Robert Fisk - Armenian Genocide, Iraq Civil War

The audio is originally from TUC Radio in San Francisco. Please listen to the outro for information on how to support them. Here is the blurb from TUC’s site.

Robert Fisk, foreign correspondent for the London Independent, received an exuberant welcome when he came to the Bay Area in December 2006. He spoke on civil war in Iraq and Lebanon and the ongoing denial of the genocide of one and a half million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks in 1915.

Even though he consistently criticizes the New York Times they described him as “probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain” He has over thirty years of experience in international reporting. His best-selling books, based on his field notes and recordings, offer strong criticisms of Middle Eastern governments as well as British and United States government foreign policy. He spoke on December 14, 2006, in Oakland, CA.


Michael Parenti - Political Uses of Religion

Another good Parenti talk, in this one he gets into the incestuous relationship between church and state. He makes a great point about how the term “materialism” is abused by religious organizations.

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Michael Parenti - Superpatriotism

This is a dense, quick, half hour talk that unravels the notion of “patriotism.” In the process, scholar Michael Parenti demonstrates how militarized the popular references of our culture are.

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Joan Mellen - A farewell to justice, Jim Garrison

Author and researcher Joan Mellen discusses her study into Jim Garrison, the District Attorney who tried to dig into the Kennedy assassination, and new information of Oswald.

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Michael Parenti - JFK assassination and gangster nature of State

Michael Parenti is a respected progressive scholar. In this talk, he speaks out passionately against the Mafia-like thugs who run the national security apparatus of the United States and other nations, killing or conspiring against any who pose an obstacle to their agendas.

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