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Humanitarian Imperialism

Using Human Rights to Sell War

By Jean Bricmont. Human rights as a justification for U.S. intervention is examined and exposed as arbitrary, self-serving and extremely destructive.   MORE INFO
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Manifesto: Three Classic Essays On How To Change The World
If you are curious and open to the life around you, if you are troubled as to why, how and by whom political power is held and used, if you sense there must be good intellectual reasons for your unease, if your curiosity and openness drive you toward wishing to act with others, to "do something," you already have much in common with the writers of the three essays in this book.   MORE INFO
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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army By Jeremy Scahill
Blackwater is the elite Praetorian Guard for the "global war on terror," with its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and twenty thousand troops at the ready. Run by a multimillionaire Christian conservative who bankrolls President Bush and his allies ...   MORE INFO
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DVD: Life + Debt a film by Stephanie Black
A film by Stephanie Black.

This scathing film is an unapologetic look at the "new world order" from the point of view of Jamaican workers and farmers, as well as government and policy officials.   MORE INFO
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Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky
Recommended reading by Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez!

From Publishers Weekly: In this highly readable, heavily footnoted critique of U.S. foreign policy from the late 1950s to the present, Chomsky argues that current U.S. policies in Afghanistan and Iraq are not a specific response to September 11, but simply the continuation of a consistent half-century of foreign policy—an imperial grand strategy ...   MORE INFO

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DVD: Imperial Grand Strategy
In Imperial Grand Strategy, a lecture given at the University of Manchester, Noam Chomsky takes on the war in Iraq.   MORE INFO
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Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast
Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf? China Floats, Bush Sinks. The Scheme to Steal '08. No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War.   MORE INFO
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Wars of the 21st Century: New Threats New Fears, by Ignacio Ramonet

Ignacio Ramonet offers a concise, unforgiving analysis of the fundamental global issues of today, carefully dissecting the phenomenon of neoliberal globalization and the recent U.S.-led wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and elsewhere.   MORE INFO

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Targeting Iran by David Barsamian
A collection of writings by Noam Chomsky, Ervand Abrahamian and Nahid Mozaffari.   MORE INFO
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Contrary Notions The Michael Parenti Reader
This book is a powerful selection of Michael Parenti's most lucid and penetrating writings on real history, political life, empire, wealth, class power, technology, culture, ideology, media, environment, sex, and ethnicity.   MORE INFO
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Urgent and visionary, this landmark collection is an unbeholden exposé of the "non-profit industrial complex" and its quietly devastating role in managing dissent.   MORE INFO
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The Bolsheviks and War by Sam Marcy
What distinguished the Bolsheviks from the other parties in the Socialist International? Was Lenin's focus on building the party a distraction from the anti-war struggle—or a necessary part of it?

Sam Marcy in this book reexamines questions long at issue in the progressive movement ...   MORE INFO
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Against Empire by Michael Parenti
Documenting the pretexts and lies used to justify violent intervention and maldevelopment abroad, Parenti shows how the conversion to a global economy is a victory of finance capital over democracy.   MORE INFO
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Global Justice: Liberation and Socialism
These classic works by Ernesto Che Guevara present a revolutionary view of a different world in which human solidarity and understanding replace imperialist aggression and exploitation. Included here are Che's essay 'Socialism and Man in Cuba', his controversial speech in Algiers in 1965, and his final Message to the Tricontinental, in which he calls for the creation of 'Two, Three, Many Vietnams'.   MORE INFO
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The Culture Struggle by Michael Parenti
Many of us go through our years trying to make sense of the world we live in. ... Trying to make sense of things is what makes us truly human. And it has its rewards by sometimes bringing us to a closer approximation of the truth, to something better than the song-and-dance act that is often foisted upon us by those who populate the dominant arena of discourse. ...   MORE INFO
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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by V. I. Lenin
Some call it Globalization some call it Imperialism, whatever its name, its major characteristics are defined in this book written in 1916 by the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, V.I. Lenin. A must-read for today's anti-globalization activists and revolutionaries.   MORE INFO
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DVD: The Take A documentary film by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein
A breathtaking film that documents working-class resistance in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the wake of Argentina's spectacular economic collapse 30 unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory in Buenos Aires, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave!   MORE INFO
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Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano
In Upside Down Galeano offers a series of lesson plans and a "program of study" about out beleaguered planet. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to a seminar on "The Sacred Car," with tips along the way, "How to Resist Useless Vices" and a declaration of "The Right to Rave," Galeano surveys a world unevenly divided between abundance and deprivation, carnival and torture, power and its lack.   MORE INFO

