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Rogue State:
A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
by William Blum
Common Courage Press, 2000; Monroe, Maine; ISBN 1-56751-194-5"From 1945 to the end of the century, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements struggling against intolerable regimes."In the process, the US caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair."
— William Blum
More about Rogue State and William Blum...
To Kill A Nation:
The Attack on Yugoslavia
by Michael Parenti, Ph.D.
Verso Books, 2001; ISBN 1-859-84776-5"To Kill a Nation is the best explanation of the great crime NATO committed and what it will mean for our future. It is full of insights on the role of US militarism and media disinformation in the service of corporate profits."— Sara Flounders
editor and co-author of NATO in the BalkansMore about To Kill A Nation and Michael Parenti...
Killing Hope:
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
by William Blum
Common Courage Press, 1995; ISBN 1-56751-052-3"From China in the 1940s to Guatemala today, William Blum provides the most comprehensive study of the ongoing American holocaust."More about Killing Hope and William Blum...
The Real Terror Network:
Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
by Edward S. Herman
South End Press, 1982; ISBN 0-89608-134-6"If 'terrorism' means 'intimidation by violence or the threat of violence,' and if we allow the definition to include violence by states and agents of states, then it is these, not isolated individuals or small groups, that are the important terrorists in the world."If terrorist violence is measured by the extent of politically motivated torture and murder, ...it is in the U.S.-sponsored and protected 'authoritarian' states — the real terror network — that these forms of violence have reached a high crescendo in recent decades."
— Edward S. Herman
More about The Real Terror Network and Edward Herman...
The Phoenix Program
by Douglas Valentine
William Morrow Co., 1990; Avon Books, 1992; iUniverse.com, Inc., 2000; ISBN 0-595-00738-4"Created by the CIA in Saigon in 1967, Phoenix was a computer-driven program aimed at "neutralizing", through assassination, kidnapping, and systematic torture, the civilian infrastructure that supported the insurgency in South Vietnam. It was a terrifying 'final solution' that violated the Geneva Conventions and traditional American ideas of human morality."More about The Phoenix Program and Douglas Valentine...
Against Empire
by Michael Parenti, Ph.D.
City Lights Books, 1995; ISBN 0-87286-298-4"A brilliant exposé of the brutal realities of U.S. global domination.""The history of imperialism is also, however, a history of resistance, struggle, and achievement; Against Empire offers compelling alternatives for progressive change."
More about Against Empire and Michael Parenti...
Derailing Democracy:
The America the Media Don't Want You to See
by Dave McGowan
Common Courage Press, 2000; Monroe, Maine; ISBN 1-56771-184-8"Following the same course that virtually every other major industry has in the last two decades, a relentless series of mergers and corporate takeovers has consolidated control of the media into the hands of a few corporate behemoths."The result has been that an increasingly authoritarian agenda has been sold to the American people by a massive, multi-tentacled media machine that has become, for all intents and purposes, a propaganda organ of the state."
More about Derailing Democracy and Dave McGowan...
The Sword and the Dollar:
Imperialism, Revolution and the Arms Race
by Michael Parenti, Ph.D.
St. Martin's Press, 1989; ISBN 0-31201-167-9"An exposé of U.S. cold war history and interventionism in the Third World.""In this probing, provocative analysis, Michael Parenti reveals the hidden agenda of American foreign policy decisions. No matter which party is in power, the U.S. acts to protect the interests of large American-based corporations, in order to maintain valuable overseas markets and cheap foreign labor."
More about The Sword and the Dollar and Michael Parenti...
The Beast Reawakens
by Martin A. Lee
Little, Brown & Co., 1997; Routledge, 2000; ISBN 0-316-51959-6During World War II tens of millions of people died horribly and brutally in the great fight against fascism. And yet, like some blood-hungry dinosaur in a political Jurassic Park, fascism survived that monumental defeat and is now mounting a comeback. Neofascism is an ugly reality in the world today — and it's growing.The Beast Reawakens examines how and why the CIA hired and protected many high-ranking Nazis after WWII. That's right Mousketeers, it was none other than good ol' Uncle Sham who lovingly helped fascism to survive the fall of the Third Reich. And since the end of the Cold War, fascism and neo-Naziism have again begun to publicly flex their murdering muscles and rear their ugly heads, like the outbreak of a virulent disease we thought we had a vaccine for.
