Books by Subject

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary."

George Orwell

Democracy/Society/Politics

1984 - George Orwell (1949)
America Challenged - William O. Douglas
America Right or Wrong - an Anatomy of American Nationalism - Anatol Lieven

American Dynasty - Kevin Phillips
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

Another World Is Possible - Ed. Jee Kim, Jeremy Glick, et al
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
Banana Republicans - Rampton and Stauber
Best Democracy Money Can Buy, The - Greg Palast
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

"Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people..."

Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice

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
Common Good - Noam Chomsky
Contrary Notions -The Michael Parenti Reader

Corruption of American Politics, The - Elizabeth Drew
Crashing the Party - Ralph Nader
Crossing the Rubicon - The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil - Michael Ruppert
Dark Ages America - Morris Berman

Decline and Fall of the American Empire, The - Gore Vidal
Democracy - the No-Nonsense guide - Richard Swift
Democratic Facade, The
Democracy Matters - Cornel West

Deterring Democracy - Noam Chomsky

"The people will believe what the media tells them they believe."

George Orwell

Dirty Truths - Michael Parenti
Dollars and Votes - Dan Clawson, Alan Neustadtl & Mark Weller
Dude, where's my country? - Michael Moore

Eagle's Shadow, The - Mark Hertzgaard
Eleanor: The Years Alone - Joseph Lash
Eleanor Roosevelt - The Defining Years 1933-1938 - Blanche Wiesen Cooke
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
False Hope - Normon Solomon
Fixing Elections - Steven Hill
Freethinkers - a history of American secularism - Susan Jacoby

Gag Rule - Suppression of Dissent & Stifling of Democracy - Lewis Lapham
God Delusion, The - Richard Dawkins

God and Religion - Bertrand Russell
Great Unraveling, The - Paul Krugman
Hijacking Catastrophe - ed. Sut Jhally and Jeremy Earp

Hoax - the difference in world view between the U.S. and everybody else - Nicholas Von Hoffman
Hotel America - Lewis Lapham
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

"To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent, or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing. Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the Fuhrer, do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever he commands. That's just what the Germans did with Hitler, and look where it got them."

Michael Parenti

Imperial America - Gore Vidal
Indispensable Enemies - the politics of misrule in America - Walter Karp

It Did Happen Here - Bud Schultz & Ruth Schultz
Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris

Liberty Under Siege - Walter Karp
Middle Mind , The - Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves - Curtis White
Moral Politics - George Lakoff

Myth America: Democracy vs. Capitalism - William H. Boyer
Necessary Illusions - Noam Chomsky
New American Militarism, The - Andrew Bacevich

New Pearl Harbor, The - David Ray Griffin
New Progressive Era, The
No Mercy - Jean Stefancic & Richard Delgado
On Democracy - Robert Dahl
Paradox of American Democracy, The - John Judis
Philosophic Roots of Modern Ideology, The - Liberalism & Fascism - David Ingersoll & Richard Matthews
Points of Rebellion - William O. Douglas
Political Fictions - Joan Didion

Politics of Meaning, The - Michael Lerner
Power Elite, The - C. Wright Mills
Powers That Be, The - G. William Domhoff
Pretensions to Empire - Lewis Lapham

Price of Power, The - Seymour Hersh
Private Power and American Democracy - Grant McConnell
Propaganda - Edward Bernays (1928)

Ralph Nader Reader
Robbing Us Blind - Steve Brouwer
Secrecy & Privilege - Rise of the Bush Dynasty - Robert Parry

Selling Out - Mark Green
Silencing Political Dissent - Nancy Chang
Static - Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders and the People Who Fight Back - Amy Goodman and David Goodman

Stupid White Men - Michael Moore
Superpatriotism - Michael Parenti

"To criticize one's country is to do it a service .... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism-a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals and national adulation."

J. William Fulbright, American senator

Taking Back America - edited by Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage
Third Parties in America - Steven Rosenstone, Roy Behr, Edward Lazarus
This Can't Be Happening- Disintegration of American Democracy - Dave Lindorff

Toward an American Revolution - Jerry Fresia
Tree of Liberty, The - Nicholas Kittrie & Eldon Wedlock
Truman Era, The - I.F. Stone
Twight of American Culture, The - Morris Berman

Twilight of Democracy, The - The Bush Plan for America - Jennifer Van Bergen
USA - Rights for All - Amnesty International
Voices of a People's History of the United States - H Zinn/A Arnove
War at Home, The - Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism - Frances Fox Piven

War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges
Washington on $10 million a Day - Ken Silverstein
Wealth and Democracy - Kevin Phillips
What's the Matter with Kansas? - Thomas Frank

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

"Americans are too broadly underinformed to digest nuggets of information that seem to contradict what they know of the world.

