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13.1 WHERE TO GET BOOKS ON THE INTERNET:
Some online BOOKSTORES selling English language books :
U.S. : amazon.
com , Double
Discount.com , Barnes
& Noble , Alibris
, Fatbrain , Magus
Books , www.textbookx.com
, http://www.chegg.com/ ,
U.K.: WHSmith.co.uk
, BOL Books , Blackwell
,
Germany : Amazon.de
, Buchkatalog , shops.lion.cc
.
Comparison of book prices : Deal Time.com , Book Sellers .
People from the following two websites have asked me for a link on this website: http://textbooks.org/ , http://www.collegebookrenter.com/press.cfm ,
OFTEN IT IS BETTER WHEN PEOPLE CAN UNDERSTAND IT EASILY:
Sometimes I think it would be easier for people
who are not intellectuals or college
or university students to understand
progressive
texts when there would be a smaller
vocabulary and shorter sentences and when the
vocabulary would better explained .
I do not mean this only for elections .
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Some very informative mostly progressive books are:
DVD: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott & Joel Bakan: The Corporation,
2004, 2005,
With German subtitles available only from www.Zeitausendeins.de or
their stores.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
Michel Chossudovsky: America's "War on Terrorism", 2005 ,
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
David Edwards and David Cromwell: Guardians of Power. The Myth of the
Liberal Media, 2006 ,
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
Eva Golinger: The Chávez Code. Cracking U.S. Intervention in
Venezuela, 2005, book may be obtained from e.g. leftbooks.com
,
German translation of the book as:
Eva Golinger: Kreuzzug gegen Venezuela. The Chávez Code, 2006,
at Zambon Verlag .
I have obtained and read the German translation in Feb 2006.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ( very many people have read this
text
):
Arundhati Roy: Public Power in the Age of Empire, 2004 ( small
book ) , link
1 , link
2 , link
3 ,
http://www.flonnet.com/fl2121/stories/20041022008300400.htm
,
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED especially the second half of the book, e.g. on
why
the protests in the Third World are much more effective
than in the First World and why global change most probably will come
from the Third World ( Latin America, Asia, Africa ):
James Petras, Luciano Vasapollo, Henry Veltmeyer, Mauro Casadio: Empire
with Imperialism.The Globalizing Dynamics of Neoliberal
Capitalism, Apr 2006 ,
German translation of the book as "Weltherrschaft durch Imperialismus.
Die trügerische Macht der USA, Nov 2005, at Zambon Verlag ,
I have read the German translation at the end of the year 2005.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
The authors show that when politicians take part as candidates
elections
and by this get into governments ( electoral politics ), they are able
to change only very little in a country, because the ruling people
with much money determine the politics of an electoral system.
Politicans
are
successful in an electoral system only ( get rewarded ), when they
do what the ruling people with much money do want. A bigger change
in a country is possible only when there is a mass movement outside
of parliament. The authors have researched the countries in the title
of
the book for many years. There is no chance to end neoliberalism by
voting for policians in elections; only mass movements can do that.
I would say that this has been the same during the history of the labor
movements. Also when politicians say that they bring democracy to
another country, they bring to another country an electoral
system,
which a few very rich people from the imperialst country do dominate.
James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer: Social Movements and State Power.
Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, 2005 ,
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
Michael
Parenti: Superpatriotism , 2004 , link
2 ,
Christian Parenti: The Soft Cage. Surveillance in America, 2003 , link 2 , link 3 ,
Sheldon
Rampton & John Stauber: Weapons of Mass Deception. The Uses of
Propaganda
in Bush's War on Iraq, 2003 , link
2 ,
link 3 , link
4 , link
5 ,
Roger Burbach and Jim Tarbell: Imperial Overstretch. George W. Bush & the Hubris of Empire , 2004 ,
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
The book sees through all the public relations ( propaganda ). It
explains
very well the factors of the future of what is now the U.S. empire.
The book is written from a Third World perspective.
Walden
Bello: Dilemmas of Domination. The Unmaking of the American Empire, 2005
, link
2 , link
3 ,
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
This book is on the U.S. empire and how it does function. The
book
is very realistic. It is very informative and explains very well. There
is also much
information on e.g. the Trilateral Commission. This book seems to be
very suitable to be published as an audio book, i.e. spoken on audio
cassettes
or CDs.
