Source: Al Jazeera English

March 11, 2010

He was the first African-American to get a PhD in philosophy at Princeton.

He went on to write more than 20 books, receive more than 20 honourary degrees, to teach at Harvard and Yale, and hold classes at universities from Paris to Addis Abeba.

With his latest hip hop CD he was named “MTV’s artist of the week”, and he has provided futuristic philosophical commentary on all three Matrix movies.

In a famous spat with the then president of Harvard University he called Lawrence Summers “the Ariel Sharon of higher education.”

Avi Lewis talks to Cornel West, a professor of African American Studies at Princeton, hip hop artist, and one of the most controversial academics in the US, about the state of democracy for African-Americans today, the Obama administration, and his dispute with Lawrence Summers.

He also shares his views on US foreign policy, the war in Afghanistan, global recession, and the growing pressure on Barack Obama.

Source: GRITtv

Recently, we featured the documentary American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein, a documentary about scholar and professor Norman Finkelstein’s struggles with the larger intellectual community–and the U.S.’s Israel policy.

Finkelstein joins us in studio today to talk about the film, the current state of U.S./Israel relations, and his new book. Published by OR Books, This Time We Went Too Far explores the possibility that the December 2008 invasion of Gaza has caused a significant shift in the international community–including the American Jewish community–opinion of Israel.

This is common knowledge to many of you. But for those of you who don’t know, here is a video summing up the basics of things to come. Spread the word.

Source: Democracy Now!

March 15, 2010

We spend the hour with world-renowned linguist and dissident, Noam Chomsky. In a wide-ranging public conversation at the Harvard Memorial Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Chomsky talks about President Obama’s foreign and national security policies, the lessons of Vietnam, and his own activism. “You just can’t become involved part-time in these things,” Chomsky says. “It’s either serious and you’re seriously involved, or you go to a demonstration and go home and forget about it and go back to work, and nothing happens. Things only happen by really dedicated, diligent work.”

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Fuente: Felipe Zuleta Lleras

A través de este documental, Felipe Zuleta Lleras, periodista colombiano, demuestra como, a pesar de las evidencias, más de 1.000 asesinatos de jóvenes inocentes cometidos por parte del estado colombiano quedan impunes frente a la mirada de una sociedad a la cual ya nada le aterra.

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Source: Partners In Health

Partners In Health is committed to standing with Haiti now and in the months and years to come, in the communities that have long been our home and in the capital city now working to rebuild itself. Haiti’s struggle may fade from the news, but we will never let it fade from our hearts and minds. Join us. The first step is to stand up and be counted – add your voice to this call for support and show your family, friends, and community that you’re dedicated to Haiti’s recovery.

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Fuente: Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas

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Fuente: ANEP

Este 8 de marzo debe servir para hacer conciencia sobre los derechos laborales de las mujeres trabajadoras, las de una, dos, tres o más jornadas.

Source: Real News Network

McChesney and Nichols: The market cannot generate sufficient journalism on its own

Robert McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois. In 2008, the Utne Reader listed Robert among their “50 visionaries who are changing the world”. Robert has written and edited 17 books, and his work has been translated into 21 languages.

John Nichols is the Nation’s Washington correspondent, and the associated editor of the Capital Times in Wisconsin. John has covered seven presidential races and reported from two dozen countries. He is the author or coauthor of eight books on media and politics.

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Source: Democracy Now!

At least fourteen people have been killed and nearly sixty wounded in a string of attacks in Baghdad on the first day of voting in Iraq’s parliamentary elections. Iraq opened its polls on Thursday for early voting, including for hundreds of thousands of soldiers, police officers and prisoners. We speak to Nir Rosen, an independent journalist who has covered the Iraq war since 2003.

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