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Professor Ilan Pappe: The Idea of Israel

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A History of Power and Knowledge
The Israeli historian Ilan Pappe spoke on September 14, 2018, at the City Club of Cleveland.
Attempts were made to prevent Prof. Pappe from speaking, however the President of the Board of Directors of the City Club explained why they did not retract the invitation. She said that a forum devoted to freedom of speech will use this as an opportunity to reflect on the role the City Club plays in the community. We believe, she said, that our work requires us to listen and learn.
As the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians continues, many question the very representation of the Zionist state. Ilan Pappe, Ph.D., Professor of History and Director of the European Centre for Palestine [ . . . ]

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Michael Parenti, The Supremely Political Court

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Archival, updated 2018 to reflect Trump’s Supreme Court – In his extraordinary 26 minute history of the Supreme Court Dr. Michael Parenti warned us in 1995 that this partisan, aristocratic institution might one day empower an autocratic president. It seems that time has come and two Trump appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, can push the scales of justice in favor of their politics. Unless there is a groundswell to question and change the legal rules of that institution. Why is so much power being given to 9 unelected, non term limited judges.
Michael Parenti was born into a working class Italian family in East Harlem, New York City. He went on to receive his Ph.D. in political science at Yale [ . . . ]

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Jeremy Corbyn with Yanis Varoufakis (TWO of TWO)

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Rescuing Democracy by Reviving Socialism
A Conversation at the Edinburgh Book Festival, August 20, 2018
Rescuing democracy from autocracy has become an world-wide challenge: how to curb the power of corporations and banks; and the parallel fights for education, housing and health, and the resistance against privatization across Europe and the Americas. And how to stem the tide of right wing movements be they in the US, Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Greece, Hungary and too many other places.
Familiar names show up in an effort to create a cross border countervailing movement to support democracy and rescue the values and traditions of socialism as countervailing force to capitalism.
Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic and politician. He was a Syriza member of the [ . . . ]

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Jeremy Corbyn with Yanis Varoufakis (TWO of TWO)

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Rescuing Democracy by Reviving Socialism
A Conversation at the Edinburgh Book Festival, August 20, 2018
Rescuing democracy from autocracy has become an world-wide challenge: how to curb the power of corporations and banks; and the parallel fights for education, housing and health, and the resistance against privatization across Europe and the Americas. And how to stem the tide of right wing movements be they in the US, Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Greece, Hungary and too many other places.
Familiar names show up in an effort to create a cross border countervailing movement to support democracy and rescue the values and traditions of socialism as countervailing force to capitalism.
Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic and politician. He was a Syriza member of the [ . . . ]

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Jeremy Corbyn with Yanis Varoufakis (ONE of TWO)

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Rescuing Democracy by Reviving Socialism
A Conversation at the Edinburgh Book Festival, August 20, 2018
Once a year a tented village goes up in the heart of Edinburgh for the annual Book Festival. The best attended events of 2018 were political panels on how to curb the power of corporations and banks; and the parallel fights for public education and health, and the resistance against privatization across Europe and the Americas.
Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic and politician. He was a Syriza member of the Hellenic Parliament and served as the Greek Minister of Finance from January to July 2015. He resigned in protest over the imposition of structural adjustment and bailout loans on the Greek people.
Varoufakis has since appeared in [ . . . ]

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Jeremy Corbyn with Yanis Varoufakis (ONE of TWO)

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Rescuing Democracy by Reviving Socialism
A Conversation at the Edinburgh Book Festival, August 20, 2018
Once a year a tented village goes up in the heart of Edinburgh for the annual Book Festival. The best attended events of 2018 were political panels on how to curb the power of corporations and banks; and the parallel fights for public education and health, and the resistance against privatization across Europe and the Americas.
Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic and politician. He was a Syriza member of the Hellenic Parliament and served as the Greek Minister of Finance from January to July 2015. He resigned in protest over the imposition of structural adjustment and bailout loans on the Greek people.
Varoufakis has since appeared in [ . . . ]

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Prof. Peter Wadhams: Arctic Amplification, Climate Change, and Global Warming (TWO of TWO)

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New Challenges from the Top of the World (TWO of TWO) Fossil fuel emissions caused the melting of Arctic ice. Now the Arctic in turn is accelerating global warming instead of cooling the planet because the disappearance or thinning of the ice sheet in the Arctic summer has many serious consequences.
This ice sheet covered the top of the world and touched the coast lines of Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Siberia for 100.000 years. In only 30 years the retreat from the coast lines during the Arctic summer accelerated and an ice free Arctic in September may occur by 2020. And the Arctic winter is no longer cold enough to restore ice levels.
In this extraordinary comprehensive lecture that Prof. Wadhams gave [ . . . ]

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Prof. Peter Wadhams: Arctic Amplification, Climate Change, and Global Warming (TWO of TWO)

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New Challenges from the Top of the World (TWO of TWO) Fossil fuel emissions caused the melting of Arctic ice. Now the Arctic in turn is accelerating global warming instead of cooling the planet because the disappearance or thinning of the ice sheet in the Arctic summer has many serious consequences.
This ice sheet covered the top of the world and touched the coast lines of Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Siberia for 100.000 years. In only 30 years the retreat from the coast lines during the Arctic summer accelerated and an ice free Arctic in September may occur by 2020. And the Arctic winter is no longer cold enough to restore ice levels.
In this extraordinary comprehensive lecture that Prof. Wadhams gave [ . . . ]

