10 July, 2008
Futile Brutality
By Dan Glazebrook“The World According toTomdispatch”. Edited by Tom Engelhardt Reviewed by Dan Glazebrook
Patriot Follows The Money
And Exposes Foreign Agents
By Eileen FlemingPatriot and author, Grant F. Smith, Director for the Institute of Research Middle East Policy publication, Foreign Agents: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee from the 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal, exposes how US Middle East policy has been formulated and thrives due to the dearth of relevant reporting on AIPAC's activities. This book should be read by every American tax payer, Congress and foreign policy maker
03 July, 2008
Arundhati Roy- Our world Laid Bare
By Priscilla JebarajArundhati Roy’s latest book The Shape of the Beast is an exercise in connecting the many dots that she first started plotting over a decade ago in The God of Small Things
27 June, 2008
Robert McChesney's The Political
Economy Of Media (Part II)
By Stephen LendmanMcChesney's book is a compilation of his best political economy of media work in the past two decades. It contains 23 separate offerings under three topic headings. In them he covers "enduring issues" and "emerging dilemmas." Part I of this review discussed some of them. More follow below. The entire book is must reading and contains new material never before published
25 June, 2008
Robert McChesney's The Political Economy
Of Media (Part I)
By Stephen LendmanMcChesney is today's most notable media scholar and critic. Whatever he writes merits reading. This book is a compilation of his best political economy of media work in the past two decades. It contains 23 separate offerings under three topic headings - Journalism, Critical Studies, and Politics and Media Reform
18 June, 2008
Doug Dowd's "At the Cliff's Edge" (Part II)
By Stephen LendmanDowd's book is an essential text for students and adults. It's a critical review of 500 years of history that brought us to today's unprecendented dangers. Part I covered four and one-half centuries through WW II. Part II continues the story to the present
12 June, 2008
Doug Dowd's "At The Cliff's Edge" (Part I)
By Stephen LendmanAt age 89, Doug Dowd is a wonder. He's still active, vibrant and thankfully so. His latest book is "At the Cliff's Edge: World Problems and US Power".The book is panoramic in scope. It's long and detailed, and this review covers its highlights in hopes readers will get the volume for it all. Plus the character of the man who wrote it and now working on a new so far unfinished book with likely more offerings ahead. Approaching age 90, Dowd is resilient, dedicated and continues to write and teach. We're all the better off for it. Read on
11 June, 2008
Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
By Jim MilesThis has been one of the most difficult books that I have ever read. It removed me from my academic detachment with which I read the majority of books and took me into emotions ranging from frustration, sadness, melancholy through to anger and belligerence. A compelling read, yet at the same time I had to put it down every so many pages in order to contemplate, digest, or simply escape what in sum could be called the constant inhuman brutality of one human against another
06 June, 2008
Marauding Mourners
By Amrit DhattTwenty-four years after the massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi following the killing of Indira Gandhi, a lawyer and a journalist get together to write a hitherto hidden account of the 1984 catastrophe called anti-Sikh riots. A review by Amrit Dhatt
22 May, 2008
Review Of `We Want Freedom:
A Life In The Black Panther Party'
By Mumia Abu-Jamal
By Sukant ChandanHaving read many if not most of the books that have come out by or about former members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defence, We Want Freedom is one of the best. This review cannot cover the many angles from which Mumia approaches his experience in, the ideology, practice and legacy of the Panthers. There are a few things that stand out are worth highlighting in this book, more so than perhaps other books on the same subject
09 May, 2008
Muqtada
By Jim MilesBook Review: Muqtada – Muqtada al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq By Patrick Cockburn
Read It And Riot
By Linnea DueI've heard Derrick Jensen called a gadfly or a thorn in the heel of the establishment. A Horsefly and a nail are more apt. Author of Endgame, A Language Older Than Words, and other well-loved philosophies of courage and spirit, Jensen turns his talents to dialogue in this new graphic book, As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial, coauthored with Minimum Security's Stephanie McMillan
Ramzy Baroud's "The Second Palestinian Intifada"
By Stephen LendmanRamzy Baroud's "The Second Palestinian Intifada" is poignant and masterful. It blends his personal experience with a gripping narrative of his peoples' struggle for justice
15 April, 2008
Peter Hallward's "Damming The Flood" (Part I)
