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"IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"
"Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? Is a priest to be our inquisitor, or shall a layman, simple as ourselves, set up his reason as the rule of what we are to read, and what we must disbelieve?" Thomas Jefferson
(in a letter to N. G. Dufief, Philadelphia bookseller, 1814, on the occasion of prosecution for selling De Becourt's "Sur le Creation du Monde, un Systeme d'Organisation Primitive")
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BOOKS // WORDS, KNOWLEDGE, IDEAS, STRENGTH
WAR | TERRORISM | RELIGION/SKEPTICISM | POLITICS | ECONOMICS | HISTORY |
FILMs: below
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Rich Abraham. THE DIRTY TRUTH: The Oil and Chemical Dependency of George W. Bush.
Greg Palast. THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY: Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance.
Kevin Phillips. WEALTH AND DEMOCRACY: A Political History of the American Rich.
Jim Shultz. THE DEMOCRACY OWNERS MANUAL: A Practical Guide to Changing the World.
Robert Bryce. Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America's Superstate
DIMES
WORTH OF DIFFERENCE: Beyond the lesser of two evils (the narrow gap between
Republicans and Democrats) _________________________________________________________________ The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide Jeff Faux. The
Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It
Will Take to Win It Back No one has more authority to call the shots the way they
really are than Paul Krugman, whose provocative New York Times columns
are keenly followed by millions. One of the world's most respected economists,
Krugman has been named America's most important columnist by the Washington Monthly
and columnist of the year by Editor and Publisher magazine. Dean Baker. The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer. Dean Baker debunks the myth that conservatives favor the market over government intervention. In fact, conservatives rely on a range of “nanny state” policies that ensure the rich get richer while leaving most Americans worse off. It’s time for the rules to change. Sound economic policy should harness the market in ways that produce desirable social outcomes – decent wages, good jobs and affordable health care. Read in HTML | Download as a PDF | Buy the paperback www.josephstiglitz.com | Greg Palast on Stiglitz: www.infoshop.org BOOKS BY SCHOLARS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEMOCRACY COLLABORATIVE: www.democracycollaborative.org/publications/books/index.html What are the myths of capitalist economics? Economics: Rant Archive 2 John R. MacArthur. The Selling of "Free Trade" www.harpers.org/freetrade/about.html
Micheal Albert. TRAJECTORY OF CHANGE: Actinvist Strategeis for Social Transformation.
Gar
Alperovitz. America
Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy _________________________________________________________________
Russ Kick ed. www.disinfo.com YOU ARE BEING LIED TO: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes, and Cultural Myths. and EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG.
John R. MacArthur. "Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda and the Gulf " www.harpers.org/freetrade/about.html#second
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Eric Alterman. WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA? The Truth About Bias and the News. Basic Books
David Barsamian of www.alternativeradio.org and Noam Chomsky . PROPAGANDA AND THE PUBLIC MIND.
http://jamesthornton.com/nexuswatch/20000720.html
MANUFACTURING CONSENT: Noam Chomsky
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Michael Parenti: www.michaelparenti.org , www.sonic.net
Philip Agee. CIA Diary: Inside the Company
Victor Marchetti. The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence.
Chalmers Johnson. The Sorrows of Empire Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
William Blum, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II and Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
Books on Empire: www.americanempireproject.com/booklist.asp
Stephen Kinzer. Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq Robert
Frisk. The
Great War for Civilisation The Conquest of the Middle East _________________________________________________________________
Robert
F. Kennedy Jr.. Crimes
Against Nature : How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the
Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
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Campus, Inc.: Corporate Power in the Ivory Tower.
Naomi Klein. NO LOGO. http://www.nologo.org/
Stephen Cherniski. CAFFEINE BLUES: Waking Up to the Hidden Dangers of America's #1 Drug.
Eric Schlasser. FAST FOOD NATION: The Darkside of the the ALL-American Meal.
John Robbins of Earth Save. FOOD REVOLUTION. and DIET FOR A NEW AMERICA.
