tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45840116461829177192024-03-13T03:14:33.798-07:00Books, Media - AAWFrance .orgUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-26066678135430668452007-12-13T00:20:00.001-08:002013-01-09T10:48:55.689-08:00What is the Story of Stuff?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSQdsuy9hSVSm1kFvIhUFbG_qHYDY9D_9VKGOIZWVWjIOCsYwgl-weYsp402CdA1BJMInnOLPVNe1mWwCFRXGSbzIk8MYzbs5_H_TYJe-DauETGrhNEW-W1O1-GD1-uStLx10IRyb0azs/s1600-h/SOS_BUTTON.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143360014423535954" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSQdsuy9hSVSm1kFvIhUFbG_qHYDY9D_9VKGOIZWVWjIOCsYwgl-weYsp402CdA1BJMInnOLPVNe1mWwCFRXGSbzIk8MYzbs5_H_TYJe-DauETGrhNEW-W1O1-GD1-uStLx10IRyb0azs/s400/SOS_BUTTON.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">What is the Story of Stuff?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.</span><br />
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See video <a href="http://www.storyofstuff.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-23162716785300407142006-12-10T11:35:00.000-08:002008-12-09T12:58:03.171-08:00The Israel Lobby<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQNg84qM-O8RKlPdAtT-eloBmWtzx2OnhOaEa1cfwIzkYiOpj7EFLkcUkF1R9pIdg73gs-zk1j7GS2rIwg47MxKpx7k0ubqmg5kcUuEGRUrMLtysvxY2mHn4Bcfuj2H-VxPmJFhY3fQP5Y/s1600-h/334719-413241.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQNg84qM-O8RKlPdAtT-eloBmWtzx2OnhOaEa1cfwIzkYiOpj7EFLkcUkF1R9pIdg73gs-zk1j7GS2rIwg47MxKpx7k0ubqmg5kcUuEGRUrMLtysvxY2mHn4Bcfuj2H-VxPmJFhY3fQP5Y/s200/334719-413241.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006986144793948530" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html">The Israel Lobby</a></span><br />by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, London Review of Books, Vol. 28 No. 6, 23 March 2006<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">The centerpiece of U.S. Middle East policy is its intimate relationship with Israel. Though often justified as reflecting shared strategic interests or compelling moral imperatives, the U.S. commitment to Israel is due primarily to the activities of the “Israel Lobby.” This paper describes the various activities that pro-Israel groups have undertaken in order to shift U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">John Mearsheimer is the Wendell Harrison Professor of Political Science at Chicago, and the author of The Tragedy of Great Power Politics.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Stephen Walt is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His most recent book is Taming American Power: The Global Response to US Primacy.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-90460023331408634002006-12-17T10:32:00.000-08:002008-12-09T12:58:02.825-08:00LE MONDE MODERNE ET LA QUESTION JUIVE<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQLjnnsWxYOt5j5TMbwRU21X7g-eI-OhfuzxoIetY-zNDMQn7salY2ezv7xXDyqKAOHhtBKF-eSAdZmmNajB1rB3fla-Lop32IV_g3br0wKiYZYuPudQ-ST9S-ujv7JVuZ9KiF06Ycoq1T/s1600-h/2020907453.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V39026602_.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQLjnnsWxYOt5j5TMbwRU21X7g-eI-OhfuzxoIetY-zNDMQn7salY2ezv7xXDyqKAOHhtBKF-eSAdZmmNajB1rB3fla-Lop32IV_g3br0wKiYZYuPudQ-ST9S-ujv7JVuZ9KiF06Ycoq1T/s200/2020907453.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V39026602_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5009570628590515682" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Le Monde Moderne et la Question Juive</span></span><br />Edgar Morin, Seuil, 264 pages, 12,00 €.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">C'est le titre du dernier livre de notre ami Edgar Morin, sociologue et universitaire. Dans cet ouvrage, il revient sur l'histoire juive depuis l'antiquité jusqu'au 20ème siècle : de l'antijudaïsme chrétien aux osmoses culturelles, du marranisme à l'émancipation, de l'antisémitisme au sionisme. Pour citer Morin : « Au terme de cet essai, il a fallu considérer la tragédie provoquée par le nazisme, d'où est né l'État d'Israël, et où la notion de juif prend une nouvelle signification. Par malheur, l'implantation d'Israël en terre islamique a créé une nouvelle tragédie d'ampleur planétaire. » Pour Morin, l'identité juive ne peut être qu'impure, faite d'une histoire (le passé) et d'un partage (le présent).<br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-88682785776025707512006-12-17T10:42:00.000-08:002008-12-09T12:58:02.539-08:00Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjQaJQepuQmHL-suetSaTDXRwjqUii-BKXGX8QlQluQgBLMU4XLcQPCGKeakeKrw0J6ok_sTOXAR4zShPKaO18FyEo6Ef4HeNj5jLJf0HZf4U_6TTFdHRte4LE8_d6YQskBo6gf5jyMn96/s1600-h/secrecy+and+privilege.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjQaJQepuQmHL-suetSaTDXRwjqUii-BKXGX8QlQluQgBLMU4XLcQPCGKeakeKrw0J6ok_sTOXAR4zShPKaO18FyEo6Ef4HeNj5jLJf0HZf4U_6TTFdHRte4LE8_d6YQskBo6gf5jyMn96/s200/secrecy+and+privilege.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5009568579891115474" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq<br /></span></span>by Robert Parry<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek.Tracing investigative leads back through three decades, Secrecy & Privilege explores the mystery of how the two George Bushes rose to the pinnacle of American political power ñ and what the rise of their dynasty has meant to the nation's democratic principles.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Book can be ordered at secrecyandprivilege.com. or Amazon.com, as is his 1999 book, Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & 'Project Truth.'</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-11545077829367606432007-01-17T08:10:00.000-08:002008-12-09T12:58:02.325-08:00Target Iran by Scott Ritter<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqQmDi1L2Aoavinso07wXbSibTeJzFH0quiQID3PLSSLmDvNJ9h4xEtxmjkCzZ92kUEDslZI45Nkzg32-pxahTbMCPXrBgNO6wRMsk5iB36assaKA__u1J8LwtX_ema9Kl9mVgiJ5sbwA-/s1600-h/1842751972.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V37818164_.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqQmDi1L2Aoavinso07wXbSibTeJzFH0quiQID3PLSSLmDvNJ9h4xEtxmjkCzZ92kUEDslZI45Nkzg32-pxahTbMCPXrBgNO6wRMsk5iB36assaKA__u1J8LwtX_ema9Kl9mVgiJ5sbwA-/s200/1842751972.