... Instead, news channels prefer to feed Americans a constant stream of simplified information, all of which fits what they already know. That way they don't have to devote more air time or newsprint space to explanations or further investigations."

Tom Fenton, former CBS foreign correspondent

Foreign Policy / War

Against Empire
After the Cataclysm - Noam Chomsky / Edward Herman
America Besieged - Michael Parenti
America Right or Wrong - an Anatomy of American Nationalism - Anatol Lieven
American Empire - Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy - Andrew Bacevich
An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire - Arundhati Roy
Arms Trade - the No-Nonsense guide - Gideon Burrows
Betraying the National Interest - Francis Moore Lappe', R Schuman & K Danaher
Bioterror - Manufacturing Wars the American Way - ed. E Ray & W Schaap

Blowback - Chalmers Johnson
Boomerang - Mark Zepezauer
Bush Agenda, The - Invading the World, One Economy at a Time - Antonia Juhasz

Censored Foreign Policy stories - Project Censored
Citizens of the Empire - Robert Jensen
Clash of Fundamentalisms, The - Tariq Ali
Colombia and the United States - War & Destabilization - Mario Murillo
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins
Confronting Empire - Eqbal Ahmad
Contrary Notions -The Michael Parenti Reader

Covert Action - the Roots of Terrorism - ed. E. Ray & W. Schaap
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
Dark Victory - Walden Bello

Deliver Us From Evil - William Shawcross
Distant Voices - John Pilger
Draft Registration and The Law - R. Charles Johnson

Dreaming War - Gore Vidal
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

Exception to the Rulers, The - Amy Goodman
Eyes of the Heart - Jean-Bertrand Aristide

"You believe you are dying for the fatherland - you die for some industrialists."

Anatoly Franace, French writer

Fortress America - William Greider
Freeing the World to Death - essays on the american empire - William Blum

Full Spectrum Dominance - Rahul Mahajan
Getting Haiti Right This Time - The U.S. and the Coup - Noam Chomsky, Paul Farmer, Amy Goodman

Hidden Agendas - John Pilger
Holocaust Industry, The - Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering - Norman Finkelstein

Howard Zinn on War
How Much Are You Making On The War Daddy? - William D. Hartung

Imperial Alibis - Stephen Shalom
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

Intervention and Revolution - Richard Barnet
Intimate History of Killing, An - in 20th-century warfare - Joanna Bourke
Iran Contra Connection, The - Johnathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott & Jane Hunter
Israeli Foreign Policy - Jane Hunter
Israel and Latin America: The Military Connection - Bishara Bahbah

Killing Hope - William Blum
Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel - Israel Shahak & Norton Mezvinsky
Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo (1939)
Lawless World - how Bush and Blair are taking the law into their own hands - Philippe Sands

Lying for Empire - by David Model
Masters of War - ed. Carl Boggs
Mountains Over Mountains - Tracy Kidder
New American Militarism, The - Andrew Bacevich

New Rulers of the World, The - John Pilger
Nuclear Power Is Not The Answer - Hellen Caldicott

Other Israel, The - edited by Roane Cary and Jonathan Shainin
Overthrow - Stephen Kinzer

"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion."

Josph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister

Pathologies of Power - Paul Farmer
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace - Gore Vidal
Politics of War, The - the story of two wars which altered forever the political life of the American republic - Walter Karp
Power of Israel in the United States, The - James Petras
Power Trip - ed. John Feffer
Pox Americana - edited by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney

Praetorian Guard, The - John Stockwell
Profit Over People - Noam Chomsky
Reagan, Trilateralism and the Neoliberals - Holly Sklar
Rogue State - William Blum
Rogue State - T. D. Allman

Rogue States - Noam Chomsky
Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws - Michael Klare
Secrets, Lies, and Democracy - Noam Chomsky
Sorrows of Empire, The - Chalmers Johnson

State Terrorism and the United States - Frederick Gareau
Super Power Syndrome - Robert J. Lifton
Sword and the Dollar - Michael Parenti
Tainted Legacy - 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights - William Schulz
Target Iraq - Norman Solomon
Tinderbox - Stephen Zunes

Trial of Henry Kissinger, The - Christopher Hitchins
Trilateralism - Holly Sklar
Uneasy Empire - Greg Guma
United States of Europe, The - the new superpower and the end of American supremacy by T. R. Reid

War and Globalisation - Michel Chossudovsky
War Crimes - US War Crimes Against Iraq - Ramsey Clark
War Is A Racket - General Smedley D. Butler (1935)
War Made Easy - Norman Solomon
War Talk - Arundhati Roy

Weapons in Space - Karl Grossman
What Uncle Sam Really Wants - Noam Chomsky
Zionism in the Age of the Dictators - Lenni Brenner

"The fact is ... that when totalitarian nations like China and Saudi Arabia play ball with U.S. business interests, we like them just fine. But when Venezuela's freely elected president threatens powerful corporate interests, the Bush administration treats him as an enemy."

