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Vijay Prashad talked about his book, The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South, in which he explores the protest against neo-liberal economic policies by people from the Glo…

Chase Madar and Kevin Gosztola had each authored a book about Bradley Manning, accused of passing classified material to the Website WikiLeaks. They talked about PFC Manning’s upcoming court…

Herb Boyd delivers a response to the late Manning Marable’s biography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, which was published in 2011 and nominated for the National Book Award in…

Adam Hochschild talked about his history of World War One as it was experienced by the British. He spoke about the topic, also subject of his latest book, at the Brecht Forum in New York Cit…

Tariq Ali takes a critical look at Barack Obama’s presidency. He argues that President Obama has continued, without much change, George W. Bush’s war on terrorism and has repeatedly capitula…

Stefan Bradley, history and African American studies professor at Saint Louis University, recalls the efforts by African-American students and the residents of Harlem to stop Columbia Univer…

At a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the publication in 1969 of his first political book, American Power and the New Mandarins, Noam Chomsky spoke about current events around the worl…

Robert Meeropol, son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg who were executed in 1953, spoke about the history and brutality of the death penalty.

Mr. Kwong talked about the problems associated with illegal Chinese immigrants who are working in the United States. His book focuses on these problems and what the federal government can do…

Mr. Henwood talked about several financial theories and their relations to modern day fiscal policy. He is the author of a recent book entitled Wall Street and he reiterated points that he h…

Thomas Frank, editor of The Baffler Magazine, spoke about the variety of “faux populisms” in the United States. He focused particularly on how advertising fools people into thinking they hav…

Economics Professor Robert Guttman of Hofstra University, provided his perspectives on the focus of fiscal and economic policies in the near future, including tax policy, balancing the budge…