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Body of War - The True Story of an Anti-War Hero 4 reviews
Tomas Young
DOCURAMA, 2008
How many deaths will it take?
+ Not JUST an Anti War Film
+ Wonderful Documentary!!!
+ Great Great Film!!
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The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder 222 reviews
Vincent Bugliosi
Vanguard Press, 2008
Calling All Editors
+ A lot of questions for Mr. Bugliosi???????????????????
My future son-in-law, Kenny Rojas, was killed by an IED in Bayji,Iraq on October 29,2005. He was 21. I read a Stephen Spender poem at his closed-casket funeral.
His death destroyed his family and devastated ours. Believe me, there is NO ONE who would like to see George W. Bush prosecuted for ...
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The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict 35 reviews
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Linda J. Bilmes
W. W. Norton, 2008
$3 trillion would have been cheap
+ 3 Trillion Dollar War
+ A very important work, generally convincing
+ Needs a Revision
+ A must read
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The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right's Plans for the Rest of Us 16 reviews
Rabbi James Rudin
Basic Books, 2005
thanks for speaking truth
+ Accurate and surprisingly objective
It's about time someone named the elephant in the living room. While some of Rudin's conclusions are speculative (and he admits this), he boldly criticizes the Christocracy (i.e. Christian religious right) for their unrelenting agenda to make America a Christian society. Some critique the book as ...
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Veering Right: How the Bush Administration Subverts the Law for Conservative Causes3 reviews
Charles Tiefer
University of California Press, 2006
Subversion traced to whitehouse.gov
+ Veering Right
+ Read this book and you won't vote for Bush
There have been quite a lot of books this year attempting to breach the Bush battlements, but this one, by its calm and meticulous depiction and documentation, does the job in low key but chilling fashion. No screaming salvos, simply a quiet indictment that adds up by the end of the book to a ...
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The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America37 reviews
Jim Marrs
William Morrow, 2008
holy smokes!
+ Excellence in research
+ Conspiracies Smorgsboard
+ The cliche rings true.
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Prelude to Terror: Edwin P. Wilson and the Legacy of America's Private Intelligence Network
Joseph J. Trento
Basic Books, 2006
Distinguished investigative reporter Joseph Trento has written the most authoritative indictment of CIA splinter groups, two generations of Bush family involvement in illegal financial networks, and the funding of the agents of terror. Prelude to Terror reveals the history of a corrupt group of spymasters — led by Ted Shackley — who were fired when Jimmy Carter became president, but ...
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Raptured: The Final Daze of the Late, Great Planet Earth (Kiss My Left Behind series)6 reviews
Earl Lee
See Sharp Press, 2007
A one, two knockout!
+ Raptured
+ Spirits lifted!
+ Hilarious!
+ Wow!!!
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Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics95 reviews
Jerome Armstrong, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga
Chelsea Green, 2006
Moulitsas and Armstrong present a compelling case
+ Enthusiastically recommended for anyone involved in grassroots politics.
+ Fascinating, maddening read
+ Nice counterpoint to professional blowhards
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Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco14 reviews
David L. Phillips
Basic Books, 2006
An honest man speaks out, duty bound
+ Enormous Incompetence!
"Losing Iraq" is a work of great value to all Americans, and will find its place in history after the dust settles and historians have at their leisure decided whether America's dignity was more offended by what was incurred or by what was avoided in our so-called "war on terror."
A passage from ...
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II43 reviews
Douglas A. Blackmon
Doubleday, 2008
amazing
+ Good conditon but took long to get here
+ Only one small complaint
+ Very quick delivery!
+ Slavery by Another Name
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Fascists in Christian Clothing: The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 1 review
Richard J. Weisman
iUniverse, Inc., 2005
This guy teaches kids????
If you routinely see black helicopters hovering over your house; if you believe the illuminati is running the world; if you believe OJ was framed; if you believe, that if it weren't for your tin foil hat, you'd be a victim of mind control by the goverment than this book is for you.
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Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism86 reviews
Michelle Goldberg
W. W. Norton, 2006
Incredible Compilation of Facts
+ Do you want a Christian Taliban on our hands?
+ The Christo-Fascists Want To Take Over The World - Yikes!
+ Scary Look at the Fringe Becoming Mainstream
+ Terrifying and enlightening
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Jaded Tasks: Brass Plates, Black Ops & Big Oil-The Blood Politics of George Bush & Co.5 reviews
Wayne Madsen
Trine Day, 2006
The Best of Journalistic Courage
+ Interesting book
+ Jaded Tasks; Brass Plates,Black Ops & Big Oil
+ must read
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With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change31 reviews
Fred Pearce
Beacon Press, 2007
Welcome to the anthropocene--prepare to be surprised
+ truly compelling and informative
+ So much interesting material
+ best as of summer 2008
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Standard Operating Procedure9 reviews
Philip Gourevitch, Errol Morris
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
An Important Book To Read and Digest
+ Charlie Foxtrot: Staring "Leash Girl" & "Sh_tboy"
+ gut wrenching look at Abu Ghraib..
+ What the Photographs Don't Show
+ Devastating Book
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How America Lost Iraq14 reviews
Aaron Glantz
Tarcher, 2006
We would know what the Iraqi people wanted if we actually listened to them!
+ Who knew there was a Middle?
+ Should be required reading for Bush' adminirstration
+ Balanced
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The Bush Doctrine and the War on Terrorism: Global Reactions, Global Consequences
Mary Buckley, Robert Singh
Routledge, 2006
This new volume gives a balanced critical analysis of the Bush Doctrine and its profound effect on global politics and international security. The Bush Doctrine and the War on Terrorism is a collection of fifteen analyses of the global consequences of, and responses to, US foreign policy under George W. Bush. Offering competing interpretations of the origins and effects of Bush's policies, ...
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Voyage to a Stricken Land: "Four Years on the Ground Reporting in Iraq: A Woman's Inside Story"6 reviews
Sara Daniel
Arcade Publishing, 2006
voyage to hell
+ The Human Toll
+ A rare combination
+ A must-read for anyone curious about life in Iraq in the last 4 years
+ Voyage to a Stricken Land
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Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to The White House2 reviews
Sasha Abramsky
New Press, 2006
A Book to Get You Fired Up
As Americans, we want to see ourselves as the good guys--the defenders of freedom, democracy, and justice around the world. Yet here we are, creating a patchwork quilt of confusing and Byzantine laws, that make it impossible for millions of our own citizens to participate fully.
In Conned, ...
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