pirate TV as their competition both ideologically and for viewers. As they see it, why should they be forced to fund and provide access to their competition now that they have secured monopoly control over your eyeballs? This is why they started maneuvering to get out of their obligations from the very start. In fact Viacom has legislation before the Washington State Legislature at this very moment to eliminate the cable franchises altogether thus leaving local governments with no control over them at all. The media conglomerates have succeeded in extricating themselves from Public Access funding and are moving toward eliminating the PEG channels altogether. SCAN and PSA (Puget Sound Access) are now non profits and all funding for SCAN secured through the government is scheduled to stop within two years. The last SCAN director Marshall Parker had a plan to address this that partially involved content producers raising their own funding either from grants, donations or sponsors. Under this system the station would get 10% of the proceeds as the non-profit umbrella. Marshall at first told me that he would have no problem finding sponsors for Pirate Television. Later it became apparent that I was going to have to find my own funding. The problem with this is that just producing a weekly TV show saps all my spare time as it is, leaving me with no time to chase down sponsors. In addition, asking people for money is not my forte. My guess is that most other producers are the same because apparently Marshall’s plan wasn’t bringing in much money and the SCAN board fired him at the beginning of this year. Although I got along famously with Marshall, I disagree that Public Access Television should be “privatized”. Public Access should remain “public”, funded through the City and County by allocating a few cents each month from your cable bill just as it was before. You can help make this happen by contacting the Seattle City Council members and the Mayor’s office. The Mayor has not been a strong supporter of SCAN in the past. Many of the Councilpersons are on our side (especially Nick Licata) but may need a little inspiration. Your calls and letters, telling them how much you appreciate Pirate TV, Democracy Now, or any other essential programming could make all the difference in putting real public television on a sound financial footing. Thank you, Ed Mays Producer, Pirate TV Seattle http://www.edmaysproductions.net/ Watch Pirate Television on SCAN Primetime in King County, Washington, USA channel 29 or 77 Pirate Television is streaming online on SCAN TV Mondays 12-1 & 8-9 PM PST http://www.scantv.org/ Pirate TV also streams several times a week on PSA http://www.pugetsoundaccess.org Pirate Radio http://www.freakradio.org/ Watch Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/ Note: Please download the video at this link and help seed if needed. md5sum: 0225b7ab21c0bfe8a6086601bd9c6a25 mchenry.wmv http://www.edmaysproductions.net/webvideo/mchenry.wmv Trackers: http://tracker.thepiratebay.org:80/announce udp://tracker.thepiratebay.org:80/announce
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Leeches: 0

American Blackout

Category: Documentary
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Back in time for the election season: A new compressed torrent of American Blackout. American Blackout AVI Runtime 1:27:29 Size 350mb Compressed using AGK for easy download From the official site: Whatever you think you know about our [American] election systems or Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, this film will make you question further why the news media fails to accurately inform the public. Directed by GNN's Ian Inaba, creator of Eminem's "Mosh" music video, American Blackout critically examines the contemporary tactics used to control our democratic process and silence voices of political dissent. Many have heard of the alleged voting irregularities that occurred during the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004. Until now, these incidents have gone under- reported and are commonly written-off as insignificant rumors or unintentional mishaps resulting from an overburdened election system. American Blackout chronicles the recurring patterns of voter disenfranchisement from Florida 2000 to Ohio 2004 while following the story of Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. McKinney not only took an active role investigating these election debacles, but has found herself in the middle of her own after publicly questioning the Bush Administration about the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Featuring: Congressional members John Conyers, John Lewis, Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, Bernie Sanders and journalists Greg Palast and Bob Fitrakis. [ends] Support the filmmaker's work by buying the dvd and requesting that your school or library get it and teach it: http://www.americanblackout.com/ Awards : Special Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival; Best Documentary, Cinequest Film Festival; Audience Award, Cleveland International Film Festival; Special Jury Prize, Boston Independent Film Festival; Audience Award, Columbus Alive Deep Focus Film Festival; Best Documentary, Urbanworld Vibe Film Festival. Cynthia McKinney is the Green Party Candidate for President of the United States in 2008. Notes compiled October 10, 2008
Seeders: 16
Leeches: 1

Howard.Zinn.With.Noam.Chomsky.You.Cant.Be.Neutral.On.A.Moving.Train.DvDRip.XviD.-c0H

