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1984 - George Orwell (1949)
9-11 - Noam Chomsky

Against Empire - Michael Parenti
After the Cataclysm - Noam Chomsky / Edward Herman
Against Empire

Against the Conventional Wisdom - Doug Dowd
Amazing Grace - Jonothan Kozol
America Besieged - Michael Parenti
America Challenged - William O. Douglas

America Right or Wrong - an Anatomy of American Nationalism - Anatol Lieven
American Axis, The - Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and Rise of Third Reich - Max Wallace
American Dynasty - Kevin Phillips
American Empire - Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy -Andrew Bacevich
American Fascists - Christian Right and War on America - Chris Hedges
American Holocaust - David Stannard
American Theocracy - radical religion, oil, and borrowed money in the 21st century - Kevin Phillips

Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman
An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire - Arundhati Roy
Anatomy of Fascism - Robert O. Paxton

Another World Is Possible - Ed. Jee Kim, Jeremy Glick, et al
Arms Trade - the No-Nonsense guide - Gideon Burrows
Assassinations, The - Probe magazine investigations into the assassinations of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy

Atheism - The Case Against God - George H. Smith

"Only the grand scale and technocratic impersonality of the crimes conceived and directed by the [U.S.] ruling elite acting under cover of state authority distinguish them from garden variety killers."

Darrell Hamamoto

Bad News - The Decline of Reporting - Tom Fenton
Banana Republicans - Rampton and Stauber
Best Democracy Money Can Buy, The - Greg Palast
Betraying the National Interest - Francis Moore Lappe', R Schuman & K Danaher
Bioterror - Manufacturing Wars the American Way - ed. E Ray & W Schaap

Blackshirts and Reds - Michael Parenti
Blowback - Chalmers Johnson
Blowback - Christopher Simpson
Boomerang - Mark Zepezauer
Brave New World Order - Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer
Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI - Ross Gelbspan
Broken Promises of America, The - at home and abroad, past and present - Volumes 1 & 2 - Douglas Dowd

Buried Alive - Walter Karp
Burning All Illusions - David Edwards
Bush Agenda, The - Invading the World, One Economy at a Time - Antonia Juhasz

" The political leadership of this country, as exemplified by the campaign positions of Bush and Kerry, has become so obsessed with our own security fears and so convinced of our own virtue that it has very little to offer in the way of positive socioeconomic development initiatives. To most of the people of Latin America, Africa and Asia, the United States has largely become irrelevant to their hopes for a better future -- except as a potential market for some of their goods or as a source of outsourced jobs."

Sherle Schewenninger

Celling of America, The - Daniel Burton-Rose
Censored Foreign Policy stories - Project Censored
Challenging the Secret Government - K Olmsted
CIA Diary - Philip Agee
CIA's Greatest Hits - Mark Zapezauer
Citizens of the Empire - Robert Jensen

Clash of Civilizations, The - Huntington
Clash of Fundamentalisms, The - Tariq Ali
Class. Caste & Hierarchies - the No-Nonsense guide - Jeremy Seabrook
Class War in America - Charles M. Kelly
Cocaine Politics - Peter Dale Scott
Colombia and the United States - War & Destabilization - Mario Murillo
Common Good - Noam Chomsky
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins

Confronting Empire - Eqbal Ahmad
Confronting the Third World - Gabriel Kolko
Conglomerates and the Media - Erik Barnouw, et al
Contrary Notions -The Michael Parenti Reader
Corporate Media & Threat to Democracy - McChesney
Corporate Predators - Russel Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Corporation Nation - Charles Derber
Corporations Are Gonna Get Your Mama - Kevin Danaher
Corruption of American Politics, The - Elizabeth Drew

Covert Action - the Roots of Terrorism - ed. E. Ray & W. Schaap
Crashing the Party - Ralph Nader
Crime and Punishment in America - Elliot Currie
Criminal Injustice - Elihu Rosenblatt
Crisis of Global Capitalism, The - George Soros
Critical Condition - Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele
Crossing the Rubicon - The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil - Michael Ruppert
Cry of the People - Penny Lernoux
Culture of Terrorism, The - Noam Chomsky
Cutting Corporate Welfare - Ralph Nader

"Cuba has ... been condemned for not allowing its people to flee the island. That so many want to leave Cuba is treated as proof that Cuban socialism is a harshly repressive system, rather than that the U.S. embargo has made life difficult in Cuba. That so many millions more want to leave capitalist countries like Mexico, Nigeria, Poland, El Salvador, Philippines, South Korea, Macedonia, and others too numerous to list is never treated as grounds for questioning the free-market system that inflicts such misery on the Third World."