Robert Scheer, Los Angeles Times

Third World

Betraying the National Interest - Francis Moore Lappe', R Schuman & K Danaher
Boomerang - Mark Zepezauer
Brave New World Order - Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer

Clash of Civilizations, The - Huntington
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins

Confronting the Third World - Gabriel Kolko
Covert Action - the Roots of Terrorism - ed. E. Ray & W. Schaap

Cry of the People - Penny Lernoux
Disposable People - New Slavery in the Global Economy - Kevin Bales

Heroes - John Pilger
In the Name of Democracy - Thomas Carothers

International Development - the No-Nonsense guide
Intervention and Revolution - Richard Barnet

"You can always hear the people who are willing to sacrifice somebody else's life. They're plenty loud and they talk all the time. You can find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures and congress. That's their business. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously. They shall not have died in vain. Our noble dead."

Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

Killing Hope - William Blum
Tainted Legacy - 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights - William Schulz

Twentieth Century Dictatorships - Paul Brooker
In Search of Enemies - John Stockwell
Low Intensity Warfare - Michael Klare & Peter Kornbluh
Power Politics - Arundhati Roy

Prosperous Few and the Restless Many - Noam Chomsky
Resource Wars - Michael Klare

Rollback - Tom Bodenheimer and Robert Gould
Secrets, Lies, and Democracy - Noam Chomsky

Sideshow - William Shawcross
Upside Down - Eduardo Galeano

Views from the South - Sarah Anderson
Year 501 - Noam Chomsky

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd."

Bertrand Russell, British mathematician, philosopher

Media

Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman
Bad News - The Decline of Reporting - Tom Fenton
Censored Foreign Policy stories - Project Censored

Conglomerates and the Media - Erik Barnouw, et al
Corporate Media & Threat to Democracy - McChesney
Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting - David Barsamian
Information War - Nancy Snow

Inventing Reality - Michael Parenti
It's the Media, Stupid - McChesney and Nichols
George Seldes Reader, The - Randolph T. Holhut

Global Media - the No-Nonsense guide - Peter Steven

"The majority of people believe in incredible things which are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their general well-being."

Ashley Montagu, American anthropologist

Manufacturing Consent - N Chomsky/E Herman
Media Control - Noam Chomsky
Media Monopoly, The - Ben Bagdikian
Nation Magazine, The - Selections 1865-1990
Necessary Illusions

Networks of Power-Corporate TV Threat to Democracy - Dennie Mazzocco
New Media Monopoly, The - Ben Bagdikian

News About the News, The - Leonard Downie and Robert Kaiser
On Bended Knee - Mark Hertsgaard
Our Media Not Theirs - McChesney and Nichols
Pentagon Propaganda Machine, The - J. William Fulbright
Problem of the Media, The - Robert McChesney

Project Censored-annual report on censored stories
Propaganda - Edward Bernays (1928)

Propaganda, Inc. - Nancy Snow

"Politicians and the media have conspired to infantilize, to dumb down, the American public. At heart, politicians don't believe that Americans can handle complex truths, and the news media, especially television news, basically agrees."

Tom Fenton, former CBS foreign correspondent

Republican Noise Machine, The - David Brock
Rich Media, Poor Democracy - Robert McChesney
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
Through the Media Looking Glass - Jeff Cohen & Norman Solomon
Toxic Sludge Is Good For You - John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton
Tragedy & Farce - Robert McChesney and John Nichols

Trust Us, We're Experts! - John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton
Twenty Years of Censored News - Project Censored / Peter Phillips
Unreliable Sources - Normon Solomon
War, Lies & Videotape - International Action Center
What Liberal Media? - Eric Alterman
What the People Know - Freedom and the Press - Richard Reeves

Wizards of Media OZ - Normon Solomon

"The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors."

Thomas Jefferson

FBI /CIA / NSA

Boomerang - Mark Zepezauer
Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI - Ross Gelbspan
CIA Diary - Philip Agee
CIA's Greatest Hits - Mark Zapezauer
Covert Action - the Roots of Terrorism - ed. E. Ray & W. Schaap

Deadly Deceits - Ralph McGehee
Inside the Shadow Government - National Emergencies and Cult of Secrecy - Harry Helms

Lawless State, The - Morton Halperin
Secret Government, The - Bill Moyers
Secrets - CIA's war at home - Angus Mackenzie
War At Home - Covert Action Against U.S. Activists - Brian Glick
Challenging the Secret Government - K Olmsted

"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine."

