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9-11 [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Noam Chomsky
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 In 9-11 Noam Chomsky dissects the root causes of the September 11th catastrophe, the historical precedents for it, and the possible outcomes as the United States responds with its "new war on terrorism." For Chomsky, the atrocities of 9-11 are something quite new in world affairs, marking the first time since 1812 that the U.S. mainland was attacked (an important distinction from Pearl Harbor, which was U.S. territory, but effectively a colony). As Chomsky writes, in the past half century partic... more info>> Firecracker Book Award Winner
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The Undiscovered Chekhov: Forty-Three New Stories [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Anton Chekhov, Peter Constantine, Spalding Gray
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The Undiscovered Chekhov gives us, in rich abundance, a new Chekhov. Peter Constantine's historic new collection presents 43 new stories and with them a fresh interpretation of the Russian master. In contrast to the brooding representative of a dying century we have seen over and over, here is Chekhov's work from the 1880's, when Chekhov was in his twenties and his writing was sharp, witty and innovative. Many of the stories in The Undiscovered Chekhov reveal Chekhov as a keen mod... more info>>
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...And Dreams Are Dreams: A Novel in Seven Parts [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Vassilis Vassilikos, Mary Kitroeff
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In the first new book by Vassilis Vassilikos to be translated into English in thirty years, Greece's most acclaimed living novelist gives us a magical realist portrait of contemporary Europe and contemporary Europeans. Here are seven tales that explore the themes of materialism, post-Cold War politics, love, religious faith, and the power of imagination. In the tradition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Luigi Pirandello, Vassilikos writes of the fantasies within reality, the spirit in... more info>>
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10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF & World Bank [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Kevin Danaher, Anuradha Mittal
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A veritable "Globalization for Dummies," 10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF & World Bank lays bare the most common myths of globalization in a clear and understandable way. Looking with hope to grassroots movement-building on a global scale, Kevin Danaher presents ten arguments for abolishing the IMF and World Bank and replacing them with democratic institutions that would make the global economy more accountable to an informed and active citizenry. Conceived as an effort to educate th... more info>>
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A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Juliet Schor
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In this groundbreaking pamphlet, Juliet Schor, author of The Overworked American, examines how Americans can begin making the shift away from a resource-destructive society to one that values the environment, community, and quality of life above business and profit. She a traces back how after W.W.II, Americans had hoped that technology and social investment would yield shorter work weeks, more pay, and complete healthcare. Instead, we work more, get paid less, and maintain an indecent adult min... more info>>
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Acts of Aggression: Policing Rogue States [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Noam Chomsky, Ramsey Clark, Edward W. Said
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In Acts of Aggression three distinguished activist scholars examine the background and ramifications of the U.S. conflict with Iraq. Through three separate essays, the pamphlet provides an in-depth analysis of U.S./Arab relations, the contradictions and consequences of U.S. foreign policy toward "rogue states," and how hostile American actions abroad conflict with UN resolutions and international law.
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Angels of Catastrophe [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Peter Plate
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The Angels of Catastrophe is the fourth and crowning work in Plate's Mission Quartet, set in San Francisco's Mission District. A cop is gunned down and unless Ricky Durrutti, a petty criminal with a short biography and a long rap sheet, can figure out who the real shooter is, he's a dead man. From Hunt's Donuts, opposite where the killing took place, to his room in the El Capitán Hotel, from the blue grass and steel Federal Building off Golden Gate Avenue to the Ritmo Latino record store, and fr... more info>>
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Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Robert W. McChesney
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The global media market of the '90s is dominated by fewer than ten media conglomerates. The tremendous growth of the so-called information superhighway has opened countless new channels for media, but only a very few opportunities for control of those channels. The global media market is dominated by only a handful of major players holding more and more of the cards. Robert McChesney traces the emergence of this global media monopoly, describes what the main players are up to, and details how th... more info>>
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God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Kurt Vonnegut
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 In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Kurt Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and afterlife as if the difference between them were rather slight. This fictional adventure began as a series of 90-second interludes for WNYC, New York City's public radio station, and has evolved over the past year as a strange and lasting work of the imagination. God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian follows on Vonnegut's three previous works, the bestselling novel Timequake, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction ... more info>>
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Got (Genetically Engineered) Milk?: The Monsanto rBGH/BST Milk Wars Handbook [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., Ben & Jerry, John Hagelin Ph.D.
