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Howard Zinn's - The Bomb
"The late Howard Zinn's new book "The Bomb" is a brilliant little dissection of some of the central myths of our militarized society...Zinn describes the U.S. military making its first use of napalm by dropping it all over a French town (Royan) during WWII, burning anyone and anything it touched. (Zinn was there in a plane-bombing.)
Jul 20, 2010, 4:32pm
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The 2010 Summer Reading List
Ralph Nader: 1. Toxic Talk (Thomas Dunne Books) by Bill Press, the liberal talk show host, unloads in his words, on "how the radical right has poisoned America's airwaves." ...2. Stop Getting Ripped Off (Ballantine Books) by Bob Sullivan - gets very specific about how you are being fleeced and how you can often get a fair deal...
Jul 9, 2010, 5:28pm
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Douglas Valentine's "Strength of the Pack" - The System & the Drug War
Adam Engel: "The "war on drugs" like the "war on terror" is about politics and political booty, stuffing deep pockets, creating bureaucracies for the deliberate purpose of obfuscation, and funding various paramilitary groups the State Department and/or CIA deems favorable to "national security." The buzz words, "national security," allow the CIA and other sub-systems to get away with murder, literally.
Jun 26, 2010, 2:17pm
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JFK. Analysis of a Shooting
"A retired military officer and firearms expert disputes the official conclusion of the Warren Commission, which stated that Oswald, as the lone gunman, fired three shots at President Kennedy. In a never before offered detailed ballistics analysis of the event the author explains that five shots were actually fired at the president, by three shooters in Dealey Plaza.
Jun 12, 2010, 3:59pm
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Thriller with a radical message
Tristan Brosnan looks at the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson's "Millenium Trilogy"--and why millions are finding his characters and plots so compelling..."EIGHTEEN PERCENT of the women in Sweden have at one time been threatened by a man." This is the opening to the first part of Stieg Larsson's bestselling novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Apr 15, 2010, 5:07pm
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The Bases of Empire
"The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts," a collection edited by Catherine Lutz, has the potential to open American eyes to both the empire they pay for and permit, and to the world's responses to it.
Mar 30, 2010, 4:45pm
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How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste
Michelle Alexander: In the "era of colorblindness" there's a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we as a nation have "moved beyond" race. We haven't...Racial caste is alive and well in America....The drug war has been waged almost exclusively in poor communities of color...a new racial undercaste has been created in an astonishingly short period of time -- a new Jim Crow system.
Mar 10, 2010, 11:48am
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How the DEA Scrubbed Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Poppy Garden from Public Memory
The following is an excerpt from Jim Hogshire's "Opium for the Masses: Harvesting Nature's Best Pain Medication" (Feral House, 2009)...Thomas Jefferson was a drug criminal. But he managed to escape the terrible sword of justice by dying a century before the DEA was created.
Mar 3, 2010, 12:20pm
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The Saddest Story
David Swanson: "One of the most unusual books and far-and-away the saddest I have ever read is James Douglass's "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters." This is the best documented account ever produced of why and how the CIA assassinated John F. Kennedy...(Especially interesting) "how Kennedy lived his final months, the actions he took that turned the CIA against him"
Mar 2, 2010, 1:49pm
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Past Lessons and Present Disaster
Kim Peterson: Review of - In Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam..."Why do the media — and even academia — insist on naming acts of aggression against a country with the name of the country aggressed, thereby distracting from the name of the aggressor and the act of aggression?...
Dec 19, 2009, 11:18am
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
Racism erodes our very humanity. No one can be truly liberated while living under the weight of oppression, argues Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary in her new book, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing...The systematic dehumanization of African slaves was the initial trauma, explains Leary, and generations of their descendents have borne the scars...
Dec 12, 2009, 4:18pm
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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
Edward Curtin: "James Douglass presents a very compelling argument that Kennedy was killed by "unspeakable" forces within the U.S. national security state because of his conversion from a cold warrior into a man of peace. He argues, using a wealth of newly uncovered information, that JFK had become a major threat to the burgeoning military-industrial complex...
Nov 28, 2009, 2:11pm
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Freedom from Wage Slavery
"Pamela Satterwhite has written a book, Waking Up: Freeing Ourselves from Work, that seeks, as the title states, to free people from the wage slavery, job drudgery, and submission. At its core, Satterwhite reveals that freedom from work is achieving social justice: freedom from exploitation, racism, warring, etc.
Jul 19, 2009, 3:27pm
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Reviewing James Petras' "Zionism, Militarism, and the Decline of US Power"
Stephen Lendman: "This book documents American Zionism powerfully destructive influence. Its stranglehold on US politics, academia, the media, clergy, and over all segments of society voicing dissent...provides convincing evidence of its influence and veto power over war and peace, trade and investment and all Middle East policy
Oct 18, 2008, 4:47pm
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Side Effects of Medical Marijuana
Paul Krassner: Dying to Get High: Marijuana as Medicine is an important and accessible book..From one of the authors - "I wasn't the only one surprised to discover that marijuana did in fact have therapeutic effects. Many patients were equally astonished.
Oct 3, 2008, 2:05pm
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