Tom
Hanahoe: America Rules. U.S.Foreign Policy, Globalization and
Corporate
USA , 2003 ,
link
2 , link
3 ,
Paul Todd and Jonathan Bloch: Global Intelligence. The World's Secret Services Today, 2003 , link 2 ,
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ( how to change ):
A bigger part of this book is on Argentina. Argentina has a far more
effective movement against neoliberal globalization than other
countries.
The
authors of this book explain in detail how this movement in Argentina
does function. Argentina is one of the countries which for the longest
time
had neoliberalism, e.g. no one can earn money from privatization as
almost everything is privatized, and the population has become
extremely
poor.
James
Petras and Henry Veltmeyer: System in Crisis. The Dynamics of Free
Market
Capitalism, 2003 ,
link 2
, Petras
Essays
in English ,
James Petras
and Henry Veltmeyer: Globalization Unmasked. Imperialism in the 21st
Century,
2001 ,
Paul
Krugman: The Great Unraveling. Losing Our Way in the New Century,
2003 ,
link 2
, link 3 , link
4 ,
This book is about how many progressive people in the U.S. hope to
change things. The author wants to maintain capitalism, but without
corporate rule, because corporate rule ( excessive greed without a
long term perspective ) destroys more and more in the course of time
( e.g. jobs, environment, life) and is unsustainable. The author
compares
how different periods in U.S. history were more or less for and against
the population. Compared to other books, the author does write much
about changing things. The ideas are also useful for other countries.
I would say the perspective of this book is similar to the perspective
of Attac in Germany.
Charles Derber:
Regime Change Begins at Home. Freeing America from Corporate Rule, 2004
,
link
2 , link
3 ,
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
Depleted
Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War ,
High
Uranium Levels Found in Troops & Civilians ,
World Uranium Weapons
Conference 2003 ,
Poisoned?
Frederick H.
Gareau: State Terrorism and the United States. From
Counterinsurgency
to the War on Terrorism, 2004
link
2 , link
3 , link
4 , link
5 ( America the Special ) , link
6 ,
There are many books on this subject. This book is easy to
understand.
What the author calls hypocrisy, others often call
public relations( propaganda ) in the media, e.g. a person whose
actions
belie stated moral and religious beliefs. The author
writes about U.S. foreign and domestic policies. Much of the book is
on the victims of U.S. foreign policy. He writes several
times, that thousands or millions of people killed each time, are not
only the numbers of thousands or millions, but that each
of the thousands or millions killed is a human being, also when these
human beings are from the Third World. One should
not judge a book solely by the cover, on which there are three
of the 500000 children killed by U.S. sanctions and bombings
of Iraq. The author writes that when the population does know about
the facts, perhaps there may be a change.
Kennie Anderson:
Land of Hypocrisy , second edition 2003
link
2 , link
3 ,
The author shows very many social science research results on
poverty,
e.g. on causes and effects of poverty. I have found many
research results in this book which I have not found anywhere else.
Nowadays poverty is mainly caused by privatization and neoliberal
globalization. Now by privatization all the gains working people have
won over generations via class struggle, are taken away from people
again by big corporations, the prosperity for the very rich depends
on the continuance and deepening of poverty of the many.
Education does not lift people out of poverty. When people have money,
they get an education, and when they do not have money,
they do not get an education. Poor people mostly do have jobs, but
they do earn only so little that they remain poor. Huge cuts in
benefits
through privatizing of social security, e.g. millions to destitution
because governments enforces privat pension plans, or life expectancies
are
decreasing nowadays. The economy must not be profit driven, but it
is because the very rich want to maintain their privileges.
David
Macarov: What the Market Does to People. Privatization, Globalization
and
Poverty, 2003
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ( how to change ):
This book is on the functioning of corporations is very helpful in
understanding corporate globalization and especially this book
is very useful for CHANGING things in the course of time. It
is written very clearly and easy to understand. The existence of a
corporation depends completely on that a government allows it ( the
corporation ) to exist and continue to exist. Many small
corporations are abolished by governments, because e.g. these small
corporations have not paid taxes, but never big corporations
have been abolished by governments because they pay much campaign
money.
Corporate executives are forced by law to maximize
profits for the shareholders and it is completely illegal for them
to act for the public good. That is corporations are completely amoral.
This causes e.g. corporate deception, environmental destruction,
privatization,
deregulation, seeing only the own corporation and not
the economy as a whole, using up all natural resources, many
wars with large numbers of victims, neoliberal globalization, and other
big disadvantages for the population. Therefore the author says that
corporations are psychopathic. Corporations only maximize
their profits for their sharholders, but are completely amoral.
