Azar Nafisi is the Author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran." She is a champion of human rights, who very effectively relates her experiences in post-revolutionary Iran to teach all of us some very valuable lessons.
This is a good documentary on international official corruption. The documentary focuses on a deal between British Aerospace (BAE) and bribes paid to members of the Saudi Royal family as a part of a contract to supply arms to Saudi Arabia.
As one of the most racially diverse nations in the world, Brazil has long considered itself a colorblind “racial democracy.” But deep disparities in income, education and employment between lighter and darker-skinned Brazilians have prompted a civil rights movement advocating equal treatment of Afro-Brazilians. In Brazil, the last country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery, blacks today make up almost half of the total population — but nearly two-thirds of the nation’s poor. Institutions of higher education have typically been monopolized by Brazil’s wealthy and light-skinned elite, and illiteracy among black Brazilians is twice as high as among whites. Now, affirmative action programs are changing the rules of the game, with many colleges and universities reserving 20% of spots for Afro-Brazilians. But with national surveys identifying over 130 different categories of skin color, including “cinnamon,” “coffee with milk,” and “toasted,” who will be considered “black enough” to qualify for the new racial quotas?
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PBS presents this documentary explaining the economic history of the 20th Century. Through this website you can view the documentary and review numerous supporting documents and transcripts of the documentary. The website also offers a book of the same name. The book is the only thing better than this documentary.
Supreme Court Justices Scalia and Breyer discuss there differing views on how the Court should interpret the meaning of the Constitution.
Hernando de Soto and the Institute for Liberty and Democracy have put together a short film, which is designed to explain the importance of law to the development of an economy.
The WTO has numerous videos available concerning WTO related news stories, WTO rules and Trade. These videos provide you with a great way to learn about the WTO and Trade policy.
This amazing website allows you to listen to America's Famous speeches. Form Martin Luther King, Jr. to John F. Kennedy to Ronald Regan, you will find their speeches here.
These are excellent documentaries that appear on PBS in the United States. These documentaries cover many different subjects. You can watch these documentaries online.
This short video introduces the philosopher John Locke, who inspired many of the ideas that Americans fought for during the Revolution. Locke's ideas about freedom and government helped establish the United States Constitution.
This is class number 15 of Professor Steven B. Smith's Introduction to Political Philosophy taught at Yale University.
NPR provides many radio shows on topics of current interest. Many of these programs can be listened to through their website.
C-SPAN broadcasts Congressional hearings, Political Speeches, Debates, Book Reviews and many other programs of public interest. Many of these programs can be viewed through their website.
This is a video of a protest in England after the Danish cartoon of Mohamed were published. My purpose in posting it here is not to show angry radicals chanting death to everyone they can think of. You can see that any time you want on some cable channel. Instead watch the British policemen on the edges of the protest. Despite all the hatred being hurled their way, they are professional and do not react. This shows such a contrast between the tolerance of a free and democratic country and those who insist that everyone must be like them or die!
An SPE is a separate legal entity created for a specific function. It can be in the form of a partnership, trust, LLC or even a corporation. It cannot be significantly owned by the sponsoring corporation, or it will be reported on the company books, so it is normally owned at least 97% by outside investors. There are many uses for SPEs. Asset backed securities are one. Here is a video, which might help explain.
WIDE ANGLE was created in 2001 as a response to the lack of in-depth international news coverage in the United States. Five years later, WIDE ANGLE is the only program exclusively dedicated to international current affairs documentaries. For each broadcast, producers and journalists from around the globe report on an event, issue or trend through the eyes of the people who are living it day to day. In its first five seasons, WIDE ANGLE traveled to more than 50 countries to explore the forces that are shaping the world today, presenting global stories on a human scale and offering Americans uncommon and invaluable insight into today's interconnected world.