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Blackwater: The Rise of the Most Powerful Mercenary Firm in the World

Blackwater: The Rise of the Most Powerful Mercenary Firm in the World

by Jeremy Scahill

Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. With its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and twenty-thousand troops at the ready, Blackwater is the elite Praetorian Guard for the "global war on terror"-- yet most people have never heard of it. It was the moment the war turned: On March 31, 2004,... (more)

Dude, Where's My Country?

by Michael Moore

In addition to his work as a mega-bestselling author, Michael Moore is an award-winning director. He lives in Michigan.

Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America

Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America

by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington

Who filled the trough? Who set the table at the banquet of greed? How has it been possible for corporate pigs to gorge themselves on grossly inflated pay packages and heaping helpings of stock options while the average American struggles to make do with their leftovers? Provocative political commentator Arianna Huffington yanks back the curtain on the unholy alliance of CEOs, politicians, lobbyists, and Wall... (more)

Blowback: Book 3

Nemesis

The Last Days of the American Republic

by Chalmers A. Johnson

The long-awaited final volume of Chalmers Johnson’s bestselling Blowback trilogy confronts the overreaching of the American empire and the threat it poses to the republic In his prophetic book Blowback , Chalmers Johnson linked the CIA’s clandestine activities abroad to disaster at home. In The Sorrows of Empire, he explored the ways in which the growth of American militarism and the garrisoning of the... (more)

Globalization Unmasked: Imperialism in the 21st Century

Globalization Unmasked: Imperialism in the 21st Century

by James F. Petras

Globalization is the mantra of our times. Business executives, politicians, and intellectuals all seem to agree that it just happened, and that we must adapt to it. In this new book, the entire globalization project is subjected to a powerful blast from the left. James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer contend that globalization is not new—capitalism over the past 100 years has experienced periodic waxings and wanings of... (more)

Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook

Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook

by Scott Adams

Behind the closed doors of corporate management lurks a manifesto so devious, so insidious, and of such diabolic power, it has the ability to transform normal human beings into paradigm-spewing zombies. Its purpose: to help bosses stick it to their employees. Its author: none other than Dogbert, the canine corporate consultant out to rule the world. All too often, new managers make mistakes such as rewarding good... (more)

Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies

Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies

by Russ Kick, Russell Kick

This book begins where You Are Being Lied To left off. Once again, an amazing group of investigative journalists, researchers, insiders, dissidents, and academics peels back consensus reality and shows us what's really happening. Hard, documented evidence on the most powerful institutions and controversial topics in the world. Among the revelations: Antidepressants trash your brain. China has repeatedly... (more)

The Globalization Gap: How the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Left Further Behind (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books)

The Globalization Gap: How the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Left Further Behind (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books)

by Robert A. Isaak

Globalization Has Triumphed, But Can We Save the Poor? For most people except the world’s very richest, globalization is failing—catastrophically. If we don’t act, its failure will lead to a global upheaval worse than any in human history. But there’s another, better path. Isaak shows how a new globalization can give the poor a powerful stake, both here and abroad. Isaak's ideas can lead toward a more stable,... (more)

The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money

The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money

by Dan Briody

The author of the bestseller The Iron Triangle untangles a web of political back scratching in one of the world's most powerful companies Halliburton-a Texas oil-field company Dick Cheney ran before he became Vice President-has courted controversy for the better part of the twentieth century, but only recently has it received intense media scrutiny. In The Halliburton Agenda, Halliburton and its subsidiaries... (more)

Blowback: Book 2

The Sorrows of Empire

Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic

by Chalmers A. Johnson

"Impressive . . . a powerful indictment of U.S. military and foreign policy." - Los Angeles Times Book Review , front page In the years after the Soviet Union imploded, the United States was described first as the globe's "lone superpower," then as a "reluctant sheriff," next as the "indispensable nation," and in the wake of 9/11, as a "New Rome." In this important national bestseller, Chalmers Johnson... (more)