Corporations
have been a engine to produce much wealth, but now
they are out of control. The existence of corporations depends
completely
on a government and state which allows the corporations
to exist and to remain to exist. So governments must be made
democratic,
e.g. campaign money donations to political parties and
politicians must be abolished, lobbying must be restricted, personnel
flow between governments and corporations must be restricted,
elections must be with proportional representation and without a 5
% clause, there must be limits to the bigness of the media. This
book sees completely through the fog of public relations.
Joel
Bakan: the
Corporation. The
Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, 2004
This book is e.g. on the U.S.-empire, on U.S.-militarism, on the
U.S.-military
and on U.S.-military bases and how they do function.
There is U.S. military in about 153 countries. In some of the countries
where there is U.S. military, it is a secret that they are there.
The U.S. is almost never giving up old bases and always installing
new bases in other further countries. The author thinks that the
U.S. may go bankrupt economically from the high costs of its very many
military bases and the costs of its very many planned future wars.
Chalmers
Johnson: The Sorrows of Empire. Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the
Republic, 2004
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: This book on the life of the population in the
U.S. is very comprehensive, has many
statistics and many details and is easy to understand. The book makes
it easy to understand the relationships between
details. The book is also very critical of the capitalism in the U.S.
As the U.S. is much more advanced in neoliberal
globalization, people e.g. in Europe can use the book, to see in detail
what the future in Europe is like, as European
politicians are imitating the U.S. in almost every detail.
Valdas
Anelauskas: Discovering America As It Is, 1999, second
printing
2003
I have not read this book, but it has been recommended to me by Progressive
Daily News via email:
Nafeez
M. Ahmed and John Leonard: The War on Freedom, 2002
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: The FORMER book of the author "Stupid White Man"
was 58 weeks on the bestseller
list of the New York Times and worldwide more than 4 million copies
have been printed. The FOLLOWING book is
on the U.S. presidential election this year, but there are also very
many similarities with other countries, i.e. is it very
useful to read this book in other countries. There are many things
in the following book which I have not found
elsewhere ( e.g. on environment, religion ). At the end there are also
many suggestions for activism before elections.
In the German translation, the title is: Volle Deckung Mr.Bush.
"Dude, Where's My Country?".
The English language book is also on 6 audio cassette tapes.
English language book: Michael
Moore: Dude, Where's My Country?, 2003
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: This book is easy to understand and
comprehensive
and explains all the facts
clearly. It is on the domestic situation in the U.S.A.and on
U.S. foreign policy, e.g. on the constantly increasing
redistribution of money from the population to the big
corporations
and the very rich( richest top 1% ), on poverty
wages, taking away of health care, jobs, incomes, savings money, old
age pension and security, taking away in wars and by
empire, on tax cuts for almost only the very rich ( tax reform
), on governments producing much unemployment
with their policies, instead of increasing the buying power of the
population: the very rich get much additional money
for their money speculations and financial speculations which are very
damaging to the economy. Also the money is used
for colonial wars worldwide. There is much greed of the very rich and
a very corrupting influence of legal campaign
donations or legal campaign money to political parties and politicians.
In the book there are very many statistics e.g.
about the strongly increasing inequality.
The author also does write about that neoliberal globalization does
not only ONE TIME takes away money, etc
from the population and giving it to the big corporations, big
financial
institutions as big banks, and the very rich.
Neoliberal globalization as written down in the WTO ( World Trade
Organization
) regulations, CONTINUALLY
month after month and year after year does take away more and more
money, etc. from the population ( race to
the bottom )and gives it to the very rich top 1% or 1/10 of 1% . At
the time being in the EU (European Union)
regulations there is still a minimum wage, but there is strong pressure
to abolish also this in the course of
time. The author also writes about the many more deaths caused by these
take-away policies among the
population.
This all is because the organizations of the very rich,( under strong
pressure of the U.S. empire ), have made
the regulations of neoliberal globalization in secret for their
own advantages ( quickest highest profits, like
drug addicts with drugs ). The very rich have paid huge sums of
legal campaign money donations to the
politicians and own the mainstream media.
The author also writes that it was definitely a mistake that formerly
words like the following were not used in this
context: Plunder, theft, stealing, robbing, mugging. There are many
similarities with other countries, which do imitate
almost everything what is done in the U.S.A. Therefore this book
is a must read for people who live in a First World
country which is being made a Third World Country, as in Europe now.
