Jared Diamond – How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed – Long Now Foundation

Jared Diamon is a captivating and articulate speaker whose are ideas are a type of common sense that just makes sense, even without the countless hours of research. From the description:

Jared Diamond articulately spelled out how his best-selling book, COLLAPSE, took shape.

Death of a Nation – East Timor

From the description:

“As Pilger gets an Austrlian diplomat to admit, East Timor was considered “expendable.”

But no one watching the massacre in the Dili cemetery can excuse the geopolitical machinations that led to this genocide.”

Australia’s expansion into the region is a really interesting story, although not covered here in a fair perspective, I guess.

The Life of the Buddha

The Life of the Buddha.

Lee Kuan Yew on Charlie Rose

I feel like Charlie Rose is an incredibly patronizing and almost irrelevant interviewer, but he manages to let Lee Kuan Yew, the founding prime minister of Singapore, wax a little about the wider world.

Myanmar protests

Monks continue to gather in large numbers in the major cities of Myanmar and President Bush was at the UN today, threatening to tighten economic sanctions if the Junta resorted to violence to stop the protests. But even though the Chinese are quietly urging Myanmar to reconcile with the opposition, the use of force seems probable, especially if history were to repeat itself.

An interesting short look into the average life under the Junta’s rule in Myanmar from the Al Jazeera English network.

Burma’s Secret War

An hour long British television program on the repressive military junta in Myanmar, known also under it’s colonial name of Burma.