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Prof. Peter Wadhams: Arctic Amplification, Climate Change, and Global Warming (ONE of TWO)

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New Challenges from the Top of the World (ONE of TWO) ARCHIVE
NOTE: This program begins with two brief news clips from NBC4 and Thom Hartmann as reminder that a most important but underreported news item for September is the status of the sea ice in the Arctic.
With increasing urgency Wadhams is calling attention to the disappearing sea ice of the Arctic. In his most recent book, A Farewell to Ice, he writes: “Our planet has changed color. Today, from space, the top of the world in the northern summer looks blue instead of white. We have created an ocean where there was once an ice sheet.”
In a lecture in Milan, Italy, in May 2015, Peter Wadhams explained how the melting [ . . . ]

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Prof. Peter Wadhams: Arctic Amplification, Climate Change, and Global Warming (ONE of TWO)

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New Challenges from the Top of the World (ONE of TWO) ARCHIVE
NOTE: This program begins with two brief news clips from NBC4 and Thom Hartmann as reminder that a most important but underreported news item for September is the status of the sea ice in the Arctic.
With increasing urgency Wadhams is calling attention to the disappearing sea ice of the Arctic. In his most recent book, A Farewell to Ice, he writes: “Our planet has changed color. Today, from space, the top of the world in the northern summer looks blue instead of white. We have created an ocean where there was once an ice sheet.”
In a lecture in Milan, Italy, in May 2015, Peter Wadhams explained how the melting [ . . . ]

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Professor Peter Wadhams: The Politics of Climate Change

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Farewell to Ice in the Arctic  This program is being produced in Mendocino County at the beginning of September 2018 only 16 miles east of where the largest wildfire in California history is slowly coming under control.
Prof. Peter Wadhams is the UK’s most experienced sea ice scientist and was Professor of Ocean Physics at Cambridge from 1992 to 2015. He says that fossil fuel emissions caused the reduction of Arctic ice. Now the Arctic in turn is accelerating global warming instead of cooling the planet.
The Arctic ice sheet covered the top of the world and touched the coast lines of Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Siberia for 100.000 years. In only 30 years the retreat from the coast lines during the [ . . . ]

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Crazy Weather and the Arctic Meltdown, How are they Connected? Prof. Jennifer Francis

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Each year in the last three decades scientists have paid attention to the status of the ice at the end of the Arctic summer. In past years observations from satellites and submarines have shown decreasing ice thickness and area covered for the months from June to September. That has led to an ongoing debate whether and when the Arctic might be ice free in September.
But scientist are not the only interested parties. There is growing evidence of the connection between Arctic melting and weather events in the Northern Hemisphere, droughts, colds, heat-waves as well as flooding.
Dr. Jennifer Francis is Research Professor at Rutgers’ University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences. Her interests are the Connections between rapid Arctic warming and [ . . . ]

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Crazy Weather and the Arctic Meltdown, How are they Connected? Prof. Jennifer Francis

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Each year in the last three decades scientists have paid attention to the status of the ice at the end of the Arctic summer. In past years observations from satellites and submarines have shown decreasing ice thickness and area covered for the months from June to September. That has led to an ongoing debate whether and when the Arctic might be ice free in September.
But scientist are not the only interested parties. There is growing evidence of the connection between Arctic melting and weather events in the Northern Hemisphere, droughts, colds, heat-waves as well as flooding.
Dr. Jennifer Francis is Research Professor at Rutgers’ University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences. Her interests are the Connections between rapid Arctic warming and [ . . . ]

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How is Climate Change Affecting the Recent Heat Waves

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Professors Michael Mann, Jennifer Francis & Noah Diffenbaugh – At the end of July 2018 Climate Signals.org brought together three eminent climate scientists via Skype to exchange ideas on the impacts of global warming as they are now “playing out in real-time”.
Mike Mann is director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, Jennifer Francis is research professor at Rutgers University’s Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, and Noah Diffenbaugh is the Kara J Foundation Professor and Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow at Stanford University. They discuss  the recent heat waves around the globe, and how they connect with the changing jet stream pattern.
Prof. Michael Mann is lead author of a paper produced in 1999 Mann used advanced statistical [ . . . ]

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How is Climate Change Affecting the Recent Heat Waves

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Professors Michael Mann, Jennifer Francis & Noah Diffenbaugh – At the end of July 2018 Climate Signals.org brought together three eminent climate scientists via Skype to exchange ideas on the impacts of global warming as they are now “playing out in real-time”.
Mike Mann is director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, Jennifer Francis is research professor at Rutgers University’s Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, and Noah Diffenbaugh is the Kara J Foundation Professor and Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow at Stanford University. They discuss  the recent heat waves around the globe, and how they connect with the changing jet stream pattern.
Prof. Michael Mann is lead author of a paper produced in 1999 Mann used advanced statistical [ . . . ]

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