Steve
Brouwer: Robbing Us Blind. The Return of the Bush Gang & The
Mugging
of America, November 2003
David C. Korten : The Post-Corporate World
*
Charles Lewis : The Buying of the Congress .
How
Special Interests Have Stolen Your
Right to Life , Liberty , and the Pursuit of Happiness
There is also a 2004 edition of the book as The Buying of the
President 2004 which I have not read.
Charles Lewis : The Buying of the President 2000
Cecil Heftel : End Legalized Bribery
Sharon Beder : Global Spin . The Corporate
Assault
on Environmentalism
.
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ( On the death economy ( corporate rule,
totalitarianism,
fanaticism, market fundamentalism, market theology )
VERSUS the life economy ( population rule ). Many possibilities
of the life economy are shown. Link1
, link2
, link3
, link4
, link5
,
link6
, link7
, link8
, link9
, link10
):
John McMurtry: Value Wars. The Global Market Versus the Life Economy,
2002
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
Jim Hightower: Thieves in
High Places. They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back,
2003
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ( The author is vice president of The
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy ):
Kristin Dawkins. Global Governance. The Battle Over Planetary Power,
2003
This book is on the colonial history and oil history of the region
of
the Arabian Peninsula and the Caspian Sea. It was written
before the Iraq War 2003. In the book, there is separate chapter
for each of many countries. The book is easy to
understand.
Mark Zepezauer: Boomerang! How Our Covert Wars Have Created Enemies
Across the Middle East and Brought Terror
to America, 2003
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
Arianna Huffington:
Pigs at the Trough. How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are
Undermining
America, 2003
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
Noam Chomsky
is one of the ten most quoted authors in the humanities ( together with
Marx, Shakespeare and the Bible ) and
the only living one of the ten. I have found the following book of
him the most easiest to understand and the most comprehenisve.
It comprises answers to audience questions during the years from 1989
to 1999.
Eds.: Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel: Understanding Power. The
Indispensable Chomsky, 2002
One other book 9-11 by Chomsky before the following one has
been
published in at least 26 countries, but the following book
is more recent. It is on the hypocrisy and double standards of the
media on U.S. foreign policy like wars.
Noam Chomsky: Power and Terror. Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews, 2003
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
Though most of this book was written no later than 1992, it is very
informative on the larger context
of this part of the Iraq
war. The author was a former U.S. Attorney General.
Ramsey Clark: The Fire This Time. U.S. War Crimes in the Gulf, 1992,
2002 ,
published by International Action
Center , book may be obtained from e.g. leftbooks.com
The following book is on Albert Einstein who lived in the U.S.A.
from
1933 to his death in 1955.
During McCarthyism ( purpose: elimination of socialist thinking in
the U.S.A.), freedom of speech
in the U.S.A. was very limited, but Einstein did use freedom of speech
nevertheless. The files have been
declassified ( made no longer secret ) only during the last years.
Hoover was the long time director
or chief of the F BI.
Fred Jerome: The Einstein File. J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War
Against the World's Most Famous Scientist, 2002
This book is on Colombia
, a country in which there is much oil:
Eds.: Rebeca Toledo: War in Colombia: Made in U.S.A. , 2003,
International
Action Center ,
book may be obtained from e.g. leftbooks.com
Jean Ziegler: Les nouveaus Maîtres du Monde et ceux qui leur
résistent,
2002, and translated books as:
Die neuen Herrscher der Welt und ihre globalen Widersacher, 2003
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: This comprehensive book is almost only on
Yugoslavia,
but it shows the methods
of takeover of other countries also used in other parts of the world.
This book is on e.g. foreign financing of
ethnic and religious hatred to divide and conquer and rule, foreign
training and financing and organizing of terrorists,
wars in which at first the television and radio stations of the country
are destroyed, foreign training and financing of
organizers of demonstrations, foreign financing of elections,
IMF and World Bank( as also in more than 150 other
countries ) creating deep poverty for the 80% majority of the
population
and creating the quickest highest profits
for foreign big corporations, foreign big banks and foreign very rich
financial speculators, permanent foreign military
bases to make the world safe for the big foreign corporations.
Yugoslavia
was a welfare state, but now it is being
made into a Third World country ( deep poverty for the 80% majority
of the population ).