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V37818164_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021032823546676002" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Target Iran (Relié) </span></span><br />de Scott Ritter<br />Politico's Publishing; Édition : New Ed (5 février 2007)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">As a U.S. Marine officer in the Gulf War, Ritter served as a ballistic missile advisor to General H. Norman Schwarzkopf and then became a high-up UN weapons inspector in Iraq until 1998. Now he is a vociferous, controversial critic of the Bush II administration and the Iraq War. In his latest expose, Ritter trains his inspector's eyes on Iran, meticulously analyzing the rhetoric about Tehran beginning with the first Bush presidency when Dick Cheney was secretary of defense, then skeptically parsing the protracted, politically tangled wrangling over Iran's nuclear program, and vehemently objecting to what he sees as excessive American alignment with Israel. The most interesting figure to emerge from Ritter's flinty yet invaluable inquiry is John Bolton, current U.S. ambassador to the UN and a neo-con instrumental in pushing for regime changes in the Middle East "at any cost." In closing, Ritter offers shrewd observations about why things have cooled off regarding Iran as the midterm elections loom and cautions that war with Iran would be catastrophic and must be averted. Donna Seaman</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-49816557899290964082007-01-23T23:12:00.000-08:002008-12-09T12:58:02.172-08:00Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8S6JfSTXaSXjEcpXX0Sb1PW4jv4Ytvu9pD9GbUpnMHHh6cVUkMWkQaS1R5t_0aXyKBSA8OBw8kotwnZ9wvjRGKdXlb7jDLyWOW5ijFZe8WTyg6bYW5_2g_iDfxK4IUGkmMRWN-IuREB2x/s1600-h/1931859272.01-A2R2RITDJNW1Q6._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V50068311_.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8S6JfSTXaSXjEcpXX0Sb1PW4jv4Ytvu9pD9GbUpnMHHh6cVUkMWkQaS1R5t_0aXyKBSA8OBw8kotwnZ9wvjRGKdXlb7jDLyWOW5ijFZe8WTyg6bYW5_2g_iDfxK4IUGkmMRWN-IuREB2x/s200/1931859272.01-A2R2RITDJNW1Q6._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V50068311_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5023491721244276018" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.haymarketbooks.org/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=Haymarket&Product_Code=UHPSIR">Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War</a> </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">(Paperback) </span><br />by David Cortright, Howard Zinn (Introduction)<br />Haymarket Books, ISBN 1-931859-27-2 paper, 364 pp, Sept 2005<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">This book—on the historic resistance of GIs and veterans against the Vietnam War—is vital for understanding the overstretched U.S. military and opposition to the invasion and occupation of Iraq among soldiers and their families today.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">DAVID CORTRIGHT was enlisted in the U.S. Army from 1968–1971. He is president of the Fourth Freedom Forum and a research fellow at Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and is the author or editor of twelve books, including A Peaceful Superpower: The Movement Against War in Iraq.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-35993280553341049532007-01-28T02:04:00.000-08:002008-12-09T12:58:01.951-08:00Peace Mom By Cindy Sheehan<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkf3gcgFjlSXKUm8snPxOQGnzrEI7pNjxHFmVoAFQVviNGCRpRpGRFZBPCP319_OQPjiowgyTZe1HvTGzmLEXw3PfIf2BJQ2OwdrDhI3sxhFxaTGI_jJG_TzrAf5D7WkWJFvwEdBwSl_Hc/s1600-h/C_0743297911.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkf3gcgFjlSXKUm8snPxOQGnzrEI7pNjxHFmVoAFQVviNGCRpRpGRFZBPCP319_OQPjiowgyTZe1HvTGzmLEXw3PfIf2BJQ2OwdrDhI3sxhFxaTGI_jJG_TzrAf5D7WkWJFvwEdBwSl_Hc/s200/C_0743297911.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5025021021659428226" border="0" /></a><br /><h2></h2><a href="http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=1&pid=524468"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Peace Mom </span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">A Mother's Journey through Heartache to Activism </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">By Cindy Sheehan</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Atria, September 2006</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > eBook, 256 pages</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >ISBN-10: 1-4165-4105-5</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-4105-9</span><br /><h3 style="font-weight: normal;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></h3><h3 face="trebuchet ms" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"Writing this book is the second most difficult thing I have ever done, next to burying Casey."</span></span> </h3> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: justify;">Peace Mom is the heartfelt and profoundly moving story of Cindy's journey to activism. She recounts the dark days following Casey's death, when it seemed her life would never have meaning again. She tells of her June 2004 meeting with President Bush, and how that encounter ultimately set her on a path that would take her to hearings in the Capitol, test old friendships and family ties, and culminate outside Crawford, Texas, in a monthlong peace action that would draw thousands of supporters and worldwide attention. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: justify;">Here are the stories Cindy has never shared before about her own experiences at the center of a media firestorm, the life-altering events that were sparked by her simple act of defiance one hot August day in Texas.<br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-73177384410687192032007-01-30T23:45:00.000-08:002008-12-09T12:58:01.758-08:00Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, From Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikTH2MueJgxMeY8vYd3aepO3cVjKacqLRJ_FPuYIZObfeCc2l_MJ9x9j5WZIb-gco_MDdQ5YxaJZ1KKhwAVV2wPEDEk1cEDvALzsO4nyDu8E855gd9JMl4YkQI3UMneiOUqVkHwvdrxS9K/s1600-h/cover.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 127px; height: 199px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikTH2MueJgxMeY8vYd3aepO3cVjKacqLRJ_FPuYIZObfeCc2l_MJ9x9j5WZIb-gco_MDdQ5YxaJZ1KKhwAVV2wPEDEk1cEDvALzsO4nyDu8E855gd9JMl4YkQI3UMneiOUqVkHwvdrxS9K/s200/cover.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5026099316148762194" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385663670"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, From Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush.</span></span></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">by Barry Lando </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Doubleday Canada January 23, 2007</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ISBN: 978-0-385-66367-0 (0-385-66367-6)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >An investigative history of Western complicity in Saddam Hussein’s crimes reveals the story his trial never will.</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > In February 1991, the Shia of southern Iraq rose against Saddam Hussein.