Category: Chomsky
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In these turbulent times, Howard Zinn is inspiring a new generation. This acclaimed film looks at the amazing life of the renowned historian, activist and author. Following his early days as a shipyard labor organizer and bombardier in World War II, Zinn became an academic rebel and leader of civil disobedience in a time of institutionalized racism and war. His influential writings shine light on and bring voice to factory workers, immigrant laborers, African Americans, Native Americans and the working poor. Featuring rare archival materials and interviews with Zinn and colleagues such as Noam Chomsky, You Can’t Be Neutral captures the essence of this extraordinary man who has been a catalyst for progressive change for more than 60 years. Narrated by Matt Damon • Featuring music by Pearl Jam, Woody Guthrie & Billy Bragg! "To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness... And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." - Howard Zinn HOWARD ZINN - YOU CAN'T BE NEUTRAL ON A MOVING TRAIN documents the life and times of the historian, activist and author of the best selling classic A People's History of the United States. Featuring rare archival materials, interviews with Howard Zinn as well as colleagues and friends including Noam Chomsky, Marian Wright Edelman, Daniel Ellsberg, Tom Hayden and Alice Walker, YOU CAN'T BE NEUTRAL captures the essence of this activist and thinker who has been a catalyst for progressive change for more than 60 years. As Noam Chomsky has said of him, "it is no exaggeration to say he has changed the consciousness of a generation." YOU CAN'T BE NEUTRAL follows the trajectory of Zinn's life from his early childhood in the slums of New York City. In the 1930s Zinn worked in the shipyards and organized workers. In the 40s he met his wife, enlisted in the Air Force to fight facsim, and during WWII, dropped bombs on European towns and cities. He was on one of the first flights that dropped the newly invented weapon napalm (onto a town that was about to surrender late in the war) - an experience that was to inform and shape his pacifist outlook thereafter. Moving to Atlanta after the war with his young family to teach at Spelman College, Zinn took a leading role in the early Civil Rights Movement, resisting the Southern power establishment and then the FBI. In the 60s, while teaching at Boston University, Zinn led students in protesting the Vietnam War, and flew to Vietnam on a peace mission where he negotiated the return of American servicemen from the North Vietnamese. Although he had discovered that the Vietnamese leaders were looking for a dialogue with American leaders, his entreaties to the U.S. administration to peacefully engage them were ignored. As a teacher and writer, Zinn has informed and inspired generations of those who struggle for social and economic justice with hope. His landmark book classic A People's History of the United States, an eye-opening history of the United States from the perspective of the disenfranchised, has sold over one million copies since it was first published in 1980, and amazingly sales continue to increase every year. Now in his eighties, Zinn continues to speak widely to enthusiastic audiences of all ages. Quotes on Zinn's work in this film: "Sharp, incisive and articulate... An important political film that needs to be seen."—Boston Phoenix "In his life and work, in his dedication and courage and searing honesty, Howard Zinn has become a model and inspiration for those who seek justice and peace. His contributions are truly incomparable. It is no exaggeration to say he has changed the consciousness of a generation."—Noam Chomsky "He was the best teacher I had, certainly the funniest."—Alice Walker "Zinn is still a vigorous force of nature to be reckoned with; a model of defiance against the status quo or the past and the present. By telling the truth about our country... Howard frees future generations of Americans from recreating the same grevious errors of the past."—Paul Lussier, Author, "The Last Refuge of Scoundrels" Imdb Review: Howard Zinn: ou can't be neutral on a moving train is about the life of activist Howard Zinn who dedicated his life to educating people on their rights as human beings and as American citizens by becoming a history teacher. The axiom, those who ignore history are destined to repeat it, is absolutely true. And most Americans have no interest in real history. Rising out of poverty in NYC, Zinn tells of his life through the 30s to his death. He mentions many of the true American struggles like the Ludlow Massacre, where unarmed miners and their families working in company owned world could not get out from under the thumb of business and were massacred by the National Guard during a union strike. Something that most of today's so called American citizens don't seem to mind. An event that never made the news or the history books. In his heyday during the 60s with the racial strife, Zinn was targeted with so many other Americans to be pushed out of America. Something that is also an acceptable notion in the present – America, love it or leave it – an idiots axiom. There are very few people younger than I and very few people in general who can appreciate the life of American's without the rights we are squandering today. Ignorance is bliss. While I admire Zinn's zeal and agree with his impression of America and Americans lack of desire to know, I don't agree with all his attempts to humanize our enemies of the past. I would encourage everyone to admit their ignorance and choke down as much Zinn as they can handle to try and wake them up with another point of view and another set of possibilities. The biggest mistake of the protesters of the 60s was that they assumed all Americans were educated about their right to engage in civil disobedience and that the cared about human life in general. Protesters assumed that the troops coming home from Viet Nam understood the wrongness of the war and chose to support it rather than engage in disobedience and risk the penalties. The average American, desiring a wave less and secure existence, had no real concept of any of the inconsistencies the war. They were quite content to kill the farmer that they were told threatened their way of life. How many ignorant people today feel that democracy means the American way of life? How many ignorant people today forget – and to the REPUBLIC, for which it stands… not the democracy. How many ignorant people today can't make the connection between crack use and war? The bottom line – if you don't have enough time to understand to another American's point of view, you don't have enough time to be an American. A country of the people, by the people, and for the people. Enjoy this torrent! please help by seeding :8 c0H
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Karl Marx Audiobook - Wage Labour and Capital

