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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...(Reprint from 2009)
Nov 22, 2011, 2:13pm
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Deceit of Shakespearean Proportions
Robert Scheer: "The deceit of Dick Cheney is indeed of Shakespearean proportions, as evidenced in his new memoir. For the former vice president, lying comes so easily that one must assume he takes the pursuit of truth to be nothing more than a reckless indulgence.
Aug 31, 2011, 12:40pm
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Masculinity, Militarism, and Empathy
Gary Olson: The book - "Unmaking War, Remaking Men" by Kathleen Barry with the subtitle "How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldiers and Ourselves." ...Barry contends that by replacing empathy with desensitized callousness, the military is creating sociopathic characteristics, that the military itself is a sociopathogenic institution.
Jun 16, 2011, 4:51pm
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Modern Utopians - Revisiting the Amazing Communes & Alternative Societies of the '60s & '70s
From The Modern Utopian: Alternative Communes of the '60s and '70s, by Richard Fairfield..."It was a period in which huge numbers of young Americans rejected the traditional American way of greed-based and emotionally isolated living and searched for a new life path that embodied sharing, mutual caring, and openness.
Dec 29, 2010, 4:28pm
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Twelve: The King - New Book from Dances With Wolves Author
Walter Brasch: A moving story of the authors love for wild horses, especially one - "When [he] came into full view, everyone eyed his approach; it was as if we had all been tranquilized. He was floating down the pathway, his feet touching the ground as if it were a thick cloud ... He came into the pen—it seemed as if he levitated in—and for a minute everyone just stared at him. Even the restless children watched him. He was something from another time or place.
Nov 10, 2010, 4:37pm
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Cell Phone Trap
Joel S. Hirschhorn: "The new book by Devra Davis "Disconnect" deserves your attention. Indeed, if you use a cell phone a lot, it should be mandatory reading..."Some scientists have, for decades, known about the adverse effects that radiofrequency causes in the brain. For example, radiofrequency allows chemicals and toxins from the blood, which are normally kept away from the nervous system, to enter the brain and cause disease.
Nov 5, 2010, 1:54pm
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Not his finest hour: The dark side of Winston Churchill
Johann Hari: "Winston Churchill is rightly remembered for leading Britain through her finest hour – but what if he also led the country through her most shameful hour? What if, in addition to rousing a nation to save the world from the Nazis, he fought for a raw white supremacism and a concentration camp network of his own?
Oct 28, 2010, 11:37am
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Howard Zinn's last testament to the immorality of war
"The Bomb, recounts how the bombings of Hiroshima and the French city of Royan changed his view of war...Using historical evidence, it also argues that neither mission was necessary and asks what prompted military action that would transcended military logic and moral sensibilities.
Sep 23, 2010, 2:03pm
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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. (Reprinted from 2008)
Sep 10, 2010, 5:11pm
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Blair Reveals Cheney's War Agenda
Robert Parry: "Ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair's new memoir offers the expected rationalizations for his joining in an illegal, aggressive war against Iraq, even to the point of quibbling about the death toll. But Blair does reveal how much more war was favored by Vice President Dick Cheney and the neocons.
Sep 7, 2010, 5:01pm
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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. (Reprinted from 2009)
Sep 6, 2010, 2:33pm
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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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