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Barry M. Lando, a former investigative producer for 60 Minutes, argues compellingly that this ill-fated uprising represents one instance among many of Western complicity in Saddam Hussein’s crimes against humanity. The Shia were responding to the call for rebellion from President George H.W. Bush that was broadcast repeatedly across Iraq by clandestine CIA stations. But, just as the revolution was on the brink of success, the United States and its allies turned their backs. In the end, tens of thousands were massacred. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Because of restrictions imposed by the Special Tribunal prosecuting Saddam Hussein, the extensive role of the U.S. and its allies in his crimes will never be explored at his trial. But as Web of Deceit demonstrates, the nations that now denounce Saddam most prominently secretly backed the dictator from his rise to power in the 1960s and ‘70s to his offensives in Iran and, despite warnings, took no action to stop his invasion of Kuwait. They also turned their backs when he used chemical weapons against the Iraqi people and persisted in international sanctions long after they had proved ineffective and, for hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, lethal. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Web of Deceit draws on a wide range of journalism and scholarship to present a complete picture of what really happened in Iraq under Saddam, detailing – for the first time – the complicity of the West in its full and alarming extent.</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-53694517791080610062007-02-09T05:24:00.000-08:002008-12-09T12:58:01.101-08:00Voices For Impeachment DVD<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs95wrrZD5EDzFSNsb2RHVdsh6Q25TlXsuNRuTy2HlwHjOMP2h2Bpb4svrlaPSqQaTGGp7xCCqd32av96ZFs8iLtNJ_o5Hje9dddRsXe_Q-twyuCbMYqwjcWCvtej_fGBr3QJVY8CGnkva/s1600-h/jan27dvdthumbnail.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs95wrrZD5EDzFSNsb2RHVdsh6Q25TlXsuNRuTy2HlwHjOMP2h2Bpb4svrlaPSqQaTGGp7xCCqd32av96ZFs8iLtNJ_o5Hje9dddRsXe_Q-twyuCbMYqwjcWCvtej_fGBr3QJVY8CGnkva/s200/jan27dvdthumbnail.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5029525446596027954" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br />DVD<br /><a href="http://www.worldcantwait.net/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=21&zenid=eca6da7d879f4525a6aae95806f52952">Voices For Impeachment DVD</a></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Bush Must Go! If war crimes, torture, & crimes against humanity are not reason to impeach, what is? Featuring Daniel Ellsberg, Cindy Sheehan, John Nichols, Michael Ratner, Sunsara Taylor, & Gore Vidal. Held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on January 4th, 2007, the opening day of Congress. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-54299509981841235382007-02-11T01:35:00.000-08:002008-12-09T12:58:00.917-08:00An Unreasonable Man /A Documentary about Ralph Nader<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">DVD</span><br /><a href="http://www.anunreasonableman.com/"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">An Unreasonable Man</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">A Documentary about Ralph Nader</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN4Z7GSL1CUL2cM2IhvKeYd7uF0NIHYfcVmZyHZvAxXcKJvWjjUZQE1rpZAKTjp8RhAm0VZYg_5Iv8BKSiP67U8SEcRqBNDv1hRu1h3sypAZ3YA2dvkUJJM19NNypsNgzIUR1HwT7bH1Ej/s1600-h/1172764.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 159px; height: 235px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN4Z7GSL1CUL2cM2IhvKeYd7uF0NIHYfcVmZyHZvAxXcKJvWjjUZQE1rpZAKTjp8RhAm0VZYg_5Iv8BKSiP67U8SEcRqBNDv1hRu1h3sypAZ3YA2dvkUJJM19NNypsNgzIUR1HwT7bH1Ej/s320/1172764.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5030210317786080834" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">In 1966, General Motors, the most powerful corporation in the world, sen</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">t private investigators to dig up dirt on an obscure thirty-two year old public interest lawyer named Ralph Nader, who had written a book critical of one of their cars, the Corvair. The sc</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">andal that ensued after the smear campaign was revealed launched Ralph Nader into national prominence and established him as one of the most admired Americans and the leader of the modern Consumer Movement. Over the next thirty</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> years and without ever holding public office, Nader built a legislative record that is the rival of any contemporary president. Many things we take for granted including seat belts, airbags, product labeling, no nukes, even the free ticket you get after being bumped from an overbooked flight are largely due to the efforts of Ralph Nader and his citizen groups. Yet today, when most people hear the name "Ralph Nader," they think of the man who gave the country George W. Bush. As a result, after sustaining his popularity and effectiveness over an unprecedented amount of time, he has become a pariah even among former friends and allies. How did this happen? Is he really to blame for George W. Bush? Who has stuck by him and who has abandoned him? Has our democracy become a consumer fraud? After being so right for so many years, how did he seem to go so wrong? With the help of exciting graphics, rare archival footage and over forty on-camera interviews conducted over the past two years, "An Unreasonable Man" traces the life and career of Ralph Nader, one of the most unique, important, and controversial political figures of the past half century.</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-4838736837342683632007-02-17T01:51:00.000-08:002008-12-09T12:58:00.897-08:00GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg4CTp2Qb6sNqEm1ctZFvNwUi5Ni8mKVApYJ3zNwPiOSrV6DA9zl6LA3yVEOwtsIPgKOAluI7zNDd6vk-d_k8-rFatmI0OJFaWWfFh5JoI2-ilp-tEZP8dhrUCLcyDkJ8hWSABdSaprofs/s1600-h/506x316_ghostsofabughraib01.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg4CTp2Qb6sNqEm1ctZFvNwUi5Ni8mKVApYJ3zNwPiOSrV6DA9zl6LA3yVEOwtsIPgKOAluI7zNDd6vk-d_k8-rFatmI0OJFaWWfFh5JoI2-ilp-tEZP8dhrUCLcyDkJ8hWSABdSaprofs/s200/506x316_ghostsofabughraib01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032439337093228178" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">DVD</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />Documentary by Rory Kennedy</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">The familiar and disturbing pictures of torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison raise many troubling questions: How did torture become an accepted practice at Abu Ghraib? Did U.S. government policies make it possible? How much damage has the aftermath of Abu Ghraib had on America's credibility as a defender of freedom and human rights around the world? Acclaimed filmmaker Rory Kennedy looks beyond the headlines to investigate the psychological and political context in which torture occurred. </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Read more </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/ghostsofabughraib/synopsis.html">here.