In a roundtable discussion taped in Los Angeles, host Ray Suarez interviews actors, writers and producers about Hollywood's evolving portrayal of Muslims.
(Global Pulse: October 28, 2009) It has been a bloody month for Pakistan. The army has launched an offensive in South Waziristan aided by US drones, and the Taliban are...
Linguist Noam Chomsky expresses concern that American listeners are consuming the "crazy content" broadcast by right-wing media outlets as "substantive" -- as answers to why the "rich liberals" running the...
(Part 1) At a standing-room only event, Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore tackles the death of media, the promise and problems of the Obama era, and above all, his new film,...
(Part 2) At a standing-room only event, Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore tackles the death of media, the promise and problems of the Obama era, and above all, his new film,...
"Yes Man" Andy Bichlbaum describes impersonating corporate CEOs as a hoot in this interview for "The Yes Men Fix the World." However, after almost 10 years of stunts, none of...
In part one of this wide-ranging speech, journalist Amy Goodman, host of the award-winning program Democracy Now, talks about the momentous new Obama era, and the challenges the new administration...
Amy Goodman goes further into the half-truths of today's mainstream media in the second part of this speech. Goodman's ideal media of the future? A "huge kitchen table that stretches...
In the final segment of this speech, Amy Goodman goes further into the wrongs of the Bush administration, what the media got wrong, and the history of social change in...
This Al Jazeera English news update highlights the daring escape of Egyptian fishermen from Somali pirates, as well as the agreement between Taliban leaders and some tribal elders not to...
This Al Jazeera English news update looks to Somalia, where U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton was in talks to ward off a complete takeover of that troubled country by...
Chris Anderson, WIRED editor and author of FREE, explains how some newspapers will survive in a world of free. "There's two problems with newspapers: the news and the paper," says...
(Global Pulse: July 17, 2009) When hackers hit government websites in the U.S. and South Korea, was it a cyber salvo in a new form of warfare, or just hackers...
(Latin Pulse: July 2, 2009) Plagued by violence, drug trafficking, and corruption, Colombia is one of the world's most dangerous places to be a journalist. We look at what kind...
(Global Pulse: June 26, 2009) A propaganda war is underway. Following the extraordinary presidential election, Iran's state-controlled media are aggressively promoting their own version of events. It is a very...