Michael Parenti

Dark Ages America - Morris Berman
Dark Victory - Walden Bello
Deadly Deceits - Ralph McGehee
Declarations of Independence - Howard Zinn
Decline and Fall of the American Empire, The - Gore Vidal
Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting - David Barsamian
Deliver Us From Evil - William Shawcross
Democracy - the No-Nonsense guide - Richard Swift
Democratic Facade, The - Daniel Hellinger
Democracy Matters - Cornel West

Deterring Democracy - Noam Chomsky
Dirty Truths - Michael Parenti
Disposable People - New Slavery in the Global Economy - Kevin Bales

Distant Voices - John Pilger
Dollars and Votes - Dan Clawson, Alan Neustadtl & Mark Weller
Downsize This! - Michael Moore
Draft Registration and The Law - R. Charles Johnson

Dreaming War - Gore Vidal
Dude, where's my country? - Michael Moore

"The U.S. continues to rank last among developed nations in official [international] development assistance, giving only 0.12% of GNP."

Friends Committee on National Legislation

Eagle's Shadow, The - Mark Hertzgaard
Eleanor: The Years Alone - Joseph Lash
Eleanor Roosevelt - The Defining Years 1933-1938 - Blanche Wiesen Cooke
Empire As A Way Of Life - William Appleman Williams

Empire Has No Clothes, The - Ivan Eland
Empire's Workshop - Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism - Greg Grandin
End of America, The - Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot - Naomi Wolf

End of Faith, The - Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason - Sam Harris
Exception to the Rulers, The - Amy Goodman
Eyes of the Heart - Jean-Bertrand Aristide

False Hope - Normon Solomon
Fascism- a very short introduction - Kevin Passmore
Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
Fixing Elections - Steven Hill

Fortress America - William Greider
Freethinkers - a history of American secularism - Susan Jacoby

Freeing the World to Death - essays on the american empire - William Blum
Full Spectrum Dominance - Rahul Mahajan

"The United States is a society in which people not only can get by without knowing much about the wider world but are systematically encouraged not to think independently or critically and instead to accept the mythology of the United States as a benevolent, misunderstood giant as it lumbers around the world trying to do good."

Robert Jensen, Citizens of Empire

Gag Rule - Suppression of Dissent & Stifling of Democracy - Lewis Lapham
George Seldes Reader, The - Randolph T. Holhut
Getting Haiti Right This Time - The U.S. and the Coup - Noam Chomsky, Paul Farmer, Amy Goodman
Global Media - the No-Nonsense guide - Peter Steven

Global Village or Global Pillage - Jeremy Brecher
Globalization - the No-Nonsense guide - Wayne Ellwood
Globalization and Its Discontents - Joseph E. Stiglitz
Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform - Gary Teeple
Globalize This! - Kevin Danaher & Roger Burbach
God Delusion, The - Richard Dawkins

God and Religion - Bertrand Russell
Great Unraveling, The - Paul Krugman
Greatest Story Never Told, The - People's History of American Empire 1945-1999 - Michael K. Smith

"If the U.S. really believes that supporting terrorists makes you as guilty as the terrorists themselves, then it would have to put on trial most of its military and political leadership over the last handful of administrations, and more."

Peter McClaren

Heroes - John Pilger
Hidden Agendas - John Pilger
Hidden Terrors - A.J. Langguth
Hijacking Catastrophe - ed. Sut Jhally and Jeremy Earp
History As Mystery - Michael Parenti
Hoax - the difference in world view between the U.S. and everybody else - Nicholas Von Hoffman
Holocaust Industry, The - Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering - Norman Finkelstein

Hotel America - Lewis Lapham
How Much Are You Making On The War Daddy? - William D. Hartung
How Democratic is the American Constitution - Robert A. Dahl

How the Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People - John K. Wilson
How to Overthrow the Government - Arianna Huffington
Howard Zinn on History
Howard Zinn on War

"The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences. They want to rub shoulders with the Secretary of State, all that kind of business. To do that, you've got to play the game, and playing the game means telling their lies, serving as their disinformation apparatus."

