Our reading is The Birth of Modern India: A Tryst with Destiny, a speech by Nehru on August 14, 1947, the eve of independence. (India became independent on August 15.) You can watch and listen to part of Nehru's speech to see what it looked and sounded like.
There is a documentary movie about water issues. It is called Blue Gold: World Water Wars. Here is the movie trailer.
Wars of the future will be fought over water as they are over oil today, as the source of human survival enters the global marketplace and political arena. Corporate giants, private investors, and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling supply, prompting protests, lawsuits, and revolutions from citizens fighting for the right to survive. Past civilizations have collapsed from poor water management. Can the human race survive?
Director Sam Bozzo
The movie was released in Japan in January 2010. You can order the DVD, or you could download the movie as a BitTorrent -- with the understanding of the director!
The article by Michael Klare was originally published in Newsweek.You can find another copy of it here.
Although the Newsweek article is positive about the chances for peace and international cooperation, Professor Klare seems to make the opposite points in some of his video-blogging at Big Think.
The current global economic crisis is causing a lot of reconsideration and re-examination of past practices and theories. French President Sarkozy fromed a commission including Nobel-Prize-winners Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz to consider new ways to measure growth. Their report was released September 2009.
Here is a related video from December 11, 2009: the Kenneth Arrow lecture by Amartya Sen, including a response by Joseph Stiglitz. It's very very very long, but it gives you an idea of how Amartya Sen speaks and looks.
What was the atmosphere of growing up in the Cold War?
You may find it interesting to watch the 1951 film "Duck and Cover," which trained schoolchildren to survive nuclear attack. http://www.archive.org/details/DuckandC1951 This is a very popular film in the Prelinger Film Archives. Why?
Our Cities Must Fight (1951) This film encouraged citizens to not flee, to remain in the cities to fight, even after a nuclear war. http://www.archive.org/details/OurCitie1951
You can see from these films that by 1951 the Cold War (Or Hot Peace?) was at a high level of fear, paranoia, propaganda, and hysteria.
Have a look at another great public speaker from the middle of the Cold War period, American civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
How about something much more recent? Is Barack Obama a great public speaker? Watch and decide. The Inauguration of Barack Obama 2009-01-20 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PuHGKnboNY
What was the atmosphere of growing up in the Cold War?
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