William Blum

Prisons / Prison System

Celling of America, The - Daniel Burton-Rose
Criminal Injustice - Elihu Rosenblatt
Lockdown America - Christian Parenti
Perpetual Prisoner Machine, The - Joel Dyer
Politics of Cruelty, The - Kate Millett
USA - Rights for All - Amnesty International
Crime and Punishment in America - Elliot Currie

"The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one."

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

Fascism

Anatomy of Fascism - Robert O. Paxton
Blowback - Christopher Simpson
Fascism- a very short introduction - Kevin Passmore
Fascism - Past, Present and Future - W Laqueur

Friendly Fascism - Bertram Gross
Splendid Blond Beast, The - Christopher Simpson
Trading with the Enemy - Charles Higham

Washington Connection & Third World Fascism - Chomsky/Herman
American Axis, The - Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and Rise of Third Reich - Max Wallace

"If fascism ever came to the United States, it would be wrapped in an American flag."

Huey Long

Health, Food, Environment

Critical Condition - Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele
Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
If You Love This Planet - Helen Caldicott

Living Downstream - Sandra Steingraber
Meat You Eat, The - Ken Midkiff

"Americans are too broadly underinformed to digest nuggets of information that seem to contradict what they know of the world.

... Instead, news channels prefer to feed Americans a constant stream of simplified information, all of which fits what they already know. That way they don't have to devote more air time or newsprint space to explanations or further investigations."

Tom Fenton, former CBS foreign correspondent

Education

Amazing Grace - Jonothan Kozol
Savage Inequalities - Jonothan Kozol

"24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy of the rich and a serfdom of the poor - the inevitable result of a twenty-year erosion of its social contract."

Will Hutton

Terrorism

9-11 - Noam Chomsky
Blowback - Chalmers Johnson
Culture of Terrorism, The - Noam Chomsky

Hidden Terrors - A.J. Langguth
New Pearl Harbor, The - David Ray Griffin

Real Terror Network, The - Edward S. Herman
September 11 and the U.S. War - Roger Burbach & Ben Clarke
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
Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People - John Conroy

"Throughout much of its history, the AFL-CIO and other U.S. labor organizations have worked with CIA and multi-national corporations to overthrow democratically-elected governments, collaborated with dictators against progressive labor movements, supported reactionary labor movements against progressive governments, worked with corporate America to organize racist and protectionist campaigns against foreign countries, and encouraged racist campaigns against immigrant workers."

Lee Siu Hin

Economics / Labor

Against the Conventional Wisdom - Doug Dowd
Crisis of Global Capitalism, The - George Soros
Downsize This! - Michael Moore

Robbing Us Blind - Steve Brouwer
Shafted - Free Trade and America's Working Poor

Sharing the Pie - Steve Brouwer
Take the Rich Off Welfare - Mark Zepezauer
Workers of the World Undermined

"For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites ..."

Cornel West

Corporations / Globalization

Brave New World Order - Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer
Bush Agenda, The - Invading the World, One Economy at a Time - Antonia Juhasz

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins
Corporate Predators - Russel Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Corporation Nation - Charles Derber
Corporations Are Gonna Get Your Mama - Kevin Danaher
Cutting Corporate Welfare - Ralph Nader
Global Village or Global Pillage - Jeremy Brecher

Globalization - the No-Nonsense guide - Wayne Ellwood
Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform - Gary Teeple
Globalization and Its Discontents - Joseph E. Stiglitz
Globalize This! - Kevin Danaher & Roger Burbach
Iron Triangle, The - Carlyle Group - Dan Briody

One World, Ready or Not - William Greider
Pigs at the Trough - Arianna Huffington

Post-Corporate World, The - David Korten
Silent Takeover, The - Norena Hertz
Unequal Protection - Thom Hartmann

When Corporations Rule the World - David Korten
Water Wars - Vandana Shiva
World on Fire - Amy Chua

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

"While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government."

Robert Kennedy. Jr.

History

Declarations of Independence - Howard Zinn
Dirty Truths - Michael Parenti
Freethinkers - a history of American secularism - Susan Jacoby

Greatest Story Never Told, The - People's History of American Empire 1945-1999 - Michael K. Smith
History As Mystery - Michael Parenti
Howard Zinn on History
Lies My Teacher Told Me - James Loewen

People's History of the United States, A - Howard Zinn
Year 501 - Noam Chomsky

Zinn Reader, The

"We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness-embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television."

Howard Zinn


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