books by Common Courage Press     books:       Drive-By Journalism: The Assault on Your Need to Know6 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 Parole9 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 Products11 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 Reforms9 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 Love13 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 Agenda10 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 America6 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 Government6 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 Nature12 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 Generation7 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 Empire4 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 Rebellion4 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 Nation5 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 Democracy6 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 View4 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 Propaganda5 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 Propaganda6 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 For3 reviews Lisa Cullen, CullenLisa 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 America3 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 Warped3 reviews Dennis Bernstein, 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. 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