Book Review: Golden Leaf – A Khmer Rouge Genocide Survivor
Golden Leaf wonderfully depicts the struggles and subsequent victories of a remarkable human being, and will inspire readers because it reaches deep into our souls.
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Remedying Omissions: A People’s History of the United States
A People’s History and his other writings can be seen as an attempt to make up for the omissions and under-emphases of America’s dark side in American history books and media.
The Source of the Economic Crisis: A Chicago State of Mind
Gates, a former counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (1980-87), identifies the source of the current economic crisis as a “shared mindset” into which we have been induced to put our faith, to the grave detriment of the majority – but to the immense benefit of a very few.
February 7, 2010 | Posted in Books | Read More »
My Father was a Freedom Fighter: A Book Review
Ramzy Baroud’s “My Father Was A Freedom Fighter” is more than a book, it is actually a masterpiece. In an overwhelmingly evoking personal style Baroud manages to bring to light the history of the Palestinian people and their battle with Israel and Zionism.
Review: The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories
The Israel-Palestine Conflict attempts to work history within a discussion of how the two narratives of Israel and Palestine conflict with each other.
Review: Israel and Palestine – Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations
Without equivocation and with clear language that is accessible to all readers, Shlaim provides ample evidence of the international intransigence of Israel towards what are commonly expressed principles of international law and commonly held expectations of humanitarian behaviour.
Book Review: The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global
Regardless of Gerges lack of insight into the geopolitical motives for the U.S. to continue its “war on terror”, The Far Enemy provides good insights into the jihadi movements and their fractiousness and relative weakness on the global stage.
My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story
A promotional short film for a new book on Gaza is being released worldwide today, days before the official book launch in the U.K., to commemorate the first anniversary of the Gaza massacre.
Book Review: Fit to Print – Misrepresenting the Middle East
Fit To Print should be on the reading list of anybody who wants to understand why news is filtered and cares for the direction that international news reporting is heading towards, especially in the Middle East.
In the Jaws of the Dragon: America’s Fate in the Coming Era of Chinese Hegemony
In short, in China the U.S. corporations have made adaptations to the local business/political climate that fits into their natural corporate ethos and that have and are in process of destroying the U.S. economy.
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