Noam Chomsky

If You Love This Planet - Helen Caldicott
Imperial Alibis - Stephen Shalom
Imperial America - Gore Vidal
Indispensable Enemies - the politics of misrule in America - Walter Karp

Information War - Nancy Snow
In Search of Enemies - John Stockwell
In the Name of Democracy - Thomas Carothers
In the Name of Democracy - American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond - edited by Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler, and Brendan Smith

Inside the Shadow Government - National Emergencies and Cult of Secrecy - Harry Helms
International Development - the No-Nonsense guide
Intervention and Revolution - Richard Barnet
Intimate History of Killing, An - in 20th-century warfare - Joanna Bourke
Inventing Reality - Michael Parenti
Iran Contra Connection, The - Johnathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott & Jane Hunter
Iron Triangle, The - Carlyle Group - Dan Briody

Israeli Foreign Policy - Jane Hunter
Israel and Latin America: The Military Connection - Bishara Bahbah
It Did Happen Here - Bud Schultz & Ruth Schultz
It's the Media, Stupid - McChesney and Nichols

"An alternative [U.S. foreign] policy offering real security would require ending the support of oppressive rulers in the Middle East and elsewhere, pursuing a more balanced approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, changing our oil-dependent energy policy, and replacing the drive for overwhelming global military dominance with policies for the peaceful prevention of atrocities and deadly conflict."

Friends Committee on National Legislation

Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel - Israel Shahak & Norton Mezvinsky
Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo (1939)

"There is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country where the police were allowed to search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country where the government is entitled to open your mail, eavesdrop on your phone conversations, or intercept your e-mail communications; if we lived in a country where people could be held indefinitely based ... on mere suspicion that they are up to no good, the government would probably discover and arrest more terrorists, or would-be terrorists.... But that wouldn't be a country in which we would want to live."

Senator Russ Feingold

Killing Hope - William Blum

"The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag."

Norman Mailer

Lawless State, The - Morton Halperin
Lawless World - how Bush and Blair are taking the law into their own hands - Philippe Sands
Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris

Liberty Under Siege - Walter Karp
Lies My Teacher Told Me - James Loewen
Living Downstream - Sandra Steingraber
Lockdown America - Christian Parenti
Low Intensity Warfare - Michael Klare & Peter Kornbluh
Lying for Empire - by David Model

"The communists had Pravda. Republicans have Fox."

MoveOn.org ad

Manufacturing Consent - N Chomsky/E Herman
Masters of War - ed. Carl Boggs
Meat You Eat, The - Ken Midkiff

Media Control - Noam Chomsky
Media Monopoly, The - Ben Bagdikian
Middle Mind , The - Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves - Curtis White
Moral Politics - George Lakoff

Mountains Over Mountains - Tracy Kidder
Myth America: Democracy vs. Capitalism - William H. Boyer

"The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry - some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society bingeing on fear makes itself vulnerable to far more profound forms of destruction than terror attacks. The "terrorism war", like a nostalgic echo of the cold war, is using these popular fears to advance a different agenda - the re-engineering of American life through permanent mobilization."

William Greider

Nation Magazine, The - Selections 1865-1990
Necessary Illusions - Noam Chomsky

Networks of Power-Corporate TV Threat to Democracy - Dennie Mazzocco
New American Militarism, The - Andrew Bacevich

New Media Monopoly, The - Ben Bagdikian
New Pearl Harbor, The - David Ray Griffin

New Progressive Era, The
New Rulers of the World, The - John Pilger
News About the News, The - Leonard Downie and Robert Kaiser
No Mercy - Jean Stefancic & Richard Delgado
Nuclear Power Is Not The Answer - Hellen Caldicott

"A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but doesn't have an air force."

