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Part 1 of The Sharing Circle from APTN. A look into native Canadian history 
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On November 26, we released Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools.
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'Residential schools were government-sponsored religious schools established to assimilate Aboriginal children into Euro-Canadian culture ... In total, an estimated 150,000 First Nation, Inuit, and Métis children attended residential schools.'
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Army lawyer, Joseph Welch, accuses Joseph McCarthy of having no sense of decency.
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Howard Zinn's condemnation of American foreign and domestic policy: that it has been characterised by greed, brutality, imperialism and ethnic cleansing. This extract includes Zinn's interpretation of US involvement in Korea, Vietnam, WWII, Iraq etc.
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A useful guide to spotting a communist ...
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Duck and Cover starring Bert the Turtle is a 1951 Civil Defense Film Written by Raymond J. Mauer and directed by Anthony Rizzo of Archer Productions
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McCarthyism is the political action of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. The term specifically des...
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Ten minutes from the Cold War series on the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
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Defense Against Enemy Propaganda: so it's really anti-propaganda propaganda. 'Digging the grave of liberty' as the man says.
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US Cold War propaganda: 'Ever hear of Karl Marx?'
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The Guatemalan authorities apologise to the family of ex-President Jacobo Arbenz who was ousted in 1954 in a CIA-backed coup.
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In 2011, Guatemala's government apologised to the family of former President Jacobo Arbenz who was ousted in 1954 in a CIA-backed coup.
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On June 27, 1954, democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was deposed in a CIA-sponsored coup to protect the profits of the United Fruit Company. Arbenz was replaced by dec…
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Diego Rivera on the deposing of President Arbenz of Guatemala.
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Roy Crane’s Buz Sawyer comics were famous for adventurous battles against America’s cold war foes. But no one knew that the U.S. government was behind it all.
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Roy Crane’s Buz Sawyer comics were famous for adventurous battles against America’s cold war foes. But no one knew that the U.S. government was behind it all.
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Clip from the film The Red Menace (1949).
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Full text of A People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn.
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A focus on archive footage from the McCarthy Trials in 1950s USA
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'This programme, presented by historian and teacher Ben Walsh, uses footage from the North American Records Administration to re-tell the story of when America, gripped by a paranoid fear of communism, began to turn against itself.'
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Responsibilities of American citizenship explained by a 'noted, young historian'. Enjoy the brilliant use of visual aids.
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Several extracts of contemporary film on the Bonus Marchers of 1932.
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An animated anti-communist film produced by the US in 1948.
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The United States saw the emergence of leftist movements in Latin American countries as threatening to its commercial interests, and secretly plotted with military dictators and middle class interests in the region.
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The Hollywood Ten: taken from the Cold War series.
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Bishop Fulton J. Sheen giving us his take on communism in the popular TV series from 1955, Life is Worth Living.
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Chomsky goes through some of the crimes of the post-war presidents.
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Noam Chomsky gives a concise run-down of the foreign policy of US Presidents from Eisenhower to Bush II.
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Anyone know where I can get hold of some snake-oil? Billy Graham on the ideological struggle between Karl Marx and Jesus.
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The US State Department page on the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps.
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'This clip is from "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1964.'
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First Nations of Canada part 2