Jack Herer. THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES. also see: www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195138937.html
Laton
McCartney. Friends
In High Places : The Bechtel Story : The Most Secret Corporation and How It
Engineered the World Dan
Briody. The
Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group _________________________________________________________________
War Is a Racket. Major General Smedley Butler, United States Marine Corps. Ed. Adam Parfrey. Smedley Darlington Butler served for 33 years in the US Marines and retired in 1933 as a major general. Whereupon he wrote ‘War Is A Racket’, a book in which he identified the US armed forces as gangsters in the service of the money masters of the day: specifically Brown Brothers Harriman, which incidentally has strong links to the Bush family. President George W’s Grandfather, Prescott, was a partner (also w/ City Bank and Chase Manhatten Bank www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=152)
"Chris Hedges has been a war reporter for the past 15 years, most recently for The New York Times. His book, War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, is one of the most striking analyses and critiques of what happens to people and societies as they go to war to be published in many years." for another audio interview: www.theconnection.org/shows/2002/09/20020913_b_main.asp
Daniel Ellsberg. SECRETS: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.
Joel Andreas, et. al. ADDICTED TO WAR: Why The U.S. Can't Kick Militarism.
Helen Caldicott. THE NEW NUCLEAR DANGER: George W. Bush's Military Industrial Complex.
Jean-Charles Brisard, et al. Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy, Saudi Arabia and the Failed Search for Bin Laden. review
William Greider. FORTRESS AMERICA: The American Military and the Consequences of Peace.
John R. MacArthur. "Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda and the Gulf " www.harpers.org/freetrade/about.html#second David Ray Griffin. The
New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing
Questions about the Bush Administration _________________________________________________________________ THAT MOST DEBATED PIECE OF REAL ESTATE
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi. Original Sins Reflections on the History of Zionism and Israel
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Robert
Baer. Sleeping
With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude, See No Evil:
The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
Shattered
Illusions: Analyzing the War on Terrorism. Contributors
include: Noam Chomsky, Norman Solomon, Shepherd Bliss, Seyyed Hossein Nasr,
Rahul Mahajan, As`ad AbuKhalil, Marc W. Herold, Larry Everest, Soumayya
Ghanoushi, Francis A. Boyle, Khaled Abou El Fadl, Stephen R. Shalom, William
Blum, Robert Jensen, Susan Abulhawa, John Chuckman, Aftab Ahmad Malik, Gabriel
Ash, Beau Grosscup, Firas al-Atraqchi, Frida Berrigan, Geov Parrish, Jeff
Sommers, Moonis Ahmar, M. Shahid Alam, Neil Lowrie, Phillip Cryan and Stephen
Zunes. Mahor Hathout. JIHAD vs. TERRORISM.
John Cooley. UNHOLY WARS: Afghanistan, America, and International Terrorism . an audio interview with John Cooley
Nafeez Ahmed. THE WAR ON FREEDOM: How and Why America was Attacked on September 11th.
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Howard Zinn . A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. www.zmag.org/bios/homepage
Martin Bernal. BLACK ATHENA: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization.
George James. STOLEN LEGACY: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy.
Robert Perry. SECRECY AND PRIVLEDGE: The Rise of The Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq. http://www.secrecyandprivilege.com/
Webb, Gary. THE DARK ALLIANCE: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.
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Nancy Chang. Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties
Katya
Komisaruk. Beat
the Heat: How to Handle Encounters With Law Enforcement _________________________________________________________________ and question the government and its corporate bedfellows
Dave Lindorff. This Can't Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of Democracy
Brave New World (1932) Aldous Huxley. Brave New World has come to serve as the false symbol for any regime of universal happiness. In Brave New World, Huxley contrives to exploit the anxieties of his bourgeois audience about both Soviet Communism and Fordist American capitalism. He taps into, and then feeds, our revulsion at Pavlovian-style behavioural conditioning and eugenics. Worse, it is suggested that the price of universal happiness will be the sacrifice of the most hallowed shibboleths of our culture: "motherhood", "home", "family", "freedom", even "love". The exchange yields an insipid happiness that's unworthy of the name. Its evocation arouses our unease and distaste. In BNW, happiness derives from consuming mass-produced goods, sports such as Obstacle Golf and Centrifugal Bumble-puppy, promiscuous sex, "the feelies", and most famously of all, a supposedly perfect pleasure-drug, soma. As perfect pleasure-drugs go, soma underwhelms. It's not really a utopian wonderdrug at all. It does make you high. Yet it's more akin to a hangoverless tranquilliser or an opiate - or a psychic anaesthetising SSRI like Prozac - than a truly life-transforming elixir. Third-millennium neuropharmacology, by contrast, will deliver a vastly richer product-range of designer-drugs to order.