William Blum

On Bended Knee - Mark Hertsgaard
On Democracy - Robert Dahl
One World, Ready or Not - William Greider
Other Israel, The - edited by Roane Cary and Jonathan Shainin

Our Media Not Theirs - McChesney and Nichols
Overthrow - Stephen Kinzer

"For the third time in the last hundred years, the U.S. has invaded and occupied Haiti. Working behind the scenes, the U.S. conducted a destabilization campaign aimed at toppling the government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. This is a message to the rest of the region: If you don't obey, the U.S. will impose sanctions, overthrow your government, install a client regime, and support death squads to crush any resistance."

Ashley Smith

Paradox of American Democracy, The - John Judis
Pathologies of Power - Paul Farmer

Pentagon Propaganda Machine, The - J. William Fulbright
People's History of the United States, A - Howard Zinn
Perpetual Prisoner Machine, The - Joel Dyer
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace - Gore Vidal
Philosophic Roots of Modern Ideology, The - David Ingersoll & Richard Matthews
Pigs at the Trough - Arianna Huffington
Points of Rebellion - William O. Douglas
Political Fictions - Joan Didion

Politics of Cruelty, The - Kate Millett
Politics of Meaning, The - Michael Lerner
Politics of War, The - the story of two wars which altered forever the political life of the American republic - Walter Karp
Post-Corporate World, The - David Korten
Power Elite, The - C. Wright Mills
Power of Israel in the United States, The - James Petras

Power Politics - Arundhati Roy
Powers That Be, The - G. William Domhoff
Power Trip - ed. John Feffer
Pox Americana - edited by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney
Praetorian Guard, The - John Stockwell
Pretensions to Empire - Lewis Lapham

Price of Power, The - Seymour Hersh
Private Power and American Democracy - Grant McConnell
Problem of the Media, The - Robert McChesney

Profit Over People - Noam Chomsky
Propaganda - Edward Bernays (1928)
Propaganda, Inc. - Nancy Snow
Prosperous Few and the Restless Many - Noam Chomsky

"Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on."

Michael Parenti

Ralph Nader Reader
Reagan, Trilateralism and the Neoliberals - Holly Sklar
Real Terror Network, The - Edward S. Herman
Republican Noise Machine, The - David Brock
Resource Wars - Michael Klare

Rich Media, Poor Democracy - Robert McChesney
Robbing Us Blind - Steve Brouwer
Rogue State - T. D. Allman
Rogue State - William Blum
Rogue States - Noam Chomsky
Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws - Michael Klare
Rollback - Tom Bodenheimer and Robert Gould

"The United States is the greatest threat to world peace, and has been for a long time, and not merely because it is the world's only superpower. Equally important, the United States is also far more disposed to use its power than any other powerful nation currently is. Though Americans are culturally and emotionally blind to the fact, the mere intrusion of US power is, in and of itself, destabilizing."

T.D. Allman

Savage Inequalities - Jonothan Kozol
Secrecy & Privilege - Rise of the Bush Dynasty - Robert Parry

Secret Government, The - Bill Moyers
Secrets - CIA's war at home - Angus Mackenzie
Secrets, Lies, and Democracy - Noam Chomsky
Selling Out - Mark Green

September 11 and the U.S. War - Roger Burbach & Ben Clarke
Shafted - Free Trade and America's Working Poor
Sharing the Pie - Steve Brouwer
Sideshow - William Shawcross
Silencing Political Dissent - Nancy Chang
Silent Takeover, The - Norena Hertz
Sorrows of Empire, The - Chalmers Johnson
Splendid Blond Beast, The - Christopher Simpson
State Terrorism and the United States - Frederick Gareau
Static - Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders and the People Who Fight Back - Amy Goodman and David Goodman

Stenographers to Power - media and propaganda - David Barsamian interviews
Stupid White Men - Michael Moore
Super Power Syndrome - Robert J. Lifton
Superpatriotism - Michael Parenti
Sword and the Dollar - Michael Parenti

"The men and women who enlist in this country's military [should] be told the truth that they are not protecting the United States, they are and always have been protecting corporate interests."