More about The Beast Reawakens and Martin A. Lee...
NATO in the Balkans:
Voices of Opposition
by Ramsey Clark, Sean Gervasi, Sara Flounders, Thomas Deichmann, Gary Wilson, Richard Becker and Nadja Tesich
International Action Center, 1998; ISBN 0-9656916-2-4Beginning in 1992, hard on the heels of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and Germany began a campaign to dismember Yugoslavia. This was part of a larger American strategy to control all of the Balkans, a strategy in which the German government was (and is) a junior partner.There was just one problem. The independence-loving Serbians wouldn't go along with the plan. They were literally the only nation in Europe that resisted American Imperialism. Therefore, the U.S. and Germany began a relentless and pervasive anti-Serb propaganda campaign in the mass-media. It worked very well.
The Nazis were masters of this very strategy — against the Jews.
Now millions of media-mesmerized suckers firmly believe all the lies they've been told about Serbians for years. And due to the NATO terror campaign of 1999, the crippling sanctions and relentless political subversion, Yugoslavia has finally capitulated and is now on its knees before the American Beast.
This is what the U.S. Corporate Mafia Government calls "joining the family of nations."
Well pardon me, Uncle Sham, but I think you and your "family" are just a wee bit dysfunctional.
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The Culture of Terrorism
by Noam Chomsky
South End Press, 1994; ISBN 0-89608-344-9Who DARES to say we Americans got no cultur? Shit we got Ronald McDonald an' Standard Oil an' Coca Cola an' Joe Camel cigarettes an' Nike (Just Do It child laborers!). We got Mickey Mouse an' Goofy an' Democrapublicans like Bill "I never inhaled" Clinton an' Ronald "Bedtime for Bonzo" Reagan. We got Hollywood an' Playboy bunnies an' real football an' — most importint uv all — prime-time TV.An' hell theres Charles Manson an' Madeleine Albright an' Lt. William "Babykiller" Calley an' Tricky Dick Nixon an' Gee Dubbya Shrub Junior an'... wull, the list of Amerikin heros is pert near endliss!
Yep, we in cappitalist America feel so blessed, we just havta share our fine, upstandin cultur with the rest of the world — whether you dang foreigners like it or not. Hell, its only outta the goodniss of our harts that we're shovin are corporate dumocracy down you're ungrateful throats. For the rest of you're lives you'll be workin for slave wages, but hey — at least you got American TV an' movies to program your stupid little third world minds with!
What? You object?? Pinko Commies! Well, for yer own good we gonna have to — to use a fine old American expression — KICK YOR ASS.
About The Culture of Terrorism and Noam Chomsky...
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
by Gore Vidal
Odonian Press, 1992; ISBN 1-878-82500-3"What is the national security state? Well, it began, officially, with the National Security Act of 1947 [NSC-68]; it was then implemented in January 1950 when the National Security Council produced a blueprint for a new kind of country, unlike anything that the United States had ever known before.""We can date from January 1950 the strict governmental control of our economy and the gradual erosion of our liberties, all in order to benefit the economic interest of what is never, to put it tactfully, a very large group — defense spending is money- but not labor intensive."
More from The Decline and Fall of the American Empire and Gore Vidal...
War at Home:
Covert Action Against U.S. Activists
and What We Can Do About It
by Brian Glick
South End Press, 1989; ISBN 0-89608-349-7This valuable book provides a history of the FBI's infamous COINTELPRO operations. These were used to murder, beat, intimidate, harass, confuse, fragment, destroy and silence political dissent by all leftist activists. These ILLEGAL FBI operations took place in the 1960s and '70s against any Black, Puerto Rican, Indian or White person/group courageous enough to oppose U.S. government evil doing. The FBI is inherently a White-racist organization, however, and COINTELPRO operations were generally more violent and ruthless against the Black Panthers and other Black or Indian activists than they were against people of other races.Today's FBI persists in the murder and intimidation of Americans of all races, of course, but not under the same codename of "COINTELPRO."
