Kafka Comes to America

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By: Steven T. Wax

“Our government can make you disappear.” Those were the words Steven Wax, the Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon, never imagined he would hear himself say. In his twenty-nine years as a public defender, Wax had never had to warn a client that he or she might be taken away to a military brig, or worse, a “black site,” one of our country’s dreaded secret prisons. How had our country come to this? The disappearance of people happens in places ruled by tyrants, military juntas, fascist strongmen --- governments with such contempt for the rule of law that they strip their citizens of all rights. But in America?[...] Read more!

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

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by Vincent Bugliosi

In The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder Vincent Bugliosi presents a tight, meticulously researched legal case that puts George W. Bush on trial in an American courtroom for the murder of nearly 4,000 American soldiers fighting the war in Iraq. A searing indictment of the President and his administration, which outlines a legally credible pathway to holding our highest government officials accountable for their actions, thereby creating a framework for future occupants of the oval office. Vincent Bugliosi calls for the United States of America to return to the great nation it once was and can be again. He believes the first step to achieving this goal is to bring those responsible for the war in Iraq to justice.[...] Read more!

The Coming China Wars, Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won, Revised and Expanded Edition

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By: Peter Navarro

“In this comprehensive examination of China’s mushrooming economy, Navarro masterfully illuminates the dark sides of China’s great leaps into privatization and globalization.” Discover how to protect yourself (or your business) from the defective and sometimes lethal products pouring out of China’s factories...how China’s enormous trade surplus threatens to “nuke” the U.S. economy...how China’s accelerating military buildup and secret Star Wars program is sharply tipping the global strategic balance... From exploding cell phone batteries, bacteria–ridden tofu, and catfish loaded to the gills with banned antibiotics, virtually nothing coming out of today’s China should be considered safe. This chapter shows you just why this is so, just what kind of products you should fear most, and why, as Senator Dick Durbin has aptly noted, “Made in China” has become a code red “warning label” that no sensible consumer should ignore.[...] Read more!

The Source of Leadership

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By: David M. Traversi

This revolutionary book signals a new paradigm in leadership. Author David M. Traversi, nationally known executive coach, entrepreneur, and former corporate chief executive and investment banker, has worked with thousands of leaders over the course of his career. With a thesis that leadership on average is failing in most forums, and failing at an increasing rate as technology accelerates and complicates our existence... In The Source of Leadership, Traversi identifies and instructs how to develop eight personal drivers, energies deep within - each of which drives several of the traits and functions of the effective leader.[...] Read more!

Declaring Independence: The Beginning of the End of the Two-Party System

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By: Douglas E. Schoen

The American people’s confidence in our government is gone. Only 25% of Americans are satisfied with the state of their country. We are growing alienated from the Democratic and Republican parties, which are dominated by ideologues who offer simplistic solutions. The electorate thinks America has gone in the wrong direction. Both President Bush and Congress are at close to record-low levels of popular approval. Large portions of the American people do not think the political system can be fixed. The two major parties are unpopular and the electorate is polarized, as they have come to believe that neither side is willing or able to address important issues. The voters want change."[...] Read more!

GLOBAL WARNING: The Last Chance for Change

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By: Paul Brown

Explaining the science of global warming in layman's terms, this shocking and factual assessment by Paul Brown examines scientist's predictions that the earth could reach the point of no return within the next 10 years. Global economic collapse, and the collapse of civilization itself, could occur unless greenhouse-gas emissions are controlled, warns Guardian correspondent Brown. He supports his revelations with stunning color photographs showing human kind's devestating effects on the planet such as: melting ice caps, rising sea levels, desertification, dust storms, and powerful hurricanes. Brown denounces politicians who refuse to take action to prevent the coming cataclysm, reserving special condemnation for George W. Bush.[...] Read more!

A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation

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By David W. Blight

Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the one hundred or so of these testimonies that survive, a mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group with the publication of A Slave No More, a major new addition to the canon of American history. Wallace Turnage was a teenage field hand on an Alabama plantation, John Washington an urban slave in Virginia. They never met. But both men saw opportunity in the chaos of the Civil War, both escaped North, and both left us remarkable accounts of their flights to freedom.[...] Read more!