www.enotes.com/1984/:Published
in 1948 and set thirty-six years in the future, 1984 is George Orwell’s
dark vision of the future. Written while Orwell was dying and based on the work
of the Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin, it is a chilling depiction of how the
power of the state could come to dominate the lives of individuals through
cultural conditioning. Perhaps the most powerful science fiction novel of the
twentieth century, this apocalyptic satire shows with grim conviction how
Winston Smith’s individual personality is wiped out and how he is recreated in
the Party’s image until he does not just obey but even loves Big Brother. Some
critics have related Winston Smith’s sufferings to those Orwell underwent at
preparatory school, experiences he wrote about just before 1984. Orwell
maintained that the book was written with the explicit intention “to alter
other people’s idea of the kind of society they should strive after.”
"WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH" _________________________________________________________________
GORE VIDAL http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/vidalframe.html
Thomas Paine. THE AGE OF REASON (make sure it contains the often censored, or not included, "Part Three: an examination of the prophecies") Frank Zindler, a past member of the Jesus Seminar, has an excellent annotated version of Part Three available from AAbooks .
James Randi . AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CLAIMS, FRAUDS, AND HOAXES OF THE OCCULT AND SUPERNATURAL. and FLIM FLAM: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns and Other Delusions.
In June of 2007 these three made to the New York Times Best Seller list...what's going on?
Mark Twain. LETTERS FROM THE EARTH.
Paul Kurtz. SCIENCE AND RELIGION. and LIVING WITHOUT RELIGION: Eupraxsophy.
C. Dennis McKinsey. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL ERRANCY.
George H. Smith. WHY ATHEISM? and ATHEISM: The Case Against God.
Victor J. Stenger. HAS SCIENCE FOUND GOD?
Michael Martin. ATHEISM: A Philosophical Justification.
Women Without Superstition: "No Gods - No Masters." Edited by Annie Laurie Gaylor. The Collected Writings of Women Freethinkers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (See Contents and selected quotes.)
Theodore Shick and Lewis Vaughn. HOW TO THINK ABOUT WEIRD THINGS: Critical Thinking for a New Age. Michael Shermer. Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould. WHY PEOPLE BELIEVE WEIRD THINGS: Pseudoscience, Superstition & Other Confusions of Our Time
Carl Sagan . THE DEMON HAUNTED WORLD: Science as a Candle in the Dark.
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Bell Hooks http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~mnunes/hooks.html http://www.infoshop.org/hooks.html
The Black Panthers Speak. ed Philip Foner.
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sure there are a few hundred books missing...i'll add more, but at the moment i'm kinda busy reading...so leave me alone! _________________________________________________________________
BOOKS- where to buy
and don't forget your local hometown independent book seller...
POLITRICKS, ANARCHY, ETC.:
AK PRESS: www.akpress.org
ALTERNATIVE RADIO PRESS: www.alternativeradio.org
SOUTH END PRESS: www.southendpress.org
OPEN END MEDIA: www.sevenstories.com
THE NEW PRESS: www.thenewpress.com
PUBLIC AFFAIRS BOOKS: www.publicaffairsbooks.com/
COMMON COURAGE PRESS: www.commoncouragepress.com/index.cfm
INTERLINK BOOKS: www.interlinkbooks.com/
ART, SEX, POLITICS, MORE ART... EVERYTHING:
LAST GASP: www.lastgasp.com
RATIONALISM AND SUCH:
PROMETHEUS BOOKS: www.prometheusbooks.com
ROBB MARKS: RM Bookseller
THE STRAIGHT DOPE: Cecil Adams'
Multiple links on religion, rationalism and skepticism @ : RANT ARCHIVE 6
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Justice
Department says bookstore customers have no right to privacy. From the
American Booksellers for Free Expression newsletter:
From the same newsletter, Justice flouts the Freedom of Information Act and refuses to reveal how many times it has used its Power under the Patriot Act to subpoena the records of bookstores and libraries in a suit filed in October by the ABFFE, ACLU and the Freedom to Read Foundation. A hearing is expected in February.