War at Home also gives practical tips on how to deal with today's U.S. Corporate Mafia Government thugs. Basically the more unity and publicity the better. Like the criminal bullies they truly are, the FBI and the cops hate and fear the public exposure of their crimes by a unified opposition. Their basic strategy is to divide and conquer.
The book includes a checklist of essential precautions, information on your legal rights and defenses against the psychological warfare which the American Gestapo (FBI) uses to harass people who have moral consciences and political consciousness.
More about War At Home and Brian Glick...
War Tax Resistance:
A Guide To Withholding Your Support From The Military
"The most comprehensive guide to war tax resistance (WTR), including philosophical and political questions, information on the federal budget, the history of WTR, personal WTR stories, methods, consequences, international WTR, WTR organizing, and more."Available from the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
Corporate Predators:
The Hunt for Mega-Profits and the Attack on Democracy
by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
Common Courage Press, 1999; Monroe, Maine; ISBN 1-56751-158-9Fifty-one of the world's biggest 100 economies are corporations — not countries.As the most powerful institution of our time, the multinational corporation dominates not only global economics, but politics and culture as well. But the mechanisms of corporate control and the details of corporate abuses have remained largely hidden from public perception — until now.
More about Corporate Predators and authors Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman...
Democracy for the Few (Sixth Edition)
by Michael Parenti, Ph.D.
St. Martin's Press, 1995; New York; ISBN 0-312-05233-2"American capitalism represents more than just an economic system; it is an entire cultural and social order, a plutocracy — that is, a system of rule by and for the rich — for the most part."Most universities and colleges, publishing houses, mass circulation magazines, newspapers, television and radio stations, professional sports teams, foundations, churches, private museums, charity organizations, and hospitals are organized as corporations, ruled by boards of trustees (or directors or regents) composed overwhelmingly of affluent businesspeople. These boards exercise final judgement over all institutional matters."
(from Chapter 3: "The Plutocratic Culture")
More about Democracy for the Few and Michael Parenti...
Colombia: The Genocidal Democracy
by Javier Giraldo
Common Courage Press, 1996Colombia is the most violent country in the world — thanks to U.S. government financial aid and military support for right-wing death squads and the Colombian army. The U.S. Corporate Mafia Government says that the $1.3 billion of your tax dollars they're giving to the Colombian military is for fighting "narco-terrorists." That's a lie. The cocaine-smuggling United States Corporate Mafia Government is itself the world's most powerful narco-terrorist organization.Besides destroying the courageous rebel force that has been battling the genocidal Colombian government for the last 40 years, that $1.3 billion is for another, more important purpose:
Your tax dollars are paying the Colombian military and right-wing death squads to terrorize, torture and murder union members, people in left-wing movements, grass-roots organizers and human rights activists in every part of Colombia.In light of that fact, the Common Courage Press is making this book freely available online, since it's no longer in print.
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Toxic Sludge is Good For You!:
Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry
by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
Common Courage Press, 1995; Monroe, Maine; ISBN 1-56751-060-4PR = PRopaganda. Together with the corporate-owned mass-media, the crooked public relations industry is one of the most insidious enemies of democracy in the world today. There is, in fact, no real difference between the corporate "news" media and the propaganda-for-hire PR industry.More about Toxic Sludge is Good For You! and authors John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton...
Secrets and Lies:
The Anatomy of an Anti-Environmental PR Campaign
by Nicky Hager and Bob Burton
Common Courage Press, 1999; ISBN 1-56751-182-1"The functioning of democracy depends on exposing the public relations industry. We wrote this book as an example of a PR campaign, but also as an example of how to counter it."More about Secrets and Lies...