Cost of Freedom: The Anthology of Peace and Activism

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Co-edited by: Trettien, Palecek, & Annis

Cost of Freedom vividly documents the actions of citizens challenging corporate government. It leaves readers with the hope that citizens will get organized and take back their government from officialdom's criminality and brutality against the powerless and defenseless, against children, mothers and fathers, against our constitution and other laws of the land. Looking at these pages, one is reminded of the persistence and the hope in movements to build a better world. This collection of passionate and rational prose, poetry, photographs and quotes from our courageous forebears is something we clearly aren't going to get from corporate media outlets.[...] Read more!

God's Harvard

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By: Hanna Rosin

Hanna Rosin has gotten incredible access to a subculture that is fast becoming a mighty political force. This insightful book reveals the new face of the Christian right: highly educated young people brilliantly trained to advance their worldview into mainstream America. Rosin's frank and candid portraits of these fiercely dedicated youth leave the reader wondering: What will my world be like when these kids are in charge of it?"[...] Read more!

Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption

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By William Cope Moyers and Katherine Ketcham

There was a sharp rap on the door, followed by a muffled but unmistakable command from a voice outside in the hallway. "We want the white guy, just the white guy. We know he's in there. He comes out now and there's no trouble for anyone later." I was the "white guy." I knew in that instant that my family's desperate search to track me down had ended at this decayed two-story apartment in a violent pocket of Atlanta's inner city. Terrified, I rushed around the room, trying to warn the other crack heads to sit still and keep quiet.[...] Read more!

COEXISTENCE: Humanity’s Wailing Wall

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By: Dom Martin

Dom Martin's earlier book of illustrated poetry, Exodus to Eternity, published in the millennium year 2002, explored in fascinating ways, man's inhumanity towards his fellowmen. His present volume, which echoes the first, CoEXISTENCE: Humanity’s Wailing Wall, is a collection of some 77 poems. The pages are graced by the poet-artist's unique and often-startling pencil drawings, which remind one of the agonies expressed in Pablo Picasso's famous painting, “Guernica”.[...] Read more!

The American Dream

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By: Mike Palecek

Michael M works in a group home in the small town of Homeland in Middle America. He’s an average man who graduated from Homeland Senior High School, married a Homeland girl and had Homeland kids. M wants nothing more than to win the drawing for The Home Helper Show so he can get a new kitchen and maybe a pool. An improbable accident lands him in jail as the ringleader of terrorist activities in Homeland. He’s clueless about the whole thing, believing what he’s told, believing what he wants to believe. M is just like us. Homeland is what America could become. It’s absurd and shocking, but even when it’s totally unbelievable it’s just close enough to be terrifying.[...] Read more!

Driven Out

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By: Jean Pfaelzer

The brutal and systematic “ethnic cleansing” of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the nineteenth century is a shocking–and virtually unexplored–chapter of American history. Driven Out unearths this forgotten episode in our nation’s past. Drawing on years of groundbreaking research, Jean Pfaelzer reveals how, beginning in 1848, lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians purged dozens of communities of thousands of Chinese residents–and how the victims bravely fought back. In town after town, as races and classes were pitted against one another in the raw and anarchistic West, Chinese miners and merchants, lumberjacks and field workers, prostitutes and merchants’ wives, were gathered up at gunpoint and marched out of town, sometimes thrown into railroad cars along the very tracks they had built.[...] Read more!

ENCORE: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life

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By: Marc Freedman

The boomers are rejecting conventional notions of retirement and crossing into a new stage of work-and their energy could transform what work means for all Americans. The movement of millions of sixty-somethings into a new phase in their working lives constitutes one of the most significant social trends in this country in nearly half a century. Encore describes the competing visions for work that are already lining up to capture the hearts and minds, and the time, of waves of baby boomers who are not content, or affluent enough, to spend their next twenty or thirty years on the golf course.[...] Read more!

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

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By: Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson

Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell? In this terrifically insightful and engaging book, renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compelling look at how the brain is wired for self-justification. When we make mistakes, we must calm the cognitive dissonance that jars our feelings of self-worth. And so we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility, restoring our belief that we are smart, moral, and right -- a belief that often keeps us on a course that is dumb, immoral, and wrong.[...] Read more!

Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans- Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild

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By: Greg Palast

"Gripping, provocative, inspiring... [A] modern Declaration of Independence, this book exposes the abuses of today's global Empire and calls on us to take action. Palast challenges us to replace a system he describes as 'un-American' with one that will create a sane, equitable, and sustainable world for our children." Greg's most provocative and caustically funny book yet, Armed Madhouse brings you the stories not allowed in The New York Times. Using more than fifty classified documents, confidential memos, and secret plans liberated from the Pentagon, FBI, World Bank, and ExxonMobil, Palast cuts through the TV news babytalk. Palast says, "Don't be fooled by the fact that 'Armed Madhouse' is entertaining -- this is my most serious reporting yet -- connecting oil panic, Hurricane Katrina, Chinese currency, Venezuela's petrodollars, disappearing ballots, Thomas Friedman, more oil, and the murder of General Motors. These are dispatches from the front lines of the class war."[...] Read more!

Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming

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By: Paul Hawken

Blessed Unrest tells the story of a worldwide movement that is largely unseen by politicians and the media. Hawken, an environmentalist and author, has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person causes, these organizations collectively comprise the largest movement on earth. This is a movement that has no name, leader, or location, but is in every city, town, and culture. It is organizing from the bottom up and is emerging as an extraordinary and creative expression of people’s needs worldwide.[...] Read more!

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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By: Mohsin Hamid

At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting. Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite "valuation" firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his infatuation with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez’s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love.[...] Read more!

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

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By: Atul Gawande

The bestselling author of Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession. Nowhere is the drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives may be on the line with every decision. Gawande's gripping stories of diligence, ingenuity, and what it means to do right by people take us to battlefield surgical tents in Iraq, labor and delivery rooms in Boston, a polio outbreak in India, and malpractice courtrooms around the country.[...] Read more!

Memoirs of a Nice Irish American Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory

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By: Eileen Fleming

Impelled, compelled, and propelled by her faith as a progressive Christian, Eileen Fleming has journeyed four times to the Occupied Palestinian Territories since June 2005. She has met with democratically elected and NONVIOLENT members of Hamas, scores of Palestinian Christians and Muslims, and a few 21st-century prophets. The pages within this brave new work contain some of those interviews and her experiences listening to Christians, Muslims, Jews, secularists, anarchists, Nobel Peace Prize Nominees, and the whistleblower of Israel’s underground WMD Program. This fascinating portrait will open your eyes and heart, and you will look at the Middle East in a new light. “You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.” —John 8:32 Purchase at: Barnes and Noble / Amazon
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UNTAPPED The Scramble For Africa's Oil

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By: John Ghazvinian

Oxford historian Ghazvinian, armed with "a suitcase full of notepads and malaria pills, and a sweaty money belt stuffed with $100 bills," toured twelve African oil-producing nations from Sudan to Congo to see how they'd been affected by the oil boom. Talking to warlords, industry executives, bandits, activists, priests, missionaries, oil-rig workers, scientists, and ordinary people whose lives have been transformed—not necessarily for the better—by the riches beneath their feet. The result is a high-octane narrative that reveals the challenges, obstacles, reasons for despair, and reasons for hope emerging from the world’s newest energy hot spot.[...] Read more!

What Every American Should Know About Europe

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By: Melissa Rossi

The Hot Spots, Hotshots, Political Muck Ups, Cross-Border Sniping, and Cultural Chaos of our Transatlantic Cousins. From the bestselling What Every American Should Know...series, a look at the hot spots, hot shots, political muck ups, cross-border sniping and cultural brouhahas across the ocean...[...] Read more!

STRANGE LIBERATORS Militarism, Mayhem, and the Pursuit of Profit

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By: Gregory Elich Introduction by Michael Parenti and an afterword by Mickey Z.

From war and sanctions to corporate plunder and the looming threat of climate change, the harrowing accounts in Gregory Elich's Strange Liberators comprise an essential source for understanding today's world. This is U.S. foreign policy as seen by those on the receiving end. "Gregory Elich is the model investigative journalist of the anti-imperialist left; tenacious, thorough, penetrating, meticulous and above all, uncompromising. On Yugoslavia, North Korea, Zimbabwe, and Iraq, no one digs deeper, and no one uncovers more, than Elich." Stephen Gowans, political commentator, What's Left[...] Read more!