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NATO in the Balkans: Voices of Opposition by Ramsey Clark and others
Confused about the real reasons behind the U.S. war on Yugoslavia? This book, released in 1998, will give you the secret background and hidden role of the U.S. and Germany in the dismemberment of Yugoslavia.   MORE INFO
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Capitalism in Crisis: Globalization and World Politics Today
Cuban President Fidel Castro adds his voice to the growing international chorus against neoliberalism and globalization. Castro also discusses the major trends in world politics, including NATO’s war in Yugoslavia, the U.S. "drug war" in Colombia and the current state of U.S.-Cuban relations.   MORE INFO
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Public Power in the Age of Empire By Arundhati Roy
"Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe."—Arundhati Roy

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Addicted to War
Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism
By Joel Andreas

Updated to include the war in Iraq. "Addicted to War is not only a witty and entertaining portrait of our war-dependent economy, but a truly relevant insight not available in the mainstream media, something our children should know before they must make their choice whether or not to become fodder for the military machine."—Susan Sarandon   MORE INFO
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Superpower Principles: U.S. Terrorism Against Cuba
Edited by Salim Lamrani. Divided into two parts, this book first deals with the history and practice of U.S. foreign policy toward Cuba ...The second part of the book concentrates on the case(s) of the Cuban Five ...
Includes essays by Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Leonard Weinglass and others.   MORE INFO
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Cold War: Warnings for a Unipolar World by Fidel Castro
Who won the Cold War? In an astonishingly frank interview, Cuba's Fidel Castro makes some remarkable revelations about the conflict that took the world to the brink of annihilation.   MORE INFO
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War, Racism and Economic Injustice, The Global Ravages of Capitalism, by Fidel Castro
A damning analysis of the world economic and political order from one of the principal voices of the Third World. Fidel Castro speaks to those who are demanding an alternative to the global ravages of capitalism: 'People used to talk about apartheid in South Africa.Today we could talk about apartheid throughout the world, where over four billion people are deprived of the most basic rights of all human beings.'   MORE INFO
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Psy War on Cuba The declassified history of U.S. anti-Castro propaganda
Edited by Jon Elliston

Newly declassified CIA and U.S. government documents are reproduced here for the first time, exposing a 40-year campaign by Washington to use psychological warfare and propaganda to destabilize Cuba and undermine its revolution.   MORE INFO

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Perilous Power
Perilous Power is a dialogue between Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar concerning the U.S. role in the Middle East from the Reagan era to the recent defeat of Israel during its U.S.-backed war in Lebanon. It's an engaging read. With plenty of information and history interwoven.   MORE INFO
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Dying for Growth - Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor
Edited by Jim Yong Kim, Joyce V. Millen, Alec Irwin, and John Gershman

Viewing the contemporary world from the perspective of health outcomes, this penetrating and often harrowing inquiry provides a wealth of valuable insights and analyses, woven together with in-depth studies that are poignant, vivid and highly informative. It is a challenge to complacency, a thoughtful and compelling call to action.—Noam Chomsky   MORE INFO
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An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire by Arundhati Roy
In this selection of five essays Arundhati Roy masterfully draws the thread of empire through ostensibly disconnected arenas ...   MORE INFO
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Cuban Revolution Reader: A Documentary History of 40 Key Moments of the Cuban Revolution
Edited by Julio Garcia Luis. The Cuban Revolution was one of the defining moments of the 20th century, reaching far beyond the shores of the tiny Caribbean island. This new Reader documents the past four decades of Cuban history and its tumultuous revolution.   MORE INFO
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Bacardí: The Hidden War by Hernando Calvo Ospina
The Bacardí rum company is one of the most successful and recognizable brands in the world. It spends millions on marketing itself as the spirit of youth and vitality. But behind its image as a party drink lies a very different story.   MORE INFO
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Superpatriotism by Michael Parenti
Brilliantly challenging the nationalistic hype propagated by officialdom, the media, the sports world, and the military, this book argues for pursuing policies at home and abroad that serve the real needs of humanity.   MORE INFO
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Latin America at the Crossroads
Domination, Crisis, Popular Movements & Political Alternatives

By Roberto Regalado

Regalado describes a resurgent Latin America struggling anew to break free from its history of domination and exploitation, explaining how the recent strengthening of popular movements has led to the strategic and tactical redefinition of left political parties and social movements and a revisiting of the perennial question: reform or revolution?   MORE INFO
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A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
by Howard Zinn

A major new collection of essays on U.S. history, class, immigration, justice, and more.   MORE INFO
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Tibet and the CIA's anti-China Crusade
This collection of articles from Workers World newspaper should be read by everyone who wants to look beyond the anti-China hype about Tibet and understand what's really going on. New edition updated with articles from 2008.   MORE INFO

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