The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media:
Decoding Spin and Lies in Mainstream News
by Norman Solomon
Common Courage Press, 1999; Monroe, Maine; ISBN 1-56751-154-6"[Solomon] fights the good fight without fear of consequence... The best critics of the press — the great dissenters — always did this... Solomon's work is in that passionate tradition, which may not be good for high blood pressure but is absolutely crucial if we ever hope to have a truly free press in this democratic nation."— Jonathan Kozol
from the IntroductionNote: Genuine Democracy is virtually impossible without a truly free press. How can people make informed decisions about who to vote for without a free press?
Therefore the fact that we do not have a truly free press is one of the clearest indications that we also do not have a genuine democracy.
More about The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media and Norman Soloman...
Inventing Reality:
The Politics of News Media
by Michael Parenti
St. Martin's Press, 1993; ISBN 0-312-02013-9The so-called "news" media are an essential propaganda organ of the American corporate state. The truly evil rulers of this country literally can't afford for people to know the truth. Evil can't survive without deception. America is a brutal, inhuman, terrorist nation. If decent people in America dared to face that fact then they would actually have to do something about it.About Inventing Reality and Michael Parenti...
Censored 2000:
The Year's Top 25 Censored Stories
by Peter Phillips and Project Censored
Introduction by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Cartoons by Tom Tomorrow
Seven Stories Press; ISBN 1-58322-034-8Censored 2000 features a selection of the many major newstories which were censored by the mainstream "news" media in 1999. A few examples:
- Multinational Corporations Profit from International Brutality
- American Sweatshops Sew U.S. Military Uniforms
- Turkey Destroys Kurdish Villages with U.S. Weapons
- NATO Defends Private Economic Interests in the Balkans
- The U.S. and NATO Deliberately Started the War with Yugoslavia
- Evidence indicates no pre-war genocide in Kosovo and possible U.S./KLA plot to create disinformation
- U.S. media ignores humanitarian aspects of famine in Korea
- IMF and World Bank contributed to economic tensions in the Balkans
- US and Germany trained and developed the KLA
More about Censored 2000 and Project Censored...
War, Lies and Videotape:
How media monopoly stifles truth
Edited by Lenora Foerstel
International Action Center, 2000What passes for "news" today has been predigested by a handful of media megacorporations.In this book, hard-hitting media critics, journalists, and activists examine the newly-emerging global media systems.
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Bloody Hell:
The Price Soldiers Pay
by Dan Hallock
The Plough Publishing House, 1999; ISBN 0-87486-969-2"Bloody Hell provides a platform for veterans to speak for themselves. Page after page of searing testimony to the brutal, bloody, unmerciful, dehumanising, haunting, destructive, grim black void of war. The pain. The lies. The reality. The aftermath."More about Bloody Hell: The Price Soldiers Pay...
Lies My Teacher Told Me:
Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by James W. Loewen
Simon & Shuster, A Touchstone Book, 1995; ISBN 0-684-81886-8Startling truths about the myths and misinformation of American history. Lies My Teacher Told Me is another modern classic."Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our 'educational' system and a one-volume education in itself."— Howard Zinn
author of A People's History of the United StatesMore about Lies My Teacher Told Me and Professor James Loewen...
Also by James Loewen — Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
The Hidden Persuaders:
What makes us buy, believe — and even vote — the way we do?
by Vance Packard
Pocket Books of Canada, LTD, 1957; MontrealAn important book from way back in the '50s when the Almighty Television was just beginning to homogenize the mind of American society. Vance Packard was a well-known author and his book was one of the earlier works to warn Americans about the grim reality of Mass Mind Control.But did they listen? No, they were too busy watching TV.
Review from The New Yorker:
"A brisk, authoritative, funny and frightening report on how manufacturers, fundraisers and politicians are attempting to turn the American mind into a kind of catatonic dough that will buy, give or vote at their command."
Note from the year 2001:
Well golly gee wiz, Mousketeers, guess what? They succeeded!
Can - you - say - "b - r - a - i - n - w - a - s - h - e - d" ?
I knew you could!More about The Hidden Persuaders...