Air America: The Playbook What a Bunch of Left-Wing Media Types Have to Say about a World Gone Right

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By David Bender, Chuck D, Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, Thom Hartmann, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Rachel Maddow, Mike Malloy, Mike Papantonio, Randi Rhodes, Mark Riley, Sam Seder, Introduction by Al Franken

Here's what the loudest and funniest voices in talk radio have to say about taking back your country. Air America stars Al Franken, Randi Rhodes, Sam Seder, Rachel Maddow, and the rest of the network's lineup have created a simple, bracing referendum on stopping the madness and getting maximum mileage out of your citizenship. Air America: The Playbook shows the failures in policy, ethics, initiative, and imagination that have, sadly, characterized the United States in the new millennium. The book offers farsighted and easy-to-follow principles that will put power back where it belongs -- in the hands of the people.[...] Read more!

Unequal Protection: The rise of corporate dominance

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By: Thom Hartmann

In Unequal Protection, author Thom Hartmann tells a compelling, can't-put-it-down story that tracks the history of the loss of democracy in America. It starts with the birth of the modern corporation with the founding of the East India Company in 1600, through the Boston Tea Party revolt against transnational corporate domination of the early American economy, the rise of corporations during the Civil War, the ultimate theft of human rights before the Supreme Court in 1886, and into the modern-day theft of human rights in the US and worldwide by corporate interests and the politicians they own.[...] Read more!

The Ivey Guide to Law School Admissions

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By: Anna Ivey

As dean of admissions at the University of Chicago Law School, Anna Ivey decided the fate of thousands of law school applicants. In this book-the first of its kind by a former law school admissions officer-she draws on her expertise to cover topics from the application and the essay to the interview and the recommendations, touching on hot-button issues like how much the LSAT, ethnicity, and age really matter. Offering an insider's advice on how to produce the very best application, this guide gives straight answers to questions such as:[...] Read more!

Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID

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By: Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre

RFID, which stands for Radio Frequency IDentification, is a technology that uses computer chips smaller than a grain of sand to track items from a distance. And as this mind-blowing book explains, plans and efforts are being made now by global corporations and the U.S government to turn this advanced technology, these spychips, into a way to track our daily activities-and keep us all on Big Brother's short leash. Compiling massive amounts of research with firsthand knowledge, Spychips explains RFID technology and reveals the history and future of the master planners' strategies to imbed these trackers on everything-from postage stamps to shoes to people themselves-and spy on Americans without our knowledge or consent. It also urgently encourages consumers to take action now-to protect their privacy and civil liberties before it's too late.[...] Read more!

"Peace Mom"

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By: Cindy Sheehan

Cindy is the mother of US Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, a Humvee mechanic who was killed in Iraq in 2004 by a bullet to his head. Casey was 24 years old, and had been in Iraq for only five days. "Peace Mom" is Cindy's heartfelt story of her conversion from "apathetic, ignorant, materialistic and TV-logged" wife and mother of four before Casey's death to internationally-feted anti-war activist. "Peace Mom" is the classic and yet, ancient, account of a plain-spoken, naive, single-minded crusader who, spurred by an event, arose from the common masses to fill a desperate void in leadership.[...] Read more!

Blood Brothers Among the Soldiers of Ward 57

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By: Michael Weisskopf

A powerful account of eighteen months in the lives of three soldiers and a journalist, all patients in Ward 57, Walter Reed’s amputee wing. Time magazine’s Michael Weisskopf was riding through Baghdad in the back of U.S. Army Humvee, an embedded reporter alongside soldiers from the 1st Armored Division, when he heard a metallic thunk. Looking down, he saw a small, dark object rolling inches from his feet. He reached down and took it in his hand. Then everything went black.[...] Read more!

Hegemony or Survival - America's Quest For Global Dominance

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By: Noam Chomsky

"The year 2003 opened with many indications that concerns about human survival are all too realistic. To mention just a few examples, in the early fall of 2002 it was learned that a possibly terminal nuclear war was barely avoided forty years earlier. Immediately after this startling discovery, the Bush administration blocked UN efforts to ban the militarization of space, a serious threat to survival. The administration also terminated international negotiations to prevent biological warfare and moved to ensure the inevitability of an attack on Iraq, despite popular opposition that was without historical precedent."[...] Read more!

