<p>Something remarkable is happening in the fields and orchards of the Pacific Northwest. After leaving the land for decades, family farmers are making a comeback. They are growing much healthier food, and more food per acre, while using less energy and water than factory farms. And most of the food is organic.</p>

<p>The Debt of Dictators is the first film to expose the nefarious lending of billions of dollars by multinational banks and international financial institutions, banks, and international financial institutions to brutal dictators throughout the world. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, asserts that transnational banks "know the price of everything, but have no values." Debt of Dictators reveals the impoverishment resulting from odious debts incurred to multinational lending institutions by these dictators.</p>

<p>In this important lecture delivered at the University of Massachusetts, Said takes aim at one of the central tenets of recent foreign policy thinking--that conflicts between different and clashing "civilizations" (Western, Islamic, Confucian) characterize the contemporary world.<br /><br />Said argues that collapsing complex, diverse and contradictory groups of people into vast, simplistic abstractions has disastrous consequences.

<p>Has the practice of privatization become similar to warfare, dehumanizing us and reducing us to mere statistics? The Big Sellout offers an emphatic and sobering study of the human impact of global economics.</p>

<p>Myth of the Liberal Media<br />The Propaganda Model of News<br /><br />Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one of the central tenets of our political culture, the idea of the "liberal media." Instead, utilizing a systematic model based on massive empirical research, they reveal the manner in which the news media are so subordinated to corporate and conservative interests that their function can only be described as that of "elite propaganda."</p>

<p>Author Naomi Wolf examines the disturbing similarities between post-9/11 US policy and that of historically fascist regimes such as Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany. The End of America demonstrates that the United States is on a remarkably certain path towards ending democracy.</p>

<p>No Logo reveals the reasons behind the backlash against the increasing economic and cultural reach of multinational companies. Analyzing how brands like Nike, The Gap, and Tommy Hilfiger became revered symbols worldwide, Klein argues that globalization is a process whereby corporations discovered that profits lay not in making products (outsourced to low-wage workers in developing countries), but in creating branded indentitites people adopt in their lifstyles.</p>

The honeymoon is over.

<p>Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain.</p>

<p>Most parenting guides begin with the question "How can we get kids to do what they're told?" -- and then proceed to offer various techniques for controlling them. In this truly groundbreaking book, nationally respected educator Alfie Kohn begins instead by asking "What do kids need - and how can we meet those needs?" What follows from that question are ideas for working with children rather than doing things to them.</p>