</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-13943113377637637952007-02-21T03:16:00.000-08:002008-12-09T12:58:00.690-08:00DVD America: Freedom to Facism by Aaron Russo<h2 style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">DVD</h2><h2 style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://www.freedomtofascism.com/index.html">America: Freedom to Facism by Aaron Russo</a></h2><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >SHOCKING! </span><span style="font-size:130%;">See the<a href="http://www.freedomtofascism.com/"> trailers</a></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><h2 style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5hTAwjYwIChaSHyW3DOkIhA3vvkbshnmfkXXNdnxz8xdQawKJgmPgDlWTeA88idg8BZLRkKlzoly27tDL0xzyFTFBXVi0PVxroygjsHGVfPvk075ejOU3vHSQKaS_gziGizFEcPvWD_cU/s1600-h/thm_poster_uni-deceit.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 185px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5hTAwjYwIChaSHyW3DOkIhA3vvkbshnmfkXXNdnxz8xdQawKJgmPgDlWTeA88idg8BZLRkKlzoly27tDL0xzyFTFBXVi0PVxroygjsHGVfPvk075ejOU3vHSQKaS_gziGizFEcPvWD_cU/s200/thm_poster_uni-deceit.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5033945983199945410" border="0" /></a></h2>Determined to find the law that requires American citizens to pay income tax, producer Aaron Russo ("The Rose," "Trading Places") set out on a journey to find the evidence. This film w<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmZJSI436uTYZVnKuXmS8or2RwVKohOjFGaJJVvolEox-Z7K5qPQURLn52cA26rU9s2z9ieq6GXNp82hnL_KtJcQbhPmDpbbMOlec__Z6g4PM6Ly-TGi-900RvnCVKg0sGUUeRtZhcUXM3/s1600-h/poster_handstied.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmZJSI436uTYZVnKuXmS8or2RwVKohOjFGaJJVvolEox-Z7K5qPQURLn52cA26rU9s2z9ieq6GXNp82hnL_KtJcQbhPmDpbbMOlec__Z6g4PM6Ly-TGi-900RvnCVKg0sGUUeRtZhcUXM3/s200/poster_handstied.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5033960032037970642" border="0" /></a>hich is neither left, nor right-wing is a startling examination of government. It exposes the systematic erosion of civil liberties in America since 1913 when the Federal Reserve system was fraudulently created. Through interviews with U.S. Congressmen, a former IRS Commissioner, former IRS and FBI agents and tax attorneys and authors, Russo connects the dots between money creation, federal income tax, and the national identity card which becomes law in May 2008. This ID card will use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips which are essentially homing devices used to track people. This film shows in great detail and undeniable facts that America is moving headlong into a fascist police state. Wake up!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-31569326417063979972007-03-03T23:30:00.000-08:002008-12-09T12:57:59.862-08:00Special Plans: The blogs on Douglas Feith and the faulty intelligence that led to war<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOPOT3DZhcCBR8HvKNley36QRR5q9ihzXR0viciw6caEUbM0-Bb90Yq0aFtuYN-Ok6zcFeTB-nbvBYyN8zgARM6Dd_1i5RCezukb17MsFu7c9ngo9XAvqwjRZi9siWgQzdhuj-7syJtocJ/s1600-h/049-0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOPOT3DZhcCBR8HvKNley36QRR5q9ihzXR0viciw6caEUbM0-Bb90Yq0aFtuYN-Ok6zcFeTB-nbvBYyN8zgARM6Dd_1i5RCezukb17MsFu7c9ngo9XAvqwjRZi9siWgQzdhuj-7syJtocJ/s200/049-0.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5037968962222341122" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.wmjasco.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Special Plans: The blogs on Douglas Feith and the faulty intelligence that led to war</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ></span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Introductory essay by Allison Hantschel (Athenae of First Draft)<br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Here’s a story of espionage, think tanks, power brokers, a crazy drunk named Curveball, and Douglas Feith—the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy whose Office of Special Plans oversaw the enormous manipulations and failures of intelligence that led to the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq.</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">“Special Plans offers invaluable insight into a key figure behind the propaganda campaign that swayed Americans to support Bush’s Iraq War. Douglas Feith didn't get much coverage in the mainstream press because he was ‘just’ an undersecretary in the Defense Department. But this collection of blog entries about Feith reveals that he was much, much more than that. This book is a testament to the fact that the new Internet media delivers needed information that the mainstream press no longer covers in detail.”</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">—Mark Karlin, Editor and Publisher</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">BuzzFlash.com</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-49753998634900753872007-03-22T00:24:00.000-07:002008-12-09T12:57:59.666-08:00DVD TIME-BOMB: America's Debt Crises, Causes, Consequences and Solutions<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEgLdh-j3ONoWge-UWKl9__C7XfisXTpf-RqyNa-bfhldH9lnT_H9Z-BGtLhMByAJq2d00Ml0x-DdT7OJ7lYblZzIx1l62lxeL_dFM9h6II6Xm2EB7PhPtvz19Rh0mu5IL6cW34n7RYSix/s1600-h/B000DLAHG8.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEgLdh-j3ONoWge-UWKl9__C7XfisXTpf-RqyNa-bfhldH9lnT_H9Z-BGtLhMByAJq2d00Ml0x-DdT7OJ7lYblZzIx1l62lxeL_dFM9h6II6Xm2EB7PhPtvz19Rh0mu5IL6cW34n7RYSix/s320/B000DLAHG8.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044651165818623218" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >DVD<br /><a href="http://www.time-bomb.org/">TIME-BOMB: </a>America's Debt Crises, Causes, Consequences and Solutions<br />Documentary by John F. Ince </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">T</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">IME-BOMB is a powerful new documentary that puts the spotlight on America's exploding national debt and the fact that our leaders are risking our economic future through shortsighted fiscal policies. With each passing day that we do nothing to address our twin deficits, we increase the chances that we will soon be facing an economic crisis of major proportions. TIME-BOMB shows why the hard-earned assets of all Americans are at risk and, on a more profound, level shows why Democracy itself is threatened. The movie features interviews with citizens who have had the courage speak out truthfully about these issues.