Books & Articles Put Up In Past Year

BOOKS

2008

The Shadows of Power - the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline - James Perloff
Report from Iron Mountain On the Possibility and Desirability of Peace
The Naked Capitalist - W. Cleon Skousen
The Shock Doctrine - the Rise of Disaster Capitalism - Naomi Klein
Ruling America - a history of wealth and power in a democracy - Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle
The Rockefeller File - Gary Allen
The Bilderberg Group - Daniel Estulin
Nemesis - the Last Days of the American Republic - Chalmers Johnson
The Secret History of the American Empire - John Perkins
The Last Days of Democracy - Elliot Cohen and Bruce Fraser
Pretensions to Empire - Lewis Lapham
Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
American Fascists - Christian Right and War on America - Chris Hedges
Nemesis - the Last Days of the American Republic - Chalmers Johnson

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

George Orwell

books from July 2007

Empire's Workshop - Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism - Greg Grandin
Bush Agenda, The - Invading the World, One Economy at a Time - Antonia Juhasz
American Theocracy - radical religion, oil, and borrowed money in the 21st century - Kevin Phillips
Censored US Foreign Policy News Stories - 2008
The End of America - Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot - Naomi Wolf
Nuclear Power Is Not The Answer - Hellen Caldicott
Contrary Notions -The Michael Parenti Reader

"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

ARTICLES

The End of the Anglo-American Empire? (6/08)
book review of Peter Hallward's 'Damning the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment' (6/08)
Bill Moyers on Media Reform - interviewed by Amy Goodman - June 9, 2008
Nepal: the World's Newest Republic (6/08)
Triumph of Lunacy - the military-industrial complex, the Christian right, and the "liberal media" (6/08)
Democracy's Prisoner - Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent, by Ernest Freeberg - a book review by Peter Richardson (6/08)
The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America (book excerpt) (6/08)
Fortress Britain (6/08)
Zionism's Dead End (6/08)
It Was Oil, All Along [Iraq] (6/08)
Waiting for Godot in Equatorial Guinea - the Rest of the World Waits Too (6/08)

"When it comes to world history, politics, and even geography, our educational system is so abysmal that Americans know little if anything about them by the time they start reading the news as adults."

Tom Fenton, former CBS foreign correspondent

China's All-Seeing Eye - with the help of U.S. defense contractors, China is building the prototype for a high-tech police state (5/08)
Disturbing 2008 Global Peace Index Report (5/08)
Can Truth Retain Its Independence? (5/08)
Who'll Unplug Big Media? Stay Tuned (5/08)
From Kennedy to Obama: Liberalism's Last Fling (5/08)
Pain and Conscience (5/08)
Union of South American Nations [UNASUR]
Plan Colombia Heads for Mexico (5/08)
The Mega-Pentagon: A Bush-Enabled Monster We Can't Stop (5/08)
War Immemorial Day - No Peace for Militarized U.S. (5/08)
An Expanding Military Budget Taxpayers Can't Afford (5/08)
Massive Big Brother database will track every phone call and email sent in Britain (5/08)
Provocations as Pretexts for Imperial War: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 (5/08)
BBC: Imperial Tool (5/08)
a book review of Peter Hallward's "Damming the Flood" [Part I] - Haiti (5/08)
Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World (5/08)

"Books ... are an excellent container for the accumulation, quiet scrutiny and organized analysis of information and ideas. It takes time to write a book, and to read one; time to discuss its contents and to make judgments about their merit, including the form of their presentation. A book is an attempt to make thought permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past."

Neil Postman

Countries push for ban on cluster bombs (5/08)
The CIA Is More Active Than Ever In Venezuela (5/08)
Haitian Flag Day (5/08)
Aristide's Accomplishments (5/08)
The Bush Family Nazi Connections (5/03)
Negotiators Gather in Dublin to Ban Cluster Bombs (5/08)
Haiti's Big Lie (5/08)
Beware the [Political] Psychopath, My Son (5/08)
Senate Moves Forward on Orwellian "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act" (5/08)
Somalia: Hidden Catastrophe, Hidden Agenda (5/08)
Challenging Authority - Frances Fox Piven
US Holding 27,000 in Secret Overseas Prisons - Clive Stafford Smith - interviewed by Amy Goodman (May 19, 2008)
Martial Law and Overriding the Constitution in the Event of a Terrorist Attack (5/08)
Nasty Double Standards (5/08)
Carlyle Group buys intelligence contractor - Tom Shorrock interviewed by Amy Goodman (May 19, 2008)

"When it comes to world history, politics, and even geography, our educational system is so abysmal that Americans know little if anything about them by the time they start reading the news as adults."

Tom Fenton, former CBS foreign correspondent

Latin America: The Attack On Democracy (4/08)
Who Killed Martin Luther King? (4/08)
Dissecting the Politics of Paraguay's Next President (4/08)
Haiti's Suffering (4/08)
The US Role in Haiti's Hunger Riots (4/08)
Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment by Peter Hallward - a book review (4/08)
U.S. Prison Population Dwarfs That Of Other Nations (4/08)
The Pentagon Strangles Our Economy: Why the U.S. Has Gone Broke (4/08)
UN Troops Armed DR Congo Rebels (4/08)
Guatemalans Seek Redress in Spanish Court (4/08)
Nobel Laureate (Joseph Stiglitz) Encourages Global Justice Movement (4/08)
The US Role in Haiti's Food Riots (4/08)

"In a culture dominated by print, public discourse tends to be characterized by a coherent, orderly arrangement of facts and ideas. The public for whom it is intended is generally competent to manage such discourse. In a print culture, writers make mistakes when they lie, contradict themselves, fail to support their generalizations, try to enforce illogical connections. In a print culture, readers make mistakes when they don't notice, or even worse, don't care."

Neil Postman

The Gardens of the Devil [cluster bombs] (2/08)
Elite 'Democratic' Planning at the Council on Foreign Relations
[Part 1 of 2] (2/08)
Joseph Stiglitz - $3 Triilion War in Iraq - Amy Goodman interview (2/29/08)
False Flag Prospects, 2008 (2/08)
Women's lives worse than ever [in Afghanistan] (2/08)
Washington gets a new colony in the Balkans [Kosovo] (2/08)
The Real Story Behind Kosovo's Independence (2/08)
NATO's Reign of Terror in Kosovo (2/08)
Children Are Forty Percent of Cluster Bomb Casualties (2/08)
The Great Rwanda "Genocide Coverup" (2/08)

"I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but [an American] political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either."

Edward Zehr

The U.S., the E.U. and Israel join hands [NATO] (2/08)
The [US] Economic Disaster That Is Military Keynesianism (2/08)
Pentagon Seeks Record Level in 2009 Budget (2/08)
War vs Peace: Colombia, Venezuela and the FARC Hostage Saga (2/08)
The Rise of the Imperial Class - [John] McCain is their avatar, and war is their mother's milk (2/08)
Toward a More Corporate Union of the Americas? (2/08)
Putin's Way - Russia's Development Strategy to 2020 (2/08)
The FBI Deputizes Business (2/08)
Permanent Bases in the Region [Middle East] (2/08)
NATO's Kosovo Colony (2/08)

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