Videos
John Pilger, award winning journalist and Academy Award winning documentary maker, speaks about his book Freedom Next Time:
Michael Albert, social activist, co-founder of Z Magazine and author of several books, such as Parecon: Life After Capitalism, discusses some of the problems of progressive movements:
Jeremy Scahill, journalist and author of the award winning and bestselling Blackwater:The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, discusses the private mercenary force, now known as ‘Xe, in 2007:
Chalmers Johnson is the author of Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire, and Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic. He is also the President of the Japan Policy Research Institute. Here he has a conversation about the possibility of the decline and eventual fall of the republic:
Below is a lecture by Tariq Ali, a writer, historian, filmmaker and activist. The lecture focuses on human rights.
Dr. Angela Davis is an activist and retired professor. Her speech concerns the possibility of social change:
Noam Chomsky is a prolific author, activist, and professor of linguistics at MIT. Below is a two-part interview about his life and work:
Part II:
Susan Jacoby is an author and director of the New York branch of the Center for Inquiry. Her bestselling book The Age of American Unreason examines the growing trend of anti-intellectualism in America. Below is the first of a seven-part discussion of the book. The end of the clip is followed by links to the rest of the interview.
Ha-Joon Chang is an economist at the University of Cambridgethat has consulted Oxfam and the Asian Development Bank. in 2005 he won the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. His book Bad Samaritans: Rich Nations, Poor Policies and the Threat to the Developing World and his talk in the video below criticize free markets and question the validity of unregulated markets.
Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation, talks for roughly one hour about atheism and religion in contemporary America. It is absolutely worth watching.
