books by Common Courage Press
books:
Drive-By Journalism: The Assault on Your Need to Know
6 reviews
Arthur E Rowse
Common Courage Press, 2000
Wall Street Conquers the Fourth Estate
In Drive-by Journalism, Arthur Rowse makes a convincing case that a lack of reliable news is crippling American democracy. As a result of deregulation of the news and entertainment industries, a steady series of corporate mergers has concentrated the media into a five-firm oligopoly of unprecedented power. We may think we have a lot of channels to choose from, but they all come from the same ...
Steal This Book: And Get Life Without Parole
9 reviews
Bob Harris
Common Courage Press, 2002
Great advice on Investments (and Babes)
I really liked the chapter about the stock market, and how you can tell which way stocks will go by using very sophisticated ratios like that put-call ratio. I also thought that I should add a review since no one seems to have written one since September, and that's a shame for a book with so many incindiary insights.
It's No Accident : How Corporations Sell Dangerous Baby Products
11 reviews
E. MARLA FELCHER
Common Courage Press, 2001
The Next Consumer Movement
American families trust that the products our babies use, from strollers to cribs to swings, will keep them safe. Unfortunately, we found out the truth in the most terrible way. Our beloved son Danny was the fifth baby to die in the Playskool Travel-Lite Portable Crib. When we discovered that it had been recalled five years earlier, our friend Marla Felcher embarked on a groundbreaking ...
The Globalization of Poverty: Impacts of IMF & World Bank Reforms
9 reviews
Michel Chossudovsky
Common Courage Press, 2002
Free Market Not Free, Ills of the 21st Century, Brilliant
Although it saddens me to see a strong literature emerging today that was largely anticipated and ignored by people like David Barnett with his Global Reach work in the 1970's, it is a good thing that strong voices like those of this author are now making very comprehensive documented cases for how corporate power and privatized wealth are collapsing nations, bankrupting economies, and ...
Have Fun. Learn Stuff. Grow.: Homeschooling and the Curriculum of Love
13 reviews
David H. Albert
Common Courage Press, 2005
Remember why we do this...
David Albert is without a doubt, one of the most refreshing voices in the alternative education movement. He shows you what is possible in educating our children; and does it with infectious joy and good humor. Life should be fun! Learning should be fun! Why do we make such a drudgery out of it? Why do we torture our children so? I am speaking mostly to myself here, lest anyone take offense. ...
Oil, Power, & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda
10 reviews
Larry Everest
Common Courage Press, 2003
Worse fears confirmed
I just saw Larry Everest on CSpan as well. This man is no nutcase-- he makes the kind of sense that gives a chilling credibility to one's worst suspicions and fears about what is going on in this country right now. I knew nothing about him or his book but I'm about to buy it innediately!
Robbing Us Blind: The Return of the Bush Gang and the Mugging of America
6 reviews
Steve Brouwer
Common Courage Press, 2003
Important reading -- by the end, fully justifies its title.
I don't pay much attention to titles (which I consider part of the exaggerated PR to get a book sold), but the frequent references from early in the text to the "Bush Gang" as not only descendants of the "Robber Barons", but in many ways worse than them, at first almost put me off. How biased was this book going to be, exactly? I was looking for hard evidence, not unsubstantiated claims or ...
Delusional Democracy: Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government
6 reviews
Joel Hirschhorn
Common Courage Press, 2006
Gives Focus to What Everyone is Thinking
A must read book! This book is well written and concise. It serves as a fantastic wake-up call to the American people. It succinctly describes the anti-democratic practices, tendancies, and directions in society, the economy, the mass media, and government that have been eroding our participatory institutions by distracting citizens for decades. It is an indictment of the corruption that ...
Been Brown so Long, It Looked Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature
12 reviews
Jeffrey St. Clair
Common Courage Press, 2003
It's the Life Suppoort System, Stupid
It's the Life Support System, Stupid. BY MICHAEL DONNELLY "They say we can't win without the Big Greens and the funders. Yet, that's the only way we've ever won." Mike Roselle, co-founder Earth First! Jeffrey St. Clair's book, "Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green To Me" (Common Courage Press, 2004) is a 400-page verification of Roselle's statement. After a brilliant "Opening Statement," the ...
Framing Youth: 10 Myths About the Next Generation
7 reviews
Mike A Males
Common Courage Press, 1999
A Breath Of Fresh Air
Males has done it again in Framing Youth, a book that utterly slams the 1990's American dogma that 17-year-old "kids" need to be curfewed, uniformed and monitored at all times lest they booze, dope and kill. This book should be required reading for every politician, social worker, teacher, parent and even student. Many youth rights groups like NYRA, ASFAR and Youthspeak have already flocked ...