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">TIME-BOMB exposes George W. Bush's faith-based, supply side economics for what it is: nothing more than pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking. It shows how George Bush squandered a $5 trillion government surplus and now runs record deficits in one of the greatest miscalculations in human history. While George Bush has framed America's future in terms of the possible threats of terrorist attacks, he has virtually ignored the mounting threat of our looming fiscal crisis. Here a distinguished array of economic experts, activists, statesmen and business executives show why that threat is more real to our nation than most of us would have dared imagine. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-25121761931580872022007-04-09T01:29:00.000-07:002008-12-09T12:57:59.473-08:00The Occupation of IraqWinning the War, Losing the Peace<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwTiNSm3Rj4wf9KOg_pk8hEGRrm1NK90f4J77s_tdd6HsIND_KJ606vJmkCHXaZYEkEfH4h6x_MHOG6BY4SX5zKtrmmHf3WvbPhPxWyqN9xd0H4pdPWWSFE0iuV5uRnwQSLxa8TVzH6_Mb/s1600-h/9780300110159.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwTiNSm3Rj4wf9KOg_pk8hEGRrm1NK90f4J77s_tdd6HsIND_KJ606vJmkCHXaZYEkEfH4h6x_MHOG6BY4SX5zKtrmmHf3WvbPhPxWyqN9xd0H4pdPWWSFE0iuV5uRnwQSLxa8TVzH6_Mb/s200/9780300110159.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051342932529681058" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >The Occupation of Iraq<br />Winning the War, Losing the Peace</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br />by Ali A. Allawi<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Published by <a href="http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300110154">Yale University Press</a></span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Involved for over thirty years in the politics of Iraq, Ali A. Allawi was a long-time opposition leader against the Baathist regime. In the post-Saddam years he has held important government positions and participated in crucial national decisions and events. In this book, the former Minister of Defense and Finance draws on his unique personal experience, extensive relationships with members of the main political groups and parties in Iraq, and deep understanding of the history and society of his country to answer the baffling questions that persist about its current crises. What really led the United States to invade Iraq, and why have events failed to unfold as planned?<br /></div><p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><i>The Occupation of Iraq</i> examines what the United States did and didn’t know at the time of the invasion, the reasons for the confused and contradictory policies that were enacted, and the emergence of the Iraqi political class during the difficult transition process. The book tracks the growth of the insurgency and illuminates the complex relationships among Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds. Bringing the discussion forward to the reconfiguration of political forces in 2006, Allawi provides in these pages the clearest view to date of the modern history of Iraq and the invasion that changed its course in unpredicted ways. </p><div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> </div><p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><b>Ali A. Allawi</b> is senior adviser to the Prime Minister of Iraq. Since the Coalition’s invasion of Iraq, he served as his country’s first postwar civilian Minister of Defense, was elected to the Transitional National Assembly as a member of the United Iraqi Alliance, and was appointed Minister of Finance under Dr. Ibrahim al-Jaffari. He divides his time between London and Baghdad.</p> <h1></h1>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-36969374771416844452007-04-11T00:07:00.000-07:002008-12-09T12:57:59.303-08:00Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqx1P7l6rpoF5X0QLDUn3kYVDiJ6jvznQ7Du18apT8ChemT87jU9HxxQ8aO8lzpyZyqgxR6mmIrIPI3_a8QBwtUVgws94oH78b8Hr0SouXshxgU4JojwbaeLJFEpP5wxyE2n8sYHXwPvMh/s1600-h/1933633271.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_V23704563_SS500_.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 172px; height: 172px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqx1P7l6rpoF5X0QLDUn3kYVDiJ6jvznQ7Du18apT8ChemT87jU9HxxQ8aO8lzpyZyqgxR6mmIrIPI3_a8QBwtUVgws94oH78b8Hr0SouXshxgU4JojwbaeLJFEpP5wxyE2n8sYHXwPvMh/s320/1933633271.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_V23704563_SS500_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052064194338698978" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1933633271"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror </span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >by Carlo Bonini , Giuseppe D'Avanzo , James Marcus (Translator)<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br />With this inquiry, Bonini and D'Avanzo have reached the highest level of investigative journalism."-Seymour Hersh</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">On January 2, 2001, the Niger embassy in Rome was robbed. Little was missing-a wristwatch, perfume, embassy stationery, and a stamp bearing the official seal of Niger.</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> The outcome of the petty burglary would have catastrophic implications.</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> The stolen stationery and stamps were used to create forged documents claiming Iraq sought to purchase uranium for nuclear weapons. The Italian military intelligence service, SISMI, passed the documents to the White House, where they were cited by President Bush in his State of the Union speech as reason to go to war with Iraq.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Reporters Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe D'Avanzo broke the story, and in Collusion, they take it even further.</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> Traveling throughout Europe and America, they uncover that the conspiracy behind "Nigergate" stretches beyond the CIA and SISMI to include the cooperation of numerous national intelligence agencies, and "black propaganda" specialists like Ahmad Chalabi, in an all-out manipulation of the war on terror.</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> They also uncover the startling weaknesses of such spycraft-numerous bunglings, outrageous expense accounts, mistaken abductions, and absurd misinterpretations of evidence.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">It is, in short, an enthralling, often hair-raising story that has never been told in a book . . . until now.</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe D'Avanzo work for Rome's La Repubblica newspaper.