The book is also on the Yugoslavia AD HOC court of law
or ad hoc tribunal. An ad hoc court of law has nothing
to do with a normal court of law. An ad hoc court of law exits only
for a limited period of time and only for one
special purpose, e.g. a winner-of-a war country uses this ad hoc court
of law against a loser-of-war country for
revenge and for public relations ( propaganda ) for the media to
justify
its own rule. The winner-of-war country
finances the court, the judge, etc. The ad hoc court has the only
purpose
of sentencing as the winning war country
wants it. It reminds me of, that frequently legal arguments are used
only for public relations ( propaganda )
purposes for the media against a weaker other, but oneself often does
not follow the law at all ( hypocrisy on
e.g. Geneva convention ). Or the stronger one acts according to law
only when the law is in his favor. The
stronger one sometimes first tries to make it legal for public
relations
( propaganda ) purposes, but when
he cannot make it legal, he simply acts illegally according to might
makes right.
John Catalinotto and Sara Flounders ( eds. ): Hiddden Agenda. U.S./NATO
Takeover of Yugoslavia, 2002,
published by International Action
Center , book may be obtained from e.g. leftbooks.com
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
Leonora Foerstel ( ed. ) : War, Lies & Videotape : how media
monopoly
stifles truth, 1999 , published by
International Action Center
, book may be obtained from e.g. leftbooks.com
Profits over health and safety. The book is on the situation in the
U.S., but globalization makes this situation worldwide:
Lisa Cullen : A Job To Die For
. Why So Many Americans Are Killed , Injured Or Made Ill At Work And
What
To Do
About It , 2002
On methods used by and against progressive activists, authors also
from
Europe:
Edited by Eveline Lubbers
: Battling Big Business . Countering Greenwash, Infiltration and
Other
Forms of Corporate Bullying, 2002
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
Rahul Mahajan : The New Crusade. America's War on Terrorism, 2002,
links on a similar topic: War
without End? Not in Our Name , EarthToBush:
No Iraq War , Peace
Action , FOR
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED( This book does not have so many pages as the
other
two below mentioned books by the author):
J. W. Smith : Why?. The Deeper History Behind the September 11, 2001
Terrorist Attack on America, 2002
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED( Must a country under some pretext conquer the
oil
wells ( oil fields ) of other countries, get a new government into
power
by huge sums of foreign campaign money for elections in the occupied
country which then does do what the big foreign corporations do
want
it to do and drastically impoverishes the population? The author
does show how there can be a peaceful world in which no one does suffer
from hunger and where people do need to work only 2 to 3 days per week
and where equal work is equally paid in all countries of the world:
democratic-cooperative
capitalism The book does
have many pages and is available now in a less expensive edition.):
J. W. Smith : Economic
Democracy. The Political Struggle Of the Twenty-first Century, 2002.
J. W. Smith : The World's Wasted Wealth 2 , 1994
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
Michael Parenti
: The Terrorism Trap. September 11 And Beyond, 2002
Today in the mainstream media mostly the market is praised and
the commons is omitted. The market means private
ownership, quickly the highest profits, patents . The commons means
the things which are owned by all and for which people work without
getting
paid and caring for other people and the commons, the quality is
better,
creativity and scientific innovations are much more frequent, patents
do
not prevent using the innovations of others and improving these
innovations,
e.g. scientific communities work this way. Markets: Some
publishers
say that public libraries are the biggest piracy in history. Will
sometimes
one corporation find a legal definition and a meter to patent the
English
language, so that everyone writing in the English language will have to
pay a fee to this corporation for every letter( a,b,c, etc.) s/he does
write in the English language.
Internet, etc.: For everthing there will be patents and copyrights,
so for every move one does make, one has to ask and pay.
All the natural resources are used up. Commercialism and
unaccountability
versus civic values. No health, no education, no life.
There is no genius, everyone does learn from the environment( baby
).Every commons must have boundaries:
David Bollier: Silent Theft.
The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth, 2002
The topic of the following book is frequently discussed in the U.S.
The book well explains the situation in the U.S.
(However, progressive books ( environmental consciousness) should not
smell so strongly of chemicals):
Nancy Chang and the Center
for Constitutional Rights: Silencing Political Dissent. How
Post-September
11 Anti-Terrorism
Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties, 2002
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ( On how the IMF and the World Bank are
destroying
the economies and ruining the
countries not only of the Third World because the big corporations
( financial and industrial ) do not want to have
competition from Third World countries and want to have free access
to everything and want to take what they like.
The German translation of the book titled "Global brutal" in year 2002
only at Zweitausendeins e.g. via the Internet
contains more than 60 pages more , on e.g. the present conquering of
the Central Asian oil wells .