Stealing America: Vote by Vote (2004)

Category: Documentary
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Stealing America: vote by vote 2004 length: 69 minutes quality: TV Info: STEALING AMERICA: Vote by Vote documents significant irregularities in the Presidential election of 2004 while underscoring the fact that election fraud and reform are not partisan issues. The film weaves together dramatic behind-the-scenes experiences of poll workers, computer security experts, journalists, politicians, activists and voters of all ages. We hear from those who feel their communities were targeted for intimidation during the election, side by side with descriptions of irregular machine tallies, in which the number of votes tallied don't equal the number of votes cast. The Presidential election of 2004 ignited both personal, as well as political passions for millions of people. For many, their involvement did not end when the election was over. We need to be careful and aware and not take anything at face value. We have to pay attention or we could be tricked. My film does not solve anything, but encourages responsibility. We need to help close that gaping wound for those who are disenfranchised socially and return the idea that voting is easy, comfortable and safe. Dorothy Fadiman
Seeders: 9
Leeches: 4

Bob McChesney - Media Matters - Interviews Vol. 1 (Chomsky, Zinn and others) RESEED

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
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Bob McChesney - Media Matters - Audio Interviews Vol. 1 (Chomsky, Zinn and others) "Media Matters" is an hour-long listener call-in radio program hosted by Bob McChesney that often but not always focusses on media policy issues. In this package, I've included shows from 2004-2007 in which Bob interviews well-known guests such as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Alexander Cockburn, Norman Finkelstein, Robert Fisk, Amy Goodman, Charles Lewis, David Sirota, and Norman Solomon. Files: 11 AlexanderCockburnMediaMatters060723.mp3 (26.7 MB) AmyGoodmanMediaMatters061231.mp3 (26.8 MB) CharlesLewisMediaMatters040307.mp3 (24.6 MB) DavidSirotaMediaMatters060122.mp3 (27.0 MB) HowardZinnMediaMatters060423.mp3 (24.0 MB) HowardZinnMediaMatters061217.mp3 (26.8 MB) NoamChomskyMediaMatters060226.mp3 (27.3 MB) NoamChomskyMediaMatters061203.mp3 (24.1 MB) NormanFinkelsteinMediaMatters050828.mp3 (27.3 MB) NormanSolomonMediaMatters060813.mp3 (26.7 MB) RobertFiskMediaMatters070304.mp3 (26.7 MB) Robert "Bob" W. McChesney is a professor of media studies and one of the foremost critics of American mass media. His work concentrates on the history and political economy of communication, emphasizing the role media plays in democratic and capitalist societies. Since 2002, McChesney has been the host of Media Matters, a call-in talk radio program broadcast on WILL-AM and over the internet ( http://www.will.uiuc.edu/AM/mediamatters/default.htm ). Alexander Cockburn is a self-described radical Irish journalist who has lived and worked in the United States since 1973. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair he edits the political newsletter CounterPunch. He also writes the "Beat the Devil" column for The Nation and a weekly syndicated column for the Los Angeles Times. Amy Goodman is an American broadcast journalist and author. A 1984 graduate of Harvard University, Goodman is best known as the principal host of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now! program, where she has been described by the Los Angeles Times as "radio's voice of the disenfranchised left". Coverage of the antiwar and anti-globalization movements — and criticism of the corporate media — are the hallmarks of her work. As an investigative journalist, she has received acclaim for exposés of human rights violations in East Timor and Nigeria. Charles Lewis is a former "60 Minutes" producer who left the ranks of commercial journalism to found, in 1989, the Center for Public Integrity, a non-partisan group which reports on political and government workings. When commenting on his move away from primetime journalism, Lewis expressed his frustration that the most important issues of the day were not being reported. Lewis and the Center recently won the first George Polk Award for Internet Journalism for the piece "Windfalls of War." David J. Sirota is a progressive populist American blogger, writer, and Democratic political operative. Sirota completed a book, entitled "Hostile Takeover", which argues that corporate interests are driving U.S. economic policy. The book became a New York Times Bestseller on 9 July 2006, entering at #23 on the nonfiction list. Since May 2005, Sirota has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post, in addition to his own blog (which is published in parallel at Working for Change). He is a regular guest on The Al Franken Show. He is senior editor at the progressive newsmagazine In These Times, writes a regular column for the liberal The Nation, and has contributed to The American Prospect. Howard Zinn is an American historian, social critic, playwright and political scientist and author of the book A People's History of the United States. Zinn's