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rBGH (recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone), is a genetically non-engineered (GE) potent variant of the natural growth hormone produced by cows. Manufactured by Monsanto, it is sold to dairy farmers under the trade name POSILAC. Injection of this GE hormone forces cows to increase their milk production by about 10%. Monsanto and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) insist that rBGH milk is indistinguishable from natural milk and safe to cows and consumers. However: ; rBGH makes... more info>>
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Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Lee Stringer
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Whether Lee Stringer is describing "God's corner" as he calls 42nd Street, or his friend Suzy, a hooker and "past due tourist" whose infant child he sometimes babysits, whether he is recounting his experiences at Street News, where he began hawking the newspaper for a living wage, then wrote articles, and served for a time as muckraking senior editor, whether it is his adventures in New York's infamous Tombs jail, or performing community service, or sleeping in the tunnels below Grand Central St... more info>>
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Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Lee Stringer
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Whether Lee Stringer is describing "God's corner," as he calls 42nd Street, or his friend Suzy, a hooker and "past due tourist" whose infant child he sometimes babysits, whether he is recounting his experiences at Street News, where he began hawking the newspaper for a living wage, then wrote articles, and served for a time as muckraking senior editor, whether it is his adventures in New York's infamous Tombs jail, or performing community service, or sleeping in the tunnels below... more info>>
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Howard Zinn on War [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Howard Zinn
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Howard Zinn on War includes reflections on the Vietnam War, World War II, the recent wars against Iraq and in Kosovo, and on the meaning of war in a world where even the "most advanced" societies have proven themselves incapable of overcoming the primitive predilection for physically attacking their neighbors. In his conclusion to the essay "Just and Unjust War," Howard Zinn writes "It remains to be seen how many people in our time will make that journey from war to nonviolent action against war... more info>>
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Microradio and Democracy: (Low) Power to the People [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Greg Ruggiero
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Microradio and Democracy discusses the role of citizen access to communications in a democratic society, and how diversity, localism, and core political speech are undermined by corporate control of the public airwaves. Ruggiero examines the emergence of the microradio activism and recent court cases, and the links between the microradio struggle and larger movements for democracy and social justice. Written in clear language, and illustrated with photos and graphics, this pamphlet will be of in... more info>>
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Microradio and Democracy: (Low) Power to the People [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Greg Ruggiero, Robert W. McChesney
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Microradio and Democracy discusses the role of citizen access to communications in a democratic society, and how diversity, localism, and core political speech are undermined by corporate control of the public airwaves. Ruggiero examines the emergence of microradio activism and recent court cases, and the links between the microradio struggle and larger movements for democracy and social justice. Illustrated with photos and graphics, this pamphlet will be of interest to anyone conc... more info>>
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Popular Music from Vittula [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Mikael Niemi, Laurie Thompson
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Popular Music from Vittula tells the fantastical story of a young boy's unordinary existence, peopled by a visiting African priest, a witch in the heart of the forest, cousins from Missouri, an old Nazi, a beautiful girl with a black Volvo, silent men and tough women, a champion-bicyclist music teacher with a thumb in the middle of his hand -- and, not least, on a shiny vinyl disk, the Beatles. The story unfolds in sweltering wood saunas; amidst chain thrashings and gang warfare; ... more info>>
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Power and Terror: Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Noam Chomsky
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"You have to speak truth to the people who will dismantle and overthrow and constrain power." --Noam Chomsky In Power and Terror, his first new book following his runaway bestseller 9-11, Chomsky presents his latest thinking on terrorism, U.S. foreign policy, and the meaning and true impact of militarism in the world today, based on a series of talks and conversations in March and May of 2002 in California, Cambridge, Mass., and New York. Beginning with the fundamental principl... more info>>
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Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Noam Chomsky, Robert W. McChesney
