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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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Reviewing Danny Schechter's "Plunder"
Stephen Lendman: "Timely, important, and frightening." A blueprint of what's unfolding. Explaining that government help won't be forthcoming, so we're responsible for making the best of a very bad situation. (A Ponzi scheme writ large - a "calculated crime")
Sep 18, 2008, 11:45am
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Retorno a 1968
Chellis Glendinning: "Somehow Mexico City escaped us. 1968. Theirs was a social uprising as populous and anarchistic as ours. It was as fraught with youthful idealism and factional fighting as ours. It spilled over onto the streets with the same flair and resolution.
Sep 12, 2008, 4:09pm
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Was 9/11 an Inside Job?
Mark H. Gaffney: Excerpt from Mark H. Gaffney's forthcoming book, THE 911 MYSTERY PLANE AND THE VANISHING OF AMERICA...Regrettably, there is considerable evidence that elements of the Bush administration were complicit in the 9/11 attack, and may even have helped stage it.
Aug 15, 2008, 2:04pm
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This Land Is Their Land by Barbara Ehrenreich
Interview: "Let me just give you one statistic gleaned from the recent special issue of The Nation on inequality, and that is that the richest 1% of Americans has more wealth collectively than the poorest 90% of Americans. That's a wild maldistribution of wealth.
Aug 5, 2008, 12:05pm
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THE DARK SIDE : A Review
The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer: "It would be ... harder to imagine a set of policies more likely to increase the dangers facing the United States and the world. (Degradation inflicted on detainees over the last six years)
Aug 2, 2008, 11:19am
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Galbraith takes on the predator
Like father, Like son. In his new book, "The Predator State," James Galbraith does justice to the late John Kenneth Galbraith's tradition of flipping conventional wisdom on its head -- and offering bold prescriptions for a more socially just economy.
Jul 25, 2008, 4:19pm
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