Tag: Books
The Obama Wars
Jul 11, 2019 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
Obama’s legacy of warmaking has largely been maintained, advanced, and imitated by bipartisan consensus and by Donald Trump.
Read MoreObama: Front Man for Washington’s Imperialism
Jul 9, 2019 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
Obama was very much aware that he was fronting for the ruling establishment as he waged mass atrocities to enforce Washington’s hegemony over the world.
Read MoreWhat Is Nakba Day? Here’s the Truth the Mainstream Media Won’t Tell You
May 15, 2019 | US, News & Analysis, Palestine, Politics
The New York Times’ reporting on the meaning of Nakba Day shows how the major media systematically whitewash the ethnic cleansing of Palestine from history.
Read MoreSavagery and Its Promoters and Profiteers
Apr 27, 2019 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Reviews, US
The Management of Savagery does what author Max Blumenthal promises and more, showing us why and how people have been duped by war promoters and profiteers.
Read MoreJoan Mellen’s Blood in the Water: How the U.S. and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty
Apr 1, 2019 | Viewpoints, Middle East, Reviews, US
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.
Read MoreEarth Over the Brink
Dec 6, 2018 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
Given how much time we have left, perhaps it’s just not realistic to imagine our society fully outgrowing that deepest of evil tendencies.
Read MoreLISTEN: Jeremy R. Hammond Debunks a Zionist Hoax
Oct 6, 2018 | News & Analysis, Palestine, Politics
Listen to Jeremy R. Hammond expose Elan Journo’s new book “What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” as a Zionist hoax.
Read MoreHealth Professionals Tackle War
Sep 19, 2018 | Viewpoints, Reviews, US
Preventing War and Promoting Peace: A Guide for Health Professionals is a valuable new book rightly considering war as a health crisis.
Read MoreThey Went to Jail for Justice
Jul 10, 2018 | Viewpoints, Reviews, US
The stories in this book are of the thousands upon thousands who have been punished for refusing to take part in mass murder.
Read MoreThe New Book “What Justice Demands” by Elan Journo Is a Zionist Hoax
Jun 14, 2018 | News & Analysis, Palestine, Reviews
Elan Journo’s “What Justice Demands” is a shameless work of Zionist propaganda intended to defend Israel’s unjustifiable crimes against the Palestinians.
Read MoreThe World According to Seymour Hersh
Jun 13, 2018 | Viewpoints, Reviews, US
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.
Read MoreBook Review: “Putin vs Putin: Vladimir Putin Viewed from the Right”
Jun 13, 2018 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Reviews
This collection of essays on Putin provides insights into a man and his times by someone well-positioned to observe in a detached manner.
Read MoreFor Economic Truth Turn To Michael Hudson
May 12, 2018 | Economy & Business, US, Viewpoints
Neoliberal economics is an essential part of The Matrix, the false reality in which Americans and Europeans live. Neoliberal economics permits an endless number of economic lies. Michael Hudson’s books provide an antidote.
Read MoreHow Suzy Hansen Lost Her U.S. Exceptionalism
Apr 30, 2018 | Viewpoints, Reviews, US
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”.
Read MoreWorst Possible Pick for U.S. Ambassador to South Korea
Apr 26, 2018 | News & Analysis
The man set to become US Ambassador to South Korea, Admiral Harry Harris, oversaw the abuse of prisoners at a CIA camp in Gutantanamo and has blood on his hands.
Read MoreReview 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.
Read MoreCan Architecture Fix Our Health, Minds, Societies, Environment?
Oct 24, 2017 | Viewpoints, Reviews, US
Sarah Williams Goldhagen explains in “Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives” how architecture subconsciously impacts us.
Read MoreHow the US Became a Warmonger Police State
Sep 22, 2017 | Viewpoints, Reviews, US
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.
Read MorePull Down That Statue of the U.S. Constitution
Sep 18, 2017 | Reviews, US, Viewpoints
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.
Read MoreHow Outlawing War Changed the World in 1928
Sep 15, 2017 | Viewpoints, Reviews, US
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.
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