9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, Third Edition

9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, Third Edition

by Webster Griffin Tarpley

The thesis of Webster Tarpley's 911 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA has been enthusiastically received with its working model of the 9/11 plot: a covert network of moles, patsies, and a commando cell in the privatized intelligence services, backed by corrupt political and corporate media elites. Buttressed by historical examples like the Baader-Meinhof Gang and the Gunpowder Plot, this model makes it clear how... (more)

Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back

Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back

by Amy Goodman

Torture. Kidnapping. Bogus wars. Illegal wiretapping. Propaganda. Spies in the newsrooms. Oil profiteers. Soldiers who won't fight. Mothers of fallen soldiers Who will. In Static , the bestselling brother-sister team of Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! , and investigative journalist David Goodman takes on government liars, corporate profiteers, and the media that have acted as their cheerleaders. The... (more)

Alternatives to Economic Globalization

by John Cavanagh

Written by a premier group of thinkers from around the world, Alternatives to Economic Globalization is the defining document of the antiglobalization movement. The culmination of a three-year project by the International Forum on Globalization, whose members include Ralph Nader, David Korten, John Cavanagh, Lori Wallach, and Jerry Mander, it presents both a sober critique of globalization as well as practical,... (more)

INSIDE THE COMPANY: CIA DIARYPhilip Agee

INSIDE THE COMPANY: CIA DIARY

by Philip Agee

What We've Lost

by Graydon Carter

The editor of Vanity Fair magazine offers a hard-hitting assessment of the Bush administration's first term, and its disastrous effects on America at home and abroad, in this revised paperback edition which includes new material on Bush's re-election and second term. What We've Lost addresses the fragile state of U.S. democracy with a critical review of the Bush administration by one of our leading magazine... (more)

Blowback: Book 1

Blowback

The Costs and Consequences of American Empire

by Chalmers A. Johnson

The term 'blowback,' invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended results of American actions abroad. In this incisive and controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by our overextended empire, which insists on projecting its military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets to force global economic integration on its own terms. From a case of... (more)

House of Bush, House of Saud

The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties

by Craig Unger

Newsbreaking and controversial -- an award-winninginvestigative journalist uncovers the thirty-year relationshipbetween the Bush family and the House of Saud andexplains its impact on American foreign policy, business,and national security. House of Bush, House of Saud begins with a politicallyexplosive question: How is it that two days after 9/11,when U.S. air traffic was tightly restricted, 140 Saudis,many... (more)

You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths

You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths

by Russ Kick, Russell Kick

Do you believe any of the following? * Alcoholics Anonymous is effective. * Hackers pose a grave threat to the nation. * There's a hidden code in the Bible. * The Big Bang is an airtight fact. * Thousands of species have become extinct because of deforestation. * Licking certain toads will get you high. * Most terrorists are Middle Eastern. Wake up! You're being lied to. This book acts as... (more)

Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide To Media Mirages And Establishment Lies

Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide To Media Mirages And Establishment Lies

by Russ Kick, Russell Kick

What do CNN, your history teacher, and the White House have in common? All of them have kept some important facts from you: • The US military faces a huge a rape crisis. • The most popular kind of antidepressants can cause suicide. • The nation of Panama was created as a get-rich scheme by Wall Street. • The Atlanta child-killer was convicted of only two murders—of adults. • Islamic groups are... (more)

What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World

What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World

by M. L. Rossi

A Timely Follow-up to What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World Most of us know the big players politically in the United States. But ever wonder who’s pulling their strings? Who the movers and shakers are around the globe? In sharp, witty prose, What Every American Should Know About Who’s Really Running the World answers these questions and more—spelling out exactly who to watch,... (more)

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by Jeremy Scahill

by Michael Moore

by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington

The Last Days of the American Republic

by Chalmers A. Johnson

by James F. Petras

by Scott Adams

by Russ Kick, Russell Kick

by Robert A. Isaak

by Dan Briody

Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic

by Chalmers A. Johnson

by Webster Griffin Tarpley

by Amy Goodman

by John Cavanagh

by Philip Agee

by Graydon Carter

The Costs and Consequences of American Empire

by Chalmers A. Johnson

The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties

by Craig Unger

by Russ Kick, Russell Kick

by Russ Kick, Russell Kick

by M. L. Rossi