Chante Wolf, Veterans for Peace activist

Tainted Legacy - 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights - William Schulz
Take the Rich Off Welfare - Mark Zepezauer
Taking Back America - edited by Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage

Target Iraq - Norman Solomon
Terrorism, No-Nonsense guide to - Jonathan Barker

Terrorism and the Constitution - David Cole & James Dempsey
Terrorism and War - Howard Zinn
Terrorism Trap, The - Michael Parenti
Third Parties in America - Steven Rosenstone, Roy Behr, Edward Lazarus
This Can't Be Happening- Disintegration of American Democracy - Dave Lindorff

Through the Media Looking Glass - Jeff Cohen & Norman Solomon
Tinderbox - Stephen Zunes
Toward an American Revolution - Jerry Fresia
Toxic Sludge Is Good For You - John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton
Tragedy & Farce - Robert McChesney and John Nichols

Tree of Liberty, The - Nicholas Kittrie & Eldon Wedlock
Trial of Henry Kissinger, The - Christopher Hitchins
Trilateralism - Holly Sklar
Truman Era, The - I.F. Stone
Trust Us, We're Experts! - John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton
Twentieth Century Dictatorships - Paul Brooker
Twenty Years of Censored News - Project Censored / Peter Phillips
Twight of American Culture, The - Morris Berman

Twilight of Democracy, The - The Bush Plan for America - Jennifer Van Bergen

"Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America's official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them."

Mark Hertzgaard

Uneasy Empire - Greg Guma
Unequal Protection - Thom Hartmann
United States of Europe, The - the new superpower and the end of American supremacy by T. R. Reid
Unreliable Sources - Normon Solomon
Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People - John Conroy
Upside Down - Eduardo Galeano
USA - Rights for All - Amnesty International

"The era of manufacturing consent has given way to the era of manufacturing news. Soon media newsrooms will drop the pretense, and start hiring theater directors instead of journalists."

Arundhati Roy

Views from the South - Sarah Anderson
Voices of a People's History of the United States - H Zinn/A Arnove

"The United States is a society in which people not only can get by without knowing much about the wider world but are systematically encouraged not to think independently or critically and instead to accept the mythology of the United States as a benevolent, misunderstood giant as it lumbers around the world trying to do good."

Robert Jensen, Citizens of Empire

War At Home - Covert Action Against U.S. Activists - Brian Glick
War at Home, The - Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism - Frances Fox Piven

War and Globalisation - Michel Chossudovsky
War Crimes - US War Crimes Against Iraq - Ramsey Clark
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges
War Is A Racket - General Smedley D. Butler (1935)
War, Lies & Videotape - International Action Center
War Made Easy - Norman Solomon

War Talk - Arundhati Roy
Washington Connection & Third World Fascism - Chomsky/Herman
Washington on $10 million a Day - Ken Silverstein
Water Wars - Vandana Shiva
Wealth and Democracy - Kevin Phillips
Weapons in Space - Karl Grossman
What Liberal Media? - Eric Alterman
What the People Know - Freedom and the Press - Richard Reeves
What Uncle Sam Really Wants - Noam Chomsky
What's the Matter with Kansas? - Thomas Frank
When Corporations Rule the World - David Korten
Who Killed JFK? - Carl Olgesby
Who Killed Martin Luther King? - Phillip Melanson
Who Killed Robert Kennedy? - Phillip Melanson
Who Rules America Now? - G. William Domhoff
Why Americans Don't Vote - Francis Fox Piven & Richard Cloward
Why I Am Not a Christian - Bertrand Russell
Why Societies Need Dissent - Cass R. Sunstein
Wizards of Media OZ - Normon Solomon
Workers of the World Undermined - Beth Sims
World on Fire - Amy Chua

World Poverty - Jeremy Seabrook
WTO, The - Lori Wallach & Michelle Sforza

"We are the only advanced nation without a national system of subsidized health care."

Elliott Currie, Crime and Punishment in America

Year 501 - The Conquest Continues - Noam Chomsky

"Somebody's paying the corporations that destroyed Iraq and the corporations that are rebuilding it. They're getting paid by the American taxpayer in both cases. So we pay them to destroy the country, and then we pay them to rebuild it. Those are gifts from U.S. taxpayer to U.S. corporations..."

Noam Chomsky

Zinn Reader, The
Zionism in the Age of the Dictators - Lenni Brenner

"Expecting FOX News to report real news is about as silly as waiting for George Bush and Dick Cheney to tell the truth... Americans care, but it's tough to care when you don't know what's going on. That ignorance is what the warmakers count on and what the corporate media delivers."

Amy Goodman

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