Format: audio only
Running time: approx. 31 min 15 sec.
Summary: What can psychoanalysis teach us about how we Americans understand our place in the world? Dr. Stephen Soldz talks with Pinky about narcissism, projection, and an enormous lost opportunity of our post-Cold War era.
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How to Solve Illegal Immigration
Format: video with audio
Running time: approx. 15 min 24 sec.
Summary: Illegal Immigration is one of the most divisive issues in America today. Pinky asks Daisy for his take on what's really going on. Added bonus: Daisy tells us how to solve the whole problem in 5 minutes.
Americanism: The Movie!
Format: video with audio
Running time: approx. 2 min 30 sec.
Summary: Our first experiment in participatory filmmaking, using the YouTube website as a vehicle for communication. Pinky wants to make a movie examining the question: 'What is Americanism?'. Videotape your own response, or interview others! Then upload the video as a 'response video' at the YouTube website. Get involved! We'll put it all together!
Cats With Guns
Format: video with audio
Running time: approx. 6 min 03 sec.
Summary: Someone dislikes our AK Bunny t-shirt design - does the picture promote violence? Does it encourage a re-examination of non-violence? We ask angry viewer to educate us!
The Iraq War: Legal or Illegal?
Format: video with audio
Running time: approx. 23 min 57 sec.
Summary: Pinky wants some answers: Is the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq legal or illegal? Do any of the charges of illegality we've been hearing about have any legal basis at all? And why should we even care about international law anyway? Pinky and friends do the research and then tell you all the answers!
Warning: This episode contains violent images that may disturb some viewers. Please pre-view and carefully consider the effect on young or sensitive viewers.
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Banked Into Submission (The Globalizationist's Guide to Developing Poverty)
Format: video with audio
Running time: approx. 3 min 17 sec.
Summary: Bunny tells Mimi about how the World Bank and IMF can be used as extremely useful tools for the cultivation of Third Word poverty. Bonus: words & phrases such as "structural adjustment", "austerity programs", and "conditionalities" are not used in this episode!
Defending Globalization (a mission for the educated and enlightened)
Format: video with audio
Running time: approx. 3 min 14 sec.
Summary: Bunny and Mimi talk about Globalization again! This time Bunny reveals a secret about how to get First World citizens on the Globalization bandwagon while keeping those pesky Third Worlders in their place.
Globalization (and the metaphysics of control in a free market world)
Format: video with audio
Running time: approx. 3 min 02 sec.
Summary: Bunny explains to Mimi how to establish and maintain control over others via this (kind of) new thing called globalization. Is globalization the new colonialism? Will Pinky ever get that crayon off her head?
27,000 Holocausts : an interview with John Burroughs
Format: video with audio
Running time: approx. 30 min 02 sec.
Summary: Pinky calls up international law expert John Burroughs (Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy) and talks to him about the current state of nuclear weapons: Are they really a threat to the planet? If they're so dangerous, why do we still have them? What does international law have to say about nuclear weapons? How do we go about getting rid of them? How about nuclear power - is that okay?
Pinky Show News: Roadkill Report
Format: script only; no audio/video
Summary: People in cars are very dangerous to animals, a very angry Bunny reports.
WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES.
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Ant: Light Pollution
Format: video with audio
Running time: approx. 2 min 55 sec.
Summary: The ants' perspective of how human beings have forgotten their place in the universe.
Thomas Edison Hates Cats
Format: video with audio
Running time: 2 min 36 sec.
Summary: The 'War of Currents' and Thomas Edison's hatred of cats.
Ehren Watada: a Soldier Refuses an Illegal War
Format: video with audio
Running time: 38 min 35 sec.
Summary: U.S. Army Lieutenant Ehren Watada speaks about his decision to refuse orders to deploy to Iraq. Various points discussed include: historical precedents; the concept of 'wars of aggression' in international law; misinformation, coercion, and the public imagination; the responsibility of the individual regarding matters of war and peace.
What is a Crime Against Humanity? : an interview with Peter Weiss
Format: video with audio
Running time: 18 min 02 sec.
Summary: Pinky calls up international law expert Peter Weiss (Center for Constitutional Rights) and asks him "What is a Crime Against Humanity?". Other points of discussion include how a crime against humanity is different from a war crime; the 'superior orders' defense; torture; the International Criminal Court (ICC); the importance of ordinary people taking a stand on matters of international law; more!
Scary School Nightmare
Format: video with audio
Running time: 5 min 53 sec.
Summary: Every night Pinky tries to get some sleep, only to be kept awake by a bizarre school building slideshow. Words by Ivan Illich, author of Deschooling Society.
The American War: The U.S. in Vietnam
Format: video with audio
Running time: 40 min 37 sec.
Summary:
Pinky & Bunny discuss the origins of the Vietnam War (also known as
the 'American War' in Vietnam). The episode is comprised of four short
chapters: 1. Misrepresentations. 2. Desire and Struggle: a basic
timeline of events. 3. Searching for Reasons. 4. Consequences. *This
episode is dedicated to Professor Howard Zinn (1922-2010).
Warning: This episode contains violent images that may disturb some viewers. Please pre-view and carefully consider the effect on young or sensitive viewers.
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Students Against Rice Eaters
Format: video with audio
Running time: 1 min 36 sec.
Summary: Pinky tells a story about a smart student who used his knowledge for not so good things.
Stupid Toys
Format: video with audio
Running time: 2 min 08 sec.
Summary: Pinky talks about the stupidest toys she's seen recently.
Ant Appeal: "Please Respect All Animals"
Format: video with audio
Running time: 2 min 27 sec.
Summary: An ant from Pinky's AntFarm™ reads a statement from the rest of the ants.
Fabulous Imperialism!: The 1893 Columbian Exposition
Format: video with audio
Running time: 14 min 23 sec.
Summary: Pinky takes you on a field trip to Chicago, Illinois, in search of the 1893 Columbian Exposition. Included: a brief introduction to this important world's fair at the end of the 19th century; how the fair helped forge a new national identity; the role of the fair in redefining American attitudes toward the rest of the world; relationships between the fair and the development of U.S. imperialism; how the fair disappeared.