Congressmen Bernie Sanders of Vermont pledged to try to amend the Patriot Act to "eliminate provisions in the USA Patriot Act that undermine Americans' Constitutionally guaranteed right to read and access information without governmental intrusion or monitoring."
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FOR YOUR MIND'S EYE:
Visual Media...Films
TURNING TIDE PRODUCTIONS: Scott Ritter, Chomsky, Zinn... www.turningtide.com/speakerseries.htm
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election: www.gregpalast.com/unprecedented.htm
Bush Family Fortunes - The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: www.gregpalast.com/
THE GOD MOVIE www.thegodmovie.com/clip-Trailer.php
www.johnpilger.com: WATCH THE TRAILER for "WAR ON DEMOCRACY"
www.peta2.com/OUTTHERE/o-goriestvideo.asp?c=p21583 www.peta2.com/OUTTHERE/o-propagandhi.asp
COUNTER PUNCH magazine's favorite films: www.counterpunch.org/films0813.html
KPFK Film CLUB: www.vpop.net/~kpfk/pledge_pop.html The Film Club is a group of KPFK subscribers who, for an annual pledge of $150 to the station, are entitled to attend (with a guest) at least 12 films per year. While they can only promise 12 films per year, the Film Club often has 2-3 screenings per month; and, in fact, offered over 60 films in 2003.
Uncovered - The Whole Truth About the Iraq War: www.truthuncovered.com/
MANUFACTURING CONSENT: Noam Chomsky and the Media www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=manufacturingconsent
THE CORPORATION www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=corporation
ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE is the consummate critical examination of the Fourth Estate, once the bastion of American democracy. Asking whether America has entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for the truth, and explores what the media doesn’t like to talk about: itself. Meticulously tracing the process by which media has distorted and often dismissed actual news events, Director Robert Kane Pappas presents a riveting and eloquent mix of media professionals and leading intellectual voices on the media.
Police
state 3 -- watch the trailer: Windows
Media Broadband -- Click Here Black Panther films:
Outfoxed - Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism: www.outfoxed.org/
Grammy- and Emmy Award-winning producer Alex Gibney is shooting a documentary film on the rise and fall of Enron. A two-hour piece targeted for movie theaters.
www.empowermentproject.org/films.html
Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair is the third feature-length documentary produced by the Empowerment Project
PUBLIC INTEREST PICTURES: www.publicinterestpictures.org/ Unconstitutional, which was written, directed and produced by Nonny de la Peña, explores how the Patriot Act has taken away checks on law enforcement and continues to endanger the civil liberties of all Americans.
Plan Columbia: Cashing in on the Drug War Failure: www.plancolombia.org/
Bush's Brain: A Documentary about Karl Rove: www.bushsbrain.com/
The World According to Bush: www.flachfilm.com/
The Hunting of the President: www.thehuntingofthepresident.com/
www.civicmediacenter.org/cmcvideo
http://dsausa.org/archive/Docs/PCVideos/Distributors.html
http://dsausa.org/archive/Docs/Films.html
Check out this MINI MOVIE: www.thesustainablevillage.com/miniature_earth/miniature_earth.htm
THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR: www.loveprong.com/exec/review?Three-Days-Of-The-Condor.htm
DEMOCRACY UNIVERSITY: http://members.aol.com/democracyu/
THE TRIALS of HENRY KISSINGER: www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/feature_kissinger.shtml www.hrw.org/iff/2002/ny/trials.html
HIDDEN WARS OF DESERT STORM: http://www.kpfk.org/HWDS.html www.socialistworker.org/2001/384/384_09_HiddenWarOnIraq.shtml
THE OIL FACTOR: Behind the War on Terrorism: http://www.theoilfactor.com/
PREVENTIVE WARRIORS: http://www.preventivewarriors.com/
Hankey, John | JFK II THE BUSH CONNECTION www.kpfk.org/pledge/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=30_26&products_id=60
ALEX JONES' DOCUMENTARIES: www.store.yahoo.com/infowars-shop/videos.html
DISINFORMATION NATION: http://www.disinfo-nation.com/
CONTROL ROOM: Who is Making History: http://www.noujaimfilms.com/
Downwind : Depleted Uranium Weapons in the Age of Virtual War:
DIRECT ORDER: http://www.directorder.org/site/index.html
THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND: Fueled by outrage over the Vietnam War and racism in America, they went underground during the 1970s, bombing targets across the country that they felt symbolized "the real violence" that the U.S. government and capitalist power were wreaking throughout the world. www.upstatefilms.org/weather/ -- www.docurama.com/productdetail.html?productid=NV-NVG-5630-NVG-9602
