Kids in the hall - Canada

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Angela Davis - The Prison: A Sign of Democracy?

Cornel West speaking at the Venezuelan embassy in Washington D.C. - December 11, 2009

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Propaganda

An open source video compilation, Propaganda offers a critical look at the "mainstream" media, featuring interviews and lectures by Noam Chomsky, bell hooks, John Pilger, Amy Goodman, music by dead prez and much more!

Bell Hooks: Mind, Body and Soul - Women of Color Conference Keynote

Feminist writer bell hooks opens the Women of Color Eleventh Annual Conference. Feminist, social thinker, memoirist, intellectual, and teacher bell hooks has written over 24 books, including Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism, named one of the 20 most influential women's books of the past 20 years by Publishers Weekly. Utne Reader calls hooks one of the "100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life," and Atlantic Monthly lauds her ability to bring "moral imagination and critical intelligence to bear on the definingly American matter of race." Although hooks is primarily known as a feminist thinker, her writings cover a broad range of topics including gender, racism, teaching, classism, and the significance of media for contemporary culture. She is Distinguished Professor of English at City College in New York.

Angela Davis on Community Mobilization

On January 20th, 2007, Angela Davis, nationally and globally-respected author, professor, anti-racism/sexism/classism activist, prison-abolitionist, and former member of SNCC and the Black Panther Party, brought her message to campus about community mobilization, prison-abolition, and other issues that directly affect society. She is a living part of history and continues to make history today as a leader in social movements.

The Sociology of Emotions

UCSB emeritus professor of sociology Thomas Scheff explores the place that emotion holds in cognition.

The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Higher Ed

On 03/01/2005 three scholars providing leadership in the arena of racial and gender equity in higher education visited the UO to speak about ways to move forward in that pursuit. The panel, entitled "The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Higher Education" is cosponsored by CSWS and the Office of the Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity.

Zapatista Revolution

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SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS, 10/21/2006

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Mexican Activist, Gustavo Esteva

Deprofessionalized Intellectual, Gustavo Esteva, addresses a standing room only crowd at the University of Vermont speaking on sustainability, political issues, and living the "good life."

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UniTierra: Our Roads

Participants and co-creators in Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca, Mexico, discuss their experiences with learning and unlearning. In Spanish with English subtitles.

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Monty Python's Flying Circus - Sartre

Henry Rollins Teeing Off

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Iraq War Veterans Interviewed by Henry Rollins

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Salman Rushdie - India

The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It is the story of two cities, unknown to each other, at the height of their powers--the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant Akbar the Great wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire, and the treachery of his sons, and the equally sensual city of Florence during the High Renaissance, where Niccolò Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns, the hard way, about the true brutality of power.

Salman Rushdie is the author of nine previous novels, including Midnight's Children (which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981 and, in 1993, was judged to be the "Booker of Bookers," the best novel to have won that prize in its first twenty-five years) and The Satanic Verses (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel). He is also the author of a book of stories, East, West, and three works of nonfiction---Imaginary Homelands, The Jaguar Smile, and The Wizard of Oz. He is co-editor of Mirrorwork, an anthology of contemporary Indian writing.

This event took place on June 18, 2008, as a part of the Authors@Google series.

Noam Chomsky interviewed on BBC's HARDtalk

Noam Chomsky interviewed on the BBC program HARDtalk, during his tour of the United Kingdom in Nov. 2009.

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Jacques Derrida: On deconstruction

Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher credited with launching the Deconstructionist movement, argues his theories in this program. Derrida begins with a frank discussion on the ethical problems of Deconstruction, especially in relation to human rights. He argues that Deconstruction is not a disillusion of the subject, it is first and foremost a historical or genealogical analysis of that subject and an attempt to focus on a universal translation of it. Derrida points out that Deconstruction is mainly an affirmation—and it goes further and changes the nature of the subject—and is neither "reconstruction" nor "destruction."