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In Profit Over People Noam Chomsky takes on neoliberalism, the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide. By examining the contradictions between the democratic and market principles proclaimed by those in power and those actually practiced, Chomsky critiques the tyranny of the few that restricts the public arena and enacts policies that vastly increase private wealth, often with complete disregard for social and ecological... more info>>
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Secret Trials and Executions: Military Tribunals and the Threat to Democracy [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Barbara Olshansky
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Since the attacks of September 11th, there has been a sweeping revision of U.S. immigration laws, foreign intelligence gathering operations, and domestic law enforcement procedures. While aimed at countering terrorism and bringing to justice those individuals who are responsible for carrying out acts of terror against the U.S., many of these measures also involve a profound curtailment of our constitutional rights and liberties. Among the most controversial of the new measures is... more info>>
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Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit after the Attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Alice Walker
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Alice Walker writes: "Where do we start? How do we reclaim a proper relationship to the world? It is said that in the Babemba tribe of South Africa, when a person acts irresponsibly or unjustly, he is placed in the center of the village, alone and unfettered. All work ceases, and every man, woman and child in the village gathers in a large circle around the accused individual. Then each person in the tribe speaks to the accused, one at a time, about all the good things the person in the center o... more info>>
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Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Nancy Chang, Howard Zinn
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In her groundbreaking new book, Silencing Political Dissent, constitutional expert Nancy Chang examines how the Bush administration's fight against terrorism is resulting in a disturbing erosion of First Amendment rights and increase of executive power. Emboldened by the nearly uncontested passage of the USA PATRIOT Act in October 2001, the Bush administration quickly set about issuing law-and-order edicts, overseeing law enforcement operations with ominous names, legitimizing... more info>>
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So Vast the Prison [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Assia Djebar
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So Vast the Prison, Djebar's 3rd work of fiction to be published in the United States (it was first published by Albin Michel in France), is the double-threaded story of a modern, educated Algerian woman existing in a man's society, and, not surprisingly, living a life of contradictions. Djebar, too, tackles cross-cultural issues just by writing in French of an Arab society (the actual act of writing contrasting with the strong oral traditions of the indigenous culture), as a woman who has seen ... more info>>
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Terrorism and War [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Howard Zinn
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New interviews conducted since the tragic events of September 11 and the bombing campaign against Afghanistan, Terrorism and War provides Zinn's most up-to-date thinking on war, terrorism, and the new global order. Truth, Zinn shows us, has indeed been the first casualty of war, starting from the beginnings of American empire in the Spanish-American War. But war has many other casualties, he argues, including civil liberties on the home front and human rights abroad. In Terrorism and War Zinn ex... more info>>
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Terrorism: Theirs and Ours [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Eqbal Ahmad, David Barsamian
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In 1985, President Ronald Reagan received a group of bearded, turban-wearing men who looked like they came from another century. After receiving them in the White House, Reagan spoke to the press, referring to his foreign guests as "freedom fighters." These were the Afghan mujahideen. In August 1998, another American president ordered missile strikes from the American navy based in the Indian Ocean to kill Osama bin Laden and his men in the camps in Afghanistan. The terrorist of ... more info>>
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The Case against Lameduck Impeachment [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Bruce Ackerman
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In The Case against Lameduck Impeachment, Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman argues that the bill of impeachment against President Clinton, passed in December 1998, expired on January 3rd, 1999, when a new House of Representatives began its term in office. It is unconstitutional for the Senate to begin a trial unless a majority of the newly elected House once again charges the President with "high crimes and misdemeanors." The newly elected House of 1999 contains 40 new members and five more Demo... more info>>
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