Looking for "Michel Chossudovsky" in search engines
results in thousands of links. ):
Michel
Chossudovsky : The Globalisation of Poverty. Impacts of IMF and
World
Bank Reforms , 1997
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ( well explained, also e.g. on how in practice
Third
World elites are being bribed
by IMF and World Bank loans, so that the Third World elites do what
the big First World corporations
( financial and industrial ) want them to do, e.g. when Third Word
countries do not vote at the United Nations
as the U.S. government does want them to vote, the Third World elites
of these countries do not get World
Bank money and not IMF money and do not get U.S. armaments for the
suppression of the people of their
own country. Third World countries do not need help from First World
countries against poverty, illness,
and misery, the population of Third World countries knows how to help
itself for thousands of years; the
real problem is that almost everything is taken away from the
population
of Third World countries,
e.g. fertile land, resources like oil, jobs to earn enough money.)
Kevin Danaher : 10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF and World Bank , 2001
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ( every important aspect of globalization very
well
explained and therefore
very suitable for learning and looking up ):
Eds. Emma Bircham and John Charlton : Anti-Capitalism . A Guide to
the Movement , 2001
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ( investigative journalism ):
Greg Palast : The Best
Democracy
Money Can Buy . An investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about
Globalization, Corporate Cons and High Finance Fraudsters , 2002
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ( There are many democratic alternatives to
corporate
globalization and international
competitiveness . What should there be instead or what should replace
corporate globalization and international
competitiveness ? The best book I have found on this
subject
is the following book on localization .):
Colin Hines :
Localization
. A Global Manifesto , 2000
* the following three books especially for people in Europe
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED , especially for people in Europe ( I have found
much information in this book , which I have
not found anywhere else . The other countries in the European Union
are imitating the development of a corporate takeover
in Britain because Britain is the most advanced country in the European
Union in this respect . Though this book is mostly
about Britain , it makes the development in other European Union
countries
much easier to understand ) :
George Monbiot : Captive State
. The Corporate Takeover of Britain , 2000
Belen Balanya , Ann Doherty , Olivier Hoedeman , Adam Ma'anit and
Erik
Wesselius : Europe Inc. .Regional and
Global Restructuring and the Rise of Corporate Power , 2000 Corporate
Europe Observatory ( CEO )
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED , especially for people in Europe ( a big taboo
in
the mainstream media in Europe :
public relations for war is not the same as the real world )
Michael Parenti
: To Kill a Nation . The Attack on Yugoslavia , 2000
*
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED :
Charles Derber : Corporation Nation . How Corporations Are Taking Over
Our Lives and
What We Can Do About It , 1998 ( Introduction by Ralph Nader
)
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED :
Ed. Kevin Danaher and Roger Burbach : Globalize This! The Battle
Against
the World Trade
Organization and Corporate Rule . ( How Do We Stop The Greatest
Threat To Democracy
In Our Time? ) , 2000
Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza and Public Citizen : Whose Trade
Organization?
Corporate
Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy , 1999 ( Preface by
Ralph Nader )
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ( lessons from the South-East Asian
financial
crisis in 1998
economic policy recommendations for countries , the author is from
Malaysia ):
Martin Khor : Rethinking Globalization . Critical Issues and Policy
Choices , 2001
Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh with Thea Lee : Field Guide to the
Global Economy , 2000
(Not written from a progressive perspective but from the perspective
of the political right of the U.S. , this book is very
informative and complementing progressive books ):
Alan Tonelson : The Race to the Bottom . Why a Worldwide Workers
Surplus
and Uncontrolled Free Trade Are Sinking
American Living Standard , 2000
*
Linda Stout : Bridging the Class Divide . And Other Lessons for Grassroots Organizing , 1996
Randy Shaw : The Activist's Handbook . A Primer for 1990s and Beyond , 1996
*
Edited by Kevin Danaher : Democratizing the Global Economy . The
Battle
Against the World Bank and the IMF , 2001
Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello , Brendan Smith : Globalization
From
Below . The Power of Solidarity , 2000
Al Gedicks : Resource Rebels . Native Challenges to Mining and Oil Corporations , 2001
*
Yearbooks ( Censored
2000 , formerly called Project Censored ,
e.g. Project Censored 1999 , website address changing , published
at Seven Stories
Press ), there was no Censored 2002, but
the available
Peter Phillips & Project Censored : Censored 2003
is so much the better for it ( published in 2002 ).