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Herbert Marcuse on the Frankfurt School

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Human, All Too Human : Nietzsche (1999)

John Pilger: Freedom Next Time

Freedom Next Time: Filmmaker & Journalist John Pilger on Propaganda, the Press, Censorship and Resisting the American Empire

"Liberal Democracy is moving toward a form of corporate dictatorship. This is an historic shift, and the media must not be allowed to be its façade, but itself made into a popular, burning issue, and subjected to direct action," said John Pilger. "That great whistleblower Tom Paine warned that if the majority of the people were denied the truth and the ideas of truth, it was time to storm what he called the Bastille of words. That time is now." We spend the hour airing a recent lecture by the acclaimed Australian filmmaker and muckraker.


When Rupert Murdoch won his bid to take over Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal last week, the Australian media baron brought one of America's oldest, most respected and widely circulated newspapers into his vast media empire. Murdoch's News Corp media conglomerate owns more than 175 other newspapers as well as the Fox Television network, 21st Century Fox film studios, several satellite networks, MySpace.com, HarperCollins, and much more.

Besides amassing a media empire, Murdoch has repeatedly been accused of using his media holdings to advance his political agenda. In 2003, all of Murdoch's 175 newspapers supported the Iraq invasion. He spoke to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the lead-up to the invasion, some in Blair's inner circle even called him "the 24th member of the [Blair] Cabinet."

After the announcement of the five billion dollar sale, Murdoch told the New York Times that in order for the Wall Street Journal to remain editorially independent it needed to make healthy profits. Murdoch said, "The first road to freedom, is viability."

Well, one of Rupert Murdoch's fellow countrymen, an Australian who also resides in Britain, strongly disagrees. John Pilger--the eminent investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker--is a harsh critic of the corporate media. Pilger began his career in journalism close to half a century ago. He has made over 50 documentaries and is the author of numerous books, his most recent is titled "Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire."

Today, we spend the hour with John Pilger talking about journalism, war, propaganda, and silence.

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The People Speak: Howard Zinn on Moyers Journal

Howard Zinn's documentary, based on his book A Voices of People's History of the United States

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History of Spanish Anarchism

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Noam Chomsky: On anarchism

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Feminism, Capitalism, and the Cunning of History

In this lecture, Nancy Fraser situates the feminist’s movement in relation to three moments in the history of capitalism. First, the movement’s beginnings are located in the context of “state-organized capitalism.” Then, she considers the process of feminism’s evolution in the dramatically changed social context of rising neoliberalism. Finally, she contemplates the possible reorientation of feminism in the present context of capitalist crisis and US political realignment, which could start a shift from neoliberalism to a new form of social organization.

Lecture by Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research and editor of Constellations.

Feminism, Capitalism, and the Cunning of History
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Alain Badiou: Democracy, Politics and Philosophy

Alain Badiou on the relation of Democracy, Politics, Theory and Philosophy. Public open video lecture for the faculty and students of the European Graduate School, Media Studies Department Program, EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2006. Alain Badiou, born 1937, in Rabat, Morocco is a prominent French Left-wing philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure ENS. Alain Badiou, Ph.D: Rene Descartes Chair at EGS, born in Rabat, Morocco in 1937, Alain Badiou was a student at the école Normale Supérieure in the 1950s. He taught at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint Denis) from 1969 until 1999, when he returned to ENS as the Chaire of the philosophy department. He continues to teach a popular seminar at the Collège International de Philosophie, on topics ranging from the great 'antiphilosophers' (Saint-Paul,Paul the Apostle, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Lacan ...) to the major conceptual innovations of the twentieth century. Much of Badiou's life has been shaped by his dedication to the consequences of the May 1968 revolt in Paris. Long a leading member of Union des jeunesses communistes de France (marxistes-léninistes), he remains with Sylvain Lazarus and Natacha Michel at the centre of L'Organisation Politique, a post-party organization concerned with direct popular intervention in a wide range of issues (including immigration, labor, and housing). He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works.

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Michel Foucault: Filosofía y Psicología (1965)

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State of the Planet: Why Is There A Crisis?

State of the Planet is a three-part environmental documentary series, made by the BBC Natural History Unit. It is written and presented by David Attenborough, and produced by Rupert Barrington. It includes interviews with many leading scientists, such as Edward O. Wilson and Jared Diamond. Each of the programmes attempts to find answers to the potential ecological crisis that threatens the Earth.

