Month: July 2008

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Empire as Cancer Including Betrayal & Deceit

00 Remixed Review Lists, Empire, Sorrows, Hubris, Blowback, Worth A Look

Empire as a Cancer Including Betrayal & Deceit

Review: A Peace to End All Peace–The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

Review: Acts of Aggression

Review: After Iraq–The Imperiled American Imperium

Review: Blowback–The Costs and Consequences of American Empire

Review: Day of Empire–How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance–and Why They Fall

Review: Enforcing the Peace–Learning from the Imperial Past

Review: Failed States–The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (American Empire Project) (Hardcover)

Review: Foreign Follies–America’s New Global Empire

Review: Imperial Ambitions–Conversations on the Post-9/11 World (American Empire Project) (Paperback)

Review: Killing Hope–U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II-Updated Through 2003

Review: Nemesis–The Last Days of the American Republic

Review: Overthrow–America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (Hardcover)

Review: The Folly of Empire–What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson

Review: The Folly of War–American Foreign Policy, 1898-2005

Review: The Looming Tower–Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Review: The Road to 9/11–Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America

Review: The Sorrows of Empire–Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (American Empire Project)

Review: The Vulnerability of Empire (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)

Review: War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires

Review: War, Evil, and the End of History

Review: Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush

Review: What We Say Goes

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Disinformation, Other Information Pathologies, & Repression

00 Remixed Review Lists, 9-11 Truth Books & DVDs, Censorship & Denial of Access, Congress (Failure, Reform), Corruption, Corruption, Crime (Corporate), Crime (Government), Empire, Sorrows, Hubris, Blowback, Executive (Partisan Failure, Reform), Intelligence (Extra-Terrestrial), Iraq, Misinformation & Propaganda, Politics of Science & Science of Politics, Power (Pathologies & Utilization), Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests, Science & Politics of Science, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy, Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution, Voices Lost (Indigenous, Gender, Poor, Marginalized), Worth A Look

Disinformation, Other Information Pathologies, & Repression

9/11

Review: 9-11

Review: 9-11 Descent into Tyranny–The New World Order’s Dark Plans to Turn Earth into a Prison Planet

Review: Access Denied–The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering

Review: Painful Questions–An Analysis of the September 11th Attack

Review: The 9/11 Commission Report–Omissions And Distortions (Paperback)

Review: The Big Wedding–9/11, the Whistle Blowers, and the Cover-up (Paperback)

Review: The Hidden History of 9-11

Review: The New Pearl Harbor–Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 (Paperback)

Review: The Terror Timeline–Year by Year, Day by Day, Minute by Minute: A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Road to 9/11–and America’s Response (Paperback)

Review: The War On Truth–9/11, Disinformation And The Anatomy Of Terrorism (Paperback)

Censorship

Review DVD: The U.S. vs. John Lennon

Review: Censorship of Historical Thought–A World Guide, 1945-2000

Review: Forbidden Knowledge–From Prometheus to Pornography

Review: Gag Rule–On the Suppression of Dissent and Stifling of Democracy

Review: Into the Buzzsaw–Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press

Review: Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect

Review: The Age of Missing Information

Cover-Ups

Review: Scorpion Down–Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon: The Untold Story of the USS Scorpion

Review: Silent Steel–The Mysterious Death of the Nuclear Attack Sub USS Scorpion

Extra-Terrestrial Withholding

Review: Hidden Truth–Forbidden Knowledge

Iraq

Review: A War Against Truth–An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

Propaganda

Review (Guest): Propaganda–The Formation of Men’s Attitudes

Review DVD: Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

Review: Big Lies–The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth

Review: Disinformation –22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror (Hardcover)

Review: Fog Facts –Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin (Nation Books) (Hardcover)

Review: HOW ISRAEL LOST

Review: Interventions

Review: It’s Not News, It’s Fark–How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News

Review: Manufacturing Consent–The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Review: State of Fear

Review: The Infernal Machine–A History of Terrorism

Secrecy

Review: Lost History–Contras, Cocaine, the Press & ‘Project Truth’

Review: Nation of Secrets–The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life

Review: Secrecy–The American Experience

Review: Secrets–A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

Review: Secrets and Lies–Operation “Iraqi Freedom” and After: A Prelude to the Fall of U.S. Power in the Middle East?

Review: The American Truth

Two-Party Tyranny

Review: Grand Illusion–The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Dereliction of Duty (Other Than Defense)

00 Remixed Review Lists, 09 Justice, Congress (Failure, Reform), Corruption, Corruption, Corruption, Executive (Partisan Failure, Reform), Worth A Look

Dereliction of Duty Other Than Defense)

Review (Guest): Integrity–Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House

Review: A Season of Inquiry–The Senate Intelligence Investigation

Review: Afghanistan’s Endless War–State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban

Review: America the Vulnerable–How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism

Review: Betrayal of Trust–The Collapse of Global Public Health

Review: Blue Frontier–Dispatches from America’s Ocean Wilderness

Review: Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy

Review: Collapse–How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Review: Collapse–How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Review: Defense Facts of Life–The Plans/Reality Mismatch

