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Armed Madhouse
Palast’s Armed Madhouse (2007) is a witty but hard hitting critique on some of the recent political news stories in the past few years. Most of the book is spent probing the missed opportunities that occurred during President George W. Bush’s administration.
Continue reading...Death Squads or Self-Defense Forces? How Paramilitary Groups Emerge and Challenge Democracy in Latin America
29. November 2009
The Georgia-based School of the Americas has been the convergence point for many years for activists concerned about the United States' impact on Latin American policy.
Continue reading...The Will to Resist
24. November 2009
Haymarket Books' 2009 release, The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, by Dahr Jamail, is the most important nonfiction book published this year. In Will, Jamail captures the lives of our men and women in uniform, in their own uncensored words, as they relate the true situation of the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Continue reading...Policing Dissent: Social Control and the Anti-globalization Movement
8. September 2009
With this book anarchist sociologist, Luis Fernandez, writes on his studies of policing protests (broadly speaking). At first glance, the references and style of the book might make one think it is written for other academics--dispassionately studying the behaviors of our political masters and their domestic army, the police.
Continue reading...A Movement of Movements: Is another world really possible?
8. September 2009
A collection of essays by and interviews with some of the well-known faces of the anti-capitalist/globalisation movement, including Subcommandante Marcos, Naomi Klein and the McDonalds - trashing Jose Bove, amongst others.
Continue reading...The Guantanamo Files
29. August 2009
Andy Worthington's hard-hitting new book shines a stark light into the black hole that is Guantanamo Bay prison, describing the process and consequences of a US intelligence project which is at the same time both ruthless and cackhanded; all the while failing to achieve its intentions.
Continue reading...Letter to the President: The Streets Get Political
30. June 2009
Letter to the President: The Streets Get Political, produced by Russell Simmons, directed by Thomas Gibson, composed by Quincy Jones, and narrated by Snoop Dogg, is a wake-up call to the world that hip-hop and rap does not mean money, ignorance, and violence, but a voice from a imprisoned, oppressed, and repressed community. This is an excellent film on the history of hip-hop and rap in the U.S. in relation to race, class, and sexism.
Continue reading...The War of 33: Letters from Beirut
19. May 2009
The War of 33 tells the story of the 33-day Israeli attack on Lebanon in the summer of 2006 through a series of blog letters written by Beirut journalist Hanady Salman, an editor with the Beirut paper As-Safir. Hanady knew the worst images of that war would not be shown by the Western media or television. So she decided to dispatch regular email updates to a group of friends and colleagues, relaying her personal accounts and many very graphic photographs from around Lebanon.
Continue reading...Why We Fight
4. May 2009
Why We Fight, produced by Eugene Jarecki, is a brilliant critical film about how the military industrial complex has been developed and promoted post-9/11. It includes clips of the Iraq War, speeches by former President Bush, and amazing interviews with top scholars and experts, from former CIA agents to members of the Department of Defense such as Gore Vidal, Chalmers Johnson, Joseph Cirincione, Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, Wilton Sekzer, Sen. John McCain, James Roche, and Gwynne Dyer.
Continue reading...Big Noise Dispatches, Volumes 1-4
28. April 2009
Big Noise Films has cultivated a reputation for delivering some of the grittiest documentary films out there -- often first-person footage of grassroots rebellions by communities deeply affected by oppressive histories and institutions.
Continue reading...The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex
5. April 2009
Henry Giroux's ground-breaking and timeless entry, The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex, could be the single reason why "higher" education might be saved from the hands of corporatization and militarization. Giroux, a leading figure in education, media studies, cultural studies, and critical theory, begins the book with one of the most profound questions I have ever come across.
Continue reading...- Girls Are Not Chicks - Coloring Book
- The Jena 6
- A Movement of Movements: Is another world really possible?
- The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and Chicago Police Murdered A Black Panther
- Behind the Mask
- On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Twenty-First Century Lynching
- Earthlings
- The Will to Resist
- The Lifelong Activist: Changing the World Without Losing Your Way
- The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
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