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The World is Flat
by Thomas L. Friedman
Available on: Audio Download | Video Download | Online Video
Chances are good that Bhavya in Bangalore will read your next x-ray, or as Thomas Friedman learned first hand, “Grandma Betty in her bathrobe” will make your Jet Blue plane reservation from her Salt Lake City home.
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Muhammad Yunus - 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
by Muhammad Yunus
Available on: Online Video
Muhammad Yunus delivered his Nobel Lecture on 10 December 2006 at the Oslo City Hall, Norway.
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Discourses on Iraq and the Middle East
by Noam Chomsky
Available on: Online Video
U.S. actions in Iraq get a thorough thrashing in this final chapter of the Reconstructing Iraq series.
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Hiroshima and the Origins of the Cold War
by David Painter
Available on: Audio Download
In this lecture professor David Painter discusses the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945 during World War II.
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Joseph Stiglitz: The Economics of Information
by Joseph Stiglitz
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz ('Globalization and Its Discontents') talks about his new concept of economics, 'The Economics of Information,' and his latest book, 'Making Globalization Work'.
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Al Sharpton and Christopher Hitchens Debate
by Al Sharpton
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
A Debate: God Is Not Great with Al Sharpton and Christopher Hitchens.
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Francis Fukuyama: The End Of History Revisited
by Francis Fukuyama
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
The End Of History Revisited with Francis Fukuyama speaking at a seminar hosted by The Long Now Foundation.
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The Emergence of China in the Global Economy
by Lester Thurow
Available on: Online Video
Napoleon admonished the world to beware an awakened China. 200 years later, Lester Thurow traces the astonishing rise of this economic giant.
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The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx
Available on: Audio Download
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their Manifesto in December 1847, as a guide to the fundamental principles and practices of Communists.
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Global 3.0
by Chris Farrell
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
For many, globalization has meant rich countries getting richer at the expense of the poor. Today, it's not that simple.
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Chomsky.info Audio N' Video
by Noam Chomsky
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio | Online Video
Free Audio & Video Resources of Noam Chomsky...
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America Through Muslim Eyes
by Tad Taube
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Some left-leaning contemporary wisdom argues that aggressive, neoconservative foreign policy is to blame for the Muslim world's low opinion of the U.S. Dinesh D'Souza responds that the culprits are actually the perceived imposition of atheism and immorality.
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In Depth: Thomas Friedman
by Thomas L. Friedman
Available on: Online Video
New York Times foreign affairs columnist and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman was BookTV's guest on In Depth in May 2005.
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An Hour with the Honorable Dalai Lama
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Available on: Online Video
An hour conversation with the spiritual and political leader of the people of Tibet The Dalai Lama.
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Globalization and the Economic Downturn
by Lester Thurow
Available on: Online Video
Globalization is for the first time being hit by a global economic hard landing. What happens to globalization in the process?
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Blood and Oil
by Michael T. Klare
Available on: Audio Download
Nationally renowned expert on U.S. petroleum policy, Michael T. Klare discusses his latest book Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum.
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Global Politics of Food
by John Biewen
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
The global economy is changing the way we think about food, from the kinds of things we eat, to the way food is grown and harvested....
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Steven Pinker on the Myth of Violence
by Steven Pinker
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video | Video Download
Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.
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The Long Emergency
by James Howard Kunstler
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
James Kunstler's The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century made a huge impression on readers - and one hopes, on policy makers - when it was first published last year.
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Another World: Alternative Ways to Globalization
by Noam Chomsky
Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
'Another World Is Possible', is the culminating forum of the Student Research Conference, similar to the World Social Forum organized in Brazil.
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Available on: Audio Download
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ratified in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly.
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Critical Lectures in American Foreign Policy
by Noam Chomsky
Available on: Online Video
The Earth Institute at Columbia University continues its new series, Critical Lectures in American Foreign Policy, where highly distinguished scholars challenge prevailing assumptions and conventional wisdom of U.S. foreign policy actions.
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Karen Armstrong's Wish: Charter for Compassion
by Karen Armstrong
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video | Video Download
People want to be religious, says scholar Karen Armstrong; we should act to help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help her build a Charter for Compassion -- to help restore the Golden Rule as the central global religious do.
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Korea: The Unfinished War
by Stephen Smith
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
To fully grasp the ongoing tensions between the United States and North Korea, it is important to understand the war that ended more than fifty years ago...
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Brigitte Gabriel: Because They Hate
by John Hilboldt
Available on: Online Video
Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America.
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