Static - Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back

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By: Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, and David Goodman

Static pushes back against official lies and spin and gives voice to the silenced majority. The sister-brother team of Amy Goodman, journalist and host of the popular international TV and radio news show Democracy Now!, and investigative journalist David Goodman take on government liars, corporate profiteers, and the media that has acted as their megaphone. They expose how the Bush administration has manipulated and fabricated news and how the corporate media has worked hand in glove with the powerful to deceive the public. They report on the many people who have taken a stand and are fighting back, but whose stories go too often untold.[...] Read more!

DELUSIONAL DEMOCRACY - Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government

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By: Joel S. Hirschhorn

This book will disturb your equilibrum, no matter what your political beliefs are. Unlike any other book because it goes way beyond criticism of the current state of the American political system - it has solutions! This book will motivate millions of non-voters to get back into the citizenship game. It presents the best case ever why the current sorry state of American democracy creates an historic opportunity for a new third party candidate to become President of the United States.[...] Read more!

The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids

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By: Alexandra Robbins

"You can't just be the smartest. You have to be the most athletic, you have to be able to have the most fun, you have to be the prettiest, the best dressed, the nicest, the most wanted. You have to constantly be out on the town partying, and then you have to get straight As. And most of all, you have to appear to be happy.” – CJ, age seventeen[...] Read more!

Uncivilzed Beasts and Shameless Hellions: Travels with an NPR Correspondent

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By: John F. Burnett

In this candid, intimate account, an award-winning 20-year veteran NPR correspondent takes readers behind the scenes of the major events of our time, letting us see what it's really like gathering the news on the front lines. As a radio journalist whose work appears regularly on Morning Edition and All Things Considered, John F. Burnett has reported from the Branch Davidian standoff and the Kosovo conflict. He has covered the drug wars in Central America; been embedded in a Marine Division in Iraq; and weathered Hurricane Katrina, breaking news hourly on the conditions in New Orleans. And he was one of NPR's lead reporters on 9/11 and its aftermath.[...] Read more!

SCREWED: THE UNDECLARED WAR Against the Middle Class

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By: Thom Hartmann

The American middle class is on its deathbed. Ordinary folks who put in a solid day’s work can no longer afford to buy a house, send their kids to college, or even get sick. If you’re not a CEO, you’re probably screwed. In his latest book, Air America host Thom Hartmann shows how the American middle class that was so carefully constructed by our country’s founding fathers has been systematically dismantled over the past quarter-century, and, under the guise of “freeing” the market, replaced by a system designed to line the pockets of the super-rich and corporations.[...] Read more!

EMPIRE'S LAW The American Imperial Project and the War to Remake the World

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Edited by Amy Bartholomew

CAN DEMOCRACY AND human rights be imposed “by fire and sword”? Influential intellectuals, lawyers, and politicians from Canada, the U.S., and Europe, including Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin, Reg Whitaker, Jurgen Habermas, Andrew Arato, and Samir Amin, examine the impact that the doctrine of pre-emptive war has had on international law and human rights, and its implications for the future of global justice and the rule of law.[...] Read more!

Conservatives Without Conscience

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By: John DeanJohn Dean, takes an investigative look into various elements that are fracturing the Republican Party and crippling our country's Democratic foundations in his new book Conservatives Without Conscience. By examining the conservative inner circle, its band of radical leaders and how their policies are affecting our Democratic way of life, Dean paints a vivid picture of what's happening at the top levels of the Republican Party.[...] Read more!

How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place

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Edited by Bjorn Lomborg Edited by Bjørn Lomborg, this abridged version of the highly acclaimed Global Crises, Global Solutions provides a serious yet accessible springboard for debate and discussion on the world's most serious problems, and what we can do to solve them. In a world fraught with problems and challenges, we need to gauge how to achieve the greatest good with our money.[...] Read more!

Talking Right

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By: Geoffrey Nunberg

In his new book, Talking Right, linguist Geoff Nunberg examines the parlance of the American political right. Conservatives, Nunberg notes, have been remarkably effective at creating a language through which to convey their agenda. The subtitle of his book illustrates what he's getting at: "How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show."[...] Read more!

Kabul in Winter - Life Without Peace in Afghanistan

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By: Ann Jones

Soon after the bombing of Kabul ceased, award-winning journalist and women’s rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city, determined to bring help where her country had brought destruction. At once angry, profound, and starkly beautiful, Kabul in Winter brings alive the people and day-to-day life of a place whose future depends so much upon our own.[...] Read more!