"Why Is there a Crisis?": Attenborough presents some stark facts. He states that humans are now triggering a mass extinction on a similar scale to that which wiped out the dinosaurs — but at an unprecedented rate. He investigates the five main activities of mankind that are the most likely contributory factors:

Habitat loss
Introduced species
Pollution
Over-harvesting
Islandisation

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State of the Planet: The Future of Life

State of the Planet is a three-part environmental documentary series, made by the BBC Natural History Unit. It is written and presented by David Attenborough, and produced by Rupert Barrington. It includes interviews with many leading scientists, such as Edward O. Wilson and Jared Diamond. Each of the programmes attempts to find answers to the potential ecological crisis that threatens the Earth.

"The Future of Life": As Homo sapiens relentlessly encroaches on the natural world and its inhabitants, the viewer is presented with a choice: leave behind a flourishing planet or a dying one.

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Slavoj Žižek - The Reality of the Virtual

Slavoj Žižek is one of the most distinguished and politically engaged thinkers of our time. In this tour de force filmed lecture, he lucidly and compellingly reflects on belief - which takes him from Father Christmas to democracy - and on the various forms that belief takes, drawing on Lacanian categories of thought. In a radical dismissal of today's so called post-political era, he mobilizes the paradox of universal truth urging us to dare to enact the impossible. It is a characteristic virtuoso performance, moving promiscuously from subject to subject but keeping the larger argument in view.

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Rigoberta Menchu Tum - Guatemala

We Speak As One



1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu discusses her inspiring life; as well as, the human condition at The Human Forum Conference. Check out www.anhglobal.org for more information.

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The Ideas of Chomsky-BBC interview

A very early and also very interesting interview with Noam Chomsky regarding his Linguistic work published at the time.
The last part contains a discussion of his political views regarding the Vietnam war and Libertarian Socialism.

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Earth: The Climate Wars (BBC's Fightback)

Global warming, and how to combat it, has provoked intense debate, changed the way we see the planet and created headlines around the world. But when and how did scientists first discover global warming, why has it led to such furious debate and who should we believe? In BBC Two's three-part series, Earth The Climate Wars, geologist Dr Iain Stewart presents a definitive guide to the history of climate change.
Fightback: Dr Iain Stewart investigates the counter-attack that was launched by the global warming sceptics in the 1990s. At the start of the '90s it seemed the world was united. At the Rio Earth summit the world signed up to a programme of action to start tackling climate change. Even George Bush was there. But the consensus didn't last. Iain examines the scientific arguments that developed as the global warming sceptics took on the climate change consensus. The sceptics attacked almost everything that scientists held to be true. They argued that the planet wasn't warming up, that even if it was it was nothing unusual, and certainly whatever was happening to the climate was nothing to do with human emissions of greenhouse gases. Iain interviews some of the key global warming sceptics, and discovers how their positions have changed over time.

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COLOMBIA WAR ART - APERTURA COLOMBIA

A survey of Colombian photography and video featuring 14 Colombian artists and photojournalists.

The works of art in this exhibition go beyond simple reportage or exposé. They document the events and emotional turmoil caused by terror, exclusion and loss. They demonstrate the artist's ability to come to grips with the violent modern history of Colombia and transform this history into a positive source of truth and regeneration.
Jesús Abad Colorado's award-winning photographs serve as testimonials to the despair, resilience and strength of those caught in the vicious maelstrom of violence that has encompassed Colombia recent history. Miguel Ángel Rojas, one of the masters of contemporary photography, loaned works from his major retrospective in the capitol city, Bogotá, which examines the effects of Colombia's narco- wars on its people and landscape. The equally significant Luis Fernando Peláez, combines photography and sculpture together in poetic works of art that dig into the deepest aspects of memory. Juan Fernando Herrán's solemn photographs reveal hidden memorials that commemorate the slaughter of innocents with simply constructed crosses.
Juan Manuel Echavarria's "Monumentos" series serves as a poignant response to tragedy, taking its inspiration from W.H. Auden's poem "Beaux des Arts". María Elvira Escallón's series, "Desede Adentro"investigates the aftermath of a devastating act of violence and the ephemeral human presence that remains. In his "Short Wave" series, François Bucher journey's through the detritus of a drug lord's abandoned home. Internationally acclaimed artist, Óscar Muñoz's images categorically chart human loss or disappearance. A seminal figure of video art in Colombia, José Alejandro Restrepo's installation deals with issues of myth and national history.
Libia Posada questions the history of violence towards women. In the genre of l8th and l9th century portraiture, contemporary abused women are depicted in company with and in contrast to traditional portraits of men of that era. The video and photography of Luigi Baquero offers a sobering look into the internal refugee crisis that has subjected the lives of millions of Columbians to abject poverty. Luz Elena Castro's project "Faces of Colombia"presents intimate portraits of Colombian life. Andres Sierra's erotically charged "Karma Sutra" project is a powerful metaphor for Colombia's ongoing tragedy. Jaime Ávila's "Banderas negras" is a symbolic triptych that depicts the complicity between United States and foreign governments.
The artists in APERTURA COLOMBIA are engaged in transgressing the tumultuous history of their country, in particular, the experience of living under conditions of perpetual war and terrorism. Further, they are works of universal import, created by gifted artists who are uniquely suited to understand and interpret the radical zeitgeist of the 21st Century.