philosophy incorporates ideas from Marxism, anarchism, socialism, and social democracy. Since the 1960s, he has been a visible figure in the Civil Rights and anti-war movements in the United States. Author of 20 books, including the best seller A People's History of the United States, Zinn is Professor Emeritus in the Political Science Department at Boston University. Noam Chomsky is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th Century. He also helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology through his review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior, in which he challenged the behaviorist approach to the study of mind and language dominant in the 1950s. His naturalistic approach to the study of language has also affected the philosophy of language and mind (see Harman, Fodor). According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar during the 1980–1992 time period, and was the eighth most cited scholar in any time period. Beginning with his critique of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, Chomsky has become more widely known — especially internationally — for his media criticism and politics than for his linguistic theories. He is generally considered to be a key intellectual figure within the left wing of United States politics. Chomsky is widely known for his political activism, and for his criticism of the foreign policy of the United States and other governments. Chomsky describes himself as a libertarian socialist and a sympathizer of anarcho-syndicalism. Norman G. Finkelstein is an American professor of political science and author. A graduate of Binghamton University, he received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Hunter College, New York University, and most recently, DePaul University, where he has been an assistant professor since 2003. The son of Jewish Holocaust survivors, Finkelstein is known for his writings critical of Israel's role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and for his contention that the Holocaust is being exploited both for pro-Israel political ends, and for the personal financial gain of institutional actors at the expense of actual survivors. A self-described "forensic scholar," Finkelstein's books each take as their foil a work of mainstream scholarship which he purports to expose as deeply flawed and even fraudulent. The authors he has thus targeted, including Daniel Jonah Goldhagen and Alan Dershowitz, along with others such as Benny Morris whose work Finkelstein cites approvingly, have in turn accused Finkelstein of grossly misrepresenting their work, and selectively quoting from their books only what suits his purpose. Norman Solomon is an American journalist, media critic and antiwar activist. A longtime associate of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), Solomon is also the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a national consortium of policy researchers and analysts which works pro-actively to provide alternative sources for journalists. His weekly column, "Media Beat", has been in national syndication since 1992. Robert Fisk is a British journalist and is currently a Middle East correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent. He lives in Beirut, Lebanon, where he has resided for over 25 years. Described by the New York Times as "probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain", he has over thirty years of experience in international reporting, dating from 1970s Belfast and Portugal's 1974 Carnation Revolution, the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War, and encompassing the 1979 Iranian revolution, the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, 1991 Persian Gulf War, and 2003 Invasion of Iraq. He is the world's most-decorated foreign correspondent, having received numerous awards including the British Press Awards' International Journalist of the Year award seven times. Fisk speaks good vernacular Arabic, and is one of the few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden (three times between 1994 and 1997). In the British journalistic tradition of the foreign correspondent, Fisk has developed a personal analysis of the foreign affairs that he covers and presents them in that light, often with trenchant criticism of the British government and its allies. His admirers take this as a sign of his depth of knowledge; his critics take it as confirmation of his incorrigible bias. Fisk is a consistent critic of what he perceives as hypocrisy in British government foreign policy.
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Leeches: 4

Democracy Now! Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Democracy Now!, a daily independent newshour * Headlines for October 31, 2006 * Hacking Democracy: New Documentary Exposes Vulnerability of Electronic Voting Machines * Vote Suppression in 2006: Rule Changes Threaten to Disenfranchise Hundreds of Thousands of Eligible Voters * Will a Shocking New GOP Court Victory and Karl Rove's Attack on Ohio in 2006 Doom the Democrats Nationwide? * Green Party Senatorial Candidate in Penn. Defends Receiving GOP Funding in Failed Ballot Drive
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