An Ordinary Man

By: Paul Rusesabagina and Tom Zoellner

The riveting life story of Paul Rusesabagina - the man whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda. As his country was being torn apart by violence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina—the "Oskar Schindler of Africa"—refused to bow to the madness that surrounded him. Confronting killers with a combination of diplomacy, flattery, and deception, he offered shelter to more than twelve thousand members of the Tutsi clan and Hutu moderates, while homicidal mobs raged outside with machetes.

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America Back On Track

By: Edward M. Kennedy

Senator Edward Kennedy reveals his inspired plan to revive the lapsed ideals of our nation. With a Senate career that has spanned more than four decades, Edward M. Kennedy has become one of the strongest voices in American politics. In America Back on Track, he argues that America is at a crossroads, having reached a point where it has departed more deeply from its fundamental ideals than at any time in its modern history.[...] Read more!

Terror Nation … notes from the perimeter

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By: Mike Palecek

"I believe Terror Nation is a very religious tale, stationed smack-dab in America's belly, in the churches, on the neighborhood streets, on the front page." — Mike Palecek[...] Read more!

American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/books.php/2006/04/03/p7413

By: Kevin Phillips

Kevin Phillips, former Republican strategist and bestselling author of American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, provides a critical and extensively researched analysis of the current political condition as shaped by the "Republican Majority". Phillips identifies the role of oil in American foreign policy, the intrusion of radical Christianity into politics, and the explosion of debt, and links them in a frightening vision of the future of America and the world.[...] Read more!

Three Cups of Tea

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/books.php/2006/03/28/p7310

By: Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

One Day in 1993, high up in the world's most inhospitable mountains, Greg Mortenson wandered lost and alone, broken in body and spirit, after a failed attempt to climb K2, the world's deadliest peak. When the people of an impoverished village in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya took him in and nursed him back to health, Mortenson made an impulsive promise: He would return one day and build them a school.[...] Read more!

A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/books.php/2006/03/14/p7041

By: Alfred McCoy

A startling exposé of the CIA’s development and spread of psychological torture, from the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and beyond. In this revelatory account of the CIA’s secret, fifty-year effort to develop new forms of torture, historian Alfred W. McCoy uncovers the deep, disturbing roots of recent scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo. Far from aberrations, as the White House has claimed, A Question of Torture shows that these abuses are the product of a long-standing covert program of interrogation.[...] Read more!

Imagining Ourselves: Global Voices from a New Generation of Women

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/books.php/2006/03/14/p7037

By: Paula Goldman

What defines your generation of women? A few years ago, Paula Goldman emailed this question to women aged twenty to forty around the world. At the time, she was fresh out of graduate school and not entirely sure how to launch her career, but she knew she wanted to make a difference in the world, and she was deeply inspired by the amazing and diverse accomplishments of women she knew across the globe. She felt this book could showcase the power and talent of these women to a wider audience.[...] Read more!

Covering:The Hidden Assualt on Our Civil Rights

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/books.php/2006/03/04/p6896

By: Kenji Yoshino

In this remarkable and elegant work, acclaimed Yale law School Professor Kenji Yoshino fuses legal manifesto and poetic memoir to call for a redefinition of civil rights in our law and culture.[...] Read more!

The Battle for Social Security From FDR's Vision to Bush's Gamble

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By: Nancy J. Altman

President Bush talks about strengthening Social Security, but his plan would profoundly weaken the system and radically transform it. In The Battle for Social Security, Nancy Altman recommends an alternative that would eliminate Social Security's projected deficit in a manner consistent with the program's philosophy and structure.[...] Read more!

In the Name of Democracy American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond

http://liberty.hypermart.net/cgi-bin/blogs/books.php/2005/11/21/p4633

By: Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler & Brendan Smith

Until recently, the possibility that the United States was responsible for war crimes seemed unthinkable to most Americans. But as previously suppressed information has started to emerge—photographs from Abu Ghraib; accounts of U.S. attacks on Iraqi hospitals, mosques, and residential neighborhoods; secret government reports defending unilateral aggression—Americans have begun an agonizing reappraisal of the Iraq war and the way in which their government has conducted it.[...] Read more!