Else the yearbook Censored is published every year ,
Censored
2005 is especially informative ,
*
There is also a 2004 edition of the book as The Buying of the
President 2004 which I have not read.
Charles Lewis : The Buying of the President 2000
Jim Hightower : There Are Nothing On the Road But Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED :
Jim Hightower : If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote , They'd Have
Given Us Candidates ,
has come out in February 2000
*
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ( I have found the following book the easiest
to understand corporate welfare ) :
Ralph Nader : Cutting Corporate Welfare , 2000
*
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED :
the ralph nader reader : Seven Stories Press , 2000
A Ralph Nader biography:
Kevin Graham : Ralph Nader . Battling for Democracy , 2000
*
* following five books on public relations :
HIGLY RECOMMENDED ( I have found the following book the easiest
book to understand the real practice of
public relations ) :
Nicky Hager & Bob Burton : Secrets and Lies . The Anatomy of an
Anti-Environmental PR Campaign , 1999.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ( very many reports on the real world of public
relations
) :
Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber : Trust Us We're Experts! How Industry
Manipulates Science
and Gambles With Your Future , 2001
Stuart Ewen : PR! , 1998
John C. Stauber and Sheldon Rampton : Toxic Sludge Is Good for You .
Lies , Damn
Lies and The Public Relations Industry , 1995
Alex Carey ( -1988 ) : Taking the Risk Out Of Democracy , 1997
*
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ( comprehensive detailed analysis on the
manipulation
of content
in the mainstream media , e.g. on one-sidedness , partiality , double
standards, hyprocrisy ,
word tricks , public relations , postmodernism , democratic
alternatives
) :
Edward
S. Herman : The Myth of the Liberal Media . An Edward Herman Reader
. 1999
James Fallows
: Breaking the News . How the Media Undermine American Democracy ,
1996
Robert W. McChesney : Rich Media , Poor Democracy . Communications
Politics
in
Dubious Times
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ( on media reform , media reform movements ,
media ownership , monopoly , diversity , etc. ) :
John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney : It's the Media , Stupid (
Introductions
by
Barbara Ehrenreich , Ralph Nader, Senator Paul Wellstone ) , 2000
*
*
Chuck Collins , Betsy Leondar-Wright and Holly Sklar :
Shifting
Fortunes . The Perils of
the Growing Wealth Gap
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED :
Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel with United for a Fair Economy :
Economic
Apartheid
in America . A Primer on Economic Inequality & Insecurity , 2000
Ed. Douglas H. Boucher : The Paradox of Plenty . Hunger in a Bountiful World , 1999
Vandana
Shiva : Stolen Harvest . The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply ,
2000
( similar : Reith
2000 )
Martin Teitel , and Kimberly A. Wilson : Genetically Engineered Food . Changing the Nature of Nature , 1999
On poverty , hunger , homelessness , etc. in the U.S. : Ed.
Anuradha
Mittal and Peter Rosset :
America Needs Human Rights
Eric Toussaint : Your Money or Your Life! The Tyranny of Global Finance , 1998
John Gray : False Dawn . The Delusions of Global Capitalism , 1998
John Madeley : Big Business , Poor Peoples . The Impact of
Transnational
Corporations
on the World's Poor , 1999
*
Eds. Kim , Millen ,Irwin , and Gershman : Dying for Growth . Global
Inequality and the
Health of the Poor , 2000
Ichiro Kawachi ( Ed. ) , Bruce P. Kennedy ( Ed. ), Richard G.