Market Elections:
How Democracy Serves the Rich
by Vince Copeland
World View Forum; ISBN 0-89567-134-4The United States of America is in fact a corporate plutocracy masquerading as a "democracy." The democratic facade has always been maintained for the purpose of placating the masses of unthinking taxpayers.The corporate plutocrats who have run this country for over 130 years want to keep those billions of your hard-earned tax dollars flowing into their war machine so they can exploit, bully and terrorize people all over the world. American state terrorism is good for American business.
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Saving Private Power:
The Hidden History of "The Good War"
by Michael Zezima
Soft Skull Press; ISBN 1-887128-45-xThere simply is no such thing as a "good war." There never has been and there never will be. Patriotic propaganda notwithstanding, the ruling classes of every nation have always had purely self-serving reasons for leading the brainwashed masses by the nose to their bloody deaths in war. Those reasons are always about one thing: protecting the private wealth and the private power of the ruling classes.Why were so many prominent Americans like Henry Ford, Prescott Bush, Charles Lindbergh and the corporate heads of IBM enamored of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis? Being racist anti-Semites wasn't half the story. The most important reason was that the American plutocracy knew Hitler was a staunch defender of capitalism.
Want to see the true face of capitalism? You need look no further than Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Eichmann, Benito Mussolini, et al.
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The American Presidency
by Gore Vidal
Odonian Press, ISBN 1-878825-15-1Another gem of political candor, written in Gore Vidal's eloquent style. American Presidents have never been the fine, upstanding statesmen we've been told they were in the U.S. government brainwashing centers (a.k.a. "public schools").Very few American Presidents have even been genuine leaders. And leadership abilities or not, the real job of all Presidents is merely that of press secretary and trade representative for the only real government, the United States Corporate Mafia Government: a genocidal government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich.
More about The American Presidency and Gore Vidal...
A People's History of the United States:
1492 — Present
by Howard Zinn
HarperPerennial, 1980, 1995 (Revised and Updated Edition); ISBN 0-06-092643-0"Those accustomed to the texts of an earlier generation, in which the rise of American democracy an the growth of national power were the embodiment of Progress, may be startled by Professor Zinn's narrative."From the opening pages, an account of the 'the European invasion of the Indian settlements in the Americas,' there is a reversal of perspective, a reshuffling of heroes and villains. The book bears the same relation to traditional texts as a photographic negative does to a print: the areas of darkness and light have been reversed..."
— Eric Foner
New York Times Book ReviewMore about A People's History and Howard Zinn...
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
by Gar Alperovitz
Random House, 1995; ISBN 0-679-76285-xThis is the most authoritative book on the subject, written by the Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland.More about The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and Gar Alperovitz...
See also:
American Atomic-Genocide of the people of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, August, 1945
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Common Courage Press
"Books For An Informed Democracy"
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"Books to Help You Understand and Change Your World"
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"A Literary Meetingplace since 1953"
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"Books To Build A New Society"
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http://www.wsws.org/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgiU.S.A.:
P.O. Box 48377
Oak Park, MI 48237Britain:
PO Box 1306
Sheffield, S9 3UWAustralia:
PO Box 367
Bankstown, NSW 1885"We are a specialty publisher dedicated to producing high-quality editions of socialist books and pamphlets in the English language. Our titles cover a wide range of subjects, from history and philosophy to culture and contemporary politics."One of the greatest lies maintained in the course of this century was the false identification between Stalinism and socialism. For decades the Stalinist bureaucracy of the Soviet Union suppressed the heritage of classical Marxism, while western historians and bourgeois ideologues used the crimes committed by the bureaucracy to discredit a socialist perspective.
"Mehring Books sets out to clarify the historical record. We are proudly associated with the writings of Leon Trotsky and other great anti-Stalinist socialists and are making many of their books available in English for the first time. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, these works acquire an immense contemporary significance.
"Our publishing house contributes to the intellectual and cultural environment by providing a body of literature which helps one intelligently comprehend complex economic, political, and social problems that confront mankind today."
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owner of Humboldt Internet
September 26, 2001On September 14, 2001, three days after the WTC attack, the owner of the humboldt1.com ISP summarily deleted the original American Terrorism website. When informed that he was suppressing online free speech, he offered the helpful advice above.
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