Fighting the Lamb's War: Skirmishes with the American Empire
4 reviews
Fred A Wilcox
Common Courage Press, 2002
UNNERVING, PROPHETIC NON DRAMATIC telling of a life
Philip Berrigan,who beacame {in}famous for being the first Catholic priest jailed ON PRINCIPLE{for his destroying of draft files in Baltimore in 1967},has penned a sort of autobiography. Philip Berrigan has always been a huge burr in the side of everyone in power:religious superiors,wardens, govenment officials{his encounter with Rober McNamara during the war is telling}et,al. He has courage ...
Ralph's Revolt: The Case for Joining Nader's Rebellion
4 reviews
Greg Bates
Common Courage Press, 2004
Vote Strategically; Vote Nader
It is farcical that the left demonizes the current president and his administration as being particularly egregious in their criminality, and by doing so affirms the lackluster Kerry as the antidote. Bush is more successful at being cruel says Bates, and little more; compared to Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy and Truman, he is "bushleague by comparison.." There is much analyzing too of the rightward ...
Washington on $10 Million A Day: How Lobbyists Plunder the Nation
5 reviews
Ken Silverstein
Common Courage Press, 2002
Inside the Corrupt Heart of the Beltway
Yes, it truly is the age of retail politics. And Ken Silverstein's new expose, Washington on $10 Million a Day, shows the high price that must be paid to the lobbyists of K Street to get troubled corporations and Third World dictators out their various jams. Silvertein introduces us to the likes of Tommy Hale Boggs, the brother of ABC news diva Cokie Roberts, who charges $500 an hour to help ...
The Twilight of Democracy
6 reviews
Jennifer Van Bergen
Common Courage Press, 2004
Crushing Democracy on the Pretext of Saving It
The one point on which Jennifer Van Bergen as author of "Twilight of Democracy" and George W. Bush agree is over the assertion made by the latter that "America has been changed forever by the tragedy of 9-11." From that point forward Van Bergen, an attorney active in the South Florida branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Bush travel widely disparate ideological paths. Van Bergen ...
The World According to Washington: An Asian View
4 reviews
Patwant Singh
Common Courage Press, 2005
Criticism From an American Friend
Criticism From a Friend of America - Distinguished and prolific Indian Author Patwant Singh tells us in his introduction, "I admire America. I have been visiting it regularly for over 40 years. I have long and enduring friendships there, and relish the welcoming warmth I experience each time I visit." Written by a friend, this unrelenting explanation of how Washington is viewed from Asia -- ...
Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda
5 reviews
Noam Chomsky
Common Courage Press, 1993
illuminates Chomsky's dissident analysis
"Letters from Lexington : Reflections on Propaganda" is a compelling collection of letters which reveal the role of the US major media in justifying and championing US government and corporate actions throughout the world. One chapter which illuminates Chomsky's dissident analysis is the chapter entitled, "The PC Thought Police". In this chapter, Chomsky compares the US propaganda system to that ...
The Seven Deadly Spins: Exposing the Lies Behind War Propaganda
6 reviews
Mickey Z
Common Courage Press, 2004
Imperialism with a Spin
The vast majority of citizens of the United States are either unaware or don't care about the magnitude and regularity of the crimes committed by their government in their name. They rather think their government is a "light unto the world" going about its business, wishing nothing other than to be left alone to pursue its peaceful American dream. Whether this is due to the disingenuousness of ...
A Job To Die For
3 reviews
Lisa Cullen
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Common Courage Press, 2002
An uncommon take on workplace safety and health.
Lisa Cullen provides an eye-opening look at the dark side of occupational health and safety in the United States. It integrates the seperate worlds of Workers Compensation and OSHA compliance into a compelling, human tale of workers and the governemt agencies tasked with protecting them. As a Safety Professional in private industry, I recommend this book to my peers as a counterpoint to the rosy ...
Battlebabble: Selling War in America
3 reviews
Thomas Lee
Common Courage Press, 2005
BattleBabble, by Thomas. F. Lee
Battlebabble is "a dictionary of deception": it lists alphabetically euphemistic terms the government uses to describe wartime activity, what author Dr. Thomas Lee calls "a tidal wave of deceptive rhetoric poured from the White House, aimed at drowning reason and protest." Such terms include "collateral damage," "friendly fire," and "air campaign," all of which in fact describe death and ...
Henry Hyde's Moral Universe: Where More Than Space and Time Are Warped
3 reviews
Dennis Bernstein
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Leslie Kean
Common Courage Press, 1999
An ESSENTIAL and thorough look at Right Wing Hypocrisy!!!
This takes the gift wrapping paper off of Henry Hyde and shows him for the warped sociopath that he truly is. His deviance seems to have no boundaries, which is why his moralizing during the impeachment of the President was so startling and shameful. A MUST READ for every committed American.
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