Wilkinson
( Ed. ) : The Society
and Population Health Reader . Income Inequality and Health , 1999
Norman Daniels , Bruce Kennedy , Ichiro Kawachi : Is Inequality Bad For Our Health ? , 2000
*
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ( the following book is on the U.S. healt care
system
and I have
found it the easiest book to understand the real world of privatization
) :
David Himmelstein , Steffie Woolhandler , Ida Hellander : Bleeding
the Patient . The
Consequences of Corporate Health Care , 2001
* the following books on various subjects :
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ( Ideology makes most people stop thinking . What
is the real world behind ideology ? ) :
Howard Zinn : Declarations
of Independence . Cross-examining American Ideology , 1990
Many people call the following book "our bible":
Howard Zinn : A Peoples's History of the United States
James W. Loewen : Lies My Teacher Told Me . Everything Your American
History
Textbook Got Wrong , 1995
John Pilger : Hidden Agenda , 1999
Noam Chomsky : Profit Over People . Neoliberalism and Global Order , 1999
Noam Chomsky : The Chomsky Trilogy
Noam Chomsky : Latin America . From Colonization to Globalization , 1999
Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian : Propaganda and the Public Mind , 2001
Books by Michael Parenti
William K. Tabb : The Amoral Elephant . Globalization and the
Struggle
for
Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century , 2001
Globalization from the perspective of a Latin American author from
Uruguay
:
Eduardo Galeano : Upside Down . A primer for the Looking-Glass World
,
1998 , 2000
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ( It may be one of the easiest to understand
books on the actual practice of political science , especially
international
relations . It seems that all very powerful countries in world history
have
more or less acted the same way . The past cannot be changed . Are
there realistic alternatives for a better , more humanitariam , more
democratic , more balanced , more egalitatian future ? Or might then
other countries do take power and do the same . The book somehow
reminds me of ancient books like ' The Art of War ' by Sun Tzu and
' The Prince ' by Niccolo Machiavelli . ) :
William Blum : Rogue State . The Guide to the World's Only Superpower
, 2000
William Blum : Killing Hope , Rev. ed. 1995
Tara Parker-Pope : Cigarettes . Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to
Smoke , 2001
*
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ( Several times during the last years I have
found reprints of one of the author's speeches in Third World
publications
.
There is much globalization related information in this book which
I had
not found in other books , e.g. in detail on the relation of the US
dollar to
the Euro or on the possibility of a global recession . The books
contains
speeches held during the years 1998 , 1999 , and 2000 . ) :
Castro : Capitalism In Crisis . Globalization and World Politics Today
, 2000
Castro : War , Racism and Economic Injustice . The Global Ravages of
Capitalism , 2002
* The following book explains the facts
of the U.S. economy very well :
James Heintz , Nancy Folbre and The Center for Popular Economics :
The Ultimate Field Guide to the U.S. Economy : A Compact and Irreverent
Guide to Economic Life in America , 2000
similar website : Ultimate Field Guide
Richard G. Wilkinson : Unhealthy Societies . The Afflicitions of
Inequality
, 1996
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* FOR TIMES OF WARS:
The U.S. is the most powerful country concerning wars, but the U.S.
is not the
most objective country concerning wars, because it has too many wars
itself:
In demonizing, many of the own negative traits and characteristics
are
projected onto the demonized for public relations ( propaganda )
purposes,
it is
similar to mobbing.
Very one-sided website, but there are many U.S. wars and many war
victims
and with silence nothing changes. The suppression of this website in
2001
caused that there were mirror sites of this website in several
countries:
Website: American State Terrorism ( in many Internet search
engines ).
Another website for times of war: U.S. Bombing Watch ,
rooting out evil. expanding the search for weapons of mass destruction ( needs new browser ) ,
The National Endowment for Democracy ( NED ) , link2 , link3 , link4 , link5 , link6 , link7 ,
It seems that the U.S.S.R. ended because of the U.S. export
prevention
of technology ( especially computers ) to
the U.S.S.R. and because of the U.S. use of the financing methods
of the National Endowment for Democracy to
pay foreign elections, propaganda, etc.
International Republican Institute ( IRI ) ,
Pax Romana versus Pax Americana ,
Terminating the Bush
Juggernaut
,
Links on consumer BOYCOTTS used against wars:
The following website seems to be the most realistic and effective
website ( needs Java ): Do
the right thing
in several languages, many links, they want others to make a mirror
site of their website, i.e. a copy website,
mirror sites already are: Do
the right thing , Do
the right thing , Do
the right thing , Do
the right thing ,
up to date links to: Do
the right thing ,
worldwide boycott against one oil
company ( ExxonMobil , Esso ) ,
consumer
boycott in Pakistan , Pakistani
audio cassettes ,
boycott
experience in the Arab world , link2
, link3
, link4
, link5
,
www.boicot-us.com ,
Boycott the
War! ,
Boycott USA ,
Global Boycott for Peace ,
boycott america
,
boycottusa.org ,
For Mother Earth (
needs a new version of a browser ) ,
I hate USA (
leave out last part of web address and be on main page,
also
links ) ,
Mylinea.com
,
boycott ,
practice_of_boycotting
,
Consumers Against War
,
Adbusters
with many links on boycotting ,
link
,
War crimes:
Who is guilty
of war crimes in Iraq? , link2
, link3
, link4
, link5
, link6
, link7
,
link8
, link9
, link10
, link11
, ( link12)
,
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