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Derrick Jensen just won't quit, that's for sure. The word “prolific” doesn't really do Jensen's output justice; this guy is like an anarcho-primitivist version of Stephen King. And much like Stephen King, he's constantly finding new ways to evoke a feeling of terror in his readers.
Continue reading...George Orwell’s 1984 Electronic Music Remix
9. June 2010
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George Orwell meets twenty-first century electronic agit-prop. That’s the best way to explain Margaret Noble’s latest nonprofit sound project. She begins with a 1950s vinyl recording of George Orwell’s novel 1984, famous for its depiction of a totalitarian society held captive by the three-pronged propaganda of: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.
Continue reading...Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
28. April 2010
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The film begins with a dark and serious tone of each episode that sets the stage for a thrilling account of political power. The narrator begins each episode reciting “Instead of giving us dreams, politicians promise to keep us safe from nightmares”.
Continue reading...Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: U.S. Media & Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
28. April 2010
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Several media outlets offer an array of facts and stories about the on-going current events between the Israelis & Palestinians but what is usually ignored is the true nature of this conflict.
Continue reading...Armed Madhouse
19. January 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...Become A Friend
21. July 2010
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