Review: Downsizing Democracy–How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public

Review: Genocide in the Congo (Zaire)

Review: Gomorrah

Review: Inside Sudan–Political Islam, Conflict, and Catastrophe

Review: Leave Us Alone–Getting the Government’s Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives

Review: My Year in Iraq–The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope

Review: Politics Lost–How American Democracy Was Trivialized By People Who Think You’re Stupid (Hardcover)

Review: Risk and Reason–Safety, Law, and the Environment

Review: Running on Empty–How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It (Paperback)

Review: Running The World–the Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power (Hardcover)

Review: See No Evil–The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA’s War on Terrorism

Review: Seven Sins of American Foreign Policy (Paperback)

Review: Shake Hands With The Devil–The Failure Of Humanity In Rwanda

Review: The Assault on Reason

Review: The Collapse of Complex Societies

Review: The Edge of Disaster–Rebuilding a Resilient Nation

Review: The Life and Death of NSSM 200 –How the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a U.S. Population Policy

Review: The New American Story

Review: The Next Catastrophe–Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters

Review: The Political Junkie Handbook (The Definitive Reference Book on Politics)

Review: Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

Review: While America Sleeps–How Islam, Immigration and Indoctrination Are Destroying America From Within

Review: White Nile, Black Blood–War, Leadership, and Ethnicity from Khartoum to Kampala

Review: Wilson’s Ghost–Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century

Review: Your Government Failed You–Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Dereliction of Duty (Defense)

00 Remixed Review Lists, Military & Pentagon Power, Worth A Look

Dereliction of Duty (Defense)

Budget Malfeasance

Review DVD: Why We Fight (2006)

Review: Averting the Defense Train Wreck in the New Millennium (CSIS Report)

Review: Blank Check–The Pentagon’s Black Budget

Review: Making America’s Budget Policy–From the 1980s to the 1990s (Paperback)

Review: National Defense

Review: The Fifty Year Wound–The True Price of America’s Cold War Victory

Review: The Three Trillion Dollar War–The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

Review: Transformation Under Fire–Revolutionizing How America Fights

Review: Wastrels of Defense–How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security

Consequences

Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror

Review: Imperial Grunts–The American Military on the Ground (Hardcover)

Review: Tiger Force–A True Story of Men and War (Hardcover)

Review: Unintended Consequences–The United States at War

Central Asia

Review: Descent into Chaos–The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia

Review: Seeds of Terror–How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda

Contractors & Contractor-Related Corruption

Review: Licensed to Kill–Hired Guns in the War on Terror (Hardcover)

Review: The Devil’s Garden

Culture

Review: House of War (Hardcover)

Homeland Insecurity

Review: American Jihad–The Terrorists Living Among Us

Review: Open Target–Where America Is Vulnerable to Attack (Hardcover)

Review: Osama’s Revenge–THE NEXT 9/11: What the Media and the Government Haven’t Told You

Hubris & Incompetence

Review (Guest): Bathtub Admirals (Hardcover)

Review: Against All Enemies–Inside America’s War on Terror

Review: An End to Evil–How to Win the War on Terror

Review: Blind Into Baghdad–America’s War in Iraq

Review: Endgame–The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror

Review: Fiasco–The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Hardcover)

Review: How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War

Review: Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy

Review: Losing the Golden Hour–An Insider’s View of Iraq’s Reconstruction

Review: Rumsfeld–His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy

Review: Squandered Victory–The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (Hardcover)

Review: The End of Iraq–How American Incompetence Created a War Without End (Hardcover)

Review: The Mission–Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military

Review: The One Percent Doctrine–Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 (Hardcover)

Review: The Rules of the Game–Jutland and British Naval Command

Review: Treachery–How America’s Friends and Foes Are Secretly Arming Our Enemies (Hardcover)

Review: War and Decision–Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism

Review: War in a Time of Peace–Bush, Clinton, and the Generals

Review: What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

Middle East

Review: Marching Toward Hell–America and Islam After Iraq

Review: Target Iran–The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change

Review: The Power of Israel in the United States

Review: They Dare to Speak Out–People and Institutions Confront Israel’s Lobby

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Government Corruption

00 Remixed Review Lists, Corruption, Worth A Look

Corruption

Congress Candid Camera

Review: Breach of Trust–How Washington Turns Outsiders into Insiders (Hardcover)

Review: Crashing the Party–Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender

Review: Gold Warriors–America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold

Review: Hostile Takeover–How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government–and How We Take It Back (Hardcover)

Review: Off Center–The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy (Hardcover)

Review: One Market Under God–Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy (Paperback)

Review: Secrecy & Privilege–Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq

Review: Selling Out

Review: Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude

Review: The Attack on the Liberty–The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship

Review: The Broken Branch–How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track (Institutions of American Democracy)

Review: The Power of Israel in the United States

Review: The Trouble with Africa–Why Foreign Aid Isn’t Working

Review: The Underground Empire–Where Crime and Governments Embrace

Review: They Dare to Speak Out–People and Institutions Confront Israel’s Lobby

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