Political and Social Criticism Books
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act "...George Orwell
The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
The former vice president’s take on how the Bush administration has degraded the political environment through secrecy, fear and the rejection of fact-based reasoning.
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it."... Clarence Darrow
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill.
A detailed investigation of the private military-industrial entity, Blackwater USA, and its role in the global war on Terror
We have learned now the power of propaganda
and that is one of the greatest calamities that can happen: to use
ideas as a means to transform man... Man is not important--systems,
ideas, have become important. Man no longer has any significance.
We can destroy millions of men as long as we produce a result and
the result is justified by ideas... When the intellect has the upper
hand in human life, it brings about an unprecedented crisis... Krishnamurti,
From On the Present Crisis, in The First and Last Freedom, pp. 145-146.
"The trade of governing has always
been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals
of mankind."...Thomas Paine
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people top stop reading them...Ray Bradbury
"Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to
be said in favor of journalism
in that by giving us the opinion of
the uneducated, it keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community."...
Oscar Wilde
Daniel Webster (American revolutionary) said, In every generation, there are those who want to rule well - but they mean to rule. They promise to be good masters - but they mean to be master.
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.... Ben Franklin
AN
EYE FOR AN EYE MAKES THE WORLD BLIND - POETS ON 9/11.Edited
by poets Allen
Cohen and Clive Matson. Contains 120 poems by over
100 poets.
The Anthology includes celebrated poets such as Robert Pinsky,
former US poet laureate, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, founder of City Lights books
and beat poet, Robert Creeley, renowned poet of The Black Mountain school of
poets, Michael McClure, beat poet and playwright, Diane di Prima, author of Revolutionary
Poems and Memoir of A Beatnik, Coleman Barks, translator of Rumi, Nellie Wong,
Devorah Major, Daniel Berrigan and many more both known and unknown.
This outstanding book may be purchased directly fromthe publisher,
Read review of this book
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?
~Mahatma Gandhi
Choose
Hope, Your Role in Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age
by David Krieger and Daisaku Ikeda. David used the butterfly metaphor
in his forward. "To change the world, we must bring forth the
butterflies of hope from the cocoons of ignorance and apathy that surrounds
them.
The best place to begin is with ourselves. We must emerge from our
own cocoons as positive agents of change."Read
Review David Krieger is the founder of the Nuclear
Age Peace Foundation.
The
Atomic Cafe DVD
"A stunner, a movie that has one howling with laughter, horror and disbelief."
...Vincent Canby of the New York Times. Released
in 1982, its producers spent years toiling over Government A-bomb test and
propaganda films, military training films, news reel footage, radio broadcasts,
and other sources, to come up with one of the most chilling, and hilarious,
movies ever made.
Other DVD's
On
the Beach (2000)
Atomic
War Bride/This Is Not a Test (1960) Radio
Bikini (1987)
Hiroshima
Mon Amour - Criterion Collection (1960)
Fail Safe - Special Edition (1964)
Seven
Days in May (1964)
Dr.
Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition)
(1964)
Trinity
and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie (1995)
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."~ Einstein Ouotes
A
Desperate Passion: An Autobiography
by Helen Caldicott
Minds are like parachutes - they only
function when open...Thomas Dewar
Biotechnology Will Feed the World" and Other Myths
'It is 'no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society '....Krishnamurti
There is truth, and there is untruth, and those
who cling to the truth, even against the whole world, are not mad." -George
Orwell
Fahrenheit
451 by Ray Bradbury
Bradbury's classic novel details the eternal
war between censorship and freedom of thought and continues to be
relevant today more than
ever.
"If we
don't stop the bomb who will take care of the flowers?"..... Neil J.
Seattle, Age
9
Founding Mothers:
The Women Who Raised Our Nation by
Cokie Roberts
Drawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and even favored
recipes, Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of these fascinating women,
bringing to life the everyday trials and extraordinary triumphs of individuals
like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Deborah Read Franklin, Eliza Pinckney,
Catherine Littlefield Green, Esther DeBerdt Reed, and Martha Washington -- proving
that without our exemplary women, the new country might never have survived.
"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."...The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain Quotes
Freeing the World to Death : Essays on the American Empire
by William Blum
Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing the least what it wants.~ Goethe
Favorite Thinkers
Radio and The Tube
KPFA Radio - Great progressive programming, news, music and community affairs
Acoustic Sunrise - KFOG's Rosalie Howarth is a great supporter of local music (and the cafe, too!)
Air America Radio - Finally, liberal commercial radio
KQKE Radio - Local Air America affiliate. Hate the commercials, love the programming
The Mike Malloy Show - The best. Period.