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-26639043897301479852007-04-11T00:20:00.000-07:002008-12-09T12:57:59.085-08:00The Italian Letter: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for War in Iraq<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHoYu8yulwEgJMDBhgqu9uXZVZ36-Zfc6k-2O9OGAxZrl102MWY8EW0gwAtwnYHa1m8PARffviI5iAI5muJMkX-44YvYbMDogym7YiFc2uXR-E-yYn35n7sDCYs8tCbaWMTcnfFwKE7QfL/s1600-h/1594865736.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SS500_.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 272px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHoYu8yulwEgJMDBhgqu9uXZVZ36-Zfc6k-2O9OGAxZrl102MWY8EW0gwAtwnYHa1m8PARffviI5iAI5muJMkX-44YvYbMDogym7YiFc2uXR-E-yYn35n7sDCYs8tCbaWMTcnfFwKE7QfL/s320/1594865736.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SS500_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052067441333974770" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Italian-Letter-Bush-Administration-Build/dp/1594865736/ref=sr_1_1/103-7752381-8832629?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176276029&sr=1-1">The Italian Letter</a>: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for War in Iraq </span><br />by Peter Eisner, Knut Royce<br />Publisher: Rodale Books (April 3, 2007)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Filled with headline-making revelations, this explosive account by two award-winning investigative reporters tracks the behind-the-scenes story of the forged intelligence document that the Bush administration used to push the nation into war with Iraq.<br /><br />Like Barbara Tuchman’s 1958 classic, The Zimmerman Telegram, about the decoded German wire that drew the United States into World War I, or the recent bestseller Cobra II, The Italian Letter traces the road to war by following the scandal surrounding the Italian Letter, a fraudulent intelligence document that cooked up proof that the African country of Niger was prepared to supply Saddam Hussein with uranium for nuclear weapons.<br /><br />What is the real story that led to President Bush’s 16 famous words in his 2003 State of the Union address, "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."? In the first book to uncover the details of the scandal that has already led to the indictment of one administration official—a scandal bigger than the Iran-Contra affair—the authors have drawn on their unique access to a large group of CIA, FBI, and international sources as well as whistle-blowers.<br /><br />As frustration over the increasing deaths in Iraq continues to mount, this timely, page-turning narrative provides fresh insights for a nation hungry for greater understanding of the Iraq War and the manipulated intelligence document that altered the course of contemporary history.<br /><br />PETER EISNER is deputy foreign editor at the Washington Post. The Post’s coverage of the 2004 Asian tsunami, which he coordinated, won an award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He is also author of The Freedom Line, a winner of the 2004 Christopher Award.<br />KNUT ROYCE was a major contributor to three Pulitzer Prize-winning stories in three different decades before joining the Center for Public Integrity as a senior fellow. He has won numerous journalism awards and was named by the Washingtonian as one of the two best investigative print reporters in the nation’s capital.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-73621935041239718232007-04-11T23:41:00.000-07:002008-12-09T12:57:58.921-08:00Duck for President<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_hecPIDjGt5HFaZWBig7-E3HgzGXQ3G_2sDmLlphbOTn99IvZNY9A0mKu48lR0ixSmcUdetXbqhkdyG1fBK9Pq2KqrT26ANY2XPk3QWMYaQA8sGu6vOFv1H1mVO4zwF1sOwjMOyCZlZTi/s1600-h/BC_0689863772.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 169px; height: 216px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_hecPIDjGt5HFaZWBig7-E3HgzGXQ3G_2sDmLlphbOTn99IvZNY9A0mKu48lR0ixSmcUdetXbqhkdyG1fBK9Pq2KqrT26ANY2XPk3QWMYaQA8sGu6vOFv1H1mVO4zwF1sOwjMOyCZlZTi/s320/BC_0689863772.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052428699623175970" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Duck for President<br />by Doreen Cronin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Duck was tired of his chores on Farmer Browns farm. Duck didnt like to take out the trash, mow the lawn, and grind the coffee beans. So he organized an election to pick someone kinder as head of the farm. The animals voted and Duck won! Now he was in charge! But Ducks ambitions didnt end there. Soon he became governor of the state, then president of the country! Was the job of president fun? Sadly, no. So Duck put his V.P. in charge, returned to the farm and did what many former presidents do-began his autobiography.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Incredible but true</span> : April 9, 2007 · Children were invited to the White House for the Easter Egg Roll. On the agenda: Laura Bush reading a children's book called Duck for President. The duck takes over the farm, then runs for governor, then runs for the White House. He wins after a recount. But he gives it all up to go back to the farm, concluding: "Running a country is no fun at all."<br />According to the book’s publisher, “President Duck,” who didn’t realize being president would require a lot of “very hard work,” ends up with “a very bad headache” before passing his duties off to his Vice President. Sometimes, the jokes write themselves.</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-68392294931642129522007-04-16T00:38:00.000-07:002008-12-09T12:57:58.685-08:00The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFwkp1Eo9O2esamYjSLrYxNrGLOZR8Vewe9iL4GVQqaUlhjgXdH_u6NKyEdzBKnhFzRv2ITo6RKkRCvA2nY-ZAMK99I_qhEmskdTWhNuRXV6rHd-osRd1LRrl1dvvdisaLDzKhkPg0rTdG/s1600-h/B000MRA588-1.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_V46523689_SS500_.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFwkp1Eo9O2esamYjSLrYxNrGLOZR8Vewe9iL4GVQqaUlhjgXdH_u6NKyEdzBKnhFzRv2ITo6RKkRCvA2nY-ZAMK99I_qhEmskdTWhNuRXV6rHd-osRd1LRrl1dvvdisaLDzKhkPg0rTdG/s200/B000MRA588-1.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_V46523689_SS500_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053930340448942098" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >COMEDY</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >DVD <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000MRA588/crooksandliar-20/ref=nosim">The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour</a><br />Ahmed Ahmed, Aron Kader, Maz Jobrani, and Dean Obeidallah<br />Excerpt below:<br /></span><br /><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WIPJeLN16NI"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WIPJeLN16NI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-13064906213078795102007-05-02T00:40:00.000-07:002008-12-09T12:57:58.505-08:00The Impeachment of George W. Bush<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI-AW2itGB-D6q9KH5QfiTRlMr3mLgLfq95owKpVw9xciaOTICZv0EJC6mID6AzUYy3feOi2zJ38e53mmzkAPARscBFlI6bdSdLlRxNWQ6wO2Qb0S5AIbWhxHf6hCwTA63XpuncSYmfeSS/s1600-h/ImpeachmentofGWBush_156025940X.sized-thumb.