By Stephen LendmanPeter Hallward's newest book, "Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment," is the subject of this review, and here's what critics are saying. Physician and Haiti expert Paul Farmer calls it "the best study of its kind (offering) the first accurate analysis of recent Haitian history." Noam Chomsky says it's a "riveting and deeply-informed account (of) Haiti's tragic history." Others have also praised Hallward's book as well-sourced, thorough, accurate and invaluable. This reviewer agrees and covers this superb book in-depth
The Three Trillion Dollar War
By Jim MilesBook Review: The Three Trillion Dollar War – The True Costs of the Iraq Conflict By Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes
07 April, 2008
The Zoo On The Road To Nablus
By Jim MilesBook Review: The Zoo on the Road to Nablus – A Story of Survival from the West Bank By Amelia Thomas
Women Behind The Bylines
By A ShaheenBook Review: Taking an introspective look at a profession that has a significant presence of women today (in terms of numbers though), Ammu Joseph's Making News: Women in Journalism chronicles the experiences of more than 200 women journalists, reflecting upon gender and gender-related issues
04 April, 2008
Bad Samaritans
By Jim MilesBook Review: Bad Samaritans – The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. Ha-Joon Chang. Bloomsbury Press, New York, 2008
27 March, 2008
Jonathan Cook's "Blood And Religion"
By Stephen LendmanCook's earlier book was published in 2006. It's titled "Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State" and is the subject of this review. It's the rarely told story of the plight of Israel's 1.4 million Arab citizens, the discrimination against them, the reasons why, and the likely future consequences from it. Israel's "demographic problem" is the issue Cook addresses. It's the time when a faster-growing Palestinian population (excluding the diaspora) becomes a majority, and the very character of a "Jewish State" is threatened. Israel's response - state-sponsored repression and violent ethnic cleansing, in the Territories and inside Israel
18 March, 2008
Book Review: The Politics Of Apocalypse-
The History And Influence Of Christian Zionism
By Yoginder SikandThe author clearly indicates that Christian Zionism, based on a virulently anti-Islamic agenda, is a major hurdle to peace not just in West Asia but globally, too. Indeed, some Christian Zionists even ardently wish (and work for) a final global war, in the belief that this would accelerate their hoped-for wafting up to heaven and the subsequent arrival of Jesus
26 February, 2008
John Bolton: Boisterous Bully Of Bloviation
By Thomas RigginsThere is an excellent review of John Bolton's new book, "Surrender is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad" by Brian Urquhart (a former UN under-secretary general) in the March 6, 2008 issue of The New York Review of Books ("One Angry Man")
12 February, 2008
F. William Engdahl's "A Century of War" - Part I
By Stephen LendmanThe book is a sequel to Engdahl's first one and subject of this review - "A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order." It's breathtaking in scope and content, and a shocking and essential history of geopolitics and strategic importance of oil. The book is reviewed in-depth so readers will know the type future Henry Kissinger had in mind in 1970 when he said: "Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control people." Engdahl recounts the story in his two masterful books, both critically essential reading
08 February, 2008
Jonathan Cook's "Israel And The Clash Of Civilisations"
By Stephen LendmanJonathan Cook's newest book, just published, is called "Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East." It's the subject of this review in the wake of advance praise. Noted author John Pilger calls it "One of the most cogent understandings of the modern Middle East I have read. It is superb, because the author himself is a unique witness" to events and powerfully documents them. This review covers them in-depth along with some of this writer's reflections on the region from America
28 January, 2008
Reviewing Jennifer Van Bergen's
"The Twilight Of Democracy"
By Stephen Lendman"The Twilight of Democracy: The Bush Plan for America" written in 2005 is a clear and powerfully relevant analysis of the threat to freedom, democracy and justice in America today under the Bush regime. As the author puts it: "(We live in a time when) civil liberties have been broadly violated to an unprecedented degree....My goal (in the book) is to lay bare what the government does and is doing, and why it is so profoundly anti-democractic" and a danger to everyone
21 January, 2008
Book Review: Robert McChesney's
"Communication Revolution"
By Stephen LendmanRobert McChesney's newest book and subject of this review is titled Communication Revolution - Critical Junctures and the Future of Media. He believes it may be his best one, and Annenberg School of Communication Dean, Machael Delli Carpini, says it is "part media critique, part intellectual history, part personal memoir, and part manifesto."
