Tereza Coraggio interviews Phyllis Bennis
Phyllis Bennis is an Institute for Policy Studies fellow, and author of several books on Empire and conflicts in the Middle East. She is the author of Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer and Challenging Empire.
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Compares the early sprouting of radish seeds to the evidential hope in Frances Moore Lappe’s talk, The Work of Hope. Applies this to Obama’s Cairo talk and its implications for Palestine. Includes an interview with Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies fellow and author of several books on Empire and conflicts in the Middle East. Criticizes Uri Avnery’s comparison of Israel to the zealots as unfair… to the zealots, who defended the oppressed against Rome.
Reads a poem by Pattiann Rogers called The Greatest Grandeur over the music of Bonobo’s Days to Come. Relates a conversation with teenage girls about Dr. George Tiller’s murder, and takes a different slant on the abortion question. Plays David Rovic’s new song, In the Name of God, plus Big Country’s Soldier of the Lord, and XTC’s Dear God. Presents the Declaration of the Abya Yala - the indigenous populations of 22 countries. Reports on Friday’s massacre of indigenous Amazonians in Peru, with police firing live ammunition into a crowd of 5000 protestors.
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Reads from the Chris Cleeve novel, Little Bee, and discusses the freedom of money to flow across borders, unlike people. Presents a Barbie mash-up from the Danish-Norwegian pop band, Aqua, the Ecuadoran band, No Barbies, a poem by Denise Duhamel called Buddhist Barbie, and The Fear by the UK performer, Lily Allen.
Examines the concept that the US is "the wealthiest country in the history of the world" in light of our private and foreign debt. Analyzes $10 million/day in foreign aid to Israel based on statistics of prosperity from Masada 2000. Proposes a way to reduce our supersized country and CA state to a more manageable network of Ecuadors and Denmarks.
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Looks at the Biblical curse of Canaan that’s at the root of Israeli entitlement to Palestinian land. Discusses the book Palestine Inside-Out? An Everyday Occupation, and quotes from David Shulman’s book, Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine. Examines a video of a Tel Rumeida settler abusing a Palestinian woman and her daughter.
Reads a poem by John O’Donahue called "A New Beginning" from To Bless the Space Between Us, over a Bruce Cockburn instrumental called Mistress of Storms. Plays "Little Bird," a song from a Tucson compilation CD to raise donations for the Palestinian Farmer’s Union. Lyrics are written by James Jordan from the Campaign for Labor Rights.
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Proposes a way to make millions from our illegal immigrant population. Sends a Valentine’s note to Firestone from their Liberian rubber tappers. Presents research that the Bible is a two-part propaganda piece written after the "fall" of Jerusalem by Hebrew collaborators with Rome. Includes a poem by Mary Oliver and a song about child slaves on cocoa plantations by Cassandra Coraggio.
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Presents the Boycott, Divest, Sanction strategy for Israeli products recommended by Naomi Klein as an economic anarchist’s way of censuring Israel. Examines who is really hiding behind women and children. Compares the history of anarchy to its present form.
Includes an NPR clip on a person who invites the world to dinner each week. Dives into esoteric scriptures to find the ancient anarchists, and compares them to the modern anarchist in elementary school, high school, at the drum circle, and at Free Radio Santa Cruz. Also reads a poem by Antonio Machado. Music by Bonobo, DeVotchKa, and David Rovics
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The program Rear Vision of Australia’s ABC which is also available as podcast, had three guests to speak on The Middle East conflict and the two-state solution. Giora Eiland; former head of the Israeli National Security Council and General in the Israel General Staff. Jeremy Pressman; Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, at the University of Connecticut in America. And Rashid Khalidi; Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University in America.
Khalidi gives a very convincing historic analysis of the dealings of the Cold War opponents in the Middle East, especially the US. The point he makes is that the powers have used the Middle East to wage their war by proxy and that the tragic consequence of the matter has been, and still is today, that in the region radical and extremist elements are enforced and moderates are at a loss. In most recent times, the USSR has been replaced by Iran and still the cold war with the US is waged in Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and Jordan.
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Israel launched three air strikes on what it says are smuggling tunnels that connect Gaza with Egypt – Palestinian doctors say four people were injured from the strike. The attack came in response to five mortar shells fired by Gaza’s armed wing of the Hamas Party into Southern Israel. Meanwhile, the United Nations has hinted that it may reconsider war crimes investigations into Israel’s three-week attack on the Gaza strip. Gaza residents continue to live out the repercussions of those attacks. Rami Almeghari reports that tens of thousands of residents still lack running water.
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Intercollegiate Studies Institute Lecture Program Olin Online Lecture Library Israel M. Kirzner - Historical Lecture
Israel M. Kirzner received his Ph.D. under Professor Ludwig von Mises at New York University in 1957, and has been on the faculty ever since receiving his doctorate. The author of eleven books, including Competition and Entrepreneurship; Discovery, Capitalism and Distributive Justice (University of Chicago Press, 1973), and The Meaning of Market Process: Essays in the Development of Modern Austrian Economics (Routledge, 1992), editor of five volumes, and author of over a hundred scholarly articles, Professor Kirzner has during his career lectured widely on Austrian Economics at universities and conferences around the world, and has played a leading role in the late twentieth century revival of Austrian Economics.