APERTURA COLOMBIA will be on view from March 8th, through May 18th.

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Colombia - Historia del paramilitarismo (TVFORO)

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Goddess Remembered - Donna Read

This documentary is a salute to 35,000 years of the goddess-worshipping religions of the ancient past. The film features Merlin Stone, Carol Christ, Luisah Teish and Jean Bolen, all of whom link the loss of goddess-centric societies with today's environmental crisis. This is the first part of a 3-part series that includes The Burning Times and Full Circle.

The Burning Times - Donna Read (1990)

This documentary takes an in-depth look at the witch hunts that swept Europe just a few hundred years ago. False accusations and trials led to massive torture and burnings at the stake and ultimately to the destruction of an organic way of life. The film questions whether the widespread violence against women and the neglect of our environment today can be traced back to those times. Part two of a series of three films on women and spirituality, which includes Goddess Remembered and Full Circle.

George Carlin - You Are All Diseased

Big Ideas That Changed The World - Consumerism

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The Century Of The Self - By Adam Curtis

"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis

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Part 3 - There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed



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A Financial History Of The World - Dreams Of Avarice

From Shylock's pound of flesh to the loan sharks of Glasgow, from the "promises to pay" on Babylonian clay tablets to Medici banking system. Professor Ferguson explains the origins of credit and debt and why credit networks are indispensable to any civilization.

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A Financial History Of The World - Human Bondage

How did finance become the realm of the masters of the universe? Through the rise of the bond market in Renaissance Italy. With the advent of bonds, war finance was transformed and spread to north-west Europe and across the Atlantic. It was the bond market that made the Rothschilds the richest and most powerful family of the 19th century. And today governments are asking it to bail them out.

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A Financial History Of The World - Blowing Bubbles

Why do stock markets produce bubbles and busts? Professor Ferguson goes back to the origins of the joint stock company in Amsterdam and Paris. He draws telling parallels between the current stock market crash and the 18th century Mississippi Bubble of Scottish financier John Law and the 2001 Enron bankruptcy. He shows why humans have a herd instinct when it comes to investment, and why no one can accurately predict when the bulls might stampede.

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A Financial History Of The World - Risky Business

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A Financial History Of The World - Safe As Houses

It sounded so simple: give state-owned assets to the people. After all, what better foundation for a property-owning democracy than a campaign of privatisation encompassing housing? An economic theory says that markets can't function without mortgages, because it's only by borrowing against their assets that entrepreneurs can get their businesses off the ground. But what if mortgages are bundled together and sold off to the highest bidder?

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A Financial History Of The World - Chimerica

Niall Ferguson investigates the globalisation of the Western economy and the uncertain balance between the important component countries of China and the US. In examining the last time globalisation took hold – before World War One, he finds a notable reversal, namely that today money is pouring into the English-speaking economies from the developing world, rather than out.

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Richard Dawkins: The Genius of Charles Darwin

The Genius of Charles Darwin is a three part television documentary, written and presented by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, celebrating the life and ideas of Charles Darwin for the 150th anniversary of his "The Origin of Species" and his 200th birthday

Part 1: Life, Darwin & Everything

In the first episode Richard Dawkins explains the basic mechanisms of natural selection, and tells the story of how Charles Darwin developed his theory.