THE CUBAN STORY: www.alldayentertainment.com/
GULF WAR ILLNESS: Fact of Fiction: http://www.gulfwarvets.com/list.htm http://serendipity.magnet.ch/jsmill/gws1.htm www.gulfwarvets.com/article.htm
THE YES MEN: www.theyesmen.org/movie/ the WTO spoof site: www.gatt.org/
What I learned about us Foreign policy: The War Against the Third World
www.addictedtowar.com/dorrel.html
A 2 hour video with 10 segments:
1) Martin Luther King Jr. "The greatest purveyor of violence on the Earth is my own government." 2) John Stockwell fomer CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1975, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush. A 13 year veteran of the agency, Stockwell provides a short history of the CIA, estimating over 6 million people have died as a direct consequence of the agency's covert operations since its inception in 1947. 3) Bill Moyer’s "The Secret Government" It aired on PBS in 1987. Moyers interviews many different people involved with the CIA and other government agencies. 4) "Coverup: Behind the Iran-Contra Affair" Directed by Barbara Trent of the Empowerment Project website. It is estimated between 20 to 30,000 Nicaraguan men, women and children were killed in U.S. sponsored terror conducted by the CIA backed right-wing Contra forces. Elizabeth Montgomery narrates. Includes a history of CIA covert operations by Peter Dale Scott 5) "School of Assassins" Our own terrorist training school right here in the United States. This documentary is narrated by Susan Sarandon and features Father Roy Bourgeois, talking about this school located in Fort Benning, Georgia, where soldiers from Central and South America are trained in the art of torture, terrorism, and assassination. website 6) "Genocide by Sanctions" This short film produced and directed by Gloria La Riva, features former Attorney General of the United States, Ramsey Clark, as he goes to Iraq to show the terrible conditions that the bombing has caused there (From the first Gulf War). UNICEF, the Red Cross and other world organizations estimate around 5,000 children are dying every month in Iraq, due to the bombing and the sanctions that we have placed on them. Over 1.5 million Iraqi’s have died! Clark goes into the hospitals and talks with Iraqi doctors, who say that these deaths could be prevented if they had medicine to give to the children. We bombed out their way of life, their water system, their food system, their sewer system, their communication systems and more. Americans were lead to believe that this was a good thing. To order "Genocide by Sanctions" email Gloria La Riva: iac@actionsf.org 7) Amy Goodman journalist and host of "Democracy Now" on Pacifica’s WBAI FM Radio in New York . On this section of the tape, Amy is talking about two genocides Indonesia committed. First against its own people in 1965, then against the people of East Timor in 1975. Both of these mass slaughters were sanctioned by the United States government and aided by the CIA. With scenes from Bitter aradise, a video by Elaine Briere. Amy Goodman was filmed by Ralph Cole of JusticeVision. 8)
"The Panama
Deception" Won the
Academy Award for Best Documentary. Directed by Barbara Trent of the Empowerment
Project, website.
This film documents the untold story of the December 1989 U.S. invasion
of Panama. The United States military deliberately attacked and destroyed
primarily residential neighborhoods, killing an estimated 3 to 4 thousand people
in the process. This segment exposes the role the U.S. government
and mainstream media play in suppressing information about U.S. foreign policy.
Includes never before seen footage of this invasion. 9) Ramsey Clark former Attorney General of the United States, speaking in 1998 in Los Angeles. Segment filmed by Ralph Cole of Justice Vision Read Ramsey Clark's speech, and 10) S. Brian Willson is the Vietnam veteran who, in 1987, lost both his legs when run over by a munitions train at the Concord Naval Weapons Station, located in California. The bombs and munitions aboard this train were bound for Central America. He is a hero in Central America where the people understand that he has stood up for their rights as equal human beings. Brian’s website. This segment includes scenes from "The Healing of Brian Willson" by Lori Joyce of Idanha Films and "Nicaragua Diary" by Mark Birnbaum. Introduction by Kris Kristofferson |
The
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