Category: Reviews
Joan Mellen’s Blood in the Water: How the U.S. and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty
Joan Mellen’s book “Blood in the Water” argues that the US itself was complicit in Israel’s attack on the American ship the USS Liberty in June 1967.
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Health Professionals Tackle War
Preventing War and Promoting Peace: A Guide for Health Professionals is a valuable new book rightly considering war as a health crisis.
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Curing Fascism
Curing fascism can begin with understanding how one is manipulated into it and testing out the benefits of a richer, more encompassing worldview.
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They Went to Jail for Justice
The stories in this book are of the thousands upon thousands who have been punished for refusing to take part in mass murder.
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Murder Incorporated
Book one of the Murder Incorporated series critiques US imperialism, debunking nationalist myths and offering a corrective or alternative history of the US.
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The New Book “What Justice Demands” by Elan Journo Is a Zionist Hoax
Elan Journo’s “What Justice Demands” is a shameless work of Zionist propaganda intended to defend Israel’s unjustifiable crimes against the Palestinians.
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The World According to Seymour Hersh
Hersh’s book, like previous work, names names. But this time they’re the names of editors and reporters whose journalism reflects their twisted priorities.
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Book Review: “Putin vs Putin: Vladimir Putin Viewed from the Right”
This collection of essays on Putin provides insights into a man and his times by someone well-positioned to observe in a detached manner.
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How Suzy Hansen Lost Her U.S. Exceptionalism
Millions of liberals intent on breaking down prejudice and stirring up hatred of Russians while justifying a trillion-dollar-a-year military empire should consider reading Suzy Hansen’s book “Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World”.
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Review of Richard Falk’s “Palestine’s Horizon: Toward a Just Peace”
In “Palestine’s Horizon: Toward a Just Peace”, Richard Falk emphasizes the present need “to take stock, and reformulate a vision and strategy to guide the Palestinian struggle”. The book is an invaluable contribution precisely because it goes so far in doing just that.
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Can Architecture Fix Our Health, Minds, Societies, Environment?
Sarah Williams Goldhagen explains in “Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives” how architecture subconsciously impacts us.
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PBS’s Vietnam Acknowledges Nixon’s Treason
One redeeming thing about PBS’s documentary ‘The Vietnam War’ is its acknowledgment of how Richard Nixon treasonously prolonged the criminal violence.
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What’s North Korea Afraid of?
North Koreans have good reason to fear that the US might once again raze their country.
Read MoreThe Coming War on China: A Review of John Pilger’s Latest Documentary
John Pilger’s film ‘The Coming War on China’ should be viewed by anyone concerned about the world’s greatest threat to peace: the US government.
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How the US Became a Warmonger Police State
The hoax “war on terror” has turned America into a Gestapo state that’s a threat not just to American civil liberty, but to life on earth.
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Pull Down That Statue of the U.S. Constitution
The book ‘Fault Lines in the Constitution’ by Cynthia Levison and Sanford Levison is myopic in its scope, but should still be studied in every school.
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How Outlawing War Changed the World in 1928
Hathaway and Shapiro’s book ‘The Internationalists’ is a phenomenal book, but regrettably the US role as dominant military force on earth is simply missing.
Read MoreWhat’s Missing from Dunkirk Film
The story of Dunkirk, the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, is a story of how the Allies treated people they had some use for.
Read MoreThe Activists, or How the Anti-War Left Was Duped by Barack Obama
The documentary The Activists sets out to highlight lessons learned by the American anti-war movement but ends up lauding its single greatest failure.
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Ethics of Not Ruining Everything
The simple injunction of “first do no harm” is woefully neglected in proposed solutions for the problems facing humanity.
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