He teaches a year 11 science class about evolution, which many of the students are reluctant to accept. He then takes them to the Jurassic Coast in Dorset to search for fossils, hoping that the students can see some of the evidence for themselves.[3]

Dawkins visits Nairobi, where he interviews a prostitute who seems to have a genetic immunity to HIV, and talks to microbiologist Larry Gelmon. He goes on to predict that genetic immunity is a trait that will become more prevalent in the community over time. (intro source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Genius_of_Charles_Darwin)



Part 2: The Fifth Ape

In the second episode Richard Dawkins deals with some of the philosophical and social ramifications of the theory of evolution.[4]

Dawkins starts out in Kenya, speaking with palaeontologist Richard Leakey. He then visits Christ is the Answer Ministries in Nairobi, Kenya's largest Pentecostal church, to interview Bishop Bonifes Adoyo. Dawkins mentions that his own birthplace was a few doors from the church were the interview takes place. Adoyo has led the movement to press National Museums of Kenya to sideline its collection of hominid bones pointing to man's evolution from ape to human.[5] The collection includes the Turkana Boy discovered by Kamoya Kimeu, a member of a team led by Richard Leakey in 1984.

Dawkins discusses social darwinism and eugenics, explaining how these are not versions of natural selection, and that "Darwin has been wrongly tainted".

He then meets with evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker to discuss how morals can be compatible with natural selection. He goes on to explaining sexual selection, with peafowls as an example. To find out whether sexual selection plays a role for altruism and kindness among humans, he visits women who are looking for sperm donors, as well as sperm bank manager (and later CEO) Claus Rodgaard of Cryos International in New York City. Dawkins also explains kin selection and selfish genes. (intro source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Genius_of_Charles_Darwin)



Part 3: God Strikes Back

In the third and final episode, Dawkins explains why Darwin's theory is one of history's most controversial ideas. (intro source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Genius_of_Charles_Darwin)

The Root of All Evil? (Richard Dawkins, 2006)

Part 1: The God Delusion.

The Root of All Evil? is a television documentary, written and presented by Richard Dawkins, in which he argues that the world would be better off without religion. The documentary was first broadcast in January 2006, in the form of two 45-minute episodes (excluding advertisement breaks), on Channel 4 in the UK. Dawkins has said that the title "The Root of All Evil?" was not his preferred choice, but that Channel 4 had insisted on it to create controversy.[1] His sole concession from the producers on the title was the addition of the question mark. Dawkins has stated that the notion of anything being the root of all evil is ridiculous.[2] Dawkins's book The God Delusion, released in September 2006, goes on to examine the topics raised in the documentary in greater detail. The God Delusion explores the unproven beliefs that are treated as factual by many religions and the extremes to which some followers have taken them. Dawkins opens the programme by describing the "would-be murderers . . . who want to kill you and me, and themselves, because they're motivated by what they think is the highest ideal." Dawkins argues that "the process of non-thinking called faith" is not a way of understanding the world, but instead stands in fundamental opposition to modern science and the scientific method, and is divisive and dangerous.




Part 2: The Virus of Faith

The Root of All Evil? is a television documentary, written and presented by Richard Dawkins, in which he argues that the world would be better off without religion. The documentary was first broadcast in January 2006, in the form of two 45-minute episodes (excluding advertisement breaks), on Channel 4 in the UK. Dawkins has said that the title "The Root of All Evil?" was not his preferred choice, but that Channel 4 had insisted on it to create controversy.[1] His sole concession from the producers on the title was the addition of the question mark. Dawkins has stated that the notion of anything being the root of all evil is ridiculous.[2] Dawkins's book The God Delusion, released in September 2006, goes on to examine the topics raised in the documentary in greater detail. In The Virus of Faith, Dawkins opines that the moral framework of religions is warped, and argues against the religious indoctrination of children. The title of this episode comes from The Selfish Gene, in which Dawkins discussed the concept of memes

The Trouble With Atheism

The Ground Truth: The Human Cost of War

Big Ideas That Changed The World - Democracy

Peter Singer on Morality in the Era of Bernie Madoff