18 January, 2008
Book Review: The Scar Of David
By William James MartinThe Scar of David, by Susan Abulhawa, is about a scar and a man named David who bears the scar, and another scar -- the scar worn by Amal, the protagonist of the story, whom we follow from childhood and who also incurred a scar on her lower abdomen as the result of the exit wound of a rifle bullet from an Israeli soldier who shot her in the back as she walked to her home in the Jenin refugee camp.Of course, it is also about other scars – the scar of the land
09 January, 2008
Reviewing David Edwards
And David Cromwell's "Guardians Of Power"
By Stephen LendmanBook Review: "Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media". It's a work distinguished author John Pilger calls "required reading" and "the most important book about journalism (he) can remember" since Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman's classic - "Manufacturing Dissent." Cromwell and Edwards "have done the job of true journalists: they have set the record straight" in contrast to the mainstream that distorts and corrupts it for the powerful. Their book is must reading and will be reviewed in-depth, chapter by chapter, to show why. It's also why no major broadsheet ever mentions it or its important content. This review covers lots of it
03 January, 2008
Reviewing F. William Engdahl's
Seeds Of Destruction - Part II
By Stephen LendmanWilliam Engdahl's book is a diabolical account of how four Anglo-American agribusiness giants plan world domination by patenting life forms to gain worldwide control of our food supply and our lives. This review is in three in-depth parts
02 January, 2008
Reviewing F. William Engdahl's
"Seeds of Destruction"
By Stephen LendmanEngdahl's newest book is just out from the Centre for Research on Globalization. It's a sequel to his first one called "Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation" and subject of this review. It's the diabolical story of how Washington and four Anglo-American agribusiness giants plan world domination by patenting life forms to gain worldwide control of our food supply and why that prospect is chilling. The book's compelling contents are reviewed below in-depth so readers will know the type future Henry Kissinger had in mind in 1970 when he said: "Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people."
31 December, 2007
The Face Of Fascism In A Global System
Heading For Collapse
By Juan SantosA Review of The Shock Doctrine By Naomi Klein
Surrender Is Not An Option
By Jim MilesBook Review: Surrender is Not an Option – Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad By John Bolton
18 December, 2007
How Hyperpowers Rise To Global Dominance
And Why They Fall
By Jim MilesBook Review: Day of Empire – How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance – and Why They Fall. By Amy Chua
05 December, 2007
Enough Heroes To Fill A Book
By David SwansonMore than a few serve the state and resist its abuses, at significant risk to themselves. But very few of us know all of their stories. Resisters of the occupation of Iraq in the U.S., British, and Australian governments and militaries are plentiful enough to fill a book, and they've filled a good one."Dissent: Voices of Conscience: Government Insiders Speak Out Against the War in Iraq" is the forthcoming work of U.S. Army Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright and Susan Dixon forthcoming after a long delay imposed by the State Department
04 December, 2007
“In Search Of A Future:The Story Of Kashmir”
By Mohamad JunaidBook review: “In Search of a Future: The Story of Kashmir” By David Devadas
28 November, 2007
Reviewing "Multinationals On Trial"
By Stephen LendmanReviewing James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer's "Multinationals on Trial"
27 November, 2007
Europe At War 1939-1945:Norman Davies'
Falsification Of History
By Thomas RigginsThese comments are based on Adam Tooze's review of the Davies book [Europe at War] in the TLS of 11-16-2007. Tooze has a low opinion of both the book and of Davies' scholarship. This is why
19 November, 2007
Treacherous Alliance
By Jim MIlesBook Review: Treacherous Alliance – the secret dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States By Trita Parsi
01 November, 2007
Why We Torture: Martha Nussbaum On
Zimbardo's "The Lucifer Effect"
By Thomas RigginsPhilip Zimbardo is the psychologist who carried out the Stanford Prison Experiment [SPE] in 1971. He has published a book about the lessons to be learned from that experiment and others. The book is “The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil”. This article is a review of the American philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s discussion of the book in the October 19, 2007 issue of the TLS
24 October, 2007
The Israel/Palestine Question
By Jim MilesIlan Pappe’s highly revised second edition of The Israel/Palestine Question offers the reader a very instructive read on changing historical perspectives about Israel/Palestine within one over-riding theme – land tenure and population control
19 October, 2007
Review: “My Brother’s Keeper.
Documentary Photographers And Human Rights”
By Dr Gideon Polya“My Brother’s Keeper” is a powerful and moving book that deserves a place in everybody’s personal library as a continual reminder of Man’s continuing active and passive inhumanity to Man and that we cannot walk by on the other side
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