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI-AW2itGB-D6q9KH5QfiTRlMr3mLgLfq95owKpVw9xciaOTICZv0EJC6mID6AzUYy3feOi2zJ38e53mmzkAPARscBFlI6bdSdLlRxNWQ6wO2Qb0S5AIbWhxHf6hCwTA63XpuncSYmfeSS/s200/ImpeachmentofGWBush_156025940X.sized-thumb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059866881656666834" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.impeachbushbook.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >The Impeachment of George W. Bush</span></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >by Elizabeth Holtzman with Cynthia L. Cooper</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Elizabeth Holtzman has been a US Congresswoman, the District Attorney of Brooklyn, and was Member of House panel that impeached Richard Nixon.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> "Liz Holtzman’s intelligence, courage, and tenacity resulted in the impeachment of one president, in The Impeachment of George W. Bush, she reminds us why we miss her so much in Congress, and she gives us the tools powerful enough to lead to the impeachment of another president, one much more harmful and destructive to the values of our democracy.”</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">— CINDY SHEEHAN</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">From Publisher's Weekly Review:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">"…Talk of presidential impeachment is in the air. Holtzman, former congresswoman and Brooklyn D.A., and Cooper, a journalist and lawyer, have assembled a compact but thorough legal and constitutional accounting of five major issues upon which they claim the current president could be impeached... an important, comprehensive argument and document for our current political moment."</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-54795415656751496792007-05-24T21:57:00.001-07:002008-12-09T12:57:58.253-08:00The Assault on Reason by Al Gore<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaUFV8UAskS0GwU9uHoqbtQofRWx2I5DGRc5ikIqFSDTXdOk-gfNdOHXC4NqDnAfEehTLBfKZYiIeCJoI622Xw4wLuwrroSfzzLRzslHUymLzImG49PX01ydKfgLyCv5OB-SeMIOinKuHC/s1600-h/41ssYTOVOcL._AA240_.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaUFV8UAskS0GwU9uHoqbtQofRWx2I5DGRc5ikIqFSDTXdOk-gfNdOHXC4NqDnAfEehTLBfKZYiIeCJoI622Xw4wLuwrroSfzzLRzslHUymLzImG49PX01ydKfgLyCv5OB-SeMIOinKuHC/s320/41ssYTOVOcL._AA240_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068358204617707218" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1594201226/crooksandliar-20/ref=nosim">The Assault on Reason by Al Gore</a><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Penguin Press HC</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br />A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has combined with the degradation of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">At the time George W. Bush ordered American forces to invade Iraq, 70 percent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. Voters in Ohio, when asked by pollsters to list what stuck in their minds about the campaign, most frequently named two Bush television ads that played to fears of terrorism.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">We live in an age when the thirty-second television spot is the most powerful force shaping the electorate's thinking, and America is in the hands of an administration less interested than any previous administration in sharing the truth with the citizenry. Related to this and of even greater concern is this administration's disinterest in the process by which the truth is ascertained, the tenets of fact-based reasoning-first among them an embrace of open inquiry in which unexpected and even inconvenient facts can lead to unexpected conclusions.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">How did we get here? How much damage has been done to the functioning of our democracy and its role as steward of our security? Never has there been a worse time for us to lose the capacity to face the reality of our long-term challenges, from national security to the economy, from issues of health and social welfare to the environment. As The Assault on Reason shows us, we have precious little time to waste.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Gore's larger goal in this book is to explain how the public sphere itself has evolved into a place hospitable to reason's enemies, to make us more aware of the forces at work on our own minds, and to lead us to an understanding of what we can do, individually and collectively, to restore the rule of reason and safeguard our future. Drawing on a life's work in politics as well as on the work of experts across a broad range of disciplines, Al Gore has written a farsighted and powerful manifesto for clear thinking. </span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-77509482522433674872007-05-25T23:02:00.000-07:002008-12-09T12:57:58.066-08:00With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVUG4Th6FvoseBplJjX9NdMJAYZ8d8lidYr7BmH3koKBcR1zP81BtkNevYfyPkx55FuwoPxJPtWVJXxN6csqlNWVQvlhbK5XvztcD_ej0XMIxZL81DGdgGG6krKLXKlzeQuoB-7L-cdmMB/s1600-h/602_200.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVUG4Th6FvoseBplJjX9NdMJAYZ8d8lidYr7BmH3koKBcR1zP81BtkNevYfyPkx55FuwoPxJPtWVJXxN6csqlNWVQvlhbK5XvztcD_ej0XMIxZL81DGdgGG6krKLXKlzeQuoB-7L-cdmMB/s200/602_200.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068747264230215394" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.amazon.com/God-Our-Side-Evangelical-Americas/dp/0312361432">With God on Our Side: </a>One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military</span><br />by Michael L. Weinstein and Davin Seay<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">This book shines a klieg light on one of the most elite educational institutions in the world: The United States Air Force Academy, which, from its inception, has attracted the best and brightest, producing outstanding leaders not only in the military but throughout American society.</span> <div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Michael “Mikey” Weinstein, founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, and his family have a long tradition of service in the United States armed forces. However, Weinstein is now waging a different kind of war. With support at the very highest levels, evangelical groups within the military believe that, serving your country requires the priorities of the military personnel to be, in the words of the Officer’s Christian Fellowship: “ a spiritually transformed US Military” literally “with ambassadors for Christ in uniform” and “empowered by the Holy Spirit.” Weinstein and other American patriots see the evangelicals’ intrusion into military operations and affairs as an affront to the Constitution they were sworn to uphold – and a violation of this nation’s traditionally sacrosanct separation of church and state.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-43650752420839919252007-06-01T04:16:00.000-07:002008-12-09T12:57:57.931-08:00ADDICTED TO WAR by Joel Andreas<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7tDz5W8_BzyOO7C6BRZbVI8DH7XjPaVH5OrcVdlCvURJRRqswiOi0QI_p_-zP2j8Mp_lnBRQuWNds4V7kTNU4lmvw8rsbVbrkE_1EBS1ukoaDr_jEBO6idljKkC0MJElgvUAuFdBzyuml/s1600-h/atwcov.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7tDz5W8_BzyOO7C6BRZbVI8DH7XjPaVH5OrcVdlCvURJRRqswiOi0QI_p_-zP2j8Mp_lnBRQuWNds4V7kTNU4lmvw8rsbVbrkE_1EBS1ukoaDr_jEBO6idljKkC0MJElgvUAuFdBzyuml/s200/atwcov.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071053713207775138" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.addictedtowar.com/book.html">ADDICTED TO WAR</a><br />Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism<br />A History of U.S. Foreign Wars in Comic Book Form<br />by Joel Andreas</span> <div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ></span></div><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br />ADDICTED TO WAR takes on the most active, powerful and destructive military in the world. It tells the history of U.S. foreign wars - from the Indian Wars to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - in a comic book format.</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">With 77 hard-hitting pages, this book reveals why the U.S. has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country.</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Packed with historical photographs and quotes from people in the military, the government, and big business, Addicted to War explains who benefits from these military adventures, who pays, and who dies.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Addicted to War is being used as a history textbook in hundreds of high schools and colleges. It is carefully documented with 161 reference notes.</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Read the entire book online <a href="http://www.addictedtowar.com/bookpreview.html">HERE.</a></span><a href="http://www.addictedtowar.com/bookpreview.html"> </a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /><br />Howard Zinn, author of 'A People's History of the United States' says: - "Addicted to War is a witty and devastating portrait of U.S. military policy, a fine example of art serving society."</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-53413850422032868702007-08-01T23:59:00.000-07:002008-12-09T12:57:57.826-08:00War Made Easy<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimOtT1RCNMvIbFLC2f70dUESsSLBAS1o_hyphenhyphen4fZjOKyMJPV35DpKlOHPboXsYjr_eTiAHlqB72N3enqlaavJHuU6Hd-pINwT2fOk2JAtG4iPbibMsHFpHoe6nX-66CFluQCpfsupx3Muql2/s1600-h/mef1dvd.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimOtT1RCNMvIbFLC2f70dUESsSLBAS1o_hyphenhyphen4fZjOKyMJPV35DpKlOHPboXsYjr_eTiAHlqB72N3enqlaavJHuU6Hd-pINwT2fOk2JAtG4iPbibMsHFpHoe6nX-66CFluQCpfsupx3Muql2/s320/mef1dvd.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093994904531987970" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">DVD WAR MADE EASY: </span><br />How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Narrated by Sean Penn<br />More <a href="http://www.warmadeeasythemovie.org/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">here</span></a><br /><br />War Made Easy brings to the screen Norman Solomon's insightful analysis of the strategies used by administrations, both Democratic and Republican, to promote their agendas for war from Vietnam to Iraq. By familiarizing viewers with the techniques of war propaganda, War Made Easy encourages us to think critically about the messages put out by today's spin doctors - messages which are designed to promote and prolong a policy of militarism under the guise of the "war on terror." Based on the book by the same title. </span><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4584011646182917719.post-77842241101663858542007-08-05T02:34:00.001-07:002008-12-09T12:57:57.619-08:00HACKING DEMOCRACY<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kzP2bJPeKMJB5yLOilM94q-jLAvT3eXI3CyjQ6HENjPDkWgCjO8-S686xDbL8V50Xac8buq83dJfBmxlD8zTt4-S1KAjCsH_06uKEaMjatsUBbLawiyjpIbEiTGCZatHxZnI2mkBR8Y/s1600-h/NVG9891-03.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kzP2bJPeKMJB5yLOilM94q-jLAvT3eXI3CyjQ6HENjPDkWgCjO8-S686xDbL8V50Xac8buq83dJfBmxlD8zTt4-S1KAjCsH_06uKEaMjatsUBbLawiyjpIbEiTGCZatHxZnI2mkBR8Y/s320/NVG9891-03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093687719881043442" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >HACKING DEMOCRACY<br />Documentary Film</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >See Video <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/hacking_democracy.htm">here</a></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />July 17,2007</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><a href="http://www.hackingdemocracy.com/">HACKING DEMOCRACY</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">,</span> produced by Russell Michaels, Simon Ardizzone and Sarah Teale of Teale Edwards Productions, has been nominated for an Emmy for outstanding investigative journalism.<br /><br />The disturbingly shocking HBO documentary <a href="http://www.hackingdemocracy.com/">HACKING DEMOCRACY</a> bravely tangles with our nation's ills at the heart of democracy. The film the Diebold corporation doesn't want you to see, this revelatory journey follows tenacious Seattle grandmother Bev Harris and her band of extraordinary citizen-activists as they set out to ask one simple question: How does America count its votes?<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br />"Electronic voting machines count about 87% of the votes cast in America today. But are they reliable? Are they safe from tampering? From a current congressional hearing to persistent media reports that suggest misuse of data and even outright fraud, concerns over the integrity of electronic voting are growing by the day. And if the voting process is not secure, neither is America's democracy. The timely, cautionary documentary <a href="http://www.hackingdemocracy.com/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HACKING DEMOCRACY</span></a> exposes gaping holes in the security of America's electronic voting system."</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0